No the post is not about scary things at all. More about the fact that with one letter is a nice phrase. The title actually came from a J-Drama I watched for the sole purpose if it involving Hegei and different levels of polite speech. Basically the character was supposed to say 'Please enjoy the flight" and they mess it up thus causing hilarity.
I giggled. I'll admit that.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
By Popular Demand
Why, hello all! If I have been asked any one thing consistently by people, that's not 'How's Japan', it's 'What's your room like?" or something like that. So by popular demand, and now that I kinda have a camera here's my room
Thursday, October 21, 2010
1=1000
I was gonna post a long rant, but I am tired and still have homework and stuff for tomorrow. So here's what the basis of the post was gonna be : blisters = pain. I've had so many, I no longer feel them. Allow me to demonstrate.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
"Om nom nom nom" - Cookie Monster
It occurred to me today that is the first time in my life that I actually have to look after myself. I've lived away from home but never on my own before. To anyone who has ever just upped and moved away from home, I applaud you. If I'd done this my first year away, heaven knows what would have happened. I think I would have survived but not as well. But I do enjoy my own bathroom. I also do not mind cooking for myself. But I wish I could understand all the ingredients and instructions on the labels.
Friday, October 8, 2010
Abyss
I like to think that I always have something to talk about. And I suppose I do, I just don't feel like subjugating those who take it upon themselves to be entertained by survival attempts to irrelevant childish banter. As such I have abstained from ranting on this blog every chance I get. I don't consider the content by any means to be 'articles' or 'thought out', but I refuse to submit to the view that a 'blog' should be random drivel. That said there's is a lot I could rant about now but I won't. Yet. I have to save some things for later (not that I believe I will run out of things to talk about while being 3/4, or 1/4, ways around the world).
Monday, October 4, 2010
Dance Dance
Smiling and nodding can get you really far in a foreign country. But be sure to know what you are agreeing to. Tonight, I got to go see Japanese Traditional Dance. It was really really cool. But I had no idea where I was going when I met up with the people.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Arrival Part 2
I made it all the way to Yamaguchi University :D yay!
It rained so hard when we arrrived that my luggage got soaked. And of course it rained the day I chose to do laundry >> stupid air drying gonna take forever now (shakes fist at weather).
Thankfully they arranged for students to help the new arrivals to get into their rooms show us how things work (really hard to read power buttons etc when in kanji), and then walk groups of us to the suparmarket. So I know where to buy food and stuffses.
I have devised a system for trying foods from the supermarket. Go to aisle with add water stuff to it. Pick something you haven't tried. Works surprising well. I have ran into some issues when it comes to preparations of foods. I can't read all the fine details on the labels. Thank God I know 入る means to put in and 分 means minutes. That and most instant food still have some form of pictographs on them.
Right now, I think I will stick with attempting to survive the insane amount of rain. Then I will worry about things like cell phones and money transfers from home.
It rained so hard when we arrrived that my luggage got soaked. And of course it rained the day I chose to do laundry >> stupid air drying gonna take forever now (shakes fist at weather).
Thankfully they arranged for students to help the new arrivals to get into their rooms show us how things work (really hard to read power buttons etc when in kanji), and then walk groups of us to the suparmarket. So I know where to buy food and stuffses.
I have devised a system for trying foods from the supermarket. Go to aisle with add water stuff to it. Pick something you haven't tried. Works surprising well. I have ran into some issues when it comes to preparations of foods. I can't read all the fine details on the labels. Thank God I know 入る means to put in and 分 means minutes. That and most instant food still have some form of pictographs on them.
Right now, I think I will stick with attempting to survive the insane amount of rain. Then I will worry about things like cell phones and money transfers from home.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Arrival.... part 1
I am here! officially in and get this immigrated to Japan. That's right, I am immigrated, well I still have to do stuff when I get to Yamaguchi (that is assuming my student visa and college student status counts as immigration). So I'm in the country just not at my final destination.
I have been up since 6:30 am local time Regina, and it is now 6:00 pm local time Tokyo, but I've only been up for 21 hours. This proves time travel is real. In 21 hours I have arrived 35.5 hours from when I began. Awesome. In those 21 hours, I have watched four full length movies, 8 shorts, been in the air for 12 hours. Been given a ton of water (and I'm still thirsty), eaten two breakfasts, three lunches and no suppers (if you count anything consumed and the time it was consumed at locally), I have seen four invisible Japanese fire hydrants, and driven on the wrong side of the road.
There is more I could say, tons more, and who knows, maybe I will come back on later and say more, but right now I desire rest.
Goodnight, (well good morning to most of you Canada people)
I have been up since 6:30 am local time Regina, and it is now 6:00 pm local time Tokyo, but I've only been up for 21 hours. This proves time travel is real. In 21 hours I have arrived 35.5 hours from when I began. Awesome. In those 21 hours, I have watched four full length movies, 8 shorts, been in the air for 12 hours. Been given a ton of water (and I'm still thirsty), eaten two breakfasts, three lunches and no suppers (if you count anything consumed and the time it was consumed at locally), I have seen four invisible Japanese fire hydrants, and driven on the wrong side of the road.
There is more I could say, tons more, and who knows, maybe I will come back on later and say more, but right now I desire rest.
