For those extending themselves in Japanese

For us doing Japanese Extension, here are a bunch of speaking/writing questions which I’ve done, yet to do, or made up.　If some sound strange, then they were definitely not the ones I made up.

テクノロジーは私達の生活を楽にするはずだったが現実はそうではありません。あなたはどう思いますか。

Technology was supposed to make our life easy, but in reality it doesn’t. What is your opinion?

ボランティア活動は受ける人にもする人にも喜びを与えます。どう思いますか。

Volunteer Activities give joy to both the recipients and the doers. Give your opinion.

現代の社会ではストレスは個人の生活をおびやかします。どう思いますか。

Stress is a threat to the individual in modern society. Give your opinion.

多文化主義の社会は理想の社会です。どう思いますか。

Multicultural Society is the ideal society. What do you think?

グループの中にいる事は大事ですか。それとも個人の事。

Is being in a group important? Or one’s self?

学生として世界を保護するために何をしていますか。

As a student, what are you doing to protect the environment?

「誰でも目的が必要だ。」あなたはどう思いますか。

For everyone, goals are important. What do you think?

「ティーンエージャーの時期は一番難しい時期だ」 あなたはどう思いますか。

Teenage is the hardest time period. What do you think?

「地球温暖化について心配する事はとてもいい事が私達は他の世界問題を無視してはなりません」についてどう思いますか。

Worrying about the greenhouse effect is good but we must not ignore other world issues. What do you think?

「子供が成長するうちに手本が必要だ。」について話して下さい。

Role Models are important for children while they grow up. Please talk about this.

理想の家族は過去物ですか。さんせいですか。

The ideal family is a thing of the past. Do you agree?

若者私達は幸せな地球のために何ができますか。

As young people, what can we do for a happy world?

「テクノロジーが発達したために、就職の問題は益々難しくてなってきました。」あなたはどう思いますか。

Advances in technology are making it harder for people to find jobs. What do you think?

｢人間は一人では生きて行けない。」あなたはどう思いますか。

Human beings cannot live alone. What do you think?

「十六才で運転免許を取るのは早過ぎる。」あなたはどう思いますか。

Obtaining a license at the age of 16 is too early. What do you think?

Dine and Dash

We’re all taught at a young age to never do bad things. Don’t swear. Don’t litter. Don’t steal. The list goes on. Well tonight, mum’s too tired to cook, so Dad announces we’re going out to the usual place to eat dinner, Ed’s Restaurant. All good, we arrive at the restaurant, order the usual, and eat. We’re close to clearing all the dishes, and then dad brings up paying the bill. I don’t know why but he usually asks mum to pay the bill. Most of the time, she does anyway but tonight she didn’t bring her purse. So my dad looks into his wallet, barely holding enough money for a fifty dollar meal. Shock, we weren’t going to be able to pay for the dinner. This reminded me of the BONES episode when Booth says to Brennan, that they’re going to do something bad, ‘Dine and Dash’. But of course, Booth paid. The idea of ‘Dine and Dash’ definitely popped in my head, but since we’re regulars, we were perfectly fine without paying. When my parents approached Ed’s dad, I felt so embarrassed, walked out of the restaurant , didn’t want the other customers to think we were retarded for not bringing enough money to eat. But yes, this is story of the first time, I walked out of a restaurant without paying. Wasn’t dramatic, or risk taking whatsoever.

There’s this Chinese saying which I couldn’t catch, which means eating without paying.

Spring Cleaning?

It isn’t quite yet spring but I’ve done some major cleaning up. During exams, you concentrate on study, and everything else around becomes ignored. My study area and my room became a clutter of paper during the past two weeks, and I’m glad I’ve cleared up the mess.With marks slowly coming back in, don’t be too disappointed if you didn’t do as well you liked to. There’s the HSC left to go, and it is another chance for you to perform to the best of your ability, so don’t give up ^^!

During highschool, we’ve accumulated quite alot of paper. I know when I went to Swot Shop, at least one tree a day was being killed just to make our fat booklets for our lessons. When my folder expanded enough to break itself, I would take everything out, remove all the staples, and recycle all the paper. Likewise, all this paper, from excursions, notes, past papers had their staples removed and plopped into the recycle. Having killed so many trees, it is only right to recycle it. Anything there seem familiar?

Midway cleaning, papers all over my bed

How are your cleaning habits? Mine are dreadful. Whenever I paper floats into my room, I stack them into a pile since I have no room on my table to put things. The pile grows taller, until I decide to sort and file them into their respective places. Annoying. Back in Year 9/10 Science, Bialy taught us about the chaos theory and how everything is bound to end in chaos, even the earth (not in the next 50years or so at least). Hence, we should not be bothered about cleaning. Our whole family except our dad are messy. My dad keeps his room spick and span, and always complains when we mess the order of his things.

My minimalist desktop, which I strive to keep from now on. No longer has the sticky notes, nor pens and pencils lying around. The  ‘Post your Desktop’ Thread in the framz is just people changing their desktop background every day. How often do you have to change your background!I haven’t changed mine for like 2 months. It’s not like you stare at the background when you have nothing to do. The thread should be renamed to avoid such misleading confusion! My newly acquired CD cabinet (1month ago) is sitting on the left. And next to it are my rubix cubes. One with the alphabet and numbers on faces. Doesn’t turn as well as the one I got back in Year 10. I can solve it under 2-3minutes still, using the slow method!

