Originally posted on 4/5/2007
Ok
so I know my week in review for last week is late. I've been really
busy this week. So here is an Asiaphile blog to hold you over.
When
I was a freshman in high school, my school hosted a foreign exchange
program and we received some Japanese student visitors. I forgot how
many though. They stayed with American host families of some of the
student that went to the school. I was so jealous that some kids at my
school got to have a
Real
Japanese person living in their house. So one of the girls in my math
class brought her exchange student to the class one day. For some reason
my school kept the exchange students separate from the regular
students. Anyway when I met the exchange student I told her something
really stupid like "I like Japan!" or "I think Japan is cool!". I can't
remember my exact words but they were somewhere along those lines. I do
remember trying to convince the exchange student about how much I love
Japan and anime. I showed her my binder that had authentic Pokemon
stickers I got from the anime store that even had Japanese writing on
them. I really wanted her to translate them for me. I wanted to know
what my Japanese stickers said so badly that I kept bothering that
student who belonged to that girl in my math class.
I
also tried to impress my cousin's Japanese wife. My mom makes Jell-o
for parties and such, but the Jell-o she makes has whipped cream mixed
in with it so it has a frothy appearance. I wanted her to try it so I
told her it was like pudding, but not the American or British type, the
kind they eat in Japan which is more like flan. My dad was talking to
her and pretending he knew a lot about Japan, but he just looked
foolish. I know for a fact that I know more about Japan than he does.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Week in review- Would I lie to you?
Originally posted on 3/26/2007
TUESDAY:
When I got up in the morning it was all gloomy and I thought it was earlier in the morning. When it started to rain it was raining really hard, but only for a little while. When I saw the rain I yelled the Japanese word for rain, "ame". Which is the only form of weather I know how to say in Japanese. It took me a long time to style my hair because it gets all puffy when it's foggy/gloomy/rainy especially my bangs and side burns. They never stay down. I made half up pigtails and the way I styled it looked really cure and very 80s. It would've looked more 80s if I had achieved the look with combs. I thought I would be "smart" and go and take a later bus which would still get me to school on time, but I was SO wrong. First off it's a driver I don't like because she takes her sweet time driving the route. We're already late to school anyway and then there is an accident and we can't move. I felt optimistic I think "I got 10 minutes. It'll clear up soon." I was so WRONG. The time kept passing, and I was thinking "I can still make it." I sounded like Homer in Lisa the Vegetarian when the pig is flying in the air and Homer says "It's still good! It's still good!". I was waiting for at least a half hour. I listened to all the songs I like off "The Sweet Escape"; "Wind it Up", "The Sweet Escape", "Early Winter", "4 in the Morning", "Fluorescent", "U Started It", and "Wonderful Life". I also listened to "Spiderwebs" to kill time. The bus didn't get moving until about 12:17 PM. I was so late. I'm ashamed of lateness. I just hope I don't have to stand outside the room with a bucket as punishment for being late. After we got moving it was smooth sailing. I was about 15 minutes late. It was hard for me to cross the street because there was a bus behind the bus I had just got off of and they were blocking the crosswalk. So after I cross the street I start running to the building then my shoelace comes undone. To save time I just stuffed it in my shoe. I run up the stairs and make it to the room panting. The teacher greets me in English.
We learned more borrowing words including how to write "beer" and "steak" in romanji, but she said the proper way to write those borrowing words is in Katakana instead. One of the bad things about being late was that I didn't get there early enough to rearrange the desks. That otaku girl was kicking the desk and me! I wasn't there early enough to leave space for her because I know kicks the desk. I think I was at a broken desk. When it was break time I asked the teacher what I had missed in the beginning of class, but she didn't understand again. She thought I wanted to know her policy on tardiness. She said 15 minutes didn't matter because the class is 2 hours. I was really about 20 minutes late, but hey who's counting? I'm not if she's not. I was still a little worried I did miss something important. That otaku girl is still being a show off and showing that she could write "cho" and "sha" in Hiragana. I just looked it up online. When she left the room during break some guys were talking about anime, I'll assume dubs. They were talking about Pokémon, Digimon, Dragon Ball, and Yu-gi-oh! One guy made me feel old because he said that when he was in elementary school Digimon came out. That show came out when I was in 10th grade. All the "mon" cartoons were popularized in America (dubs) when I was in high school starting with Pokemon in 1998 when I was in 9th grade. I wonder what that otaku girl would said about the "mon" cartoons. When this other girl came back into the room she said it was cold in there. I think she is sick or something, she had been sneezing a lot and had a stuffy nose. She told the teacher to make it warmer in there. The teacher said that she didn't know how to work the thermostat, so that girl helped her. It got really hot and stuffy in the room. I wasn't cold because I was still all hot from running to class. Then the teacher complained it was too hot and turned it down. Which I think is funny because she said she's usually really cold and had super cold hands. That otaku guy said she should be warm because she is a mammal and has warm blood. That made me wonder what blood type she is. Then the class go into talking about last names. Because she used last names in the sentences we were writing. She was saying is a popular/common Japanese "family name" or last name as we call it in the US. She was also saying about how people are addressed by their last name in Japan. We really don't do that in the US except for when we are talking about athletes on teams or even professional wrestlers that have or use a last name. She was asking us if we are familiar with the Suzuki name. We were saying about the car company and Ichiro the MLB player. I forget which team he plays on. I want to say the Mariners or the Yankees. I think it's an AL team. It's hard because my dad doesn't really follow the AL he's more of an NL guy. Then I mentioned another famous Suzuki, Kenzo Suzuki who is a wrestler. How could I forget him? He feuded with Cena for the US title and was tag team champions with Rene Dupree. But nobody in the class knew who he is.
WEDNESDAY:
Nothing really interesting happened in class or anything besides me complaining about doing/working on take home group projects. I always get screwed on those and have to do all the work. Also the teacher caught me not reading the chapters in the book.
THURSDAY:
I stayed up late and I was watching the video for "The Sweet Escape". I had never seen the whole video before. It's ok I guess. I've seen better. Compared to "What are you Waiting For?" it's not good. I liked that one better. I did like her hair in the video except for the Rapunzel braids that was dumb. I liked when she had the curled bangs and ponytail. It was like her old look (Tragic Kingdom era). I felt inspired to wear my hair like that, but I didn't have enough time to do that. Plus I needed curlers. My bangs don't curl on their own. I woke up late and my shoulder was hurting. I was almost late to school I got into clipping pictures out of magazines and watching the showcases on The Price is Right. I had to run to catch it. To be safe I took the earlier bus this time. That driver that takes her sweet time was driving, but I didn't care I was early. I did manage to get to school early, but that was good. At least I wasn't still on a bus somewhere.
