I never ever imagine...that I would sit inside a class..hearing all the different accents of different speakers..watching videos and analysing what they are saying..closing my eyes to focus..main points..ideas..and remembering all the things that the speaker said..

But when I stop imagine..and was really in it..yes..it was fun...it's a challenge to myself..but..it's really taxing on the brain to do so many difficult multi task at a time..

It's difficult..really difficult..4 consecutive days of using the brain for more than 12 hours..esp at night when the brain is being drained from work earlier..you got to listen..you got to analyse..you got to construct what the speaker is saying..catch the main ideas..listen to the accent to guess what the speech is talking about..memorising the statistics..numbers..year..percentage..in a 3 minutes speech..immediately retell the whole speech without jotting down any notes..presenting in front of the class just like what a translator to do..you got to overcome your fear..and while memorising..you got to translate it into the vice versa language and speak it out from your mouth..and taking note how much time the speakerhad spoke..without looking at the clock..notion of time..you got to guess...you got to deverbalise..you need to be like a swan..beautiful outside but nervous inside..you need to imporve on your background knowledge on every topic every news and everything..

yes..this is what i did for 4 consecutive nights..as a interpreter..translating what a person had said on the spot..it's all about communication..and the worst thing is..u need to be extrovert to be a good translator..to absorb energy from the crowd and not to be alone to feel energised..to be a somebody than a nobody..you are there to translate..not an extra person..active listening..

I finally knew how come so few people took up translation..bcos this is the most difficult part..paper translation? it's over! easy stuff is over..now is the big challenge..actually..I have never regretted taking up translation instead of Chinese for my degree..at least I learn sth new..at least I knew alot of stuff that others don't..

but sometimes..I am really really angry with myself that I couldn't join others for outing..they eat big meals..and I gotta eat bun for 4 consecutive dinner..I hadn't been home for dinner this whole week..I don't like that feeling..how come people can skip lecture and go elsewhere to play and their result is still so good..why do I need to put so much effort th e study this thing? i can go for dinner with my friends..smile..and enjoy a wonderful night..yet i'm sitting in a class draining my brain away..

and just bcos i'm angry with myself..I really wanted to go for the dinner very much..I had that thought...jaja had car accident that very night..it wasn't his fault..it's the 21 year old young girl who was coming back from New York for her school holiday..think she is not used to the left right direction and she suddenly turn from left to right..it's a down slope..jaja could not stop immediately and he flew..a few metres away...roll...and lied on the road for a few minutes..it's painful..after that he got up..blur blur and took out my new camera from his bag and took photos of his bike and the car..he called his friend for help..and after that called me and said he had an accident..i just said "orh"..den he told me the whole thing...the girl wrote down on paper that it's her fault and will pay for all expenses and all sign on it..

next day he took mc..the doc found scratches on the left shoulder and bruises on the right knee...after flying a few metres..he's still safe and sound..he was so lucky...firstly..he's in full armour..full masked head..gloves..jacket...and a soft cushion bag at the back..secondly..it's a small road..no cars pass by during the accident and he didn't knock into any other cars when he fly..thridly..he knew how to roll and minimise the impact of sliding on the floor...

when he told me he become flying jaja...both hands stretch out like a superman..whew....i can still laugh..and he can still laugh at it..when it's really so dangerous..but i dono y i'm not gan chiong at all..

but...if that day i went for the dinner..he would not have met the accident..cos he will not travel on that small road..or if he come and meet me after my lesson for supper..if i'm on the bike things will be different..if i hadn't been so sad that i can't go for the dinner and ate supper with him instead..but there isn't any ifs in life..happen means happen..

end up..he's still settling the insurance claim..cos end up the girl ask a nobody to come and talk to jaja..and said both party at fault..pay half half..if don agree end up claim third party insurance very ma fan..blah blah..jaja kana scared by him and think for a while..if he lose the case he will have to pay for the car damages...so he asked a lawyer recommended by his bike shop..the lawyer said from verbal statement..jaja won 80% already..when he saw the statement and analyse the whole thing..95% sure win de..den he don care..just claim taxi fare..then it's the other party turn to be scared..end up they say 60-40 ok? 70-30 ok? blah blah..jaja all say no no no..let them claim third party insurance and pay for everything lo..the girl dono how to settle the problem herself..house at lorong ong lai..open company de..this kind of money still want to save..still ask her parent to go and settle..if cannot bear the responsibility then don let her drive la..

aiya..dono la..anyway..as long as he's fine ok le..he's really lucky lo..think i ask him do more good deed is good de..积德..

anyway...tired le..just now memorise the skit for CNY until head big..this week head really very big..i think white hair grow alot..back pain somemore..go and sleep loh!哦！关我屁事咯！