It's been such a long time since I actually stepped foot into this website. Like what, two years? Yeah, that's probably about it.
For the past year I've been restraining myself from positing on Facebook and ended up saying the most insignificant little things all on twitter. I feel that it made my Facebook page a lot more positive and clean, but well, twitter's you know... it's twitter!! Ahahahahaha.
I don't really have much to say, I guess...???
2015 was another eventful year for me as I entered Year 12, well-known here for being a year of doom, a.k.a. university entrance preparation year.
Well, to be short one studies so hard their brain pops out and yet might still not have a seat in their university of choice. Oh, the competitiveness.
Other than studying it's a year of touring around taking university entrance exams.
Here in Thailand we have two major entrance systems: university-held direct admission and public admission. I won't go into details. Why? 'Cause it's a pain.
I've been using up a lot of the family's finances this year, traveling down to Bangkok and taking some exams that were only held there.
I also took the IELTS, and received an overall score of 8 (out of 9). To tell you the truth for a moment there I was quite scared about the outcome, haha. I don't even know why when I speak English like it's my first language anyway... well okay, the test fees definitely made it about five times more scary than it should be!!
I also took the exam for the Japanese Government Scholarship, a.k.a. Monbukagakusho (MEXT) for Undergraduates.
I was pretty surprised when I passed the written exam.
I was also pretty surprised when I passed the interview.
I became 1 of the 19 candidates whose names were sent to the Ministry of Education (abbreviated) of Japan for the "final selection". The final selection is when the Ministry of Education (abbreviated) selects students from all around the world to become an "applicant" for the scholarship.
By the way, this scholarship is godly. It's a free scholarship (means you don't have to pay back) and you get a monthly pay for daily necessities. Like, you can live off the scholarship money alone.
Well, unfortunately I didn't pass the final selection but that's that. A lot of people I met at the scholarship briefing after the interview results came out also didn't make it so I didn't feel too bad, ahahahaha.
Other than that what made me really happy was passing the JLPTs. In Thailand it's held twice a year, once in June and once in December.
In December of 2014, I took the N5 and passed that. The score wasn't that great, but it was still at a satisfactory point I guess. Then in June 2015, I took the N4. I passed that, too, although my score was really too close to failing for comfort.
Just in early December a few weeks ago, although I knew that with my N4 score like that it would be near impossible to pass N3 right off the bat, I took the N3 exam anyway.... and still waiting for the results.
Right now I'm waiting for a lot of results, actually. A lot of which would decide if I'll be able to get a seat in my university of choice, haha.....
Also, I might as well add that I'd decided to pursue a career in Political Science, International Affairs (International Relations) or, as a second choice, (International) Economics.
...and here I thought I didn't really have much to say. Anyway, it was just me rambling on and on...
Well, now that I'm here I might as well add that in early 2015 I became acquainted with Thailand's branch(es) of the Kinokuniya Book Store...
And I fell in love.
I immediately became a regular customer.
I now read the
---Hana to Yume (formerly serialized Fruits Basket, Gakuen Alice, Special A, etc... Currently serializing Akatsuki no Yona, Skip Beat!, Kamisama Hajimemashita, Oresama Teacher etc...) and
--Lala (formerly serialized Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Kanata Kara, Vampire Knight, Ouran High School Host Club, etc... Currently serializing Akagami no Shirayukihime, Natsume Yuujinchou, Last Game, etc...)
magazines periodically as they arrive in Thailand every bi-weekly/monthly respectively and I also collect Japanese volumes of some of my most favourite mangas (that'd be Akatsuki no Yona and Akagami no Shirayukihime, FYI) even though they cost about 4 times more than the Thai versions...
Well, the quality of the manga volumes are definitely better in the Japanese version than the Thai version though, and somehow, I just can't hold back~~~~
Well, of course a lot of other things happened in 2014 and 2015 but just that these are the most that I can remember from the top of my head at the moment and I'm getting kinda tired and I can no longer bothered to type anymore so let's just stop here.