I still haven't gotten better at my Hiragana, we had a practice test in class. I did badly. We had to translate Hiragana into romanji. The few that I do know she didn't use. She had us write the answers on the board and I got the one I wrote on the board wrong. I only missed it by one character. Then we had to write romanji back into Hiragana. For some reason I did better on that. One of the words we used was "rin'go" one girl in the class thought that word mean "ring". But it doesn't "ringu" is ring, "rin'go" is apple. The only reason I know that is because there is a character named Ringo in Tokyo Mew Mew and all the Mew Mews are named after food and even some of the aliens. Ringo should not be confused with the other Ringo, Ringo Starr. I'm surprised nobody questioned how or why I know that word.
That otaku girl said that she plays a game online to Hiragana, but that she got it from 4chan. Since she admitted to going there that really says something about her personality. Hmmm...what can I really say about 4chan? I've never been to the site, but there are so many other sites that can really sum up what is there. Let's just say I'm not into memes. But probably after this blog is posted I'll get some meme comments from "the anonymous" for even just saying what I just did.
Other people in the class said they play online games to learn Hiragana too. I do too, but I never told anybody that. Well they aren't working that well for me. On a side not that otaku girl reminds me a little of Phoebe from Friends. She always talks about all these different stated she lived in and how bad they were and why she sometimes talks with different American accents/dialects. I have no idea where she is from.
After class I decided to ask my teacher what her blood type is. She told me it's O. I was surprised because it is really not common A is the most common blood type in Japan, but O is in America. We're both type O. I said we as type O are careless, then she started naming all the good qualities of type O blood.
Here are some of my favorite Sailor Moon characters that have the O Blood type Serena/Usagi, Rini/Chibiusa, and Makoto/Lita. I'm not a really big Michiru/Michelle fan, but she's type O too. I wish bloody type personality was more popular in the US. I'd love to know John Cena's and Gwen Stefani's blood type. I use to always send the blood type question to 5 Questions when that show was still around.
I asked her if the Chinese horoscopes are popular in Japan. She said they are along with western horoscopes. Then me and her were trying to remember all the different animals in the Chinese zodiac. She mentioned rooster which is her year, tiger, pig which is my year, dragon, and mouse were all the ones we could think of. She was saying the name for them in Japanese.
I thought she was 26 because she said she was born in the year of the rooster because I know somebody who is born in the year of the rooster and is 26. So then I asked her if it was impolite to ask her what her age was. So she told me to guess and I know I'm not really good at that. I'm usually way off either way. I either go too old or too young. I'll either flatter you or offend you. Depends on what you want to hear anyway. I mean there are 14 year olds who look 25 and 25 year olds who look 14. It really depends on the person. Anyway so back to me and the teacher. I say that I think she's 26 and she's so happy I told her that. Let's just say I mostly don't say things without rhyme or reason. She was so happy I told her that she hugged me. It felt a little strange, but not in a bad way. For the record I think she has a youthful looking face, and I was not sucking up. I hope she thinks that what I said was me being naive.
FRIDAY:
I did some research and she is really 38 depending if her birthday has passed or not. The year of the rooster before 1981 would be 1969. Of course there could be a discrepancy if she was born before the Chinese new year of that year and born in 1970. I don't know her corresponding western horoscope.
TUESDAY:
When I got up in the morning it was all gloomy and I thought it was earlier in the morning. When it started to rain it was raining really hard, but only for a little while. When I saw the rain I yelled the Japanese word for rain, "ame". Which is the only form of weather I know how to say in Japanese. It took me a long time to style my hair because it gets all puffy when it's foggy/gloomy/rainy especially my bangs and side burns. They never stay down. I made half up pigtails and the way I styled it looked really cure and very 80s. It would've looked more 80s if I had achieved the look with combs. I thought I would be "smart" and go and take a later bus which would still get me to school on time, but I was SO wrong. First off it's a driver I don't like because she takes her sweet time driving the route. We're already late to school anyway and then there is an accident and we can't move. I felt optimistic I think "I got 10 minutes. It'll clear up soon." I was so WRONG. The time kept passing, and I was thinking "I can still make it." I sounded like Homer in Lisa the Vegetarian when the pig is flying in the air and Homer says "It's still good! It's still good!". I was waiting for at least a half hour. I listened to all the songs I like off "The Sweet Escape"; "Wind it Up", "The Sweet Escape", "Early Winter", "4 in the Morning", "Fluorescent", "U Started It", and "Wonderful Life". I also listened to "Spiderwebs" to kill time. The bus didn't get moving until about 12:17 PM. I was so late. I'm ashamed of lateness. I just hope I don't have to stand outside the room with a bucket as punishment for being late. After we got moving it was smooth sailing. I was about 15 minutes late. It was hard for me to cross the street because there was a bus behind the bus I had just got off of and they were blocking the crosswalk. So after I cross the street I start running to the building then my shoelace comes undone. To save time I just stuffed it in my shoe. I run up the stairs and make it to the room panting. The teacher greets me in English.
We learned more borrowing words including how to write "beer" and "steak" in romanji, but she said the proper way to write those borrowing words is in Katakana instead. One of the bad things about being late was that I didn't get there early enough to rearrange the desks. That otaku girl was kicking the desk and me! I wasn't there early enough to leave space for her because I know kicks the desk. I think I was at a broken desk. When it was break time I asked the teacher what I had missed in the beginning of class, but she didn't understand again. She thought I wanted to know her policy on tardiness. She said 15 minutes didn't matter because the class is 2 hours. I was really about 20 minutes late, but hey who's counting? I'm not if she's not. I was still a little worried I did miss something important. That otaku girl is still being a show off and showing that she could write "cho" and "sha" in Hiragana. I just looked it up online. When she left the room during break some guys were talking about anime, I'll assume dubs. They were talking about Pokémon, Digimon, Dragon Ball, and Yu-gi-oh! One guy made me feel old because he said that when he was in elementary school Digimon came out. That show came out when I was in 10th grade. All the "mon" cartoons were popularized in America (dubs) when I was in high school starting with Pokemon in 1998 when I was in 9th grade. I wonder what that otaku girl would said about the "mon" cartoons. When this other girl came back into the room she said it was cold in there. I think she is sick or something, she had been sneezing a lot and had a stuffy nose. She told the teacher to make it warmer in there. The teacher said that she didn't know how to work the thermostat, so that girl helped her. It got really hot and stuffy in the room. I wasn't cold because I was still all hot from running to class. Then the teacher complained it was too hot and turned it down. Which I think is funny because she said she's usually really cold and had super cold hands. That otaku guy said she should be warm because she is a mammal and has warm blood. That made me wonder what blood type she is. Then the class go into talking about last names. Because she used last names in the sentences we were writing. She was saying is a popular/common Japanese "family name" or last name as we call it in the US. She was also saying about how people are addressed by their last name in Japan. We really don't do that in the US except for when we are talking about athletes on teams or even professional wrestlers that have or use a last name. She was asking us if we are familiar with the Suzuki name. We were saying about the car company and Ichiro the MLB player. I forget which team he plays on. I want to say the Mariners or the Yankees. I think it's an AL team. It's hard because my dad doesn't really follow the AL he's more of an NL guy. Then I mentioned another famous Suzuki, Kenzo Suzuki who is a wrestler. How could I forget him? He feuded with Cena for the US title and was tag team champions with Rene Dupree. But nobody in the class knew who he is.
