Happy times.

I miss you, blog~! <3 Sorry that I've been pretty depressed and sad since the last few days. Guess why I haven't been updating you, bloggie? Well, I got a job! I mean, seriously, I do. I've been working at my aunt's office since last Friday. Don't you think just because she's my aunt that she's going to treat me lightly. The load of work she gave, dude...D: I mostly type stuff up over there and handle the internet work. Since I'm the only other worker than my aunt and her other worker, well, yeah, I handled the internet stuff. XD

Another thing also making me happy are friends. I finally got to meet Didi after a long time. The only times I see her is during SMARTER events only. I have to admit, I am not that close to her, I mean, we don't exchange messages, we don't greet each other on friendster, we don't chat in MSN, but once we meet, it's just..."KA-BOOM! Hey!" She can make a joke out of anything. Honestly, the two of us have nothing in common at all. She's the...you girl...type of girl. XD Very the GIRL. XD ANd I also met Valentine for the first time. She's Weng's younger sister. I like her name and how she got her name, apparently, she was born on Valentine's day! How cool was that?

I understand that we all look weird. I mean, c'mon, I only have one eye!

And last Sunday, something funny happened. You see, I woke up around 8.30+ thinking, "Yes! No work today!" When suddenly my maid came knocking at my door and said, "Itu kawan kendo kamu udah datang loooo!" And I was like, "Shit! No way!" And it turned out to be true, and that training on that day was changed to 9am. So I basically rushed through everything, but when I ran downstairs, they were still changing. Damn. And hungry. All five of us were hungry. So I grabbed some nasi goreng, bread and peanut butter and milo and took it downstairs. Unexpectedly, my dad went down and met them. I was kinda panicky because there are guys too. My dad is quite a conservative man, you see. XD But thanks to him, we all found out that we're realted! Because they all live in Serasa, and my great-grandfather came from Serasa. That's how we were all related. That's why, I am now an honorary member to the "Serasa Alliance"! Haha!

So training was normal training. Very basic. I like. I'm just not comfortable with the senpais staring at our feet all the time though. Darn ashi sabaki. Haha. Ramzul came and told me stories about ghosts. He said he can sense them. I have doubt but I believe in the supernatural nevertheless. That's because I love Russell Lee <3

We went to Ahan Thai after training, this time the senpais also came along with us! Sat next to Andre so picture-taking we did! XD

I somehow like this picture! Cool thing is, look at our drinks! Haha! Mine was mango ice blended and his was carrot ice blended, which he said tasted like mango! XD

TULANtulanTULAN

I received some belated happy birthday messages. Of course, I replied them with thanks and all that. But was I happy? Well, honestly, not really. Because they only remembered after seeing the MSN nick I purposely wrote. Psssssh. I'm sorry for being ungrateful and bitchy and mean but I can't help feeling somewhat hurt, okay.

Another thing so tulan is my father's job. He's work time is supposed to be the working hours. No more shifts like he used to have. Yeah right. He's been doing so-called night shifts again. And then he has to work during the normal working hours again. WTF. Dad should not have taken that job. ):

The tulan-est thing ever is the holidays. I am just so jobless now. When you're bored, you feel pissed. And sensitive. I guess that sort of attributes to the feelings of Tulan Things #1. But I thank Katak for giving me lyrics to translate into Japanese. Not that I'm good at it, but I have my trusty dictionary to help. Em haha. Obviously the translations have yet to reach that authentic japanese level. Hmmm.

Remember, Remember

The 17th of December...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO me,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO me,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO maj,
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO me.

The initial mood of this post was going to be moody, but after receiving birthday messages from them who remembered, I'm happy again, so I would like to thank them.

Thanks to Qils, my cousin who was also the first one to greet at exactly 12 midnight.

Thanks to my dad whose birthday greeting was "Selamat hari jadi yang ke ." I see no number. XD

Thanks to Fatin who claims that she woke up after 3 hours of sleep just to greet me and went back to sleep again. Awww.

Thanks to Zakiah who greeted all the way from UK, I misss youuuu~!! And thanks for messaging twice too. XD

Thanks to my Aunt Unchu who, like everybody goes, "ada lanja?"

SMARTER Family Sunday Splash

Okay, I am not exactly sure what it's called. Either it was Family Day, or SMARTER Splash or something. Who knows. Lets just get on with it I am currently feeling pissed, depressed, lonely, whatever.

I woke up at 7AM. Which means I only had at most 3 hours of sleep. Not really looking forward to it, but what the heck, right. Everyone dressed really casually because since there is the word "splash" in the event title, there's obviously going to be water. And with autistic kids around, water normally means swimming. You know, all those therapy stuff. So yay.

It was a hot day. A very hot day. A very, very hot day. Yes. I just feel like dragging that fact. So what. Carried the shirts from the car, which only managed one sale since it is assumed that most of the members already owned that SMARTER shirt. Initially, my sister and I were supposed to be in charge of that. But hey, with three bouncers and two swimming pools (or more like dipping pools, since the pools were at most 4 feet and the kids just basically...dip in it), you just drift away to it.

I was very tempted to just join in the sliding bouncer. I really wanted to. But I didn't bring extra clothes thinking that I'd be able to resist the temptations.

There really was not programme. You just do what you want to do. Dip in, mingle around, grab some grub.

In the end, I did get wet because I like standing bythe pool and some kids just splash the water. And they have some balls in the water, yeah, they threw that at me. yay. Oh, Muin, dude, he is so evil with his younger brother. Muin is one of those high-functioning autsitics kids, if that's the correct term for it, you know, he can talk and communicate and all, yet still have that...thing whcih autistic kids have. Yeah. So with his brother he was like, "Hello little man! *diabolical laugh*" It was even freaking me out. He's big and tall, pulling his brother all the time, and his kid brother, was small, and frail, running away from him, with fear written all over his face. I'd say it reminded me of a giant and one of its victims. The whole thing just amuses me.

And, we were one of the last families to go home because mum helped clean up and forced me to go around with her picked up small, undetectable rubbish because "she can't bend down". Yay.

Pictutes will be put up some other time when my USB cable stops fcking up.

Balik Kampung

||INTERRUPTION: I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT. I MET FERGIE OF BLACK EYED PEAS. I HAVE NO IDEA WHY AS I AM NOT A FAN OF HERS. SHE WAS HOT, THOUGH.||

The event of the day was going to Lamunin, Tutong to visit my grandma. As far as kampung visits go, I hate to say this, but normally it will be very boring since there's nothing to do. So I bring lots of books with me. Like, lots. Say about...10? Yeah. That's how jobless we will be at my grandma's place.

But not this time.

See, this time, my cousin from Belait was also coming to visit with three of her kids. And I tell ya, she's...filled...with...things-that-she-think=is-funny, so it's fun being lame with her. XD And this time, I didn't even have to read even one book, amazing.

Together with Kaka Dayang and her kids, we went to take a look at Hua Ho Tutong. Um. Nothing much, really. Just like any other Hua Hos. But, the Converse stuff there looks awesome. XD By the way, that's just a warm-up walk for us, because we were planning to go to Aminah Arif there to grab some Ambuyat. Sluuuurp. I is loving teh sound.

Well, the ambuyat was not enough. We ordered a refill. But then, nobody can finish the refill. This was my first time feeling full after eating ambuyat only. Other than the ambuyat, Kaka Dayang complained on everything else. I agree.

We went back to my grandma's house, all of us. My sister just bought an children origami book, and I was sort of into origami. Not really. But yeah. Somehow, that was how my nephews (and here I am referring to the walking lamp post and his yet-to-grow brother) and I plus my sisters all got bonded again after years of not seeing each other. Lolo, they even delayed their mum from going home trying to finish this one origami.

Finally, after spending a day at my grandma's, we went home at 7. Where again, the sibling fights begin, which I am not going to complain about because that is just so...normal.

Training with Ninomiya-sensei

Day 1

So let me start with what happened before that, first.

Around 5.30PM, Pau and the gang (you should know who they are by now XD) arrived at my house with Lim Han-senpai's birthday cake. We were planning to surprise him after training. Then, off we went to the mall because Riku wanted to buy him a present. Somehow, we did not realise it, but dude, the time we spent at the mall was longer than we thought. It was already 6.40PM and we still had to go back to my house to get the cake. Why, oh why did we have to park so far away?

We decided to go in two cars. Pau, Hafiz, Kaza and me will go back to my house while Riku and Far will go straight to the Scouts Building. And the traffic jam also did a good job in delaying us. Thank you very much, stupid traffic light for making the red light last forever and the green light so short.

