Saturday, April 21, 2007

   first part finished...
so. the first presentation was today. It was really hard...73 kids danced and me and some other people were looking that they did what they should do. Not an easy job, since we weren´t so much...only five people to keep them silent and occupied, to make them up and so on and so forth. The presentation was really beautiful, I could see it in the final rehearsal. There were some 150 to 200 people watching it tonight...

the CD thing worked well, at least the music was as it should be (fortunately) and the program too. I had to write down every single name...argh...was annoying. And then we wanted to copy the program, but the shop we wanted to do it (since it would have been copied on both sides of the paper) was closed. We went home (in the time between rehearsal and presentation) and I did a new one. At least this time I only had to copy all the names and arrange it the way they could fit in one sheet. you see...I was busy all time (worst thing was, I had to get up early today...and this after a week I didn´t sleep much and next week will be even worse, I´ll have to get up at 5 o´clock every day, because there are lectures from candidates for the vacant chair of the Japanese studies at University). So...I´m tired all the time...-___- Needless to say I haven´t had one moment to learn all the kanjis...the next weeks will be tough, ´cause the exams are in one and a hald months or so...o_O

nah, somehow I will manage all these kanji (hopefully).
so, hope you had a great time and enjoy your weekend!
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

   CD devil...
ah well, today wasn`t really a good day. University was OK, I could write during the lesson we watched some NHK videos (don´t think I didn´t watch, I only didn´t give it my full attention since I waited until the professor translated the imortent part into German). Later on me and some collegues tried to translate a text, but it was really hard, we couldn´t finish it. So one of us is translating the rest of this text and I will have to translate the other text, or at least look up all those kanji.
But well, my mother gave me a really really annoying job with the CD she needs for her ballet presentation on the weekend. It really pissed me off, but well, I had to do it. So, after 1 hours or 2, I´m not sure (and I think it´s better if I don´t know) I was kinda tinkering with some CDs until I had it as she wanted me to do it. Nah, well at least I did it by now. I sometimes really had to supress the feeling of wanting to destroy these damn CDs...so call me the DC devil, muahahahaaaaa! no, seriously, I really was near to do it.

what is better is that I really could write down a great part of the idea I had yesterday for my manga. I´m really looking forward to draw it, it´s really a cool part of the story. Unfortunately there is very much inbetween of the part I´m drawing currently and the part the idea I wrote...am still writing, better said...will happen. hm. hope I get some time to draw it someday...

well, I´ll go and watch a little bit TV to calm down...hope your guys are doing fine and please don´t forget me, I surely didn´t forget you!!!


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Monday, April 16, 2007

   end of free time...
ah, so bad. tomorrow is university time again. Not that I wouldn't like it but the grammar lesson we didn't have today will be tomorrow...with this...old hag!! argh. well, I guess I just have to go through it. As you may have imagined, I didn't do a lot of kanji by now (At least I did SOME), but I'll surely do some tonight.
I'm uploading the pic I finished last week, I really love it! it's the main character of the manga I'm drawing currently, and I just LOVE to draw him! ^-^

Thanks to the new internet connection we have I can download some manga and anime much faster then before, ah, love it! I downloaded the first six eps of "GunGrave" and I really like it! Can't wait for more!!!

well, I'm a bit short of time now, so I hope you're doing fine and had a fabulous weekend and will have an even better week! (Sorry for hearing you didn't have a good one, Angel Zakuro! -_-).

so, see ya around!

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

   weekend...
well, this weekend was really quiet 'round here.
I didn't do much, much less did I study the kanji I should have, but well. I'll do that tomorrow, since I'll have free ^-^

I watched Angel - A (a movie from Luc Besson), it was somehow cute, hehe. I liked it very much, even though it was black/white. My mother didn't like it, so I watched it alone afterwards (she had began to watch it without me anyway).
I now transpassed all the data from one laptop to another so I can give back the other laptop to my aunty again. God, this laptop hitsory was kinda annoying. I never knew if I could have one, but now at least I got the one I wanted ^-^
So finally I have a laptop, yay! Had to wait for it long enough, I can tell you! Ah, it's so cool to have everything near you. It is so important to have a laptop if you study at university, it's really amazing. But now I have on, so everything's ok now ^o^
Today a friend of mine had birthday. I went to her...there was only her parents, her sister, a another friend of her and her boyfriend. But it was really funny! We talked about what we're doing now, made some really funny fotos and she was happy about my present (I was really nervous about if it would please her, my mother was paranoic about saying it wasn't a good present - but anyway, she's my friend, I know her much better than my mother does, so she really liked it :p...).

