Friday, May 11, 2007
Visit to teejay by Japanese students
Disclaimer: Many people would have guessed that i volunteered to shoot this event was to see 日本帅哥. BUT NO! It's cos the rest of the photographic society people want free tickets to watch concerts so before i know a thing, all the other event duties had been snapped up.
But somehow this blog post about their visit is going to tend to hc-ness (花痴-ness)
Prolly cos i am a 'flower eater' as said by Yawen? And cos almost all the 160 odd visitors are guys, so besides talking about guys, what can i do? Lol
*erhmm did i hear u say 'EXCUSES?'*
840am: The Japanese students arrived! My first reaction was: 'HUH?! How come all guys?' as groups and groups of guys started streaming in. COOL HAIRSTYLES!!!!! Like 明星 and anime characters. hehe... Some of them look very 秀气 (in other words, look like girl la), moreover majority of them are very fair. One interesting thing that i notice is that: Even though they all wear the same uniform (white shirts -both short sleeves and long sleeves paired with black long pants) they wear them differently & creatively.
1) Some tuck fitting shirts neatly into their fitting pants, wearing a stylo studded belt to show of their lean figures?? haha that look is cool enough to go from classroom to Orchard road.
2) An eye-catching belt slung on loose-fitting pants and slightly baggy shirts (fusion of trendy hipster jeans and sch uniforms)
3) They wear another t-shirt or singlet beneath their white shirts (some with loud prints/words, thats kinda see-through from their white shirts... have similar effect of girls wearing coloured bras beneath white tops?)
Singapore's weather is already so hot & humid, yet they can wear layers of clothing & i didnt see any of them perspiring -----AMAZING!
4) Leave 1st few buttons of their shirts unbuttoned to show coloured singlets/t-shirts with nice metallic necklaces or a trendy shiny metallic camera hung on the neck in place of a necklace
Hot weather or cool fashion statement?
5) A handful of them folded up their long pants & they became trendy three-quarters
Again, hot weather or cool fashion statement??
6) Spotted many of them wearing Converse canvas shoes ---- a Pan-Asian looking fella sported a similar pair as mine. Regretted not wearing my own ostentatious black-red-yellow ankle-length canvas shoes that day = . =
7) Spotted at least 2 of them wearing fashionable sunglasses (though the shades are residing on top of their heads most of the time) haha... i dun think the Sun is exceptionally bright in teejay that morning?
It's amazing to see how versatile their uniforms are. Compared to teejay's dirty green uniforms... Sighes i rather not think...
Schedule for the morning:
Intro to teejay with a video shown countless times to new J1s, skits by Tourism Club members ( a lil too sian), principal address, Japanese student representative speaking in halting english (introducing their Kuramae Industrial Sch.. i wanted to know what those 15-18 yr olds are learning there couldnt make out the heavily accented words). Up next were guitar performance & sheng (a chinese instrument which produces unexpectedly melodious sounds that left the jap teachers talking abt it after that).
Kendo performance by 4 jap students.
Kendo is like a martial art, they wear head gear similar to that of fencing's, protective shields om their torsos, use bamboo like sticks as weapons. Quite cool, not something that i get to see usually.
Took many many photos (sometimes multiple at a go) to make sure that i can get good shots of those powerful movements & fast action.
Tour around sch (canteen, library.... where else?)
Played badminton in the hall
Dun understand why TC i/cs of this event dont recruit sch badminton players to spar with them? Those Japs are pro players who'd won competitions.
Found out from a Chinese student studying in that sch. When he came forward to ask me something, i was like 'Oh no! What if i dun understand his Jap?' (cos my Jap's quite shaky) Then i realised he wasnt speaking Jap, he said '你会说中国话吗?' I was like yeah 会啊.. ( a little laggy response cos i arent used to the reference of 华语 as 中国话 and totally didnt expect a 'japanese' to speak mandarin) He asked me whether the teejay girls who were going to play were pros, i replied dunno cos i dun think they're sch team players. Puzzled as to why he knows Mandarin, i eventually found out that he's from China (Beijing) & went to japan to study japanese, but he doesnt know english. He was kinda surprised to find out from me that all lessons were carried out in English here. Hmm so those Jap students dun understand the TC skits & introduction video.. (all done in english)
There's also comunication probs b/n teejay guides & jap students as few of them know adequate jap to hold decent conversations in jap.
