Absolutely necessary if you don’t want an oily keyboard or controller.

Not in Japan? You could try getting this from Rinkya.

Higuma is the most fierce wild animal in, I think they meant, Hokkaido.

What do you think?

What do you suppose these girls were up to in Minatomirai?

These people too.

Was it picnic day in Yokohama?

Why was there a cruise ship berthed at the wharf?

Just want went on that day?

毎週木曜の夜中12時は必ず「日本人の知らない日本語」というドラマを見ています。このドラマ、面白いのでけっこう好きです。仲里依紗のファンになった。日本語と日本の文化の勉強にもなる。

Thursday late nights are spent in front of the TV watching a sitcom called  日本人の知らない日本語, nihonjin no shiranai nihongo; Japanese that Japanese do not know. I like the show and the lead actress, Riisa Naka, is pretty cute too. The show is quite informative too. Something fun for learning Japanese and Japanese culture.

先週学校の生協に飲み物とスナックを買いに行ったとき、原作になっている漫画が目に入った。少し読んで、すぐ「買う！」と決断した。ストーリーが面白くて、日本語をまだ勉強してる私にも頷けることばかり。思わず笑ってしまいます。
話も軽いし、読みやすいので日本人だけじゃなくて、日本語を勉強してる留学生にもピッタリです。

もし外国人に日本語を教える日本語教師になりたかったら、この漫画（ここから「まんが」じゃなくて、読み方は「マニュアル」にしよう！）を先に読んだ方がいいッス！

こんな風に外国人とのやりとりを描いている漫画は最近すごく流行っていますね。

ちょっと前、井上真央ちゃんにが出てる「ダーリンは外国人」という映画を見た。その映画の原作も同じ名前の漫画だった。

Saw the manga the show is based on at the university coop. Picked it up, read a few pages and decided to get it. The strips are are interesting and for a Japanese learner like me, I can relate to some of the situations depicted in the manga. It’s extremely funny. 

It’s easy to read, so I suspect that this manga isn’t only targeted for Japanese, but also for foreigners learning Japanese too.

好きなページを少し紹介。

I want to show you some strips from the manga, just hope I don’t get lost in translation. ^^.  

During the entrance ceremony for a Japanese language school. The principal asks, “Will those who can’t understand Japanese please raise your hand.” Of course, he’s asking the question in Japanese.

And people do raise their hands!

This strip is about “new halfs” in Japan. Haruna Ai is probably the most famous new half in Japan right now. This Korean student is surprised when she realizes that the beautiful ladies she sees on TV are actually guys in dresses. She sees a boy’s urinal in the female toilet and misunderstands that they are for new halfs. They are actually for boys accompanying their mums.

This one I like. I think katakana is problematic for most foreigners. I usually have to read through twice before I make the connection. It gets easier as one gains more exposure to loan words in Japan. So, in this clip, she can’t read katakana. Hoping that the shop clerk can read the list her boss drew up, she went to the convenience store. Unfortunately, the clerk is a foreigner who doesn’t read katakana too. ^^.

どうですか？日本人の方、日本語を勉強してる外国人の気持ちがもっと理解できた？

In Japan, ticks indicate a wrong answer and circles (like zeros) indicate a correct answer. In this clip, the teacher makes a comment about the mistakes that the student made. She starts by saying, “Oh, this is rare, you’re an excellent student, but all your answers are wrong.”

The student replies by saying, “Damn, I got my Japanese friend to do it for me”.

外国人に日本語を教えたい？ぜひ私たちに正しい日本語を教えてください！

お疲れの出ませんように、よろしくお願いします！へへ。

Ok. Give you a few seconds to get it out of your system.
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Enough laughing. Let’s move on. ^^.

This Hello Kitty ウィンナー (Wiener/Sausage) comes with Calcium for strong teeth and bones, and 15 different Hello Kitty prints! Sure to bring a smile to any young lady’s face.

Hope this is still around when she can chew. Need to prepare my bribes. ^^.

RM1 per entry. Approximately ¥26. Includes a receipt which you can probably use to claim when whoever you claim from. And no, there wasn’t anyone in there waiting to help wipe your ass. But unlike most public toilets in Malaysia, this particular one at Low Yat was reasonably clean.

To date, I have paid twice to enter restrooms in Japan. Public toilets are 99.9% free. The two occasions I paid, I was hiking. Mt Fuji and Mt Tateshina. It was ¥100 per entry. But it was a public toilet in the middle of nowhere. There was no one guarding the doors and collecting money though. The ones that I’ve been to accept people to be honest.

And we are all honest aren’t we.

A simple text editor with a twist. Created this for times when I’m writing long documents and need an extra view to see what I’ve written elsewhere instead of scrolling all the time.

Since this got into the store, I’ve got positive feedback from songwriters, writers, bloggers and people who just love to write. Thank you for your support!

A split view is very natural don’t you think? Please can check it out at the web App Store.

Couldn’t help but borrow the quote from Apple’s timeless “Think Different” commercial.

Working on a few updates, but let us know if there’s something you want in 2Write. Have fun writing.

On a hot day, this is just heavenly. $5 for a bowl of Mango snow ice at Mei Heong Yuen in Chinatown. This is a little huge and I don’t think it’s meant for 1 to have alone. ^^.