I still have to do some things for my mother. The ballet presentation she choreographed...well, not only choreographed, she actually did nearly anything, the story, the ideas for the costumes and so on and so forth...khm, well. I have to make the CD for this presentation and the leaflet for the people coming there. Ah...this will be some work. The CD is easaly done, but the leaflet...arrgh. I have to write down every single girl who dances there and other things. I'm not really eager to do it right now, but better doing it now then later, so I have it done.

I asked last week the guy of the comic shop I usually go if there is E's 14 out in Japanese...he didn't answer yet...ah, I wanna know! I hope it's out, I'd buy it immediately! I'm still at volume two with translating, but well, I quite know what happens at the end of the 13th volume, I so much wanna know how it continues!! (it ended with a cliffhanger, a really mean cliffhanger which makes you wanna know all the time how the hell it'll go on...).

so, that's everything from now...hope you guys are doing fine and see ya around! ^-^
I'll comment on your sites whenever it's possible for me! It seems internet is fixed now, so it shouldn't be a problem right now...^-^


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Thursday, April 12, 2007

   still trying to learn kanji...
well, as the subject implies, I'm trying to learn all the kanji I couldn't learn last week now and well, it's quite...impossible. ah...but I have to. Even if the sun is shining so brightly that I wonder what I do in a room...it's really warm outside, some 20 degrees or so, really hot for this season in Switzerland. But well, otherwise I'll have some problems at the exam. Tomorrow is kanji lesson and everytime the lesson begins our teacher makes dictations (you do not really receive marks, but if you have many faults - bette said, if you have faults - you have to correct them and write it down like in primary school (hehe)). It's not really that bad, in contrary, it really helps you memorize all this stuff, but well...there is so much to do that you often don't have the time to practize really. And if you have to correct it all the time it gets annyoing too. So I often have the knaji sheets she gives to us for leeanring somewhere near me...I know, it's cheating, but since you don't get any mark, I don't have that much a bad feeling about it, hehe. Nonetheless I want to learn the ones we had lately. The ones we had last semester won't be such a problem since I learned them once, so it won't take that long to recognize and rememorize them.

A collegue of mine - she's working now, saving some money for studying time... a really good idea, I'm broke at the moment...should search something for the semester holiday - has birthday this Sunday. I don't know if she will do anything, a party or God knows what, but at least I did buy a present. The only thing left to do for me is the birthday card. I've got no idea what card I should do (I always make them by myself - ok, usually...). Have to think about something original...ah. Hope she will do something at Sunday, so I can visit her (it's been a long time now since I could visit her, because I'm studying and she's working...).

This monday was bank holiday (easter monday) so we did not have to go to university. Unfortunately we had to visit grammar class we would have had at monday on tuesday and it was horrible. I kinda dislike the teacher because you enter the class thinking, ok, now I will learn japanese grammar and finally understand these difficult and complicated verb or whatever patterns. But then you are in this lesson and you think: is this really a grammar lesson? Sometimes you think you're in physics or maths because of the teacher's way of explaining the patterns. With all these A gives to B some stuff but B gives it to C and when A is someone you know good it's passive and if you give it to B, who is still near, but not so near to you like A, you do not use passive but active or just another verb...ah. Horrible. Usually the book does explain it better, and when you see the examples you most often understand the essence of the unit. You make a summary and everything is clear again (but double work anyway). I hope I understand everything until I have to write the exams. Another thing she does constatly, she does not explain the whole lesson. Or she tries to finish some lesson we had last semester...and naturally, you understand even less then before because she's mixing everything so you got no idea what topic you're dealing with. Grammar is really terrible, you see. Today we had grammar lesson (because next monday is another bank holiday, but only in Zürich: it's because of Sechseläuten: some people will wear traditional clothes and go on the streets with their cows so you can't do anything in the city). I'm very grateful this time was not the teacher I dislike but one we have for translating class. He has some humour - he always makes us laugh - and he explains really good. it could partly be because he's Swiss and does not have to think in Japanese and translate it into German for explaining everything. But well, at least what we had today I really could understand it.

