It's been a long while since my last blog entry. I have been quite pre-occupied with something important the whole of this week... though I'm still not quite done with it and prob wun for a while - thought I'd write a quick post today :) I really want to blog a little about my Japan trip too, but I guess I'd have to keep that for later.

Today in Jap class our teacher taught us various ways to deal with food-related complaints in Japanese... like if the waiter got the wrong order; or if the food is taking too long, what do you say? Hmmm the responses were quite interesting, cos even the complaints had to be expressed somewhat politely and without appearing too rude! Sensei also asked what the difference was between a Japanese 'coffeeshop' and a Sg one... and the answer was that in Japan, usually more than 50% of the customers are alone whereas in Sg, we usually go to cafes with friends etc. I wonder why...

Thru the song for last week, I discovered another Jap anime master (Makoto Shinkai) who draws superbly realistic stuff - and I wanna buy his DVDs! Today's song was also quite cool - a jap version of "My Grandfather's Clock" by Ken Hirai... The Jap version is slightly diff from the Eng one though... Eg. instead of standing for ninety years in the Eng version, the clock in the Jap version stood for a hundred years heh.