on other non work-related updates;

- attended my last French class two weeks ago, but not decided if i will continue even when my fave teacher comes back. it's so hard. but hey at least i can now read off a menu decently, and not end up ordering raw fish when i wanted chicken. i can recognize colours, numbers and turn left/right heh ( Read more... )

phew! it's been really hectic since my last post. a couple of pressing but damn sticky issues at work (causing me quite a bit of grief, actually). then a last-min email from the same organiser for last year's travel fair, asking for translation help that same weekend for another travel fair. the pay was pretty decent, so i took a day's leave and ( Read more... )

- new term date for elementary one is out! the class will remain on saturdays (phew!), but shifted to the early-noon slot. it'd start late july, giving me a two-week break after my japan trip. i guess this means that i'd be continuing my french classes, even if i still can't quite grasp anything right now yet haha ( Read more... )

- got two more items up on carousell! had to do a couple of photo collages as there were just too many details and carousell only allows max four photos per item. crossing my fingers that they will find new homes soon too ( Read more... )

it's been a while since i've had such a great and productive day, so yes it deserves an entry to set it in virtual ink ( Read more... )

hello April, thanks for coming to replace March (she's been such a total bore). though you are already halfway through, it feels as though you're barely around ( Read more... )

crazy, crazy week at work. everything that could go wrong went wrong, and i've never felt this exhausted. ever. my mind was constantly whirling with work stuff and i couldn't afford to shut off because i needed to know everything at the tip of my fingers. wonder how much longer do i have keep this shit together urgh ( Read more... )

jotting this down really quickly, because i had an amazing day at my seventh session of french class today. the teacher ran two surprise tests, one of which was a long paragraph of all the stuff we've learnt so far, and true/false statements below. we had to determine if each statement was true or false, and then mark out the sentence in the ( Read more... )

survived three classes of french, so far so good...? had to do a lot of revision before and after every class though. do some of the exercises in the activity book, listen and watch the videos on the CD-ROM included so that i won't feel so lost during class. but it's been quite enjoyable so far, and i'm starting to feel the gears in my brain ( Read more... )

gosh first lesson was tough. really tough. it was conducted by a different teacher, and almost immediately i could feel the difference in this teacher and the teacher i signed up for. luckily it was only for one lesson, so hopefully things will work out better once the more-patient teacher is back. anyway i have a whole bunch of homework to do and ( Read more... )