- possibly the most obvious one: my tong gone. janice was looking for her kaleidoscope and suddenly muttered "my tong gone". colin caught on quick and started repeating. insert slang for canadian and you get one weird language.
- colin and yuge treated us to ramen. we wanted to order gyoza, but had no idea how many to order. we asked colin, he didn't know how many there was in one plate. he asked yuge, but forgot to translate. in the end, he said in english "how many are there in one plate?" yuge looked at him with a weirdo face and said "Nani?" (what)
- during the farewell party, while saying a thank you translation speech, colin got it wrong and said "to further enhance the relationship between kitago and sapporo" instead of kitago and singapore.
- this last incident only indirectly affects colin. they were at yuge's house, and colin decided to walk home (Colin's hse is on a mountain, behind my hosts', and yuge lives in an apartment below the mountain). yuge refused and suggested he drive colin up, but colin didnt want to. he insisted on walking. so yuge took out a bicycle and lent it to colin to cycle home... up the mountain...
that was the best of times in kitago. today was his last day in singapore, so we decided as a group to give him a treat and bring him around orchard. at 1pm, christina went to fetch him from the novotel, and met us at clark quay (ok fine i was late). then we took a taxi down to orchard... which colin tried to pay but was denied by christina, me and serlyn. we took him to eat thai food at the lemongrass in heeren (or lemon__ass as kaifon calls it). we ordered so much... colin ordered some unknown food that we didnt understand, but for some weird reason the waiter did... heidi and shuet ni came soon after and we had fun remembering the times we had in kitago. once again, colin wanted to pay, but christina beat him to it.
after that, we walked over to cine... played with the kiki ippatsu i saw when i was with kaifon and nick... and then we took neoprints~ hahaha colin's face looked so funny in some of them!!! after that... we sent him back to the novotel... and he wanted to treat us to starbucks, but everyone refused to order anything... :)
we then started taking photographs... and we met the vice principal of nanichi high school, the same one that we went to when we were in japan. we also saw the english teacher there. it was fun talking to them.... we also found out that when we left, our photograph appeared in the newspaper again.. xD interesting... (he gave us his name card)
we took photographs with both of them, and then serlyn, shuet ni and i went over to chinatown to buy farewell items for them. we bought a lot of junk (which included the "singapore is a fine city" shirt) and bought some items for the english teacher and the vice principal too.
then we went to eat popeyes at the airport...(im not going to mention how serlyn kept leading us to the wrong place) we were so full. then we were joined by clement and xiao ran... after wards we met colin again... and we gave him the stuff. he kept saying "oh guysss..." like we didn't need to... but either way. the vice principal was pretending to cry when we gave him his.
later, colin lost his ticket... he thinks he left it on the plane... hahaha. but in the end he managed to get another one, so there was no harm done. serlyn made a comment about how colin was blurrer than yuge.. quite amazing really. we said goodbye to them, took more photos, and left.
and here i am. the photographs i wont upload here. i'll put it on the miyazaki rios website. www.rios.2ya.com go see it if you really want to. :) was fun hanging out with colin... havent seen him in so long. sadly janice couldn't make it cos her friend had some problem... must remember to tell her the funny incidents that happened. colin coming back reminds me how much i miss my hosts... and the days i spent with them. hope that this letter will get a reply this time... :)
some memories were meant to be forgotten
but these weren't any of them.
Takahashi Hinoki
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