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Current mood:
annoyed
Recently I've noticed a disturbing phenomenon on Google: when I Google my own name,someone else with the name "Justin Sison" appears in the search results! Sure, he's Filipino, but he's also younger and his writing has that annoying AsIaN AlTeRnAtInG CaPs style that I thought (or at least, hoped) had died out years ago. At least I was still on top due to my work as a teenager with too much free time at GameFAQs.
Until today.
I won't post the link (no reason to cement its position as the #1 site when searching for "Justin Sison"), but apparently my imposter is on his friend's admittedly popular blog. Yes, it's another boring, slipshod, no-content teenager blog. The choice of colors (light-colored text on a light-colored background?) leaves you little recourse but to highlight the whole site with Ctrl A, but the font size is so small it renders the blog illegible anyway.
Let's get rid of this injustice. I need you fine folks to search for my name everyday. Use these terms:
- justin sison triple lei (takes you here)
- justin sison ss minnow (takes you here)
Spread the word - blogs, forum signatures... every bit helps! I never thought I would have to struggle to keep myself at the top of a Google search results page when the search terms aremy own name! Is it too much to ask that he remain unpopular on the internet and in the real world for the rest of his life?
I guess this takes my self-hating to new heights (depths?). I've never met my imposter, but I'm pretty sure... I don't like him.
(I'd write something appropriate in Japanese but the MySpace blog system is still retarded)
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I was up at around 2:00 am the other day and I came up with these:
- THE JAPAN CLUB: More than an anime club... but we're praying for an end to the Naruto fillers too!
- So you learned how to use chopsticks, prefer green tea to soda, and know the words to every Ayumi Hamasaki song, yet that Japanese girlfriend you've always wanted remains tantalizingly out of reach. You might have better luck by joining... THE JAPAN CLUB.
- Interested in anything Japanese? Then you might want to consider joining... THE JAPAN CLUB. BYOB! (Bring Your Own Boxes of Pocky)
- Thinking about getting a cool Asian character tattoo? We'll not only tell you the meanings but the culture behind it as well. THE JAPAN CLUB.
- THE JAPAN CLUB: Because all the cool Japanese phrases aren't taught in class!
- Cost of a Nintendo Wii: $199
Cost of a Sony PS3: $599
Cost of joining the Japan Club: free
THE JAPAN CLUB.
- THE JAPAN CLUB: Because we all drive Japanese cars, right?
I tried to cover every angle with these. Of course, given the time that I wrote these, some of these may be sort of... out there... and I'm not in any mood to start judging them now. I'm leaving the actual flyer creation to the Photoshop goddess, the Japan Club Treasurer.
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| [ | mood | | |  sad | ] |
| [ | music | | | Suneohair - ワルツ | ] |
Yesterday was my buddy Chris's graduation party. I went with Sean and his g/f and it took us 30-40 minutes to get there (Angela said she "had plans"... so I guess that's that). And when we got there... wow, what a house! It was easily five times the size of my own. We met his own tall & skinny vegetarian friends too and I forgot their names within seconds (to my regret). The food was great, and later we bet on a mechanical ostrich and kangaroo.
Still, I wasn't completely happy. With Chris gone and graduated (along with three others from our class also at the party), Japanese is really not going to be anymore fun. I love everyone in our upper-level class, and classes with them were always fun "breaks" from the tedium of the language classes. I was close with them, but because they were a year ahead and at least a few years older, there was always a certain level of admiration... which for me is the ideal relationship. And now they're gone.
And it wouldn't be a stretch to say that Chris is the coolest person I've ever met, on- or offline. As apparently one of the few people in our classes who didn't already know Japanese (or some other foreign language), we always got along well, finding fault with as many things as we could. There were plenty of good times (like when we went to the Japan museum in Little Tokyo as a Japan Club activity), and not many bad times, though that "grammaticalization" nightmare a year ago comes to mind. Chris, my friend, we may never fully grasp the proper usage of 「は」 and 「が」、 but I know you'll do fine in Japan and in life.
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Well, first things first: my computer has been broken for nearly a week, causing me to finally openthat Christmas card for money to fix / repair / replace stuff. That was my trip money, too. Right now I'm on a temporary Windows XP fix since I... have to get a legit copy of Windows XP. So until then that means no more video capturing / editing / DVD authoring. Half of my files are gone, as are my internet bookmarks and loads of other software. I'm just glad I was able to finish the UC Irvine Japanese Cultural Showcase DVD before my computer fell apart.
Three weeks ago I bumped into a friend from grade school at the bus station - someone I've known since first grade! He's of course a lot better off than I am. He did ask me for a quarter (at least it wasn't the first thing he said to me after seeing me for the first time in eight years or so), but he could pay me back with, like, a job or something, heh.
Two weeks ago I saw the original Japanese version of Shall We Dance. It was very inspiring with humor that was subtle and it hit all the right spots. I then decided to see the American version my mom had on DVD for years and I was pretty disappointed - subtlety thrown out the window. Perhaps one day I'll make a special LiveJournal entry comparing the two (along with the original and American edited version of Ong Bak), but I'll need to find the Japanese Shall We Dance first. Kinokuniya didn't have it (or it did and I couldn't find it) so I just settled on some book.
My Penn and Teller DVDs came in recently and... dear me I love this show. And I never would have found out about it if not for pirated clips on YouTube. (there are a lot of great vids on YouTube but that's another entry...)
Also thanks to YouTube, I found a new hobby I can stick with: vintage instructional films! And all because I heard it on the History Channel. Then I found myself laughing at old cigarette commercials from the 1950s. With a bit of searching I found high-quality versions freely available for download at archive.org. And uh... I have ants in my room, wtf.
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...archive.org.
And uh... I have ants in my room, wtf.
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NEW LIVEJOURNAL ENTRY TEXT LIMITS!? With no way of getting rid of it? Hmm...
(edit: I'm editing the post time to put this under the 1st part of the entry.)
