<< Nyekk >> Japanese Language Course

Heeeey minna!

Today was a big day! Besides St. Patrick's day (which is what Mizu-chan celebrated by buying a pencil bag with "patrick" on it) and the birthday of countless individual people, it was our fitst day on a japanese language course! ^^

Because it is so important, we decided not to be late, and take a look around carefully, so we could find the place of the school in time. That said, we decided to go earlier a little. The only mistake was, that little took as long as 2 hours! So we thought: Oh well, at least we have time to search for the school!

The search was epic, very much like:
- Where it is?
- There.

And there it was. So we still had 1 hour and 55 minutes left. What to do...When someone is bored, there are three things to do generally:
1. write to the blog (duh!)
2. watch doramas (not available)
3. eat.

So we picked the last one, and went into the local McDonalds to order some fresh, tasty, and healthy cheeseburgers. Eating took a lot of our time, almost 10 minutes. So after that, Mizu-chan (being a computer minded girl) noticed the info terminal, we took some photo with that ^^ Like this one:


Pretty good pic, huh? ^^

Then we gone out to pass time. We bought Mizu-chan's pencil bag, then we walked around a little, then a little more, then more more ^^ Then decided to go back to the building (which is on the outside, was extremely ugly, like it was gonna fall apart any minute) spotted a friend, and gone in.

So there we were, excited, listening to the previous lesson's end (Mizuki: kakkoi! suteki! She speaks like Maki!).And some times later, the lesson started. There were eight of us. We thought about countless times how we gonna learn about introduction (Watashi wa Nyekk desu, yoroshiku.) but there was nothing like it.
There was only : a i e u o ka ki ke ku ko sa shi se su so
That's right, we learned hiragana, and we practiced writing. It was a very cheerful lesson, I think the group will be a good one ^^

And the most important thing in the lesson: The Cat (with a capital C). It was simply hilarious, walking on our desks on her(his?) own, attacking our exercise books, speeding under the table, it can't be described in words ^__^

Tanoshkatta desu, the japanese would say, and so do I, I'm looking forward for the next lesson, but until then, we got homework, and hiraganas to learn, because there will be a tesuto next time ^^
Yoooooosh, japanese benkyou ikuzo!!!

Nyekk

{{ Mizuki }} Happy St Patrick's day!!!

Hey,


The pic is not mine: QueenOfDorks

It's St Patrick's day. A precious day for those who like Irish culture. As for me, I've been a fan of "The Corrs" since ~2001. So I kinda celebrated this day with drinking Guinness and going somewhere to listen to Irish traditional music.

The year before last year, I went to a place, called "Fono" with my aunt, and we had a wonderful time. Unfortunately, last year I missed it :\

This year? This year I'll also miss the whole celebrate-and-drink-with-us thing.
What I'm gonna do instead? What else? Go to study Japanese :D Yooosh, it's finally the day!!!
We will post about the course later. Wish us luck ;)

Hm.. and someone has a birtday, am I right? Caroline Corr (drummer of The Corrs) just turned 35 years old. Happy Birthday Caro :)


Speeking of which... As it's St Patrick's day.. here's a better pic of my tin whistle and bodhran (I have a bodhran, because Caro plays it, and it has a sound like heartbeat ^^, you can see this instrument in her hands as well)


As I mentioned before, my Mom and I went to eat sushi yesterday. The sushi was oishii, after I realized that I don't like seawed.. so I just ate it without it :)


And yoooosh, I bought a new bike. I really don't like MTBs, so I wanted a normal, retro bike. Isn't she beautiful?


matane

Mizuki

{{ Mizuki }} Ukulele and the rice balls

Hey,

Back to the blog again, sorry for not posting for a while.
So, yeah, the rumours are true, I've really bought a little hawaii guitar, called ukulele. It's really sweet and light :)
Here you can see me tuning it up :)



My dad was the photographer today. Believe me, it's not that easy to tune an ukulele when the wind is so strong.

I also made a picture for you guys of my intruments. I've been collecting them for a while now, so here's the result.
Instruments are: piano, spanish guitar, ukulele, 3 tin whistles (the one that is in the box is a gift from Nyekk ^^, thank you!!), a bodhran (Irish drum)



Yesterday was quite a walk-till-your-legs-fall-off day for Nyekk and me. I planned a bit too much business meeting (you see, I buy things on the net, then I have to go to get them), and put them all for Friday. So we walked a lot. And because there were so much free time between the meetings, we decided to have lunch at a shopping center.

