Tips on how to learn Japanese, the fun way

I've received a lot of questions as to how I got myself to learn Japanese up till this stage without attending any classes or spending a lot of money on books. Though firstly, I have a great advantage as I learnt Mandarin back in primary and secondary school (Though I only took Mandarin till Form 4 :P) Knowing Mandarin gives you a great advantage in a sense that it helps you learn Kanji way faster!

To learn Japanese the fun way, pretty sure most who reads my blog are anime/manga/games enthusiast (or also known as fans of the Japanese sub-culture), I'm 100% sure most of you started picking up words and phrases from anime. I'm no different, my first Japanese word I learnt back when I was in primary school was "Harahetta" (はらへった) which means "hungry", and the very anime I picked it up from was Gensomaiden Saiyuki, where Goku's favourite word is Harahetta!! Few years along the road more vocabulary entered into my brain, though I was still unable to form phrases, let alone sentences. (Okaylah, maybe the simplest Watashi no namae wa ___)

Corporate Social Responsibility Event - Giving Back to Society

So yesterday, my school (SuwayTES) organized a CSR event. It's a chance for the students to engage with the needy people. Initially I was contemplating whether to join or not as I have a class on that day itself. Luckily my lecturer promised that she'll find a replacement class for us lot, so...okay!

Upon arrival at the hall, we registered ourselves, got to know our bus number and team number (code named as HOME). Luckily enough, I was teamed together with Nala! (Sorry Chermaine QAQ). Each HOME was assigned to different tasks, I heard one of it was to organize books at a local library. Sounds interesting enough! I love the smell of books, however, my group was assigned to visit a Rumah Cacat Akal (Mentally Disabled Home). Although feeling a bit disappointed, but I look forward to it as it was my first time visiting a home such as this. Previously I only visited Old Folks' Home back in Melaka.

They provided breakfast for us. And it was a whopping huge pack of Nasi Lemak. It also had sotong cili as a side dish, talk about a heavy breakfast indeed. But it was fulfilling XD Not only that, they also gave us a mask, and also one glove (note : not gloves, but glove).

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Nuffnang Food Fest

So me the girls (..and 1 guy) decided to attend the Nuffnang Food Fest on the 5th of October 2013 at Sunway Pyramid. I first noticed this event via Facebook, the concept of 'eat for free' is of course very enticing to us university students. A little planning and some rescheduling, all of us managed to make our Saturday free and ready for the food fest!

We all decided to go a tad bit earlier, so I first met up with Chermaine at our uni roughly about 3pm. Somehow the others were late so the both of us went ahead first.

Of Coffee and Ensembles

Konnichiwa! Have been updating VocaParty lately but not my own personal blog, oppsie. So here goes! I have a few backlogs to clear so I'll start motivating myself with karipaps somehow.

A couple of weeks ago I was walking around Isetan's food section at KLCC. Then an aunty came over to me and called me out to promote something fairly interesting.

It's an instant coffee, but not-so-instant at the same time.