I intend to make a series of entries, chronicling the way I go about learning languages; in particular, the Japanese language. I will share any and all methods that I’ve come to devise myself over the past few months. Some of these methods have been of immense help to me. I hope the same will hold for you as well.
Somehow, whenever I see my cats roosting about the outside of my house, I am reminded of the chickens I used to feed and keep in (the SNES version of) Harvest Moon.
Having pondered through Steve Jobs’ character, I felt enlightened. And somewhat delighted too, seeing that I share the personality traits of a tech-industry leader, especially one whose oral spits are weighed in gold and whose corporate moves are shadowed down to the nanometer.
These days, most of the stuff I deal with require that I parse through oceans of raw text for duplicate strings, broken tags and/or repetitive string patterns. I’d often be very willing to cut the ordeal short by some automated means; after all, why would anyone want to deprive himself of precious living time?
The Opposition parties have finally managed to rip out the red carpet from under the talons of the ‘ruling’ party, who’ve been holding on to it so firmly, and comfortably, for many past consecutive terms. And, if my shallow knowledge of Malaysian history does not fail me at this point, I believe that this is quite unprecedented.