i have like n things to be done before 8am, which is quite impossible, but here i am still blogging anyway, since somehow miraculously i feel like i should be able to do it.

1. finish the script - 0% started. but i have an idea already.
2. type out the absence report letter thing - 0% started, but should be able to do later after lecture in 10 minutes.
3. read pl3236 case study - starting now
4. compile everyone else's slides for pl3236 - should be easy, can do from 10-1245 when im back from laj2201, that is, if im not sleeping
5. memorise the standard dialogue for tc8 tomorrow - im banking on my incredible STM. will start reading through a few times after i finish #3, but that's the priority now, not this.
6. my presentation slides for pl3236. - 0% started, crap, i think no sleep for me.


i'm not tired but my eyes are red already.
crap.
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ate supper with mr soon to be rag head and lau hong and some freshies.
the freshies are so fresh i almost feel infected with their freshness, not that it's a bad thing really though.

lau hong was talking to me and he said he applied for some work internship thing in japan but it seems quite difficult to get through. but he says he's adamant about going to japan, like NOW, like this year. haha. i wonder why. it's sucky to work in japan i think. especially considering if like you're 1. a foreigner [unless a high earning expat, not a measely student] 2. a female.
it's like double discrimination.

so i figured save it for a holiday.
which mr you yuan kind of mentioned...




i guess it would be nice.
like we could walk around the random and hopelessly confusing small alleys trying to find obscure backpacker hostels and wind up having to ask friendly though not so approachable obasans who peer at us suspiciously when we try to converse in their native language but immediately start looking helpful when we blurt out in english in a fit of desperation.

and we could take like overnight buses and eat like expired bentos from the konbi-ni- aka convenience store to save money on accomodation and food and then blow it full out on a royal style suite stay with like hot spring and the full course dinner like on the last night.

we could stay in capsule hotels [which i heard, though novel, is somewhat overrated and unreasonably expensive] or i could start like browsing forums on the lonelyplanet international to find kind souls to provide us lodging for absolutely no good reason/no benefit in return. amazingly some people do that, but it's not the benefit part that surprises me, it's the being able to trust and let a complete stranger stay in your house and bring him/her around the place.

we could scale fujisan together, buy cheapo yukatas to wear during the summer matsuris; we could queue to line up for the game to scoop kingyo, eat candied apples [yum :)], take a whopping n nunber of photos during the hanami, walk through the streets of kyoto aimlessly, clap our hands and wish for our parent's eternal health and well-being and an unattainable cap score of 5.0, we [or i, for that matter] could buy those kitschy traditional souvenirs at the temple that are supposed to bless you with either wealth, health, good luck [general], good grades or a lucky love life.

we could sit down at the roadside stall and eat ramen like how salariman aka salarymen do it after work, with a couple of casual beers and maybe an occasional osake. maybe we could hit it off with the stall owner and the ojisan would actually give us an extra plate of gyoza or even charsiew or whatever side dish he's selling along with whatever ramen we're eating.

we could hang around in ueno park digging for second hand treasures, or dwell in shibuya, aimlessly strolling the streets, marvelling at the younger japanese decked out in their very best; we could act like otakus in akihabara, patronize maid cafes and experience the feeling of being called 'master' [though i dont think our saifu could suffer the monetary blow], peer through glass panels at n number of electronic products, wondering why we didn't have more money so we could buy the latest japanese phone or laptop back.



i can imagine that.