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"Nine Repetitive Onomatopoeic Japanese Words" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-07-01 07:13:46

1. Chiku-taku (tick tock)2. Gari-Gari (scratching)3. Pan-pan (sell)4. Potsu-potsu (drip drop)5. Sara-sara (flowing water)6. Ton-ton (tapping)7. Wa-wa (do by crying)8. Zanpan (leftovers)9. Za-za (pelting come down) Freelance journalism since 1996: The Independent. The Guardian. The Observer. Esquire. GQ. The Face. Arena. Arena Homme Plus i-D


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"Japanese Joy" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-18 23:36:46

Hey there again everyone. Sorry for the delay since my measure update. I'm still figuring out the ins and outs of this whole blog culture. A lot has been going on and keeping me busy since my last post but it's all been great. So I guess that's where I will go away. I am feeling great. I had a very encouraging week and I have really enjoyed this past month. Blessed is a good evince to describe how I'm feeling. I evaluate a number of things have contributed to this the first being prioritizing and valuing my measure spent with God. A few weeks ago. I was feeling this sense of disconnectedness from everything. I felt disconnected from my team and ministry my close relationships back at home. God and even myself. Relationships in command just felt static. What made the situation even worse. I couldn't figure out why. Then I realized that I had been allowing myself to get caught up in the busyness of work. I evaluate the most significant time I had allowed to depreciate was my time spent with God and in His word. I thought about my times I had been reading scripture and spending in prayer and not only were they rushed and brief but I usually had crammed them into some calm in my schedule hardly allowing me any opportunity to be engaged. This wasn't the first time I had discovered myself doing this but I entangle fortunate to have recognized the be for adjustment in this spiritual develop. Since reevaluating and being intentional about spending quality time with God. I undergo seen vast improvement in my relationships as well as an increase in my joy. This week during my team’s Wednesday night dinner we discussed a chapter out of The Life You've Always Wanted by John Ortberg. In the chapter. Ortberg discusses the topic of joy. He paints a really neat picture of how joy is the most intrinsic quality of God's engrave; above anything else. God is joyful. I really appreciated this chapter because I think that God has given me a ton of joy in life and its cool to think that He created us to be joyful like Him. So with that being said. I would like to overlap some of the joys I have had recently.1) Ministry time. Ministering to college students in a nutshell is the cerebrate I am in Japan. My team's goals are to see new students make decisions to place their faith in Jesus Christ and to see the faith of these new believers as well as current believers built up and sent out to overlap their faith with others. Unfortunately as many of you experience. Christians are about as common in Japan as carne asada (I am trying to forbid all of the petty "rare" and "tough"-to-find meat puns that are coming to mind right now). Because of the spiritual instruct of students here the team's primary role for now is to go to the university campuses and share our faith with others. This can be a difficult assign especially when one considers both language and cultural barriers. I have found both to be obstacles at times but like I said I undergo been very encouraged as well. Culturally the Japanese are taught to be very polite and hospitable this makes approaching students a comfortable and easy process. The problem however is that their desire to not anger you combined with a fairly high shyness calculate creates a recipe for a student who will agree with everything you undergo to share with them (i e. God's existence. His Love for us. Man's sin nature. Jesus Christ's free and compensation for our sin nature etc.) and then they either. "suddenly have to go" or be to change state extremely work when the time comes for follow-up meeting number one. This week though. I have really enjoyed my measure spent sharing with students. One guy. Yuki questioned why it is I would come all the way to lacquer just to meet with college students and talk with them about a God they don't believe in. He thought it seemed pretty meaningless especially for someone desire me already in my mid thirties. After clearing up that I'm actually a modest 22 years old I got to explain to him that from a materialistic perspective my prospects didn't be too bright but from an eternal perspective getting a student to cognise that our life on earth is temporary and that we have the opportunity to spend eternity with the Good and Perfect God of the Universe. I have a pretty sweet gig. I have had a be of similar real and authentic conversations with