WEDNESDAY:
Nothing really interesting happened in class or anything besides me complaining about doing/working on take home group projects. I always get screwed on those and have to do all the work. Also the teacher caught me not reading the chapters in the book.
THURSDAY:
I stayed up late and I was watching the video for "The Sweet Escape". I had never seen the whole video before. It's ok I guess. I've seen better. Compared to "What are you Waiting For?" it's not good. I liked that one better. I did like her hair in the video except for the Rapunzel braids that was dumb. I liked when she had the curled bangs and ponytail. It was like her old look (Tragic Kingdom era). I felt inspired to wear my hair like that, but I didn't have enough time to do that. Plus I needed curlers. My bangs don't curl on their own. I woke up late and my shoulder was hurting. I was almost late to school I got into clipping pictures out of magazines and watching the showcases on The Price is Right. I had to run to catch it. To be safe I took the earlier bus this time. That driver that takes her sweet time was driving, but I didn't care I was early. I did manage to get to school early, but that was good. At least I wasn't still on a bus somewhere.
I still haven't gotten better at my Hiragana, we had a practice test in class. I did badly. We had to translate Hiragana into romanji. The few that I do know she didn't use. She had us write the answers on the board and I got the one I wrote on the board wrong. I only missed it by one character. Then we had to write romanji back into Hiragana. For some reason I did better on that. One of the words we used was "rin'go" one girl in the class thought that word mean "ring". But it doesn't "ringu" is ring, "rin'go" is apple. The only reason I know that is because there is a character named Ringo in Tokyo Mew Mew and all the Mew Mews are named after food and even some of the aliens. Ringo should not be confused with the other Ringo, Ringo Starr. I'm surprised nobody questioned how or why I know that word.
That otaku girl said that she plays a game online to Hiragana, but that she got it from 4chan. Since she admitted to going there that really says something about her personality. Hmmm...what can I really say about 4chan? I've never been to the site, but there are so many other sites that can really sum up what is there. Let's just say I'm not into memes. But probably after this blog is posted I'll get some meme comments from "the anonymous" for even just saying what I just did.
Other people in the class said they play online games to learn Hiragana too. I do too, but I never told anybody that. Well they aren't working that well for me. On a side not that otaku girl reminds me a little of Phoebe from Friends. She always talks about all these different stated she lived in and how bad they were and why she sometimes talks with different American accents/dialects. I have no idea where she is from.
After class I decided to ask my teacher what her blood type is. She told me it's O. I was surprised because it is really not common A is the most common blood type in Japan, but O is in America. We're both type O. I said we as type O are careless, then she started naming all the good qualities of type O blood.
Here are some of my favorite Sailor Moon characters that have the O Blood type Serena/Usagi, Rini/Chibiusa, and Makoto/Lita. I'm not a really big Michiru/Michelle fan, but she's type O too. I wish bloody type personality was more popular in the US. I'd love to know John Cena's and Gwen Stefani's blood type. I use to always send the blood type question to 5 Questions when that show was still around.
I asked her if the Chinese horoscopes are popular in Japan. She said they are along with western horoscopes. Then me and her were trying to remember all the different animals in the Chinese zodiac. She mentioned rooster which is her year, tiger, pig which is my year, dragon, and mouse were all the ones we could think of. She was saying the name for them in Japanese.
I thought she was 26 because she said she was born in the year of the rooster because I know somebody who is born in the year of the rooster and is 26. So then I asked her if it was impolite to ask her what her age was. So she told me to guess and I know I'm not really good at that. I'm usually way off either way. I either go too old or too young. I'll either flatter you or offend you. Depends on what you want to hear anyway. I mean there are 14 year olds who look 25 and 25 year olds who look 14. It really depends on the person. Anyway so back to me and the teacher. I say that I think she's 26 and she's so happy I told her that. Let's just say I mostly don't say things without rhyme or reason. She was so happy I told her that she hugged me. It felt a little strange, but not in a bad way. For the record I think she has a youthful looking face, and I was not sucking up. I hope she thinks that what I said was me being naive.
FRIDAY:
I did some research and she is really 38 depending if her birthday has passed or not. The year of the rooster before 1981 would be 1969. Of course there could be a discrepancy if she was born before the Chinese new year of that year and born in 1970. I don't know her corresponding western horoscope.
Week in Review- Can you say "Suck up" in Japanese?
Originally posted on 3/20/2007
TuESdaY:
Since I gut my hair short, well short for me I decided to wear my hair in pigtails to disguise the shortness of my hair. I was feeling a little self-conscious about wearing curled pigtails to school since they look a little childish. I think they look totally cute. A lot of my favorite characters wear pigtails; Punky Brewster, Gosylan, Angelica, Stella from the Winx Club, Chatta, and Sailor Moon.
When I got to class there were these 2 guys talking about St. Patrick's day. The one guy tells the other guy that he thinks it's St. Patrick's day because he saw somebody all dressed up. So the other guy replies that it is not and that he is not wearing any green, and that if the other guy pinched him he would kick his ass. Then I chimed in and said it's on Saturday.
I'm upset because that otaku girl was sitting behind me again. It's annoying! She's always boasting about how much she knows, and she kicks the desk a lot. She acts like she's so smart because she "teaches herself" Japanese. I'm not a really big fan of self teaching for complicated subjects like math and foreign languages. I think it's easier for more artsy things like drawing, singing, and music among other things. I taught myself how to draw, but later took classes to get better. She was explaining the difference between Hiragana and Katakana and how and why the languages were developed.