Finally, we arrived but we have to park a little bit far away again. It was already 7PM and we were still haven't changed our clothes. The plan was to get Hafiz to run to the elevator and hold it open for us while we carry all the stuff. But, apparently, he just ran into the building and zoomed up to the fifth floor and entered the dojo with no bowing whatsoever and the worst thing was, he left us to carry all our stuff and more. It was no surprise to see Pau, Kaza and me arrived panting and puffing. XD

So anyway, the training. Ninomiya-sensei, the one who came to visit is a 7th dan sensei. We also have another sensei, Miyazaki-sensei who is a 3rd dan and a lot younger than I thought he would be. He also brought his wife and two cute daughters. :D

I have to say, I have not trained like that in a lot time. The one where we choose partners, and one becomes the receiver and the other one an attacker, and then do the cuts twenty times and moves to the right ippon migi sort of thing. And then we did the training where three bogu-ed receiver stands in front and we each take a turn to attack them, haha. We should seriously train more on that. My Do cut still sucks. And Lim Han senpai noticed that I seem to hold back my cuts I just didn't want to hurt them X(. And Ninomiya-sensei said my arms were too tense, which during the second day he told everyone that we should add more "snap" into our cuts. I don't really know how to do that yet. XD

When the seniors were doing jigeiko, we jujiors, except for Kaza who was told to jigeiko, were left with nothing to do. Biased much? Pau was with Hafiz and Cahya, and Riku was with Far and Adeline, and I don't feel like interrupting either. Do I feel left out? Honestly, yes, but than again, that always happens nowadays but ^*%))*(&%^&^$%&^%$&^) yeah, I'm done.

And Riku and Far, they've moved one step up the "fangirl" stage. Now, they're into Ninomiya-sensei and Miyazaki-sensei. We also have a fanboy in the making named Hafiz. He talked alot with Ninomiya sensei, and after asking him so many questions, Hafiz asked, "what's your name?" I was, at the very least, flabbergasted with his question. But Sensei just simply answered his question saying, "I'm Ninomiya." Other than that, I don't really know what to feel. I just laughed my heart out.

We had some picture taking. I don't have the group photo with me though. Haha Hafiz took many, too many photos of himself with Ninomiya-sensei. XD Oh, and the birthday cake for the birthday boy? Muahahaha. It was fun looking at his embarrassed face like that. XD And we all had a good time.

I AM SO SHORT. This photo just made it so obvious. Anyway, L-R = Ninomiya-sensei, me (duh), Miyazaki-sensei. LOL I thought when Ali said, "Pindik jua!" I didn't thought it would be like THAT.

Day 2

This time, we arrived, slightly early, but we decided to go to Supa Save first, since we saw other kendokas including senpais still in they normal attire going there. I was unfortunately wearing my gi hakama already, but what the heck. As usual, stares. But at least I wasn't the only one.

When we got into the hall, most still hasn't changed, including the two senseis themselves. Ooookay. But that time, it was already 9.10AM. I followed the girls into the toiet and blablabla. The door wouldn't close fully and the guys' toilet was right next to ours. But no harm done. They changed in the cubicles. But we were noisy. That's why every time someone comes out of the guy's toilets, they'd shout at us for being noisy. XD

The training on that day was less hard then the one we had the other day, but I had a hard time doing hayasuburi because I was having pains. XD But after that it was okay, the training was basically the same. This time, it was Shiro who told me to not hold back my cuts. Yarrrr.

This time Cahya was told to jigeiko. We thought we'll be left to do nothing again, but then Ninomiya-sensei approaced us personally and told us to practice our cuts with run through. Okay. Fine by me.

Haha we actually had fun training on our own. Less control, more fun. Yepyep. Good.

And and and and and I finally got to know Miyazaki-sensei's daughters' names! XD Okay, that's a lot. Anyway, yeah. Haha. Oh man. So cute. The older one, is Yui, 3 and the younger one is Reina, 1. Both of them were shy though so in the end we took the picture with the mother included. XD NO I AM NOT BEING A PEDO. I JUST APPRECIATE THEIR CUTENESS AND WOULD LIKE TO EMBED THAT INTERNALLY IN MY MEMORIES. Um yeah. Haha.

That's them. With their mommy. I don't know mommy's name though. Didn't know how to ask. XD CUTE, I TELL YOU, CUTE! Yui looked like she wanted to cry because she was scared. I was scared too. XD

After training, the seniors decided to bring the sensei to Aminah Arif to have taste of Ambuyat. We went with them, but decided to stop by at Seri Qlap Mall first to go to the arcade. Haha. I went in Far's car with Adeline, Hafiz went with Cahya and Riku and Kaza went with Pau. It was my first time playing the Initial D race game. I got my own card how. With a picture of tow girls on it. WTF is the meaning of this?! And also first time playing the machine-version of DDR. I don't like it. Since there was not that many people, I did try the games.

In the end, when we think we have enough fun, we went over to Aminah Arif. All eight of us sat around a round table which barely fitted us all because we couldn't combine the other tables. And apparently, I feel like a more walls are built between the realms of the juniors and the seniors. But who cares at that time, right? I was having fun with my friends. kaza tried ambuyat, she failed. Adeline didn't eat much. Other than Ambuyat which I heart with all my soul, I also ate the fried fish. haha. yes, I dig the fish. XD

We were done and the seniors took off. Ninomiya-sensei was one of the last ones to go ut and he waved at us. Hafiz, being his fanboy gave him a high five. XD WTF. He was waving, not givinga high five. But that's Hafiz to you. Hah and they did it the second time. XD And as typical die-hard fans go, he will never wash his hand ever again.

After that, Pau sent me home. THey stayed for a while and then went home.

THE ENNNND.

Amusing Little Things

My dad just brought home three stray kittens home few days ago. Well, they weren't really strays. They were born and lived at my grandfather's house until their mother abandoned them and my aunt said they can't keep them because they don't have cat food. Pssh. Just because of that?

Anyway, my dad carried them out of the car inside a blue bucket, as there were no boxes. They were skinny. Two of them were black and gray and orange while the other one was white and black. Poor things :(

My dad put them in the abandoned "cat house", behind our house. I am actually quite worried if some monitor lizard or dogs might find them and...do stuff to them, like what happened to my late rabbits and cats.

One of them was apparently thinner than the other two, so naturally, I focused most on that one.

So, why am I talking about this? It's about this thing that my 7/8-year-old brother did this morning. When he's with my 9-year-old sister, my god. What brats. But since the sister went to sleep at my cousin's house, he was lonely so he stuck to me and my other sister, 12-years old. Very innocent. See, I knew it, the mastermind of the evil schemes was that sister of mine.

He went downstairs with me to the check out the kittens and he saw the blue bucket.

He asked, "Kaka, what is that blue bucket for?"

I replied, "It's...um, it's for them to sleep in." I honestly don't know what to say. The answer was illogical, but what the heck.

"How are they supposed to get in?"

"They'll...jump?"

"But they're so small!" And with good thinking, he decided to lie the bucket onto it's side, supposingly to make the kittens easier to enter and sleep.

Is that not just so thoughtful of him?

Now everybody, say "AWWW~!!"

Banzai~

T'was an awesome day, very, I must say. XD

I thought I was late to training today. Turns out, I was only the third to arrive, after the two girls whose names I still don't know. Where the heck are the light switches anyway? And so blablabla, junbi taisho. Erk. Yazin was in one of "those" moods again, at least I think so. He claimed that he fell asleep during our warm up. Puuuffff. So for most of the time, he just let us sit down and talked about etiquettes (thank God for the spell checker, I have no idea how to spell it XD) using Fiz as the model for the proper ways of doing junbi taisho. Can't help but laugh. Hafiz, don't hold a grudge. Please. :D

Then, he had to go and told us to train whatever is necessary to improve and specifically pointed out to me about my mistake during the kata. HAHA...and I had already forgotten all about it!

So around 11+, we juniors were left to train by ourselves, as the other two senpais left were Naif and Suberu, who were busy jigeiko-ing in the other room. The two girls (I reaaaally don't know your names, sorry!) practiced kata with Far, Kaza and Pau. I alternated between the two pairs. Riku was busy doing waza with Cahya and Fiz and Syazani and blablabla. We sorta just did random training, you know. In the end, when it was nearing 12, we just had a brilliant idea. Riku, Far, Pau, Fiz, the two girls, and I decided to do a crazy ashi sabaki practice. We put our shinais at our back horizontally the way we normally do, but in this case, we're connecting it with the other shinais. So we did the tango MAI, ATO, MIGI, HIDARIIII~!! It was hard yet fun! XD

Raito, Syazani and Kaza decided to join in the fun and then, another idea popped up! Lets do hayasuburi in that position! So since we were holding on to each other's shinais, we can only do the footwork of hayasuburi. Hahahahahaha 20x hayasuburi like that. Hell. XDD

It was already 12 by then, so we went into a circle, the other two girls went home and did hayasuburi. There were eight of us left, senpais still in the other room, and sooo, we did hayasuburi our own style! XD We wanted to do 50 hayasuburi, so the plan was that everyone count until 5, "ICHI NI SAN SHI GO!" and then after everyone's done counting we count til 10 "ICHI NI SAN SHI GO ROKU SHICHI HACHI KYU JUU!"and it all totals up to 50! Haha awesome, it was.

After mokuso and rei, it was MISATO TIME~! However, Cahya didn't bring any spare clothes because he forgot! D: We didn't want to leave him out, so we decided not to change! So the seven us went to Misato. Fiz, Kaza and I went with Pau and Riku and Far went with Cahya!

