Smile with Joy!

Smile with Joy!

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"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus!"

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Japanese Exams

Now that i've got my blog back, i've decided to take it seriously haha. Cause i've totally stopped writing in my real hardcopy diary, so basically this blog will record my life's story ... even though its a softcopy and floating somewhere in cyberspace LOL! Does anyone even read this?!? Then it shall just be my own "private" diary haha

Anyway, today was my last day of classes as an intermediate student learning Japanese at JCS!! Wow time really flies ... It seems just last week that I stepped into my beginner's Japanese class and first got exposed to Hiragana and "watashi wa's" hahaha!

And now TWO whole years have flown by!! Really hits you on how much you should make good use of your time and treasure every moment by living a purposeful life for God! But I really thank God for the opportunity to learn another language :) Although my Canadian friends/British relatives would think i'm crazy for learning a third language, when they can't even speak a second language!! XD

But that's how it is here in Singapore. Constant learning in a rat race society. But I really love learning Japanese! And the Japanese culture, Japanese dramas, Japanese actors, Japanese singers, Japanese songs, Origami, Japanese tea ceremony etc etc etc.

So pray for my final exams starting next week! Shall tie the band around my head and do some serious studying!! The final exam is broken up into Composition, Listening, Dictation, Kanji test, Grammar and Oral ... GAH!! i think the worst is the Oral exam!! I tend to stutter or get real nervous or jumble up my words/thoughts. But Philippians 4:13 - I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!!!

Hear . Believe . Receive . Say . Act . The 5 Miracle Steps by Pastor Rony!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Hashed Beef Rice

Ahhhh finally the TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai saga is over ... So I have my blog back!!!

HAHAHAHA lol i actually kinda missed it. Anyway what has been going on in my life recently?

I have officially graduated with a degree!! YAY!!! my convocation was just last saturday at the Hilton Hotel. It was great really, after the ceremony i felt so touched because of my family and friends. And also it really hit me on how much the Lord has been with me through my life and how much He has helped and seen me through :)

So cheers to the past of education and cheers to my adulthood and future job/partner!

Anyway, i have finally non-stop forwarded my way through the Korean drama "Take Care of the Young Lady". Its one of best few in recent Korean dramas cause its funny with a good plot. But honestly, i got so used to the fast moving pace of Japanese dramas, where every second counts ... that i got so bored watching the serial and just started forwarding through to see what happens at the end LOL!!

So ... why is the title "Hashed Beef Rice"??? Haha cause i have just embarked on "Ryusei no Kizuna" with Nishikido Ryo yay!! turns out to be a REALLY funny show and ryo is SOOooooo totally not himself XD!!! Although the main plot of the story is really sad, cause their parents died when they were young *sniff*

The feature dish in this show is Japan's Hashed Beef Rice!! Or Hayashi Rice ハヤシライス. Its basically really thin & tender beef with onions and button mushrooms in a demi-glace sauce drizzled with fresh cream, then served with Japanese rice! *DROOLS* It looks so good that I went online to find the recipe haha. sounds quite easy to cook! And knowing me, i love to cut corners and not stick to the troublesome recipes haha. So i'll try to cook it soon hehehe ^_^

Oh and before i forget, Happy Birthday Ryou-chan!!

Monday, October 26, 2009

TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai 2009

YES!! the much awaited ... latest, but hopefully not last installment of TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai!! Honestly, just go and watch the video on Youtube. It's so much better than my screenshots LOL. Here we go!

*Official Disclaimer* I do not in ANY way own this show or have any affiliations with it. These are just some screenshots that I made from the videos online. If this violates copyright regulations, please inform me and I will take the pictures off immediately. Thank you!

TegoMass got their poses from Domoto Kyodai (refer to earlier post below), so they were asked to create poses for Kinki Kids.

Tegoshi was asked to create a pose saying "I am Tsuyoshi!"
Whilst Massu was asked to create a pose saying "I'm uh, kinda uh, Koichi..."

