Japanese Blog!

I’m going to be updating my Japanese blog much more frequently from now on (It’s for a project for class, so I *HAVE* to).

If you can understand it, head to http://dgarcher.seesaa.net/

Lately…

Ok, Japan is going flipping crazy for Volleyball atm. It’s the Volleyball World Cup 2007 Japan. But they’re going mad for it. There’s even a pop song. and a dance. No, seriously, a dance.

sonna ha kankei nee!(Dances)

And yeah, the band are there on TV at EVERY game. lolz. Anyway, Japan (2 wins, 2 losses, currently 5th) are playing Russia (undefeated). Top three teams will go through to the Beijing Olympic Games. Ganbatte, Nihon!

Oh yes. It’s this one. Oh yes.

In other news, I watched 1 litre of tears the other day (ichi littoru no namida)

It’s only 11 episodes long, so I had a crazy night in and watched the whole series.

I cried at the end. Not just tears making the eyes wet stuff. Oh no. I mean I actually flippin wept uncontrollably. How sad is that? But seriously, watch it. Seriously. You can watch it on Veoh and maybe Youtube? (I’ve seen some episodes up on there). It’s unfortunate that I can’t find the non-subbed version, but I guess that’s a good thing ain’t it?

Anyway, I got a good choice of sports tonight! ^_^ Volleyball on now, followed by National team baseball, Australia vs. Japan. And I got asahi beer! I’m made for tonight

Just a quickie

Thought I’d share this site, it’s very inspiring, particularly the two following articles. Guess I should subscribe to these eh?

http://trans.hiragana.jp/ruby/http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/you-can-have-do-or-be-anything-but-you-cannot-have-do-or-be-everything

http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/showing-up

Cheers,

Dave.

Not a big update really…

Not much happened over the last few days to be honest. Yesterday, I was working at a middle school teaching the children English. Was so much fun! However, the kids kept wanting to feel my muscles. I said Japanese people are very touchy-feely, but the kids! flippin ‘eck, they won’t leave ya alone! There were so many of the girls that were literally dragging me around by the arm and resting up against me, it was so cute! At lunch time when everyone went out, it was weird too, because all the higher year girls started crowding round all excitedly (the 11-15 year old ones, lol). How strange, eh?

Then I returned my book to the public library (late, but there were no fines…) And got a new one!

Also, yesterday, I figured “Right, what’s the best way of me saving money over the next few months? Well, first things first, drinks. I really don’t like tap water. Really, really don’t. So I got me one of these:

That’ll save me about 500-600 yen a day (£2.50-£3)

Also, on the theme of money saving, I decided to finally get me a really nice lunchbox.  I’m spending way too much money on buying lunch every day (About 500 yen, again about £2.50), so it’s best that I do this. I can’t really start properly making bento boxes until Saturday because I need some vegetables (Well, LOTS of veg. I like lots of veggies in the salad section.) Cute isn’t it?

And finally, Inaba sensei gave me a call at 6:45pm, so that I could go and pick up:

These two futons. Inaba sensei is so nice, seriously, to just donate these two to us for the next year, bless her cotton socks! ANYWAYS, all this meant I couldn’t do much in the way of study. Pants.

Oh well!

AAAHHH!!!

Today, I learned about a game called DTXMania. It’s basically based on DrumMania (Seen in basically EVERY ARCADE IN JAPAN.)

http://www.gdamania.net/  – This site basically can tell you all about it in English, and you can download all the game, songs, etc.

Basically, this game is like Rock Band with three major differences: 1, It’s on PC. 2, There’s no Mic. 3, You can CREATE YOUR OWN TRACKS or download user created ones. As with all user-created, tracks, some are awesome, and some… aren’t. Anyway, seen as I am teh suck at the drumming games in the arcade atm (can’t get higher than a level 18 standard mode… might sound high, but this counter goes up to 100) I wanna get a practice drum kit and play this game on my PC like mad.

And it plays (when you have an awesome £500 kit, or nearly as well on a £120 kit) like so:

I am happeh.

Yay for egging!

Due to the egging on of my girlfriend and a severe want to just type like a madman, thought I may as well give this a go again. Going to be a personal one seen as I’m sharing my girlfriend’s with her.

So what shall I be putting in here as opposed to there? Well… I guess I’ll be putting in any stories, poems etc. that I write. Any random thingymadoodles like pictures and random musings should go in here too. Also any really awesome pictures I decide to make. I’ll put my random doodles in Caryl’s (though she’s going to make mine seem kinda naffy).

I have a dream machine! iMac, Wacom Cintiq 12, and Adobe Web Premium CS3.

Also, I want a britta water filter tap.

Isn’t life interesting?

TODAY’S RTK KANJI OF THE DAY!

宴 – BANQUET

(As an offering to guests, your woman spends all day in the house preparing a BANQUET!)