After a 2 years break of not joining the fun of Bon Odori, this year i once again stepped my foots over the greenie grass of Esplanade together with sensei no musume tachi (teacher's daughters), since i do not wish to drive there, and since my teacher needed someone to accompany the daughters, so i tag along ~ win win situation :D.

We reached the destination around 530pm, and you bet, kondeimashita yo (was crowded), we walked around the field, and bought our RM20 coupons (dislike the system tho but i think was fair) and started wondering off the stalls, seems like a food fair than a Bon Odori for me, but since it had already combined the culture of Malaysian, so nothing more to expect right? Not much of edible foods, since it were too expensive, one small korokke charged RM5 @@'' TOTEMO TAKAI DESU! so i pass and bought myself a toriyaki (mada mada oishii) and mushroom and fish tempura.

We lurked around the area, wanted to try our luck at "Gold Fish Catching" but the crowd was horrible, so we passed, after our dinner, we went straight to the stage to enjoy the dance performances prepared by the organizer, dancers from Penang Japanese Foundation, from Japan and etc.

the 1st dance performance while i was there was Souran Bushi, Fisherman dance, i thought Hikawa Kiyoshi Souran Bushi will become the background song, but to my dissappointment it did not, seems like every years the songs never changed... YAWN.... after Souran Bushi was the dancers from Japan, and followed by the local Japanese :D yes the dances were nice, and the songs were okay, haha but it always have the Rasa Sayang song @@''.

Once the dances started to repeat, we headed to SGGS haunted house that gave me a good laugh. We were there queing and i found RM7 coupons, but later i found the owner so i gave it back, (am i stupid? nah!). The haunted house was not scary at all, and it smell so strange with all the sweat ! eww... When we walked into the haunted house, i saw students wearing all those clothes, and seriously is not scary! And there was this "Ghost" trying to block my way, i used my fan to move his katana aside and walked pass, and once im out from the haunted house , i cant stop laughing, so did my teacher's daugther. this gonna be the last time im going to the haunted house.

When the clock hit 10pm, the firework (hanabi) display for 5 minutes were shown, it were beautiful, but of course we can't compare it to the real Hanabi at Japan, but overall I'm happy. :D

The Jam was horrible tho..

The Food Stalls

The expensive foods

Fans RM5 each

Neko

Japanese Dolls

Paper Dolls


:D

Souran Bushi


Dancers from Japan

The Crowd


Dancers

Any significant?

Our Fans :P my was from Japan 2008



Hanabi

Kawaii ne?

Gold FIsh Stall and Souvenir Store~

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not so good picture taken year 2007 since camera was haywired

Yes, this year i found someone to go with me .... and another good point i dont need to drive during that day since it gonna be a headache just to look for a parking~

Hahah... hopefully it dont rain during that day... PRAY ~~ will updates with zillion pictures since my camera was fix years ago....

BON ODORI HERE I COME.....

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It must be destined today for me to given a task to teach my computer to listen to my commands, since i lost my languages setting. Upon searching for the language settings, i found that my laptop have this Speech Recognition Function, as curious as always, i decided to try on it. Ended up i spent my whole day trying to teach my computer to understand my English.

I have to went through a long set of tutorial before I started applying to the day to day computer activities, so I learned simple commands like, ｡ｧStart Listening｡ｨ, ｡ｧStop Listening｡ｨ, ｡ｧEnter｡ｨ, ｡ｧClose｡ｨ, ｡ｧQuestion Mark｡ｨ, ｡ｧShow Numbers｡ｨ and etc. oh and my most dislike word ｡ｧNext｡ｨ because the computer hardly understand me.

After finishing the tutorial, I tried to ask my computer to do some simple function, to my surprise, it did it yay her~ the Casablanca III but when come to dictation of text, she gave me only headache @@｡ｦ｡ｦ, seems like it have dyslexia which hardly identify ｡ｧs｡ｨ which will ended up ｡ｧf｡ｨ, ｡ｧt｡ｨ which ended up with ｡ｧp,b,g｡ｨ, and ｡ｧto, too, two｡ｨ she failed to identify, until today I yet to teach her that word, it need patient @@｡ｦ｡ｦ , just like teaching a child. *maybe I pronounce it weirdly~*

I did some experiment on itunes, but she failed to identify the word I-TUNES, so I just asked her ｡ｧShow Numbers｡ｨ -> ｡ｧok｡ｨ to start the player, and later I asked her to search for ｡ｧGackt｡ｨ ~ to my surprise she found it in my first attempt , and when I asked her to click ｡ｧEnter｡ｨ the songs start playing ~~ aww sweet｡K

Too bad when trying to listen to songs, I have to ｡ｧoff｡ｨ the voice recognition instead of ｡ｧStop Listening｡ｨ because it will react to the songs and start operate my computer without me controlling. Good experience yesterday, I let the songs run while I went for quick shower, when I came back, Speech Recognition was on, and she was surfing my blog @@｡ｦ｡ｦ.

