Learnings & Quotations

2007年6月の決意

Posted 2007-06-08 (金) 午前2:44 by terra

2ヶ月まえ日本語クラスをやめてからずっと勉強を怠けてしまった。とても残念なことだった。

そんな何もしない態度を続けてはいけないと思って、三日前、私は決心した。少なくとも毎週1時間や2時間の真剣な自習をした方が良いかも。最近日本語で書いてある本を読んだ数が増えてきたが、漢字に依頼しすぎたせいか、動詞や音の読み方などは全く覚えようともしなかった。こんな真似をするのは本当にヤバイな。

今年JLPT１を受けるつもりはないが、1年前日本で買ったJLPT１の完全マスター漢字本は学習にとっていい材料だと思って、二日前の水曜日は通勤時間を利用して少し動詞の勉強をした。進歩は大したことじゃないが、以前の中途半端な学び方よりずっとましでしょ。＾＾；

Subjects: Learning the Japanese Language 日本語勉強

「私は思い出にはならないさ」

Posted 2005-05-17 (火) 午後10:43 by terra

“Watashi wa omoide ni wa naranai sa”…ends 3 of the trailers in Final Fantasy Advent Children, Squaresoft’s attempt at mythologising the iconic villain Sephiroth. カッコいい‼

Other favourite one-liners:
“I am Alpha and Ome’ga, the beginning and the end” — Revelation 21:6
“I am Legend” — Richard Matheson
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds” — Robert Oppenheimer (though technically the line did not originate from him)

And as recommended by 傑義, I just watched the FF7 opening remake that was created specially for the PS3 technology demo. Pretty cool, seeing how much technology has evolved over the past 8 years. Before I saw the demo, I actually saw the screenshots, thinking that they were screenshots of the movie, except they seemed a little pixellated. I thought, maybe they were production screenshots or something… Wow.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像

Mood: Learnings & Quotations, Raves and Rants

Tags: Final Fantasy, Japanese, Square-Enix, Squaresoft

Perfection is sometimes a pain...

Posted 2004-09-06 (月) 午前2:53 by terra

So my dad says to me in an email sent from the airport before he leaves for London (in a plane which he believed was a direct flight but turns out it is not but he gets upgraded to first class anyhow isn’t that so cool while I’m stuck here at 3:10 AM typing this when I should be sleeping since I have to work tomorrow but somehow I don’t think that this rant has anything to do with the title of the email because) and I believe this is so true considering the turn of events regarding a particular dvd set that I purchased today. Thus I formally adopt this as my new signature in my email from today until whenever I tire of it.

Subjects: General

Mood: Declarations, Learnings & Quotations

It's a Fool's World

Posted 2004-05-09 (日) 午後10:14 by terra

“When you watch a John Woo film…
you see how shallow the world is
and it makes you relax, right?
Coolness is in full force, even with
a strand of nose hair poking out.
It’s that kind of manly aestheticism.
Only idiots do the cool,
dangerous stuff.
That’s why they’re cool.”

—Preview for Furi Kuri Episode 5 “Bura Bure”
Furi Kuri Episode 4 “Furi Kiri”