Adios,
Mahou Mage.
For the past year I've been restraining myself from positing on Facebook and ended up saying the most insignificant little things all on twitter. I feel that it made my Facebook page a lot more positive and clean, but well, twitter's you know... it's twitter!! Ahahahahaha.
I don't really have much to say, I guess...???
2015 was another eventful year for me as I entered Year 12, well-known here for being a year of doom, a.k.a. university entrance preparation year.
Well, to be short one studies so hard their brain pops out and yet might still not have a seat in their university of choice. Oh, the competitiveness.
Other than studying it's a year of touring around taking university entrance exams.
Here in Thailand we have two major entrance systems: university-held direct admission and public admission. I won't go into details. Why? 'Cause it's a pain.
I've been using up a lot of the family's finances this year, traveling down to Bangkok and taking some exams that were only held there.
I also took the IELTS, and received an overall score of 8 (out of 9). To tell you the truth for a moment there I was quite scared about the outcome, haha. I don't even know why when I speak English like it's my first language anyway... well okay, the test fees definitely made it about five times more scary than it should be!!
I also took the exam for the Japanese Government Scholarship, a.k.a. Monbukagakusho (MEXT) for Undergraduates.
I was pretty surprised when I passed the written exam.
I was also pretty surprised when I passed the interview.
I became 1 of the 19 candidates whose names were sent to the Ministry of Education (abbreviated) of Japan for the "final selection". The final selection is when the Ministry of Education (abbreviated) selects students from all around the world to become an "applicant" for the scholarship.
By the way, this scholarship is godly. It's a free scholarship (means you don't have to pay back) and you get a monthly pay for daily necessities. Like, you can live off the scholarship money alone.
Well, unfortunately I didn't pass the final selection but that's that. A lot of people I met at the scholarship briefing after the interview results came out also didn't make it so I didn't feel too bad, ahahahaha.
Other than that what made me really happy was passing the JLPTs. In Thailand it's held twice a year, once in June and once in December.
In December of 2014, I took the N5 and passed that. The score wasn't that great, but it was still at a satisfactory point I guess. Then in June 2015, I took the N4. I passed that, too, although my score was really too close to failing for comfort.
Just in early December a few weeks ago, although I knew that with my N4 score like that it would be near impossible to pass N3 right off the bat, I took the N3 exam anyway.... and still waiting for the results.
Right now I'm waiting for a lot of results, actually. A lot of which would decide if I'll be able to get a seat in my university of choice, haha.....
Also, I might as well add that I'd decided to pursue a career in Political Science, International Affairs (International Relations) or, as a second choice, (International) Economics.
...and here I thought I didn't really have much to say. Anyway, it was just me rambling on and on...
Well, now that I'm here I might as well add that in early 2015 I became acquainted with Thailand's branch(es) of the Kinokuniya Book Store...
And I fell in love.
I immediately became a regular customer.
I now read the
---Hana to Yume (formerly serialized Fruits Basket, Gakuen Alice, Special A, etc... Currently serializing Akatsuki no Yona, Skip Beat!, Kamisama Hajimemashita, Oresama Teacher etc...) and
--Lala (formerly serialized Kaichou wa Maid-sama!, Kanata Kara, Vampire Knight, Ouran High School Host Club, etc... Currently serializing Akagami no Shirayukihime, Natsume Yuujinchou, Last Game, etc...)
magazines periodically as they arrive in Thailand every bi-weekly/monthly respectively and I also collect Japanese volumes of some of my most favourite mangas (that'd be Akatsuki no Yona and Akagami no Shirayukihime, FYI) even though they cost about 4 times more than the Thai versions...
Well, the quality of the manga volumes are definitely better in the Japanese version than the Thai version though, and somehow, I just can't hold back~~~~
Well, of course a lot of other things happened in 2014 and 2015 but just that these are the most that I can remember from the top of my head at the moment and I'm getting kinda tired and I can no longer bothered to type anymore so let's just stop here.
Adios,
Mahou Mage.
