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13M13

2007-11-04 10:05:06 pm

l'appel du vide

Quote from Gaius_4:

I do know (this is what I believe with all my heart, please, don't ask why) that I WILL MARRY HER.

no, you won't

craztad

2007-11-04 10:33:25 pm

kyupi+yakisoba=win

Quote from nate:

requires too much of my time. therefore i watch anime instead.

:)

haha too bad. anime and jdramas take much of my time too but my girl watches it with me. guess i hit the jackpot.

nate

2007-11-04 10:52:09 pm

just remember: it's about the anime, not the girl.

craztad

2007-11-05 10:07:53 am

kyupi+yakisoba=win

i guess i might as well tell my story then, it was my junior year and i had just been dumped by my seventh girlfriend a year earlier and since my school only had 203 kids k-12 there was not a whole lot of choice. That year we had 5 new exchange students, 3 boys and 2 girls. One of the girls was japanese and the other korean. I hadn't really paid attention to either of them until at homecoming the big fat onry kid from my class asked the japanese girl to the homecoming dance while we were working on our class float for the parade. Honestly i felt really sorry for the poor girl and waited for the big kid to leave and went and asked her to go with me. She more or less said thank god. After i asked her i guess she thought i liked her cause she wouldn't leave me alone. I thought she was cute and all but wasn't really into asians at the time. Somehow i fell in love with her and i really don't have a clue how, its like she was always around and then when she wasn't i just felt like something important in my life was missing. So i finally started asking her on dates and the day before she went back to japan we had our first kiss and then broke up. I was like wtf? Well ya so we broke up and i went my senior year without finding anyone special and then 3 weeks before i left for college someone got dropped off on my familys farm and we weren't expecting anyone. She knocked and my mom answered the door and was like oh my god. Just then i came around the corner with my mouth shoved full of pizza cause i was starving from work all day and saw her and almost spit everything out of my mouth because of shock. Well ya we have been back together since that day and she is awesome cause she likes to play video games with me and watch anime and jdramas. Ive never felt that she takes up too much time cause she pretty much takes care of herself and her own problems. The only downside is that i have had to learn to speak japanese so i can communicate with her family and i still can't speak it very well after 2 1/2 years of self teaching.

Banjonator

2007-11-05 12:46:03 pm

and now she lives with you or in japan?

craztad

2007-11-05 12:47:28 pm

kyupi+yakisoba=win

with me.

nate

2007-11-05 12:52:00 pm

wow, great story. are you going to live in japan sometime? that will make it so you can learn much faster.

craztad

2007-11-05 01:19:22 pm

kyupi+yakisoba=win

Im actually trying to be an exchange student over there at Hosei University for a year but my school has a requirement that i pass the jlpt level 4 before i can go.

nate

2007-11-05 02:02:00 pm

ouch, go chicken and egg. i've had some success building my skills by translating anime. it's a pain in the ass and takes a ton of time but it's practical unlike rote memorization exercises. i recommend this dictionary if you're not using it already. also there's a translating dictionary built into os x 10.5 if you're a mac user or were planning on becoming one.

MM805

2007-11-06 12:14:33 am

Gah, I really wish I could read/speak Japanese better. 50% of the reason is to understand anime/jp games better, and the other 50% is to hit on Japanese girls. laugh new

Hmm, my love life. Well I've had my ups and downs. Still high school student so I prefer to get as many girls as I can rather than stick with one. Shoot, I've got like less then 10 years to enjoy my youth, marrage can wait.

craztad

2007-11-06 01:10:53 am

kyupi+yakisoba=win

Quote from nate:

ouch, go chicken and egg. i've had some success building my skills by translating anime. it's a pain in the ass and takes a ton of time but it's practical unlike rote memorization exercises. i recommend this dictionary if you're not using it already. also there's a translating dictionary built into os x 10.5 if you're a mac user or were planning on becoming one.

