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Hajimemashite.

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Watashi wa Danny desu. Dozo yorushikku.

Onamae wa?

I’ve officially started my Japanese lessons and already I’m rather nervous. My 1st class experience began with some students from a level higher mistaking the class. One of them was a girl who figured she was always right and didn’t want to admit that her class was relocated until proven wrong by her own classmate. *facepalm*. Not to mention she didn’t admit her mistake after. -_-!!!

Anyway, teacher of the class was a petite Japanese lady named; Obata. It was shocking the moment she started teaching because she verbalized what we needed to learn that day very clearly – voice raised a little. But it did help, as I could hear the pronunciation of words

And the 2 hour lesson went by very quickly. By the end of the class, all I could think of was “how am I going to remember all of this?”

I’ve never been a star student in school. Spent more hours in the pool than in books. Plus from my experience, I’ve learnt better from copying homework than memorizing. Die.

Hmm… maybe I should go get an exercise book and write 1-2 pages of the same thing so I can remember it better. :|

What other ways can an umbrella be used for besides shading from the Sun and the rain?

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Well, if I happened to stumble into a time machine and went back into the dinosaur age, my umbrella would be my new best friend.

Hiding from the Nufflesaurusses

Hiding from the Nufflesaurusses

Other uses for the umbrella are aplenty

If you love to Instagram and want to spice up your picture.

Use an umbrella as a prop

Use an umbrella as a prop

If you’re having a bad day and want to fly away.

must-love-umbrella-couple

Use an umbrella and be Mary Poppins

If you feel unsafe walking around.

samurai-umbrella

Use an umbrella like a samurai

Lastly, this is not really a use for an umbrella, but…ah, I don’t know what to call it.

Eye catcher?

You tell me.

I was initially thinking of using a Japan GT grid girls photo, but I’ve not attended that event before. So…keep it in your pants. :P

Ice skating is not inline skating

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One of the things I did for the wifey’s birthday was to go ice skating. I knew she used to ice skate a lot and when we were dating, she’d used to tease me by asking me to go with her. However, I used to shun the ice because it was out of my comfort zone.

But it was a good day. And marriage does change a guy.

Sad.. I know.

I guess I wore too much grey on that day

I even messed up lacing up the shoes when we were putting them on. Though I followed the instructions on a board, wifey said I done it wrong. T_T Inline skates would’ve been so much easier!

Hitting the ice

Walking with the ice skates reminded me of my inline skating days. So I grasped that pretty quickly. Then came the biggest challenge, hitting the ice.

My first move on the ice was trying to maintain balance because it was slippery. It was like trying to inline on marble floor. Whenever I tried walking, I could feel my feet slipping either front or back. Thus, I became wall hugger. But not for long.

Once I understood that I had to bend my knees to place balance in my center, I was more steady. Then I applied the motion of inline skating and I was moving forward. Though I still need to learn how to stop because the T-stop on ice seems a lot different than inline.

Forget about crawling

Let’s just make a dash for it and…whoops!

Minor ouchie

Minor ouchie

It’s like tradition. You gotta fall on the ice if it’s your first time.

I was trying to run on the ice, like how you can do it with inline skating. But I guess I lost my center along the way and slid a little to the front.

Good thing I guess is that this made the experience more memorable. And I have much lessons to learn from the ice.

My 1st product video review: MSI Enjoy 71 Windpad tablet

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I’ve always wanted to try this; recording myself doing a product review video with the product in my hands. It’s poked my curiosity on how do others record themselves and I finally know now – kinda. Plus, this was different than the time I had help from friends and I was the so-called host of the video.

Once I had the camera set up behind me, I realized it had to be recorded at an angle (otherwise, you’d see the back of my head) and I had to also sit at an angle so that all you see were my hands.

After coaxing my friend (with a few drinks) to borrow his new MSI Enjoy 71, which he bought only for RM499 at the Midvalley IT Fair, he agreed to let me use it for this experiment. So without further due, this was my 1st product review video.

Oh. And I found out that I could just plug my headset with a microphone to my video recorder. Neat!