The R3dragon’s Blog

I haven’t posted a single thing the entire Summer break and now that it’s over I’m embarrassed. The thing was that the good intentions were always there, but somehow my summer was hi-jacked by books, travel, and a special girl who I’ve come to like very much. I suppose that’s not all that bad. I [...]

It’s almost 7 pm and I’m sitting at my desk quietly studying while picking up an hour or two of overtime. It’s so peaceful here now, but not just an hour earlier the hustle and bustle of Japanese workers rushing out the door made this same very place sound like a zoo… thus I give [...]

So lately I’ve been studying the kanji for Japan’s 5th level (1 being the highest) Kanji Proficiency test. I’m doing this because my biggest weakness to the JLPT is the reading and recognition of Kanji. I’m hoping that through working through the Kanji step books my reading skills will go up and I can go [...]

Sometimes the day to day events in life feel like a dream…. Like a giant hoax that one day I might wake up from. However it’s nothing that I could resist. We know what events merged together to put us here. We choose safe over adventure and that’s why we’re here. Sometimes I feel that [...]

The world seems to spin way too fast some days… Years sometimes come and go so fast that days become too small of a measure of time… almost as if they’re one with minutes and seconds. Such as it is, it’s likely that if we thought hard about it, the days we swear have past [...]

I haven’t written in a long time… Exactly why I don’t know… Perhaps I don’t have much to say anymore or perhaps I haven’t felt like writing anything or doing much at all lately. My work teaching kids typically leaves me feeling exhausted. I don’t why, but teaching elementary school aged kids successfully requires lots [...]

As a project to get rolling on and to have some focus on my Japanese studies I’m going to prepare for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test level 2 by December 2010… I’ve laid out my strategy over at my really-need-to-update Japanese page here I’ve ordered my books and now am cracking into the vocab/kanji at [...]

In the movie “Mada yo” the characters sing a Children’s folk song that I really liked: Youtube: Lyrics: 出た出た　月が (deta deta tsuki ga) It’s out, It’s out, The Moon is out まるいまるい　まんまるい (ma-ru-i ma-ru-i man-marui It’s round, It’s round, Perfectly round 盆のような　月が (bon no yoo na tsuki ga) The moon seems like a lantern (O-bon- [...]

Wow… I probably should have posted more stuff a lot sooner. But anyway… There is lots to talk about… A list of things I’ll try to post this week are: The Japanese Driving Exam & drive test (運転免許試験受験票　unten menkyo shiken juu ken hyou) The change of teachers on April 1st. A review of 10 awesome [...]

This is a photo I took a couple of weeks ago of a coffee shop in Wakinosawa in Shimokita that’s gone out of business most likely. (click for bigger) Details: Taken and edited 3/6/2010 by me with a Sony DSLR-A200 f-stop: F/13; Exposure: 1/2000 ISO:800 @ 28mm edited in Photoshop.. ~J out //