finally! the hot summer seems ALL over, and now comes this breezy season!!!! isn’t that awesome!!!! i have been waiting for this for sooooo long, finally do not have to sweat every single time you step out of the door.

the whole summer, i was almost never even once able to open the window of my room, not that i dislike the outdoor so much that i have to make myself stuck with the air from the AC, it is just TOO 蒸し暑い that letting the outside air in for one minute might already suffocate you. haha.

and now, as i am writing this blog, my big window is wide open, (well, the window here not as big as one of my lovely housemates, but big enough to allow a decent view to be seen~) fresh air coming in, soooo nice. and just made me realize once again how fortunate i am, to be able to live so comfortably, i really have no complain …

thanks to my manager IIO san, i am able to have this room. he is such a nice person.

i am in japan, but actually half of my heart goes to the korean “something” hahaha. strange isn’t it? i remember the first time i met THE first korean friend in US, i got SOOO excited i could almost hear my heartbeat out loud. hahaha.

why do i like them so much? i guess it was years ago when i felt SOOO depressed, and i saw dbsk online, their story, was somehow very inspiring to me. i think, if they have never come to japan, there is quite a chance i might end up in korea instead of here. i have never been a “fan” of anyone in action, but out of some personal reasons i went to taiwan for dbsk concerts and end up not able to see them … -_- … it was the typhoon, very horrible, then i told myself, … u have to be kidding me … if you made it this way, i WILL see them in japan!

pissed me off.

but sarcastically speaking, even though i am in japan, i only went to their concert once, and not even care for their fan club, maybe i should join them, that would force me to read more japanese. i too laid back sometimes.

anyway, my point is, i am interested in koreans, however, i have a HARD time communicating with ones that CANNOT speak english, which, that is about ALL of them. ahha.

ya, so just now, i just talked to the friend that went back to korea from US, gosh, SUCH good feeling to talk to a korean that can speak BOTH english and japanese to me again, geez, but the ones here just cannot … i would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO happy if they can …

finally the level exam is over, and oh GOSH, i am just glad it is over, that is how i feel about it … so you can imagine how well i did on it … hahaha.

but it is ok, it is not like there is something waiting for me to HAVE to pass it otherwise half the world will be over.

there are PILES of crap waiting for me to do, countless of not-seem-to-be important things, but yet important enough to affect my normal life … like calculating expenses, redoing my stocks planning,  take care of the past due bills
in US, ya, sure, those xxxxxxx, hahaha, cleaning up my small room for real otherwise i would have to space to move, haha, LOTS of cleaning up, and the most important of all, get a job dude!

for the sake of my “会話”, please go get a part-time regardless of the pay, even though it is food-related, YAN SAN! hahaha.

nice. i really look forward to it. GOD BLESS US ALL.

anyway, i am really happy today. i was happy yesterday, i had a good time with my classmates, hanging around with them so silly-ly, but yet none of them got impatient like my friends from my previous school.

today, i had a good lunch with the THOSE 2 of them. hehe.

level 2 exam is coming, and i am not doing good in studying, because i have to catch up more than half year of NOT studying or paying attention in class … wow, great. anyhow, i have the mock today, for just a section of the test, and ya, bad …

i think my chance of passing is like … less than 50% for sure, it will take a miracle to make me pass it … M I R A C L E …

and so what if i don’t pass it this time, am i in such a hurry, yes and no …

so as “shocked” as i was about my mock result, and as stingy as i had been with money and time, i have come to the conclusion that maybe i really should start studying, as much as i have already unconsciously giving myself up long time ago ..

so the past weekend, actually, last friday, i finally bought the book that has all the grammers for Level 2 exam, and i tried to look through it as much i can in the weekend, i even had to give up seeing my lovely friend on Sunday … cause … recently i just had been going out, dinning out, eating out, hanging out, … way too often, no energy, no time, no money.

and very interestingly, on Sat, one of my interesting classmates asked me out, and i got to TONS of Japanese with her since i cannot speak Mardarin, right? so, wow, i had a very good time with her already, PLUS, what i do not realize is, just after talking with her for a few hours, i already found myself, the Jap. oral, getting better, plus my strong “insist” on studying on SUN, i also studies on SAT morning too before going out, oh GEEZ.

yes, i can completely feel my Japanese gets a little better after that.

