“Mayday, mayday, urgent assistance needed! Mayday. Can anybody hear me?” Only a static grumble. Again. Not a single solitary person has heard my call. I grab for the receiver again, my finger poised to press to the ‘Execute’ button. “This is Omega-JLPT, hearing you loud and clear. Do you copy?” Finally! A response. I hit [...]
One additional year of study. Three months of intense revision. Countless early starts. Frantic days of worry. A miasma of guilty feelings. Endless late nights. One suppressed social life. This is: Japanese Language Proficiency Test 2009. As you all know, the build up to December 6th 2009 had been traumatic to say the least. When [...]
The morning is quiet. A slight haze blurs the otherwise radiant sunshine of the beautiful, crisp morning. Cows chew the cud merrily in a field, a cat lazily licks its fur clean. The odd car can be heard trundling by in the distance. Everything is quiet. Everything is peaceful. Everything is serene. Pleasant at first, [...]