As usual, people staaaared. This is the consequences of not wanting to leave your friend by himself in his gi hakama. What the heck. Good thing we managed to get one of the private rooms. And duuude, we ordered a heck lot. I ordered tooo many sushis. Haha. The huge-sized ones too. I ordered four plates of sushi and two Day for Night drinks. Haha. I thought the sushis was small, but damn, they were huge. XD So when I finished the third plate, I thought it was over. Turns out that, a fourth plate came. Oh shit. Haha. I only managed to eat one, haha and gave the other one to Cahya. Even he was like, "munch munch munch munch munch munch munch munch munch munch munch munch swallows." So big, I almost puked. Haha. Total is $86.60. XD I paid $16.60 because I don't remember how much and I was supposed to treat Pau out of the goodness of my heart. Repayment for willing to send and pick me up from home so many times. The others gave $10 each. XD Here are the pics,, taken using Far's phone. Not clear. And Fiz and Cahya ain't in the pic.

That's Riku, Far, Me, Kaza and on the other side Pau. Our facees are blurred to avoid identification. XD Right.

After feeling very, very full, we went to my house. This time I went with Cahya to direct him to my house. Haha we missed my simpang because we were to busy talking. XD Sorry. We decided to change clothes at my house since my house was the nearest to Mall compared to the others. We still had aproblem though, Cahya. He didn't have spare clothes. I can't just lend him my dad's clothes. And not my clothes. He is 180+cm tall, I believe. But then I remembered my oversized Billabong jacket and decided to lend that to him. And now, pants. mm. I lent him the pants I usually wear for PE. Oh god. It fits! Haha. With the pants and the jacket, he's just a few bling-bling away from being "them". But what the heck. Now we can go to the Mall. XD'

This time, it's Far, Riku and me in Cahya's car and Kaza, Fiz in Pau's car.
Looked for parkings. No parkings. Where are the parkings? Found a parking spot. Walked to the Mall. So many people. We just remembered, it was a SUNDAY! D: So it was a good thing we didn't persuade Cahya to just wear his gi hakama to the Mall. XD While waiting for Pau, we went to the Food Court for some Fruities. This was my first time ordering from that stall and I ordered something Summer. It was a mango drink and the cool thingwas, they have real mango pieces, instead of mango jelly or whatever artificial things they used. It was awesome, but a bit too sweet. They should add more water. I was feeling hot at that time. My palms were soooo hot yet not an ounce of sweat was produced, and my lips were dry, and I wasn't even in a desert.


We finally met up, turns out the were sitting at the other end of the food court, near the arcade, while we were sitting in front of Jollibee's stall. XD Haha so we went to the arcade, Riku and Far went to the DDR machine. We watched for a while then we followed Pau to the Initial D machine. Haha awesoooome. The only ones who didn't play anything were Cahya, Kaza and me so I took out a dollar, grabbed some tokens, and went to the game, the touch screen one, haha. Haha crazy what. Then, everyone disappeared. Kaza and I were left in the midst of crowd of strangers. Went back to DDR machine, lol. Kaza said, with a far, far away gaze, "I wish he was here." Yeah, my response was just a smirk. XD

Then, since we had nothing to do, we went to some game stores, wondering what they have for PSPs. Nothing, nothing, nothing. Then I dragged her to Jollybean with my so that I can finally get my hands on the long lost After 8 I've always wanted. I told her to get one too but she said she was saving money. Turns out, she's saving money for someone's upcoming birthday. Hehehe. She's been talking a lot about him these days. Now she's starting to remind me of Manda. Haha.

Oh yeah. I forgot to mention. We bumped into Syazni, as in my junior, in the lift. And yay! He's continuing Kendo CCA next year! I am so happy for him! Told him to just go and fet himself a gi hakama already! Now all we're waiting for is Hafiz's response, another junior of ours. They're good, y'know.

It was 5.50 when we decided to go home. And we saw Marcel! Long time no see! But he can't come to training because of the time clashes. Awww. Wish everyone is there.

And then, home we went. We met up at my house, before finally, bye bye.

And now, bye bye to you too. Sorry for the long posts these days. XD

Kendo presentation =D -->> Before and After || And other stuff

OMG. MY DAD JUST EMERGED OUT OF NOWHERE WITH HIS TOWEL OVER HIS HEAD COVERING HIS FACE AND WEARING MY MUM'S SKIRT.

*take deeeeeeeeeep breath*

Okay. I was supposed to talk about our kendo presentation, rught? Yeah, I'm going to refer it as presentation or performance. I can't really consider it a demo, since we're just doing the kendo moves without actually explaining what the heck we were doing to the crowd.

WARNING: LONG POST AHEAD BECAUSE I LIKE TELLING THE DETAILS.

We were informed that we are to do a presentation of our CCA club somewhere last week. My reaction was, "Uh, what? So we're supposed to come up with something by wednesday? ...Fuck." So anyway, I'll divide the training into the two days plus the real event.

Wednesday

Our meeting was supposed to be on Monday, but Jynn postponed it to Wednesday, when he said that he didn't postpone the actual meeting. But anyway, we met up on Wednesday, just have no idea of all what to do. We finally decided to show the

• basic men, kote, do cuts;
• kiri kaeshi,
• ni-dan waza: kote-men and kote-do;
• kaeshi waza: men kaeshi do and kote kaeshi men;
• and ipponme kata.

The initial arrangement and pair-up were Riku with Syazni, Kaza with Hafiz and me with Syafiq. Jyn was supposed to be the one giving out orders since he doesn't have a partner and then pair up with Kaza during the kata. We trained in the gym. We only have two days of practice and lots to do. We know we couldn't really expect much from the three boys since they've only done training during CCA unlike Riku, Kaza and me. We tried to not put much pressure on them as well as ourselves. But yeah. You know when you combine good with not so good, you would at least get an average result. But when you combine not so good with not so good, the result is me and my partner. Boooooo.

Thursday

Nash and Zul joined in, Syafiq didn't come. So my new partner is Zul. He is TINY. When I say TINY, imagine comparing a tree trunk to a stick. I'm the tree trunk, he's the stick. It was very hard partnering uo with him but I couldn't complain because Jynn was already on the "forceful, cheerful swearing-cursing" stage of stress. Which is what I would do when I am stressed yet sarcastic and hyper. And honestly, by the third rehearsal on stage, I was feeling discouraged. I guess the others were too since Jynn asked the teachers if we can do a "kiai check" on stage. So kiai we did. I felt quite refreshed after that.

All of us had to do EVERYTHING, from basic cuts to waza, except for kata, so synchronizing was hard. Syazni, Hafiz and Zul went home at noon so left were Jynn, Nash, Kaza and me. (Yes, this was mentioned in my previous post, so if you don't want to read it, shut up and hide in you closet) We were thinking of how to make everything nice and smooth. So we paired up and Jynn would count for every move we make. It was okay for basic cuts but for the others, I say it was quite impossible.

We ended training and Kaza and I went to the canteen to grab some food and drinks. We discussed how difficult it was to follow Jynn's counting so we wanted to tell him our idea. We want to follow the Karate do style, where the juniors do the basics techniques, and seniors do the advanced techniques. But then again, technically, we are all juniors since we started at the same time, except for Jynn. But the level of skill were obviously caried between us. We didn't say it directly to him, just some few subtle hints, and he came up with the idea to let the juniors (which are them who did not come to central dojo's training) and the others are up to the seniors (those who came to central dojo's training) And then somehow, it does not sound fair to the form two kids. So final decision was, juniors for basic cuts and kiri kaeshi, and seniors for waza and kata. And damn. I was to perform kata with Kaza. NOOOOO. I can't hold back my laughter when I partner up with her. We went home after that.

Saturday

Finally, the real day has arrived. Oh god. Now I was starting to panic. Chris joined us! Yay! *pinch* Muahahahaha. We THOUGHT the CCA Closing Ceremony was after break, but then Ms. Jennifer said that it was in the morning!

Of course, I was getting even more panicked. Jynn was our leader but daaang, at that time he was busy with choir, Riku was busy practicing with Ramzul who also joined in the last minute, Nash couldn't join the presentation though he was still there, so it was up to Kaza and I to be in-charge of the juniors.

Good thing Hafiz, Syazni and Zul decided to stay with us. Thank you, guys. But I was worried about their kiai. They were not loud enough, I guess. So I told them to kiai while doing men cuts. I love Syazni's kiai. It's the deep, husky type of kiai. He should do that more often. Chris's kiai was good when he does it. It's just that he doesn't do it often. Hafiz had the deep, smooth kiai voice. Zul's was still weak but he was the most friendly among them. Em, why the heck am I commenting on their kiais, you ask? I am just so proud of them. HAHA wtf I sound weird. My voice went into a screech during my kiai. Opps. Too loud. XD

Then, we did two more rehearsal when Jynn was done with choir. And the FINAL-EST final arrangement was (BEWARE, OVERLOAD OF DETAIL)

• Basic cuts & kiri kaeshi = Syazni-Hafiz, Chris-Zul.
• ni-dan waza: kote-men, kote-do; kaeshi waza: men kaeshi do, kote kaeshi men = Riku-Ramzul
• ipponme kata = Kaza-Maj
  

Oh man, and that was pretty last minute. But it was simple and since only one pair is up each time,there was no need of synchronising. And for basic cuts, Jynn only needs to count for the two pairs to sync, and for kiri kaeshi the two pairs just have to go at their own pace, at the same time trying to adjust to the other pair's speed.