Am a mac user got a mac book pro. No need for dictionary usually thats what my girlfriend is for, she can give me a native speaking translation which is usually way better then i can get from anywhere else. My biggest problem is that i have to physically make myself think in japanese which takes me about thirty minutes to do and once i get to that point i can usually self translate it all but it then takes me another thirty minutes to switch back to english which is a real pain when my phone rings during a show.

nate

2007-11-06 02:31:25 am

wow, that's very interesting. can't say i've ever heard of that phenomenon before. i mean i understand thinking in japanese being so different from thinking in english but usually for me it just takes a second for me to say "now how would i say that in [the other language]?" that's not to say i don't accidentally start in the wrong one though - the worst is when it's my family. at least they're patient with me.

well, it sounds like you're definitely off to a great start. you'll probably be a multimillionaire with tons of cute kids running around in thirty years.

Chanoire

2007-11-09 01:28:21 am

Quote from MM805:

Hmm, my love life. Well I've had my ups and downs. Still high school student so I prefer to get as many girls as I can rather than stick with one. Shoot, I've got like less then 10 years to enjoy my youth, marrage can wait.

Yes, high school is rather early to be worrying about marriage, and yes, it's a good idea to figure out what you want in a relationship. But "get as many as I can" is a lousy reason to date someone. They're people, not Pokemon, and using someone just for body count +1 sucks.

I didn't even notice until now that I'd been mentioned on the previous page. Yes, I married someone I met online and who was about 1200 miles away at the time I met him, so it was nine months before we saw each other in person (when he was flown to my area for a job interview). At least we were in the same time zone, though, and he ended up taking the job and moved here seven months later.

Ntsc

2007-11-09 04:37:45 pm

Quote from Chanoire:

But "get as many as I can" is a lousy reason to date someone. They're people, not Pokemon, and using someone just for body count +1 sucks.

ROFL! Hotties, gotta catch 'em all!

Anyway I think it is good to meet girls/women in person as much as possible. I don't think I've ever actually met someone over the internet or been interested with someone who I've only talked with over the phone. I don't mean for just physical attraction reasons either. I think you can learn a lot about someone by how they move and act when talking with them in person.

I mostly go out on dates because I need something interesting to do. I browse these and other forums during the day because I'm stuck here at the office but when I get off work I find I have nothing really exciting to do (can't snowboard past 4pm =\ ). So I get girls numbers and take them out on dates. Most of the time I find I don't have much in common with them except being attracted to them. Sometimes that is enough but most of the time those relationships only last a few weeks. I'm always trying to find a girl who is interested in video games and snowboarding but you'd be surprised how little people snowboard when they live 15-20 minutes away from the slopes.

[quote="Chanoire"]
But "get as many as I can" is a lousy reason to date someone.  They're people, not Pokemon, and using someone just for body count +1 sucks. 
[/quote]

ROFL! Hotties, gotta catch 'em all!

Anyway I think it is good to meet girls/women in person as much as possible. I don't think I've ever actually met someone over the internet or been interested with someone who I've only talked with over the phone. I don't mean for just physical attraction reasons either. I think you can learn a lot about someone by how they move and act when talking with them in person.

I mostly go out on dates because I need something interesting to do. I browse these and other forums during the day because I'm stuck here at the office but when I get off work I find I have nothing really exciting to do (can't snowboard past 4pm =\ ). So I get girls numbers and take them out on dates. Most of the time I find I don't have much in common with them except being attracted to them. Sometimes that is enough but most of the time those relationships only last a few weeks. I'm always trying to find a girl who is interested in video games and snowboarding but you'd be surprised how little people snowboard when they live 15-20 minutes away from the slopes.

arkarian

2007-11-09 05:43:28 pm

red chamber dream

Should move to Northern Maryland. Everyone seems to snowboard there.

Ntsc

2007-11-09 06:37:09 pm

Quote from Arkarian:

Should move to Northern Maryland. Everyone seems to snowboard there.

Yeah but I already live 15 minutes from Tahoe which means Heavenly, Kirkwood, Squa Valley, 1 hour from Mt. Rose. Iono I just wouldn't want to have to move entirely across country just to find a girl who is interested in snowboarding/skiing lol