So Tegoshi did a pose depicting "strong"(tsuyoi) and "four"(shi) from Tsuyoshi's name
And Massu hid behind Tegoshi, only sticking his head out to say "I'm uh, kinda uh, Koichi..."
Please view the end product:


Recently, Tegoshi took up golf. But his ball keeps drawing, meaning veering to the left in golfing terms. Tsuyoshi says "Ahhh, you're not that good yet..."

And Koichi goes "Left? It veers to the left!?" *Everyone nods*

Koichi: "Ah but that's ... AH!" *Everyone waits with bated breath*

Koichi didn't know what he wanted to say so he just lamely added:
"wow, thats... not very good huh." *Everyone: BUAHAHAHAHA!*


TegoMass was asked to share about embarrassing childhood memories...
Tegoshi shared on what a brat he was during elementary school; flipping girls' skirts and suddenly running up from behind to kiss them on the cheek ...

Audience: "EHHHHH!!!"
Koichi: "Who said Eh?"
Tsuyoshi pretending to be a girl: "Ah, if only I was in the same class as Tegoshi, that would have been great!"
Koichi says in a fierce voice: "You can't change reality!!!"


Then Massu goes on to share his embarrassing childhood memory on how he got kicked during elementary school by a senior girl and he cried in the middle of the school grounds going "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

Before this Massu mentioned that he had a dream where he was fighting with a bear, so Koichi says that maybe this girl bully somehow transforms into a bear in his dreams ...(Melody: Freud, anyone?)

And Tsuyoshi says yeah like maybe when she sits down she will say in a guttural voice "BEAR"


Koichi laughing: "BEAR!?!?! Do you think bears make the sound "BEAR!"?!?"

"What a silly idiot!!!"


Koichi loves the bear joke and repeats it haha


And Koichi was unable to stop laughing, even until the next question starts!! haha


They started talking about magazine photoshoots and Koichi mentioned that there was once when the person ask him to look away from the camera so he said "Ok.." and turned away..

Then the person said: "Ok! Please turn slowly to look at the camera"

And Koichi went "Slow-?" and started turning toward the camera with a twitching, robotic movement with a stiff-necked pose hahahaha


So Tsuyoshi goes: "No, its like this ..." Turns slowly to face the camera, eyes widening with each second ending with super huge eyes and a shocked look.


Koichi: "Isn't that the same as mine!?"
So they asked Tegoshi to teach his seniors and he ended up with this haha ...


Then they asked Massu to try and he looked at the camera REALLY SLOWLY, but he looked really good according to Tsuyoshi ...
Koichi: "That's what they were trying to say!?!"


At the end, TegoMass was asked to look at the camera, wink and say "I love you" because Tegoshi said at the start that he does not get embarrassed anymore LOL

So they decided to do it together, but Tegoshi finished it even before Massu could wink!! hahahahaha. Massu was like "Oi, wait a minute!"
Then they tried it again and it turned out really cute cause they were laughing haha
It's quite hard to screenshot this, so go take a look at the video!!

AHHH finally, end of TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai special. LOL!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai 2008

Just came back from XQ's skit!! It was quite disturbing and i had so many unanswered questions at the end LOL but who cares!? Just went to see my good friend, who acted so well!! We practically yelled her name at the top of our lungs a few times till our throats were sore ... And nobody else seemed to be yelling o.O

Ling enjoyed her first installment of her birthday celebration!! And she had a hard and long time opening her first present hahaha wait till her second installment hyak hyak hyak nyak nyak nyak

ANYWAY, as promised ... the next installment of TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai screenshots!!! Sorry for the wait! This was during the "Ai Ai Gasa" period in 2008 :)

*Official Disclaimer* I do not in ANY way own this show or have any affiliations with it. These are just some screenshots that I made from the videos online. If this violates copyright regulations, please inform me and I will take the pictures off immediately. Thank you!

The show starts with Massu mentioning that he would like a pose when introducing himself, like the pose that Tsuyoshi created for Tegoshi. Tegoshi literally means "hand moves across", where the kanji for his name is 手越 - those who learn Mandarin should get it! So Tegoshi's pose is to have his hand across his face :)

So ... since Tsuyoshi thought of a pose for Tegoshi, naturally Koichi has to think of a pose for Massu right haha. So they continued talking about stuff while Koichi pondered ...

