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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: Konnichiwa bitches!
« on: Aug 07, 2007, 05:40:32 AM »
GAH! JAPANASE KANJI....BREAKING MIND...
I used only 1 Japanese kanji character, actually. Erm. Yeah. Kanji are the usually-more-complicated-looking characters taken from Chinese.

I'm thinking of taking a japanese class. I bet the writing part of it is murder.
Well, if your handwriting sucks to begin with, then probably yes. Well, mine is a bit messy, too, but I can write legibly usually and maybe even neater if I try. If you can handle a pencil, and can memorize writing stuff via writing it over and over like they had you do in kindergarten with English letters, then it's doable. My main point is that it's not murder. Well, I had a head start because I learned how to read/write hiragana and katakana before I ever took a class...

Shit, I wrote 2-3 more paragraphs after this but I deleted it because I felt it was too long-winded. Basically you just have about 40 main characters to learn, called "hiragana," and another set that represents the same sounds but are written a bit differently, called "katakana." All these characters are not as complicated as the Chinese characters ("kanji") and it doesn't take forever to write them. Hiragana/katakana is kind of like our alphabet, and you can use it to phonetically write out every Japanese word and stuff.

But they just don't stop there; they have to use Chinese characters to represent a lot of their words, too, instead of just writing them out phonetically. In Japanese, they don't use spaces between words... kanji kind of makes it easier to read/recognize stuff, then, and also helps differentiate among words that sound exactly the same but have different meanings. When you're done with first Japanese class (like, the first level... Japanese 101 or something) you'll have learned about 50-60 kanji or something... but sadly that's not enough because Japanese speakers know like 1000-2000 kanji... But hey you won't even know all the verbs/nouns/grammar of Japanese yet, just like with other foreign languages.

Hello there!!!

Impressive.


ここには、日本語を知っている人がありますか。いっしょにれんしゅうしましょうか。

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: Konnichiwa bitches!
« on: Aug 05, 2007, 06:36:55 PM »
おかえりなさい。

どこに行ったんですか。

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The small comedic relief-type critters are usually the fan favorites...  :joe: :poo: :rawr:

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: bored....
« on: Aug 04, 2007, 06:59:50 AM »
D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

And I Said... TM2... I LOST THAT SONG!!! @_@
What? You want it or something?

That was the idea. :(

I can't find it on any filesharing network or anything. ;_;
Hell, just send their entire discography through rapidshare because I'm such a cheap bastard :P
http://rapidshare.com/files/46905627/02_Ichigo_GO_GO_.mp3.html

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: bored....
« on: Jul 31, 2007, 03:13:18 PM »
D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

And I Said... TM2... I LOST THAT SONG!!! @_@
What? You want it or something?

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Y'know, I think maybe the storyboards were drawn by Miyazaki himself. I'm not too sure, though. I think it's neat to look at them. I like looking at sketches and stuff. It's kinda neat to see how the pros work.

There seems to be a nice helping of extras on the first disc, though. But, it seems to be focused a lot on the American localization of it. But it shows Miyazaki visiting Pixar studios and them screening the English version there (and it's a neat-looking place, I guess). And uh, there's another one where it shows Christian Bale recording his voice for Howl.

But yeah, I didn't like Howl's Moving Castle. I saw Spirited Away, thought it was mostly pretty good, so I bought Howl's Moving Castle when it came out on DVD. Come to think of it, those two movies are kinda similar... they draaaaaaaaag on when it nears the end, and then they put in a rush ending -_-



Someone lent me the first Karas DVD a long time ago, so I watched it. I couldn't see shit. It was too dark. This may have been largely the fault of my dad's projection TV that we used to watch it, as that TV is kinda old, seems blurrier than a regular TV, and has very poor contrast for dark scenes (I couldn't play some video games on it for this reason, because it was so dark).
The first scene in Karas was kinda neat, and reminded me a bit of Big-O.
But overall, I thought the DVD was a waste of time.


I also borrowed Blood: The Last Vampire, which was better. It's only about 45-50 minutes long, though. If you watch it with the original audio (which I think may be all there is), some characters speak both English and Japanese throughout the story. I thought this was pretty new and unique, and it fits within the context of the story. Oh, and this "movie" is kinda dark... and the main character, Saya, is pretty serious and gruff, unlike how she is in that Blood+ series (Which I don't watch, because it looks like they made her meek and useless).

