After being single for donkey years, I can finally celebrate this commercially-driven special day with my special other half........ in my dreams! Haiz...we're so far away from each other *sob sob*
Anyway we celebrated it the Japanese way --> sending him chocolates. Did you know that in Japan the female will give choco to the guys on V-day? For male colleagues/classmates the gals will buy normal off-the-shelf choco. It's given out of obligation so it's called "Gi-ri choco".
If it's for a special guy, it's home-made choco. Many use it to confess their feelings. The weeks leading up to V-day, departmental stores will sell the utensils/ingredients to make choco & one will see groups of girls shopping for gifts there. So what do the guys do? Eat & grow FAT!! hehehehe
One month later on "White Day" the guy is supposed to give the gal gift 3x the value of what he received from her during V-day. If he doesn't reciprocate her feelings, I'm not sure if he still has to give her anything. And do guys have to give gifts out of obligation too? hmm... not sure too....
Since my dear is a Japanese, it makes more sense to celebrate it the Japanese way, right? (^-^) So I sent him a bar of chocolate. It wasn't normal choco hor!! I spent the whole afternoon in Orchard searching for the perfect one. He doesn't sweet choco. So those with liquor was top on my list but no stock. Next was white choco coz he likes white choco. But most white choco came in boring cheapo packaging. I finally found the perfect one at The Cocoa Tree at Paragon. White choco with coffee (he's a coffee lover) in classy packaging. And it's light too (remember postage to Japan isn't cheap!!). Quite an expensive thin family bar of choco at S$12 but good choco dun come cheap so it's worth it, esp since it's for him (^-^)(^o^) Of course he's happy. He HAS to be 'else I'd blow my top!! That pig apparently finished the whole bar with his parents in a day. HAhaha...
Okay, how did I spend my actual V-day? I wanted to go aerobics. Then a male colleague asked me out for dinner. I was a little taken aback coz I hardly know him. Rejected him initially but later in the evening agreed when he said there were a few others joining. We went for dinner at the 居酒屋 I was talking about in my previous entry. We ate & drank a lot & talked lots of nonsense too. After that we went for some more drinks at a pub. Quite an interesting V-day where I didn't feel lovesick...
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Monthly updates - Work
No updates for exactly a month! Not that I've been busy.... I'm just l-a-z-y....
It's been a short but eventful month. There was a 2-day dept team-building event @Sentosa in early Feb. We played a few games to foster team spirit. Don't remember what we played. Not too memorable. I had an exam the next day, so didn't stay for the 2nd day which I heard was much more boring than Day 1. Phew! I escaped that! hehehehe
Haiz, actually I feel there isn't a need to spend a bomb to engage in such team-building event. Yes, we'll feel more like team & foster better relations but that'll probably last for that few days. Once we're back at work, it'll all be gone. Frustration levels escalate & tempers flare when things go wrong. Who'd care about team spirit at this time?
As of last week, I'm back to my usual boring job after they recruited someone more senior in. Quite sad to hand-over everything else coz during the 2 mths I held this portfolio, I learnt a lot & managed to build a rapport with some of the managers. Anyway, looking on the bright side, I should be glad that I'm paid quite a lot to do dumb stuff. It's no secret that I'm looking out for better opportunities! Unfortunately no luck so far....
Remember I said I had an exam? It's the practicum for my Cert in TEFL course. I had to teach a class of 3 foreign students any topic (as long as it's on English). It'd seem more appropriate to teach grammer / vocab since it's an English class we're talking about, but i chose to teach directions. It's one of the most interesting lessons I had when I was learning Japanese, so I felt it'll be fun for english students too. It's also easy to teach in terms of just explaining "turn left, turn right, go straight". The challenge was in preparing the worksheets & getting the students interested in the map reading game. I was lucky that the students were sporting & participated. Of course I was nervous! Not only were there 3 students, my lecturer was there with the invigilator, 2 observers & my 2 classmates. Imagine having 6 pairs of eyes looking at how u manage a small class of 3! Not sure how I fared for it......still waiting for results...
My bf's cousin who runs 2 English language schools in Japan called me recently to discuss a teaching vacancy she had in her school. I was so excited! Finally I have a chance to teach!! Sad to say, seems like my lack of experience working with young children & teaching English dashed the chances.... So now I'm still looking out & applying for part-time teaching jobs in S'pore instead. If not I'll just keep my teaching cert for use when I settle down in Japan (^-^)
It's been a short but eventful month. There was a 2-day dept team-building event @Sentosa in early Feb. We played a few games to foster team spirit. Don't remember what we played. Not too memorable. I had an exam the next day, so didn't stay for the 2nd day which I heard was much more boring than Day 1. Phew! I escaped that! hehehehe
Haiz, actually I feel there isn't a need to spend a bomb to engage in such team-building event. Yes, we'll feel more like team & foster better relations but that'll probably last for that few days. Once we're back at work, it'll all be gone. Frustration levels escalate & tempers flare when things go wrong. Who'd care about team spirit at this time?
As of last week, I'm back to my usual boring job after they recruited someone more senior in. Quite sad to hand-over everything else coz during the 2 mths I held this portfolio, I learnt a lot & managed to build a rapport with some of the managers. Anyway, looking on the bright side, I should be glad that I'm paid quite a lot to do dumb stuff. It's no secret that I'm looking out for better opportunities! Unfortunately no luck so far....
Remember I said I had an exam? It's the practicum for my Cert in TEFL course. I had to teach a class of 3 foreign students any topic (as long as it's on English). It'd seem more appropriate to teach grammer / vocab since it's an English class we're talking about, but i chose to teach directions. It's one of the most interesting lessons I had when I was learning Japanese, so I felt it'll be fun for english students too. It's also easy to teach in terms of just explaining "turn left, turn right, go straight". The challenge was in preparing the worksheets & getting the students interested in the map reading game. I was lucky that the students were sporting & participated. Of course I was nervous! Not only were there 3 students, my lecturer was there with the invigilator, 2 observers & my 2 classmates. Imagine having 6 pairs of eyes looking at how u manage a small class of 3! Not sure how I fared for it......still waiting for results...
My bf's cousin who runs 2 English language schools in Japan called me recently to discuss a teaching vacancy she had in her school. I was so excited! Finally I have a chance to teach!! Sad to say, seems like my lack of experience working with young children & teaching English dashed the chances.... So now I'm still looking out & applying for part-time teaching jobs in S'pore instead. If not I'll just keep my teaching cert for use when I settle down in Japan (^-^)
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