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Nobu recommended this Live Action series to me - and I love it! ^__^

I wonder…
- Episode 4: What is Nobu’s Froggy doing in Chiaki’s concert?
- Episode 5: Chiaki is speaking German?

16 / 10 / 2009

While I was teaching Japanese to my Chinese friend yesterday, I found out something interesting.

Pointing of things near by we reviewed “colors” like green, blue, red, yellow, purple, pink, orange, black, white and brown.

Brown translated in Japanese is 茶色. The first character 茶means “tea”. If I translated word by word brown means “tea color”.
Brown translated in Chinese is咖啡色 . The first two characters咖啡mean “coffee”. If I translated word by word brows means “coffee color”.

This is quite interesting, because of both languages are using a drink for describing a color. But why the color definition for tea and coffee is so different?

I was thinking and I came to the following conclusion:

Obviously from Japanese point of view tea seems to be brown color. You may wonder why Japanese people will not say “coffee color” instead of “tea color” . Well, coffee without milk and sugar is called “black coffee” in Japan. Have you ever seen black tea in Japan? So that means in Japan brown can be never “coffee colour”, because then it would be black.

Obviously from Chinese point of view coffee is brown. Frankly thinking for me coffee is black, unless ….  I made an interesting observation. When I am drinking coffee with my Chinese friends (seldom happens), they told me that they cannot drink only the coffee, because only it taste so awful. In order to drink it, they put all a milk and sugar inside. After stirring the the black coffee turns into brown color!

It seems that these words are not only words, but also a part of the culture and habits.

I have never thought about.. but now it happens. I miss German gingerbread with chocolate, Domino-Steine and Xmas Cake “Stollen”. 。・°°・(*>_<*)・°°・。 エ～ン Any idea, where I can buy it in HKG?

Btw I have updated “My Schedule” and add a new page “Sick”.

First of all, I would like to thank a good friend of mine, Echizen, for his technical support and effort for this page! Thank you for saving and maintain my web blog.

Summer 2006 he suggested to start writing a blog (Good idea to keep my friends update) and helps me really a lot to built this page. When I have some problems, he explains me patiently in details… which is sometimes not that easy…

Thank you, Echizen

PS. Btw I have a question >.<

The weblog system is now updated to the most recent version; mainly due to security reasons. Also Nobu’s weblog has moved to another webserver: http://www.animeplanet.de/nobu/

Please update your bookmarks, the old url will only work for a short period of time. Because of the changes, the old theme is no longer compatible. I did my best to find a pleasant new green theme and modified it to look more girlish. At the bottom of the page you will now find the RSS feeds and a summary of the weblog, so you can easily access the latest posts and comments. I’m glad the system is running after almost no downtime. Don’t expect another webserver change in the near future. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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ENTRY FROM 27th October 2007

My friend and I decided spontaneous to celebrate Halloween this evening. It should be THIS evening even we know that the hollow scary night will be next week. We rang up some friends, bought some home decoration, costumes, cooked –everything within 2 hours.

Our menu was:

• Cutted bloody fingers (Sausages with Fake Nails)
• Satay Spits
• Chirashi – Sushi
• Baguette with German Salami and Gouda
• Several Boday Parts as Feet, Ear, Nose, Hands
• Eggyolk Pudding
• Chocolate Pudding +Vanilla Sauce
  

Even it was so spontaneous it was an Evening/Dinner, it was so nice! Thank you to you all!

Be Creative(in Shorten TimeXD) , Be Happy, Be Scarry ＼（〇_ｏ）／コワイヨー H*A*L*L*O*W*E*E*N*!!!!!

Photos taken, specialeffected by Gloria, more Pics in her album - Come and See ya!

At the beginning of this year I told me friend “After 6 months I would like to talk Chinese fluently!” Maybe you think “You are crazy!” But I am not. I know few ppl, who have learnt easy Chinese conversation in 3 months. Unfortunately in June I was not able to talk.. or do a conversation.