students this week. Granted populate weren't placing their faith in Jesus left and alter but the discussions have been honest and engaging and I have go to accept the reality that if I can connect with students and overlap truth with them effectively then God is the one who is going to work on that planted disgorge. It's been great. But I will add that I would be stoked to see some new believers. I was reading a proverb the other day and it says that a man who tends to a fig channelise gets to enjoy its fruit and I can't help but evaluate that with all this sowing the team is doing. I wish we don't undergo to wait too long for some figs. I arouse you to pray with my team that God is working on student's hearts out here. So the honesty (sometimes a bit blunt) of students has been a blessing and a obtain of joy.2) Rana. As many of you know this is the coolest person in the world more commonly referred to as my girlfriend. She is an confine with Campus advertise for Christ at Michigan express and often my greatest source of both joy and encouragement. I realized shortly after writing my last blog post that I had neglected to mention her in it. This error was both highly unusual and slightly unjust. Having someone so in love with God and so desiring to see me grow closer to Him makes my relationship with Rana an extremely significant part of my life and enjoyment of life. God has truly blessed our relationship so much that I can't think of a single negative thing about it except maybe the thirteen measure zones between us.3) Surfing in Japan. I got to surf every day this summer. It probably wasn't the roughest convert out of college. Needless to say packing up and coming to Tokyo put a attach in this routine. But about two weeks ago my good friend from USC. Jon Whitmore (he and his wife lead the Tokyo save aggroup East; my team is Stint Team West) and myself took the six AM train out of Mitaka. Two hours two train transfers and a three-kilometer walk later. Jon and I were standing on the color sand of Ichinomiya Beach in Chiba staring at steady and consistent eight foot sets (waves) rolling in with about fifteen surfers sitting in the lineup. We were somewhat relieved because we chose to surf this pass due to a typhoon swell that had been building for about a week (meaning good/big gesticulate conditions) but when we stopped by a board shop near the beach the guy said he wouldn't rent boards to us because the surf was too big. After finding a different surf shop willing to contract us a bring together of junk boards we paddled out and it was a blast. Sure the sets looked gigantic once we made it out and the occasional ten footers weren't exactly settling on the nerves but I managed to catch a few waves early on and get a feel for my come in as come up as the waves. After about six waves caught five mental adjustments and three tumbles. I was feeling pretty confident. Fairly soon a nice peak rolled in and I was in a pretty awesome spot so I paddled aimed my 7'6" cover to the left dropped in and rode the longest wave of my life. It was awesome. I comfort get goose bumps when I think about it. I ended up paddling in because the shore was so much closer than the lineup and running down the land to this jetty area that formed a sort-of protective bay that made paddling back out super easy. We surfed for about three hours straight before hiking back to the train displace where I slept all but about 3 minutes of the instruct ride approve. The only thought about surfing that gives me more joy than that wave is thinking about when I get to paddle out again next.4) Basketball. Recently my good friend Greg Triplett (The CCC Campus Director at USC) was in Tokyo for a vision trip with some Campus Crusade Big-Wigs. On the morning of Greg's departure he. Jon. Jared (one of the guys on my aggroup) and myself went to this outdoor lay to play a few pick-up games of hoop with the locals. We soon discovered that we wielded a substantial height advantage over our opponents. All four of us are at least 6' tall and there may undergo been two other guys all day who were close to eye level with us. If you've seen One Flew Over The echo's Nest (If you haven't please do because it is a brilliant film) it was like four Chiefs running around the court. I don't think any of us had touched a ball in quite some time so our performance certainly displayed a degraded degree of athletic panache. But a polished bet was not necessary. We would drive to hit time after measure and grab all the offensive rebounds which opportunity afforded. When we did convert the basket we would retreat to the other end and play some tall defense forcing guys to shoot over us as we blocked shots and brought in many more rebounds. At the end of the session. I evaluate we went undefeated through six games. Dominant and fatigued we retired to the sidelines leaving our many defeated and downtrodden foes to duke it out for a distant second displace. We concluded that in the six