Everyone needs a little crack especially right before school time gets toxic – or so I thought. This is the very desperate excuse for watching Nodame Cantabile (Live Action) right before our midterms week. And I’m kind of hinting some regret here. With my current Nodame-smitten state, I don’t think it’s possible for me to even give my Stat notes a short glance.

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It’s been a while and I think it would still be a while before I get a grip on j-blogging on a regular basis.

Summer term is [cursed] bestowed upon a handful of us [not so] lucky daigaku no gakusei 大学の学生 (college students). But anyway, I’m not entirely cursing this summer term for taking away my precious drama-watching, spazzing, lazing and nihongo-benkyou time because I’d still be able to have my dose of Nihongo Benkyou 日本語勉強(Japanese language study) while at the university.

Hai! I took JSP1 (Japanese Language and Culture I) as my foreign language elective. This is one of the 3 subjects that we’re supposed to complete this summer term. It covers the first 5 lessons of the Genki I textbook. Now, don’t scoff at me for taking this self-study-able subject. I seriously need an A or an A to pull up my [predicted] Statistics grade. Besides, taking this subject would probably give back a third of my stolen precious drama-watching, spazzing, lazing and nihongo-benkyou time.

That’s it for now. For anything else, you can follow me on Twitter and [please stalk me] on Plurk.

I was born and raised a Filipino. To be honest, I’ve never set foot in any of the countries whose cultures I learned to love but I do love the cultures anyway and because of this, it was inevitable for people to question my love for my own country.

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