Just finish of my japanese curry paste...

Chicken, Potatoes, Onion and Carrot

Rice soak in the eggs for 2-3 min b4 friying it... (put some soy sauce, and if u fancy pepper, u can put some.. but i dont like it... so no pepper).

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not so good picture taken year 2007 since camera was haywired

Yes, this year i found someone to go with me .... and another good point i dont need to drive during that day since it gonna be a headache just to look for a parking~

Hahah... hopefully it dont rain during that day... PRAY ~~ will updates with zillion pictures since my camera was fix years ago....

BON ODORI HERE I COME.....

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As a chinese school ex student, we often encounter chinese calligraphy, which was one of the task i hate the most, because i dont write beautiful calligraphy, and often we have to follow exactly the same in order to get full marks, which eventually block our creativity to do so.

There are two type of "mao pi" (the brush), one of the Chinese which u have to deep in the "mo" (ink) which smell very bad, another one of the Japanese which the ink were already in there (just like a pen and the brush is harder,easier to control).

Japanese "Mao Pi" was our favourite choice, but the school teacher banned us from using Japanese "mao pi", which was a headache for us, because to write "Xiao Kai" (smaller version of calligraphy) were often difficult enough, especially the chinese "Mao pi" is soft.

However, remembering the old day~ we were smart enough to use Japanese "mao pi" with the Chinese "mo" so the teacher wont found out. (if used Japanese "mao pi" with the pre loaded ink, the trace at the back of the paper sheet will turned blue, and if you used "mo" the trace will turn black, so the teacher wont found out~).

That was the old day, few days back, an old uncle supplier was looking at my way of holding pen, and stated that the way i hold it will not able to write calligraphy @@'', lol sort of been stepped on the tail... so decided to ask my dad to teach me (yeah he have nice calligraphy writing....) so i try to write my name~... which turned out disaster at 1st haha.... but...

This is the calligraphy that i can write for now... demo Ganbarimasu!

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I enjoyed learning Japanese language (Nihongo~) haha, so today i'm going to share few words i enjoyed reading, because it is so long to read~~~ haha

1.Ainiku Shitsurei Shina Kereba Naranai n desu (Unfortunately, I have to go)
2.Nani wo nasatte imasuka (what do u work as?)
3.ikana kereba naranai n desu (have to go)
4.muzukashii (Difficult)
5.yasashii (easy)
6.kanashii (Sad)
7.ureshii(glad, happy)
8.ikutsumoridesu (plan to go) i always forgot this ~~ lol
9. Natsu wa totemo daikirai desu (i hate summer very much)
10. koko no Natsu wa atsui desu (summer here is hot!)
11. kokusaibu (internation department)
12. osokunatte sumimasen (sorry i'm late)


well all the words i learned r from audio, and they dont have any notes, all my notes i based solely on my listening skill and drop it down, sometimes when i needed to confirm, ill look through the dictionary... (i know i learn it in the hard way~)

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Years ago, i enrolled in a noob Japanese class in my ex Uni, and it really brings back the memories of the classes each thursday.

My classmate refused to join me, because they think is stupid, so who cares about them, so i joined and met new friends, the sensei is a nice man, and today he still is, although he hardly remember who am i, although every year ill sent happy teacher's day and happy chinese new year SMS to him.

Anyway, today I wanted to share Day (nichi) of the month(getsu) in Japanese (nihongo) because i remembered my sensei challeged us in the class and no one can answered, so i told him, next week, I will able to answer it all... muahaha which i did. ~

Since i cant type hiragana here (nutang dont support it) ill just have romanji type

Days of the Month: (according to orders)
Tsuitachi 1st
Futsuka 2nd
Mikka 3rd
Youka 4th
Itsuka 5th
Muika 6th
Nanoka 7th
Youka 8th
Kokonoka 9th
Touka 10th
Juu Ichi Nichi 11th
Juu Ni Nichi 12th
Juu San Nichi 13th
Juu Yokka 14th
Juu Go Nichi 15th
Juu Roku Nichi 16th
Juu Shichi Nichi 17th
Juu Hachi Nichi 18th
Juu Ku Nichi 19th
Hatsuka 20th
Ni Juu Ichi Nichi 21st
Ni Juu Ni Nichi 22nd
Ni Juu San Nichi 23rd
Ni Juu Yokka 24th
Ni Juu Go Nichi 25th
Ni Juu Roku Nichi 26th
Ni Juu Shichi Nichi 27th
Ni Juu Hachi Nichi 28th
Ni Juu Ku Nichi 29th
San Juu Nichi 30th
San Juu Ichi Nichi 31st

Nan Nichi (What date/How many days)

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Tips to learn Japanese from my opinion ~ lol no scientific proven tho. Master both Hiragana and Katakana first before you get your hand on Japanese, because it will be easier for the later parts. I used to learn romanji first so the tendency for me to look at the words are often romanji, is so hard to switch my brain to look at it as hiragana/katakana. Which slower down my reading skill.

Learn some simple kanji, pick along the way you learn, some of the link provided, come with kana, kanji, romanji, and translation, so it often helps to learn abit :D

http://www.readthekanji.com/login
My favourite site of the century, LOL, have to register (remember to provide the email add, since it is the new policy)… I learned most of my kanji here… but answering in romanji tho…

You can choose what to learn too, like you can change the flash card for hiragana only, or katakana only, or by level kanji… remember start with level 4….

http://www.manythings.org/japanese/jlpt/
Mostly it concentrate on the test itself (I think) and you can do the quiz too, by identifying the kanji with the correct meaning, often it is tough for those who do not know kanji. (Often I think that those that know Mandarin have the advantage, because you don’t have to memorize the kanji as in the meaning, only to know how it is read in Nihongo)

http://www.jlptstudy.com/4/index.html
JLPT Level 4 Vocabulary List, you can click on to level 3, level 2, but stick with level 4 because is the beginner level. :D

It have a lot of vocabulary with meaning, is a list, you can learned from it, or print it out and stick at your bed side to learn.

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ik2r-myr/kanji/kanji1pa.htm
u don’t have to download to use this program, is a flash card which help you to learn kanji, I haven’t really tried it yet, because I still believe in typing in the answer ~.


That’s all I have for now, once I find some other place with interesting link, ill share again :D

Happy Learning :D

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