And suddenly ... Tsuyoshi goes "kita KITA!!" meaning "here it comes, here it comes!"

Koichi has thought of a pose! And in this pic he goes "MASUDA DESU!!" - Massu's name in kanji is 増田 (Masuda) ... '増' means "to increase" - so Koichi does a gradually increasingly fat pose in a guttural voice "MA-SU-DA-DE-SU!!" (I'm Masuda!)

Then Tsuyoshi said "How about doing it in death metal style like "Masuda Death!!" (Death in stead of Desu LOL). Here's the three of them doing some crazy rocker pose hahaha

Then Fukada Kyoko thought of a pose by using your fingers to make a box, because Masu can mean a box. So they totally scrapped Koichi's fat pose haha! And they were asked to introduce themselves as TegoMass - "Tegoshi desu!(I'm Tegoshi)" (pose) "Masuda desu!(I'm Masuda!)" (pose) "And together, we are TegoMass desu!!" (pose together) wahaha below is the end product :)

But of course Fukada Kyoko's way was too cute and girly .. i mean usually normal people would not use their fingers to make a box like that LOL. So Massu modified it himself and here's their latest pose!!

During the question and answer session, TegoMass was asked to share a dream that they had recently. Tegoshi said that he dreamt that he had a girlfriend, who fell in love with one of the NEWS members.
Koichi asked: "Which member was it?"
Tegoshi replied: "Kato..." (Kato Shigeaki haha XD)
When it was Massu's turn, he said that he had a dream where he was fighting with a bear, but his punches were like really slow and the bear was like "whack! slam!" fast haha. Here Massu acts out his slow motion punches going "woooooh"

Then Tsuyoshi mentioned that he had a similar dream!! He was with his mom in this dark room, and guys wearing long black coats, black hats and black sunglasses (like Japanese Yakuza) came pouring into the room. And he was all fired up and threw a punch ... but it turned out to be really really slow hahaha! And all the men were like hitting him "dossu possu". Then he cried out "Okan Nigete!!" which means "Mum!! RUN!!" hahahaha

Near the end, Massu said that he tends to fall in love at first sight.
Poor confused Koichi then says that he finds girls cute, but he does not know whether it is love or not! (Go fall in love lah Koichi haha!)
Then Tom (one of the guys behind) suggests that he should try to tell a girl that he likes her "Suki!!".
So Koichi says "Oh, like when I am walking down a street, I should point at a girl and go "SUKII!!" hahahaha


Yups yups! thats all for TM on DK 2008. All three were funny, but this one was the least funny, but still funny haha.

TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai 2009 coming up soon!!!

Monday, August 10, 2009

TegoMass on Domoto Kyodai 2006

My favourite Japanese variety show is Domoto Kyodai because it's super hilarious, ESPECIALLY when my favourite TegoMass goes on the show!! hahaha

Kinki Kids always goes crazy whenever TegoMass comes on their show. TegoMass is just merely answering all the questions truthfully ... And then Kinki Kids would pinpoint some of their answers and twist it into something totally hilarious hahahahahaha!

TegoMass has been on the show three times, and they all either make you laugh till you cry, or bang your hand on your desk, or laugh till your stomach hurts, or laugh till wheezing sounds come out hahahaha

The following are some screenshots from the first Domoto Kyodai in 2006 that TegoMass appeared on ...
*Official Disclaimer* I do not in ANY way own this show or have any affiliations with it. These are just some screenshots that I made from the videos online. If this violates copyright regulations, please inform me and I will take the pictures off immediately. Thank you!

Here's Koichi telling the MC not to interrupt him, when in fact HE was the one who interrupted the MC (in my opinion hehe)

TegoMass were asked to share an embarrassing recollection ...
Massu took off his non-zip pullover jacket in the train, only to find himself half-naked cause his inner t-shirt was stuck to the pullover HAHAHA
Tegoshi forgot to zip up his pants after visiting the toilet and went all the way home from the train station with his fly open ...
Koichi: Why did you go to the toilet for?
Tegoshi: Eh? To relieve myself ...?
Koichi: Eh!?!? Tegoshi goes to the toilet!?!? (Here's Tegoshi laughing HAHA)