Sometime during the past few months, I asked my dad if I could buy a portable hard drive. These days, we can download so much, in so little time, an extra hard drive to store data is always going to be handy. When Kevin Rudd’s internet upgrade is initiated, we’ll be downloading so much more! But nuh. What happens if the hard drive dies? You’ll lose all your data! Yea so what, I don’t want to be carry around 500+ DVD’s when I could be carrying a portable hard drive. And then me and my dad went down to the maths, calculating cost per megabyte of storage. For the time being, he wins. However, to burn DVD’s takes 40minutes and it’s just tedious. Ah well, as long as he provides me with all my storage needs, I’m content with burning away.

The CD Cabinet is quite useful. Push the door open, and shoots out the drawer. This one holding 200, I’ve only half filled it, amounting to around 400 gigabytes of data ^^! I’ve also been cataloging what I have so it’ll make it easier for me to loan DVDs to people to steal stuff. I’ve got a list of what I have, with where it is located in my CD cabinet. I’ve got a variety of things (I think it is, but will be expanded on it), so if you want to have a look, MSN me and I’ll send you the catalogue. Special thanks to Sandy providing me with BONES. Saved me lots of download Now I have to hunt down Ambert to give me NCIS. How do you store your data? DVD’s or Portable Hard drives, or even just on your computer? Years down the track, DVDs will become the new VHSs so I think storing on DVDs is quite redundant but anyhow.

Today I gave my speech for Module C. All School Assessment over forever. Woooo! Here’s my visual representation for your viewing pleasure. I hope you can pick out the symbolism!

And I realised I left out an extra slash for my photo tag. =O

Choo Choo Train

If you don’t listen to EXILE, then I don’t think this post is worth your time. My playlist is now 50% EXILE almost. Few days ago, found out Choo Choo Train was remade a few times.

Here’s the first Choo Choo Train, by Zoo, which later split, with the leader making a new band later called JSoul Brothers which was then renamed EXILE. I had a bit of a problem with lyrics when I first heard Exile’s 2nd version. Who’s that guy? Only a girl would actually sing that lyric so having listened to the original, no longer will I find them singing those lyrics weird. If you search up Choo Choo Train Exile in youtube, you’ll find so many people trying to replicate the dances. There a few which are quite good but then there was this video with highschool kids, was bad.

EXILE’s Choo Choo Train, when Shun was still in the band. When compared to Takahiro’s singing, he cannot match, but different singing style of course. The PV is pretty cool, at the end the kids dance so well!

Here’s EXILE’s second version, with Takahiro. I think they killed the video with pretty much everything except the song and the dancing. And in the comments, apparently JaeJoong from DBSK likes this PV. And this of course led many DBSK fans to watching this video. I find it quite funny lol.

I wanna jump on the choo choo train that doesn’t stop at the HSC =o

やっと大人になった

みんなの誕生日想い、ありがとう＾＾！。今日、数学試験があったけど楽しかった！誕生日だから家族と一緒にシドニーハーバーへ食べに行った。食べながら、ハーバーブリッジとシドニーオペラハウス見られて気が楽になった。その後、オペラハウスでシドニーシンフォニーのオーケストラを見た。コンダクターがとってにぎやかだって、面白かった。後は、Guylianカフェでチョコレートケーキ食った。高かったけど、めちゃうまい！だが甘過ぎて、水沢山飲んだ。チャンスがあれば他のGuylianのケーキ食べてみたい。次の試験、来週火曜日だから、ゆっくりのんびりできる。大人なって特別な感じがない。

みんな、自分のために頑張ってくださいよ。

Well, I’m back after a long day. Maths exams-I think my birthday made it easier some how. Watching Today in the Morning, it would seems Carl shares the same birthday as me. Every year, I just seem to find more people sharing the same birthday as me. Caught train with mum and sister to Town Hall, went to buy sister’s…I so call it ‘ROCKSTAR’ biographies. 35bucks, man it’s my birthday and she’s spending more money than me. I would’ve bought something at Kinokuniya if I knew what to buy. Anyway, dad joined us on the way and we headed to Waterfront which is a restaurant on the Rocks, near the Harbour Bridge. Food (though we did go there because half price) was disappointing but somehow compensated by the location. Then off to the Opera House to watch the Sydney Symphony. The conductor was so lively and enthusiastic. Was 30min,20min interval,then 60minutes. Crazy because one of the pieces went for 30minutes, and I kinda tuned out, my mum falling to sleep though she claims she was ‘closing her eyes’. Listening to classical music for a change, not a bad idea. Afterwards, we went to the Guylian Cafe, had the Milk Chocolate Hazlenut Torte, so sweet! Chugged down water to battle it =o. Felt guilty eating it since everyone else got drinks. Hazlenut was nice at the end, counters sweet of the torte.

Would have photos but the camera likes to be bad.

Edit:Regarding the Pizza , Anon was able to guess every ingredient except Ham and Tomato Paste. Grats ^^!