My First New Year in April

by Tan May Ling

Travelling to Thailand is quite common among Malaysians since they are neighbours. So to say, this is not my first time travelling up north to Thailand. I’ve being to Hatyai and Bangkok ever since I was around the age of 4.

Yet, I never had much impression about Thailand, except clothes are cheap, but then again, it isn’t that low price. The last time I drop by at Thailand was when I was still in high school and quite frankly, Thailand wasn’t in my must-invade-list.

During Chinese New Year, my aunt drop by for a visit and out of nowhere, she asked if I’m interested with the Water Festival in Hatyai. Since I’m all into festival/culture kind of thing, I’ve decide to give it a shot and travel up to Hatyai after almost 10 years since my last visit.

 I wasn’t aware of this festival at all, and I don’t even know what’s the festival name but luckily there is always Mr Google by my side and I found out it is called “Songkran Festival” and it usually falls around 11th to 14th of April. Songkran Festival is also well known as the Thai New Year.

Moekanji from Danny Choo

For those interested in learning Japanese (and also a moe fans), Moekanji is finally released! I was tempted to get one for myself, but when I look at the words, I realised I was able to read out 80% of it.

Therefore, in my personal humble opinion (I hope I did not offend anyone), I wouldn't recommend this for those who: 

• took JLPT N5 (Level 4) or,
• completed N5 but have not yet taken the proficiency exam
• but most importantly, if you have no trouble read and/or write them out ( I noticed that most of my friend who learnt Mandarin do not have that hard time learning kanji compare to friends who are a complete stranger to Mandarin.)

Then again, the moe-ness is hard to resist! 

Check it out at the website if you are interested. After all, I do believe memory cards do help when it comes to learning a language, and PORTABLE as well! *if they have a smartphone version for my level, I will consider getting it*

April Fool Prank from Google

As usual, I'm impressed by the Google team again. Nice work!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/31/google-nose-april-fools_n_2990114.html