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Persocon? パソコン? Personal computer?

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Did you visit any cool toy stores?
Yes. This one toy store with multiple floors was actually a part of the tour intinerary. Pics of that... may come in the next set of pictures.

Going back to America, we had 8 hours in Japan for changing planes. My parents and I did something kinda risky (for foreigners with little knowledge of the Japanese language), which was taking the train to Akihabara Electric Town (geek, electronics area...). I have a few pics of that, as well... But I feel like doing these pics in order, maybe, so it will be a while until I reach that point.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/kyymmxzzynamuzcjmwmz.jpg
I noticed that at least around here, their road markings were... weird. It looked like they didn't really paint the road or something, but just stuck these white stickers/tape stuff on the road or something???
You dufus, they do that in the US as well. At least in Michigan they do... all the arrows and stop lines are some kind of tape.

It also looks like you've been hacked by the Laughing Man. GitS is true!
Woops, well, I don't go outside much. >_>
Well around here, it seems all they do with the road markings is just spraypaint/paint it on using stencils and stuff.

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Toilet's in a separate, small closet-like room next to the bathroom. Oddly, the lightswitch is located on the outside.

Ew, they did that in the Habitat for Humanity houses with the single bathrooms (at least at the time when we were building some), where the toilet is in a closet thing and the sink is on the other side.  You have to touch the door and the lights with fecal hands.  Noooooooooo.


All of that food looks so tasty.  And I haven't had any lunch.  :(
Well, there are some models of toilets (not pictured) that had this little sink and faucet at the top, where normally the cover for the toilet reservoir and floating-ball-thingie would be. When you flush, some water (clean, I hope) comes out of the faucet and you can use it to wash your hands...

But, yeah, well I guess I'm glad that I did not get fecal matter on my hands.

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That's it for now. I've been quite lazy in uploading more.

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Well, maybe I should just put links to the next images.

Alright, here's some more pics... of... the next day!

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/w3jmzrazgeh4ljodydmy.jpg
In the morning, we ate at a breakfast buffet on an upper level of the hotel... They had a lot of nice western stuff (eggs, scrambled eggs which were kinda watery/soggy but it was good, bacon, sausages, ham, cereal, toast, dry flavor-lacking spaghetti...) and some Asian stuff (rice, nattou [pictured above], shumai, miso soup...). Perhaps unfortunately, the breakfast buffets in the future would also seem to feature some of the exact same foods, especially the western food, as if they got it all from a common supplier.

K so after that we had to take our baggage out to the lobby and stuff since we would be going on and staying at a different hotel later that night, and we would be at a different hotel each night...

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/kyymmxzzynamuzcjmwmz.jpg
I noticed that at least around here, their road markings were... weird. It looked like they didn't really paint the road or something, but just stuck these white stickers/tape stuff on the road or something???

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/m5ggjoo1ogijidk0otzf.jpg
The traffic got congested/stuck as we started to enter the city...
http://images.cdmazika.com/files/yj2ykumeqymmnnt2yyx1.jpg
Ocasionally they have these nifty signs that show you where the congestion is. Orange is "medium," I suppose, and "red" is "quite congested" or "completely stopped" or something.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/mo3wy3zzmydan2qdndfn.jpg
Me at this museum dealing with some parts of Japanese history. On the first floor is a bigass, wide old-timey replica of a bridge which I am standing on, as well as a bunch of artifacts like samurai armor and stuff behind glass. Below the bridge is another floor with more stuff. There were a lot of kids wearing various school uniforms that day...

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/thhdz0mm4oyiotydcbzo.jpg
Miniature models...
http://images.cdmazika.com/files/1moiuwogmjmqmtw4gw44.jpg
http://images.cdmazika.com/files/mgyenhzwbeztxvatm1yk.jpg
These are modern miniature models, I believe.
I wonder if the guys who made these were also geeks who were into model kits or something...
http://images.cdmazika.com/files/krzmzjvmndkvzmdoqwdm.jpg
http://images.cdmazika.com/files/jrmkjmzyhngnfmz1njgj.jpg
http://images.cdmazika.com/files/m4mezznmmj1urmrnmizt.jpg
This is a replica of an old-style traditional Japanese house. Inside the floor is covered in straw matting called tatami, and uh, other stuff. There are a bunch of small rooms and a small kitchen. A couple of the rooms had pillows on the floor and a low table to sit at.

