Hecas day and G.I Joe with Haru-chan :)

Since PKBN ended, the friend that I spent time the most is Haru-chan :) During the three months, we didn't get to hang out much because we were different platoon and because she has lotsa new friends and she didn't need me (poor me!) 

But after the passing out, I've been hanging out at her house :) One, because Min Ki now can drive! Remember Min Ki? He picks me up at my place every time we wanna hang out at Haru-chan's place. It's really fun when we have a friend who can drive, LOL! So we can just give him a call and he will pick you up!

Haru-chan, I think she changed a lot. She still swears a lot though. She got a boyfriend now. But yeah, she denied it. But she really likes him a lot. And he seems to like her a lot too. Oh, he was also one of my squads in PKBN :D From platoon 3. But honestly, I don't really like him. So I keep telling Haru-chan that I don't approve their relationship. Hahaha.

On 27th March, last month, the registration for Higher Education Centralized Admission System was finally opened . To further your study at any university or college, you have to apply through HECAS first. But I didn't really understand anything about the procedures because I'm a first timer. Same goes to Saku-chan and Haru-chan, so we went to the HECAS open day. As usual, Min Ki picked us up!

Luckily, we didn't get lost on the way there. There were so many people. I even bumped into a lot of ex schoolmates. Hahaha. I also saw Ryoshi Ryu, my senpai from martial art class. I did write something about in one of my previous posts, I think. Oh well, he looks awesome now, with that hair. But he didn't see me so we didn't get to talk to each other.

There was nothing much we gained from the HECAS open day ==' After that, we went to The Airport Mall!! Because all of us needed to fill in our empty stomach. Me especially. Funny incident happened at the car park. Min Ki had a hard time to park the car even though with the help from Saku-chan and Haru-chan. He got his driving license just recently to park a car is not yet his specialty. We laughed a lot in the car! And then, when he finally succeeded in parking the car, he accidentally pushed the honk and everyone was looking at our way! Damn, that was embarrassing,

And finally, we arrived at the restaurant after hours stuck in the traffic and hours trying to park the car. Hahahah!

Okay, let's moved on! I went to watch a movie at the cinema with Haru-chan, last two weeks, I think. I asked her to accompany me to the University to submit my application form and then my plan was to go straight home. But Haru-chan insisted to go for a movie so yeah, why not!? Hahaha.

We watch G.I Joe, The Rock starring. Haru-chan chose that. Actually after Snitch, I don't feel like watching any movies with The Rock as the main cast. But then, G.I Joe was awesome. Glad that I watched it. Plus, it was Haru-chan's treat, LOL. Thanks, Haru-chan!

- Miki Ariake

Lucky day on 23rd March 2013 :)

Yes! Just like the title says, in this post I'm going to share about what happened on 23rd March 2013 :D Well, to tell the truth, nothing much happened though. Hahaha.

What happened that day really surprised me to death! I was, as usual, roaming around my Facebook account reading updates on Hey!Say!JUMP and stuffs. Then, I suddenly read something awesome! On Andromeda's page, there was my name! YES! My name!

It wrote:

ATTENTION!!! Guess what we found out? A true lovely fan blogged about us! How sweet is this!!!

Thanks to @*insert my name*!!!! Andromeda <3 you!!

We'll make sure you get more readers in your blog!!!

They also put the link to my blog! This blog! I was like, "What did I just read?" and screamed my lung out! Hahaha. I really didn't expect that they would found my blog. Man, so embarrassing! Because, there might be some false information I put there about them. HA HA HA *awkward* I'm not sure if they are still reading this right now or no :P

I was too happy that I quickly grabbed my phone and texted Suki-chan and Naru-baka! :D

That night on 23rd March, I met up with Naru-baka again :) We went to the JP Amphitheater to watch our local artists perform. I know Andromeda wouldn't be there that night but I still came to support the others. Neff Aslee especially :) It was really fun! The artists all did great! Especially that small little boy from Bintang Kecil <3 He was singing with full of emotion! I love him! He has such a great voice as well :) Another new talent is born! 

I didn't get to take picture with Neff Aslee that night because I couldn't find him. Too bad! But I took a picture with Haji Syukri! The main male actor from the movie Ada Apa Dengan Rina <3 The one that I watched together with my ma the other day :)

Happy!!

- Miki Ariake

Another day with besties and Andromeda :)

I still have time so I decided to write one more post! This time I'm gonna write about 22nd March 2013! Yes! I met up with Suki-chan and Naru-baka again on the day after the Japanese Festival! Hahaha. We planned it before we said bye to each other on 21st March's night.