THIS WEEK, is the ONLY week, that not ONE day i am late for school … since this school is not as strict as my former school, i am late every single day, … till recently our new Monday teacher kept warning me … “Yan san, if you keep being late like this, your student visa can be jeopardized …  -_- , she is strict, alright, … but i cannot NOT like her, because she is the BEST teacher for the week, and i can understand her the best, and she looks like a teacher the most, i really enjoy her class, i want to listen to her talking, … i don’t know how much she like or not like us, but she is a very good Japanese teacher.

i want to get to her class on time, i really do.

back to the main topic, anyway, what i wanted to say is, this week or so, i have been trying to “LISTEN” in class, which obviously i have never really tried to. foreign language can always “go through my left ear and left through right ear”. and yes, i can almost completely understand what the Monday teacher said. the worst is the Wednesday teacher, a male one … -_- … cannot understand … lose interests in the first 3 seconds of his talk …

i am really happy to realize i can actually understand what the Monday teacher said when i tried to …

it ALL thanks to the 30 marks on my listening part out of 100. that is such a shocking reminder for me, “GEEZ, PLEASE LISTEN”.

i guess i never did.

yes, i really don’t listen. at all.

talk about studying, it really has never been my fav. thing in Japan. However, when your Japanese is as poor as mine, really is なにもできない。。。cannot even get a part-time anywhere you want.

even though my coming to Japan is to get away from the”crab” in US, but coming to here, and knowing one day i have to leave, and imagining leaving with nothing … -_- … so i applied the 二級能力試験 … as great as i thought, when I took the mock exam in school last last week, gosh … 180 out of 400, 240 is the passing point. that is just exciting.

i know i am poor in it, but geez, the most amazing part is the listening, 30 out of 100, really have to give it a “WOW” .

no matter what language i am with, the listening part is just awesome … even English, well, Cantonese is a little better, i guess i can hear it even that is like miles away, but for foreign languages, i really have a way to pass it by naturally …

Wow, today I was SOOOOO tired … late for school again of course~. More students came to our class this morning and they seem pretty decent, ok nice~. One of them was just sitting in the classroom to have a “trial” lesson, so do not know if he would come back to our class or not. Hope he would, cause he seem pretty nice.

Anyhow, I was all exhausted because yesterday night I spent HOURS calculating the expenses in Japan, from Feb-Mar. It was quite, to put it bluntly, bloody. And can be sort of complicated cause there are some expenses that have receipts and some do not, some were paid by credit card and some do not … what a mess.

To calculate exactly how much I spent on Misc, Food, … is quite impossible. But I do have the estimated amount, wow … -_-
Anyway, back to the main topic, today, with my extremely exhausted mind, I went to open my FIRST bank account in JAPAN. It was somewhat exciting due to the fact that my Japanese is just “TOO great”.

I finally have the urge to get this going despite the trouble that probably an outsider cannot (or do not want to) comprehend is because Oakhouse is having this “Premier Membership” thing going on, and I am doing all this to save a few. -_- My money is “scarce”, so hope it will all be transferred safely and so I can continue my safe living in Japan.

Despite my extremely poor Japanese skills, (esp. my grammar, wow, it is hard to find anyone that can beat me on this) the account seemed to be opened safely. And to my surprises, I seemed to understand a little more than I expected. Everything that the kind bank lady said made so much sense. It was a very nice experience. Just love how polite and sincere she is, and her patience.

I seriously feel very good to have done this by myself. Even though it is such a tiny thing, the satisfaction is high. It was EXCITING. Because it is a completely different language, a language that I have never thought, in my wildest dream, that I can study till now. The whole thing is a little late, but I guess LATE is better than NEVER. Thank You LORD.

My first movie in Japan — Keroro ~.

Haha. Never thought it would be like this. That is the power of POSTER. I saw Keroro’s movie poster just about everywhere. And the place that they put which really got my attention is at the very station that I get in and out every day — 中村橋. Crying out loud I have never even seen Keroro’s animation or manga once! HAHAHA.

Saturday night I went to see my friends at Coffee House and I showed them the Keroro’s flash, which I had downloaded from Keroro’s website, on my cell. I also showed them the Keroro pamphlet which describes how to get Keroro’s goods from riding trains (of Seibu Ikebukuro) and stopping by at different stations to get stamped (Just another reason why I love Japan, isn’t that cute? Making the kids ride the train, hahaha!!)

I pointed to one of the goods on the pamphlet and asked one of my Japanese friends how to get it (since my Japanese not good), and she looked at me with a gentle smile and a polite disbelief look and asked, in English, “YOU WANT THIS???!!!”

HAHAHAHA!!!! Funny!

Ok, maybe not funny to you. ^^