Friday, November 20, 2009

Stairway Generation

By Base Ball Bear on the Gintama Soundtrack. Hi! I felt a lot better today. ^_^ My mom was prescribed new pills to help with her stomach pains yesterday. They worked wonders and now she's feeling pretty good too.

For Japanese, I looked over more of my vocab list. I think it was nice to review since I got a little confused with a couple of words. (The ones that have more than one meaning. :P) I kept hearing the word かんじ or kanji on TV Japan. The only thing that came to mind when they said that was the Chinese characters they use as a symbol for a word. For instance, one would be 国 or kuni (くに in Hiragana) which means country. But, I had forgotten that there are many meanings for the word kanji. (And many different kanji symbols for them.) Another meaning is feeling, sense, or impression. It could also mean organizer, smiling (which I remembered that they have a 'word' for the 'sound' a smile makes, niconico, but it's not actually the word for smiling. :P), government business, the Kanji era, manager, and more. Most of the time, I've heard that it means a feeling or impression. かみ or kami has many meanings too. It means G-d or spirit, hair, paper, seasoning, delicious taste, and more. I have to remember the context of things more. :P I also, just for fun, translated part of a website into English. It's a Japanese shop online called Rakuten. It's really a very interesting place. They sell their own brand names, and some other popular ones in Japan. They have a wide variety of merchandise, which was kind of fun to look at. ^_^ Things like clothes, musical instruments, food, computers, gardening tools, pet food and supplies, and more. Most of the stuff was extremely expensive! (Although, once I realized the food was like 16 packages per order, I realized that wasn't too bad. But, the clothes were outrageous!) They even had anime products. Really nice to look at but I wouldn't buy from them. XD Their English was hilarious! I'm glad I could understand a lot of it in Japanese, because most of the English didn't make sense.

Next month I get to see my grandparents! Wahoo! Haven't seen them in a very long time. They called to see what we like to eat, and about the sleeping arrangements. It was kind of sad to tell my grandpa that I don't eat sweet potatoes, because he was going to make his famous candied ones. I wish I loved it, really I do. But, it tastes nasty to me. They were surprised to hear I get up early now. They said it's probably best that they had planned for me to sleep downstairs, anyways. No one will be woken up, at the wrong times, this way. Also, they can't make anything where the main ingredients are either cheese (or dairy) or eggs. My dad doesn't like either one. He'll have them mixed up in things, though. Also, I've never been to Florida! So this should be fun! XD

Youtube:
Poor Sensei

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Fighting Scene

From the Naruto soundtrack. Hi! Well, today I didn't feel too good, so I took it easy. I watched most of the new episodes (or the one hour special) of Naruto Shippuden. Each episode keeps getting better and better! It started with Itachi remembering his past, and how he 'snapped' and killed most of his clan. It seemed that the only one he let survive was his brother Sasuke. He didn't kill him, simply because he wanted to fight him in the future. They finally meet again and fight. They have this Genjustu 'standoff' for a while. (Genjutsu literally means illusionary techniques.) Eventually, Itachi realizes that Sasuke has become much stronger than he thought. Sasuke stabs him with his sword through his chest. Sasuke wants to know the 3rd person who can use the Mangekyo Sharingan is. Once he finds out from Itachi, he plans to kill him too. The 3rd person is Madara Uchiha. He was the first person to possess the Mangekyo Sharingan. Madara was the one who helped Itachi kill the clan. If a user uses this eye jutsu too often, they'll go blind. Madara was also the first to tame the Kyuubi with that eye. Itachi shows Sasuke Madara's past through his Genjutsu. Madara and his brother would kill anyone they were close to, just so they can hone their ocular skills. Stopped there only because I had a horrible internet connection. Oh well, I'll pick it up again soon. ^_^

For Japanese, I watched some of TV Japan. Picked up a lot more than I thought. (Yet again.) It's always fun to figure out most of what they are saying. Makes me feel more confident about the test coming up. :D Oh, and I found some good Youtube videos. Yeah, I know it's been a while. (It really calms me down too. I should look at them more often!)

Youtube:
Funny one about raccoons
Cats dancing (or singing) to songs
What's under Kakashi's mask? XD
Brain Training game- Another hilarious skit by Jinnai Tomonori