Okay, it looks as if Kaza and I got the smallest part of the presentation. Honey, you think WRONG. Kata is basically the hardest part the whole thing, I tell you. I had to practice the Kata so many times with Kaza to get used to looking at each other without laughing and also to perfect my moves. Sigh. It was tough. D= So basically, there was additional challenge for the both of us.

And then, it was time. We were up next after Karate. I've seen the Karate rehearsals. There were about 12 or more of them and they've basically been on stage more than us, plus they have awesome moves. How can we compare that to eight newbie-on-stage, first-timer kendo performers? But then again, we shouldn't compare. That's just bad.

There was so many people. The audi was basically packed. Greeeaaaat. Now, butterflies were about to burst out of my stomach.

Okay, more useless details ahead.

We entered through the backstage, led by Jynn, then Ramzul, Riku, Kaza, me, Syazni, Hafiz, Chris and Zul. Haha yes, I remember. I guess adrenaline in some way increases your memory. XD We faced the audience, and rei-ed, screaming "Onegaishimasu!" as loud as possible. We saw Yazin in the front seats. Getting more nervous having a senpai looking at us.Then, the rest of us seiza-ed while Chris, Zul, Syazni and Hafiz took their positions and Jynn stood by the side. I don't know why, but the audience laughed. Out of amusement, or amazement, or because we look plain weird and funny on stage, I have no idea. I was later told because they all looked cute. XD Right. The audience laughed even more during Kiri Kaeshi. Is it really that funny?! We kept on stealing glances at Yazin who was sitting, leaning forwad with his chin in his hand, loking serious. OMG Was he mad and disappointed?!

Then, they seiza while Riku and Ramzul performed ni-dan waza and kaeshi waza. Everything was going smoothly, until kaeshi waza where Jynn was supposed to announce "kaeshi waza: men kaeshi do!" which basically means your opponent attack you with a men cut and you counter using do cut. He somehow accidentally said "men kote do!" which confused Riku so when Ramzul attacked her she paused. But they managed to cover it up when they repeat it. Then, kote kaeshi men, Riku attack and Ramzul defend. Every time Ramzul hits Riku on the head, the audience again laughed. Of course he didn't really hit her but I guess it was so close that the audience felt the suspense.

And then came our turn. In my head, "ohshitohshitohshitohshit." I don't know why, but after I took out my bokken during the initial sonkyo, I was halfway through doing the sageeto, as in, returning it back to my invisible sheath. WTFFFF. By then, I was sooooo nervous already, and as I was the defender (shidachi) in the first round, I just threw out all my stress and embarrassment into a long and loud "TOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" And again, people laughed. WHYWHYWHY? When Kaza did the "to!" they did laugh, but not as loud as they did during my "to!" Boo.

And then, the kata ended. Everyone lined up and moved up front stage. It was time for the finale, HAYASUBURI!! Haha, even my friend who doesn't really know much kendo was looking forward to this one the most. So, we were ordered to "chuudan-n0-kamae" and our shinai's were basically pointing at the guest of honour and principal and the teachers. So, bein the mature adults they were, yeah, you know, the typical playful reaction you get when a swrod is pointed at you. Oh yeah, Kaza and I were using bokkens, heavier than shinais, so it was a good thing that we were only doing 20. Haha. And another good thing was, this time, the audience was not laughing, instead they were cheering, filled with "WOOOAHHH!" and claps. I guess everyone seriously likes to see us torturing ourselves with high speed men cuts.

Then, it ended. We rei, and screamed out a satisfying "ARIGATO GOZAIMASU!!!" and walked out of the audi were I automatically apologised to everyone about my mistake early in the kata.

We were told to go into the audi from the back and had to wait for the event to end after tons of awards given away. The instructors for the CCA clubs which had instructors got certificates which had cool lines, like the one Yazin got. "For Professional Supervision in Kendo." Proof of his hard work. Woohoo.

We met up with him when we went out of the audi, (no, we didn't stay bacjk with the other students when the invited guests were supposed to go out XDD) Haha scared with what he had to say, but turned out he was actually happy with the presentation. He even personally commented that our kata was getting better since the last time we trained. But he did notice the teensy-weensy mistake I made. SORRRYYYY. He also praised MS which I'm not going to mention or else I'll sound...obnoxious. Whatever that word means. XD Besides, I don't remember. XD And he said the hayasuburi was the most exciting part of the presentation. LOL well, I am noraly slower than others at doing hayasuburi, but dang, that day, with all that happened, I put my whole heart into it and just screamed out the numbers, like the others. Heheh.

And here, is us. L-R: Chris, Riku, Kaza, me, Zul, Nash, Hafiz, Ramzul, Syazni and Jynn. Yazin-senpai took the photo.

Post-presentation!

Yazin took us to EasyWay as a treat for the success of the presentation *cough*when we were supposed to go back to the audi after the break for more performaces *cough* Pity Chris, Syazni, Hafiz and Zul didn't join us, I mean, we were starting to get to know each other, finally, after months of training together yet not interacting. Maybe next year I should suggest boys pairing up with girls so that they won't get restricted to getting know one gender only. And we should be paired up randomly, because as far as I notice, we only choose to pair up with our friends. Because I seriously regret not knowing them earlier because they are fun, and they're not continuing Kendo next year. I mean, that was how I got new friends out of Kendo in the central dojo.

So anyway, where was I? XD Oh yeah. EasyWay was clooosed. And then we passed Desa Cafe. Riku hinted me. "Maj, you have something to say about that Desa Cafe, right?" So, I guess even I couldn't hold back, so I blurted out, "That's my...aunt's cafe." Yazin obviously heard me, so his response was, "This. Is. Awkward." I will explain in one sentence and then I will never say it again. Desa Cafe is Yazin's mum's cafe which is also my aunt's cafe, so you get what that means? Honestly, I really don't like finding out I'm related to someone who I first know as a friend or something like that. I mean, I already knew that Yazin is related to Zati who is related to Pinji who is related to me, but I thought that was as far as it goes. D:

So umm, why do I always get off topic so easily? We went to Jollibee. Yazin's treat! The bill was up to $33 for only the six of us. We greedy people. Reef and Nash were there. I think they walked from school. Um. LOL. Riku was still thinking about that fact that people laughed during Ramzul's and her waza which just reminded me about the laughter of people during my "to!" -_-;; haha again, I wondered about it, but did I hear unmistakably from Yazin that the kiai was good? X) Okay, ignore me. So we talked, shared stories and blabla til it was 12+PM and Riku and Kaza has to go home since they're going by bus. I had to go back to school too because I was supposed to be with Froggy. I was stuffed with fries, beef burger, rocky road sundae and coke.



*NOW THE KENDO RANTING SESSION HAS ENDED, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED THAT AFTERNOON, ALSO AT SCHOOL*



Froggy has gained permission to use the Audi since she needs the piano to practice with Andy. Again, like our last practice, they didn't actually practiced much. Just...sat there, with Andy playing random songs on the piano and Froggy singing some random song and me just either listening to them or lying down, or listening to some random stories. They did manage to practice, separately, like last time too. I told Froggy that I won't be able to come to her to every practice since there really was no use of me there, anyway.

In the mean time, Andy shared with us some of his Wu Shu knowledge. I really like the "Chi" concept. He demonstrated by pushing me. It was obvious that his hands didn't move much but I actually went tumbling few feet back, trying to balance myself. Good thing I didn't flew but the impact was there. Awesome.

When they did manage to combine both the singing and the piano singing, it was nice. I felt like sleeping to the song. Wow. Unfortunately, I had to go home too soon, at least I think so. Had so much fun with them.


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I should really stop now. Took me an hour and few glasses of orange syrup to write all this down. Ahaha. Please don't complain. I just want to make sure all this happened when I somehow miraculously find this entry again in a few years time.

Yesterday and Today

Recap from yesterday.

Boohoo. I didn't get to Pinji's BBQ. Boohoo.

...Lets start from the beginning.


I went to school yesterday, and met up with the other kendokas, namely Kaza, Riku, Jynn and three Form 2 kedokas whose names I finally knew, Syazni, Hafiz and Syafiq. We were gathering to discuss about the upcoming CCA Closing Ceremony where we are going to do a kendo presentation. There were obviously not many of us who participated, despite having 25 so-called active members.

Yeah, blabla we went to the gym for practice and rehearsal. The event was two days away, minus Friday, so we were sort of in a rush. Even today, we are still deciding what the arrangements should be.

So in the end, yeah. Everything went...not-so-smoothly, got tons of "mou ichidooooo~!!!" from Jynn, hahaha. But we did actually had fun getting to know the omgimustresistbeingapedo, adorable juniors. I seriously can not be paired up with Kaza. Every time I look at her face and she looks at mine, we would burst out laughing. She thinks I look like Doraemon and I think she just looks...amusing?

