hikaranko | Entries tagged with japanese

every time we move into a new month, i get totally disoriented. it's just so weird to me. now i have to remember to write "11" instead of "10". i always screw that up for like, the longest time. and then just i get used to one month, we move into the next one. it's quite frustrating.... wow, i'm really not too bright. XP

okay, totally dreading going to art class. i don't have the materials i was planning on using today due to lack of transport to get to the art store and purchase them... which makes me afraid that the teacher is gonna give me that evil glare of doom which seems to be saying "you are damaging my calm." i'm afraid. maybe she'll be talking to us a lot and then leave us to our own devices and i can escape early. ... then i still have to hang around campus because i have this scheduled appointment at 4:30... bloody hell.

oooh oooh! i just remembered! i was trying to think of whether or not i actually have anything interesting to say and i just remembered! yesterday during our japanese class, our teacher brought in a group of Japanese ESL students and made us all practice speaking to each other. we all talked about... whatever we could think to talk about, first in japanese, and then in english. it was pretty fun, and they were all really nice and fun. :D and it was really really helpful in terms of getting in that time to practice with people who aren't teachers. XD

hmm... i guess it still doesn't quite top the shopping trips to Mitsuwa, but it was still pretty cool. :D

okay, bloody hell, must now run to class... >_<

Current Mood: nervous

( FanFic rambling )

and then of course there's school stuff... must do Japanese homework and then study the kanji... i think i may actually know most of this kanji already (thank goodness) but i'll be better off studying... kanji can be oh so very evil. curse procrastination. grr.
oh, and must buy a watercolor set. bloody art class... at least the art teacher suddenly wasn't so scary and mean at me the last time i talked to her.

and then i also became randomly moody yesterday. not really sure what happened, but i was very mellow while we were at the mall. and then it went away when i came home... then came back while i was doing chores, only to go away when i started playing music and sang along with some of them (ehe... um... yeah). mood swinging... normally i'd say it's PMS or something, but i know it's not.

hmmm.......... oh well. :P

Current Mood: geeky

WHOOHOO!!

Manila heat kills me, but my computer has learned Japanese!! it's like a miracle!! XD 面白いです！i'm so amused and fascinated!
now i'll be able to check out MegaTokyo.com without that message popping up, telling me to install japanese on my computer. though i'm not really sure why it does that in the first place, 'cause there isn't a whole lot of japanese text on that site... oh well, whatever.

WAHAHAHA NARUTO 312 IS UP. i've gotta go read that... then check if FMA 60 is out yet. oh... also gotta upload to fanfic.net and e-mail my beta readers. wow. i guess this is what happens when i have limited internet access. :P

in other news, i finally got to see my high school friends the other day!! it was really really great to see them again. it was just like high school! except for the part where i had enough money to pay for myself and then some. XP we went to the arcade and hogged the hand game all to ourselves. we've gotten pretty rusty, so we really sucked. but it was a lot of fun anyway! XD

also watched The Lake House. it's nice, really. it's cute! and i guess i'm kinduva sucker for time alteration stuff because of my Back to the Future fandom. :P
apart from that, we did the typical hanging out, catching up on stuff thing that's always a lot more fun than it sounds. :P

so... yeah. currently unable to do much of anything because my sister passed on her runny nose and sore throat to me. i really hate being sick. really really really hate it.

Current Mood: sick
Current Location: home

really. i do.

sometimes.

anyways, some very bizarre things have transpired over the past... 24 hours.

for instance? a car accident.

no one was hurt, and the car didn't hit anybody else. it just went a little crazy on the overpass from the 57 freeway to the 60. one tire completely flew off (complete with a part of the axle) and the other three kinda died. the front of the car is pretty smashed up. i wasn't in the car at the time, but judging from the pictures it doesn't look like any of the windows are broken. but radiator fluid is gross looking. it looks like snot... or ecto-plasm... blegh..

but anyways... that was just a weird thing to happen to us and our car. given we get so many issues with that car, i'm kinda worried we're gonna be attacked by angry bills. but if the insurance pulls through, does that mean we get like, $50,000? (O.O) will we be able to pay for other bills with that money? does this mean we don't have to wait for KIIS FM to pay our bills on a Thursday?!?!

ahh, so many burning questions. the answer to most of 'em is probably "no", but it's nice to dream.

anyway. since we had no car today, i didn't go to school. while having another bus adventure would have been fun, i don't really wanna go to school in the first place. :P i'm not missing much by not going to that government class, and i can always find a way to make up for lost work to Fujita-sensei.

