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28.8.08

Feel abit down...

*Sigh~~~~~~~~~*

Somehow I feel pretty down lately. Maybe the fact is that my fat arsehole of a brother is like a cuntface. It feels the same day in and day out... even though I really don't go out. Well... hopefully, next year I'll be in sunny Japan for about 4 weeks :D I do miss my vending machines and Japan.

But something to cheer me up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjAXJaFydwM I can't wait to go back to Japan... (=u= )

27.8.08

Japanese stuff - 02

Do you understand?

Do you understand English?
英語が分かりますか?
Eigo ga wakarimasu ka?

***Notes- use of ga/が***
Ga is used to indicate the subject. It's similar to wa=は but this more to a converstion talk. With wa/は, as I said it's mostly used to open a new topic, but with ga/が you can carry on with that subject into a converstion. It's weird with particles but it's interesting to learn, though it's confusing still have to know about them.

There are like loads more for one particles can hold in meaning but learn the normal ones first.

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Japanese rants

I think I should brush up on my reading... even though I'm not that good but I think that I should learn reading. I could translate a manga that I have, which is all in Japanese called Parasite Eve. Or even a games' manual LOL!! But it's a challenge and I would to improve my Japanese in any shape or form. So... I'll might post it up here, not the full manga but just the simple transcripts, don't want to rip or kill the spine of the manga to pieces.

22.8.08

Money making?

Well... I thought that I would like to earn a bit more money than usual. Since that everything is expensive and feel that this place that I'm working in, isn't like helping my mood. A room full of food and oil... I don't feel happy.

So... I decided to check what's there to offer... there's alot but it's weird. There's like loads of affliates that you can do... but the main issues is that you have to click the ads. Slow earning but might as well give it a go.

Other ways can be selling stuff that you own. Which to me I can't really let go. (TT___TT ) Then there's online surveys, thought that I would give it a go, so hope that this would brighten up my mood.

Sometimes I wish money wasn't even created... damn my culture! LOL!! But oh well... it happens.

Time to work.

18.8.08

Jdoramas: Summer 2008

This season I have been following some Japanese dramas. It's great for listening and understand some sentences that have been used from learning. So it's good. Just don't worry too much on how much is going on, it takes time.

I tend to watch the raws, which are just from TV with no subtitles, but you can download the softsubs that the subtitles appear. I can say I understand under 25% of the time on Jdoramas but if it's like business talk or something serious talk... I'm abit clueless.

But yeah anyways... This season Jdoramas that I have been watching.

Lotto 6 de 3 oku 2 senman en ateta otoko (The man who won ¥320 million on Lotto 6) -
It's based on a true story but of course added abit of spice into it to viewers. As usual, it follows a man who is slump in the worst job, being divorced with kid and has no money. But won the lottery and follows the man's troublesome dilemmas of gold-diggers, self spending, etc. Good comedy, with funny parts but gets abit annoying.

Maou (The Devil) -
Actually gone mad on this because it's really good. It's from a Korean drama, remade in Japanese. I don't know where to start because it's pretty much too revealing in the story but it about a man's life turning upside-down from a other man who seeks revenge of a murder of he's younger brother. Don't ask... bit tired to explain. But the twist and cunning plan that the dark past will never rest, surfaces up in deja vu events, pushing the man that the past will always catch up.

Yasuko to Kenji (Yasuko and Kenji) -
This is great comedy, I've seen for a while. Follows a brother and sister with their disputes of family life. The brother the head of guardian/house was a head biker gang but turned into a girls' manga artist. The sister a teenager who wants to grow up and fight for her independents tackles the former biker gang in seriously bad situation that follows reasoning.

I'm too tired to type anything.

Japanese stuff - 01

Ok... now I'm being random.

Decided to learn Japanese like quite a long time but my routine is messed up and really should pay attention to it. Plus my dawg woke me up in a foul mood and don't know why I'm posting.

I took up Pimsleur and basically don't have a book that suppose to come with so... this will be an open book. Don't ask... I love talking sh!t. LOL!!

Anyways... with basic sentences and notes that I have read, they will be added.

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I am American. (Well... I'm not but that sucks)
私はアメリカ人です。
Watashi wa (ha - note later) Amerikajin desu.

***Note - the use of wa/ha=は***
It's weird but は is pronounced the same as わ, it's Japanese grammar for you. But anyways... は is used to mark the topic sentence and to express contrast, in short it means that it's you're giving a comment. The topic is what is being spoken or written about. Most Japanese sentences ofter begins by stating a topic, about which a comment is then made.

This tends to boggle people, I know... I'm one of them but that way I have to look at it, it's like this... (taken from Oxford Verbs and Grammar.)

Sushi: it's delicious
寿司はおいしい
Sushi wa oishii

は tends to be the open topic to mostly everything, that you can ask about that topic. So, what ever you put at the beginning which is the main topic of conversation, the listen can answer in open reply whether it's a comment, an answer or a question. So in follow up from the Sushi, you could say whether if it's expensive or filling etc.

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