Everything was packed up at noon, when I decided to go home to Kaza's, since we're having training that night and so that Pau doesn't have to go all the way to my house. Haha and at Kaza's house, ummmmm yeah. We got comfy in blankets hanging out in her living room, which I really like, and yeah. Haha me being the listener and she telling stories about her dearly beloved. She kept on covering her face with her blanket while talking about him, Surely, I'm sure anyone would have gone "awww" seeing that. Okay, now that she's found hers, she's like eff confident that "anyone will someday find their one, and you will too." Who the hell turned her into such a romantic?! >0

And so blablabla went to training. We were half an hour late since we went to pick up Nazz, but I got the front seat! HAHA to you, Riku! XD When we arrived at the dojo, they haven't even started yet. So yeah. After a few more minutes of not doing anything, we finally warmed up and off to the real thing. Lim Han asid he'll divide us into two groups, i.e for those who want to do intensive training and those who wants to do waza.

I felt weak, lazy and sleepy since I didn't get my afternoon nap, so I opted to waza. XD Riku, Far, Hafiz and Dillah were with us and we went to the next squash hall. And man. I should've known what the training would be like since this is Lim Han we're talking about. We learnt 5 new wazas. I don't know what they're called because Lim Han didn't name them, but they were seriously advanced. All 5 wazas used the shortcut cuts, and agility and speed is required. I had neither. If you don't call that intensive training I don't know what is. And since we have to do 20 times for each waza, which means doing 20 times fumikomi leap stamp, which therefore means 100 times fumikomi for the whole thing, it's no surprise that my left foot got blisters.

TIME WAS RUNNING OUTTTTT BY THEN. It was already 9.30 when we finally ended. And then there was an unexpected meeting after that which meant we can't leave early. So basically the whole thing ended at 10PM. We were supposed to be at home by 10PM. So there was no way we could go to Pinji's. I felt sad. Riku, Kaza and Pau felt bad. Hafiz was only thinking about the free food which he couldn't get. I just felt realy guilty because both of us were looking forward to meeting each other, and the food too. ...Yeah.

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Now, off to day.

I was woken up at 7. Being so exhausted last night, I didn't even wake up around 6 plus, which is what I normally do automatically. And yes, I have SCHOOL. Meaning, I was LATE. More practicing. Today we only started training after break time, in the audi. Emm. Getting better, I guess. Uh...hahaha. I kept on making minor mistakes. Our stuff was at the back at the audi. Sir Bio was there. As like many other people, he would ask how much our equipments are. But I wasn't reluctant to answer his question this time since like us kendokas, he spend lots of money on running equipments as well. Cheers for passion! XD

In the afternoon, the only ones who stayed back were Jynn, Nash, Kaza and me. So I had to be paired up with Kaza. DD: The laughter could not be suppressed. But in the end we had to get use to looking at each other. So yeah. It was okay I guess. And finally, we have a perfect arrangement. Yessss. Shall not reveal it for now. But I guess this is the best. For fairness and also time management. On our way to teacher's cafetaria, we bumped into Mr. Ray Geaorge. Turned out he practiced kendo when he was in Bali for six months! Dude! He should have become our teacher-in-charge! He said he liked Kendo and wanted to do it again, but he didn't have the time. What a pity.

After that, just sat around at teacher's cafeteria, where the Karatekas were practicing and grading, that's what I heard. They're cool. Reef came and went at our table. FINALLY wnet home around 3.30. Thank God tomorrow's Friday. I need a break from kendo. There's a limit to everything, you know, even love and passion. XD I stick to reality.

CfBT Charity Run

I woke up at 6AM. Dad made us do that because we had a charity run to go to which started at 7AM. We headed for Serasa Yacht Club for the starting point. There was an option of 2KM, 5 M, and 10KM walk, run or cycle. I chose the 2KM walk. The people in the 2KM walk were the either the unfit, the lazy, or those who just wanted to well, take a walk. I was all three of them. Hey, at least I joined. For the benefit of SMARTER Brunei. XD

So anyway, when we got there, the event had just started so with no stretching whatsoever, I joined with my whole family except for Udin. I thought it would have been great if Udin had joined us since he likes to walk outside. But I guess it was too early for him and he's still asleep. He would have gone berserk if we tried to wake him up early. HAHA

And so blablabla, while listening to some songs, I walked and walked and walked. It was definitely not fresh air that I inhaled because some fish mongers were out there doing business. Booo.. And, soon as we reached the finishing point, which is back at the yacht club, we were given breakfast coupons, and then we lined up for breakfast. By that time I was already really sleepy and grumpy. And then blabla we ate breakfast, had a little speech from one of the CfBT people and from Uncle Malai.

I realised it was already 9 plus so I nudged Dad so that we can go. I had asked him to drop me at Kaza's place so that he doesn't have to go all the way to Rimba to drop me off to training.
We were in Serasa after all and just few minutes later, heck, I don't even think it was 5 minutes when we manage to find Kaza's house. So I took my stuff, changed into my gi and hakama and by the time I finished, Pau came.

I played Dynasty Warriors in the car using Kaza's PSP, but I can't see much X( And off we went to training. At training, we were back to basics. Yay, I am happy. It's just that I still bsically suck at basics especially Do cut, the cut to the abdomen. I don't know why but I still suck. And we had to do a friggin Do marathon, as in, hitting he Do on your opponent on both sides until you reach the end of the hall, and reverse. Gah. Kept on hitting the body instead of the armor. XD Gomen Shiro said to not lose eye contact. Problem is, while I was hitting his do, he kept on having this smile because of my mistakes, which made me laugh and basically lose eye contact. Dammit, be serious, will you, even though it was friggin obvious that I was making mistakes.

Yeah, and then we did kiri kaeshi. As the attacker, I can say that I don;t suck THAT much, I think, except for my footwork. Too short. XD, but as the receiver, I suck. I totally suck.

And theeeen, break. But we didn't take a break. Just...played around. The senpais were in the other squash hall and we got the space to ourselves. Yay. Had a kiai match with Fizu. And then, the stomachache started. Must be because of all the kiai-ing, but maybe also because my period =/

Haha I just have to explain this because this is so awesome. Riku, Pau, Far and Hafiz had a cool idea. I'll just let eh illustrations explain. (The illustrations were made just when I did this post, so hope you don't mind and understand it.)

This is the original position, Okay, actually this is the chuudan no kamae. Aeriel view.

Fizu and Pau will do the sayu men hayasuburi while RIku and Far will find a chance to enter.

Once Pau and Fizu raises their shinais, Riku and Far will do the Hayasuburi. So both pairs bsically alternate with eachother.

As you know, hayasuburi is done at a high speed, so it was not easy to synchronize with all three partners. But in the end, they managed it. It was a spectacular sight. Even I was getting butterflies in my stomach just watching. Wish the others were there. They were in the other hall watching the senpais shiai-ing. When they finished, I clapped my hands enthusiastically. Kaza, Eddie and Nadzif-senpai who were also there clapped their hands. It was such a memorable moment. XD I tried doing it but nah, not yet. Maybe one day. I mean seriously, don't you think that's a good training technique? You get to get used to sync with your partners and at the same time increase your speed, you know, like if your partner is faster than you or slow you can try to catch up or slow down accordingly and maintain. It is just so awesome. Wonder what the senpais would say if they saw it. Hope it wouldn't mean breaking the rules or something like that. I want to try to do it too!

Yeah, and then some time later, the training ended. The people left were Riku, Kaza, Pau, Fizu, Cahya, Far, Eddiemaru (XD doesn't eddiemaru sound better than Maru?) and me. Maru complained that his parents always picked him up late so we stayed with him. Hah it was late alright. We didn't mind since I was going with Pau anyway, and Cahya and Far got their own cars.

But then, even after he was picked up, we still hung around the cars and stuff, telling stories. I was so thirsty and hot I desperately gulped Kaza's bottle of WATER down. EWWWW so people, congratulate me for drinking water. XD Haha and we didn't realise that the time was already 1.30PM. We went into the cars in a rush, and since the others in the car were feeling hot and thirsty as well, they decided to stop by at my house for some drinks. And Kaza needed some ice for her arm. It was red because of her shiai. So yeah.

At my house we stopped. I decided to let the use the downstairs area, the area where we normally use for functions and hence it looked clean and tidy. XD The aircond at the dining area did not work, so I took them to my living room where we sat around the table and had iced milo and sarsi. They each took a packet of keropok ayaym (you know, the very delicious one in green packet with a drawing of a chicken in the front, I forgot the brand) and since we have the privacy we much needed, stories poured. Riku was busy pairing us up with every kendoka she can think of, because she wanted more kendo couples, what ever that term means. XD And Pau and Kaza told us what happened to them on that particular night with a particular person. Blarrr.

They went home with their thirst satisfied and good thing they helped me carry the stuff to he kitchen. lol sorry for not being...um, a good host. XD

Kitchen Disaster.

I BURNT THE FRICKIN CHICKEN.

Mum told me to cook this morning. But Anti Min wasn't there so I called her. I decided to cook chicken with oyster sauce. As usual, my screams are audible throughout the house as the oil "reacted violently" with the garlic and ginger I put in. I mean, I was expecting the oil to do that, but I was obviously still scared. Then I put in the onions, the chilli, chicken, some water and finally oyster sauce with the salt.