oh i forgot to talk about this!! we had a skit in Japanese class. the only requirement was that there had to be some keigo (honorific language, totally polite, really long and hard to say, pseudo-evil. "shimasu" becoming "onasaimasu" and "imasu" becoming "irrashaimasu"). our group's situation was to be in a store, and we were like, "uhhh..." but we got inspiration from the Rolling Bomber Special. the two shoppers became undercover power rangers (Nihon Defence Force!) and the shopkeeper was an undercover evil genius that works for Zarray and was planning on selling giant Eva-like robots to other evil geniuses and take over Japan and then the world. it was kinda fun, 'cause i got to strike out a bunch of cheesy power ranger poses and yell curses in Japanese. XD

hehehe. fun times, fun times.

more fun to be had

Current Mood: i'm listening to Thriller?
Current Music: Michael Jackson - Thriller

okay, so in about 10 minutes, i'm going to leave this computer, make a mad walk to King Hall, wander aimless until i find room 2005 (whoa), and then sit in the Japanese 200C class to figure out if i can handle the work or if my brain would fall apart. i don't know if i wanna be in a higher class if it means i have to work my poor gray matter to death.

so in 10 minutes. i must leave.

in other news, i've decided to try and confuse the FanFic.net readers with my story, by switching it between the FMA category and the HP category whenever i feel like it. XD

and DEATH TO COUSIN MARC!!! because he took (MY EFFIN' COPY OF) Kingdom Hearts 2 WITH HIM when he left the house last night and didn't come home until THE MOMENT I FELL ASLEEP. what an asshole. i will have my revenge on him. GRR!!! so when i get home tonight (oh bloody hell), i am CLAIMING IT. C-L-A-I-M-I-N-G IT. it will be mine! and i will take it with me to school on Monday so he can't progress. (evil grin)

yes, what he did there hurt my feelings and that is why i am using the super angsty FMA icon.

so anyways. just counting down the minutes til i get home. because the VERY FIRST THING I AM GOING TO DO is attack my cousin and run away with Kingdom Hearts 2.

Current Mood: GRR!
Current Location: CSULA Library - unhappiest place on earth
Current Music: clikkity clikkity buzz whiiirrrr!! clikkity...

engh... talked to my Japanese teacher after class yesterday about moving classes. we talked for a little while in Japanese so she could see what my proficiency level was, and then she took me down to talk to the higher level teacher.

apparently, they don't know what to do with me.

they think i'd be able to manage 200C, but i'm more of a level 200B. but there isn't a 200B class available right now, so that sucks for me. and they were wondering whether or not they could leave me in 100C, but then decided not to because it would probably be too easy for me. i had a nice little chat with the teacher, in which i was asked to try to interpret various sentences and try to read certain evil kanjis that i'd never seen before. in the end, i was asked to go into the 200C class on thursday and just... check it out.

gah, kanji. you are my downfall.

so... i've got a lotta studying to do if i wanna get into 200C. i'm gonna have to turn into Golden Boy.
"studystudystudystudyStUdYsTuDySTUDYSTUDYSTUDYSTUDY!!!"

gah. ijou.

afterthought: I must get home early today!! or else my evil cousin is gonna keep playing Kingdom Hearts 2 into the wee hours of the morning because he's out of classes and i'm not and i'm stuck in school and gaaaaahhhhh calstatela has evil timing for its classes to start!!!!
*wheeze* must... play... *cough cough wheeze*

Current Mood: confused

finally managed to actually get somewhere with my english paper. got pretty far, but now i need to find sources that totally back up what i wrote about. i'm doing this paper backwards. XD still need to write my intro and conclusion, though. i guess once i have all the citation in place i can focus on that.

also have to finish my Japanese essay. are mo taihen da na... i shouldn't have decided to do the essay. the wording i'm trying to use is complicated and offends my brain. then i still have to find a good Japanese movie to watch. i'm thinking Advent Children, since i happen to have it raw on my computer (no subtitles, wah!). now i just need to remember what the plot is, exactly. i gots to watch it start to finish again... as much as i'd love to do that right now, i'll have to do that once all classes are done. *sigh*

tralala... i was watching Kare Kano a little while ago (His and Her Circumstances). those two are so cute. i plowed through the 2nd DVD tonight. i keep staring at the cover of the 3rd. i don't know who that blonde kid is. but he looks a lot like Naruto. just... without the whisker lines. i mean, he's got the spiky blonde hair and the blue eyes and the big smile. and it's really a cute picture. the blonde kid is sharing the headphones with the girl, and they're sitting next to each other and they look cute and happy. it makes me wanna draw a Naruto/Hinata version of it...

and i'm so very tempted to abandon this and work on Kingdom Hearts... i wonder how much longer this paper is gonna take. finding experts to confirm my observations is hard. oh well. that's what i get for doing this backwards. :P chikusho.

Current Mood: and that's terrible
Current Music: the sound of silence