games our team made a total of three outside shots two of which were made by the 5' Japanese guy we picked up as our fifth. Too many details about this undergo were too hilarious to not be joyful.5) Friendly locals. Since I can remember. I have always had this inexplicable tendency to sight an establishment in which I become a regular and attach the work force (it’s kind of like I inherited some sort of “Cheers” syndrome only I never watched the show). The criterion has remained consistent over the years: cheap mediocre to good food with above average camaraderie. In Chino it was Chill Bill and his two Greek sons at Super Chili Burger. In Ocean City (NJ) it was Angelo and Pascuali at the Dollar Slice. In Antioch (IL) it was Boris at the café appropriately named Las Vegas. Even at USC. I knew Terri at Calmart and Jesus at Chano's. I speculate it's only fitting that after a month here. I've already made a bring together buddies. Hiroshi-San owns and lives behind Mikan Noki the shop in which he sells Softo Creema (soft serve) and a few different food dishes. Jessica and Kelly (the two returning Stint girls) call him the Ice Cream Man. He always has chocolate vanilla and a third featured-flavor which he changes once every other week. I always try to get the new flavor on opening day. It was peach when I arrived followed by sweet violet potato grape and just yesterday café latte made its debut tastier than ever. He also cooks really good Gyoza(Chinese pot stickers). Ramen. Yaki-sobu (similar to ramen but on a plate rather than in a soup) and a delicious fried rice omelet. His English isn't too good so we spend plenty of time trying to understand and teach each other new words. These drawn out single-word lessons don't help the fact that rapid food preparation isn't one of Hiroshi’s strengths but it does change magnitude the time I get to fasten out with him. The second joint I am growing fond of is Indra an Indian flavor restaurant owned by a Nepalese fellow named Emerit. As it turns out he was always super nice to the save team here measure year and usually gives them all sorts of free bees. The first measure I went he gave us a big old platter of cheese nan (like cheese melted in a pita bread) and last week he gave my roommate and me a remove bowl of curry. I try to go at lunch because that is when you get all-you-can-eat sieve and nan with your curry. They make the nan (this giant pita-like flatbread) fresh as you order it so it comes out hot and delicious. I also really enjoy the company of the cook. Bondy. He's also Nepalese but looks Indian and just stands looking over the answer with this endearing grimace like he is really enjoying watching you eat. I think he makes the girls a little nervous but I love him. I delight in the prospect of developing all of these kindling friendships. Plus. I think I‘ve always had a desire to be that guy who saunters into a crowded establishment and simply orders. “The Usual.”Anyhow. I realize I have been writing quite a bit so I will end this post with another cultural tidbit. In lacquer they have three written alphabet's Kanji. Hiragana and Katakana. Kanji is the alphabet most people are familiar with. This alphabet has something like 2000 characters and it’s the meaning of the different Kanji symbols that gives words and sentences their meaning. Hiragana is the alphabet used for phonetic spelling of Japanese words. (In case this is unclear: Their. They're and There would all be written the same in Hiragana because they are all pronounced the same way but it is through their different Kanji symbols that the meaning of each is distinguished.) This is why books use both alphabets simultaneously. Using both is also important because Japanese text is not written with any spaces. This makes my head hurt to evaluate about so I'll continue. Katakana is the third alphabet. It is the same concept as the Hiragana (pronunciation based like our alphabet) only the Katakana is used for non-Japanese words. The Japanese dialect has inherited many terms from other places which it previously didn't have. Toilet shower and hotel translated into Japanese are pronounced toiretu showa and hoteru. Hopefully all of this has made comprehend. I tell you this only because in an effort to advance integrate with the culture. I have learned Katakana. I go down the street and stop every few steps to construe what a sign says and I love it. To me it feels like doing one of those logic puzzles I thoroughly apply only when I understand these it has a tangible and useful result. I ordain adjudge practicing as I go about my day does cause the duration of a simple commute but it has been helpful. I plan on learning Hiragana this coming week but I'm not nearly as excited because the result will be far less rewarding. Learning Katakana is like learning a new form of English. Learning Hiragana will be kind of like how I already experience how to read French. I can do every word to you just don't ask me what it means.


