Silver Case

2011 has been scandalously busy, with work and projects both secret and non-secret.

One project I’ve been grinding on is my Japanese.  I’ve earned my third badge now, recently, after completing my “Adjectival Expressions 95 Within 10 Minutes” on 22April.  Wheee

Singapore Airlines whacked fares to Japan recently.  We scored three tickets for $398each, so we’ll be going up on 15May and staying through Saturday.  Got a decent rate at the Peninsula.  We’re all set.   It’s going to be great for me, because I’ll get a lot of extra real-world Jap practice, I’ll get to work daily with Kitani Sensei face-to-face, rather than Skype, and then coincidentally I’ll be their for the Tokyo Lingual “school barbecue” at a koen near Shinjuku.   Will be nice to get out of Singapore for a few days.

Spent most of the hot afternoon doing back-dated paperwork.  This evening I decided to re-remember my katakana.  It always drives me nuts to not read it well when I am in Japan (lots of signage is in it).  It only took me about an hour with flashcards to memorize it (there are how many? 45?). It seems quite quick, so I guess some of the neurons I taught long ago didn’t fully-forget after-all.  Sort of like when I use morse code, it somehow comes back through the muck in my head.

I also bought #quakebook for Ling’s Kindle.  (So should everyone else!)

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