Monday, June 27, 2005

A Girlie thing.

Remember all those conversations we had about jap chicks? well, seems that I've got my fair share of experience! Yup, That's right folks! A girl told me she likes me!

The fairy tale starts when we got to know each other through "International Club"....and I think you guys can imagine the Randy I am, going round here and there "making friends" ( Kian Min refered that as flirting, but I'm not so sure....) Well, anyway, one of them was Satou Rie....a 18 year old girl from north Japan, whitish skin and all. I was quite high that particular day so, we were all chatting in a group, I was ....uhh...the only guy, sorry-la, the other guys I already know them earlier. Blah blah blah...Randy's got a few friends.

So, weeks past by with me crapping around, going makan sushi together (in a group) and making rings of flowers from the field. I started suspecting that she likes me by the way she looks and talks to me...my seniors said I'm SSS, Super Syok Sendiri, well, I thought was SSS, until.....

Batman Begins premierred last saturday, so being a movie-goer, i asked around if anybody wanna come along to catch Batman and friends. Two flesh blobs answered, my senior (that MGS girl) and of course, Satou Rie.

About the cinema....sigh, read my past blog, I don't wanna mention about it again. At the cinema, we sat...Satou Rie, Me in the middle, MGS girl, at first I was suppose to be far left with Satou Rie in the middle but i said i wanna sit beside MGS girl as well....Anyway, during the movie, she complained that she's a lil' sleepy (that old drama trick!!) and started to sag down in her seat. When I was watching Batman burn down Raz Al Ghul's chicken shed, she suddenly leaned her head on my shoulders!! At first I was quite uncomfortable with it, pretending to lean to my right and talk to MGS girl. The senario's quite hilarious though, whenever she tries to lean over, i shift and talk to MGS girl. As if missing the target, she overshot...leaning too much to the right and sits upright again. And when she tried again, I would go like " Hey, MGS, Batman...Scarecrow.....butterflies, sorry, bats..." But towards the end I got tired of shifting and just let her lean all she want. Knowing that I no longer shifting here and there, she took the juicy chance and plant her hand on my arm as well....like i said, just like the usual Hong Kong drama ...or Pond's Advertistment minus popcorn box.

And last week Thursday, she said "Saya cinta pada mu" in Malay (my friend tought her)...

So.....folks, what do you think? Is Randy dating a japanese girlfriend now?

Bzzz....sorry guys, answer's no. Well, you ladies might call me Devil and you gentlements may call me Dumb but I have my reasons...
Well, first of all....I just came here for goodness sake! I have quite a lot of stuffs to do and frankly, not much time....lame excuse, yes I know. Secondly, all this while I've been thinking of her only as a friend....nothing more nothing less. And if you fellas said I should just accept it, uh uh...no can do, last time I did that, nothing came sweet, all sour and rotten. But most of all, I ......just don't want to be in a relationship right now, maybe in a few months time but definitely not right now. But I'd give serious credits for being brave though.

Hmm....sorry to lady folks who share that feminine link with her...and sorry to guy folks who have been adoring jap chicks all this freakin' while....I just couldn't do it.Well, good thing is we're back being friends at the moment.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Cinematically pathetic Japan.

Japan, as you folks have seen in National Geograpy or Discovery, IS a very modern country. Tall brick building, high tech gizmos and cute girls in miniskirts.....all the mark of a developed country.

BUT.....behind every stone there's a prawn...

I went to watch Batman Begins as it premierred last Saturday. My expectations was running very very high...was thinking, if cinemas in M'sia is already that nice(acceptable chairs and big screens), what about the all so advanced Japan? Super?......bzzz! wrong! You just lost a million dollar question.