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"When the typhoon made me come with a lot of thoughts about manga..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:58:00

It often appears that words are part of a lager cultural accent. Consequently these words can’t never be translated in English. For dilate there is those Shinigami (death gods) that are often represented in mangas. As come up as Akuma (devils). Translating them would be a big identify since it is not the same translation. And there are change surface more examples such as Chakra (soul energy) or Shikai and Bankai. As well as there is no word to translate the exact nuances of Ara kiri. To investigate furthermore our explanation we ordain act the example of the two more successful anime nowadays : discolor and Naruto. With a cry of "Souten ni zase!" (Sit upon the frozen heavens). head Hitsugaya doesn't so much make Hyourinmaru itself change as he does call a giant dragon made of wet. An eastern dragon not the western fire-breathing write it's probably several hundred gallons of near-freezing water that he can point and send anywhere he wants. Both dragon and chain radiate such a cast down that any wet even the moisture in the air starts to freeze. So change surface if you don't drown in the fill that is the dragon the wet comfort soaking you ordain freeze you to your core. Along with Hyourinmaru. Ryuujin Jakka is an elemental blade though in this case the element is fire. Reciting the sentence "Banshou issai haijin to nase" (reduce all to ash). Yama-jii sets Ryuujin Jakka on fire. Flame sprouts from the hilt and blade wrapping around Yama-jii in one huge conflagration. The blade itself remains in his hand though it's hard to see through all the beam. It doesn't take much create by mental act to figure out that Yama-jii can probably act upon all that fire with a craftsman's precision. The Byakugan literally color Eyes. (or Evil Eye as it is known in the English translations) is a very special condition of the eye that occurs naturally in all members of the Hyuuga clan. Used mainly as a taijutsu technique the Byakugan gives it's user many great abilities including the ability to have a 360 degree field of vision object for one tiny blind sight behind the first thoracic vertebra this tiny sight is the only known weakness of this special ability. With the Byakugan activated it's user has the ability to sight anything that moves around them in a 50 foot radius making the Byakugan a difficult assign to contend against. When used with chakra the Byakugan becomes more powerful and can see through most solid matter over extremely long distances and allows it's user to see the inner turn system of the enemy opening them to an attack on their tenketsu (Chakra Holes) by the hand of the juken (Gentle Fist). The Sharingan literally Copy Wheel Eye is a very special condition of the eye that occurs naturally in some members of the Uchiha Clan. Most notably the Sharingan's most well known ability is to be able to hit the books any technique that it has been a witness to including nijutsu genjutsu and taijutsu techniques. Other abilities of this very special eye include hypnosis allowing it's user to suggest actions and thoughts to the opponent. The Sharingan also has the very useful ability to see through any illusionary technique. It belongs to the Kaguya clans. Through this technic they undergo a frightening and graphic ability to act upon their bone structure they can control the density the shape the movement and the number of their bones and use them as weapons that are as sharp as a dagger and very destructive to their opponent. The bodies of those who possess this bloodline are virtually indestructible with their special offense even allowing them to shoot bones out of their fingertips that are as sharp as a spear any point of contact on their be would create great alter to their opponent. The most powerful techniques this unique clan possesses are it's many dances that are named after flowers.


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"Osanpo Video" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 14:31:39

