Goal at the end of the year =]

Have not been eating properly these few days :s... the reason? is W O R K.. hahaa..

Went to a client's place in the morning.. and was going to be a 3 hour session, but they somehow needs more than that.. and so, gota sacrifice abit for them :s ... and by the time I reach the other client's place, it's time for meeting already.. so.. ya.. O_o' gota start thinking of a good way to re-arrange my meal times... The same for dinner... :s

At times, we're caught up to do work before "the day is over"... and I kinda know if I go back first (and "Continue" to work from home), the effort required is more than 100% self-willingness...So, in the end, dinner could be around 8 to 8+.. haiz... how like that O_O'

But anyway, I had a good "talk" with one of my managers when I was at a client's place.. his dad passed away last year.. and he told me that that was the 'turning point' of his life... now, he doesn't work late and try as much as possible to spend time with his family.. he told me that our loved ones could be gone anytime and thus, make full use of the time that we have... =] he then went on asking how are my parents, etc.etc... which, is kinda heart-warming =-]

Before I was working under him, I have always heard "horror" stories from the people, that he always ask people to work over the weekend, and even on public holidays (i HEARD)... and well, when I was under him, I kinda saw a different light..=] He is very well versed in his line of work... whenever he ask me to think of something, and I told him my BEST idea, he always say 'have you explored this way? xxx'... which, is actually something i NEVER have thought of... hehee... 

Therefore, first, im thankful I had the opportunity to work under him, coz the "kind of work" is kinda different and I was able to observe his footsteps and his great thoughts.... Secondly, I am thankful to God, that even tho im far from my family, He has always taken care of them well.. and I am very grateful that the relationships between me n my family is a strong one.. we can bitch about other people, we can tell each others' weaknesses, we can support each other, console each other whenever the "other" family do something.... 

Ok... so... 

I have also CHANGED my perspective in work..... =]

Last year, I stopped studying japanese because I know that the current project will take up THAT much hours of working late and OT OT OT and OT.... but seriouly, ive been feeling "lost" and duno what to do other than work and dorama everytime I come back from work...!! 

But now, even my manager says "work is just a part of your life"... "work is important, but there are other more important things in life that you have to consider"... ngyahahaha.. so yeaipz.. it kinda STRUCK me.... now it is APRIL already O_o'!! I will need to work hard for my Japanese in order to sit for JLPT4 end of this year... (JLPT is now revised to have 5 levels.. and I dont really want to spend 1 whole year JUST to get JLPT5 cert =p after all, ive started learning jlpnese since Oct 2008)... well, of course, having 5 months break (OHMY! IT'S FREAKING FIVE MONTHS ALREADY?), my japanese gets rusty.. I cant even tell which is "jidoushi" verb versus "tadoushi" verbs..... =s

So.... I went to call few japanese schools to sign up....... and last week, i went to Ikoma (my last japanese school) to continue my studies... confidently, i told them i wanna sign up for intermediate 2... (ive been stuck in intermediate 1 for soooo long since May? till October last year O_o due to changing of schools..) So, i was kinda happy that I can continue to I2... hehehee... 

J U S T before I paid my course fees, she told me "sorry.. actually u finished intermediate one TERM ONE last year.. so if u wanna continue it has to be intermediate one TERM TWO.... ".. i was like haiz... forget it =.=; i dowan to be stuck in I1 for another 3 months =p heheee

So, tried other schools... yea!! n went back to Bunka where I took the test last year (and failed)... n I was hoping it'd be the same test (but of course, I forgot what the questions are already lha!!).... 

Had to look through the website again.. and really go through what are the grammars they are looking for... had to call Tony to give me a super crash course... =p He told me that the grammars are in x chapter of Minna no nihongo... and gave me some examples so that I at least understand what the grammar is about...

Ofcourse, i didnt study as much as I should have.. kanji... vocab.. i forget about them all... ^^;; most important is the grammar, i thought =] n i went through each other things that Bunka asked me to go through... until (~node) grammar...... it should be in minna no nihongo chapter 39.... n u know wad? my freaking book stops at 38!!!!!!!!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.......

And when the day of the test came............ it was the same exact question =p haha!!! I managed a pass.. haha.. scored 66%... (last time was 57%) =p passing mark is 60%.. i know it's quite bad lhaa.. but i dun care =p at least the N E X T class, I'll be in intermediate T W O.... Wooohoooooo hahaa.. (FYI, the ~node grammar didnt come out.. -well-at-least-i-THINK-it-didnt-come-out-or-maybe-it-did,-but-i-just-didnt-know-that-i-have-to-use-~node-and-that's-why-my-score-is-the-pathetic-66%? =p)

And of course, to celebrate new school and new class (and new books)... i got myself some new stationery...! hehee.... I think this is some "symptoms" that only girls have lhe.. (or isit just me har?).. it's always refreshing and im always happier to study with a new book or new stationery... huehueheuheueeeeee

my advice to people out there who wants to study language... DON'T CHANGE SCHOOL OFTEN O_o'... different school = different teaching style = different course materials = different environment = different expectation (and not to mention different names for each levels and sometimes it just makes u sick on how u stuck on intermediate 1 after u clear intermediate 1 at another school, simply because the other school doesn't teach you ENOUGH to reach intermediate 1 in another school... ok forgive my rambling) 

So,... from next week onwards, im back on track ^^v ...

JLPT4...here i come!!

Oh... I asked for one Jaejoong from someone XD huehuehuehuehee... do bring him home with you ya?! hahaaaaa 

~Blajar dulu akh.... ^^v~ huheuhuehuheue