Overall is a fun experience, you can try it too, if you do not know where the speech recognition located, just click on Start┻ type Speech Recognition at the search and have your voice on :D.

Note the tutorials were quite long｡K so just be patient ｡K. :D enjoy :D

Extra notes: (well this is very basic which can get from the help) as time goes, it will learn new things, like now she knows that my network have a name, so when I said the name, she will search for it :D

To Start it say ｡ｧStart Listening｡ｨ
TO Stop it say ｡ｧStop Listening｡ｨ
Need help? ｡ｧWhat shall I say｡ｨ This will pop up

To Close ｡ｧClose / Close That｡ｨ
To show what to click ｡ｧShow Numbers｡ｨ followed by ｡ｧOk｡ｨ
To Enter ｡ｧEnter｡ｨ
To Start button ｡ｧStart｡ｨ
TO Cancel ｡ｧCancel｡ｨ
To Minimize ｡ｧMinimize｡ｨ
TO show desktop ｡ｧShow desktop｡ｨ

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I am seriously tired of reading tigers’ news, not because I no longer love the tigers, but my love towards them grew so much deeper, stronger and the urge to protect them had became so high that I felt such a disappointment when reading all the news I subscribe on tigers.

Nothing new about the news, if is not illegal poaching, then it must be the wild tiger attacking the villagers, if is not, then the NGOs urging us to do donation, to support their activities, to conserve the environment, to protect the wild tigers. But what is the result? Do you see the result? Everyday I see my tigers being killed, being hunt, being abused, what action had been done to stop this? I know I’m nobody to say this, because I worse than the NGOs, because I did nothing to save them now, but in the future I WILL!

Everyone knew the tiger farm at china, doing illegal business, yet nothing can be done, because money often play real trick to ensure they survive in the world, because of greed, everything illegal seems to bring big lump sums of money into the pockets. Yeah having the mentality “WHO CARES? AS LONG AS MY POCKET IS WELL FEED”.

I’m tired of the nonsense, maybe I might end up being murdered by someone when they read this, well because they don’t accept my ideas. I often think that, a mere few thousand dollar or whatever currency fined would not do anything goods, they are damn rich to disobey the law, and they are damn smart to escape from it…. If only fears induced in the industry of poaching, then only the illegal poaching will be stop…. Of course this is just my simple minded opinion…..

Death penalty should be introduced to the world of illegal poaching, STOP if you are start thinking of me being cruel, inhuman, monster, or whatever disgusted words you can think of to describe me. You must be questioning me, Is just a freaking animals, why must we involved death penalty, hey we eat cow too, we eat chicken , fish and others, do you mean we too have to undergo death penalty?

What had been done had been done, no one can reverse it, but to protect the other wild animals, something have to be done, by 2020 tigers will OFFICIALLY EXTINCT if no action taken, and more soon, all the animals too will extinct. Ha, you must be laughing at me, pointing and telling, china have a lot of tigers at the farm, the zoo too, but do you aware that the tigers there do not know how to hunt? Given a live cow, and they solely chase around for freaking long minutes, and don’t be bother to do the killing? No I bet you don’t because not everyone knows, nor not everyone taking the initiative to care. Only when something dramatic being introduce, those the silent voices will pop up and oppose to whatever possible ideas, that’s why I Called Human.

OMG, you must be thinking I’m very cruel, yeah I might be so cruel towards the human race, but do you think we the human too are very cruel? “Hey no we are not… erm maybe some are?” do this appeared in your mind? Yeah the “Some” in your mind corrupts the ecosystem, just because my tigers can’t talk human language, doesn’t mean they do not have a life, a soul, and the chances to live.

Do you know how the illegal poachers' claimed the tigers' life? they shoot them, strangle them to death, or set up trap to cut their paws away....

Doesn’t us the human often fight and brings up the topic of equality? Then why can’t we give a place for them too? If a tiger attacked the villagers, death penalty for the tiger, then aren’t it fair for the tigers too if someone killed them, and death penalty served for the killer?









P.s: of course this was just my opinion, you might think I’m cruel, and you might rate me very badly at my nutang’s profile, but I don’t care, if I don’t let this idea out, I’ll go insane!

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Went to watch Ice Age 3 last week, and surprisingly the cinema was not that noisy as i expected, since it is a kid movie, often kids are noisy enough to destroy the whole show, but thank god was not.

Overall the movie was fun to watch, and i enjoyed it very much, lots of laughter and tears too.

and not to mention the babies t-rex were so cute, omg i want to plushies if only they have it, surprise oh surprise, i thought MCD will have their plushie instead of the hard toys... but... what to do... @@"'

Anyway it was a movie worth watching :D

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seems like im hit w flu bugs too..... shivered although is hot! and having sore throat yesterday... and more while typing i shiver non stop although the air cond is off @@''

renaye said fever in progress .... die lo.... everytime i shiver only 1 day... and the next day i will feel ok... but today.... i still shiver..... die or not! i hate getting sick because i dont get off although im sick... which frustrate me even more......

damn annoying to get sick... go away sick bug... !

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