When I was in the hospital in September I got to know a TBC (Taiwanborn Chinese). Her Putongua is clear - I was able to understand AND I was able to communicate with her. I was so happy and so surprised about myself that I am able to do it! Wow, wow, wow!
Few days ago I took a cab in CN. Since I stuck in the traffic jam, I started a discussion(!) with him! Wow I really did not know that I can do it! We have talked about a taxi driver life, foreigner’s life in China, necessary English Skills in China and so on.

Few months ago I told Rophard “I am looking forward to the day, that I can speak Chinese fluently.” And Now this is my time! Of course I am still not perfect, but it does not matter, I am able to DISCUSS, COMMNUNICATE, that means my listening and understanding skills have been developed before and also my talking speed has progressed.

Some how I am so happy o(^o^o)o(^o^)o(o^o^)o ウキョキョキョ

If you are also learning chinese, please do not give up! It is so nice to talk this language! ＼（＠＾o＾）／ ＜キャッホー！！

PS I have also started to write SMS in Chinese. Hehe

I bet I can loose 15 kg weight until the end of this year. I have already lost 5 kg (summer 2007), because of my illness I lost further 4kg (autumn 2007). - Last fact is actually sad… I would like to loose weight on a healthy way -.-
In order to motivate me, I have also asked my friend. She also wants to loose some weight.We are always eating and do sports for keeping our weight. Now the next step is to loose some weight.
If we can reach our target or close to our target, we will have a photo shooting by a professional photographer together!
Further on I made a bet with an another friend Yoshimoto-san. If I can reach my target, I will be rewarded by a nice dinner in a famous club recommend by Y-san. If I loose, then I”ll punish me and reward Y-san by a massage in a professional massage salon (without happy ending!!!) recommended by me, sightseeing in China. This day we are only allow to talk Chinese…

Diet schedule? No, I do not have! I’ll keep on enjoying food with Dy and friendz - but increase my time for sports! Ok, let’s go ahead, Nobu! Fighto~~~

Meanwhile a lof things has happened, here a small summarize.

• Rolling Sushi’s Night for my birthday
• I DID scuba diving with some friends in HK’s sea. It was amazing! I never imagine that I can see the underwater world of Hong Kong! I felt like a person in a TV documentary!(Thanks, Yolandar!)
• We did a lot of home farewell parties for Rophard (@Doro, @Dy, @my home)
• One weekend we met Mickey and Minnie in the small world of Disney! Wonderful day!
• I have been ill and admitted to the hospital. - Now I am ok, but not recovered yet:(
• and lots of more ..

You can expected more interesting entries in the future again! Until this time, see you guys ~! I am sorry for not keeping you update these days. m(-.-)m

In the past - when I was attending the primary school - another children had already recognized that I am not the same as them, because my eyes are small and my skin a little bit “darker” then the others. Also my German skills was strange. In the lunch time I was used to eat “rice balls” - That’s why they called me “Chinese!”, “Chinese in a Carton!” or “Chinks”. I was hurt and sad and also angry, I always refused “I am not Chinese, I am German and Japanese.” - But who cares?

When I was 18 years old my mother and grandparents gave me the great chance to take part at the exchange school pro gramme with a school in Shenyang (China). I experienced one of my happiest moments in my life. After I come back from this trip, other teenagers were still abusing me as “Chinese!”, “Chinese in a Carton!” or “Chinks”. But I were not angry any more, I had started to answer proudly “I would like to be Chinese!!!”

Same case:

Years ago I had a consultant in job center in Germany. He was quite persuaded of himself and explained me “Japanese as a second language in Europe is useless! The world is talking English!You can never use your Japanese Skills! If you use it, then you can use only for writing and translation Instruction Manual!’ - Of course, I got angry, since writing an IM is not much worth, right?

Nowerday I DO checking Instruction Manuals in my recent company. And it is definitely NOT only an Instruction Manual. There are a lot things to do. Meanwhile I am proud to say “I can use my skills !”

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