An overdued diary

For this piece of diary, I should have written it on the very last day of February, or maybe at the beginning of March. In the end, when I scrolled through my archives just now, I realised that I didn't! Therefore, I decided to write this piece of overdued diary.

What have I missing writting in this blog ?

Well, it's the 25th SD Anniversary held at Senja Soka Centre on 28th February. Besides being involved in the choir performing 2 songs at 2 shows on that day, I was glad to be involved in the exchange dinner once again with the 3rd batch of students from Soka University of Japan. While I missed the 2nd batch exchange due to my holidays in Hong Kong, I was able to be a part of the exchange together with the 1st batch and the 3rd batch. (The exchange dinner with the 1st batch of SUJ students happened to fall on Valentine's Day, see http://i-kieran-yiheng.blogspot.com/2009/02/good-bye-my-friend.html)

This time around after both concerts for the Anniversary shows ended, we were introduced to 2 YWD students whom would be attached to my group(ITAC) for the exchange dinner. They are Megumi and Yoshiko, both 1st year students studying Economics in English. While everyone was hungry by the time we set off, we took them to have a taste of local food for dinner at Bukit Timah Hawker Centre. While both girls chose to eat something with rice, I offered to let them try mixed economical rice(杂菜饭) and I was teased by the rest of the group for being soo "nice" to them and since I offered them such simple treats.

They were special guests from Japan and it's their first ever overseas trip out of Japan, and therefore it's best to give them a dinner treat as a local host.

Once again, like the first exchange on V-Day, we shared conversations of cultures between Singapore and Japan while we enjoyed the dinner throughout the session. And then, we moved off to take a bus back to their hotel to send them back. It was quite a memorable night as we talked alot throughout the entire trip and sang along on a near-empty top level of the double double bus.

As usual, photo-takings were done at the lobby of the hotel before the bunk of us bidding farewell to our newly-made Japanese friends.

Now, nearly 2 months had passed while I had just installed Skype in order to have a online verbal conversations with one of the friends, Megumi. We had been exchanging emails and updating our lives to each other prior to that. (And please guys...don't get the wrong idea.)

Meanwhile, I hope I can visit Japan, very likely in 2010, not only to have fun there visiting attractions, eating their delicacies, visiting the soka centres over there, and also meeting my Japanese friends over there.

For now, I must work hard and make my resolutions come true.