Chasing After Rainbows

*poke* *poke* Learning languages can be quite challenging. How difficult it is depends on the following things: how much you already know that language languages that you already know and how smilar they are to the language you are learning the age you started learning it: the younger, the easier learning ability how you memorize it everything else, because it affect your concentration As I have learn English since erm... I can't remember when exactly, but it appears that I somehow already knew some form of it prior to entering primary/elementary. Since I have learn it at some age, I can understand it better than my peers who started learning it later. I am able to understand various slangs, heavy accents derived from another language, official documents written in it, and obviously, menus and signs. On top of that, I am exposed to at least 15 different languages and dialects. Despite the above, I, for some reason, am unable to start or continue a conversation with someone, due to ...

I rarely put up new blog entries less than 24 hours after the previous one on the same blog With Summer 2008 anime approaching and have been paying attention to my anime watch list since early April this year, you would notice that those mentioned here (and here ) are hardly mentioned under "likely to watch" are currently there and some of "not likely to watch" are actually listed. For most of them, I would just watch 1 episode and see if it's good. But for some of them, I might watch more and sometime more than half-way through the series before dropping it. For anime that falls into the latter include: Neo Angelique Abyss (just plain boring) Kanokon (far too much intolerable sexual scenes than To LOVE-Ru ; character design is decent, but the picture quality is like crap) Kamen no Maid Guy (same as above; storyline doesn't seem to go anywhere; character design and picture quality looks like crap) Wagaya no Oinarisama. (I actually fell asleep watching ...

What seem like a long day now seems shorter than usual. Today is the day my juniors of the 生徒会 officially entered. Anyways, despite knowing that if I sleep for less than 9 hours, I ended up sleeping less than that. For going to sleep, I have the habit of sleeping around midnight, though it used to be at 2-3am. As for waking up, I woke up around 5:45am (obviously less that 9 hours latter) as my school is quite far to get to. If I were to take the train or bus , I have to leave by about 1-2 hours before class starts. However, if I were to go by taxi or car I can leave up to 30mins before, assuming that there are no irregular traffic jam along the way. There was a drum performance in the morning, I think I fell asleep as I don't recall what exactly happened most of the time. In class, I also felt sleepy, but it's not so bad as compared to just a week ago where temperatures were about 5 degrees centigrade higher than normal that lasted for more than a month, until yesterday. During...

Above image is best viewed when wearing those "3D-glasses" The exams are over! Now I can take a breather with all the crap pushed to me aside, for now. I have to admit, school is fun, but the lessons are getting harder and harder for me to understand that it seems that I'm getting further and further away from catching up. So, unless I'm really interested in the subject, I don't normally study for a subject, even if the exam is just the following day. :P So anyways, I have translated the text of a chapter of To Love-Ru (とらぶる) not long ago due to the boredom I had when typing in the original language . It wasn't easy trying to translate as I had no references to the earlier chapters except for the anime (which at the time of this post, at episode 8). I know that there are errors in the translated version, but translating from a language from one to another that has a completely different sentence structure and writing system, inaccuracies can happen. Speaking ...

I need a break... Yesterday (24 May), was the outing for the 生徒会 (I somehow became a member of it), we went to an offshore island . We waited for a long time for everyone to arrive at the meeting point before heading there. As we reached the part of the island with a lot of people, we had lunch that wasn't so bad. After eating, the members who organize the event explained that there would a racing game that is somewhat like a particular U.S. reality TV show (don't know why) where we run around the entire island searching for clues and doing some tasks. Before the start of the race, they told us to leave our belongings behind, which would be brought to the finishing line. Searching for an unknown place was difficult at a place you aren't familiar with. The distance between places was quite far, but fortunately, air-condition transport and a map are provided, though not so as most of the locations they told us to go are like off-the-beaten-track kind of places. Thanks to the...

The hall where sports activities and performances are held. Do you ever get the feeling of your eyes forcing themselves to close and your head moving uncontroably, possibly ending up on the shoulder of the person sitting next to you, even for a while? Also, do you find yourself just before getting up, your body is annoyingly hard to move and that even the dimmest light that you first see very glaring? Wait, what am I talking about? Oh yes, I was saying that later on today, that the Jan 2008 intake of SC would take place over there . I have yet to get ready, but shouldn't be that difficult. I don't like my sister. She keeps nagging (in a loud voice) at me if she doesn't like what I had done. I also don't like the way she dresses too, from the clothes to the hairstyle. As for my parents, let's just say they are not so tech-savvy as they are born around the early 1960s. (I don't know how they met either.) So, I am old enough to make my stand to make decisions for ...

The last 4 images of the previous post would explain some of the busy things I'm going through this month, which includes test and various events that might not allow me to prepare the former. I wonder how much time I would be able to shave different my life would be if I didn't join the SC... In any case, I'm at the limit of handing the situation I'm in right now. Just don't make it worse by even nagging at me. (Asking whether I understood something more than twice in a row at a time is also considered nagging.) Add that to the current hot El Niño/Summer season and the La Niña/unusually cold winter that happened not too long ago. The visitor map now shows increasing visitors from Japan, India, Europe, and North America. I wonder where exactly were they viewing. As for visitors from Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philipnes (not sure about Singapore; too small to tell), they are mainly contributed by views to my friendster profiles. If you want to have your own, go to...