You had to take your shoes off before going in... there was a sign outside saying to tidy up the place and arrange your shoes neatly next to everyone else's, but it seemed that nobody was doing this... ^_^;;

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/tqzzz3unzaixt5q2n2to.jpg
Damn, I can't remember where the hell this temple-y place was or what the name of it was.
http://images.cdmazika.com/files/rnmmjyd1mzog4yoixylw.jpg
So, they had this funky fountain where you scoop up some of the water to wash your hands with. Well, really, it's to "cleanse" your hands before you go pray to the big Buddah statue that they have in a big building near this location.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/cul53fimg2nmj5nejym5.jpg
This was taken inside of the big building. Uhm, this thing... uhhh... you put a 100 yen coin in one of those tall metal containers, then open a drawer and take out this piece of paper.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/tz5y5ygizi1muvmwgzuz.jpg
Not quite sure what these painted lanterns are for. I think they had some brand/company names on them??

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/mnmyn2fnzxyim2l2ldym.jpg
Hrm. These buildings almost look like some of the ones in Vietnam.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/cjnm2mmxjvmwnem4xez2.jpg
Hrm, that 100 yen piece of paper... People throw it into this fire here. The smoke and ash that results is supposed to be lucky/healing. People waft the stuff onto the part of the body that they want to be... uh... healed or have luck in.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/t2wyuznlwidki12jfmln.jpg
There are a lot of vendors nearby selling various things. This place sells these funky crunchy fried things with sweet bean paste inside. Crunchy on the outside and warm, soft, and sweet on the inside. I tried a peach-flavored one, I think, but it was a different place farther down the path.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/wmztujwiwnndlljzmuhl.jpg
And by path, I mean this path. It was raining the whole time there. By backpack got soaked. My noob self decided to take it off the bus. In the future I just left it in the bus. My parents bought an umbrella first for 500 yen or so... that was kinda small and broke later on. Soon I decided I didn't want my books to get destroyed so I stepped into another place and bought a bigger umbrella for only 300 yen. It lasted me the entire trip, but I had to leave it at my relatives' house in Vietnam because it would have been burdensome to carry it along.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/2tgjinizhzdh5jonuznn.jpg
Walk farther down the path and you'll come to an indoor place. Woo.

http://images.cdmazika.com/files/ft5hzztlvgmhghnzdmtl.jpg
Our tour guide took the group to a food court/mall area that had a shabu shabu restaurant. For some reason, the food here was pretty bland...! The meat, even. They had a medium/big-sized pot of boiling water in the middle to dip your raw slices of meat in. I thought there was only supposed to be a small amount of water that was flavored strongly, but I guess not. There was a buffet where you could get vegetables and noodles to put in as well.

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Well, I'm just gonna copy my post from a different board.

Well, damn, I have a lot of pictures. I'm just gonna post a couple that I picked out for now, with more to follow in the future. I'll probably add less and less, as I might decide to really trim down...


I flew on Japan Airlines. Boy, this was a surprise. Now they have little Wiimote-like (okay the Wiimote ripped the design off of these things) controllers/remotes that you can pull out of your armrest. And there are LCD screens for every seat, installed in the back of the seat that is in front of you. Or, if there is no seat in front of you, you can flip out from the side of your seat... the screen is attached to an adjustable metal arm/pole thingie.

You can choose what music to listen to, what movies/programs, and even play kinda-crappy basic games. It depends on the plane, though... on one, they let you start and watch any movie that they had, and you could pass and rewind and fastforward and all that. But another flight had the videos playing and repeating at set times. Also, the games vary from plane to plane. One had a very slow-running, low-color Tetris ripoff, and another had an actual Tetris-brand game. The controls kinda sucked for both of those, though, so I just preferred to play Tetris DS on my (duh) DS. And this is all in economy class, snap!