Hm...well. As monday will be free for me, I wanna visit a friend of mine and see some movies (the same guy from last time with the movies). I hope he has free time! ^-^ It's really cool, he likes mostly the same movies I like (I remember we talked many lunch breaks about some movies at the school I went before going to university).

We have some problems at home with our internet connection. It's really annoying, I hope my father could do anything about it, so I won't have to do everything at university. It's because we're now changing from ISDN to ADSL (it's a shame having a computer scientist (my father) at home and we still have ISDN...It's two years now, I think, that I always insist on my father to buy it. Finally he decided to do it - don't ask me why, I'm only happy he finally DID decide to do it). Nah, it'll take some time for it, but I hope that at weekend's time I'll have internet connection (sorry I didn't post or comment anything lately, as you see, it has to do with this ISDN to ADSL change). I made some pics and will scan some and if I'm lucky I can upload them soon. I made a picture I like very much of the main caracter I uploaded now sometimes and another of the dark elf (but this one isn't finished yet). Then there are many other sketches, but these are not finished, so it will take some time to finish them.

So---I wrote more then usually (probably because of the lack of connecting to the internet lately).
i hope you guys are doing fine and see you around!!!



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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

   mueseum
so, can't do a long post today (dad wants to sleep...this is a long story, why this event does interfere with my internet possibilities). I was in a mueseum in Zürich. There was a lecture about a festival in Japan (hi no matusri or something alike) and was really interesting. Maybe I'll write more about it tomorrow.

The pics I was talking about in the later posts are uploaded now :) hope there are some poeple who like them. I especially like the one with the elf (I'm really into elves lately, all because of the manga I'm drawing now...lately I couldn't do much for it, I'll see if I get some new ideas. I know how the story goes on, but I'm not sure if I should show the new character just now or wait a bit. maybe I'll get some ideas over easter ^-^...though I will have to learn many kanji...arghh...). Even if the pic is product of boardom and so, I like the bg ('cause of lack of ruler some lines are not so straight as they should be), but anyway! lol

so, hope you're doing fine, have a nice week...and see ya around ^-^
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Tuesday, April 3, 2007

   new week
ah, so a new week has begun. Well, it's really boring at the moment now, we had many lectures but nothing really interested me. But as they fortunately were lectures there won't be difficult (or any) exams on, it didn't matter I only was drawing, hehe. I'm now at university and will go home soon, but at home I'll ulpoad two pics. Among these will be the one I told you about (I drew it on our translation text, so don't be confused if you see some kanji there). It has a special look because of this, i presume, hehe. I like it somehow, it was my first prototype of this kitty-thingy I wanne try to do.
I made a pic so far of an elf hugging a kitty girl (she looks kinda cool, well, to say, not so really delighted as the elf, hehe), but it's also a pic I like. Maybe I'll upload it sometime soon.
There are so many things I'd like to draw, but Im not sure where to begin with at the moment. Maybe at university I'll gain some ideas, who knows...lol

Ah, I'm so wanting thursday to come soon, as I probably said already, I'll go to a friend and do some preparations on friday's little party we'll have. unfortunately many told us they could not come, now we're searching for other people to come. I'll watch some DVD's with her at night. We only know about one film (sword in the moon or something was it called), and maybe we'll take another film too...ah, this will be a nice time! ^-^ We will get a little rest from learning all these kanji...they're horrible, really! some are easy to remember but God, there are some really freaking ones you forget the second you put the card away...

so, hope you guys are doing fine and see ya around! ^-^

(I'll post comments on other sites if I get some time tonight,...today we had a tough kanji lesson too, so I'll have to write them down on cards...and learn them...argh...)
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Sunday, April 1, 2007

   weekend...
ah, it was a good weekend! I could buy the book on friday and now I nearly read half of the book! (it's really funny, I love it).

