{"id":128,"date":"2006-05-14T23:09:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/05\/14\/japanese-speech-contest-2006-preliminary\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T17:47:32","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T09:47:32","slug":"japanese-speech-contest-2006-preliminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/05\/14\/japanese-speech-contest-2006-preliminary\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Speech Contest 2006 Preliminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I missed the notice sent three days ago by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jas.org.sg\/JAS\/index.aspx\">Japanese Association, Singapore<\/a> informing me that I qualified for the semi-finals of the Japanese Speech Contest 2006, which was determined based on an original script submitted sometime ago.<\/p>\n<p>Woohoo, now I just have to send in a recording of myself and soon I&#8217;ll be on my way to winning another DVD player&#8230; If you want to take a look at my script, read 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