Then, I left it to cook. To play the my sister's PSP. For the next....20 minutes? Suddenly I smelled something like toasted bread. I wasn't that far off. It was the smell of burning chicken. XD So I rushed to the kitchen and tried to save the chicken. Only the surface of some pieces were burnt though. But most of the water evaporated. HAHA I remembered my maid telling me to add water to this almost burnt sausage I made, as she said it was to moisten it back? SO I thought the same thing would do for chicken. Bad results. The burnt parts of the chicken mixed with the water and gave a bitter, burnt taste to the gravy. But the taste of oyster sauce was stronger though. XD

My dad called after that to check up on me and I wailed..."IT'S BUUUURRRNNNNTTTT!!!! I DON'T THINK EVEN THE CAT WANTS ITTTT~!!!"

But he calmly said, "it's okay, we all learn from mistakes."

That's it. Then, when they all got home, the chicken was served, along with some last minute veggies I cooked. My mum lectured me. No surprise about that. Haha.

I now agree with Froggy's saying, "When the cook a stressed, the food cooked will be bad." LOL I was stressed because I hate oil because it's scary and I don't like it. Then when I cooked the veggies, I was stressed because of the burnt chicken. Overall, the whole thing was bad. I should never cook unsupervised ever again.

FMIS Concert |and| Others

My brother's school, which is owned by my auntie had it's end-of-year concert yesterday. As usual, Manda and I had to come as we'll be doing most of the odd jobs, IN FRIGGIN BAJU KURUNG AND TUDONG. Sigh. Mum won't let me wear my Nike sandals. The concert was at the Scouts Building, fifth floor. The parents only filled up less than half that area. So what we had to do was giving out the program booklet, and then when we realised it was not enough, we had to go to the third floor to photocopy it, but then the photocopy machine was jammed, so we had to get their technician who was in the fifth floor hall doing the audio, who was busy with the audio system and we had to go down again to tell them, who told us to tell him to come down when he's not busy, and then when we got back up there we were told to ask for some of the securities at the ground floor to help with the third floor and.....*sigh* thank god for the elevators. And my stupid slippers just had to act up at that time. The friggin sole detached! Wait, sole? I don't know about parts of the shoes okay.

"Check it out! I'm a talking slipper! But I'm stupid. I'm so stupid I just had to open my stupid mouth while the girl who was wearing me was in a rush!"

Anyway, that was basically our job. Then for the rest of the show we basically did nothing but play with the kids. XD An as far the shows are concerned, they're just...well, they were performed by kids, so you wouldn't expect much from them anyway, right?

Then, finally, the moment we've been waiting for, REFRESHMENTS, baby!! XD Yeah. Haha. It's usual mee goreng and kuih-muihs with tea and coffee and whatnots. Spent the rest of the tme sitting around with Kaka Emma and Man talking and talking and what else, eat.

In the car, Man wanted to borrow my sling bag since she's going out later at night, so I'll be holding her handbag for the time, as a remainder. LOL. I don't use handbags =_= We went home, but dad had to send the rest of my younger siblings home home first, and after sending Man, my father, my sister and I headed to the mall. Forcefully. I didn't want to go because well, of my stupid shoes. I was still wearing my bagu kurong and tudong. Then, my sister suggested me to wear her converse shoes which she left in the car. Em, helloooo, baju kurong+tudong+handbag+converse shoes=poklen wannabe? And we're going to the mall, the HQ of "thempeople". What if they labelled me as one of them? Ohnoes. Azzah wanted to find a PSP charger since she lost hers. We found a two-in-one USB cable PLUS charger for $12 at this game shop close to the food court. But if you buy the charger pack only, it costs $25. Haha what a bargain. We also bought some games for $10. Yesssss. I can finally play the PSP again! XD Yeah it's hers, but hey, there's a Bleach game in it. XD

And then, dad just had to go into this shop filled with punk and hip hop accessories. My sister's fault. Seriously, who brings their dad, especially conservative ones to a shop like that? Branded ones too. Dad was sleepy at that time, and when he's sleepy, he is very "mendulur" somehow. He let my sister by this $Idon'tknowhowmuch and me a $39 jacket. DD: I felt guilty, but my sis insisted. Hmm. I'm just gonna keep quiet. XD

That's the end of the day for us. Dad just could not keep his eyes open anymore. Better let him rest after all the money he spent that day. Haha.

Hisashiburi da ne

After two frickin months of being inactive, I have finally stepped into the dojo again. Haaaaaaaa~

Pau picked me up, and others who were with him were Riku, Hafiz and Kaza. Lol a car packed with kendokas. Awesoooome. XD

Honestly, I was kind of nervous coming back to training, since, I don't know. Em, I felt that I might just be rusty and looked more like a beginner and stuff. The horrors. But everything turned out fine. Wait. Slash that. Everything turned out crazy D: Well, at least it was to me. We were told to the 20x men cut, 20x kote cut, 20x do cut and 20x sayu men cut in one go. Oh gaaaawd. And then 70 haya suburi. I was exhausted by the 30th. Damn. I used to be able to stand more than that.

And then we did kata. Riku still had something against kata, so she was not really into it. The problem with my kata was because I was paired up with Raito who is damn tall. So the distancing between us didn't really work because I was, quote from Yazin-senpai "short...-er than him." It's like, when he was going to attack and I step back, I didn't move far enough, and when I was supposed to attack him, he was totally out of reach. I was more used to pairing up with people my height, or people slightly taller only. Daaaarnnnn.

And then, end of training, and after all the annoucements, it was 9.30. We went to Ahan Thai. It was my first time eating there in my gi and hakama, so it felt awkward. The others were used to it, though. And I didn't bring any moneyyyy. But Kaza had an extra dollar so I ordered a one-scoop oreo ice cream. XD Riku and Raito were nice though. After I finished my sad little piece of ice cream, Riku decided to pour some of her XL sized honey dew juice into my bowl, we had an extra straw. And then after finishing that, Raito gave me some of his milo. Lol. Funny. Thanks, guys. XD I felt guilty but they didn't seem to mind.

Arrived home around 10.30+ because mum called. I just remembered that my dad won't be home that night, he'll be staying overnight in Belait, so basically I was supposed to be home. Lol.

And today, as expected, muscle craaaaaaamps. =D And one more thing, apparently Bamboo Blade is getting popular now, since it is about kendo. I mean, few months ago, when I stumbled upon it on the internet, not a single soul I asked ever even heard about the manga. Lawl yeay bamboo blaaade.

Nitta-sensei's Farewell Party

Gaaaa....kanashii da yo~

Ehm, so we've been practicing since the past 3 days for the song Home Sweet Home by Yuki. The practices were sort of dull, because almost nobody came, damn it. But today, thankfully, everybody did, do we finally had a decent practice.

We moved on to the Residence of Ambassador of Japan at around 1++PM. Cool place. Not really all japanese-y, but there were some of the parts where it was japanese-y. Haha. It felt awkward at first, since we, well, were in an AMBASSADOR'S house. Of course, in our mind, ambassadors are normally the no-nonsense, strict, cold, serious, formal and all that typical attitude of a middle-aged man. We wore shoes in there, and we didn't want to step on the carpet, so most of us were lined around the carpet, subconsciously. That's why his first question when he arrived was, "Why are you all standing beautifully around here?" XD It was a very casual arrival and stuff, and other than us, there were not more than 10 people over there, so it was cool.

And then he spoke in japanese, and although we learn japanese, we were unable to translate what he said since he said it so quickly. XD But I didn't really want to show my "huh?" look, so I tried to answer as much as I can, with the very few japanese words I can think of at that time. "Yasashi desu." "Sukoshi desu." and all those stuff ending with "desu". Kept on reminding myself to use "desu" too. Must be formal, we are talking to a japanese person of higher ranking, that's what I keep on reading on the internet. Hahaha. But then, he talked about animes with us! and explained to us the difference between the particle "wa and "ga". He should be Nitta-sensei's replacement. XD

And OMG there was sushi! For free! XD I miss sushi, but I just can not seem to afford them for the time being, so it was very refreshing. Me, Froggy, and some form twos get to sit with Mr.Hashimoto the ambassador, our principal, Mr. Ogihara (whose name keeps on reminding me of onigiri, which makes me feel VERY guilty D:) and a very sweet, japanese lady in purple whose name I forgot. I felt guilty because of that since she was very friendly. She asked me what's my favourite japanese song and the first thing that came to mind was "Domoto Koichi- Kagen no Tsuki" And she was like laughing and tapping my shoulders and said, "yeah, I like Koichi too! I prefer him over Shuichi!" XD So yeah, we talked about Kinki Kids. Weeeeird. But I don't feel awkward anymore.

Then, Froggy was nervous about her solo, Beatiful World. Kept on going to the toilet. Then, I began to feel awkward again because Mr. Ogihara was sitting next to me. I was embarassed because Nitta-sensei told them that I took kendo as well, so they shot many questions towards me. About how long I've been taking kendo, who teaches me kendo, how much do I like kendo, how good am I at kendo. One of them didn't even know that there was already kendo in Brunei.

And then, eating time. Of course, with the stereotypical japanese in mind, I took just a few pieces of sushi, just to be polite, haha. But then, noticing even the ambassador himself took many rounds around the food table, so what the heck. And boy, was I stuffed. My cravings for sushi fulfilled, the sushi tray almost empty, everybody was happy. Although I wish I could take the leftovers back home. XD

And after some more conversation with the ambassador and the em...embassy officers? it was time to sing. Oh gawwwwwd. Haha. It was emmm...okay? I don't know. Twas horrbile~!! Antah eh. And there comes out my malay. XD

After that, a photo-taking session. And then some informal photo sessions. All too soom, it all ended. I had this conversation with Nitta-sensei.