The teacher wanted to know how our Hiragana was going. I said I could recognize like 4 characters, but I can write a lot more than I can recognize. The teacher was wearing a thin grey shirt and you could see she was really wet in the armpits. It looked really gross. I like the way my teacher dresses aside from that armpit thing.
During the break I needed help with the vocabulary words she wrote on the board in Hiragana, but I couldn't read them because she had a broken marker and she wrote them really really small. So I asked her if I wrote the vocabulary words right. But she didn't understand what I was trying to say. She thought I needed help on my Hiragana. Which I do, but I didn't come to her about that.
Towards the end of the class the marker was really dieing, and even she was getting frustrated. From what I've seen of her before she seems like a pretty cool (calm) person. Then she started cursing in Japanese. The whole class thought it was funny. We wanted to know what she said, but she wouldn't tell us. All she said was that is was curse words.
At the end of class that otaku guy said good bye to the teacher in a fancy way, and everybody else was upset. He is such a suck up and he admitted to it. He said he dresses in shirts and slacks to impress people. I really don't think you have to dress nice to impress people. You should impress them with your talent/skills. That just goes back to school uniform mentality.
WeDnEsDaY:
During the break that my class gets. I had to go to the bathroom badly. Since I am new to the school I did not know where the closest one was in relation to my class. I wandered around campus looking for one. As I was doing this I happened to pass by the club rush booths. I wasn't very interested in them since I was more interested in finding a bathroom. After I found one I decided to look at all the flyers and stuff about the clubs. There was this, I guess you could call it a booklet with a list of all the active clubs. I went back to class and read it over. There were a few clubs that interested me. I saw that the anime club was inactive, but I didn't really care.
I was stuck on a super crowded bus coming home. The thing that sucked about that bus ride was that the bus stayed crowded through the whole ride. It never thinned out. While I was riding on the bus I got hit in the arm and side with this lady's overstuffed and hard shopping bags. My arm that got hit was hurting all night.
ThUrsDay:
I woke up late like at 9 something. I forgot that it's March Madness already and that The Price is Right wouldn't be on this morning. When I got out of bed I was still hurting from that overly crowded hellish bus ride. Not only did my arm hurt, but my side did too. I feel like I had just exercised or got in a fight. I really didn't feel like going to school because I was hurting so much. But since it's Japanese I have to got I'll be even more behind than I already am when I'm there. I really wanted a corned beef brisket for St. Patrick's day, but it was hard for my mom to find one.
On the bus ride over there I listened to the No Doubt song "Ache" and it made me think about how prolific Eric was. When I was waiting outside the room for class to start I was worried about having a slip of the tongue and admit that I like anime to some degree. But I'm really hoping that won't happen. Luckily the teacher got new markers, so I can read what she writes! sort of. She was still writing a little small though. That otaku girl was still boasting about her knowledge. She said something so Stupid! She said that because she's so smart all the people are crowing around her. What the Fuck!? She was sitting behind me. I was there first. She use to sit in the seat next to me and the only reason I took the seat I sit at now is because she took my old seat on the 2nd class session and I didn't want to sit by her.
During our break some people came from the Japanese club. I am actually interested in joining this club. I mean I can improve my Japanese. Which I really need help with. Plus I'm interested in Japan, and not just anime and manga. When the recruiters were talking about the club and taking questions that otaku guy asked if the club goes to Anime Expo. Some of the people in class were snickering. I tried to hold it in. The people from the club said they don't focus on anime too much in the group. They want people to know about other cultural aspects of Japan. Somebody mentioned an anime club and I said that the club was defunct, but nobody around me knew what that word meant. I will not start up my own. I mean I did anime club at Fullerton during the spring semester of 03. So I know how it goes down. That otaku girl was saying about talking to her boyfriend who ran an anime club and see if she could restart it.
When class was over I remembered another English loan word for cake, "keeki" Think that's how you spell it. It's pronounced Kay-kee. I was telling the teacher I remembered that word because I had heard it on an episode of Chibi maruko chan. So then that otaku girl comes and tells the teacher if she knows about Dragon Ball. Then the teacher said the name with a Japanese accent. I liked the way it sounded. Then that otaku girl was expressing her gripes about butchered American dubs. She claims she watched Dragon ball before it was butchered. I didn't want to hear that again @o@ I get enough of that online. I abruptly left the room. I know it was rude not wish my teacher goodbye in Japanese, but I just couldn't deal with that again. I mean we are in a Japanese class not an anime class. I ran down the stairs, because I didn't want to know what happened after I abruptly left the room. But I didn't want to be a "lended ear" for her gripes about butchered/censored anime.
FriDay:
My mom got a corned beef brisket for St. Patrick's Day and I'm so happy.
I went to see My Little Pony Live! With my little cousin. I have to say I think I enjoyed the show more than she did. I wish they would have had a show like this when I was a kid featuring the G1 ponies. They could've even had some people play Molly, Megan and Danny. The show was entraining it did have some very good puppetry.
SaTUrdaY:
It was great that I got to have corned beef. A lot of people have to have their green beer, but I want my corned beef. The good thing was that I didn't have to go to school so I didn't have to worry about getting pinched or wearing a lot of green.
TuESdaY:
Since I gut my hair short, well short for me I decided to wear my hair in pigtails to disguise the shortness of my hair. I was feeling a little self-conscious about wearing curled pigtails to school since they look a little childish. I think they look totally cute. A lot of my favorite characters wear pigtails; Punky Brewster, Gosylan, Angelica, Stella from the Winx Club, Chatta, and Sailor Moon.
When I got to class there were these 2 guys talking about St. Patrick's day. The one guy tells the other guy that he thinks it's St. Patrick's day because he saw somebody all dressed up. So the other guy replies that it is not and that he is not wearing any green, and that if the other guy pinched him he would kick his ass. Then I chimed in and said it's on Saturday.
I'm upset because that otaku girl was sitting behind me again. It's annoying! She's always boasting about how much she knows, and she kicks the desk a lot. She acts like she's so smart because she "teaches herself" Japanese. I'm not a really big fan of self teaching for complicated subjects like math and foreign languages. I think it's easier for more artsy things like drawing, singing, and music among other things. I taught myself how to draw, but later took classes to get better. She was explaining the difference between Hiragana and Katakana and how and why the languages were developed.
The teacher wanted to know how our Hiragana was going. I said I could recognize like 4 characters, but I can write a lot more than I can recognize. The teacher was wearing a thin grey shirt and you could see she was really wet in the armpits. It looked really gross. I like the way my teacher dresses aside from that armpit thing.