Damn proprietary Sony plug+headphones! I had to use the plane's headphones b/c of this, and not my more compact earbud-style ones.

As we got off of the plane, we kinda crammed into a train-like tram that took us from the ... terminal to the... main part of the airport.


Outside of Narita International Airport, where we waited with our tour guide for the bus to take us to the hotel, where the rest of the tour group had already arrived.


On the bus to the hotel... the first of many hotels...



A convenience store... I think we went to this same one later that night.


Inside of the hotel lobby.



We ate at a restaurant in the hotel (paid for by the tour fee already), which advertised that it had Western-style food... Hrm.

After dinner, we were free to sleep or wander around outside. There were just convenience stores and stuff that we could walk to, though... There wasn't much sidewalk around... not even a stoplight! People just jaywalked across, and it was night time as well. Anyway, we jaywalked across to the convenience store right across from the hotel. Man, this area felt a bit like it was in the middle of nowhere.



The magazine/book/manga section in that convenience store. If you walked down that aisle more to the left, they had an 18+ section with naughty magazines and some h-doujinshi(!). I took a pic of that, but I can't find it at the moment.


Aw man, it's one of those hills reinforced by a brick stone wall thingie that I've seen in Japanese tv shows and anime!


That convenience store from the outside. On the right of it is a joint that serves (among other things, I think) ramen.


This was the sink in our hotel room's bathroom. The shower is also in this room. Drinkable tap water, eh? Well, I guess a bunch of you guys drink from the tap here anyway... but later in Vietnam, I pretty much always tried to drink bottled water.


Toilet's in a separate, small closet-like room next to the bathroom. Oddly, the lightswitch is located on the outside.


I'll reply to this thread with more pictures in the future...

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: bored....
« on: Jul 26, 2007, 10:56:17 PM »
Yeah, I've been bored, too, actually.

Japan was alright, but I didn't spend enough time there and not enough time in the right places... and I didn't really buy the stuff I wanted... But it was still worth it. I just want to go back again some time, preferably after I've gotten a good grip on the language.

Also, we went to Vietnam to visit my grandfather mostly, who supposedly had a stroke (but they can't find any blockage or bleeding) and is now lying naked in a small hospital room with 2 other patients. He can't talk, and we're not quite sure if he's aware of his surroundings... and he sleeps most of the time, or at least his eyes are closed and his breathing is labored (sometimes snoring, sometimes maybe not).
Well, I did get to meet one of my uncles and his son (who's older than me) again, and uh, I gave some gifts to two other cousins... yep.

I was hoping Transformers would be a rockin' summer movie, but it didn't meet my expectations. Spidey 3 sucked, too. :(

A goal I had this summer was to work on drawing and painting and stuff... but I haven't been doing that as much or as well as I've wanted... though I did work on two things last night that are turning out good.

Oh, and I spent 8 dollars to renew my Xbox 360 Live subscription for a month, and the only Live game I have is Gears of War... but I've found that I am bored of it now. 8| I guess I ought to try out some Live demos.



Well, on the bright side, I have lots of free time in these remaining weeks to uh, watch stuff that I've been meaning to... and practice art... and wait for two Momoi CDs that I ordered...

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: bored....
« on: Jul 26, 2007, 09:30:57 PM »
D: uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu ICHIGO GO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo!

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Re: bored....
« on: Jul 26, 2007, 03:28:31 AM »
Well, I went to Japan for less than a week and Vietnam for 2 weeks. I took a lot of pictures, and posted a couple on the main message board I go to, but nobody seemed to care there. Should I post them here?

After that, I went to Anime Expo 2007. Haruko Momoi of the now-defunct UNDER17 was a guest there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She did a mini-concert, a panel, and a main concert.  :D

EDIT: Oh yeah, she also was a guest judge for the AX Idol event this year... it's kinda like American idol, except the finalists sing songs from anime/games, and also there are a separate set of finalists who compete for voice acting.

Here's a pic that she had taken of her on stage at the main concert... I was there, but all the way beyond to the right of the picture and farther back from the stage.   :-\

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Time for counterpoint.

The movie is all about the giant robot action.
That's what I was expecting.

