A recent post about Okinawa folk music/Ryukyuan languages on japanese inspired me to look up some Okinawa songs to listen to.

I found out that the artist of the song that got me into Okinawan music in the first place is Shoukichi Kina & Champloose (喜納昌吉＆チャンプルーズ). It seems they made the song [～花～すべての人の心に花を]("Hana - A flower for the heart of all people") ( Read more... )

Today (Sunday 17th ( Read more... )

I've been a member of Birds Australia for quite a few years, but all I ever did was receive the subscription magazine every four months. I never went to any activities or meetings or anything. But tonight, I finally went to the monthly meeting of the state chapter for the first time ( Read more... )

I keep writing it JPLT instead of JLPT. -_-;;

I found the test reasonable. The grammar and vocab seemed familiar; if only I could remember what they meant. >_< I screwed up in Listening more than I expected to, but Reading Comprehension was ok. Hopefully. I managed to finish with just enough time to check my answers (found one "OMGOSH why did I ( Read more... )

So I accomplished a few things online today. Yes, there can be such a thing as productivity using the internet ( Read more... )

Added a Chinese (Mandarin) language learning application to Facebook ( Read more... )

.....NOOOOOOOO!!!
THERE WAS A YURI PANEL AT MANIFEST
AND I WASN'T THERE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*cries*

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Trying to figure out how to spread Yosakoi. Most searches for Yosakoi in Australia come up with Japan-based teams, or events in Japan (Harakuju Yosakoi, Yosakoi-Soran in Hokkaido, Kochi, etc). Australia-Japan Society of Victoriai seems to be mainly ( Read more... )

Typhoon came and went! My prefecture was in the path of the typhoon, and everyone said to close the windows and be ready with emergency torch and food rations... I hid in my room, watching the typhoon news on TV (lots of damage in Kyuushuu), waiting for the storm to come.... but in the end, it didn't! Swerved down and headed for Shikoku instead. So ( Read more... )

(to the theme of "Macho Man")
マ・ツ・マツリ (yeah)
I want to go, to 祭り
(Yeah yeah)
マ・ツ・マツリ
Can't wait for 祭り！I think my second favourite kanji after 夢(dream) is 祭(festival ( Read more... )

Hurray for free movie screenings at uni!

Today I watched "Chosyu Five" (長州ファイブ) with Anne-chan at the 大学会館 uni hall。Very interesting. It's about these 5 Japanese young men (from 長州) who go to 留学 overseas study in London for 5 years. This happens just before the Meiji restoration, so they have to go in secret because it's still closed country.

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