Observations in Japan

This is so true - a good reminder to self when I delve into a relationship in the future: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/why-you-will-marry-the-wrong-person.html?_r=0

I'm travelling in Japan right now and there are so many interesting things of note!

For one, everyone here uses Line, so I created one just to see how it's like. It's amazing, and has more fun features than any of the other social messenging apps (whatsapp, wechat, facebook messenger, etc)! and it automatically finds emoticons when you type in keywords (try toilet) xD

Also, cute bear and rabbit stickers! Enough said.

Another thing I noticed is that despite how polite everyone is, it's clear they are not friendly and keep to themselves. Japanese people don't smile, and they are kind of rude to foreigners really, except their language and culture forces them to be super uber polite. It's such an oxymoron. Don't be fooled by their language to think they like you lol.

Third thing, Japanese guys in the club are more aggressive than those in Singapore, but less so than those in the US. They do very interesting things when they're trying to hit on you xD

Happiness - Photos speak a thousand words

i've been keeping really busy...so many fun stuffs and travel going on in my life in the past month! where do i begin?

maybe just a series of photos will speak for themselves:

 My presentation at EMC World in  Las Vegas last week :D + the cool light-up tetris building blocks that I won at one of the conference booths :) I was the fastest to build the structure that was randomly selected on the screen, and winners get fun lightup toys to decorate their rooms with!

Putting up my first poster ever, and it's the beautiful Jung Eunji. I'll have matching posters with my bestie xD

 Checked out the Exploratorium in SF! We collectively recreated the Gateway Arch at St Louis, totally cool

 Drinking delicious japanese cocktails in Denver. just had to take a photo of the pretty colors...

View from the plane as I was touching down in Seattle for the weekend! Beautiful summer weather in Seattle, definitely a rare find...

Pikachu / Pokeball (on the back) tesla coil in the making - super adorable! You get one guess on where I was xD

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On a side note, just found out that I have 13.3% body fat...how can it be when i'm so lazy all day and don't work out?? guess there's benefits to being young and having high metabolism hahaha

 

another cover song :)

Under the encouragement of my friends, I am inspired to record more songs haha, so here you go! It's one of my all-time favorite songs :)

Also learning another guitar song, but going to spend more time revising my Japanese instead for the next two weeks. Need to prepare for my upcoming trip to Japan :D



on a side note, i did some volunteering today for the elderly, i quite liked it. i'm probably going to do more volunteering with the elderly in the future :D

a guitar cover by all of me for all of you

finally, it's finally done. A guitar cover of All of Me, by yours truly :)

Please pardon the poor sound quality and bad playing/singing, I've been traveling so much that I haven't had much time to practice it nor make it more polished. Everytime I come back I have to re-learn and re-build my calluses, which is why a lot of the playing is quite horrible. I finally got it to a manageable sounding level, so here you go! Enjoy :)

On a side note, I'm also seriously considering buying a second guitar to leave at the hotel I travel to. It would be a lot easier to practice and build up my calluses, but also I get to sing and strum the guitar as loud as I want to without fear of embarrassment/disturbing my housemates hahaha.

Probably will do that in two weeks :)