Friday Five 16-September

1. What are five good health habits for one to have?
Early to bed (which I don't do)
Early to rise (which I do)
Keep hydrated (which I try to do)
Exercise (also I try to do)
Don't be a picky eater (which I'm not - I have food that I dislike, like celery, but I still eat them if they show up on my plate)

2. Name any four things that you want to do before you die?
Oh wow, I haven't really thought of my bucket list... erm... these will be a bit random...
- See the northern lights
- Bungee jump maybe?
- Ensure my dogs have someone to take care of them (not sure how to plan that if I die of an accident. At least for now I know my parents and my sister will definitely continue to keep them)
- Write my will that my family can do whatever they want with my worldly possessions and that my money will all be donated to any one of the dog/animal rescues. (My family have enough money to take care of themselves, they won't miss my money)

3. Name three songs to which you know all the lyrics?
１００％勇気　(100% courage) by 光GENJI

ムーンライト伝説 (Moonlight Legend) by DALI

一人じゃない (You are not alone) by DEEN

(don't ask me why I know them, I guess I used to watch a lot of anime before LOL)

4. What were you doing two hours ago?
Dinner with the family - or I was sitting at the dining table (as I don't take dinners now, unless something special is going on)

5. If you could smash and break one thing and one thing only, what would it be?
This is a very easy question. My bed. My bunker bed. If it is smashed and broken, then I can finally get a not-bunker bed and I can get the room to myself and my sister will be forced to use the other room (or I can go to the other room, whatever, just, I want SEPARATE ROOMS!)

Countdown

So it was the moon festival yesterday, or the mid-autumn festival. Lots of mooncake and fireworks. Both of which I didn't bother to eat nor watch. However I heard that last night was Japan's show and apparently it was really good.

I scoured around and found this news article: http://www.macaushimbun.com/archives/17989

So this morning out of the blue I updated my Japanese blog. It just shows that if you don't practice a language you just get rusty and then stuck. I wasn't able to express myself as easily (I wouldn't say fluent, as I was never fluent-level, but I'd say ease. I used to be able to just write or say whatever I wanted, grammar status notwithstanding), so I guess I have to push myself to write something on a regular basis now.

By the end of October I'm going to start my new German course. I got a bit annoyed by all those online courses that I never keep up with, so I went to an actual course that I have to physically attend.

The catch?

Classes are in Hong Kong. I've already gone for a placement test and was told I should start at the A1-4 level. This course is going to cost me a pretty penny, what with transportation and all that (ferry tickets... say MOP$400 round trip every time I have to go to a class, not including transport costs when in Hong Kong). The actual course itself is actually not expensive at all.

And I can just imagine all the shit my Mom is going to give me for applying a course in Hong Kong. hah.

I'm so chuffed that in less than 7 days I'll be out in Europe. Wheeee! But only now I started to think about something else - it's the Balkans, they don't use the Euro, and I can't change any local currency here... so I guess I'll just hold onto the Euros that I have and hope for the best. I'm going to take so many photos! I have 3 memory cards on the ready.

I have most of my clothes packed. I just need a piece of luggage. I'm going to borrow one from my cousin tomorrow, then everything can go in and then I can see how much space I can expect to be able to stuff new shopping in.

Aaaaand that's it for now, haha!