btw, all photos taken wif me trusty little keitai (handphone) ;]
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
one sunny winter afternoon @ Tokyo Tower, Minato ward, Tokyo
after the rotary club interview, i decided to explore the neighbourhood. this place has some mind soothing spots. parks, temples, tokyo tower...
btw, all photos taken wif me trusty little keitai (handphone) ;]
btw, all photos taken wif me trusty little keitai (handphone) ;]
Rotary club interview yesterday
so it was a sunny tuesday morning, just like any other good business day, i attended the long awaited interview for my application of the rotary yoneyama scholarship here in Japan.
having only slept not more than a couple hours, i went to skool first to submit a term paper, hav a few light moments wif classmates & present my suggestion for another international joint research trip to the sensei. at about 11am, me and my well loosened up mind head for the business district the Minato ward.
the interview was scheduled to be held at the japanese Red Cross Assoc. building. the interior was very business like, typically clean muffling carpet, dimly lit lobby, and well crafted wooden armrest lining the winding staircase. arriving more than 2 hrs early, i seated myself in the waiting room, watching many potential scholarship receivers, my competition, led out of the room.
not to say that i wasnt anxious or excited, but i didnt worry about the interview until it became a memory wedged deeply in my head. i felt good at the interview, & did quite well at leading the conversation, or at least thats how i remembered it. one of them on the panel happened to be an Old Boy of my present skool, another whose daughter graduated already, but this did not ease things a bit. in fact, i realized later that i was thrown some pretty agressive punches by em ol'folks.
that being said, i should count my blessings as i think their impression of me is a positive one. now the only glitch bugging me after giving the whole session a run down in my head is this one thing the OB said--"there are lots of students fr ur skool thats on our payroll, so if u happen to find urself not on the list, i hope u understand", before the buzzer sounded signalling the end of our talk. i promptly left with a bow.
all i can do now is pray and keep em digits crossed, the result ll be out in early march. hopefully by then i b too busy indulging myself in the the company of lulu & shanghai, that all foul news could be swallowed down like a gulp of chinese HongKaoLiang spirit minus the fire-spitting throat-vexxing sting.
cheers,
having only slept not more than a couple hours, i went to skool first to submit a term paper, hav a few light moments wif classmates & present my suggestion for another international joint research trip to the sensei. at about 11am, me and my well loosened up mind head for the business district the Minato ward.
the interview was scheduled to be held at the japanese Red Cross Assoc. building. the interior was very business like, typically clean muffling carpet, dimly lit lobby, and well crafted wooden armrest lining the winding staircase. arriving more than 2 hrs early, i seated myself in the waiting room, watching many potential scholarship receivers, my competition, led out of the room.
not to say that i wasnt anxious or excited, but i didnt worry about the interview until it became a memory wedged deeply in my head. i felt good at the interview, & did quite well at leading the conversation, or at least thats how i remembered it. one of them on the panel happened to be an Old Boy of my present skool, another whose daughter graduated already, but this did not ease things a bit. in fact, i realized later that i was thrown some pretty agressive punches by em ol'folks.
that being said, i should count my blessings as i think their impression of me is a positive one. now the only glitch bugging me after giving the whole session a run down in my head is this one thing the OB said--"there are lots of students fr ur skool thats on our payroll, so if u happen to find urself not on the list, i hope u understand", before the buzzer sounded signalling the end of our talk. i promptly left with a bow.
all i can do now is pray and keep em digits crossed, the result ll be out in early march. hopefully by then i b too busy indulging myself in the the company of lulu & shanghai, that all foul news could be swallowed down like a gulp of chinese HongKaoLiang spirit minus the fire-spitting throat-vexxing sting.
cheers,
Friday, January 06, 2006
happy new year~!!
dear all,
been gone for a while now, i mean literally i was not at home for a long time. went to taiwan during early december, met lots of interesting and not to mention powerful ppl there including the current KMT chairman Ma Ying 9. then there were also the DPP reps and the Taiwan Thinktank, asahi newspaper's taipei bureau chief, & i was especially on good terms wif a few of the students at taiwan's soochow university :]
yet as i step back to reality, i was met with a midterm essay, which explains how i spent my christmas eve. & there is 2 more coming. plus other homeworks i missed while i was in taiwan. oh... wut a sweet dream it was just days ago.
apart fr the endless pile of work, the weather is also not helping me coping wif work at all, this winter proves to be the coldest for japan since the last 25 yrs. i m glad its doesnt snow in tokyo, at least not yet. it gets dark early too, these days its light out at 5pm here in tokyo. i m still trying to get used to this short daytime, but i guess i should count my bless as this winter is pretty dry hence tolerable compared to the previous ones.
wonder how everyone is doing these days. wish everyone a happy and prosperous year ahead.
cheers,
nicholas
been gone for a while now, i mean literally i was not at home for a long time. went to taiwan during early december, met lots of interesting and not to mention powerful ppl there including the current KMT chairman Ma Ying 9. then there were also the DPP reps and the Taiwan Thinktank, asahi newspaper's taipei bureau chief, & i was especially on good terms wif a few of the students at taiwan's soochow university :]
yet as i step back to reality, i was met with a midterm essay, which explains how i spent my christmas eve. & there is 2 more coming. plus other homeworks i missed while i was in taiwan. oh... wut a sweet dream it was just days ago.
apart fr the endless pile of work, the weather is also not helping me coping wif work at all, this winter proves to be the coldest for japan since the last 25 yrs. i m glad its doesnt snow in tokyo, at least not yet. it gets dark early too, these days its light out at 5pm here in tokyo. i m still trying to get used to this short daytime, but i guess i should count my bless as this winter is pretty dry hence tolerable compared to the previous ones.
wonder how everyone is doing these days. wish everyone a happy and prosperous year ahead.
cheers,
nicholas
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