During the break I needed help with the vocabulary words she wrote on the board in Hiragana, but I couldn't read them because she had a broken marker and she wrote them really really small. So I asked her if I wrote the vocabulary words right. But she didn't understand what I was trying to say. She thought I needed help on my Hiragana. Which I do, but I didn't come to her about that.
Towards the end of the class the marker was really dieing, and even she was getting frustrated. From what I've seen of her before she seems like a pretty cool (calm) person. Then she started cursing in Japanese. The whole class thought it was funny. We wanted to know what she said, but she wouldn't tell us. All she said was that is was curse words.
At the end of class that otaku guy said good bye to the teacher in a fancy way, and everybody else was upset. He is such a suck up and he admitted to it. He said he dresses in shirts and slacks to impress people. I really don't think you have to dress nice to impress people. You should impress them with your talent/skills. That just goes back to school uniform mentality.
WeDnEsDaY:
During the break that my class gets. I had to go to the bathroom badly. Since I am new to the school I did not know where the closest one was in relation to my class. I wandered around campus looking for one. As I was doing this I happened to pass by the club rush booths. I wasn't very interested in them since I was more interested in finding a bathroom. After I found one I decided to look at all the flyers and stuff about the clubs. There was this, I guess you could call it a booklet with a list of all the active clubs. I went back to class and read it over. There were a few clubs that interested me. I saw that the anime club was inactive, but I didn't really care.
I was stuck on a super crowded bus coming home. The thing that sucked about that bus ride was that the bus stayed crowded through the whole ride. It never thinned out. While I was riding on the bus I got hit in the arm and side with this lady's overstuffed and hard shopping bags. My arm that got hit was hurting all night.
ThUrsDay:
I woke up late like at 9 something. I forgot that it's March Madness already and that The Price is Right wouldn't be on this morning. When I got out of bed I was still hurting from that overly crowded hellish bus ride. Not only did my arm hurt, but my side did too. I feel like I had just exercised or got in a fight. I really didn't feel like going to school because I was hurting so much. But since it's Japanese I have to got I'll be even more behind than I already am when I'm there. I really wanted a corned beef brisket for St. Patrick's day, but it was hard for my mom to find one.
On the bus ride over there I listened to the No Doubt song "Ache" and it made me think about how prolific Eric was. When I was waiting outside the room for class to start I was worried about having a slip of the tongue and admit that I like anime to some degree. But I'm really hoping that won't happen. Luckily the teacher got new markers, so I can read what she writes! sort of. She was still writing a little small though. That otaku girl was still boasting about her knowledge. She said something so Stupid! She said that because she's so smart all the people are crowing around her. What the Fuck!? She was sitting behind me. I was there first. She use to sit in the seat next to me and the only reason I took the seat I sit at now is because she took my old seat on the 2nd class session and I didn't want to sit by her.
During our break some people came from the Japanese club. I am actually interested in joining this club. I mean I can improve my Japanese. Which I really need help with. Plus I'm interested in Japan, and not just anime and manga. When the recruiters were talking about the club and taking questions that otaku guy asked if the club goes to Anime Expo. Some of the people in class were snickering. I tried to hold it in. The people from the club said they don't focus on anime too much in the group. They want people to know about other cultural aspects of Japan. Somebody mentioned an anime club and I said that the club was defunct, but nobody around me knew what that word meant. I will not start up my own. I mean I did anime club at Fullerton during the spring semester of 03. So I know how it goes down. That otaku girl was saying about talking to her boyfriend who ran an anime club and see if she could restart it.
When class was over I remembered another English loan word for cake, "keeki" Think that's how you spell it. It's pronounced Kay-kee. I was telling the teacher I remembered that word because I had heard it on an episode of Chibi maruko chan. So then that otaku girl comes and tells the teacher if she knows about Dragon Ball. Then the teacher said the name with a Japanese accent. I liked the way it sounded. Then that otaku girl was expressing her gripes about butchered American dubs. She claims she watched Dragon ball before it was butchered. I didn't want to hear that again @o@ I get enough of that online. I abruptly left the room. I know it was rude not wish my teacher goodbye in Japanese, but I just couldn't deal with that again. I mean we are in a Japanese class not an anime class. I ran down the stairs, because I didn't want to know what happened after I abruptly left the room. But I didn't want to be a "lended ear" for her gripes about butchered/censored anime.
FriDay:
My mom got a corned beef brisket for St. Patrick's Day and I'm so happy.
I went to see My Little Pony Live! With my little cousin. I have to say I think I enjoyed the show more than she did. I wish they would have had a show like this when I was a kid featuring the G1 ponies. They could've even had some people play Molly, Megan and Danny. The show was entraining it did have some very good puppetry.
SaTUrdaY:
It was great that I got to have corned beef. A lot of people have to have their green beer, but I want my corned beef. The good thing was that I didn't have to go to school so I didn't have to worry about getting pinched or wearing a lot of green.
What's the deal with dubbies?
Originally posted on 3/15/2007
After a few things that happened this week I thought about posting this blog. So I'm back with another Asiaphile blog. This one might be considered more of an otaku one.
I don't hate dubs, but I don't love them either. I think they serve a purpose somewhat. They introduce an anime to an audience that for some reason can't get, find, or doesn't know of the original. Sometimes I think the dubs need to edit some stuff out. I know what you are saying or thinking "What the HELL ARE YOU THINKING DUBBIE!!!111111oneoneeleven?????////" Ok let me explain, Japanese tv can show some things that American tv can't mainly broadcast tv or tv aimed at kids. "Why can't the stupid American FCC change it's asshole ways?" I don't know, but you are welcome to try and get into American government and work for the FCC. I know sometimes animes use things that might upset other celebrities and companies. Like in Samurai Pizza Cats the New York Pizza Cats were named Michael, Madonna, and Prince. Of course they had to change the names of those characters.
I really hate digital paint edits. Why do you need to erase all the Japanese writing on the signs and stuff in the background? Why can't there just be a subtitle about the sign/paper? Or just have the characters talk about it so you know what they are talking about. Or even worse is when they edit food and drinks and turn beer into soda or water, and an Onigiri getting turned into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If they were going to make it into a "Western" type snack food they could've made it something round like a cupcake.
