Archive for March, 2008
That I bought in San Francisco lol ;p. I was in San Francisco for the past few days which is why there haven’t been any recent posts ^^. But what I bought while I was in San Francisco was imported from Japan so it could be considered something I bought from Japan ^^. I know I would buy the same thing if I was in Japan, just check out my loot from my actual trip to Japan last year. It was pretty cool visiting the sights, but the best part would have to be all the anime stuff that I bought lol. I numbered the items I bought in the picture above so that I could refer to it and show you what was inside the magazines or what it came with. Read on for a picture intensive look at my loot ;p.
This is for those who can read hiragana, one of the writing systems in Japan. I recently came across another Firefox plugin, the furigana injector, which puts hiragana above kanji words, this is called “furigana” in Japan. The plugin is for people who can read hiragana and understand Japanese words but can’t read kanji, this will really help you out on Japanese websites. If you’re learning Japanese then this will help you to speak Japanese more fluidly; by speaking the hiragana you read out loud, it will train your mouth muscles to speak Japanese. Just to let you know, the furigana injector doesn’t translate the kanji into English, so use the rikai-chan plugin for that. Also, there’s a setting to change the “level” of the kanji being translated, for when you read Japanese you tend to get accustomed to certain kanji’s and don’t need furigana to read it, my favorite being 見る (the first character is the kanji, pronounced mi, the second character is hiranga that is pronouced ru, so altogether it is miru, the translation for it is “see/look”) . Enjoy ^^.
If you have MacOS X 10.5, aka Leopard, you have a Japanese to English and English to Japanese dictionary built into your system. I learned about this through f*%$edgaijin, here are the directions to use the dictionary:
“To activate the dictionaries, go to Dictionary.app and enable them in Preferences. There are 3 Japanese dicts, The Progressive EJ/JE Dict, Daijiten kokugo jiten, and a dictionary of synonyms. I find the EJ/JE dict is sufficient, in fact, it is excellent. Once this dict is enabled, a definition is only one click away. You can select any Japanese word (in a browser window for example) and right-click to get a menu offering “Look Up in Dictionary.” If the selected text is Japanese, it goes right to the definition. You can also select a word, hover the cursor over it and hit command-control-D to get the little popup definition without launching Dictionary.app. You can also look up an English word and click the JE tab, for an E>J lookup.”
This is to let people who live in the US know that Tokyopop, one of the main manga publishing companies in the US, is holding a manga mashing video contest that ends on March 23rd, it’s open to all those in the US. Sorry to those outside of the US, I will let you know if theres ever a international content in the future if I come across one. Information on how to enter can be found on Tokyopop’s website.
A picture of a yesteryear gone by….
There used to be a time when people would walk down the street and say hello to someone they pass by, whether it be someone they know or some random person. If you do that today, you would probably think the person was crazy for doing that. If a elderly, crippled, or pregnant person were to board a bus or a train you would see people already sitting immediately stand up and offer their seat to the person. Sadly, this is not the world that we live in now. Where people would pretend to sleep, put a newspaper up to their face to not see the person, talk on a cell phone, etc., just to stay in their seat. This seems to be happening all over the world, including Japan. Japan, known for it’s strict code of respect in society seems to be falling apart as years go by and new generations are brought forth.
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