It was Friday and the weather was fine. We gathered at SKH Sengkurong :) and together in my car, we headed to Jerudong Park! Guess what? We went to see Andromeda!!! Yes! Andromeda!! Calvin always updating about their activities on their Facebook page and said that they were performing their new unreleased mandarin song on 22nd March at JP. Of course, the three of us besties wouldn't want to miss the performance!

As usual, the most excited about this was Suki-chan! As soon as we arrived there, she quickly ran to the place where Andromeda was at, leaving me and Naru-baka and my lil sis behind. Hahaha. Thank God, we arrived there in time and Andromeda was just about to sing their first song that day. Yes, the new single! There were still a lot of empty seats because not so many came that day. So we were lucky but at the same time I kind of disappointed. I was like, "Why is it only us come to watch?"

WHERE IS THE SUPPORTS, GUYS!?

I feel sad looking at the empty seats, because Calvin was so excited about this performance and he kept updating and reminding us about it. But then, only few turned up. Well, maybe because it was just a recording for a radio show... but, I'm glad that we came that day.

The new single is called Love Phobia! I don't understand Mandarin but the song is beautiful. I really enjoyed it. I tried to look up for the meaning of the song but I couldn't find the lyric. Oh. That day, Andromeda performed four songs if I'm not mistaken :) Two mandarin songs. And the other two were Tertipu and Here In My Life.

And hey, guess what? Their seats were just in front of ours! So we were so close to them! Hahaha. Because we had the camera with us, we took quite a lot of photos! 

And again, the most excited was Suki-chan! We were really close to them! And sitting right in front of me was Jason! Hahaha! It was seriously, a very, really, nice view! :D Couldn't get my eyes off him. LOL!

See those empty seats there? Sad, right? :(

Kyahahaha! Photo taken by me :D It's the lovely Jason! I felt like in a heaven! He was just right in front of me. 

Gordino, busy with his phone (or was it Calvin's?) :P There were times when Gordino turned around and looked at our place and smiled. Wow. Or was it just my imagination? LOL.

Here is a NICE shot by Naru-baka :D Anson and Jason whispering to each other. Hahahaha. I wonder what they were whispering about :P

After they performed three songs, there was a short break for games! :D The MC that day, DJ Izan, requested fifteen people from the audience to come up on stage to a play a game. So I quickly volunteered myself and pulled along Naru-baka and Suki-chan with me. Andromeda also joined up the stage. The game required 5 people per team. And guess what? Suki-chan and I was very lucky! Both of us were in the same team with Calvin, Anson and Jason! Yes! And I was standing just next to Calvin.

For the game we had to break a pair of chopstick by just using our fingers and knee. So, by the count of three, at the same time, we smashed the chopsticks onto our knees! Suki-chan, Jason, Calvin and Anson broke theirs in one go. Well, except me :( I kept trying but still... Calvin who was next to me taught me the right way to do it. Yes, he actually talked to me :) But still I failed. So embarrassing. And  I guess, it was my fault that our team lost =='

Then, the second round. This time we were paired up. I was paired with Naru-baka and Suki-chan was paired...with...guess who? Hahaha. GORDINO! So damn lucky that girl! For this round, we were required to flip a paper using another paper. Hmm. It was an impossible task. I tried everything but failed. Gordino and Suki-chan were also doing the best. But then, I don't know how, Naru-baka made it. And yeah, our team won. Hahaha.

It was really an awesome experience playing games with Andromeda. Although, Calvin was kinda not in mood at first (or was it just me?) but slowly, he seemed to enjoy himself :)

When the show ended, we didn't want to miss the chance so we quickly ask Andromeda to take picture with us :D Again, the most excited was Suki-chan. Hahaha. She really loves Andromeda ne~

Andromeda and I <3 This is my third picture with them :) Thank you, Andromeda!

When I got home that day, I wrote on my status about how awesome the performance was and I was expecting a comment from Calvin. But then, unexpectedly, Jason commented! No words can actually described how happy I was when he commented! He said thank you for coming even though the weather was hot. He was really touched and appreciates the supports we gave them. He also said not to mind about the chopsticks incident (I failed to break them, remember?) Hahaha. 