Koichi: *continues to act like an idiot* I can't believe Tegoshi goes to the toilet!! (LOL >_<)

*sighz and shakes head* Koichi koichi, if you dun go to the toilet, the smell will just emit from your body!! HAHA

Tsuyoshi comments that Koichi is the strange one, thinking that a person doesn't need the toilet.
Koichi: Ahhhh!! I'm the worst! (does some self-reflection)

Tegoshi mentions that he was shocked about Michael Schumacher in the F1 race - resulting in Koichi's eyes to flash as such (cause he luvs F1 and can talk abt it for 3 hours LOL)

So Koichi gives Tegoshi a firm pat on the shoulder to show his appreciation LOL

They were asked what type of girls do they like?
Massu: Everything aside, she must be cute.
Tegoshi: Everything aside, she must not be self-centred.
Koichi: Then how about, "Everything aside, she must be fat?"
Tegoshi: Well, usually ...
Koichi: *acts like fat girl* "TE~GO~SHI~KUN~~~"

TegoMass was asked to present a serious expression that they would show to the one they love

They succeeded for about 2 seconds ... before Massu kept cracking up and looking at Tegoshi, causing the latter to burst out laughing XD

Kyoko-chan said that TegoMass are very cute :)
Then she said Kinki Kids seems like they are dead XD
Koichi: I'm not dead!!!


Domoto Kyodai with TegoMass 2008 and 2009 coming up soon!!

Friday, August 7, 2009

What's wrong with Facebook?

Ahhh むかつく!! what is wrong with facebook? or is it my mozilla firefox problem? facebook keeps giving me blank whiteout pages this few days ... GAAAHHH

Really enjoyed the sistas outings! First with xq and teadot of non stop chatting haha. then with ling and pri at new york new york, laughing till we cried haha. And even seeing js for a little while was awesome before she jets off again!

Its always super nice to meet up with any of them. everyone goes away super happy and ready to face all the blahs and blehs of the world haha. i luv my sec sch sistas and our 8 years of friendship!!

As mentioned in the previous post, i followed up with it, going ta meet up with val and germaine separately for dinners... and there would be a lunch outing with MDIS peeps this wed!! very long never have outing with them ... eh actually not very long, just that we saw each other in school almost everyday, now practically never see haha. and hopefully we can go for some awesome K-ing!! woohoo!!

Oh and praise the Lord! MDIS sent me a letter saying that i completed my course and i can collect my official transcript! YAY!! thank You Lord for helping me thru the many trying years of education :) i heard from Apel that the convocation would be on Oct 31st!?!?! i told many ppl that mdis so slow one, probably end of sept. and now its actually end of oct XD ... placed too much esteem on them LOL expected as always ...

National day is coming soon!! ahhh our little country has come a long way hasn't it? i'm so proud of our country though, i feel very patriotic haha. i guess its because i have lived in another country for years, that i learn to appreciate the little red dot more! and my family and friends too of course :) and the food and shopping XD

Time to take out the red and white clothes!!

In the meantime, some pics hehehe ... Who are these babies?? so cute right??

It's actually TEGOMASS!!! hahaha so cute right!!?!? Massu on the left, Tegoshi on the right :)
Below is Tegomass now!! Tegoshi on the left, Massu on the right!




Ahhhh i luv their new songs ... Tegomass rocks ... Domoto Kyodai rocks too!!

Monday, August 3, 2009

Latest update...

Yes ... sis nagged at me to update my blog haha.

Basically i'm back from nice holidays in Korea and Canada. i luv travelling!

Now back in the red dot island. Slacking at home and trying to find job.

Got my results - cleared all my modules! Waiting for uni to contact us for graduation.

Sis bought the new Tegomass album. Excellent voices with amazing songs.

Watching J-drama メイちゃんの執事 (Mei-chan no Shitsuji) or Mei-chan's Butler.
Ladies would luv it. Really funny. Super good looking men as the butlers. WATCH IT!!

Met up with XQ for tea. Lovely chatting time. Meeting up with Ling & Pri this week.
I should contact Valerie and Germaine for meet ups. And MDIS peeps for some K-ing. Lazy haha.

Anybody wants to watch the upcoming pixar movie Up ??