Snowing Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures that I've took from my room last week when it snowed..
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And a short video clip..



Will write more soon.. after I clear all my reports.. :)

First SNOW!!

Woke up before my alarm clock as usual.. as I looked out of my (almost full wall) window I was surprised with a scene of snowing!! Have not seen snow before.. and really the scenery outside my window is very beautiful.. I like the way the snow sits on the leaves of trees.. :) the way it slowly drops down from the sky.. floating and swirling..

It's like a belated birthday present from the ONE above... :) Will write more later.. need to get ready for school.. :)

Masak Masak III

As the weather gets colder, I tend to cook more as the food sold in the convenient stores could no longer be as piping hot.. Even though the walk from the convenient stores to my dorm room takes no longer than 7 minutes, the food that was microwaved in the convenient store could not remain as hot as I liked as the wind kept howling away.. :( Add to that, I am getting sick of the food offered in those places...

This is the Japanese version of "yong tao fu".. :) I bought the ingredients from the supermarket for around 350yen (i think) and just throw them into the rice cooker when the water was boiling.. the taste wasn't not too bad.. but I do miss the yong tau fu's sweet sauce.. :p

After eating so much soupy instant noodles, I had some craving for fried noodles... so I bought packets of 焼きそば-kind of noodles, some fish cakes and cooked this pot of fried noodles, again, using my multi-purpose rice cooker!! :p 3 small packets of uncooked noodles around 500g, with some sauces cost between 150 to 200yen..

Other than that, I like to cook a pot of rice and just eat with some of the instant dishes that are readily sold in the supermarkets which only requires some heating up.. There are a lot of different kinds of dishes available, like Japanese curry, Indian curry, Thai curry, Chinese mixed vegetables, Beef-don, Oyako-don (Egg and chicken), mixed vegetables, Mo-bo toufu (麻婆豆腐) etc.. All of them are one meal portion for 1 person.. So what I normally do would to just place the packet inside the rice cooker to warm it up and then just pour it onto a bowl of rice.. Fast and easy.. If there is extra rice, I would freeze them up and then have fried rice some other day.... :)

Usually I would get packets of frozen mixed vegetables (carrots, peas and corns) and just add them into my instant noodles while I cooked.. Sometimes, if there is meat balls on sale, I would get them too.. with an egg, some meat balls and some mixed vegetables, a simple bowl of instant noodles could also become quite nutritious.. :) It is remarkable how much one could improvise using just a rice cooker!! :) :)

老师要结婚了

我上个学期的日语老师之一，佐藤先生，大概将在今年九月份结婚了。。这是从金那儿得知的消息。老实说听了之后我有点大吃一惊。进度好像太快了。。 :o

佐藤老师只比我大一岁，现在正在早大（早稻田大学的简称）念博士班，也负责教导初级日语班。她人很好很开朗，很照顾我们这些外国学生。:) 在我印象中是个典型的日本女生。也正因为如此，就如日本传统观念，佐藤老师非常响往结婚。上个学期，她经常在班上说她很想交个男朋友，还叫我们帮忙介绍。。:x :x 也许结婚是她的人生目标吧？！

对我个人而言，宁缺勿滥，绝不会为了结婚而结婚。。就算是身边的家人如何催婚，就算周遭的朋友个个都成双成对了，如果找不到对眼的，适合的，我宁愿独身。。就连那些成天嘻嘻哈哈的不能深交的朋友，多一个我也不稀罕。。也许有人会说我成天呆在房间里不出门，生活圈子那么小，怎么能交到朋友呢？？那是因为我觉得我现在的生活方式还不错啊，想干什么就干什么，不需要交待不需要解释更不需要为他人（的感觉或立场）着想。喜欢安静时就一个人看看书看看电影，可以连一句话都不说，若想要有人陪时就叫两三个好友吃吃饭聊聊天唱唱卡拉OK，日子还是一样过得不错啊。。:) 也许我已经非常习惯一个人的生活方式，毕竟我从18岁就一个人下新加坡，这些年来都是独自一个人面对生活中所遇到的喜怒哀乐，当然身边的朋友间中也给了我不少的精神支持。。也许我太独立了，都能够自己把一切大小事情解决包办 （包括换灯泡、通水管、修电脑等）。。也许我不想改变我的生活方式，我的个人理念来迁就另外一个人吧？ 也许我太自私自我了。。也许我不适合结婚吧？！？！ :x

无论如何，很高兴佐藤老师找到了她的如意郎君，在这里我衷心祝福她，祝她婚姻美满，白头偕老。。:)

Besiegement!!

Up to date, I have a total of 6 reports to write.. a survey project to conduct, gather data and do analysis.. and this Friday I have a final exam on Japanese grammar.. :x :x

For Prof Kano, 2 individual reports and 1 team report by 31 Jan....
For Prof Mochida, 2 reports by 4 Feb...
For Prof Utsumi, 1 report by 23 Jan...
For A.Prof Suganuma, survey and data analysis by 15 Feb...

And on top of these, there are still 2 other classes that the Profs in-charge have yet to give out any assignments.. :( More besiegement to come... :o :o :o

So tomorrow, I planned to study for my Jap grammar exam and do some research on Prof Kano's team report... Then hopefully I can finish at least 2 - 3 reports this weekend.. aiy... sooooo looking forward to going home.. to Malaysia n to Singapore...