sunday japanese class with masa-san

we received overwhelming response for our sunday japanese class last week!

if you're interested in joining us this sunday, please RSVP at shini[at]casualpoet.com. if you were with us last week, drop us an email as well to let us know you're coming!

this week's lesson with masa-san will be on Katakana.

remember to bring writing material and, if you have one, a voice recorder. this will be very helpful for your revision!

see you on sunday :)

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Sunday Japanese Class with Masa-san
Date: Sunday / 5, 12, 19, 26, 2, 9 July, 2009 (once a week)
Time: 5:10PM - 6:30PM (80 minutes)
Entrance fee: $20 per session (with one free drink & light snacks)

RSVP at shini[at]casualpoet.com !

one question at a time

how ambitious are you about life?

(are you satisfied with the usual things - a good-paying job, a family, a nice house - or are you forever restless? do you aspire to be a millionaire, or to conquer a mountain, or to be the head of your organization, or to be world-famous?)

ps:
sorry for the lack of updates, i have been busy with work and life. swimming, running, reading, meeting people, learning....everyday! and of course, washing dishes in the store. haha!

casual poet classroom: sunday japanese class with masa-san

from this sunday, 5 july onwards, you may now spend your late sunday afternoons lazing in our store, drinking tea, and learning the basics of japanese with the very lovely masa-san, our friend from tokyo, and at the same time make some new friends ;)

masa-san's sunday japanese class will last for a total of 6 days - one class every sunday. you may join and drop out anytime. the entrance fee can paid at the door on the day itself.

if you're attending any of the classes, please drop us an email at shini[at]casualpoet.com beforehand to let us know, so we know how many people to expect :)

(if you've always wanted to start learning japanese, this is your chance - and of course, this will be quite the opposite from your usual japanese language class - you can expect it to be a casual, relaxed and comfortable experience!)

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A Brief Class Outline

Week 1: Hiragana and greetings

Week 2: Katakana and very basic words

Week 3: Numbers, calculations & purchases

Week 4: Eating at a Japanese restaurant

Week 5: Travelling in Tokyo

Week 6: Akihabara culture + Movie Screening

* 3-5 pages of worksheets will be given out for practice and reference
* please bring writing material
* the outline is just a brief guide; masa-san might add/modify the contents as he wish

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sunday japanese class with masa-san

Date: Sunday / 5, 12, 19, 26, 2, 9 July, 2009 (once a week)
Time: 5:10PM - 6:30PM (80 minutes)
Entrance fee: $20 per session (with one free drink & light snacks)
*please RSVP to shini[at]casualpoet.com (this is important so we know how much food to prepare)

SEE you all on sunday! :)

* for the facebook event page, click here.

happy surfing

my favourite picture of the day:



that...is being genuinely carefree.

* picture by paper sky, japanese travel magazine

Tony Takitani next week

there won't be a movie night today, but it'll be back next monday (6/7), where we'll be playing Tony Takitani after 8pm, the great film adaptation of the Haruki Murakami short story of the same title.

come join us!

I don't wanna be the one that's left behind

can't stop listening to Neil Halstead. his music is soft-as-cotton, and always reminds me of days riding through green fields that go on endlessly.

you may listen to some of his music here. his CDs will soon be available in our store ;)

one question at a time

i have a question for you: have you always wanted to tell someone something from the bottom of your heart, but never had the courage to? (there're always so many heartfelt things we want to say to so many people - be it to our parents or our lovers or the people we have a crush on, but we almost never say them, simply because we're too afraid)

for me, what i'd like to say to you is, i care so damn much for you (but of course i'd never tell you that).

just chill

beer, conversation, good company, rock music, jazz music, movies......everything comes together on the weekend. from this week onwards, buy 2 beers & get 1 free every friday + saturday! come and join us!

mail from delhi

last week, i received a package from india.

it was from heather.



heather is the owner of the backpackers' hostel (the wonderful Eight Elephants) i stayed at in taipei. she is young, beautiful, smart & free-spirited. after graduating from university in taiwan, she went travelling alone for a year, before returning to taiwan to start the hostel (which has been voted top hostel in taiwan by the way!).

one night, in the hostel, she told me about her plans to go to india.



and of course she did.

* the above 2 photos are by heather

the karung guni project @ casual poet

i have always wanted to be a karung guni, to be going around, collecting other people's old clothes, old furniture, old magazines, driving around in my lorry, blasting out some good old rocking Beatles.

on 18 + 19 July, my dream will be coming true (sort of). we'll be holding the karung guni project, where we've invited some of our friends to set up shop in our little store, selling their old, used, 2nd-hand stuff. you may expect to find old design magazines, old notebooks, old cameras, old utensils, 2nd-hand CDs/DVDs/books....... and the list goes on!

with the garung guni project, we hope to breathe new life into these old, forgotten things.

we also encourage barter trading. if you have in your possession any wonderful, charming old stuff, please bring them along and try to exchange them in return for the used goods on sale!

please note, we will not be providing plastic bags that weekend, so please bring your own shopping bags!

oh, and of course we will play some good, old-school music. :)

PS: be warned, the karung guni project features strictly only old, used, 2nd-hand stuff! please know what you're getting into :)


the karung guni project #1

Date: Sat + Sun, 18 + 19 July 2009
Time: 12PM - 6PM
Venue: Casual Poet

* note: the rooftop will be open for dining after 6PM


for any enquiries, or you have some really fantastic old stuff to sell, drop us an email at shini[at]casualpoet.com with more info and we'd love to have you join us!

posters

two nice jack johnson related posters.

one question at a time

i'd love to find out what your occupation is, and whether you like/love your job.

(and, of course, as a footnote, whether you are gay. haha!)

stoked

looking at these beautiful surfing photographs and listening to zee avi......and dreaming of riding those waves....... (doesn't matter that i probably can't stand up on the surfboard for more than three five seconds in reality)

PS: if we organize a casual poet travellers' club, will anyone join? (that means, we go travelling together, drink alot of beer together, maybe get to know each other a little better, etc)

* photo credit goes to the wonderful http://surfmusic.blogsome.com

perhaps we're shifting

shopkeeper R's new personal (hmm?) blog, here.

one question at a time

my 2nd question:

are you secretly in love with someone now?

PS: i am not secretly in love with anyone now. (not really) maybe i am, i don't know.

leaving this mono city

i don't know where to hide in this city, so i go away

* photos by someone whose work i really admire

Before Sunrise

for next monday's movie night, we'll be screening Before Sunrise, one of my favourite films ever.

we'll start the screening at 8pm, so come join us!

on the verge of exploding

i used to take alot of photographs, because i was intensely, intensely in love with photography. and then life got busier and i stopped doing much of that (because i was always spending time on doing something that would directly benefit my work; in other words, i am a serious workaholic).

and then once in a while, i would get reminded.




i would start to remember how my heart always used to be on the verge of exploding.

(these beautiful, amazing photographs by RJ Shaughnessy, thanks to the experience gallery blog.)

one question at a time

i love asking questions about other people's lives (but i don't particularly like people asking questions about me & my life - haha!)

so anyway, here's my question of the day: are you happy with how life has turned out (so far)?

thank you, CAFE/BAR/STORE

sometimes i fall in love with a place like they're a real person.









DAMN AWESOME.

details:
thank you, cafe/bar/store
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电话：592-2082-609

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