By good fortune we spot a small restaurant, that said "Asian food" and had a little board saying "sushi". And look what I've found!!





I know that in English it's called Japanese-sweet-rice-balls-filled-with-sweet-red-beans.. but it's quite long, and the short version, JSRBFWSRB is even more complicated. And since I'm sure it has a short Japanese name, I ask you... can you please tell me the name of it? I think it's not anpan, because anpan is made from bread, right?

2 more days to start the Japanese course. I'm really excited ^^ I can't wait to say it aloud: Watashi wa Petora desu, yoroshiku. I'm sure that will be the first line we learn there :P then I'll point to every thing and say: sore wa kuruma desu; kore wa enpitsu desu.. or should I just say "hideki" (see: Chobits)?

And I finally sold my Nec mobilepro 900. I'm a bit sad about it, because it was a good gadget, I liked it. But we found a line as an excuse. It was "it's a good gadget, I like it but it's obviously not for me". :P

That's all folks :) (bunnies are so kawaii!!! there are bunnies everywhere now because of Easter)

Mizuki

PS: we'll visit that Asian food restaurant with my mom tomorrow (hopefully), because I saw there sushi too.. I would like to try it :) I'll try to make pictures :)

<< Nyekk >> Attack of the wasps!

Yaaay, spring is coming! Yellow. Especially in the shopping centers, where the new fashion collections have arrived. Yellow. Beautyful new clothes for women, skirts, tops, trousers, dresses, in all the colors of the rainbow! Yellow...wait a minute, what did I say?



Colors of the yellow?

I'm looking around, and what do I see?



...YELLOW...!



This.



And this.



And this, too.
Yellow and black. Everywhere. Are there a mutant wasp queen willing to build an army of women-wasps for herself, of not suspecting human women and girls? It would seem so. Anyways, it will be a yellow-black summer, if everyone follows fashion :D

Today, Mizuki bought an Ukulele (a lil hawaiian guitar, she will surely show it), and while we were waiting, I witnessed this situation:



The tiny laptop in the guy's hand is an Asus EEE-701, a little linux based laptop, which was Mizukis last laptop-gadget-love, but for other circumstances (it was more expensive than in the first news) she didn't buy one. But the longing doesn't dissapear that easy, I noticed that when she made puppy eyes for that little white clamshell ^^

That's for today ^^,
Nyekk

<< Nyekk >> Attack of the PDAs

Oy minna!

There has been a lot happening to me nowdays!

First of all, a 5 year period in my life has ended on this week, I will move on, maybe alone, but definitely happier. (I hope!)

Secondly, I couldn't watch Mizuki further going in her constant loop of saying "suteki!" about her MDA Vario,so I decided I should buy a Vario II (Just to have a gadget that is newer than hers, usually it's the opposite ^^). A day later, with the help of Mizu-chan,I already held it in my hand.
That was my fastest time between deciding on a gadget and buying it (Another record,yaaay).
Now, what can I say...Sutekiiii ^___^
I'm actually writing my entry on it, it's very convinient, small, and handy :P



Lookie,aren't they cute? :D
Mizuki's variochan is on the left, my variokun is on the right ^^

So I'm happy with my variokun,got its name after Mizu-chan's variochan,which is lil sis of mine.^^

That's my week in a nutshell (Heh, I rule, fitting a whole week in a nutshell!With 52 nuts you could have a whole year! ^__^)

Take care everyone,
Nyekk

{{ Mizuki }} Tokyo Wankei and the gadgets

Hey,

I just finished watching Tokyo Wankei with Nakama Yukie. I liked it, though I've found it a bit too romantic sometimes. I think it had too many accidents and sometimes it remind me of the mexican soap operas. Okey, I watched them too when I was a teenager, but I kinda grew out of this. But all in all, I like it :)


6 days.. I think I'm not telling a lie when I say, that was the shortest time to have a phone with me. 6 days. That's right. I even suprised myself. So yeah, I gave up on my new mobile (HP ipaq 514). The story was like... on Saturday I was telling A-chan, that I like this mobile, and that although it has some bugs and problems, it works well and that's all. But when I looked at it on Sunday, I just felt "I don't want this phone, it was a waste of money, grrrrrrr what to doo???". So I decided to search for the phone I wanted to have a long ago. Nyekk told me not to buy a phone like that, because it will freeze all the time and that I will sell it again etc etc (sorry Nyekk). But I think I should give it a go, so yeah, (with luck and happyness) i could change my phone (we swapped with this phone's owner) to a HTC Wizard / MDA Vario.