Me: Ja, sensei, sayounara(goodbye)! *bow*
Sensei: Iie, iie, ja mata(no, no, see you)!
Me: Sou desu ne, sayonara ja nai! Ja mata...raishu? (Right, not goodbye, see you...next week?)
Sensei, including the others who were nears laughed.

Well, you see, it's just that, after every lesson, we would say, "mata raishu, sensei.(see you next week, sensei)" So yeah. That's the point behind the conversation. X( I very sad.

And then on our way out, the ambassador casually send us out and said "come again, come again!" And no idea why, I was the unlucky victim who got slapped at the back by him. *cough* yes, very friendly. I thank Liilah and Katak who were there to prevent me from falling from the effect. XD He was also a strong hand shaker. XD

Anyway, here are the photos we took. :(

Look, the carvings on a table, it is depicting a war. Not clear due o reflection from the lamp.

Also the same table. It looked hard enough to carve those scenes, mean. That craftsman got my respect.

Darn, it's blurry. But it was really pretty. I assume this is ikebana. They used axora flowers with palm leaves and...no idea what those other leaves are.

Nitta-sensei and me (Shuttup, just llok at her, not me.XD)This is just put here for cuteness purposes.

I am still waiting for Anis to send me the other phots. Hurry uppppp~!!!

Yesterday!

Lol heyhey bloggie, been busy. XD

Yesterday, I had two choices. ICC - Kendo demo, or Katak's place - singing practice. I actually wanted to go to ICC, but somestuffhappenedduetoacertainsomeoneandIampracticallytiredofheranticsbutI'mnotgoingtomentionwhosheisbecauseeveryoneisfrickininlovewither
so I decided to go to Katak's place. I was supposed to accompany her to some jamming studio where there is a piano or keyboard available so that she can practice with Andy for a talent show they're joining next year. Andy's playing the piano and she's singing. Great combo, because Andy's a good pianist and Katak's a good singer. They're sining Iwao Junko - Scarlet.

lol Anyway, both jamming studios we went to were closed and the keyboard was not available respectively, so, suggested by Andy's father, we decided to go to his house since he has a piano.

It was awkward at first. We were in a guy's house, and it was his own father who sent us there. AWKWAAAARRRDDDD. But then, his family was friendly so we finally managed to settle down and eat the cake Katak baked for Andy, it was his birthday. XD It was good, but she was in denial. XD

So yeah, they practiced while I just...sat there and did nothing. But Katak was too shy to sing, so we ended up sitting at the dinner table and chat-chat. We played the Clow Cards, haha predicitng stuff. So many weird questions were asked. My questions were, will I ever get to meet Yui? Will I go to Japan one day? And will I *toooooot*? XD Haha stupid answers those damn cards gave.

Then, we went back to Katak's house. Andy's dad sent us back. I feel guilty DD:

So yeah, lol, we were talking about Katak's Curse song and story. I helped her translate some parts of the song into japanese, at least the ones that I;m sure of. Then, finally, I went home at 7.30pm.

The end :D

I AM FUCKING FREE~!!!!

For the next three months.

List-to-do:

• Back to kendo training!
• Cut my hair
• internet
• movies
• comics
• internet
• diet XDDDD
• Sleepover at Pinji's!! Garlic bread, milo and DDR, here I come!!!

Well, I am just glad that I don't feel as stressed as I would be after the last paper, which was chemistry. Adrenaline is currently flowing in my veins, and am I just feel so excited. I am gonna have to stop before I start tying like this qwerksd sdfkhsd l sldkghkdh

SO LONG~!!!!

Die. Asshole.

First and foremost, I know posting at least once everyday when you have the most difficult exams ahead of you is not good for your health.

Okay, so lets go on with the post now.

I went to my grandpa's house today. Man, Qils and I get to "play maids". Because my grandpa has not yet replaced his maid who went back to Indonesia. Blablabla. They had to to leave at 2 because they have tuition. So I was there, alone with my grandpa, doing some A. maths revision. It was okay at first.

Then, my dad came. I was very, very wanting to go home already. I was tired, hot and bothered. My grandpa has demands which I was trying to cope with, along with the stress of not being able to answer some of the stupid A. Maths question. The exhaustion just went up to the point where I was feeling pissed off with the whole world. Hate, hate, hate.

I just had this random thought of shoving a random rifle up some random person's ass and then shoot them with it. Don't know why.

Maybe I should just go fucking sleep after this, damn it.

Oh a happier note, I SAW THE BRUNEI KENDOKAS ON RTB TODAY, THE KENDO PROMOTIONG IN BELAIT THING, DURING RAMPAI PAGI! I AM SO JEALOOUUUSS~ Oh, and the kendokas interviewed seem to speak with weird malay. Don't tell them I said that.

Do you love me?!!!

My dad just said this to me, "I'm talking a short nap in your room, you go ahead and use the computer." My reaction? "Mmmmkay." He must be really sleepy to say that. It's 10.24PM, a school night, although I'm not going to school tomorrow. Usually at 9.59PM he'd say, "SLEEEEEEP~!!! D:"


So I am really taking advantage of that. Thank you, daddy. XD

Well, at least now I have a purpose to go on the computer. Kennysia.com :D I first heard of him a year ago, when my friend said he resembled my econ teacher (ZOMG NOT TRUEEEE) But when I went on his site, well, the contents did not interest me. Then, few days ago, I don't remember how I re-stumbled upon him, but yeah, I began reading again, And I just continued on reading through his archives. I still haven't finished reading his old and new posts, so I'm gonna keep reading until I'm through with them. Then, probably I'll open a textbook or something. XD

Other than that, another source of online entertainment is Yuichi Tsuchiya. More known as Tuti by his friends. He is just so lovabebel. I first knew him through the Bleach musical clips I found in youtube, he was playing Ichimaru Gin. I've always like Gin. LOL. And then I started to check out about him. Haha all I can say is "OH, TUTIII~" Him smoking is a little turn-off, but that dude is just soooooo "OH TUTIIII~" XDD

Stupid Barney

Barney, our big purple dinosaur friend will come alive, just by using your imagination. Man, the kids on his show must be high on drugs or something. If a doll can turn into a dinosaur just by using your friggin imagination, I'd be using it to turn an inflatable katana into a real one anytime. Just by using your imagination, you can go to all parts of the world, make your wishes come true, and get anything you want. Wish reality was as simple as that.

This is all that I've been doing on the day I have my exams. Every time when I reach home from school, the first thing to do is go online. And continuing that non-stop until 9 PM. Blog-surfing was the main event of the day. It's a way to let out the exam pressure. I would only dare to resume revising the next day. Or maybe I'm just being plain lazy with my lame excuses.


Friendships turn sore every now and then. I'm just sad that this particular friendship did not last that long. Well, it's not like we had much to talk about anyway. So when we have nothing to talk about, well, we just don't talk to each other. When we do have something to talk about, yeah, hit it.


I want to go and eat now. Bye.

YUI <3

This whole post will be dedicated to one of my favourite j-artist, YUI.

YUUUUUI~!!!


YUUUUUUUUUUIIII~!!!!!!


WOOHOO, YUUUUUIIIII~!!!!!



Actually, yeah. Nothing. I just love her. LIstening to her songs just isn't enough. I want to meet her. DD:

Sorry for the abrupt randomness.

Tummyache.

Staying healthy is such a drag.

I am home alone today, and it 9.56 AM.

Currently chatting with Pinji <3

Planning a sleepover. Already. And our exams haven't even ended. XD

And about the BM thing, I don't know. I guess I'll just go "pasrah" and crap.

I feel like eating ambuyat.

My parents, sister and I went to Ahan Thai last night. The BBQ chicken was nice. The cocktail Ice blended, not really. Too milky.

Oh gosh. I am just plain bored. I should study for the scinece subjects now. D:

The worst mistake

I had my Malay exams today. I made the worst mistake in my life too. I don't know. Last year's depression is coming back. I am going to flunk my Malay for sure. I did a huge mistake in paper 1, I misread the question and therefore used the wrong format. Go me in ruining my life. Why is it always this time of the year? That was why, a tear or two would always appear but I manage to make it unnoticeable. My friends kept on saying, "It's okay. Your paper 2 will help." and other encouragements. It makes me all the more mad. I wish I'm not a Maktab Sains student for the billionth time. It's normal to have people to re-sit for an exam. it's just not so normal for a student from MS, at least I'm sure that is what everybody thinks. My biggest fear is disappointing my parents. I know I'm not always on good terms with them, but this is just too serious, you. It beats the fear of being a student from MS who got transferred out of school because she flunked her friggin Os. I've already told my parents to be prepared, I don't want them to have such a shock later. I don't know. I'm such a negative thinker, and shit happens.

I miss Kendo.

