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Entries this day: Benkyoshimashta Koko Matrix_reloaded State_of_my_life

Benkyoshimashta

8:55am JST Wednesday 11 June 2003

This morning I quit flopping around in bed pretty early. Rode to Lawson, got breakfast, came home, ate, then studied Japanese. I choose to get back into the habit of studying frequently.

I wrote several sentences.

Called janette and yammered with her for 50 minutes. I wrote sentences for only 30 minutes; how can I have chatted with her for so much longer?

Here are the sentences I wrote:

わたしはのりまきがすきです。
I like norimaki.

わたしはとんぷらがすきです。
I like tempura.

わたしはホトココがすきです。
I like hot cocoa.

ぼくはなっとをたべませんでした。
I have not eaten natto.

けさにほんごをべんきょました。
This morning I studied Japanese.

きょうよじにかわさきのｃｉｎｅｃｉｔｔａでマtリゥをみます。
Today in Kawasaki at Cinecitta, I'm going to watch Matrix.

きのうのばんしぶやでぼくのがくせいにおしえました。
Yesterday in Shibuya I taught my student.

ぼくははこねがすきです。
I went to Hakone.

ぼくはたばこがきらいです。
I don't like tobacco.

ここはぼくのまえです。
Koko is in front of me.

あしはつくえのうえです。
Legs are under the table.

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Koko

1:04pm JST Wednesday 11 June 2003

ここ checked my sentences; - very few grammar errors, but one big vocab error. I said "legs are on the table" instead of "legs are under the table." Hahahhhahahaa

Oh and she pointed out a spelling error I had been making. I live in こうほく. Not こほく.

I jokingly said, "are you sure?" She laughed. "Yes; I live here."

Told her about my quotes of the day. Her quote of the day is probably "あしはつくえのうえです。"

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Matrix reloaded

12:59pm JST Wednesday 11 June 2003

THIS ENTRY WILL GIVE AWAY DETAILS ABOUT THE MATRIX RELOADED

While talking to Koko today, she mentioned that one can purchase Morpheus glasses for 5000 yen at her theater. Then she mentioned that one can buy Morpheus, Trinity, Neo, or Twins glasses.

Twins??

Ack! Say no more!!!!!

But it was too late. I haven't seen the movie, but now I have heard there may be twins in the movie. D'oh!!! Oh well. It's cool. I hope the twins' existance is not a surprising plot revelation at the end of the movie. Sigh. 'sall good.

10:49pm

Okay. I've seen the movie. Wow. My favorite scene was the two trucks colliding. Not very likely for a body to survive such an experience, or for the trucks to perfectly crumple like that, but it was definitely an amazing crash.

Neo fighting all those Agent Smiths in the city park area was funny. 'specially when he whirled around on his staff and kicked them all in series.

I love the gathering of energy when he does his superman thing. That warping of the matrix is fly.

The creator? Who was he? Colonel Sanders? I forget his title in the movie. His soliloquy epitomized the ... unnecessary wordiness of the movie. Starting with the oracle, oh - barely starting with Morpheus addressing the crowd. (*I* should have been in on that barefoot wild dancing party!) Then someone else, oh that French cat. And I totally noticed that his pretty wallflower wasn't saying anything, so it highly pleased me when she took on her own persona. That fighting scene with all the tridents, knives, stakes, etc was wild, but a little over the top - just too much. Classy that Neo didn't pin her to the wall through her arm, but only around the wrist.

What was the line in the elevator? When Neo and Trinity are about to get it on in the elevator and he goes "are you thinking what I'm thinking?" and she's like, "yeah, if you're thinking this elevator is too slow.." ??? What? More like too fast cause they didn't have time to do it. Why would she have wanted it to be faster?

The car chase scene crushed all other car chase scenes. But yeah right their car would still drive through all that and they weren't reduced to bloody carcasses while driving. That white ghost twin shot the fuck outta their car. And the agents, too.

But it was a cool scene. I *LOVED* when Trinity drove backwards through the traffic, and the camera zooming under the cars after her was sweet. Did you notice the same right hand exit being used a couple times? Musta been only one. I *heard* they actually built that highway for the movie. *that* is amazing.

12:42pm JST Thursday 12 June 2003

There are times when I just want to ( ) and I can't. I don't have a word for this thing I cannot do, but (!), I just realized that this action is perfectly depicted in The Matrix. "He's doing that superman thing."

*I* want to do that Neo thing, where he crouches down, flexes his mind and warps the universe then *EXPLODES* into flight. *THAT* is fucking cool.

I'm going to call this action neo. Or maybe doing a neo.

12:10pm JST Friday 13 June 2003

Who who was that guy trying to kill Neo? That cat who cut his own hand and then tried to be all, "oh yeah, um, catch you later," when he almost got caught. I don't remember seeing him before or after that. But I tend to unnotice brief male characters.

And at the very end, who was that other cat (in perfect comic book fashion) presented upside down next to Neo? An evil Neo twin? Were they twin-ish? Very interesting.

My butt was getting sore by that point in the movie, so I'm glad it ended, but now I'm like "Hh hh hh hh hh!"

THE ENTRY ABOVE GIVES AWAY DETAILS OF THE MATRIX RELOADED

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State of my life

8:59am JST Wednesday 11 June 2003

State of my Life

I've been in Japan for nearly two and a half months.
I've just started teaching private students this week. The first was fumi, who I helped for 2 hours in Shibuya yesterday.
Second and third will be Aki this afternoon in Tsunashima and Shin tonight in Kikuna.
Between tutoring Aki and Shin, I'm going to see The Matrix Reloaded with Cory and Janis in Kawasaki! It'll be my first time to attend a movie in Japan.
I went through a two week period of not studying Japanese well at all. I'm focusing myself back toward studying.
There are 25 email messages in my inbox. I've been working toward keeping that number down (by responding to messages I've received instead of just letting them rot).
Haven't found an official Mankind Project group in Tokyo, but when Frank gets back in town, I'll ask him if he knows of any (through AA).

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