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Mar. 23rd, 2008 06:48 amYesterday, we had Easter a day early because Brian's going back upstate today. Mom made bacon and pancakes with oranges, and we also got our Easter baskets.
Brian and Marie went to New York City with Scott yesterday for a number of hours. From what I understand, they were going to some mass pillow fight that they saw on some internet video. Marie came home covered in feathers after it was over.
Mom made a Peking duck for dinner last night, and this time, we actually had some plum sauce to go with it. She actually meant for it to be on my birthday, but for some reason, we had to leave it home on the way to Uncle Robby's house. While we were eating, she mentioned that blog entry containing the March 21 entry from Chronicles of 7th Grade. In particular, she brought up the parts about us going to the duckpond, and about me pretending to have my stuffed animals (one of which was Duckbutt) doing things for me. Dad asked who Duckbutt was, and Mom explained. While we were talking, she also suggested that I should get it published once I'm done with it. However, when I finish it, I'm gonna post it section by section onto this blog first. If I even do get it published, I'm probably gonna rename it Nostalgia 64 (just like the blog entry that started the subject).
Last night, we watched The Sound of Music on ABC Family. During the commercials, there was some commercial with a store checkout section scanning cards, and the electronic beeps started forming some song that I can't remember the name of. It would've been funny if they formed one of the songs from the movie, though.
If there's any advice I should've followed, it's that there are no shortcuts to learning a language. To rely on just the Japanese dictionary alone was a mistake, and any time I've spent reciting words from it might as well have been spent just gaming. It's a good thing I still have that red and white Japanese textbook that I bought several summers ago, and I indeed started using that yesterday. It's a good thing that Getter Love!! is still a long way off; the more time I take to learn not just Japanese words, but grammatical rules as well, the more enjoyable that game will actually be when it's time to play it.
As time-consuming as learning Japanese will take, though, it won't be nearly as complicated as learning how to rip the voice samples from Makeruna! Makendou Z. Not that I even am close to ready to dubbing the voices, but it's good to be prepared anyway. I've already created two threads on the ROMhacking.net forum regarding the subject of voice dubbing, and here are the links:
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,5751.msg90502.html#msg90502
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,5988.msg94888.html#msg94888
Brian and Marie went to New York City with Scott yesterday for a number of hours. From what I understand, they were going to some mass pillow fight that they saw on some internet video. Marie came home covered in feathers after it was over.
Mom made a Peking duck for dinner last night, and this time, we actually had some plum sauce to go with it. She actually meant for it to be on my birthday, but for some reason, we had to leave it home on the way to Uncle Robby's house. While we were eating, she mentioned that blog entry containing the March 21 entry from Chronicles of 7th Grade. In particular, she brought up the parts about us going to the duckpond, and about me pretending to have my stuffed animals (one of which was Duckbutt) doing things for me. Dad asked who Duckbutt was, and Mom explained. While we were talking, she also suggested that I should get it published once I'm done with it. However, when I finish it, I'm gonna post it section by section onto this blog first. If I even do get it published, I'm probably gonna rename it Nostalgia 64 (just like the blog entry that started the subject).
Last night, we watched The Sound of Music on ABC Family. During the commercials, there was some commercial with a store checkout section scanning cards, and the electronic beeps started forming some song that I can't remember the name of. It would've been funny if they formed one of the songs from the movie, though.
If there's any advice I should've followed, it's that there are no shortcuts to learning a language. To rely on just the Japanese dictionary alone was a mistake, and any time I've spent reciting words from it might as well have been spent just gaming. It's a good thing I still have that red and white Japanese textbook that I bought several summers ago, and I indeed started using that yesterday. It's a good thing that Getter Love!! is still a long way off; the more time I take to learn not just Japanese words, but grammatical rules as well, the more enjoyable that game will actually be when it's time to play it.
As time-consuming as learning Japanese will take, though, it won't be nearly as complicated as learning how to rip the voice samples from Makeruna! Makendou Z. Not that I even am close to ready to dubbing the voices, but it's good to be prepared anyway. I've already created two threads on the ROMhacking.net forum regarding the subject of voice dubbing, and here are the links:
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,5751.msg90502.html#msg90502
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,5988.msg94888.html#msg94888