Tsukareta naa~ o(_ _)o We went to Belait today, in the morning and went home at 6PM. Whoa. Osoi da... It would have been a boring journey, if ti wasn't for the portable DVD player we bought XDD We watched Taiyou no Uta. OMG I just seriously love that story. I don't know whether I'm biased because that movie starred YUI, or that it's just such a beautiful story, but I like it. Haha. Em, we went to Kaka Dayang's house, looked at some of her cats. It was like, "o-mi-gosh", cat haven.

And next, well, some other houses. Not that I really know any of them.

In between the visits, all I did was chat with Pau. He's the only dude in my contact list willing to talk for hours with me. Well, that's just because he was bored at work too. So yeah. Haha. Well, what else was there to talk about, other than Kendo? Sigh.

It made me miss Kendo all over again. I mean, ever since I took a break from it few months ago because of my exams, I was actually kinda cool about it. But now, *sob*. I miss my "Ken-san". Please be noted, I call Kendo Ken. It s not the nickname of a guy I have a crush on or whatever. Shinjite kudasai! XD

Other than because of talking with Pau, it was also because of Peace Maker Kurogane, mainly during the part where the Shinsengumi members are in the dojo, wearing the kendogi and hakama, wielding bokkens and shinais. I can't help sighing. SO what did I do after completing all 7 sets of the DVD? Went to my room, lock the door, put on my gi and hakama, hoping I haven't forgot how to wear it, and took out my shinai. Man, I pity myself.

Lastly, Omedetou to Katak a.k.a Froggy a.k.a Kaeru for getting that trip to Japan. I hate you and I'm going to miss you. Please buy me a katana, then I will love you.

SMARTER Kids Raya Event

As the title goes, it was the SMARTER kids of the Brunei-Muara branch Raya Event yesterday.Udin was in it as well. It was more like an activity. They had 3 days of familiarisation before yesterday. I mean, you know how the autistic kids are, they need to be familiarised with the surroundings first. Our house was the second house they went to. My mum only served lemang and rendang for the kids and their parents. What the heck.

After packing things up, we then headed for Qayyum's house. Everyone in our family joined in. It was one of the rare times where the car was packed with all 7 family members. ^^~ At Qayyum's, the usual makan-makan took place. Qayyum's grandma invited us to go to her house next, which was close to Qayyum's house, and then to his uncle's. Haha. Funny. That's it for the morning session.

While dad was out sembahyang juma'at, I watched Running Boy. I really like that story. It's a story about an autistic boy and running. The acting was just so realistic. I know that because, well, I've been around an autistic kid for so long. However, after spending 3 days with tens of other autistic kids, I realised one thing. Cho-won, the guy in the story, is not as hyper as the kids. Is it because he is 20 years old? Well, still, awesome story.

And then, afternoon session's turn. We decided to join in. Let me just summarise it. First house was Qawwim's, and then Irfan's, Faiq's, Adib's and last of all Taufiq's. I'm not sure if I missed any houses out but man, it was hectic. With more than a few kids to handle, whoa. Some were running, some were jumping, some screaming, hahaha. The experience was overwhelming. But it was also fun. Hmmm...I wish I can show you guys the photos right now.

Practicals || Open House

Hellew bloggeh~ I had ma first paperrr yastarday. Now why be me speaked liek diz? No idea. I am not saying the paper was easy, like kacang easy. Yet, it is also not hard that you'd get a mental breakdown if you look at it from another point of view. I don't really know how to describe it. Hmm. Well, quarantine time was...haha. I sat with Nisa, Faiqa and Fatin. There was a weird smell that freaked them out. Haha at one time, the smell just suddenly appeared (?) and they ran away, knocking a table down in the process. The teachers-in-charge said something, but we were too busy laughing. XD Zirah gave us some bite-sized oreos. OMGOMGOMG Oreos kli ah. I was the only one eating it 'cause the others didn't want to blacken their teeth. But what do I care, I love 'em! Sadly, I got a little too hyper so I had to give them away to Jyn, Nazmi and Rifaie who were sitting next to us. :( And then, finally, after three agonizing hours (actually, we didn't study much during quarantine) it was our turn to get into the labs. Since Sir Bio said that if the paper is relatively easy, the markers will mark harshly. Damn. I don't know whether my answers were logical or not.

Anyway, when I got home, the "open house" event has started. EVeRY_FIRGGIN_ONE who knew me asked me, "So how was the paper?" Damn it. I dont knoooow what to say about it, okay. Well, I didn't do much. Just talked to some people. Oh, there was also this Pakistani woman who had her masters in Economics, and was very pleased that I took Economics too, and well, we talked. Haha. Fancy seeing myself sitting in the living room, talking to a guest, instead of my parents. Yeah. And then they went home.

After that, more people came. But nothing really important. Some relatives from both my parents' side were there. Kinda hectic. I had to go pick up the left-over plates since the manpower in kitchen was not enough. And oh no, I think, I think, I really, really think that I saw Keem. Hmm. I don;t know, I just took a few glances. I was scared if that was really him. Darn. Why am I always like this? Avoiding people I know. If it was him, then, I AM SO EFFIN SORRY (>o<). If it was not him, good. Yarrr...awkward much?

Lapas atu (c'mon, something different than "after that" & "and then" XDD) More...awkwardness. Tenet tenet tenenenenet~ (Jaws' song bah) Cg Rahimah came. OF course, she did not come as my teacher, but...as my cousin's girlfriend, no, I mean kawan. Both persuaded me to take Physics. So, she is a Physics teacher, but stiiiilll. I am so lost.

And then/after that/lapas atu/sekalinya, Manda came. Great. More "stories". It is always the same thing, over and over again. Darn. I am so tired. I didn't hide the fact that I was tired with her stories. But still, what the heck. She kept me entertained the whole night. She was the last to go home. Thank you, my man.

And then, Kaka Dayang came. Her eldest, Faiz who is only a month younger than me has changed too much. Where did the tiny lil Faiz I knew go?! Now he's just a gigantic, anorexic lamp post! Oh, apparently his mother still thinks the both of us will get embarrassed because of some childhood memories. Okay, so we still do. But you know, he's just so friggin tall having him salam-ing me just feels awkward. And you know what's the worst part is? Manda thinks he's hot. So not. Wait. I forgot she dates anorexic guys.

And then, One of the last people who came was Abang Amin. We watched Cinta Fotokopi. Man and I have watched the movie before, but he hasn't, so he was all...emotional watching it. DUde, you are a full grown man. Get a grip. Haha. He was like, "Tampar tia!" "Tandang pintunya ah!" "Baie jua laki2 atu!" and the likes. Right.

....d, ...ed, ..red, .ored, bored.

So here I am again, in front of the computer. I spent the whole morning outside of the house. Well, I was bored. I did not feel like studying, and I wanted to avoid the computer. I was downstairs, in the dark living room, sitting with my maid, talking. And then I went to Dad's office and played some computer games, it's a good computer because it doesn't have any itnernet so I thought I won't be distracted. But I was bored with the games after 3 hours playing. So I came to this computer, finally surrendering, and hoping that this computer will in some way kill my boredom. In the end, all I did was chat with Smarterchild and Gamesbot. How sad. Sigh. It's also the last day of the fasting month. Wow. How time flies. This also means that, exams in 4 more days. Woweee. Funfunfun. So anyway, the normal greetings to all muslims out there:

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri
Maaf Zahir dan Batin

Oh yes, that is just such a special greeting.

Saigo

Today is the last day of school. As in, really, really last. Nest week is my first paper, bio practicals. The next time I'll see any of my classmates will be in the lab, and then the exam hall. Although, we were planning to just study at school, right after the hari raya holidays. Besides, all I'll do at home is surfing the internet.


Honestly, we didn't do much today. During econ, I tried to finish an essay in 50 minutes. Did not succeed. We continued interviewing Mr. James. Haha. After that, we had Physics. Mr. Chok was late so our econ teacher took over his time. XDD And then during bio, Sir Bio didn't come in, so Mr. Chok continued Physics and forgot his other class. Haha.

Then, break. Ms. Clegg came in and guess what? She recommended Zirah, Baz and me to join the English debate club next year because we had good English. Personally, I thought there were some others in the class who had better English. I was flattered though, and might have thought of joining it, though I was not good at debating. Unfortunately, it was a CCA Club. I had other plans for CCA.

Hmmm... And then maths. Well, I did work during Maths. Not much though. But at least I managed to finish a paper. Next was chem. Well, exercises during chem was unavoidable. Ms, Mary was the only teacher who actually did anything. Haha. After that, lunch break. And we have maths again. *sigh* I did my A. Maths. The teacher wasn't in. All the time, Mr. Chok kept on passing our class. In the end, he took over and we continued until 2. Well, I was still doing maths though, since I forgot my Physics paper.

Qilah and Lylah came in, not that he minded. And Mr Chok called Nisa a pervert. Wtf. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

In the mean time, this was what the others were doing. XDD

The result! It says "Selamat Hari Raya!" with all sorts of messages from us. Hmm, not that clear.

Oh, and look. That's a beetle/bug/insect. Qilah brought it in. I was first scared to touch it, but I tried, and voila! That SHoebox, on my finger! Haha, yes, Qilah named it Shoebox. Don't know why. It wasn't icky, but it was sticky. Had a hard time removing it from my finger. Haha.

Well, that's it? I guess. Will this be my last post?! D: