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Check what came up in one of my feeds:
'nuf said.
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So there I was casually going to the mailbox at the front gate, opening it, and seeing a large brown envelope with a peculiarly familiar sticker on it and the words in bold red saying "Please do not bend" on it. And so i thought, "FUCK! it's here!"
Took the envelope upstairs. Getting more nervous with every step. And by the time I saw down at my desk with the envelope in front of me I was completely prepared to see the words "FAILED!" somewhere on something that was in that envelope. But when I opened it I saw a large piece of paper which I recognized from my quest for information about the JLPT. And sure enough,
I HAVE PASSED THE JLPT 3 TEST! O_O;;
And it was quite unexpected I might add. I really thought I had failed it with only a few points to spare. Especially when I heard those people at the actual test site saying "yeah this is my third time here but this time it's so much harder omfg!" so that wasn't exactly motivating.
( Piccas! )
So now I have actually passed this thing i'm quite happy.. It's also a sort of turning point in the past year or so because I have passed barely anything during that time. So, woo!Mirk:  bouncy |
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So I was done for the day, the lecturer was kind enough to release us 10 minutes or so earlier than planned, so I rushed to my bike, rushed to the station, nearly ran someone over, rushed to lock my bike, rushed to padlock my bike rushed back to the platform because I saw the train standing there.
*smelt a very familiar smell*
Turned out a train was standing still in the station because its breaks had caught fire *that smell* so now no trains were allowed to ride between Den Haag and Rotterdam because the Fire Department had said so. There was not actually a fire to be detected, as the train operator had extinguished the fire himself using his emergency fire extinguisher, but now, with all the fire fighters crawling over the train tracks, train traffic had been halted.
Anyway, after a few minutes I decided to go to the tram and just take the tram to Den Haag and continue my journey to my Japanese class from there.
So I got to the tram, and it was -really- packed. Next to me was this not so tall woman reading 2 mangas, or Japanese style comics, at the same time. So I looked a bit closer and I noticed these peculiarities:- Caucasian female reading manga (maybe not so strange but I swear I have never seen this before)
- Adult reading manga in packed tram in the Netherlands (the tram was -packed- i tell ya)
- Person reading 2 mangas at the same time (who the hell does that?)
- Person reading 1 manga in Japanese (who the hell knows Japanese in this country xD )
- Adult readong shoujo (= name of genre translating to basically mean "little girl") (that genre is for -little- girls!)
Turns out she had 2 of the same mangas (Cardcaptor Sakura) but one in Japanese and one in English "for comparison" as she had put it. Anyway, as you may have guessed, I began asking her about those mangas and she said she was heading to Japanese her lesson so I promptly replied "me too". So that was a very funny coincidence. So we talked all the way untill we got to the train station in Den Haag and we parted after exchanging e-mail addresses. That was quite a funny encounter.
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apparently I use the word "equations" a lot? x_X :PMirk: cheerful |
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Feb. 26th, 2009 @ 09:20 pm
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So most of you probably know about that airplane crash right? Hard to avoid any news about it especially here in the netherlands as all the papers' headlines are concerning that crash. CNN has been showing news items about it and well.. it's pretty huge apparently.
What's also interesting to know is that that crash happened right up my street! It's a long street so it's still 2 miles away but still! It is my street that plane's crashlanded next to. I didn't notice anything about it btw. I was at home at the time. But i only found out about it when i got to delft. And after a day i actually figured out it happened so very near me.
As for my comment on the crash itself. I was watching the news about it and the commentators and some of the "experts" were all shocked that the plane was devastated and whatnot. But when I saw actual footage of the plane I couldn't help but be amazed at how -not- devastated that plane was! And the number of dead people (9 at the moment out of 135 people on board) is so incredibly low that I am really interested in what had actually happened up there. It's kind of funny, because I'm used to learn about crashes and the death toll is mostly around 80%, also, the wreck of the plane is usually not exactly a wreck but a large collection of tiny bits in most cases. Especially when they land in the water.