I'm really glad that we made it that day. Thanks, Andromeda for the awesome performance. It was really fun :D And thanks, besties, for making this dream came true :D 

Andromeda is in Jakarta right now :) Promoting their single. I will always give them my full support <3

- Miki Ariake

Japanese Festival at Time Square and Snitch :)

Finally, I have the time to write up some updates. Sorry, I have been busy these few weeks. A lot happened. And I haven't even started writing about my PKBN chapters. Hahaha. Sorry to that friend who requested for me to share my PKBN experience.

For today's post I'm gonna talk about the day I finally met up with my two besties! Suki-chan and Naru-baka after PKBN passing out! Since the passing out, Suki-chan kept saying that she wanted to go for a movie date with me :) She missed me so much, she said. Aww. Such a sweet friend. So we decided to meet up for the movie on 21st March! It was Thursday! Because on that day as well, there was an opening ceremony for an event at Time Square :) The First ever Japanese Festival in Brunei Darussalam. You sure know by now that both of us are Japanese freaks :P

We didn't go alone that day. We also invited Saku-chan and Naru-baka because the more the merrier. I picked Suki-chan and Saku-chan up that morning (Naru-baka showed up a bit late that day) and we went straight to Time Square. The ceremony was starting at 2:45 in the afternoon but we reached there at around 12 am so we planned to watch movie first. We really had difficulty in choosing what movie to watch. I wanted to watch Warm Bodies (Google it!) but if we take that one, we would miss the opening ceremony for the festival so we decided to watch Snitch :) The Rock was the main cast. It was a story about saving his son.

Well. Snitch has an interesting plot but the story line is way too serious ==' So I ended up being sleepy while in the cinema. I think the only one who was excited for the start till the end of the movie was Saku-chan. Hahaha. Suki-chan and I were like, "I wanna watch something funny..." HAHA! The only part of the movie where I laughed was the part when the car belongs to the villain went BOOM! I seriously laughed out loud and I was the only one ==' 

After the movie ended, we quickly took the lift downstairs. We supposed to be in a rush because the ceremony was starting but we played inside the lift instead. Taking pictures and stuffs. We went up and down and up and down in the lift. It was so funny especially when a man entered the lift and we all went awkward. 

We were lucky because the opening ceremony hadn't started when reached the ground floor. And guess what, I bumped into Kimmy! Who's Kimmy? He is one of the closest ones to me during the three months PKBN national service training. He was the one that I talked a lot too. He's really understanding and he was the one that have seen me cry the most during the three months. I can talk about anything with him. I shared a lot with him :) He was always the first to realize if there was anything wrong with me and always the one who ask me if I was okay. So meeting him again really made me happy :D We took a picture together as memory.

 

Damn that Kimmy! He made that ugly funny face! Oh, this is the first time I uploaded a picture of me since I got back from the camp, right? Hahaha. Now you can see that my skin has become a lil bit darker.

Ah! I also met Wafa-senpai that day! The senpai that I have crush on at school! I was texting Naru-baka with my back leaning on the wall of a shop. Then went I looked up from my phone, my eyes suddenly caught him. He was just right in front of me and was also looking at me. I was shocked but I managed to raise a hand and waved at him. He smiled and waved back! KYAAAA! Okay, enough with that. Hahaha. We finally met up with Naru-baka and together we watched the opening ceremony. The ceremony started with a Wadaiko performance (Japanese traditional drum)! It was so freaking awesome! I couldn't help myself but to imagine Yuto was up there when he didn't. And then, there were speeches from the V.I.P that day and also people from the Japan Ambassador in Brunei.

Oh! We also met our (Suki-chan and I) Japanese Language teacher! Lim-sensei! We are glad that she still remembers us because the last time we saw each other was in 2011! 

After the opening, we went for a tour. There was a lot of booths :) Saku-chan tried out the kimono and she really looks cute in it. Me? No, I didn't try. While Saku-chan was busy enjoying herself with her friend that she bumped into, me and my two besties went for a late lunch at KAKA restaurant. While enjoying our foods, we talked a lot. Well, it had been awhile since we hung out. I really had fun! Spending time with those two really made my day and of course Saku-chan too.

Then when we gathered up with Saku-chan, she told us that her mother would be picking her up so we said good bye to each other. Suki-chan, Naru-baka and I continued our date :) We went shopping while waiting for my pa to pick us up. 

21st March 2013 :) An unforgettable day because I was reunited with them. So happy. We had so much fun together <3 Thanks, besties. We did take a lot of photos but we didn't upload them...so cannot share them here :) And since I have a lot of free time until at least August (I'm waiting for my application to the University of Brunei Darussalam to be accepted! :D), I hope to spend more time with them. 

- Miki Ariake