かわいい。ね? ^^
I can type on it quite well, so it will serve me right.

Me and the phones.. gosh.......

We are out of time and the test-army is coming, so the next post will wait till this whole test-writing-dunnowhat ends.

You know.. being watched by a black guinea pig is not that funny. My gp is just watching me, with her tiny little black eyes... like "hm... can I eat your kidney?".. it's scary!!
I tried to find a picture to show you this expression. Note: never search for "guinea pig" on Google... if you don't want to: cry, puke, and the two in bulk. I searched for it... you never want to see it.

Hah... I would like to make you laugh, so if you had a bad day, or just want to relax and laugh out loud, watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZuzqeS-nr8

Nyekk is doing his best with translating Trick season 1. I am a bit lazy, so I still haven't started to translate Deru toko demasho! But the Japanese course will hopefully start on 17th of March... YOOOOOSH d(^O^)b

Now let me finish this, because I'm really hungry (no Y-chan.. I don't eat only ramen ^^" しんぱいしないで)

matane,
Mizuki

PS: my location is "under the kotatsu" all the time, because my laptop is on my kotatsu :) so I usually study/surf/chat etc there. ^^

[[ Us ]]

Hey there, it's Mizuki!

We had some creative moments last week. Here are the results:

Colorful by Nyekk

Nature's most intersting invention
Colors are all around us.
They make the world come alive
As light shine upon them.

Many are the colors
Different in kind.
You wouldn't even think
What they got behind.

Blue.
Blue is sadness.
A feeling that makes you cry
When you think you could just die.
Inside your heart, emptiness.
Blue is also freedom.
Like the great sky around,
Soaring high on the winds.
Flying around mountains and hills.
Along the clouds.

Yellow.
Yellow is envy.
Longing for what you don't have
Money, success, friends and love.
Someone you would like to be.
Yellow is also warmness.
Summer sun's poking rays.
Just hatched chick in it's early days.
Beautiful autumn leaves.

Green.
Green is jealousy.
Emotion insearable from love,
Fear of someone taking your only one.
Pain of uncertainity.
Green is also peaceful.
The stillness of the vast fields.
Deepness of the oceans.
Nature itself.

Red.
Red is anger.
Burning hate in the flood,
Color of the needlessly spillt blood
Tint of upcoming danger.
Red is also love.
Rose bouqet on valentines day,
Warm affection on a night in May.
Expression of feelings.

Black.
Black is death.
Satan spreading dark wings,
Absence of colors, the hell it brings.
Taking a final rest.
Black is also deepness.
In your most loved girls eye,
Reflecting the world in sight.
Fine place to hide.

White.
White is rigidity.
The coldness of a plain wall,
Hospital bed, where the sick can fall.
A letter of feeling empty.
White is also purity.
Cleanness of freshly washed clothes
Flowers besides the mountain roads.
Stars in evening sky.

So it's not the colors,
But depends on us
What they mean and what not
Just keep your mind nice and full,
Your life will become colorful.

The smile of life by Mizuki

life was empty like the dead parts of ocean.
light was there, but never showed emotion.
there was no sound, just some empty words.
feelings has gone, flew away like birds.
then suddenly a little horse was born,
making noises, walking on his own,
making all the sad trees smile,
cheered up a man who just stopped by.
he never complained and never cried,
yet couldn't speak anyhow he tried.
he couldn't stand the sorrow of the town,
he brought happiness while he was grown.
when he died, people cried with the trees,
sun stopped shining, air filled with breeze,
his dust became a part of the moon,
but his soul will reborn again soon.

Hope you like them :)
Mizuki with Nyekk's support.