Clean my room-stack magazines for recycling, sweep the floor, organize, make space, think about where to put my huge life-sized St. Bernard stuffed animal. He has to move so my easel can go up by my curtains. Throw away useless papers/get them ready for recycling, make a pile for bills to be paid (oops), do my laundry. Learn how to use the Canon ( Read more... )

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I dream of a fast, stable internet connection that will let me view webpages and download at the same time. I dream of doing what I love 24/7. But this isn't a bad life. I love meeting different friends & groups of people on the weekends or just relaxing by myself; my spare time is so rare that it becomes that much more enjoyable ( Read more... )

I'm going back to Taiwan from Nov. 21-26, hopefully armed with a fancy-schmancy camera borrowed from work, gobs of energy & determination, and a cheerful outlook on the trip. I'll eat much delicious food (night market stuff, meat buns, noodles with big Fuzhou-style fishballs - I may refuse to waste my time & stomach eating anything I don't really ( Read more... )

As usual, I have no good excuse for not posting more often. However, what have you been reading lately?

Recently, I've been reading more because of some avid readers at work (currently reading Enduring Love on the train, next in line are The Time Traveler's Wife, Kite Runner, White Teeth). It's really great because I've only been thinking about ( Read more... )

I don't say that I like to learn foreign languages, because I have the sense that, if so, I'd be learning a lot more, that it would somehow be this whirlwind trip around the world through words. My English/Japanese/Chinese are simply parts of me that need to be fleshed out, that are like structures still in construction at various stages. They ( Read more... )

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I think this video clip is already pretty well-known, but if you haven't heard it, give it a try. While scanning newspapers at work, I recently read about him coming to Japan on a tour.

Looking for something beautiful to color my life, I'd like to see this if possible. Apparently, it's a ballet about Yang Guifei which looks incredibly beautiful, at least from the posters and train commercials I've been seeing. I could go for that - being taken away by that has radiance, vibrant energy, magic. I love the arts - there is no way ( Read more... )

Japanese actor Ken Watanabe poses with Canon's new EOS 40D high quality digital SLR camera

I wasn't really wowed by seeing in-person the stars of Ima Ai ni Yukimasu. Even Takizawa Hideaki didn't get that much out of me. But for some reason, Watanabe Ken genuinely wowed me a bit. I also managed to be slightly in his way when he was leaving and ( Read more... )

...am incredibly busy trying to pull together my final project for my Japanese language program ( Read more... )