Which takes me to that other recent crash in the Hudson in New York. The pilot of that plane apparently was a very experienced sailplane pilot so he managed to set down the plane in the water without any fatal damage! Now that's so unique it'll probably not happen again for many years.
I was also sort of amused at those people who were saying that they didn't want to fly anymore because of that crash, but yet they do drive their cars and stuff in which the chance of death is probably more than 6 orders of magnitude higher than the chance of death in an airplane.
I was also wondering what I would have done were i sitting in that plane while it crashed. I'd probably still be alive because I always get the crappy seats in the middle which are incidentally the safest, and i'd probably get all excited and would've taken out my camera to take snapshots of all the broken bits after i'd have tried to help some people to get out.
Anyway.. maybe i'm gonna take a look tomorrow or something, and take a few pictures.Mirk: bouncy |
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So it's been quite al ong time since my last entry but here are some funny/interesting pics.
( Cut for convenience )
Hope you enjoyed this entry!Mirk: bouncy |
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As for the exam: I had my last one on friday, and I overheard the following -whispered- conversation during the exam.
Examiner/Lecturer who I believe is from Canada = L
Examinee who's native tongue is -not- English = E
E: *walks up to L looking like he has a serious issue with one of the question and whispers* *murmur murmur*
L: You are going to do WHAT?! *not whispered*
E: *murmurs some more*
L: You want to buy a chocolate?? *not whispered*
E: Uh, yes.. do you know.. where is the machine?
L: *looking a bit flabbergasted, points* It's out there in the hall I think.
E: thank you.
As you might imagine.. it was rather difficult for me to contain my amusement. But luckily I managed. It also did not help me very much that there was this person in the courtyard whistling some out of tune folk-song that echoed around like crazy.
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I went ice skating here. And it was very nice, as i hadn't done any ice skating for some years.
I went onto the ice and some people saw me and asked me if I was going to try the ice. And they started saying things like "good luck!" , "if you fall through the ice just yell because we are going to walk here!" and "very brave of you!". But I didn't really think it was that dangerous so i just smiled at them xD.
When I got there by bike there was only 1 person on the ice who I only found after I had already gone onto the ice and skated along the edge where I saw that person very close to the edge somewhere further down towards the north-western side of the pond.
After a while a few more people came on the ice, but it was never more than 10 I think. Anyway.. I did some skating, made a few laps, crossed the middle of the pond in various directions. I noticed I was the only one doing that, but there was no cracking noise or whatever so I'm sure it was safe. There also was this guy on a moped who went onto the ice and a bunch of kids fooled around somewhere on the middle of the pond. They set off some fireworks, the noisy kind, while i was standing somewhere near the edge, and because sound travels faster through ice i heard this chirp increasing in volume followed by a bang. It was one of the strangest noises i had ever heard. It reminded me of some of the epic explosions you hear in SF movies.
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All in all, I had a great time but I went home after my feet began hurting a lot. Last time i skated my calves started hurting, but this time they didn't hurt at all.Mirk: accomplished |
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サヨナラのかわりに by モーニング娘。
キラキラ冬のシャイニーＧ by 田中れいな (who is a member of モーニング娘。btw)
Here are the 100 top grossing films of all time (not adjusted for inflation): bold what you've seen, underline what you own.
( Longish list... )
Okay so maybe I was exaggerating a bit when I said there were only 2 movies I - hadn't- seen on this list.. in reality it's probably 16 (or less because I don't really remember all the movies very well). But that's still 84% that I have seen!
As you can also see.. I own none of the films on this list (except the 2 obvious series of Harry Potter and LotR).
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So I went to london yesterday to do the JLPT.
( Please click here to enjoy a milennium of happiness in one millisecond. )
So that's it! I hope you have enjoyed this entry. I haven't taken any pictures of the test building or anything which i think i've should but the building didn't exactly look very cheerful anyway, despite those two incredibly orange palm trees with flashing lights they had put up on the square in front of it.Mirk: chipper |
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