I have a big gripe about my mom she's dare I say it a dubbie. I'm so ashamed. I can believe she supports dubs. I mean she doesn't work for a dub company or anything like that, so I really have no idea why she does. When I asked her about it she told me she likes dubs any kind of dubs because she doesn't like reading subtitles. What the hell!? I just had to call her out as a dubbie a dubbie is a dubbie no matter if it's your mom, grandparent, or a sibling please don't let this disease spread.
After a few things that happened this week I thought about posting this blog. So I'm back with another Asiaphile blog. This one might be considered more of an otaku one.
I don't hate dubs, but I don't love them either. I think they serve a purpose somewhat. They introduce an anime to an audience that for some reason can't get, find, or doesn't know of the original. Sometimes I think the dubs need to edit some stuff out. I know what you are saying or thinking "What the HELL ARE YOU THINKING DUBBIE!!!111111oneoneeleven?????////" Ok let me explain, Japanese tv can show some things that American tv can't mainly broadcast tv or tv aimed at kids. "Why can't the stupid American FCC change it's asshole ways?" I don't know, but you are welcome to try and get into American government and work for the FCC. I know sometimes animes use things that might upset other celebrities and companies. Like in Samurai Pizza Cats the New York Pizza Cats were named Michael, Madonna, and Prince. Of course they had to change the names of those characters.
I really hate digital paint edits. Why do you need to erase all the Japanese writing on the signs and stuff in the background? Why can't there just be a subtitle about the sign/paper? Or just have the characters talk about it so you know what they are talking about. Or even worse is when they edit food and drinks and turn beer into soda or water, and an Onigiri getting turned into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If they were going to make it into a "Western" type snack food they could've made it something round like a cupcake.
I have a big gripe about my mom she's dare I say it a dubbie. I'm so ashamed. I can believe she supports dubs. I mean she doesn't work for a dub company or anything like that, so I really have no idea why she does. When I asked her about it she told me she likes dubs any kind of dubs because she doesn't like reading subtitles. What the hell!? I just had to call her out as a dubbie a dubbie is a dubbie no matter if it's your mom, grandparent, or a sibling please don't let this disease spread.
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Let's Learn Japanese!-Week in Review
Originally posted 3/6/2007
This week in review blog kind of helped me get out my ideas for my Asiaphile blog. I was going to write a blog about how otakus think the know Japanese from watching a lot of anime, well let's just say this blog killed 2 birds with one stone. So there will be no entry about language.
Tuesday-
I decided to sign up for Japanese for one of the required type of class to finish my general education, yeah I'm still working on general education very slooowly.
In the morning before class I was making breakfast with meat and I thought up this silly phrase "Real breakfasts contain meat.". That should be used in some kind of advertising campaign.
I didn't want to take my Hello Kitty backpack not because it might be considered an Aisaphile item, it was because it has a dark colored trim and I don't know if it's color fast so I did not want to risk it. I took my beat up Powerpuff Girls backpack instead.
I really didn't know what I expect when I got there, and I don't mean from the class' content I mean the students. I was bracing my self to see a bunch of otakus/Japanophiles/Asiaphiles wearing their InuYasha shirts, or a ninja headband, or loose socks, munching on some kind of Japanese snack food like Pocky. When I finally find the room. I usually get lost on the first day of class anyway. My dad put that dumb idea in my head. There is this guy looking for anime fans. And so it begins!
I was smart enough not to say anything and just have a clueless look on my face. That guy starts talking to the guy next to me. He asks him if he likes anime. The other guy says that he likes American cartoons better. Then that guy talks about how much he loves anime , how it's superior to American cartoons and the history of it. Not like I've heard that before. -_- Yeah I know I'm using an anime smiley. Then they got into talking about comics. Now since most otakus like to "show off " their knowledge of anything. He starts showing off his knowledge of Batman. Plus I don't know anything about comics. When I was a kid I use to read the Disney comics. I never read the superhero ones. Then they start talking about Star Wars. That otaku guy was saying that the cannon contradicted the cannon. @-@ x-x He admitted he was a nerd. Yeah, like I didn't see that coming. Then this girl walks by and he asks he if she's an anime fan. She says yeah. They all start debating about Batman movies and which actors portrayed the villains best. I really didn't care, I haven't seen all the Batman movies anyway. That otaku guy who said he knew a lot about Batman didn't know who Harley Quinn was. How could he not know her!? She's a pretty famous character. Even I know who she is. Those two otakus couldn't wait to get into class. They were eager to "show off their skills" as I would call it, to the teacher. I was reluctant. I just don't want to go around saying trite Japanese words and have no idea what I'm saying. I hardly know any Japanese anyway. All the Japanese I've "learned" and I'm using the term loosely here I've learned from watching untranslated and subbed anime and watching the instructional program Let's Learn Japanese which I use to watch during the summer between 1994 and 1995. But since I haven't seen that show in years I don't remember much. I feel what I learned is not comprehensive. The one thing is the desks are too really tiny. I hate tiny desks. The desks have such a small tabletop, and it's cut at a weird angle. Those 2 otakus wouldn't stop talking about anime and they were talking so much the teacher told them to stop. When she did a few guys in the class were snickering. I knew I didn't want to be one of those people who talks about how much they love Japan and anime in class and gets snickered at behind their back. I had enough of that in high school. I can't be a full blown otaku anyway my knowledge of anime and manga is pretty limited. I'm not an otaku more like "otaku lite", I'm less annoying. (I hope). Who wants to talk to people like that besides other otakus? The teacher wanted to know all the "words and phrases" we as the class knew collectively. I pretended I didn't know anything and said nothing. Why should I? Those otakus were showing off their skills. Those otakus were showing off their skills, and that is an important thing for an otaku to do. The teacher is from the northern part of Japan. Which is famous for beer, but you know I sort of knew what she was talking about. I know about the native people of Japan who look different and have their own language. I learned that from Shaman King and the Shaman King uncensored website strangely enough. Those 2 otakus kept talking about anime and the teacher told them to be quiet. Which I thought was hilarious because if they have such a respect for the language. They would pay attention to the teacher, and listen to what she has to say instead of talking about anime. If you want to talk about anime join a club or do it online. A lot of people were still snickering at them. The teacher wanted to know what aspect of Japanese culture we (the class) were interested in. I didn't answer, but if I did I would've said "food, anime and fashion". That otaku guy wanted to know what kind of Japanese accent we were learning. He was also asking all these questions about Japanese history, and she really didn't know. I don't blame her. I mean if I was teaching English as a foreign language in another country and somebody was asking me all the questions about American history I probably wouldn't know. She recommended him to take a history of Japan class. I wondered if they even offered a class like that at this school. The bad thing about my teacher is that she is new to the school like me, so she doesn't know where anything is either. We are learning in Romaji. Well that just means to use the roman alphabet to write Japanese words instead of using Hiragana or Katakana.
