So instead of using my precious non-work time studying Chinese, I wrote a program that would help me study Chinese. Uhh, I guess it was more an excuse to break out the compiler and write some working code. My job as a 'program manager' gives me a lot of interesting things to do all day, but sadly most of it doesn't involve coding. If you're any ( Read more... )

So now I'm entrenched in the corner of a cafe mulling over the last few days. I'll start from yesterday and go backward... er no wait, that'll be hard ( Read more... )

I was going to write a big long entry about all the places I've been for the last two weeks, but it's getting late and I wanted to have something up for now. I'll post more later and link to flickr when I get all my photos up, but for now you'll have to make due with a list (like anyone's counting ( Read more... )

I'm back in the US for a short business trip (my first one evaar ( Read more... )

So I guess maybe some of my friends still read this. I neglect my journal 'cause (1) I can't write well, and (2) I'm a lazy bastard ( Read more... )

Uhh, so yes. I've finally arrived at my destination -- Beijing. I've been here for the past few days, and a lot of old memories from my summer trips studying at 人民大学 are coming back. I visited the campus yesterday curious to find what's changed. I think they were on break because there were no students around, but the campus looked pretty much ( Read more... )

I'm in Osaka today attempting to get my visa. If everything goes well I will be in Beijing on the 19th! Can't wait...

I really hope I don't have to take a shit within the next 10 hours. I ran out of toilet paper, and I don't see anything around here that looks soft enough to replace it. I'll just hold it until I arrive at my next place tomorrow morning. I'm moving out of my current weekly mansion (as they call it here, it's really just an apartment) and into ( Read more... )

My birthday was yesterday (two days ago, now?), so I've pretty much had no time to "blog." This might be counted as a good thing since if I was blogging I wouldn't be out and about. However, this isn't so important to me ( Read more... )

我最近买一本学中文的书. 我这些星期有很多空. 去中国以前希望练习一下中文, 可是在日本没有太多机会联系中文. 只有联系日语. 可能是日常日语比我日常中文好. 因为我是在大学学习汉语, 我们在课堂老学汉字或者文学. 我们没有练习日常用的中文. 现在我在日本跟很多日本朋友练习日语,所以我会讲很多日文的口语(可是大部分不太有意思的). 我希望中国也有这样的经验. 在日本,人人都不会英文,所以我每天一定说日文. 北京可能也是, 可是我在北京人民大学的时候, 很多人跟我说英文. 这是大学的, 可能工作的经验不一样.

update: 我改有些很笨的错误了。谢谢kuroneko