18/10/2010

I made a mistake in yesterday's post. Just to clarify, Smith isn't based on any character for certain. He's shaping out to be the OnlySaneMan, though I might change it to something else for fun, and if I find a character to move him into.

Back to school, today. I really didn't want to go back, but eh... What was I supposed to do at home? Thus, I went to school. It was the usual. We were loud, boisterous, and spent a good amount of time half, or completely asleep. I slept through Geography.

So, I'm now at home, typing this out on my iPhone. Just a few more days before I can collect my computer. It's... 5:45pm.

Ah, nice nap. Because my story is meant to be some weird science fiction adventure comedy, I went to check out the INeedToIronMyDog trope, just to see what I can use if I see the need to. For example, I could have a character claim, "I can't go for this mission. I have to... rugby tackle my grandmother." or something vaguely stupid and outrageous.

I went to watch Leverage, which my dad streamed for me last night. Watched 3 episodes. At this rate, Imma finish it by Thursday, and I ought to get my computer by then.

Today, Nate finds out he's gonna have to run a scam against his father, and gets to race Elliot's car, with slight modifications, including an EMP cannon and a nitrous injector, against a former racer. Hardison and Elliot pisses off a small army, and escapes with handcuffs to hitch a ride on a train Nate got the Department of Transportation to reroute. They go back, and Hardison creates a bomb using a cigarette, and a tank.

Sophie becomes the world's greatest salesperson, and convinces Nate that she could most probably fix the auto industry single-handedly.

Right. Got the camp details. Heh heh. I get to do the games, just like I wanted to. Imma call some friends soon and borrow a compressed air cannon. Sending a reply, suggesting that we let the attendees order McDonalds so long as they pay for it themselves for the movie night. I'm suggesting "Thank You for Smoking", "Taken", "Man on Fire" or "End of Evangelion". Somebody already asked for "Full Metal Jacket", so dammit.

Right, sent. Should I check out AR or MMK for AFA? On one hand, hot butlers. On the other hand, K-ON shoutout and schoolgirl kouhais. Both cafes are connected though, somewhat, so I'll get those going on Saturday to help me see. Ask the guys to go to the schoolgirl cafe to rec it, ask the girls to go to the butler cafe... I'll get quite a comprehensive report, eh?

Oh cool. My mom's trilingual. Turns out sometime before my mom got pregnant with me, she was selected to go for training in Japan for a year, and if things went smoothly, she'd be permanently stationed there. She went for classes for 9 months, then the whole thing fell through for reasons unknown. Still, she can swear quite well, she can hold conversations, and her writing skills are still pretty good. That's awesome, and not because of THAT. You do realize that while you can call yourself an otaku here in Singapore with pride, otakus aren't that well respected back home, especially with people like that Akihabara killer and a certain someone featured on Sankaku Complex making out with a picture of Azusa on his computer screen. Wrong image, people. Whatever you might think, that is not representative of the whole population. You don't pick out the three-legged dogs and say that all dogs are three-legged just because you found the amputees, dammit.

Back on topic, I got her to brush up on her skills with various puns and words. Yes, I got someone trained to check my BilingualBonuses for grammatical and spelling errors. Considering I was using Google Translate and some contextual knowledge, I say that's quite an improvement in quality. On the other hand, there were very little mistakes.

She noted that she could teach me Japanese quite easily. For starters, I already knew 1 of 3 scripts, but there were a few changes. Two more, and they focussed mainly on names, loanwords and the Jap equivalent of Hanyu Pinyin, except that that was no Romanji.

As for the new pronunciation, that was going to be a problem. My mother decided to teach me the pronunciation of the two aforementioned scripts, and use them with Romanji to learn the new pronunciation. The main side-effect was figuring out whether a line of Chinese characters were Kanji, or Chinese. The simplest way, she claimed was to look at the grammar. Does it sound normal in Chinese? What about Jap? Chances are, one sounds more natural than the other. If not, too bad.

Mabel, 2.5-lingual.