Because I didn't want to seem too "otaku-ish" I told myself I would not take or do anything like that including having manga, pictures of anime/manga characters, wear odangos, or draw anime/manga characters, or eat Japanese snack food not all the time just during class.
Wednesday-
I wanted to eat a big breakfast because I knew my class was long, and I thought I might not get a break. I left for school pretty early to secure my place in class. When I got to school I realized I was there too early. I got there an hour early when I was suppose to be 30-45 minutes early. I was wasting time and listening to music I think I listened to "The Sweet Escape" song at least 3 times. It's growing on me a little, and it was really stick in my head. I was trying not to get my new Hello Kitty backpack dirty especially the part that has white faux fur on it. The fur part got a little dirty and I'm sad. I was almost late to class. I could've kicked myself for that. The class was pretty crowded when I got there. The teacher was a little late and she came in all cheerful and perky. Her heels were really noisy. She had a syllabus with a lot of rules in it about 18 to be exact. I'm not counting #19 because it was smile and had a smiley icon next to it. The teacher said we would a break and that was good. She said we should eat. That was good because I like to eat the break if I can. She says she eats during the break too, and gives out healthy food which could be good or a bad thing. Luckily there is a fast food stall like right across from the room. A little up the way there is a food store and a pretzel cart. I bought a jerky slab and a pretzel. I was hungry and the jerky was good and fatty. I couldn't wait for class to be over and we got out early and I was happy.
When I was on the bus I saw this goth looking guy with a puffy shirt. It was so funny looking. It looked like the one Jerry wore in that Seinfeld episode.
Thursday-
I got to sleep in late because I was going to class at the right time and not like a half hour early to secure my place. I was still working on keeping my backpack clean. When I got to school I went to go buy another slab of beef jerky, but the store was crowded when I got there and it took me a long time. Plus it takes me a long time to get to the building from where the store is. Luckily when I got to the building I found a door that was near my class and that my class is on the 2nd floor. When I run up the stairs I see my teacher is pushing a tv cart. So I helped her with the door. I have to make a good impression on her. I didn't want to sit in the same seat I sat in last time because I would have to sit in front of that otaku girl, so I sat next to the seat I sat in. Some people were making fun of the old tv and said it looked like it was 30 years old, but I'd say 20. I'm having hard time with Japanese. I have a bad time with "Shi". I can't make the sound, and my accent is horrible. I use to have a accent problem in French too. When I took French I was told I have a very American accent. The video we watched about the language lab was so lame and looked old, but it was made in 2003. There was a talking ID card and a talking cup. They were computer animated and looked totally lame. The computer animated things were interacting with real people. I was wondering it I looked too "otaku-ish" with my Hello Kitty backpack. I didn't want to be confronted by those 2 otakus. Then I thought it really didn't. I thought "a lot of people like Hello Kitty and that doesn't make you a otaku by default." I got lost on the way to the language lab which was sort of a good thing because I found the library that I was looking for a few days ago. I had to go all the way around and I just snuck in and sat near my class. The only part I was interested in was about the movies they had.
One good thing about The OC ending is that now I can just watch NBC from 9-10 and not worry about The OC is taping. I was watching part of Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader? You know I thought it was a test or something like Test The Nation, but it's a game show. It's sort of like The Weakest Link and Who wants to be a Millionaire?. Scrubs was a bad episode because it was a clip show! I really don't need to see a clip show since I also watch it in syndication.
This week in review blog kind of helped me get out my ideas for my Asiaphile blog. I was going to write a blog about how otakus think the know Japanese from watching a lot of anime, well let's just say this blog killed 2 birds with one stone. So there will be no entry about language.
Tuesday-
I decided to sign up for Japanese for one of the required type of class to finish my general education, yeah I'm still working on general education very slooowly.
In the morning before class I was making breakfast with meat and I thought up this silly phrase "Real breakfasts contain meat.". That should be used in some kind of advertising campaign.
I didn't want to take my Hello Kitty backpack not because it might be considered an Aisaphile item, it was because it has a dark colored trim and I don't know if it's color fast so I did not want to risk it. I took my beat up Powerpuff Girls backpack instead.
I really didn't know what I expect when I got there, and I don't mean from the class' content I mean the students. I was bracing my self to see a bunch of otakus/Japanophiles/Asiaphiles wearing their InuYasha shirts, or a ninja headband, or loose socks, munching on some kind of Japanese snack food like Pocky. When I finally find the room. I usually get lost on the first day of class anyway. My dad put that dumb idea in my head. There is this guy looking for anime fans. And so it begins!
I was smart enough not to say anything and just have a clueless look on my face. That guy starts talking to the guy next to me. He asks him if he likes anime. The other guy says that he likes American cartoons better. Then that guy talks about how much he loves anime , how it's superior to American cartoons and the history of it. Not like I've heard that before. -_- Yeah I know I'm using an anime smiley. Then they got into talking about comics. Now since most otakus like to "show off " their knowledge of anything. He starts showing off his knowledge of Batman. Plus I don't know anything about comics. When I was a kid I use to read the Disney comics. I never read the superhero ones. Then they start talking about Star Wars. That otaku guy was saying that the cannon contradicted the cannon. @-@ x-x He admitted he was a nerd. Yeah, like I didn't see that coming. Then this girl walks by and he asks he if she's an anime fan. She says yeah. They all start debating about Batman movies and which actors portrayed the villains best. I really didn't care, I haven't seen all the Batman movies anyway. That otaku guy who said he knew a lot about Batman didn't know who Harley Quinn was. How could he not know her!? She's a pretty famous character. Even I know who she is. Those two otakus couldn't wait to get into class. They were eager to "show off their skills" as I would call it, to the teacher. I was reluctant. I just don't want to go around saying trite Japanese words and have no idea what I'm saying. I hardly know any Japanese anyway. All the Japanese I've "learned" and I'm using the term loosely here I've learned from watching untranslated and subbed anime and watching the instructional program Let's Learn Japanese which I use to watch during the summer between 1994 and 1995. But since I haven't seen that show in years I don't remember much. I feel what I learned is not comprehensive. The one thing is the desks are too really tiny. I hate tiny desks. The desks have such a small tabletop, and it's cut at a weird angle. Those 2 otakus wouldn't stop talking about anime and they were talking so much the teacher told them to stop. When she did a few guys in the class were snickering. I knew I didn't want to be one of those people who talks about how much they love Japan and anime in class and gets snickered at behind their back. I had enough of that in high school. I can't be a full blown otaku anyway my knowledge of anime and manga is pretty limited. I'm not an otaku more like "otaku lite", I'm less annoying. (I hope). Who wants to talk to people like that besides other otakus? The teacher wanted to know all the "words and phrases" we as the class knew collectively. I pretended I didn't know anything and said nothing. Why should I? Those otakus were showing off their skills. Those otakus were showing off their skills, and that is an important thing for an otaku to do. The teacher is from the northern part of Japan. Which is famous for beer, but you know I sort of knew what she was talking about. I know about the native people of Japan who look different and have their own language. I learned that from Shaman King and the Shaman King uncensored website strangely enough. Those 2 otakus kept talking about anime and the teacher told them to be quiet. Which I thought was hilarious because if they have such a respect for the language. They would pay attention to the teacher, and listen to what she has to say instead of talking about anime. If you want to talk about anime join a club or do it online. A lot of people were still snickering at them. The teacher wanted to know what aspect of Japanese culture we (the class) were interested in. I didn't answer, but if I did I would've said "food, anime and fashion". That otaku guy wanted to know what kind of Japanese accent we were learning. He was also asking all these questions about Japanese history, and she really didn't know. I don't blame her. I mean if I was teaching English as a foreign language in another country and somebody was asking me all the questions about American history I probably wouldn't know. She recommended him to take a history of Japan class. I wondered if they even offered a class like that at this school. The bad thing about my teacher is that she is new to the school like me, so she doesn't know where anything is either. We are learning in Romaji. Well that just means to use the roman alphabet to write Japanese words instead of using Hiragana or Katakana.
