Welcome to…
You
Know You’re in Trouble When You Feel a Picture of
Okonomiyaki Describes Your Life *(o_O)*
Contents (Warning:
Nikkei at work, under constant construction)
My Creations: Essays, projects, things
I’ve made when I should be doing homework
My Stories:
Things that have happened to/around me
If you’re getting funny letters all over your screen
OK, since
there have been some
requests to explain this caption, here it goes. The general idea is that Okonomiyaki looks completely
unappetizing and messy, but is actually really good in the end. So all this means is that you’re in trouble
when your life looks like a horrible mess that in theory is supposed to turn
out wonderful in the end. Basically,
that’s kinda how I feel my life is now…more or less. Then again, I also just thought it was kind of a cute catch
phrase like thing that matches the Okonomiyaki logo I wanted to make for
the site.
Me
Who is this person?
ß(Me in my uniform from work in Japan. Sorry the picture’s so small, I took it
using my cell phone)
Well, for those of you who have no idea who I am, let me
congratulate you on finding your way to this site in the first place. And for those of you who already know
everything about me you think you’d ever want to know (and more) and have
absolutely no desire to read about me, then don’t read this. Stop! No more reading!!
For those of you who don’t know me, you can call me
Kitada. I am a twenty-one-year-old
senior who just got back from a yearlong
foreign exchange in Tokyo, Japan. I am majoring
in Japanese Linguistics at the University of Washington, and hoping to someday
turn this into a career in translation…as I said, hoping. Soon I will be thrust into the cold world of
long-term employment, providing my own health insurance, and trying to get into
graduate school. Oh, the joys of being
a “grown up.”
And if any of you have
to know, I’m mixed Japanese and white.
But if you’re here looking for the “delicate flower Oriental princess,”
get out. Just leave.
General Day-to-Day
I am currently chillin’ in Seattle, working part time and trying to escape
the horrors of undergraduate education in the form of a hopeful graduation. Unfortunately, thanks to the joys of
state-wide budget cuts in education, my major may be disappearing soon. Grrr….sometimes this school really burns me.
My Creations (Still in progress)
Tips for 2004
Exchange Students UPDATED
1/11
My (funny[?]) Stories
And for those of you who don’t get the
pleasure of listening to me all the time, here are some funny (?) stories of
things that have happened in the daily fun that is my life. Wait, did I say “fun”? Typo!!
Typo!!!!!!
We’re All Only Human: The
apparently cross-cultural inability of men to find anything at the store
Fun Links…or at
least just links
Engrish.com
- This is a site good for one of those days when you just need to laugh at
something stupid because laughing at yourself all day has gotten
depressing. If you don’t know what
Engrish is, check the link to find out!
Eijiro - Online
English-Japanese-English Dictionary put out by the publishing company ALC (aka:
Aruku). You can buy a PC version in
Japan, but the online one has all the same stuff and is free. Plus, it has a lot of words in it that the
common dictionaries (Genius) found in the little electronic dictionaries people
carry around don’t, so it’s a good thing for when you’re stuck at the computer
doing homework. My friend recommended
it to me, so can’t take credit for the find.
Secret
Asian Man – A little comic strip by Tak Toyoshima that’s really pretty
funny.
Aoyama
Gakuin – Where I am until the end of next week! This is the homepage of the university that I’m doing my foreign
exchange at. They used to have an
English site, but that got axed when they re-made the site late last year.
Personally, I think they should have left it up, but (predictably) I was not consulted
on the decision.
Isthiezak – This
is my friend Steve’s website. He’s from
England and also doing a year exchange at Aoyama. His pictures are better than mine.
Funny Letters
I have Japanese text on some of these
pages, which computers that aren’t configured for it won’t be able to
read. If you can’t see the Japanese
text, and want to, go to “View” on your toolbar and then “Encoding.” That will bring up a list of languages. If Japanese isn’t on there, then hit “More”
and hopefully it will appear in the longer list that will come up. If that doesn’t work, then I honestly don’t
know what to tell you. But if you can’t
read the Japanese (either because your computer can’t, or you don’t know the
language) don’t worry. Anything that’s
in Japanese is also in English. Plus,
my grammar’s bad and it’s embarrassing for too many people I know to read my
Japanese! (^-^)
Last updated: March 4, 2004
Unless otherwise
stated, all original material on this site is property of Kitada
Kitada, copyright
2003-2004