vale[ blog ] diary of the last hollow soul

I'm dead tired and. I've been to school all day, and that still means less than what i had at home, but still it's exhausting. In this one day we've learnt more new grammar than in all the past week and the multicultural communication class was very interesting as well (that's not something usual). Yesterday was long as well and so was the day before that and so on, but i'm not getting to sleep before midnight tonight either (it's already pretty close). Why am i tired? After school i fixed the front tyre of my bike. Works all fine, tested it: went with a few friends to a second hand shop in Mitaka. I've seen interesting stuff (the most tempting was an electric guitar which would've costed under 10000 yen with the amp and sunglasses Sors was asking about just a few days ago), but lucky i had almost no money with me so bought nothing. Then because Rado bought himself there a new table-tennis racket, we started playing, and i finished at ten. A bit exhausting. Especially since tomorrow i'll have a full day again: in the morning have to wake up early to go get myself some food for the Golden Week, early because i'll go with the newly (to be) formed debate club somewhere in a park to have fun, then from two i'm having a three-hour-long table-tennis practice with that club, then have dinner with the Hungarian senpai's ('s indicating plural). And i wouldn't be surprised if around 11pm someone rang me to go out karaoke… Now i'm left with two emails to respond to and to figure out why my phone wouldn't let me set the music i sent via infrared from the laptop as ringtone or morning alert. Any ideas?

In the first class of friday the subject was the te-form. Whoever learned japanese probably knows that in the beginnings (and so far i've got, ever), this is the most difficult thing, because the last sounds of many verbs change a lot. Lucky enough i've learnt this by myself before, so not that much trouble. But Suzuki-sensei sang an interesting rhyme to remember the changes, something like the english abc-songs and stuff, to the tune of Oh my darling Clementine. I don't know if i wanted to write more about that, but i put a note in my phone saying Clementine, to write about it. And since this as of yet doesn't really worth posting, here comes a deviation, titled Sweet Clementine, by ~MissTrashyPants. Hope you like it.

It's interesting which words are nouns and verbs in different languages. In japanese there are a lot of verbs which are in fact nouns with the auxiliary verb to do, to make. Example (in this post i won't write japanese characters): in english, you say you study – in japanese you say you do study. Sounds awkward, nay? And there are a lot more of these, loads of suru-verbs, and i think this is due to a difference in the way the cultures look at the activities. Verbs are words expressing action, while nouns are a lot more static, even if created from verbs, and so are the verbs created from nouns. I think the difference is that we western rather emphasise the action, the way the action is performed by and related to the actor (now meaning doer), instead the eastern (at least japanese) way to rather look at the act independently of the actor, as a platonic idea of the act that exists even if there was nobody left to actually act the act (a bit too many act's). Maybe.