Japanese Speech Competition ~ Sugoi naa....

Attended the Japanese Speech Competition last Sunday at the Japanese Association....

Was impressed by it... There were Secondary category, Junior College category, Tertiary category and Open category... There were 6 finalists each category and apparently, these contestants had already gone through the preliminary rounds and they were supposedly some of the best speakers....

I reached there a bit late and missed the Secondary and Junior College category contest. I was there just in time for the Tertiary and Open category.

Very impressive, some of them... But there were two gals that were terribly nervous and maybe stage-fright that they forgot their lines! And worse still.... They did not bring any notes with them!!!! (Die wor!!) I felt so bad for them... They were trembling on stage and staring into the air, as if trying to find the "lines" from the air....

Anyway, during the breaktime, there was a programme hosted by a Japanese teacher specialised in "Origami". And he was really impressive!!! See those works that he had done!See this fairy?? Amazing!!!!

This is an Ancient Dragon....

A dinosaur....

A dog...

And more!!! Sugoi ne!!!

Anyway, I found it interesting that the sponsors were asked to sit at one corner on stage throughout the entire prize-giving ceremony.....

They were (from left to right) Isetan, Mediya, Yusen Logistics, Mitsubishi-Electric, ANA, JAL and the big sponsor for this contest is Hitachi!!

The chief Judge gave a funny speech and the prize presentation begins!!!

The champion for the Secondary category.... (forgot her name liao!!)

Very interesting, the presenter would have to read to the champion the content of the certificate and before presenting it to her...

Next is the champion for Junior College category....

Similary, the presenter would read the certificate content before presenting to him....

The champ got himself a free return air-ticket to Japan!!! Cool!!

Next is the Tertiary category....

And the Open category....

And finally, the Guest-of-Honour, Minister for Education gave a final speech... I always tot such speech shld be given before the prize presentation... Strange wor....

This was really an experience for me... Maybe I will also take part next year!! But I would remember to bring my script up the stage!!!

Haha!!!

Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve

Don't ask me why I landed at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve hor...

Becos I myself also donno wor!!!! Hahaa!!!!

Anyway, we just checked out of Marina Mandarin Hotel (See previous post) and just had a wonderful Katong Laksa (yummyyy!!!).... Feeling too full (and bloated with laksa gravy..), we decided to go "walk walk".... Not the usual shopping wor... I hated shopping during weekends anyway....

And after a while, we landed at Sungei Buloh!!! Actually I have never heard of this place de.....


But it looked ok and the entrance fee was reasonable (cost S$1 per adult! Cheap wor!!)... Thus, we decided to go in and walk walk lor....
Me looking tired and ugly!!! No makeup that day!!! ARGGHHH............

We were trying to spot the praying mantis!!! But to no avail... But i tot i saw one.... See it??

Very quiet and peaceful....

Look like some poet hor!!! (HAHAHA!!!)

Got a map to help us.... But in the end we only complete less than three-quarter of the entire route!! chay....

Pretending to be serious.... Actually there were lots of mozzies around!!!!
Got tortoise!!! See see!!!


Went into a dark "cave" tat housed some owls and insects!!!
See how shag i was!!!
Most interesting sight!!

SAW A IGUANA!! (Think it's iguana lah... But looked like crocodile lor... Got legs and got leather skin.... )See it???EEEkkkssss!!!!

And as mentioned, we were the "afternoon tea" for Mozzies!!!!!




See those mosquito bites???? Sigh....

Meritus Club Room @ Marina Mandarin

Wahahahssassss.....

Am really a Sua-ku lor... Never been to such "VIP-ed" hotel room before leh... Well, it all started when Marina Mandarin became the official hotel for "Phantom of the Opera" troupe in Singapore. Thus, they were given some tickets for own sales. (Click here for my post on this play)

A very good idea indeed, when they packaged the room with the tickets! ie, "Buy a pair of Cat-A tickets and get a one-night room-stay FREE!!!" Superb promotion yah!!!

Of cos, I jumped at this promotion! I originally already wanted to buy Phantom tickets... Thus, getting a free room stay was just something extra-ly good!!! (See my phantom post here).