This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day sunny though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet not change surface winter. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions the passage of time new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine just out of the box wheareas 2004 sounds (already) old scratched a little battered like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004). This blog is one of the transitions for the new year. I've started it This is a weird measure of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day sunny though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not move yet not even winter. The looming New Year makes a guy evaluate about transitions the passage of measure new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine just out of the box wheareas 2004 sounds (already) old scratched a little battered like my camera cellphone (which I bought in 2004). This communicate is one This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day sunny though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not spring yet not even pass. The looming New Year makes a guy evaluate about transitions the passage of time new stuff—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine just out of the box wheareas 2004 sounds (already) old scratched a little battered like my camera This is a weird time of year. Here in Berkeley it's a gorgeous day sunny though chilly. The magnolias are already blooming. It's not move yet not even pass. The looming New Year makes a guy think about transitions the passage of time new cram—the usual. The numeral 2005 sounds new—shiny and pristine just out of the box wheareas 2004 There is a very popular assort on the photography-oriented social networking website Flickr: Osanpo Camera. It is so popular that they have a daily limit on the number of photos that can be posted. Now osanpo is a Japanese evince that means essentially. "free walking," If the o at the beginning of the evince means "honorable," as it does in many other Japanese words than osanpo means "honorable free walking." In my opinion osanpo deserves to be honored; it is a fascinating yet very democratic art create. I wanted to read more about it but I can't read Japanese and most Internet references to osanpo are in that language. However. I would like to accept that a new communicate of mine a communicate is in the best osanpo tradition. My video project began with a be that had nothing to to with osanpo. I was spending too much measure indoors with my laptop and not enjoying the beautiful defy. I dreamed up a wild plot to build walking into a computer communicate: go when the defy's nice and injure whatever came up with my iPhone. Of course. I had reinvented osanpo photography with that idea but I didn't think of it at that time. What I did think about was scrawling text on the pavement with draw and photographing the text essentially creating titles for the photos. Then I had an epiphany. I could find my camcorder literally dust it off (I hadn't used it since 2004) and shoot in front of me as I walked. That would furnish me an opportunity to play with the new version of iMovie that Apple had just shipped: a version that infuriated experienced iMovie editors because it purported to alter the movie-making affect while eliminating many of the cool features of the previous edition. Apple claimed that the new iMovie made it possible to create a finished "home movie" in one-half hour with the new iMovie. The video shown above was indeed created with iMovie but it took more than one-half hour. In fact it took four hours. I know that for a fact because I got a parking ticket for going overtime in a 90-minute parking govern. But I was able to alter all my stuff transfer it to YouTube and even compose the opening music theme in Garageband all in four hours. After putting the video on YouTube. I also uploaded it to Seesmic a website just created in the past few weeks by Loïc Lemeur. Seesmic is very alter and I will write more about it another measure. In the meantime. I hope that Coffeeblog readers ordain enjoy my osanpo video entitled "Chalk Walk One," which they can watch courtesy of Seesmic.


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"I have a New Japanese Blog(for me to learn)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 22:33:45

I would like to start my japanese again is been awhile i didn't get a come about to study. come up,this measure i would like to improve by writing Japanese in my communicate.(Specially my kanji,grammer. etc..)I will write it everyday and in this Japanese communicate if u can see the left align of the communicate,you can see a small windowAnd lovely that i just resisted a new one. Yessss!!!To register ,you can go to This is. Kore kara minasan Yoroshiku Onegaishimasu. (^_^)*To believe the Japanese words you might be to download the If your computer is not support the Japanese words. Thanks


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"Origin of writing in Japan" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 19:19:55

Before the 4th century AD the Japanese had no writing system of their own. During the 4th century they began to import and adapt the Chinese script along with many other aspects of Chinese culture probably via Korea. At first the Japanese wrote in Classical Chinese or in a Japanese-Chinese hybrid style. An example of the hybrid style is the (Records of Antiquity) written in 712 AD. They then started to use Chinese characters to write Japanese in a call known as literarly “Ten Thousand leaf syllabic script” which used the characters for their phonetic values. Over time a writing system emerged in which Chinese characters were used to write either words borrowed from Chinese or Japanese words with the same or similar meanings. Chinese characters were also used for their phonetic values to write grammatical elements and these characters were simplified and eventually became two syllabic scripts and. Japanese literature reached a high point during the 11th century with the (Tale of Genji) by Lady Murasaki Shikibu. Many other Japanese literary works were also written by women. Modern Japanese is written with a mixture of and plus. Modern Japanese texts may also include. (Roman letters) the standard way of writing Japanese with the alphabet. (English script) non-Japanese words written in their own script and various symbols known as XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>


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"Bad Japanese Words" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 21:04:50

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