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Archive for November, 2007

Learn Japanese Menus

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

A hard fact to swallow when I went to Japan was that, well, I wasn’t very good at ordering food at restaurants. This is because I didn’t do what very few people realize to do before they come, and that is to learn how to read food kanji like those found on dinner menus.
Although [...]

Japanese Symbol

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Japanese symbols are known as “kanji” and originate from the Chinese written language. Technically, there are four parts of the Japanese written alphabet, and that is hiragana, katakana, numerical characters and kanji. You must master them all to learn the understand the reading.
Here are examples of the three types:
Hiragana:

Katakana:

Kanji:

A common kanji that I’ve [...]

Love Kanji

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

In Japanese this symbol is used to represent love, and pronounced as “ai”. This is the kind of love that can be looked down upon, such as love for oneself. It could also be the traditional form of love that we think of today.
Not only is the love symbol one of the most [...]

Improper Time Management

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I feel I did very well on this morning’s anatomy quiz, I guess all that studying pays off after all. The rest of the day was pretty much same old same old, I took my physics quiz and came back (I guessed gamma rays are the biggest radiation waves, is that right?), and Julie [...]

Halo Day

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Woke up and thought I would spend all day studying but instead I played Halo. I got Sean to play with me a little while too. Yesterday was the michigan vs ohio state game and happily we won. Julie and I woke up only an hour before the game at her place [...]

Get some bucks for writing

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

I ran across a really cool site recently called Oxitown. What’s really cool about them is that they allow you to make pages with them on their site and share the adsense revenue your pages make.  I find it to be a nice source of extra change, fifty to sixty cents everyday already so [...]