Friday, October 13, 2006
Omatase~
It's been some time since I've blogged but I've been busy with so many things over the past week... Gomen gomen... -____-"
Our Gakuensai School Festival Bazaar has successfully come to a close! After months of tedious preparation, much nagging and many headaches, Qianhao and the Marketing Sub-Committee and well, almost the whole NUS Anime Club committee (including some graduated alumni!) have managed to pull off the whole event with panache. And I just learnt from a rather sad-looking literature text sitting in the "Old Textbooks" shelf of the Co-op that Cyrano De Bergerac was the character who introduced the word "panache" into the English dictionary. Ok, but that's beside the point.
A big thank you to all the people who have helped out in one way or other in Gakuensai! It would not have been possible without all their precious contributions. \(^__^)/
After Gakuensai officially closed last Fri evening, we headed down to Clarke Quay for our celebration dinner. After spending literally hours gathering our separate groups together outside Brewerkz, we were pleasantly surprised (actually, "shocked" is the more proper word) with fireworks exploding PRACTICALLY NEXT TO WHERE WE WERE STANDING. And I'm not exaggerating; the fireworks crew was positioned at such a short distance from us that when we walked away from Brewerkz towards Robertson Quay, we were actually walking beneath the fireworks which seemed like brightly-coloured missiles zeroing in on our heads. And the sound was defeaning. But it was definitely a very captivating sight, and well worth the few hours' trouble of getting to Clarke Quay.
We ate dinner at this cosy Japanese restaurant we discovered at the end of Robertson Quay called Hakata Nihon Ryouri. The prices were rather reasonable (even for those of us with smaller wallets) and we were ushered into a 'washitsu' (which was not really a washistu as there was a hollow space under the table for Singaporeans to place their feet so that they can look like they are kneeling on the floor) and although we closed the door, I think the whole restaurant could have heard what we were saying... ^___^;
But there weren't many customers by that time (11pm) and after wolfing down our food (for we were all hot and hungry after walking around so much), we were so exhausted we basically sat there stoning and taking rubbish till we were asked to leave the restaurant at 1am. Some of us took the nightrider buses home, while Zirong, Yijiang and I got a lift from Victor. And we spent at least half an hour walking around Clarke Quay trying to find the place where Victor had parked his car.
If you ever get the chance, you should take a stroll around Clarke Quay at 2am in the morning. The place takes on a very Dantesque aspect. The streets were shrouded in thick fog, a combination of the haze and condensed water vapour mist emitted from MOS (err, that makes me think of the fans in the AJ Hall spewing out stinking stale industrial water) and it gave the night scene a very surreal, phantasmagoric quality. In the fog, the glamourously dressed revellers looked like shades and the bouncers in black lurked and loomed in the dark corners like silent sentries. And there were giant mushroom-like structures towering over the streets, and they added an element of sci-fi fantasy to the surrealistic landscape. It was all very strange and very intriguing, but the downside was that I finally reached home at 2.30am, which was unprecedented for me...
But everything has turned out alright (more or less) in this very hectic week. My 20th century mid-term test did not go too badly (although "Crazy Jane" was tested and I still am not able to discern the humour in the poem). However, Japanese 5 is still very much a problem, and many of us in the class agree that we are spending far more time on the myraid Japanese assignments than on our majors. Which is highly problematic. And this afternoon, very aptly, a girl shouted as she walked past our classroom as we were having TC, "MOU BENKYOU SHINAI DE!!!"
(Translation: Stop studying already!!!)
kaoru said at 6:01 AM
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