Almost all the posts of my blog are not proofread. I don't read them back and correct grammar and expressions.
And now I began to look for translation jobs online. I apply for jobs online. If my potential client googles my name and finds this blog, s/he will doubt my English ability, grammar, composition skills, etc. etc.
I'm in trouble....
Maybe it is time to publish under anonymity...but I hate to hide my face...maybe I should reread all my posts...I don't have time for that; besides, I haven't written anything so important worth being reread!
I'm in a dilemma....
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
Foreign Languages
Everyone has his or her reason to study foreign languages. I've attempted to study English, Tagalog, Russian, French and Latin, and I made a moderate success in English and acquired elementary skills in Tagalog and French (doubtful). As for Russian and Latin, I barely started it; I got books and dictionaries and started to read them, but that's it.
Lots of my friends study Japanese as a foreign language. Some may be studying it simply because they live in Japan; others may be studying it because they are attracted to the language itself. (Even) those who study it because they live in Japan may have come to Japan for some reasons; some may have gotten interested in this country for some reason; some simply got scholarship. Well, everyone is different.
Apprendre une langue, c'est vivre de nouveau. The French said something cool here. Yes, studying a new language enables you to see a new world. I started to study English when I entered junior high school because it was required. I loved it. It was a whole new world to me. Every time I found a phrase I learned in movies, I got excited. Good old days. Soon I got a screenplay of Back to the Future III and watched the movie and memorized it. At the peak I learned, maybe, more than 70% of the lines by heart. Also, in those days, I had already decided to be a physicist--I somehow turned into an amateur mathematician, though--I knew I would need to read and write papers in English. That was a great incentive for me.
In college years, I was baptized to be catholic, influenced by my Filipino friends. I've been to the Philippines twice. A beautiful country. Pre-Spanish culture and colonial influence and Cathlicism and native religion; all woven together. I wanted to learn more about it, so I began to study Filipino (Tagalog, it depends on definitions). Somehow, when I study it, I feel I live a new life. Because I was so influenced by Filipinos and attended their mass for a year before my baptism even today when I attend Tagalog Mass in Hikone, I feel I'm back to my starting point. By the way, when it is sung, Tagalog is a really beautiful language. Without beauty, I wouldn't study it. :)
French...here comes French. It is simply beautiful. Their food (viende not poisson according to this Japanese guy, me) is redonculously (oh, I guess I'm up-to-date with today's American vocabulary) delicious. (I shouldn't forget snails. Such a nice stuff with bread!) These are main reasons I study it. If some day I go to France, I may have other reasons to study it. Oh, I shouldn't forget to mention the excellence of wine and Belgian beer.
Russian. It sounds cool and they produced a lot of great writers.
Lain. Catholicism. It is also beautiful when sung. My friend priest gave me Breviarium Romanum I may study it in the near future.
Right now I want to study Tagalog and Latin and French in order. However, since I do not want to waste my French grammar, I may say Tagalog=French and then Latin is the order.
What is your incentive to study foreign languages? (But I think French is really an obscure language...Where there are too many vowels, how can we communicate with each other?)
P.S. In youtube there are so many nice Filipino church songs like Ang Tanging Alay Ko, Sino Ako, etc. I'll ask Sister Alta (This is how I have known her for 7 years.) if I can play the guitar for them...with a warning that I need a LOT of practice. I'm really a free bird celebrating my life. Speaking of birds, there is one poem I'm writing. You may read it some day.
Lots of my friends study Japanese as a foreign language. Some may be studying it simply because they live in Japan; others may be studying it because they are attracted to the language itself. (Even) those who study it because they live in Japan may have come to Japan for some reasons; some may have gotten interested in this country for some reason; some simply got scholarship. Well, everyone is different.