The cinema was small...sooooooo small. In fact it's so microscopic it's estimated about only 50-60 movie zombies can enter at a time....and they have a cute little screen to match the zombies! MY GAWD! The screen's like quater the size of that in Mid Valley! Ok, maybe I'm exxxagerating a bit but I'm pretty sure it's around that size.... and I had to pay RM35 to watch it! (Jap don't pirate and my campus' network is firewalled). I can understand if they want to mini-size their electronic gadjets but come on, it's the cinema for goodness sake! One more thing is that I was sweating all the way while watching....nope, you got it wrong again folks, not sweating from excitement or fear...it's just that......man, that place really needs air-conditioning.

Sad? yup, sad as life can be but that's not all....there some......funny smell coming out of nowhere. I took a half-an-hour shower before going, so definitely not me contributing...maybe the chair soaked too much sweat and fungus do smell funny. Yuck! Vomit vomit....
Sigh...lucky the movie was good. Keeps me from cursing and having a bad day....well, another nice thing was that a jap girl was leaning her head on my shoulders while watching Batman kick-ass.......Woo HOO! KICK-ASS! Nah....wasn't all too happy having that girl leaning her head on my shoulders though.....btw, girl's story in my next upcoming blog. Too lazy to type two in a day.


PS: Cheong....I'm still keeping tradition of premierre movie going...you?

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Hey look! I'm on TV!

"Gee Crap, what are we going to do tonight?"
"Same thing we do every night Pinky"
"What's that Crap?"
"TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!"

How I do it? I manipulated the power of the media, so to speak, the all so powerful television broadcast!

Actually, this NHK(Japan national broadcasting company) came to my campus to do coverage of the things we do in the campus for a week. There's uhh, robot contest stuff, tea ceremony stuff and whole shitload more. Us foreign students got Thursday.
Well, I appeared on tv for about...umm, 5 minutes? maybe 6. All i did....or all i could do, was say "Hi, I'm from Malaysia. Name's Randy." That's it. yup, no kidding, that's it. And I've got to do 4 rehearsals, FOUR!, rehearsals just to say "Hi, I'm from Malaysia. Name's Randy." Sad case right? But got to be on TV...for the first time, so, it was quite an experience.

After being there, I got to know a lot about tv broadcasting.
You know what they say bout "Live" broadcasting...it isn't actually "Live"....it's a few seconds after the real shot. about maybe 2 seconds. It's really weird watching the few-seconds-after-"Live" video feed...like watching your own past. A little creepy I'd say. Anyway, "Live" as they may say, everything is rehearsed. In the studio, they ask us to do exactly what we are going to do when "Live" ...they time how long we will keep talking nonsense. Fellas, try to imagine the News guy reporting the day's news....twice. with the same intonations, same expressions and same exclamation...super funny. Me and my friend can't help laughing at the 'deja vu' news. Anyway, they then fix a schedule or flow of event, we weren't the only one featured on that days show. The time keeper then set a umm..."extra time" ...in case shit happens, and in tv broadcasting, shit always happen.
During the "Live" feed, the time keeper, armed with her stopwatch will manage the announcer. From time to time, the features get a lil' too long, she will use up the "in case shit happens" time, all the time holding a flip board showing, 1min 30s, 1min, 30s, 15s, 10s, 5s, then using her manicured fingers to do countdown. It's amazing how the announcer can stay soooo cool when pressured by Miss Timekeeper. I guess that's why HE got hired.
Bout' cameras though, stationary cameras are done remote controlled. Cameramen will sit at the control center using joystick and dials to maneuver and do zooming. The moving cam of course, moved by a homo sapien.
And oh, news are done with a blue background, the controller will single out the blue and add whatever background he wants. Anyway, ever wander how the news guys can stare at the camera, not look at the papers but able to deliver the news smoothly, but his hands will be flipping the papers? Well, the juicy lil' secret is that they have a scanner that scans the papers then project them to a screen. the camera is BEHIND the screen. I think the screen is something like a one way view glass. Anyway, the news guy just reads from the screen, and at the bottom line.....flips without looking away......

PS: Since i was on TV, had to refrain myself from jumping up and down, waving like hell and say.." Hey mom, dad, I'm on TV!"

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

The day I almost got a premature flight back to M'sia!