I didn't draw anything, 'cause I had to help at home and do some homework, but still I'm much more compfortable now that the work and presenation are over. I hope the teacher liked the work, I don't know when he will give it back to us...
so now on fridays I can learn the kanjis for the next lesson, hehe. Tomorrow will be kinda tough, I will have to write down all kanjis from the last week. But anyway, I had a good weekend and finally could get some sleep...it was really horrible the last two weeks!
next week will be interesting, a collegue of mine and I will prepare an easter lunch at her and invite some poeple of our class, it'll surely be some fun ^-^
Maybe I even can go see a movie with a collegue (if I get enough time to do so) on Saturday...I hope so, at least. I'd like to look "300", this sparta movie...

so, I don't had much to post today. hope you guys are doing fina and see ya around!
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Friday, March 30, 2007

   presentation over...finally!!!
ah, I'm soooo relieved! The presentation went well, allthough the teacher criticised me for reading everything (I hadn't had any time to learn it by heart, so I just nodded and sad, yes, I know, sorry). Also he wanted me to say the essential things of my presentation, something I'm so unable to do, no matter what topic the presentation or work is about. As he is a teacher who likes to hear talk himself, he somewhat gave the answer himself...and then he asked some other things. I could answer one thing and another was false (I was confused with the American and English in the time...the first treaties were english, the next was american, but choshu again was attacked by england...God, it's no surprise I said American ships instead of English...ah. Well, I he took it with humour and said: Ah, there all the same, American or English, what's the difference? It somehow reassured me, hehe). So now I have finally time to do other, much more interesting things ^-^

I bought a book today (The Bartimaeus Trilogy - The Golem's Eye written by Jonathan Stroud). It's the second part of this trilogy and I love it! I know it's probably made for teenagers younger than me, but it's so funny! you should read the Bartimäus part, he is so sarcastic and all, well, I like the way he talks :p It is the first time after the Tad Williams series of Memory, Sorrow and Thorn, that I'm reading a book which has nothing to do with what I'm studying. Ok, you could count mangas too, but I think these are different, as they're not really books. So well, I'm really happy now...I'll try to read as much as I can this weekend :) Ah, nearly forgot. The snow is melting away already. It's incredible! This winter sure was strange. Today it was so warm in Zürich, I didn't even need my jacket! (at least in the afternoon). Here in the tiny village I live in, it was a bit colder, but still, you could walk without jacket...I hope it'll stay this way. Seemingly tomorrow it will snow until some 800 m above Sea level (I live at some 500 m, so I won't have to be afraid of snow again)...hope srping comes finally!!!

I'll also (probably) have some time for drawing...I did practice this kitty thing at university (maybe I'll scan one sketch I did of one - I made the sketch on the homework paper for Japanese translations, so if you see some strange kanji with meaning "Industry" or "Politics", just don't be confused...hehe. maybe, as most people won't be able to read thos kanji, it may look cool...as if it was on purpose I did it lol. Well, I'm thinking about uploading it after all. It's not very special, but my collegue found it nice...

so, I'll go get some sleep now. In the past two weeks I didn't really sleep that much. I'd say not more than 30 hours counting the two weeks together...ah. horrible. Because first was the work and than the presentation so soon...but now it's over!!! :) so you won't read so depressed posts for some time, hehe. again, thanks for your wishes, I think it worked quite well ^-^

see ya around and have a good time!
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Thursday, March 29, 2007

   countdown number 2...
well, so here I am again with a countdown...seems to be a bad custom of mine to leave such things till the very end...ah. Anyway, I have now the beginning of the presentation, I even made some transparencies... I still have to do some, but as soon as I have my presentation written down, this won't be any problem.

I was in a new shopping center in Zürich today, it was really cool ^-^ (you see, I did the best to avoid thinking of my presentation, hehe, but it somehow calmed me down so I can concentrate better now). The Center is called Sihlcity, as it is located in a area called Sihl (with a river called the same way). It has cinema, many restaurants and other cool shops...ah, I loved it. I was with a collegue of mine who didn't know the shopping center either (it opened last week). I'll surely go there sometime in the future :)

I'll try to do some pics of kitty girls...hehe, someone made a request and I was practicing in the translating lesson of today...it was real fun :D (better than translating this stuff...). My collegue (the same I went to Sihlcity with) started with a dog guy, hehe. It was really funny lol
At least I had some fun at university because of this! lol

ah, so I will start writing now...hope you guys are doing fine and see ya!

pd: thanks for wishing me luck, angel zakuro and just.me!! ^-^
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