Little -= CJ =- complete with "Dumbo" ears & friend...a couple of decades ago!

 

& a couple of decades later...

 

I'm usually not this "smiley" but I figured you'd pass on the grouchy -= CJ =-

Thanks to Raymond Leong Calley, the love of Raymond's life! for scanning my mugshots for me. (Gomen ne!

 Raymond-san! I decided Calley's cuter!)  Raymond's the guy I met  at the airport just before

 our trip to Japan. He was moaning & groaning "I don't like Japanese food, I can't speak 

Japanese, I don't know how I'm going  to  survive in Japan, yada, yada, yada..." & guess

who booked his flight to Japan again the day after we came back!

 

WHERE I "OWN" 4 WALLS & A ROOF OF SORTS

 

SINGAPORE  (try finding it on a map, just don't go blind doing it!)

LANGUAGES

ENGLISH

Fluent (typo errors not-withstanding!) Can also speak "Singlish" (Singapore English) on request…"Singlish" is, to quote one of my Caucasian colleagues, "speaking 5 languages in one sentence!" Not quite true but close! I guess it must sound like that to foreigners!

CHINESE (MANDARIN)

Not as fluent. Apparently I've got an accent that induces local taxi drivers to think I'm from Taiwan / Shanghai…

JAPANESE

Enough to survive if I get hopelessly lost in Japan & more importantly, stave off starvation in a restaurant… 

 

EDUCATION…OR LACK THEREOF

1st degree in Mathematics at York University, Toronto, Canada eons ago...barely remember what it was like to be 17 & in university…arrgh! getting old!

2nd one in Finance with the University of London…

However, for someone with all that mathematical background, can I count??? NO! I yell for the calculator when I run out of fingers & toes… 

 

MARITAL STATUS

Single girl!  Yeah!

 

AGE

Sagittarius, born year of the horse…go figure it out!

(hint - same year as Suzuki Honami)

 

HOBBIES / INTERESTS

Traveling, especially to Japan & around Asia…

Making new friends & meeting up with old ones…

Cooking - NOT! I barely know how to use the microwave oven!

Japanese drama…naaahhh, really??!!    ;-)

 

WHY WRITE SYNOPSES Why not?

OTHER BITS & PIECES…

 I also...

  dislike Karaoke...can't sing to save my life!

  like Takizawa Hideaki...cute kid!

  detest singers that sound like they're on helium...& I thought only mice squeaked!

  adore Celine Dion...when her music isn't played to death...

  can't stand 'durian'...major nasal sensory overload!

  love sushi...yumm!

  hate shopping...yeah, so among other things, I'm abnormal too   ;-p

 

 

OK, that's more than enough to satisfy anyone's curiosity!!!