Because I didn't want to seem too "otaku-ish" I told myself I would not take or do anything like that including having manga, pictures of anime/manga characters, wear odangos, or draw anime/manga characters, or eat Japanese snack food not all the time just during class.
Wednesday-
I wanted to eat a big breakfast because I knew my class was long, and I thought I might not get a break. I left for school pretty early to secure my place in class. When I got to school I realized I was there too early. I got there an hour early when I was suppose to be 30-45 minutes early. I was wasting time and listening to music I think I listened to "The Sweet Escape" song at least 3 times. It's growing on me a little, and it was really stick in my head. I was trying not to get my new Hello Kitty backpack dirty especially the part that has white faux fur on it. The fur part got a little dirty and I'm sad. I was almost late to class. I could've kicked myself for that. The class was pretty crowded when I got there. The teacher was a little late and she came in all cheerful and perky. Her heels were really noisy. She had a syllabus with a lot of rules in it about 18 to be exact. I'm not counting #19 because it was smile and had a smiley icon next to it. The teacher said we would a break and that was good. She said we should eat. That was good because I like to eat the break if I can. She says she eats during the break too, and gives out healthy food which could be good or a bad thing. Luckily there is a fast food stall like right across from the room. A little up the way there is a food store and a pretzel cart. I bought a jerky slab and a pretzel. I was hungry and the jerky was good and fatty. I couldn't wait for class to be over and we got out early and I was happy.
When I was on the bus I saw this goth looking guy with a puffy shirt. It was so funny looking. It looked like the one Jerry wore in that Seinfeld episode.
Thursday-
I got to sleep in late because I was going to class at the right time and not like a half hour early to secure my place. I was still working on keeping my backpack clean. When I got to school I went to go buy another slab of beef jerky, but the store was crowded when I got there and it took me a long time. Plus it takes me a long time to get to the building from where the store is. Luckily when I got to the building I found a door that was near my class and that my class is on the 2nd floor. When I run up the stairs I see my teacher is pushing a tv cart. So I helped her with the door. I have to make a good impression on her. I didn't want to sit in the same seat I sat in last time because I would have to sit in front of that otaku girl, so I sat next to the seat I sat in. Some people were making fun of the old tv and said it looked like it was 30 years old, but I'd say 20. I'm having hard time with Japanese. I have a bad time with "Shi". I can't make the sound, and my accent is horrible. I use to have a accent problem in French too. When I took French I was told I have a very American accent. The video we watched about the language lab was so lame and looked old, but it was made in 2003. There was a talking ID card and a talking cup. They were computer animated and looked totally lame. The computer animated things were interacting with real people. I was wondering it I looked too "otaku-ish" with my Hello Kitty backpack. I didn't want to be confronted by those 2 otakus. Then I thought it really didn't. I thought "a lot of people like Hello Kitty and that doesn't make you a otaku by default." I got lost on the way to the language lab which was sort of a good thing because I found the library that I was looking for a few days ago. I had to go all the way around and I just snuck in and sat near my class. The only part I was interested in was about the movies they had.
One good thing about The OC ending is that now I can just watch NBC from 9-10 and not worry about The OC is taping. I was watching part of Are you Smarter Than a 5th Grader? You know I thought it was a test or something like Test The Nation, but it's a game show. It's sort of like The Weakest Link and Who wants to be a Millionaire?. Scrubs was a bad episode because it was a clip show! I really don't need to see a clip show since I also watch it in syndication.
The Return of an old subject
Originally posted on 2/27/2007
After much consideration and debate, I decided to bring back my Week in Review blogs. They will live again! I got way too much material not to use it. Stop the presses because Week in Review is back!
After much consideration and debate, I decided to bring back my Week in Review blogs. They will live again! I got way too much material not to use it. Stop the presses because Week in Review is back!
Things I remembered to post
Originally posted on 2/24/2007
Things I remembered to post. Ok I just want to say that I have a class that will add to my Asiaphile blog. Since I am back in school now I'm debating if I'll bring back my "Week in Review" blogs again. I'll see how the 1st week goes and what kind of "material" I will find. Also I know that the blogs are a bit slow. It's just been taking me a while to post them because I've been getting ready for school.
I made a mistake in my blog about The Marine. Demolition Man was the last action film I saw before The Marine that sucked. Some how I confused that movie with Judge Dredd. Which is a movie I haven't seen.
Things I remembered to post. Ok I just want to say that I have a class that will add to my Asiaphile blog. Since I am back in school now I'm debating if I'll bring back my "Week in Review" blogs again. I'll see how the 1st week goes and what kind of "material" I will find. Also I know that the blogs are a bit slow. It's just been taking me a while to post them because I've been getting ready for school.
I made a mistake in my blog about The Marine. Demolition Man was the last action film I saw before The Marine that sucked. Some how I confused that movie with Judge Dredd. Which is a movie I haven't seen.
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