My Pink Shoelace

Teacher: How do you say, “pls. wait a moment” in Mandarin?
Me: Chotto Matte Kudasai.
Teacher: You’re in the wrong class.
Me: Dui Bu Qi.

Must be the side effects of all those anime series I’ve been watching. My Mandarin and Japanese are getting very mixed up.

Hahaha so I slapped myself senseless to open eyes to the fact that taking night classes on a Tuesday night is not at all healthy, God knows how cranky I could get if my sleep lacks my even just a few minutes especially on Wednesdays as it’s super duper queuing. So I made up another rather impromptu decision which by the way cost a fortune to go one on one. This all for the satisfaction of this brat’s whim … that’s how my aunt would put it and I suppose at some point she is right *sigh*. At the moment all I want is this and China … og well I s’pose they go hand in hand.

I still have settle the fees and come up with a schedule, I’m thinking either Friday morning or afternoon or maybe Thursday afternoon. So long as I don’t have work the day after am good.

My last entry was dated May 9, 2010 tsk tsk tsk been gone for a while hehehe … so let’s see what has happened since then.

- the election [w/c I chose not to partake ... as I am politically illeterate]

- Bena’s “farewell” lunch

- Mother’s Day [ Mommie Cherry's pasta was super delicious]

- school, school, school

I started this December 2007 and after say 6 sessions I stopped, why? let’s just say it was full moon and head started going bananas. So close to 3 years after … I picked up where I left off and heaven forbid for another round of full moon madness. lol.

September is fast approaching … and I can hardly wait I just hope they’d allow me to go,  at 1/4 of the things that I need to paper is already done … weeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Him: It’s been close to 3 years since I last saw you. I hope you still remember the basics.

Me: *just grinned foolishly*

Him: Can you at least make a sentence?

Me: Wo xihuan ni.

Him: Hen Hao.

Me: Xie Xie

I have just made my intentions of studying in China for 1 semester known to my team lead, well I’ve mentioned it to her before but now I’ve discussed the details with her and am crossing my fingers that the big boss would approve it. Ever since the change in management the new SOM has been nothing but a dummy, or so that’s how I see him. I have mentioned my plans to my auntie as well and I just hope she’d agree to shoulder the tuition fee while I worry about the plane tickets. So am holding down the fort and changed my mind about leaving …. am staying for a while but it won’t be long now. At the moment all I could ever think of is China and calligraphy.

If this plan goes well, MJ will be accompanying me and we’ll head there a week before my class starts to explore the city. Then on my birthday Mitchy would visit … she said she’d celebrate my birthday with me, isn’t that sweet? Am so so so so excited!

You know how there are several shops along the streets of Colon selling DVD’s? well I went there and asked if they still have a copy of Meteor Garden. The look on their faces before bursting out laughing was unbelievable until finally one managed to ask, “Where have you been when they were popular?” Ah … they were popular when I was in my first year or second year in college which made me what 17? … I replied, “I must have been asleep”.

So talk about a 7 year set back huh …lol Oh well my head was buried in books that time and yes I can still remember my classmates and neighbors going bananas about it and it never affected me. I know am weird but am watching Meteor Garden now all because of a totally different reason. This show is in Mandarin and by year’s end I should be able to watch and understand it with the subtitles off; though I must admit it’s sort of funny.