Sunday, January 11, 2009

FEVER!

There seems to be a nasty bacteria going around in here. First my parents became ill, now it seems to be my turn... Today I had dizzyness, an aching back and head and a 39degree temperature! It's been years since I last got a fever like this... I'm going to a doctor tomorrow and see what can be done about it. I can't afford to be sick ATM. I need to do some important things!

Friday, January 9, 2009

Lisago

On my nightly search for new music yesterday [yes for some reason browsing the net at 1:30am seems to be fun ;)] I found an artist named Lisago
She's Japanese/Taiwanese and she's been releasing for like 7-8 years now. I listened to it and it wasn't all that bad. It seems she was dumped by a record company 5(!!) times already, but continues to release cd's. I can't stop wondering why a record company would drop someone like her. As I said the music is kinda nice [it's a special kind of singing IMO] so they wouldn't drop her 5 times because of that... Does she have an attitude maybe? Or maybe she's a bit lazy like me and like to sleep :) Anyway now that I have found some of music, I want to collect more! *sigh* my never-ending urge to collect...

Thursday, January 8, 2009

ME vs J.L.P.T. - IV test

Yesterday I did a JLPT4 test [2002] at home and I scored 144 out of 188...

Most errors were the reading part. Although I have finished Japanese for Busy People I and have most words from that book into my head, I still think I'm missing quite a few words that you'd have to know for the JLPT4 test.
7時に いえ __ 出ます。 [not ni but wo should've remembered the -O-utgoing movement, like のる]
友だちと 電話 __ 話しました。 [I thought を, like でんわを する... seems it was で]
パーティーに 中山さん __ よびました。 [what the hell is よびました... Seems I did have to learn that verb... Verbs are not my strong point :S ]
9時 __ えいがが はじまります。 [the movie starts from 9 o'clock?! WTH! I thought it was starts about 9 o'clock but that would be ごろ not ぐらい :'( ]

4 errors in 5 questions [the other 10 questions were better 8/10 correct]
I'll spare you the rest of the questions...
Ok, just one more: きのう、テレビ __ 見ませんでした。 [normally I'd think テレビを 見る, but that wasn't among the answers.
へ に は が hmmm which one... well looking AT a TV would seem logical... Ok...logic failed, it was は, but the can't see [so it can't "didn't see"]]
Overall I think I would've past it, but I can't help feeling a bit slaughtered here...
when Japanese Conversation classes start at the end of the month I'm gonna take this test to Mana-sensei and ask her to explain some things to heal my logic...