Expensive bill!!!

I finally had such experience as many others did about unexpected high expense of data usage in mobile for internet.
After reading the statement, I think that was the time there was WIFI, so I tried, but actually it still charged in some way!!!! And the data involved is more than 10,000KB!!!
Oh.. poor me :(
Now, I am alerted!!!

Tulip!!!

After meeting friend, I went to a park which has a tulip garden. I took so many photos. There are some shower rain and cloudy. However, I am lucky to catch these in time.

Enjoy

Today is the 10th lesson, really enjoy the study life as well as the food and things here...

More about hanami and class

This morning, I finally managed to go to the Cherry blossom place at the making coin factory which is famous and will be ended on 20 April. There are different types of sakura over there.
By the way, I also have uploaded some photos taken in class. Another teacher Oohara Sensai is very interesting person who always makes jokes in class. I even took vedios secretly :P

Weather

It is rainy, sunshine, warm and cold within a day. But I am well prepared, so don`t worry about me. However, the hush puppy slipper shoes are going to be gone... and I should have new pair of shoes :P

Busy to go around and meeting friends

I have not updated my blog for few days as I am busy to go around and meeting friends last weekend. I have yakitori with Mami and Karin. They have introduced new friends who may go to Arima Osen coming Sunday with me. On saturady, I woke up late, but still go to Sannomiya in Kobe to walk around and meet Yuri to have very good home style Italian food. On Sunday, I used the Kansai Thru Pass to visit Nara and Kyoto for final period of Hanami. I am lucky that I still have some good shots!!! Please enjoy my photos and its descriptions.

Good mood

These two days are in good mood and keep walking around and seeking for interesting things to look :) Also enjoy the food... I am afraid of gaining weight :P
Tmr, I will meet Mami and Karin. 楽しみにしています。
Please continue to enjoy new photos uploaded.
By the way, I found that I need to study harder with my oral of Japanese which is so bad!! 頑張ろう！！！！

Making things unique

I always want to use those scrapbook stuffs to decorate things which is very popular in Japan, but required detail minded. Yesterday, I got some good stuffs from stores and made my note book and new black mirror unique in the world!!!! I also tried to draw pictures that I learnt from drawing book in my note book. These all I want to do to prepare for doing my unique scrapbook some day. Lessons are going well. There are a lot of oral and writing exercises for me to remember the grammar and words. I really like studying Japanese as I am interested to study hard even at my apartment after school.

It is Hanami again today

I went for two hanami today. One was with new friends near Osaka castle. I brought the mat to sit under sakura for eating and chatting. Then, I went to Oji Koen to meet Yuri. They have BBQ gathering under sakura. The food is great and her friends are nice and fun. I can`t help uploading the photos when I get back, thought I am very tired, however, I found that the online ablum is going to be full if I upload all. So I have selection only :(

Hanami 2011 Kansai photo album

This is open for Ting and also for Hanami only :P

First hanami

It stopped raining this afternoon. So I decided to go out for my first hanami alone. It is cloudy still, so the color is not that good in the photo. But it is still nice to walk under cherry blossom and watch people`s activity. There was a group of students performaning for earth quake money raising with orchestra, singing and dancing. It is nice and touching. I am fond of taking a lot of photos of myself in cherry blossom, of course, now I do the same. But I think it is even more enjoyable if go for a group of people chatting under the sakura like Japanese. Umm... tmr, I will go with classmates. 楽しみしています。

Second lesson

After reading the materials of class 3, I decided to stay in class 2, in order to practise more the basic and build up the confidence of speaking fluently. After the class, we had very good ramen. I had never like ramen so much, I will be back for the ramen as well as the dumpling. ( Amandale and Ciala, I will bring you there :) ) It is raining today, but I don`t want to go back home so early, so I shop at Muji for a while. I would like to buy new bed sheets because the one in guesthouse is really old. However, I am afraid of making my luggage big, so I just bought pillow cover. On Sat night and Sun, I may go for cherry blossom with new friends and meet Yuri on Sun afternoon. Hope to have sunny and nice weekend. By the way, there were earthquakes in East side of Japan last night. I knew that from the TV and message from sister. But don`t worry, Osaka is not affected. P.S. : I want to mention that I watched `Black Swan` in the flight from HK to Kansai which is new air craft that can choose my desire movie. I like the movie very much because of the music, dance, story, visual effect!!!

First Lesson

This afternoon is the first lesson of the course. There was an opening ceremony with students, teachers and principle. My teacher is Uetani san who is an interesting person who worked hard to show a lot of examples and do a lot of exercises with us. The material is not very difficult, but helped me to remember those basic and speak more. However, as I only take short term course, the school wonders if Cindy and I would like to take more challenge course to learn more in short time. So we may take a little advance class tmr to see if we want to change class. Today, I missed to do one thing which is taking photo in the class !!! By the way, we may plan for Hanami this weekend.

Rest Day

After study for a while, I slept again at noon, so free. Then, went out for food and wandering around. I have continued to upload the photos in the link album. Please enjoy :)

Photo album Link

Placement Test

Today, I had the placement test in school and met new friends there. One is from Malaysia who can speak Cantonese, Cindy. One is from England who has Japanese boyfriend, Gayle. One from Thailand who looks like Japanese and has a Japanese boyfriend, Yam. One from Canada who was born in Taiwan only, quited the job and will study in JP for one year! Every one has their own story and reason for coming to study. I feel good and eager to study hard to improve my Japanese with the classmates. In the mean while, it is so nice to walk around to see, to buy and to eat the things that I am interested.

Settled down at apartment

Finally, I made the trip to Osaka for my `Study Eat Play Love` trip, even with the difficulty to handle the apartment in SG, facing the crisis of earthquake and radiation in the East Japan. I made it!!! Are the Japanese like to help others? Today, I found 2 persons. One helped to bring the luggage with steps down and up. The other one also helped me for few steps, but when I asked the location of the guesthouse. He asked people and brought me to the place. The lobby of the Mayflower guest house is nice, well decorated, equiped and comfortable. Umm.... but the room is a bit old. Anyway, this is the place that I am going to stay for more than a month!!! But I think the staff is helpful and nice. Tonight, I ate the curry rice and bought somethings nearby only as it was a bit cold outside. Tmr, there will be a placement test at the school to decide my class timing. Tonight, I should study for a while!

Long vocation starts

My flight supposed to be 11:00am on 1.4.2011. Due to technical problem, it has been delayed by 1 hour!!! So CX has provided some food before boarding. The photo was the queue for taking food. As I only took little breakfast, I also ate some :P

Besides delaying, the inflight entertainment also has problem. I could not see the ' Black Swan'. So, it seemed that I have taken budget airline :(

It means that my adventure has just started!!!

First dinner was with my family. Mother and Sylvia seemed to have a lot of to talk!!! This was lovely photo, agree??!!!