Few Celebrations

Today, Japan Club held a New Year celebration. 10 days too late isn’t it? Aren’t Japanese supposed to be always on time? Perhaps they have been staying in Malaysia long enough to have had been infected by one or two local viruses. Anyway, lucky for me. My class today had been cancelled, so I could attend this event. [...]

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J-Drama : Hachi One Diver

イダズワイカ Suzz helped me to spell “idazuwaika” in Katakana How can I make my Japanese name official? Anyway, she also informed me of a Japanese Drama based on Shogi. It was Hachi-One Diver. Hachi-One or 81, represents the number of squares in Shogi, or Japanese Chess. A bit like a chess board, it is square [...]

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Japanese Language Festival, Go Event

The Japanese Language festival in UM was fun. I was not involved in all events, only Go, where I played the role of instructors to few groups of students. I arrived in UM as early as 8:30 a.m. Was quite sleepy as I only slept at 3 a.m. the night before, after watching midnight movie DarkKnight [...]

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New goal, JLPT !

I remember telling a German friend, that all I wanted was to represent Malaysia in WAGC once and then I could quit playing Go. But getting ranked at 46th sucks too much to be the ending of my Go career. Besides, it’s actually impossible for me to quit at this time because I am already [...]

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Back from WAGC, Tokyo

My performance in recent World Amateur Go Championship in Tokyo was laughworthy. I did so bad by winning only three games out of eight, hence placing Malaysia at 46th out of about 70. For comparison, Malaysia usually is in the top 30. If I could give excuses, I would say I lost focus on the [...]

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