Sunday, May 15, 2011

Just Another Week in Japan: Improvement

Apologies - I was away in Saga this weekend and couldn't get this post up by yesterday. A little light on links this week.

Looks like I'm having a house party this weekend. Last time I did, someone broke one of my doors (and I'll never let him forget it, Joe). That was about 2 years ago, so time for another go at it. I have a lot of cleaning to do, but I'll try not to let it interfere with my posting schedule too much.

Anyway, here're my highlights for the second week of May:

Movies
  • Rene at Shoujiki Shindoi briefly reviewed a movie called Ohoku (大奥), the premise of which is that a disease has drastically decreased the male population of feudal Japan, effectively placing women in power and reversing the gender roles. Looks worth a rent.

Japanese Study
  • Fluent in Three Months featured an article about how to think in a foreign language. Been a goal of mine for a while.

Blogging
  • Hikosaemon posted an interesting bit of advice for aspiring YouTube partners, though I think his suggestions are more widely applicable.
  • And over at Copyblogger, a piece about how to create compelling content when you "don't have a clue."

9 comments:

  1. That door was a menace and it had to be stopped.

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  2. Haha...you and that door. I hope this weekend you can finally settle your differences.

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  3. I'm wondering if you'll change your doors after every house party. Just kiddin'! I would put that guy to pay for a new door. Ok, we party, but don't destroy my house please! This should be written at the entrance to the house.

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  4. Heh heh...to his credit he offered to pay for it. Luckily someone was able to fix it for me for free.

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  5. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I did like the first volume of the manga for Ohoku. And it's got one a them Arashi boys, it's got to be awesome! (Haha)

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  6. Good luck with the House party!!

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  7. Alice - Arashi? Oh God...

    Chris - Thanks dude!

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  8. I was curious about the movie too because a friend was into both the comic and movie. Hope you'll let us know how you liked it after you watch it ;D

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  9. Thanks, Kaori. I plan to write some movie reviews in the future; just haven't decided on the specifics yet.

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