But since i was there to shoot pics & not chitchat, i didnt chat with him for long... Really regretted afterwards (not cos he's v gd looking)... i wanted to know what they studied at industrial sch and where else will they visit in Singapore. Wasted opportunity!!!
*Still pounding my heart*
Saw 2 Daren Tan, the Project Superstar 2 winner lookalikes ---- think the younger, better looking versions of Daren with sharper Jap facial features & sporting similar hairstyles
Gaygay guys.. lol
1 guy who put big shades on top of his head, but somehow it looked like a hairband on him la, had an anime character like hairstyle, ate & sat so demurely (crosslegged- the girly style & put food slowly into his mouth) OMG i cant stand that sight, wanted to take photo but the 1st one didnt turn out well & i didnt dare to try anymore in case he notice me shooting him.
It's NEAR IMPOSSIBLE to shoot discretely using a bulky DSLR camera.
Thats why i dont have many clear pics of shuai-ges... surmore the cam's CF card not with me now, thats why this lengthy post is devoid of pics.
Later i saw that same sissy guy taking pics with a teejay girl, he playfully stuck out his tongue showing off a tongue piercing with a 'pop-out' XXXX -i've got no idea whats the tongue equaivalent of dangling earrings.
Another thing i spotted:
Bags that seemed to be meant for girls are being carried by some Japs
Maybe i've something against the sissy mentioned above or rather he's too outstanding, kept noticing him hanging around. A brief description of his hairstyle: Straight fringe that covers his eyebrows (think Rainie yang's fringe) and a layer of hair on top of his head was being 'pulled up' & 'fanned out' in at least 2/3 directions. So no matter u see his front view, side view or back view.... U cant possibly miss him.
He carried a mini backpack (the design is so feminine that i dun think it suits me) so imagine my shock when i saw it.
But a bigger shock awaits me...
Another guy behind him carried a small black and white patterned cloth totebag. OMG he look as though he's carrying his gf's bag la! I saw a lady carrying a similar bag (just change the pink patterns on that bag to white) on my way home, so i snapped a pic of it, just in case my descriptions arent vivid enough to express my horror. *i almost puked okays*
But the gender ratio of the students is like 150:10.. though i doubt i'd seen more than 8 girls. Very SKEWED. So chances are.. thats his bag.
It's almost like an all-boys sch i suppose, girls' presence is so scarce that the boys turn sissy to attract attention???
Under the mango tree:
3 of them asked a teejay guide thru a translator if they could take the fallen mango & made a mad dash for it when she said ok, only to drop it when they realised it's kinda rotten since it fell from the tree to the ground.
Another 1 whipped out his hp & stood around the tree, initially i thought he was taking pics of the tree, then i realised he was actually following a mynah hopping around the tree. =.O He looked really disappointed when the bird flew away & tried in vain to lure it down with a mango. Woah! No mynahs in Japan??
Some first-times
-1st time see so many cute Jap guys flooding teejay, just makes teejay guys pale in comparison
-1st time go buffet, see trays of rice being emptied before the other dishes (2 out of 3 trays were scrapped clean by the time it was my turn --- almost forgot that guys regardless of nationalities, need to load up on carbos lol)
-1st time see queues in teejay male toilet. at audi blk toilet, the doors of both male & female toilets face each other... imagine my surprise while stepping out of the female toilet to see guys queuing till the door
How I WISH they're here on an exchange programme instead of some cultural exposure visit... teejay girls will then be excited for the next few weeks, but what a pity! They're only here for 1 morning, but it's enough to send the girls to cloud 9. I spotted groups & groups of girls stopping to see (sounds better than gawk) them even from 2nd & 3rd storey, standing so close to the railings... nvm the 'zhao geng' la, shuai-ges are more impt to them haha. 真是爱看帅哥不要命. Some huachi girls let out squeals of 'so shuai4' 'so shuai4' which i could hear from a distance away.
I spotted a photo soc junior looking at the japs thronging the corridors twice & the 2nd time i walk past him, he said '很好拍 hor?' Haha.. i just laughed heartily... What more can i say?
CLOUD's on cloud 9
yunn. at 9:41 PM