International Day Pics

Heres a couple of pics. More to come!

Polyglots, Saw Saw and Preying Mantis Style Kung Fu

I think yesterday was a great day. I woke up around 10am. Then I went to the gym and had a nice workout. Then I went and had a light lunch before heading to Ratchbhat for my first Korean lesson. I will study once a week with her for 3 hours. It was really good. I learned an amazing amount of things for one day and am looking forward to rapid progress with Korean.

I've decided to attempt to become more serious about writing about language learning/teaching techniques so I can eventually organize these ideas into something concrete in the future. That blog can be found here.

I watched Saw II last night with Gina and Wei Ni. They were terrified. Great movie! Nice homage to the first one and it was quite clever.

I won a TV

So my costume was appreciated by the masses. Desired effect achieved. Great idea Jenny! I was in many pics, but I don't have a camera so I gotta wait until people send me them. Here is a low-quality taste from my low-quality webcam. Afterwards, Jenny and I went to Warm Up in full gear. It was great.



Oh. And I won a TV. But not really. Jeff called me about 30 minutes after I left Int' Day to inform me that I shouldn't have left because I won a TV. Of course, as I was not there to claim it, they probably just picked another number. Thats bad enough, but you had to write your name down on a list next to your ticket number, so they friggin know who had which number(s). I assumed that was so they could give the prizes to the correct people. I hate Payap. Next time, I don't win something, please don't tell me!

Three hour Korean lesson starting at 1. Japanese test at 6:30.

Crazy Stuff - International Day - Movies!

I think I have finally begun to work out part of the pattern of my slightly unsane line of thinking/feeling. Things tend to run down for me during September, and by late-October I find it extremely hard to be productive. I can't write, think or memorize as effective as I can earlier in the year. By keeping myself occupied I can still manage to get things done, but I feel like the only way to get myself to do things is to trick myself. As crazy as it sounds, thats how things often work for me. This probably won't make any sense to anyone reading this and its more for my own record than anything else. By looking back at what I wrote in certain months, or what periods of time I didn't write anything, I can begin to see the greater picture of how my mood changes throughout the year. Interesting stuff actually.

I got my haircut today and my costume for International Day is almost ready to go. I just gotta wait for Jenny to bring the feathers and makeup! I'll post pictures if I manage to score some. People always bring cameras to int'jam so should be fine.

A whole mess of movies just came out and I'm psyched. I really want to see Saw II!

I start Korean lessons at the uni I used to teach at on Saturday. 3 hours. I don't know how I can do it hehe. It pays off though. There are often times when I'm with a group of people of various countries and I'm able to speak all of their languages. Fun stuff.

Um - Happy Hallo-what?