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was there anything bad said about the combination of the element water and the zodiac sign cancer this year?

seems like most of my mishaps recently has got to do with contact with water. yesterday’s did not exactly start with water contact problem (i mean, i took a bath, and nothing bad happened!), however during the span of the day lots of bad luck happened culminating with – what else? – a watery conclusion.

i guess enumeration would be the best way to dole it out: (continue reading…)

… or with any written language exam for that matter, is that they don’t really cover one’s capability or grasp of the language in its entirety.

i’ve just received my internal jlpt score, and while it is more than what i expected (especially since i was not able to study, and that the night before the exam i spent the wee hours creating a monthly report!), i didn’t get the least bit elated.  i’m really not that confident that i am almost at the 二級 level (yes, my career high stil does not meet the company target!).  my main concern is that i could not really speak nihongo when the need arises (as compared with some of the people here).  i really wouldn’t mind my score if not for how some view the meaning of its value.  unfortunately, i believe there are those who would think that since one is able to get a certain amount of score, one should be able to read, write, and speak in a certain level.  the life of a japanese-owned company employee.

on the bright side, my ever-increasing score disproves my idea that i can’t progress with my japanese.  progress is slow, yes, but at least there’s still progress!

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last week, kyashi just bought herself a new toy:

thanks to an officemate of mine, we were able to purchase the laptop for only (?) php25k flat. add 900 for converting the ram into 2gig, and we got ourselves one hell of a deal.

more of a luxury than a need (rich man’s replacement for the ds?), although the initial idea why we bought the mini-note was so that i can have a means to contact kyashi when i go to my us vacation in september. however for the 9 days that we own the eeepc, i’ve only used it for maybe 4 hours tops! now i wonder if i’ll really be bringing it to the us with me…

photo courtesy of the asus site. i forgot to take a picture of kyashi and the black version of the eeepc.

i asked kyashi’s permission to go home early 2 days before the USA Greece men’s basketball game, so obviously i am looking forward to catching this game on tv.  partly because this is the latest version of a usa team with nba players, which anyone would agree always dishes out some flashy highlight plays, and partly because i’ve read a lot of comments that jason kidd is already too old to be considered an exceptional player. (continue reading…)