Nantalith Teglan

People often ask me if Japanese is a difficult language to learn.  It’s different, true but not as difficult as English.  I would not like to learn English as a foreign language.

Oh, I think Bleach is an illusion but it would be cool if it wasn’t.

And my bravery… There was a big spider in the shower, once again I was already in the shower.  There was screaming again.  Bravery -1

I have a bit of a cold so I took some stuff last night which made me sleepy and I was tired.  It was then I realised that being tired and doped I could actually sleep in the room with a spider.  Granted it was a smallish one and I got a fright when I saw it and when I all my attempts at getting it out failed, I thought ‘fuck it, crawl on me for all I care, I’m tired’.  It was gone this morning. 

I found FFXII manga on onemanga this morning   I’ve had book one and two for sometime but translating manga is still out of my league…  I’ve discovered that you can be really good at a lot of things but not at the thing you really want to be good at.  It would be nice to be able to trade skill points.

I’m going to be in CT from 07 February to 14 February.  I’ve decided to go by bus because even if I could afford the almost R 900 worth of petrol to get the tank to and from CT, I don’t have anywhere to park it.  And my luck someone will try to steal it.  Or worse, steal bits off of it.  I’ll just drop Aki-chan off at work and use her car [a heads up, Aki!]. 

I also want to attend an SCA event but info is scarce…

I’m working on a story set in a postapocalyptic world and so decided to use real names instead of making up names like I usually do.  Some of the names I really like but I’m struck by the thought – what if actually get this published and people want to know why I chose the names I did - am I discriminating against cultures because the badie has an Arabic name?  Why have you given some of the good guys Japanese names?  Is ‘becuase it sounded cool’ and ‘I like saying the name’ a good enough excuse?  I suppose I could say that because the earth has exploded, there are no cultures left – one big group of people trying to survive.  But that’s not true…

I blame literary analysis for this sort of crap thinking.

Turns out some of my first ’cartoon’ watching was, in fact, anime [and anime of a sort].  Admittedly they were in Afrikaans… One was Heidi and the other Brakenjan.  But these were in English – Around the World with Willy Fog and The Mysterious Cities of Gold.  Later on there was definite anime but I don’t remember titles only scenes. 

I just glanced at the time – looking back at the past really takes a lot of time in the present.

I went to see Sherlock Holmes again today and while driving on the highway I realised that The Chase of Highway AC version was playing – though not much chasing was happening at a hundred. 

But I thought it was quite cool for first official highway drive.

There is a point in which someone doesn’t want to play anymore and the mere thought of having to play anything…  Today, at 17h23, I reached that point.  But I have since pulled back  

I can honestly say I don’t know how people regularly play Go all day – I am worn out.  

In a recent conversation, I realised I’ve been reading Naruto for six years.  When I think of the two years I have left of studying and about how I’ve already been reading Air Gear for just over a year - they’ll be over pretty quick.  Sometime I think, in mild panic, ‘but what am I going to do once I’m done’ and then I tell myself ‘pull yourself together, you’ll get a job like everyone else’.  Intrapersonal communication can be harsh to yourself…

I don’t really know how to use KGS - I seldom play there and so… have never really learnt.  PandaNet is different again and I’m slowly working my way round it – I even managed to play a game. 

If someone were to say something about ‘World Cup 2010′, I can say ‘I’m trying for that’.  Though it’s Pair Go and not soccer

Time is different in smaller towns – when the plumber says ‘I’ll be there at 07h00 on Tuesday’, what he actually means is ‘I might be there on Tuesday’.