The mini project I had, morphed into something different. I felt I could do something more with the domain, something more beneficial to the community and so I did. I asked for some suggestions from friends and with their ideas created a new site.
oboeyasui.com is like tinyurl except that you can specify your own [...]

Posted on May 22nd, 2007 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japanese, Web Dev/IA | 3 Comments »

For the New Year, I’m planning a new kanji learning section for this site. When completed it should help me and other fellow students of the Japanese language learn real-life kanji. I think the simplest way to start of will be via my flickr account. I will post photos of kanji that [...]

Posted on December 28th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japanese | 5 Comments »

On Friday we (Class 3) finished the Summer Intensive Course at the YWCA with a short play. For those who don’t understand Japanese it is the true story of what happened in class 3. この劇は実話に基づいていた

Arigatous go to Ed (the script-writer), Yamamoto-sensei who translated the script, and my fellow classmates Lisa, Romen, [...]

Posted on August 12th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Friends, Japanese, Osaka, Videos | 7 Comments »

開いた口が塞がらない
This is a Japanese expression meaning “jaw-dropping”. Which is how I felt when I asked a small Japanese language school if I could come down and talk to someone and look at the texts etc. I told them that I would only take up maybe 20 minutes of their time at most [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japan, Japanese, Osaka | 1 Comment »

日本で最初仕事は甲子園でだったら阪神タイガーズファンになりました。　幼年のベストフレンドはliverpoolファンだったら私もliverpoolファンになりました。

Posted on July 11th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: Japanese | 2 Comments »