I'm concidering a slightly more vegetarian diet. I wouldn't (read: couldn't) cut back on meat completely, there's too much taste-sensations at steak there.........no pun intended, much.

In all seriousness though, it would be for health reasons, although the reasons themselves are not huge. At least not yet, I suppose.

It's not all that often, but now and then after I've eaten meat I can feel my intestines cringe, like (mildly) cramping. I'm guessing I'm either not chewing enough or my body's getting worse at digesting meat. Which would be a bit alarming, but probably not all that surprising. But it's not too late to change, right?

And actually, another reason would be that vegetables are fucking tasty.

I don't see myself being picky about animal products as such, eggs and milk for instance. Can't really live without them. Remember this is just to make myself feel better physically. If I have to beat up a cow now and then, so be it.

Day 2 was actually wednesday two weeks ago, but nothing exciting happened (so I didn't bother writing anything). There were no driving, just a day full of theoretic stuff. We did a small test to see how much of the information we had picked up. Most of us did good. We all went home to practice some more though, in preparation for the big final day.

Day 3 (today) was rather awesome. Started out with the usual, casual cup of tea (the others had coffee, branding me 'tea-man') before we did the final test. I dunno if it was the tea that did it, but I got through and managed to score enough points to win myself a certificate. Sweetness, thank you very much!

Yay me! ＼（＾ ＾）／

I hardly slept anything last night. I was really fucking anxious about today. First time in a long while I felt this way. Ugh, I hate it.

As soon as I got to work, all those feelings were gone. Worried sick for nothing. Fuck you, imbecile body.

So, yeah. A while ago someone at work asked if I wanted a forklift certificate. I said yes. I mean who wouldn't, right? All expenses paid and all that shit. Sweet deal. The place i work at isn't all of an asshole. Mostly though, but not all.

The "tutoring" (dunno what it's called exactly) wasn't held at work, but instead five of us had to cram up in a small Golf (I swear, my back's gonna hurt forever) and drive for about an hour. Bleh.

Once there we were greeted with coffee (and for me, tea) before taking the lifts for a spin. We had some good times driving them back and forth, practicing various maneuvers. I did pretty good for my first time driving (to the point where the tutor-guy didn't believe I had never used a lift before in my life, hur hur).

We're heading back tomorrow, but there'll be no driving, only "schoolwork". Technical stuff..

This is good fun, I'm happy I agreed to go. And it'll help me get a better job in the future. :]

...or lets at least hope it will be. :p

I've had a habbit of not making any New Years Resolutions (or rather making the Resolution not to make any Resolutions), but this year I'll make an exception. With the help of my recently purchased Hiragana/Katakana workbook I'll pick up my Japanese studies again, and a little will be done each week. Period.

I'd love to join a real class to better learn Japanese, but I doubt that will happen during this year. Maybe next, who knows. Baby steps.

See you in 2009!

Towards the end of July of this year I preordered a book from Amazon with a delivery estimate of today (Dec 4th). The book is Jimi's Workbook of Japanese: A Motivating Method to Learn Japanese - I figured I'd buy a "children's book" to help me with learning Japanese.

Now, the other day I received a mail from Amazon which read "Dear Customer, We're still trying to obtain the following item[s] you ordered [...]"

Wtf? Wasn't the book just due for release, how can you have run out already? And shouldn't I have had a pretty good shot at getting one, as I ordered it quite a while ago?

Sucks a bit, because my Japanese "lessons" have somewhat halted, and I was looking forward to this book being a sort of "kick off" to start studying again. :(

I'm a bit of a sucker when it comes to postponing stuff, regardless if it's a thing I need to do or if it's just something I do for fun. It's like, the minute I start to think of whatever it is I do as a chore, I pull away.

I'm really bad with finishing games, I start playing, and even though I enjoy the games, the further and further I get the more reluctant to playing. It's crazy..

Now, I've decided to put up a goal to finish that don't require all that much effort on my side. I'm gonna grow my hair long enough that I can put it in a proper pony tail. Yeah, I know - that's silly right? :D The thing is, I only need to grow my hair a little little longer (bout 10cm's or so, so not all that little) and I'll be able to put it up in a pony tail. Yay!

After reading up on the subject of hair-growth, that's only another 5ish months to go. Hooray!

I like to read. Books, magazines, comics, you name it (as long as the topic's within interrest). I usually read a few pages before going to sleep, or fall asleep reading (either way).

I don't like laying on my back, because my bed don't allow for half-sitting, so there's no comfort in doing so, resorting to laying on my stomach. Every now and then I've found that when I'm half asleep while reading, and stubborn enough to try and fight it (but losing), I lock my neck and shoulders to keep my head up, close my eyes to doze of for a few, and......unvoluntarily hold my breath. Wtf!?

It's kind of scary, actually. Every time I wake up with a gasp and my eyes go O_O as I draw a deep breath, trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

Is my body perhaps trying to kill me?

My brother calls me a weeaboo. Boo hoo, a weeaboo. But what does it mean?

Weeaboo, also known as 'wapanese', is a slang word used to describe “someone who is obsessed with Japan, Japanese Culture, Anime, etc. and attempts to act as if they were Japanese, even though they're far from it.”

Now, I'm not obsessed with either Japan, the Japanese culture or anime, nor do I act as if I were Japanese, but I am sporting a growing interest. There's a lot of the Japanese culture and traditions that I would like to try, take a part in and taste for myself. I won't dig deep into any of them here, but mention a few things.

For instance, the futon sounds and looks really comfortable and is said to be great to sleep on if you have a bad back. Guess what, I got one of those. A bad back that is, not a futon.

Japan is known for a lot of strange food, for good and for bad. Everyone knows of sushi - rice and raw fish (optionally wrapped in seaweed and dipped in soy). It's quite delicious. Something that looks rather suspicious but is rumored to be tasty is the chocolate larva, a creepy looking candy grub. Another thing i wanted to try is the canned bishoujo bread... Canned bread?!

I'm doing a self-study on speaking Japanese (I'll write more on that later on) and am concidering taking a course in Japanese at some stage. (I decided to learn to speak before I learn to write, because my brother took a few classes at some stage and the pace was rather high - it'd give some advantage knowing a little bit more beforehand, I'd hope).

Yeah, so that was a little out-of-context about Japan and stuff. I'm pondering a bigger purpose of this blog, and the topic of Japan might just be it. Just might. We'll see.