日本語が難しいね！

I wanted to learn Jap language for the longest time. In fact, before i went to uni, I had a set of CDs (which i have lost btw) i brought over to aussie while helping my sis with her wedding.. seems like a lifetime ago..

anw yes the CDs. It’s to learn Jap. But i never get to practice it. When i went to uni, instead of studying Jap (coz a lot of fakers inside if you know what i mean), i chose German, which turns out to be somewhat untamed. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that I don’t like German but staying over here at Singapore really restricts a lot of German interaction.

Unlike Jap. I found myself playing Jap games, Jap toys, watching Jap animes, Jap drama and having Jap books which i have no idea what they are talking about.

It irks me quite a bit when they mumble some stuff and you know what they meant by the nuances and the little phrases that you get through the Kanji pronunciation, but at the same time you don’t know what they are really saying.

SO. I’m starting over again. Found a super duper zai website in case you want to start learning Jap too. I figured that since i know Kanji characters i’d be better off learning it than some other languages (try Korean).

Hopefully this time round i can succeed. haha!

頑張っていくね！

Gaming

really doesn’t sound like something I should be posting on my first day at work. But i just suddenly have the urge to do so – after playing a heck lot of games recently.

And realising that perhaps I would never have the chance to sit down, fully committed, eyes fixed on the screen with every awaking minute to wipe out those annoying zergs.

In a way, gaming really is sort of like a commitment. There are people I know who thinks that people should just grow out of games. You know, like how children grow out of toys. But seriously, we don’t live with Pong or Pac-Man no more. Just to clear up any misunderstandings – gaming here refers to PS3, PC and XBOX360. And playing games on these machines is both an enjoyment and sometimes, a total waste of time. But i’d rather prefer the former.

Perhaps it’s just boys. I’ve noticed how that babies, especially boys, gets very excited about remote controlling stuff. Just a small little switch to turn on a fan or a light can entertain them for nuts. And the further the switch is away from the apparatus, the more excited they get. So when you throw him a wireless black looking thing controlling a character in some mystical world when he is old enough, you can be SURE he’d be stuck at the screen, fully committed with every awaking minute.

I grew up with the PC gaming community. I remembered playing the 2D scroller Prince of Persia on a black and white screen, and crying my pants out when my character died. Then there was the LAN shop era (which is dying btw) where we would camp around in some dark dubious cyber cafe spraying bullets at each other. Now, after nearly two decades, i’m quite sad to see that PC gaming is reverting to stuff like FB games. Except for Blizzards and MMORPGS – but that’s another story for another day. In a way, i was guilty of it – piracy. Piracy has, officially or unofficially, robbed the PC gamers of our first class citizenship in the gaming industry. Developers just don’t see enough profit to focus on PC gamers since they’d just gonna torrent it anyways. And that’s why i’ve decided to not buy pirated games anymore – a feat I’m still doing today.

*sigh* I can talk for gaming for on and on and on I guess. It’s just like that baby boy playing on the switch on and off repeatedly until he realise he needs to grow up and work. hahaha.

Alrite enough ranting. Still gotta work tomorrow. Nitez.