So apparently words can trigger desires in one’s brain?
Fuck you, Marketing class!
But seriously, I am about to start up a Dreamcast game called Eldorodo Gate. And now I want Doritos?
This is some kind of cruel trick by my bastard of a brain, I am sure. I decided to sate it’s foul desires and I came back less handed than I had hoped.
For in this country of Japan I couldn’t find Doritos this time. But I did find Dontacos, which, sound almost like Doritos?
I mean, they are corn flavored corn chips. So how can I go wrong?
ADDENDUM:
Good lord, can I ever go wrong. They do taste like corn soup, like promised. But this is just too weird for even me.
Published on
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 in
Musings.
Despite my adventures in brain training, my memory is just seeming to get worse.
There was something I wanted to write about today, but I can’t remember what it was. I really should start taking notes.
I feel some sort of shame in note taking. This couples up with using bookmarks for my web browsers or even books that I am reading. I feel some sort of inner betrayal if I am showing to the outside world what I am thinking. I would rather show up somewhere with nothing in hand than something that would end up being unnecessary.
I’m not sure what that even means. But on a random tangent, I’m dating again.
She’s quite a fun girl and she even looks at this site to see my daily pictures. I kind of feel awkward writing about her, though, because as she isn’t fluent in English anything I say would go by undetected. That feels slimy to me, even if everything I would say would be quite nice things.
I’ve been going to bed quite early as of late and this trend almost bothers me. Am I giving up on my youth? Or are things just changing?
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 in
Japan and Musings.
So in an effort to increase my Japanese reading ability, I have been shuffling through a lot of different manga.
I loved Yotsuba&, but really it has been the only one that grabbed me. Berserk didn’t. Neither did GTO or Hale nochi Guu. I’m kinda digging Azumanga but the lack of furigana is teaming up with my laziness to slow down the reading process. I’m poking through Cromartie but the anime is just much better.
On a whim, I read the first few chapters of Dragonball today, and I have been having a, well, ball.
I kinda ignored the thought of reading it because it’s so… classic? I mean to say, you begin to wonder if it is good because everyone says it is good or because it actually is good.
While I never really enjoyed the shows, I am finding the manga to so far be a hilarious romp. The story is rolling along at a good speed and the events are interesting. It is injected with more humor that I expected, but that’s hardly a complaint. If I had to complain about anything it’s that sometimes the font in this collection for the chapter opening and closing parts is a tad blurry and hard to read but I think I’ll get by.
Capcom is releasing Mega Man 9 this week, which is totally fucking awesome. The old style of graphics and probably no horrendous voice acting? And maybe some difficulty up in there? Awesome!
What they have done wrong is announced some downloadable content far too soon.
Continue reading ‘Money, Money, Money’
（これは二週間前に書いたけど保存した時、間違えた！）
給食大好きやな！
夏休みに時々だけ一日に三回食べた。大体遅くて起きたから朝ご飯は昼ご飯のときに食べた。それでよく昼ご飯か晩御飯を食べなかった。でも食べた時は多分悪い時に食べた。悪〜〜ィ。
昨日と一昨日は学校に行ったけど今日まで給食がなかった。
ですけど！
今日はカツのサンドとポテトサラダとなとか汁とフローズンヨーグルトやった！あ、すごい。
Published on
Saturday, September 20, 2008 in
Gaming.
For the dual reason of having my brain become less than complete mush and perhaps increase my Japanese abilities, I have purchased 東北大学未来科学技術共同研究センター 川島隆太教授監修 もっと脳を鍛える大人のDSトレーニング which is the long Japanese way of saying Brain Age 2.
So as a non-native speaker of Japanese working with software designed for not-me how have I been faring?
Continue reading ‘Brain Training in Japanese for the White Man’
I went and tired to conquer the level ten curry at CoCo Ichibanya last night.
Level 9 left me shivering and in a state of near hallucination. I braced myself for the coming storm.
Like the typhoon that never hit, the promises of blindingly spicy food also did not. I cannot attest to what happened in the kitchen, but my tastebuds may be so dead at this point I cannot register the pain.
I will do it again and hope.
Published on
Friday, September 19, 2008 in
Musings.
I believe my problem with the iPhone is that it adds a whole new level of convenience to my life without suiting all of my needs. I guess it is not my white… knightess? Is there a feminine form of knight? Do we need one?
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Thursday, September 18, 2008 in
Random.
So, I broke down and got an iPhone. Will write up my opinions on the thing in a bit but wanted to do a test first.
Well, no. It is not ironic.
But I just watched Season 3 Episode 8 of LOST in Japanese. Now besides it being a fucking awesome episode, I remember it well for reasons other than its quality.
See, this episode aired February 13, 2007. The night before my interview for JET.
I had driven what took far too many hours to get to New Jersey to drive again to NYC for my Thursday interview. I was exhausted and nervous as hell. I was crashing at Josh‘s dorm and I remember we were frantically trying to get two pairs of headphones working on his computer to watch the feed going through his TV tuner as speakers were lacking.
I guess it just seems funny to me that an episode about memories got solidified with solid memories of my own.
