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A 26-year old Chinese American college graduate from the University of California, Irvine. I majored in Japanese Language & Literature and with that degree, I hope to pursue a career in translation after gaining more experience with the language in order to assist Asian entertainers in breaking down stereotypes overseas. I love anime, video games, Japanese music, Japanese dramas, tokusatsu, Asian literature, studying Asian cultures, making web pages, graphic design, and MMORPGs. I'm also always up for some good discussion/conversation and am involved in Asian American issues and the Japanese community via my school's Japanese/Japanese American Club, Tomo no Kai.

Besides my degree in Japanese, my other credentials include a Certificate of Ethnomusicology from the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Irvine and minors in Digital Arts and Information and Computer Science.

FYI: I don't add people to my friends list that I don't know/haven't talked to and gotten along with in forums. Seriously, I've had to have met you in one of the places I frequent and had some kind of a profound conversation with you or I know you IRL.

Note: My Interests thing is missing three artists from the music section because it doesn't take band names that are less than 3 characters. BOO. So tag on there: YUI, B'z, bis, AAA, and Kra. Also since the interests tag seem to have some kind of hatred toward an all digits tag, I had to write 12012 in romaji.

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10/16/2009 3:49 am

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Love the new avatar. : )
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09/17/2009 1:00 am

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http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-international//t.54427159/

Join the fun. biggrin
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09/17/2009 12:35 am

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No worries about it at all. smile Your goal sounds like it would really help the celebrities as well as the fanbases; don't let some bitches get you down. With practice, you'll be right back into the game. wink


I'm making a personal hideout in Gaia international for me to be a snooty b***h in Japanese. Wanna join? razz I'm pretty much doing it to get gold.
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09/17/2009 12:01 am

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Fans in general are ridiculous to deal with, I will wholeheartedly agree with you. It also sounds like you're dealing with a real b***h of a translator, and that has to suck. Graciousness combined with a true sense of responsibility is a hard thing to come by, for sure.

Anime fans and band fans are the same type of monster. neutral You have my deepest condolences for having to work with them. I have neither the patience nor the desire to cooperate with them, so for that I respect what you are doing.

No worries about the ranting. Like I said, it helps to get it off your chest sometimes to free up your mind.
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09/14/2009 10:48 pm

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If you don't let it out of your system, it'll just keep clouding up your mind with negative energy. razz You have to let of steam in order to get ahead, y'know? wink I really hope that everything will come back to you with more practice, and that's the best advice that I can give. More translation work will help you make cleaner, nicer translations, though having the time to do them between work and life can be daunting.
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09/14/2009 7:39 pm

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I don't explain to everyone, just the people who look like their actually trying their best. XD

But if you have enough stress with work, maybe it's not such a great idea.
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09/13/2009 11:30 pm

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I have a mixi, but I rarely use it. The number of genuinely Japanese people in international on Gaia is a little bit higher recently, so I've been posting there to also get gold too. I ran into someone from Shiga in that forum; what a small world.

But I (not so) secretly love to point out morons. Even correcting mistakes of people with lesser abilities is a good gauge of how well you know your Japanese. If you're unsure if you're right or not, then you've found another weakness in your grammar, etc.

>_> Come attack the forum with me?
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09/13/2009 10:50 pm

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If the test is on Dec 6th, I don't really have much time to review after I get back from my ceremony and honeymoon. >_< And, I know I'll revert back to speaking and thinking in English, so my test score will be abysmal. I'll make sure to get things together for the summer test date.


I've been working on kanji retention as well, using Intermediate Kanji Book 1&2 (by Bonjinsha Co., Ltd.). It's a nice challenge for review but UGH the topics they've chosen to cover are so boring I want to rip my eyes out. I just went through two chapters on nothing but "what a good/bad economy is" and "this is how the world or creditors and debtors work!". gonk I keep telling myself that learning this is very important, but I can hardly keep awake reading business news in English, let alone a foreign language.


Then, there are some really STRANGE sentences in the practice exercises:

慈悲深い顔で磁石を渡した。

LOL, what? When I read it aloud to Take, he started laughing in disbelief. When would ANYONE say that?


I've also been lurking around Gaia International, but trying to find people who are literate enough to chat in Japanese in there is a little hard. It's filled with illiterate weaboos using online translation services to "speak Japanese." gonk
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09/13/2009 4:41 am

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Japan's economic recovery was really weak after the Heisei bubble popped, so it's no small surprise that the bubble popping in the global financial markets decimated the progress that had been made. Let's not also forget that the government is horribly ineffective at putting together a well-thought plan for the sake of the economy, so things have gotten worse. Prices keep dropping. The number of empty stores in Harajuku is disturbing. The discount signs haven't disappeared. Even new merchandise is being put on display at 20~30% off just to entice people to purchase things. The 70~80% off sales are still continuing too.


Take has a steady job and his company is doing well despite the recession, so we should be okay. I'm an extremely frugal person when I don't have money, so almost everything we eat is discounted 30~50% off the regular price. We don't go out much as much, and we are doing our best to keep ourselves in a stable financial place. I still have about 400,000yen in my bank account as a safety net. I'd like to get that closer to the 1,000,000yen that I had earlier in the year, but that requires me to have a job. >_< We spent money on getting our apartment together, and other money is going toward our wedding ceremony and the trip to the US (since it's his first time to go).



I'd love to take the JLPT too, but I keep forgetting to sign up for it. gonk It looks really good on resumes here when you're looking for work. biggrin I think you'll be able to pass 2kyu with no problems. smile
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09/11/2009 11:09 pm

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The job market here is abysmal, and the panic that's going through the business world because of endaka is making things worse. Competition for jobs is harsh--- I got rejected for a ******** ALT position because "three years working in one of the English education test cities" wasn't enough experience to be their classroom monkey. Real jobs are even worse. The listings are much less now than they were previously.

Really depresses me. I've registered my resume with several haken recruiting sites but I haven't heard anything from them, nor have I found any listings for jobs that I could apply for. Perhaps going through the hoops on the American side might be easier than trying to find work when inside Japan.

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