Well, I got the room and I was upgraded to the "Meritus Club Room", which is at the top floor, housing all the businessmen an high-leveled tourists! The level is very exclusive and they got a Meritus Club Lounge on the same floor! This lounge is opened to all customers staying at the Meritus club level... They served free cocktails in the evening and breakfast in the morning... Very exclusive and private and....... basically, also quite empty...

Becos, when we were there, guess it was not peak season and moreover, it's weekend.. Thus, the room occupancy is not high and the lounge has not more than 3 tables filled when I went for the cocktail.... In the end, me and Lilian did not try the cocktail and just drank some orange juices and ate some cookies! Hahhahaha! Both of us looked so kiddish that we were a bit out of place there!

Anyway, I have side-tracked.... ok... The room..

Oh, by the way, 30th June is also Francis's customary wedding at Marina Mandarin as well! Click this post for his ROM. Woow! So, it is very convenient for me!

Some photos of his wedding night... (Lighting wasn't good, thus did not take many pictures..)

ok, now back to the room.. To better show you guys how the room look like, I need a model to pose for pictures.... hmmm... Who can I get???

TADAH!!!! A volunteer!!!!

(OMG!!....~~~~)
(Act cute??!! Can faint!!!)

Lucky din ask him to pose for the toilet shots!!! Yahahaha!!!!

Kermit's Birthday!!! It's been another year...

Yahlooo!!!

It's Kermit's birthday... once again!! Hahahha....

This year marks our (me, nan and kermit) 30th year on Earth and our 17 years of friendships.... See HERE for more "insights" into our friendship beginning!!!

Anyway, wonder if Kermit is back from her Hawaii meeting... And since Nan-chan is far away in NZ, guess this year I would just call her and wish her a happy 30th birthday!!! hmmm.... What should I get for her???? (Nan, any idea??)

Want my blog address? Sorry, not for public!

Told my colleagues that I have a blog....

And the responses....

("Huh??!! Really meh???")
("What blog?? Can't tell sia!?")
("You got time to blog meh?? Blog on wat har?? Can tell me the link??")
("Tell me leh! I wanna see the blog... Got our photos or not har??")


NO WAY am I going to reveal my blog address to anyone (other than my close frens lah) again!!! Becos I am not prepared to change my blog address liao lor...

Thus, to protect myself from any further damages to my precious blog, I have swore never to let anyone (ie outsiders) know this blog lor...

(If you were reading this, then u were either my family or close frens!!! HAPPY sia!!!)

Hahahaha!!!!

KFC New Home Delivery Number Launch

Well.... Finally KFC decided to 出人头地 (Er wait! Salar lah, should be "出鸡头地" mah!) and break away from its Pizza good fren and become a 真鸡 liao...

Since long long time ago... Pizzahut launched its HD hot-line (62-35-35-35) and immediately everyone remembered it (Cos this number was repeatedly publicised in almost every TVC mah)... And thus, when KFC decided to do HD, it decided to "share" the same number as Pizzahut...

Till now....

Finally, KFC has enough loyal 鸡-fans, so it decided to come up with a new number by itself!

The number is..........................





(drum rolls....)











6-鸡鸡鸡 鸡鸡鸡鸡 (6-777 7777)

Hahahha!!!!




(Wrong lah.... I am just joking k?!)









Ok ok.. No joke now, k?

The new number is ...............................

(where's the drum har?????..............)











6-222 6111 (aka 6-饿饿饿 6饿饿饿) --> The hokkien for "hungry" is pronounced as "yao(1)".

I am not joking this time k!!!

Bernie Monroe.... (???!!!)

How about this picture for a LAUGH????

(think it's worth a MILLION laughs! My officers very creative wor... Altho they keep complaining tat they were overloaded with work... But then they are so resourceful that they can manage to find time to "beautify" my picture leh!!! Hahahah!!!)

Vanity

erm.... I know i know.... Don't nag at me, k??

I am just a plain simple GAL trying very hard to improve my appearance mah... Nothing wrong wor!!!

Well... I just went for my monthly facial (altho I forgot to go facial for nearly more than 2 months lah!).... And then, becos I was very traumatised by my recent pimples out-break, that I was persuaded to buy a very high-end facial package, which apparently can cure pimples lor...

