No, not really, but I thought it was hilarious today (well, 3.25 hours ago) when I was chatting with my Japanese teacher after we finished class at the community centre.

"Do you know a show called Battlestar Galactica?" she asked cautiously.
"I love it ( Read more... )

I am starting to use the 'tags' -ne and -kana at the end of a majority of my sentences. In both English and Japanese ( Read more... )

Actually got up and went to Naginata today, as opposed to the last three or four Saturdays, which I wimped out on for various reasons. It was short one, which made it a bit easier, and we only did about 15 minutes of work in bogu. We start at 10.30 in the summer to try and beat the heat of the day, but I don't know how well that works - By the ( Read more... )

I have no idea what I was thinking about writing when I came up with that subject line (two days ago, when I was at home), but I thought it was so clever! that it would be a shame to waste it ( Read more... )

If I had a game show, that's what it would be called: "Thank God That's Over". My one and only exam is now over, and two of my essays have been handed in, so there's just one to go.

To celebrate the end of impending exam doom(TM), I wandered into the city and ended up seeing The DaVinci Code at Hoyts. And I didn't mind it! MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD: ( Read more... )

Last night I saw had dinner and then saw a movie with Sayaka called Qian li zou dan qi or Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles. It's set in both Japan and China, and is one of Zhang Yimou's (Hero, House of Flying Daggers) latest directorial efforts. It's about a man who, on finding out that his son is terminally ill, goes to China in order to film ( Read more... )

Woke up to my alarms (yes, alarms, I set several!) this morning and convinced myself to get up and go to Tea Ceremony for the first time ( Read more... )