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So my laptop is broken. D: It has served me faithfully for more than 5 years, but it seems this is the end ( Read more... )

Note to self: when participating in a speech competition judged by people who are essentially salarymen/women, a speech poking fun at Japanese companies, corporate culture, and, well, salarymen... is not going to win you the competition. Even if your presentation is pretty much perfect and you made the audience laugh quite a bit, and were super- ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'm going to be appearing in the school speech contest and I had damn well better win a prize or something, because I'm awesome. Um. My speech will probably piss off the judges though so perhaps there will be no prize for me ( Read more... )

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When I checked the weather forecast today, it said temperatures would get up to 72. I can live with 72 ( Read more... )

Will somebody kindly hook me up with a Gmail invitation?I have been told that gmail does not fuck up Japanese text during the mailing process like hotmail does. If this is true, I need gmail. My domain mail fucks up Japanese text, my hotmail fucks up Japanese text, everthing fucks up Japanese text except for (tada) Mixi mail, which of course I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went to visit a friend of mine, which involves a 45-minute train ride of no less than three different trains. On the final leg of my journey, I happened to walk into the train car filled with cute little Japanese boy and girl scouts ( Read more... )

I hate it when people nit-pick and bitch about how hard living in Japan is.

OK, so I just made a bitchy post about the train system failure a few days ago... but that's not the kind of thing I'm talking about. It's just that people act so damn helpless. I read LJ's of other expats and wonder, why the hell are you even here? If it's so fucking ( Read more... )

The thing I hate about the whole foreign language immersion thing is that it makes me retarded at my native language. D: I make the most ridiculous mistakes when I use English these days.

It's just stupid/embarrassing. =_=