Apprendre une langue, c'est vivre de nouveau. The French said something cool here. Yes, studying a new language enables you to see a new world. I started to study English when I entered junior high school because it was required. I loved it. It was a whole new world to me. Every time I found a phrase I learned in movies, I got excited. Good old days. Soon I got a screenplay of Back to the Future III and watched the movie and memorized it. At the peak I learned, maybe, more than 70% of the lines by heart. Also, in those days, I had already decided to be a physicist--I somehow turned into an amateur mathematician, though--I knew I would need to read and write papers in English. That was a great incentive for me.
In college years, I was baptized to be catholic, influenced by my Filipino friends. I've been to the Philippines twice. A beautiful country. Pre-Spanish culture and colonial influence and Cathlicism and native religion; all woven together. I wanted to learn more about it, so I began to study Filipino (Tagalog, it depends on definitions). Somehow, when I study it, I feel I live a new life. Because I was so influenced by Filipinos and attended their mass for a year before my baptism even today when I attend Tagalog Mass in Hikone, I feel I'm back to my starting point. By the way, when it is sung, Tagalog is a really beautiful language. Without beauty, I wouldn't study it. :)
French...here comes French. It is simply beautiful. Their food (viende not poisson according to this Japanese guy, me) is redonculously (oh, I guess I'm up-to-date with today's American vocabulary) delicious. (I shouldn't forget snails. Such a nice stuff with bread!) These are main reasons I study it. If some day I go to France, I may have other reasons to study it. Oh, I shouldn't forget to mention the excellence of wine and Belgian beer.
Russian. It sounds cool and they produced a lot of great writers.
Lain. Catholicism. It is also beautiful when sung. My friend priest gave me Breviarium Romanum I may study it in the near future.
Right now I want to study Tagalog and Latin and French in order. However, since I do not want to waste my French grammar, I may say Tagalog=French and then Latin is the order.
What is your incentive to study foreign languages? (But I think French is really an obscure language...Where there are too many vowels, how can we communicate with each other?)
P.S. In youtube there are so many nice Filipino church songs like Ang Tanging Alay Ko, Sino Ako, etc. I'll ask Sister Alta (This is how I have known her for 7 years.) if I can play the guitar for them...with a warning that I need a LOT of practice. I'm really a free bird celebrating my life. Speaking of birds, there is one poem I'm writing. You may read it some day.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
I can't find a title for this because of its nature...
I originally started blogging to post "stories" and to keep in touch with friends. That was the mistake. What the next sentence should be? Should it be "What do I mean?" or a simple "Why?"? (Sorry, I'm terrible at punctuations.) I can't think after having whisky and while listening to Noel Gallagher singing unplugged on youtube. Anyways, let me explain what I mean. (How lame!)
By the way, I love Noel Gallagher and Oasis. Equally. I love both of them. That Noel can acoustically perform their ((mostly) his) songs means that their songs are deep: can be interpreted in many ways and filled with potential. For example, Wonderwall is an Oasis's song. Ryan Adams found another possibility in this song and did a wonderful job. But listen to Noel's acoustic version; it is yet another interpretation. And I love that. Also, listen to Masterplan at Maine Road.
Speaking of music, My friend, A., had the first live in a club in Japan last Saturday. It was cool. I think they sang their own songs but I'm not sure. In the club, one guy spoke to me and I recognized him at once even though it was almost a year since I last met him. (well, it was only my third time to see him..) He is a musician or a photographer or a painter or something artistic, I guess. It's interesting how you come across people.
Shit, I did it again. This is exactly what I wanted to say. This is exactly what I wanted to say. This blog is for posting "stories" and updating my friends with my everyday events. Since I have two purposes, I always go back and forth between different topics. So I'm thinking of having two different blogs: one for stories, probably posted once or twice a month, the other as a diary. But them, it is still difficult to decide where to post my reports of whiskies and stuff.... I'm in a dilemma. Help....
Till I find a solution, please go through my entries using "labels", which are again not as accurate as it should be.
I'm wondering if I should reread this entry and check my grammar. I've been random anyways....