Goodnight, (well good morning to most of you Canada people)
Monday, April 26, 2010
Finals
23 hours and I will be done University for the semester. Barring any failing grades (which I very much doubt I will receive) I will be done University in Canada for over one year.
Wow.
When I think of it like that, it's a big difference. In under six months I will be across the world. I will be living in a new country for the first time in my life, totally immersed in a culture and language foreign to me. Crazy. I find myself thinking more and more about how I different my daily life will be. It's all the little things that have been coming to mind, laundry, internet usage (amount), size of my living space, the useless objects I keep around me for a semblance of home being gone. I also find myself thinking back to my Anthropology class (curses University! making me think everything through analytically), and how we (being the prof) talked about how one can never be a full particpant in another culture as 'culture is the common lens through which we view the world'. Cool bit is I didn't even go searching through my notes to find that quote, yay me!
So I have one more final left to do, and then freedom from school for five ish months. One more final and on to frantic part time job hunting. One more final and onto constant kanji studying and vocabulary learning. One more final and back at home for the summer and helping wedding planning. One more final and I'm in the clear for Japan. One more final.
One more final that I should be studying for right now. But what kind of North American University student would I be if I didn't procrastinate a while? Not a normal one I can say that.
In my defense, it was studying that brought me to blog. You see, I was doing a quick review of Treaties for my history class, enter wikipedia stage left. And then my notes mentioned something about Japanese prefectures, so with wikipedia already open, 'tis a quick search. Well that lead me to wonder about where I would be living next year. Search for Yamaguchi prefecture and open it up. *poof* instant information on my living space for next year. Well, so in the Yamaguchi article there was a link to Ube city, which is my more specific place of residence year. Also there was a small section on a vagabond who is building a something out of scrap stuffs and rope, and I thought we were weird here. Anyway, so I clicked to Ube cities Wikipedia page and low and behold, there were links to both the Japanese official webpage for the city and English official city webpage. I clicked the English one (my Japanese is not that good). And I got this "ご指定のページは見つかりませんでした" and get this: I understood it. Not just in the whole, 'huh, nothing else hear guess it's gone' sense. I actually understood what it said. I feel smart. And so I had to come on here and rant to the world how my studying lead to curiosity which lead to an affirmation that I kinda sorta understand Japanese. Go me!
Wow.
When I think of it like that, it's a big difference. In under six months I will be across the world. I will be living in a new country for the first time in my life, totally immersed in a culture and language foreign to me. Crazy. I find myself thinking more and more about how I different my daily life will be. It's all the little things that have been coming to mind, laundry, internet usage (amount), size of my living space, the useless objects I keep around me for a semblance of home being gone. I also find myself thinking back to my Anthropology class (curses University! making me think everything through analytically), and how we (being the prof) talked about how one can never be a full particpant in another culture as 'culture is the common lens through which we view the world'. Cool bit is I didn't even go searching through my notes to find that quote, yay me!
So I have one more final left to do, and then freedom from school for five ish months. One more final and on to frantic part time job hunting. One more final and onto constant kanji studying and vocabulary learning. One more final and back at home for the summer and helping wedding planning. One more final and I'm in the clear for Japan. One more final.
One more final that I should be studying for right now. But what kind of North American University student would I be if I didn't procrastinate a while? Not a normal one I can say that.
In my defense, it was studying that brought me to blog. You see, I was doing a quick review of Treaties for my history class, enter wikipedia stage left. And then my notes mentioned something about Japanese prefectures, so with wikipedia already open, 'tis a quick search. Well that lead me to wonder about where I would be living next year. Search for Yamaguchi prefecture and open it up. *poof* instant information on my living space for next year. Well, so in the Yamaguchi article there was a link to Ube city, which is my more specific place of residence year. Also there was a small section on a vagabond who is building a something out of scrap stuffs and rope, and I thought we were weird here. Anyway, so I clicked to Ube cities Wikipedia page and low and behold, there were links to both the Japanese official webpage for the city and English official city webpage. I clicked the English one (my Japanese is not that good). And I got this "ご指定のページは見つかりませんでした" and get this: I understood it. Not just in the whole, 'huh, nothing else hear guess it's gone' sense. I actually understood what it said. I feel smart. And so I had to come on here and rant to the world how my studying lead to curiosity which lead to an affirmation that I kinda sorta understand Japanese. Go me!
mores (N) sociology
folkways of central importance accepted without question and embodying the fundamental moral views of a group. (aka morals based on ethnicity or ones culture, actually kinda relevant to my rant for once)
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
World Domination
Next time you are in a Chapters, or an Indigo, or a Coles: go to one of those search computers and type in "How to Take Over the World" (capitals optional) and see what the first thing to come up with.
It is epic!
Btw, the answer is no, I am not going to tell you what comes up, you just have to go do it to see for yourself.
Don't worry, it is awesome, totally worth your time :D
orthography (N)
It is epic!
Btw, the answer is no, I am not going to tell you what comes up, you just have to go do it to see for yourself.
Don't worry, it is awesome, totally worth your time :D
orthography (N)
1. the art of writing words with the proper letters, according to accepted usage; correct spelling.
2. the part of language study concerned with letters and spelling.
3. a method of spelling, as by the use of an alphabet or other system of symbols; spelling.
4. a system of such symbols: Missionaries provided the first orthography for the language.
5. an orthographic projection, or an elevation drawn by means of it.
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