For the last whole week till today, i had exam. Oh yeah, two months here and they are all set to fry our brains.
The education system, here is definitely higher than hometown. before the test, lects told us the "conditions" that will require us to repeat the year...for my case repeat the year means saying bye bye and kiss my scholarship's ass goodbye. Anyway, its these two things..
=> Fail 3 subjects and above... passing mark is 60
=> Having ANY subject below 30
Lects here can be quite lenient, they give you a retest if you fail...but under 30 means no retest any that means....sayonara my friends, been nice knowing y'all.
And funny thing is the test here is set in such a way that you have just enough time writing them all, but not enough to double check...unless you can write like Olive (STSD) or Tiew Chin Chin(PPKTJ)
And the second funny thing is , you either score like crazy or score like hell...Proud to say that I'd manage to score like crazy for all save for 1...physics. It's ironic since i've always thought physics was my strong point.
Well, for my test we had subject bout waves....equation and such. During exam, I didn't realize that I messed up my equation for question no.1 ...and the following 12 Qs ARE based on the 1st one....Gasp! sheeeeit.......so, needless to say, i screwed up my whole paper. I kinda found that out at the end of exam and manage to change only a few of my answers....then there goes that familiar..."Times up Pants down!" Sigh, beaten by the clock, I surrendered my paper and suddenly became very religious, praying and praying....
D-Day came, couldn't sleep the night earlier, all the time I was thinking what stupid excuse to give my parents, no kidding man, the loneliest nite in my life
...and the next morning, I broke my cup, talk about bad luck...sigh, anyway, guess what my marks is?.....35! my gawd!.....35! another 6 marks, (1 Q bout 6,7 marks) and I'll be back in Malaysia mamak with you guys already! Phew....damn, never in my life i felt so worried for my freakin' future!
Anyway, my friend beside me was nagging away...complaining that he got 67. I gave him one weird look and said...what's up with 67? Don't worry too much Bob, let's celebrate!

haha...ha...hahaha...now, Randy's the happiest guy in the world.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

S.S.D.D (Same Shit Different Day)

Well, I have classes everyday now, no holidays....which means not much interesting place or stuff to write about so, let's talk about my classmates instead.
The term SSDD was actually from a jap guy sitting behind me. His table, his canvas for expressing his 'feelings'. Asked him what SSDD is and he said it's about school life...routine, clockwork, timetables....Same Shit Different Day. He only had one english and the rest japanese, so i helped him 'decorate' his table with...kiss my ass....**** up beyond recognition ....and of course the all famous A.D.I.D.A.S ...all day i dream about sex....kinda stuff. Know what? He started appreciating me more as a friend from that day on....weird.
One thing bout jap people here, although they dress up like crazy, they don't curse and they actually study! To Ah Bengs in Malaysia, the word study's like taboo to them, definitely a no no. but here...can you imagine, a red head, all geared to go clubbin'..and you see him studying a book in the class. I've manage to conquer the idea of being naked together but this...i still cannot comprehend.
The same goes for girls....
The thing bout girls..... girls here always strive their best to act cute in any circumstances. Last week, a girl got very interested with my watch. She take a look at it and ask me if it's ok to turn the dial (turning the watch's hour and minute hand)...i said uhh, ok...and she begun turning it. She then complained that the dial isn't working...i told her that she have to pull the dial out 1st, then turn....she said "oh, i have to pull first? wow....didn't know that. hey, look, it's turning, it's so cute!" ......(-_-)'
I remember you guys used to say " Wah, Randy, you luck bugger, get to go to japan, the land of beauties and angels..." Guys, sad to say I've chosen the wrong place to go....spoken to Kenny recently, he asked me for girls pics...gave him some pathetic excuse, but here it is, all out my confession why i didn't take any girls pics. There are one or two of course...but then I don't think you guys will agree with me anyway. And the girls here....sigh, always acting cute.....(-_-)"...
Help me la guys...how to survive here?