By the way, I love Noel Gallagher and Oasis. Equally. I love both of them. That Noel can acoustically perform their ((mostly) his) songs means that their songs are deep: can be interpreted in many ways and filled with potential. For example, Wonderwall is an Oasis's song. Ryan Adams found another possibility in this song and did a wonderful job. But listen to Noel's acoustic version; it is yet another interpretation. And I love that. Also, listen to Masterplan at Maine Road.
Speaking of music, My friend, A., had the first live in a club in Japan last Saturday. It was cool. I think they sang their own songs but I'm not sure. In the club, one guy spoke to me and I recognized him at once even though it was almost a year since I last met him. (well, it was only my third time to see him..) He is a musician or a photographer or a painter or something artistic, I guess. It's interesting how you come across people.
Shit, I did it again. This is exactly what I wanted to say. This is exactly what I wanted to say. This blog is for posting "stories" and updating my friends with my everyday events. Since I have two purposes, I always go back and forth between different topics. So I'm thinking of having two different blogs: one for stories, probably posted once or twice a month, the other as a diary. But them, it is still difficult to decide where to post my reports of whiskies and stuff.... I'm in a dilemma. Help....
Till I find a solution, please go through my entries using "labels", which are again not as accurate as it should be.
I'm wondering if I should reread this entry and check my grammar. I've been random anyways....
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Coq au Vin
I cooked coq au vin for the first time. I love this kind of dish. The chicken was so tender that I didn't need to use knife at all. I ate three times as much as in the picture. Too much? Maybe. It took me some time to convince my mom that drinking wine is necessary for this kind of dish. She doesn't drink, so she can't understand why it is important to have wine. Since I'm always (thought to be) trying to find a reason to drink, she probably thought that I had cooked this in order to drink wine. (Partly true....) But see! Once we started to eat, she asked for a small glass of wine (pinot noir). See! I told you!
Friday, May 1, 2009
Yamazaki Distillery (and one more sentence)
OK. I'm going to write at least two different things here today. I'll number each. Each section is independent of one another. (It sounds like a mathematical writing, doesn't it?)
1.
Last Sunday, I went to Kyoto and after attending the 12 o'clock mass, I went to the Suntory Yamazaki Distillery. There was a tour of the distillery for 30 minutes or so and then a tasting session for another 30 minutes; we had Yamazaki 12 yrs old and Hakusyu 12 yrs old. Aside from that the tasting session was free, the tour itself was a series of discovery. I knew how to make whisky, but seeing how they actually carry out those process was interesting. Have you seen lines of pot stills, walked between lines of casks? I could also smell new pots, a young whisky before barrelling. This confirmed the often said how-aging-is-important-for-whisky. Also there were two casks whose sides were made of glass so that you can see inside. One was 4(?) years old and the other was 12 years old. They were good example of how the color of whisky change in aging process and how much they evaporate from the barrels (angel's share). Seeing is diferent from reading.
2.
Once again I want to spend most of my time on mathematics. Enough said; brevity is the soul of wit.
1.
Last Sunday, I went to Kyoto and after attending the 12 o'clock mass, I went to the Suntory Yamazaki Distillery. There was a tour of the distillery for 30 minutes or so and then a tasting session for another 30 minutes; we had Yamazaki 12 yrs old and Hakusyu 12 yrs old. Aside from that the tasting session was free, the tour itself was a series of discovery. I knew how to make whisky, but seeing how they actually carry out those process was interesting. Have you seen lines of pot stills, walked between lines of casks? I could also smell new pots, a young whisky before barrelling. This confirmed the often said how-aging-is-important-for-whisky. Also there were two casks whose sides were made of glass so that you can see inside. One was 4(?) years old and the other was 12 years old. They were good example of how the color of whisky change in aging process and how much they evaporate from the barrels (angel's share). Seeing is diferent from reading.
2.
Once again I want to spend most of my time on mathematics. Enough said; brevity is the soul of wit.
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