Then I got stupid jokes, and too much movie time wasted on unimportant human characters. Sam's parents, Sector Seven guy, Anthony Anderson (black hacker), and Maggie (blond hacker) each got more screentime and lines than most of the robots, like Jazz, Starscream, and maybe Megatron.

Oh, and that scene with the tank transformer (Brawl/Devastator)... I don't think we ever got a good look at that guy. He transforms while Jazz is on him, and then there's a confusing shot with Ratchet flipping over the tank guy and cutting his hand off (so I assume they've got him under control, right? And we can move on and not worry about him anymore...). Then the tank guy is not shown again, I believe... until the "I'll drive, you shoot!" scene. At that point I was wondering, "What the hell is Bumblebee shooting at?" And then a couple seconds too long later, it shows the tank guy! Like I knew he was an ongoing threat... I never even got a good look at him.

And it seemed to end pretty quickly... just as long as the opening to that Linkin Park song would permit. And... we get to see Sam's parents make cliched lines about government conspiracies!

I think this was a clumsy movie... The opening was great, though. Probably from the beginning to the end of the Blackout scene was pretty good. The robot action that we did get was neat, but I thought the fights lasted too short, and I was also expecting a lot more after the build-up that I had to sit through.

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I found out last night that they're screening the entire new TF movie at Anime Expo on the last day. Hoooo shit!
There was a long-ass line, they did bag checks, started seating late, and started the movie while there was still a loooong line of people waiting to get seated. Oh well. I skipped it and saw it in a real movie theater on Friday.

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AHHHHH THE NEWS (more like "news" m i rite) IS SAYING THAT THAT BITCH IS GETTING OUT TODAY

FUUUUUUCk :mad: :nono: :fingershake:

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I found out last night that they're screening the entire new TF movie at Anime Expo on the last day. Hoooo shit!

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I'm gonna bet on Transformers.

Shrek 3... maybe people are tired of that by now. Or not.

Pirates 3... I haven't seen the second one, but from a couple anecdotal opinions I think people liked the first one more. I've only seen the first one and I didn't like it too much. I'm interested in seeing the CGI for Davy Jones in the second one, though.

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*Kisses his left hand, then wipes his mouth off*
Baby, I knew you were good for something!

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They probably fight cats or something.

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The 36-year-old American is one of the top foreign distributors of Japanese "manga" comics and animation, known as "anime," building his fortune on a genre that is rapidly changing from a niche market to a mass phenomenon.
That's terrible writing. "'Manga' comics and animation, known as 'anime.'"

Ugh.
I didn't quite understand what I quoted back then...

The writer indicated that Japanese comics are called "manga" and Japanese cartoons are called "anime," but the way it was written seemed a bit weird.

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-- At work, Merla was encouraged to wear her maroon and orange on Friday for the day of mourning.  Merla then wondered to me who the fuck would keep that combination in their closet besides a Virginia Tech student.
I think if I were ever killed, I'd want people to wear black, or my favorite colors. Not my school colors or anything. School spirit woo yay eh?  

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Myspace Page...
« on: Jan 21, 2007, 02:34:07 AM »
I don't have a Myspace account and I'm proud of it!

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Happy New Year 2007!
« on: Jan 08, 2007, 04:34:28 PM »
Yes.

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Happy New Year 2007!
« on: Jan 03, 2007, 05:50:30 AM »
Happy nude year

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I am just finally changed it?

Go back to n00btown, n00b



Meanwhile I'm gonna go rub some Hermeline on my dry skin

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Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits / Christmas Lists
« on: Dec 13, 2006, 08:14:16 PM »
Some Wii game... I dunno

Jump Ultimate Stars for DS maybe

Uhm... maybe some comic book trade paperbacks? Manga? Artbooks? Eh

EDIT: What I really want is a kickass FPS that I can play online... the thought of Gears of War or Resistance online intrigues me, but I have neither of those systems. The damn Wii doesn't support any online right now... I'd like to try out Call of Duty 3 or Far Cry, though.



Uhm... gee. I guess that's it probably.



EDIT: Also, a pic of IDE and a pic of that Asian girl.

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Extra Zero hasn't replied for a while.


He must be too busy playing non-traditional games

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All of those drawings on your site are of Sailor Moon?

Oh shit I've been submitting it to Candy webrings for years

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