and so it comes to the customary year-in-review post! however, this year has been exceptionally brilliant (and busy!), and totally needs a month-by-month breakdown or else i have no idea where to begin!

January - spent the crossing of 2013 into 2014 in Tokyo with Alicenine at their Yoyogi countdown live! it felt so surreal, to count down together ( Read more... )

totally forgot to post it here, but i've passed N1 omfggggggg!!!!! results weren't fantastic, i had expected worse, but still a pass is a pass and i am finally done with all levels of JLPT! have not decided if i'd carry on with Further Advanced classes, new term starts in April. shall mull over it for the time being ( Read more... )

終わった！やっと終わった！でもね、合格する自信なんて、全く全く全くありません。とくに文字語彙、マジやられたしか思わなかった。いくらの練習にも足りられないレベルだった。結局、時間がなくなってしまって、あとの読解がちらりと読むしかないままでやった。やっぱり読解から始めた方が上策だなって思った。悔しい、納得できない！一応全部をできたけど、当てるかどうか次第ね。　聴解も、気のせいかもしれないが、まんまと騙された気がした。だって、同じタイプの質問を４回も聞かれたもん！あり得ないだろう！

ああ、悔しかった。準備不足ばかりと思わないが、やっぱり一級はなめるものじゃない。来年また受ける覚悟があるから、もっともっと練習しなきゃ！でも予習クラスへ行かなくていいだろうか？ま、とりあえず結果を待つまでだ。

am feeling half-arsed to do any revision today, cos i failed my final mock exam by a measly one point. i had passed all the first three mock exams and felt fairly confident, but the last one was a paper set by some language institution based in Tokyo and the comprehension passages were on economics, politics, social science and physics. i felt like ( Read more... )

aah it feels almost sinful to let Friday night pass without any studying, but i am truly sick of doing homework and assessment every single night. can't believe there's only nine days left to the final paper. can't believe i'd actually stick it out until the highest level, given my notoriety for short attention span. and to think i can get to this ( Read more... )

gosh it's already September! honestly i am falling very, very behind on revision for JLPT. i go for classes weekly but i don't do all the homework given, only those that needs to get marked will get done. now i have a whole stack of comprehensions to finish, a whole stack of marked grammar/vocab worksheets to review, and two very clean and ( Read more... )

aha! i really wanna begin with a good OHISASHIBURI~!, because other than a sudden spurt of selling motivation which resulted in the earlier sales post, i wasn't able to sit down and write anything out properly. until today, as i am on medical leave and not grogged out by the medication yet.

so what's been brewing? hmm, for a start, i am still ( Read more... )

i feel so proud of myself for finishing the SuG live report! certainly my procrastination levels have hit an all-time high, along with intense shopping lust and many, many purchases. the damage so far? well, let's just say that i didn't manage to even say hi to my pay this month. that intense.

two. no wait, three. THREE MORE LIVE REPORTS TO GO. * ( Read more... )

am finally back! well actually i came back last Tuesday to be exact, but dived back rightaway into a mountain-pile of work, fell sick over the weekend and basically worked my post-holiday blues away. am in the office now but thought i should at least attempt an update or something ( Read more... )

- mad rush at work throughout the entire weekend, just so that i can go on leave in peace. praying hard my table won't be covered with post-it stickers when i'm back. *facepalm ( Read more... )