“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” ~by Og Mandino

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Nice to meet you, Shinohara san...さようなら!

A little bit special from those in the past, we did the farewell for Shinohara san at RedBox, Tebrau this time. Well, may be we all like singing. Or may be we all wanted to have something more fun and more stimulating. Or anything will do as long as not just sitting round the table and chit-chatting with others while having the farewell dinner for Shinohara san. It’s too formal and serious. It’s boring, however. We all do like karaoke, don’t we? That’s the point. So, we finally decided to go for karaoke last night.

James was the one who proposed RedBox and he strongly insisted on his suggestion – I knew it from my other fellows. However, he was the one who left earlier, much earlier than everyone could expect, as if he didn’t really like the place. To be honest, he seemed to be there merely to settle his dinner, and some more with his laptop switched on all the time on the table when he was with us. Oh man, come on. Can’t you just dump your works away and fully enjoy the time with us? Your boss won’t pay you for overtime. Anyhow, none of us wanted to argue with him, nor for a single bit. He is kind of stubborn; therefore, we rather choose to give up on him, else it would turn out as a waste of our time.

We quickly picked up our favorite songs from the list and queue up for our turn to sing. Sometimes, we sang together. It was exciting!! Sandy and Niko show different sounds when they sing. Is this always true that the way everyone speaks is different from he/she sing?

Their voices are very sweet to hear, and even full of sensation. I like to hear they sing. Low is good in singing, as well as Shinohara san. It’s not flattering but true. How about me? Hmm… It’s a good question. But, I can't answer you anyway. Hee hee~


I remember that Shinohara san did ask me a question last night, he said,” Jenny san, do you like singing?” I told him exhilaratingly,” I like shouting.” Everyone laughed after getting my answer. Well, it’s true. I mean that. I have once mentioned about this in one of my previous posts as well. Shouting is like a way to free my soul from the breathless depress. I feel myself regain the power spiritually after several exhausted shouts. Haa~ It sounds crazy, isn’t? All in all, it's enjoying.


Left to right: Girlish Jen, glamour Niko & sweety Dee Dee...

Tell you a little secret, Shinohara san was almost burst into tears when close to the end of the session. His eyes were getting wet. We all knew that he was struggling hard to resist the sadness for leaving. After all, he has lots of joyful and nice memories come over these three years that he stays in Malaysia. But, no matter how, he has to leave here and go back to his hometown – Japan on next coming Tuesday. It always makes people exciting when think about going back to hometown but on the other side, it is sad too as you are going to leave your friends soon.

Oh well, it's easy. Shinohara san, you can always come back and pay us a visit anytime you want. Somehow, Japan is not too far from Malaysia, it only takes about five to six hours flight I guess. Not as far as UK, anyway. *wink*



So, good luck to you and have a safe journey home. Cheers!! (^^)

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