Thursday, July 03, 2008

Ivan's Birthday + SL kakis + Sign language lesson 1 = Happy!

Sorry for MIA for the whole month. I have been busy with a lot of things and I do not know what to blog. Celebrated Ivan's birthday last month and it was fun! We have chalet at Pasir Ris and some BBQ activities. Ivan was very happy when he saw his gifts. Esther gave him a PSP slim blue colour on his birthday!!!(My favourite!!) and Ivan was touched that he kissed Esther for the first time in front of us. Woo!!! Strangely enough, all the girls in the chalet said I became prettier -_-" I don't know is that a compliment? Cos I don't know how to take compliments very well. They even showed me my latest picture taken a few months ago compared to the current picture, and said that I have changed a lot. We sabotage Ivan with a party spray. He was covered in webs of spray!!! Hahaha! But his reaction was very funny though. Made all of us laugh.

Met a few more SL kakis in RL-cum-SL gathering. Finally get to see some new friends in RL. Now I can see who is controlling which Avatar behind the screens. Some guys are soooo handsome! But have tattoos all over their body -_-" There is a guy who look almost alike with BaoBei!!! I almost grab his arm on one point because of the similarities! He was holding the door for us to go out and because I only seen his BACK view, I thought he was BaoBei! I almost grab his arm but something tells me that he is not BaoBei(women's sense) and I hesitate to grab his arm. Later when the guy turned around, I was relieved! I thought to myself,"Heng ah! Almost hold the wrong guy's hand!" When I told this to BaoBei, he said,"Wah! Got new boyfriend is it?!" Went for supper later and we sat into two separate groups. I really hate that! Cos cannot mingle much. But then I like the topic of my group. Talk about news and RL issues while the other table was talking only about SL issues.

June went by very fast and in a blink of the eye, it's now July. One month never blog. I think this time, no one reads my blog le. Hahaha! Lorraine help me to sign up for sign language class and I had miss the orientation! KNS! How do I know? Cos when I step into the class, I notice that majority of them already have worksheets and I don't. Plus, the guy beside me, has a set of worksheet that is very different from mine. His worksheet sign language seems more harder than mine. The thing I don't understand is, there 2 girls in my class, their sign already reach level 5. Which means they can sign quite well in memory without looking at the stupid paper. But somehow they re-study level 1(The level I am at now) I wonder why. I saw the Pastor who interprets what the teacher is talking about. She seems very serious. There's also a guy, Level 6 student, there to help the teacher to translate(Interpret) what she is signing about. The teacher told us to give ourselves a "sign name". A special short-cut name for everyone to remember and to sign easier. The thing is, she wants us to think of our hobbies and use that as our sign name! I don't know how to sign my hobby! Maybe next week, I will sign my initial name "JL" which stands for JulietLi. I am still struggling to learn my ABCs in sign language cos some signs are similar that I always got them mix up. Either that, or some alphabets I forgot how to sign. Lorraine said if I master that sign language, she ask me to consider to join the "talking hands ministry". A ministry that preach to the Mute-and-deaf. You have to stand in front of the stage directly opposite Pastor, to interpret what Pastor is saying, to those people. Sorry, I do not have that kind of confidence. Neither do I have a strong sign language background to do that. To interprets, you have to know how to sign what the pastor is saying. The thing I hate about sign language is finger-spelling. You spell the word out with your fingers. It takes a long time to get the word out for me and since I am already struggling with my ABCs, it's very difficult for me to spell-sign.

Part of me wanted to look for Royston to teach me but then, I really hate him to the core. He is the only one who is willing to teach me. But...I lost his contact and don't wish to contact him a few years back because of something that he said. He also gives me the creeps. One of my ex-boyfriend who know about him, wanted to bash him up badly. He is the kind of guy everyone loves to hate. He is a few years younger than me but I don't know how, rumours got spread around that he is trying to woo me back then and that is why my ex-boyfriend got upset! I saw him at MRT once and we happen to be in the same cabin! I refuse to greet him. At that time, he seems to have lost a lot of weight and his countenance was very bad. I had not seen him since but I know he lives near my place(unless he moved)

Now there are still interpretors there to help us. But lesson 5 onwards, there will not be interpretors there and we have to understand directly what she is signing about. She signs very fast!!! I will end here for now. Will blog again some other time.

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