Erm... Actually this amount is considered ok la (now trying hard to console myself... DUH!!)... And this also includes lots of free gifts and free treatments, blah blah blah.... (damn... it's not working.. I still feel quite regretful... DUH!!)

But then hor... It's FACE leh! I am sure my face is worth more than that lor! Right? RIGHT????!

Ok, my damage......... Not a lot lah, really... (altho I do regret a bit now... Somebody help me!!)

S$5,400 for a 20-session of "@#$%^* Facial Treatment" (Aiyah! Cannot remember the name lah... It sounded very scientific, so I believed it shld be good! Yahahhhaa!! Clever gal hor.. as if..)


.... (Did I just hear u gasp??).....

So bored with this "skin"

Time to change skin liao, right?

I have been using this skin for nearly 3 years liao... Even I myself also a bit xian to see this blog too! Hahaha...

Okie, am trying hard to think of better skin colour and presentation pattern...



But as u all know la... I AM JUST PLAIN LAZY.... No choice lor...

disappointed lor.... 台湾第１８届金曲奖 sucks!

What I mean was... Am disappointed with the 台湾第１８届金曲奖 la....

All the good singers were not prized and those who won the trophies are either too commercialised or just pretty faces with no powerful voice...

Halor! This is 金曲奖 leh, so the basis of judging should be on the singing voice, should not focus too much on other things like popularity, dancing skills, hard-work, etc... So very unfair!

Like "今天你要嫁给我" won the best song of the year??!!! I like David Tao, but then he got so many nice nice songs mah! Why did they in the hell choose THIS song?? So bimbo!!! Just becos it was sang together with that J-gal??? Come on la!!EVERYONE knows that J-gal can't sing at all! She can only use her dancing skills and make-up to cover her flaws in music..

But then, having said that, that's not all...

That J-gal got "Best Female Singer"trophy!!! (*faint).....

Sigh.... argh.h...It is so damn obvious that this year's judges were a bit "shok" in the brain (or ears?).... And of cos, to worsen the whole ceremony (as if it wasn't "worse" enough), Nicky Lee won the "Best Male Singer"... Anyway, since J-gal can be "best singer", well, it's not surprising that Korean Nicky guy can beat veteran singers like 曹格, JJ Lim, David Tao (see lah, who ask u sing with J-gal?) and 吴克群. Honestly I really tot either David or 曹格 will win.. Even most of the people also think so lor... Well, hmm, if 吴克群 won also not bad la! He's so damn CUTE hor!! (*blush..)

But lor, disappointing... Sigh....

And hor... (haha, really got so many complains meh???? Yah lor, still have more leh!)

Most of the prizes were given to "not-so-popular" singers or producers... What does this mean leh??? Maybe the judges were trying to balance the "unbalance" that they knew that they have created lor...

Chim right???

Anyway, not that I purposely watched this bimbo-tic ceremony, k! I "accidentally" chanced upon this channel and I tot it would be cool to see Ah Mei sing or watch 曹格 croon "Super Man"... Maybe if am lucky, will see J-gal and 侯佩岑 fight??? Hahhah!!!

Oh yah... btw, how come no 王力宏??? And also that si-bei-diao 周杰倫 and also our dear 孙燕姿??? Why why why all these good singers disappear liao???

SIGH.... disappointed lah.... 失望啊。。。失望啊！

What have I been doing???

Well, haven't penned much recently... That's becos I am juggling between 2 blogs...

(REally meh????!!)

Nah... actually, I do have another blog but that blog was considered quite pathetic lah! Cos it's a Japanese blog and I am supposed to write all in Japanese (duh!!!)! Er... Am supposed to be quite good at it... But then, I was lazy, remember?? Thus, all my blogs were short, simple, no-frills, and straight to the point.. (Not that THIS blog wasn't "short, simple, no-frills and straight-to-the-point lah!!) Wat I meant was... I wasn't very good at expressing myself using Japanese mah, so obviously,my Japanese blogs were less exciting and longggg as this BLOG! (chay.....)

Anyway, my Japanese blog is .... http://berniesan.exblog.jp/

Go go go! Take a look leh... (don't ask me why I choose that "FISHY" skin, k!) I have no time to decorate it with superb skins... But then hor, it doesn't matter mah, cos I guess no one can understand it lor...

Chay! Hahahhaa