09/23/2005: "Too bad the day's just begun."

Barely slept last night, and I'm in the middle of something, so I can't really write. But.. I am anyway. Kinda strange, isn't it?

Finished writing my composition in Japanese last night. For some reason, I just can't seem to write anything decent for it. I hate sounding so.. horrid. I also shipped it off to 3 people last night, so hopefully I can get some feedback on it and get it corrected. Anyway, all the information on that (including Japanese and English versions) is found under "more..", which is a link at the bottom of this, to the right of my user-icon and the left of the "comment" link.

Tomorrow, I'm going to go meet with someone to speak in Japanese. Kinda bothered by this, but I think it'll be good to get more experience speaking, and especially nice to be able to try to practice more here in the US.

Otherwise, not much to say. Just waiting for one of my classes to start, reading some articles, and looking at the correction to my Japanese composition. While I have a free moment, I would like to state how much I dislike when people run around and try to pretend to be smart when they throw around publicly information showing that they clearly have no idea what they're talking about. In short, I really don't like the faux intellectual facade so many people seem to toss up. I greatly respect intelligence, and people who truly have unique and well-founded insights into life. But those who just read some poorly written article online, or fight on messageboards, and then turn around and spew out stuff that doesn't even make sense in the hopes of sounding like an intellectual are just stupid. At least check your facts before rambling off on stuff. Make sure that you have your bases covered if you're just going to make stuff up or make broad generalizations. Not everyone falls for the cover of "big words".

I wrote this for a specific reason, but.. I won't go into it. Maybe I'm just an elitest. Nay, I probably am.

Oh, I think I'll be starting another game tonight. Going to impose a 3-4 day deadline (need to pick one) for it, to make sure I keep up a decent pace. Hopefully I'll be able to update the site with content and the game sometime this weeekend. I'll post information about it as I have it (right now, most of the prelim details are in a notebook).

So, that's about it. I'll write sometime later..

Or I'll pass out. We'll see which sounds better.

First version of my composition. Clearly still need to do some editing (quite heavy amount of editing, I'm sure), but at least I have something semi-sensical to hand in. Since it really depends on how you have your comp set up and other variable factors, I just took a screenshot of the paper and will paste that.
Note: I could've replaced alot of the words with kanji, but since we're writing the paper for length, it really makes more sense to use hiragana, as it requires more to get across the same point (though can lead to some confusion, I guess).


jpn_comp-v1

And now for a rough English translation (translated to sound more sensical to people, not literal):
Note: Alot of liberties have been taken, to get this to make enough sense. Like, for instance, most of the "he"s aren't there at all. It just sounds alot less sensical wtihout it said in English.


Title: Hello. This is Jason.
So, what kind of person is this person? Jason's family has 6 people in it. He has 4 siblings [need to correct that]. He is the second eldest child. These days, he is a second-year college student. The major is Asian Studies. What kind of person? He's a little short, has short, brown hair, and wears glasses. What about personality? He's kind, but maybe a little not optimistic ["not optimistic"/"not positive outlook" to leave it sounding softer]. I think it's not very interesting. Jason has many hobbies. He likes working with computers, studying Japanese, writing letters, and cooking. He really likes playing with his younger brother and sister. In the distant future, what does he want to do? He wants to translate for a job. At that time, maybe he'll be married.

If you see Jason, say hello to him please. He wants to make many friends!
Jason