Saturday, May 23, 2009 - :

Omg, went to take my Jap test the other day at Bunka; 45 minutes paper, marked on the spot after completing, took less than 20 minutes before I got my results after finishing the paper. The paper was so much more difficult than I had expected. Maybe because I'm taking it individually, they decide to increase the level of difficulty so I'd fail, and end up retaking the basic course again >_>

Anyway my result was 25/80 for the paper. I couldn't understand quite a lot of the questions as there was quite a few usage of katagana in the close passages. And they weren't translated into romanji or hiragana for me to read or understand. Also they tested how to join 2 sentences together using the "te" form. There was also the polite and non-polite sentence changing. Not forgetting, changing the sentence from present tense to past tense form.

The most unforgettable question is the last part, translation of sentence.

1. Mr Yamada is good at playing tennis.
2. Who is reading newspaper over there?
3. I want a dictionary.
4. I have an umbrella.
5. What kind of movie did you watch?

Not too sure where I went wrong, but yeah, I failed.
Following that I went to TNT to collect my extravaganza Nagato.

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Here comes the best part.

As my brother has already completed the basic EL1, and is proceeding with EL2, I went to read and check out the Vol.2 book. And I found that most of the stuffs that are tested in the paper was in that book. -_-
Now why the hell did they gave a EL2 paper to some1 who has not even completed the EL1 course fully?

Went to clarify with them this afternoon, booked another date for retest, and they reserved me a slot in the same class time as my bro =D
So now I just have to pass the paper and I'll be in the same stage as my bro =)

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 12:37 AM

Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - :

Ahh.. despite having failed to get 2x pay for working on Labour day and Vesak day. I've been given 3 days off consecutively starting from today (tuesday to thursday). However since I've been given 3 days off, why not use them for my Japanese EL1 test which I had skipped for over a month; So I've booked my test day on Thursday.. I got about a day + to study for it. Shouldn't be that hard to pass it, but would be difficult to perfect it I guess. Just hoping that it'd be the same format as the 1 my brother took =D

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 12:33 AM

Wednesday, May 06, 2009 - :

Ahh ahh.. Another day off over. My off days are soooo precious to me.. having 12 hour shift everyday is really tiring my out badly. Especially with my late night bad habits, which you could see from the time this post is being made.

Having to catch up previous and this season anime together with a few hours each day is insufficient.. I've recently just started picking up Zettai Karen Children. So far my favourite gotta be Nogami Aoi, but I love Kaoru's DOM attitude, lol. xD

And yeah, it seems to me that every time I have my off day, I'll go to either LaTendo, MKZ, TNT, or KKnM.. I went to MKZ just now to pick up the Nendoroid Louise. When I asked about my Hatsune Miku again, they told me that they shifted it to their "warehouse", and to come back another day to pick it up. I also receive news that their shipment for Lelouch and Gothic Punk Louise will be arriving at the end of this month. So I'll probably go to MKZ to collect Lelouch and Miku together.. and for the Gothic Punk Louise, hopefully I can get back my remainder of $25 from Isaiah back asap when it arrives.

Off to sleep.. need to report at 12pm (11:45am) later.

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 2:01 AM

Sunday, May 03, 2009 - :

Received my pay slip a few days ago and now it's in my account ($650.50). After deducting the uniform and other accessories ($62.20), and averaging my traveling expenses of about $90, I'm left with $498.30 . Averaging that for 3 weeks of work, I got myself an average of $166 per week. With that in mind, I really have to be more thrifty.

Oh and thanks to Arnold, I got to watch X-men Wolverine, although it's not the final-edit cut, I get to watch the blood-shed history of Wolverine. There are fighting scenes here and there, but they aren't exaggerated enough, the fights usually ends in less than 2 mins, with the exception of the last fighting scene with victor. Still, there's 1 thing I learned from Striker =D He said that subject 11 has all the good and none of the bad in it, looks like he forgot to take into consideration of the subject's intelligence, or the AI. 'Coz he is really dumb for a "perfect" subject.

Shana, Flame-Haired Red-Hot-Eyed Hunter 9:53 AM