Maneki neko

So I should be making my homework now. But just got the urge to blog right now =P

Since yesterday I’ve been hooked on educative sites…. “What? o_O Educative?!” … Now I’m not really the type that likes to study. Especially school matters. But school is something else. You have to learn stuff that you don’t wanna learn. In my case that’d be; maths, German, Dutch, geography and economics hehe ^^;; So in my spare time (which I don’t have, as you can see, while I’m blogging here and not making my hw and saying “I don’t have time to make my hw…blablabla”…) I try to do some Japanese studying. And with trying I mean like err… once a month or even less. Yeah I know… I’m such a busy person *coughs*.

Talking about busy persons, somehow I don’t understand how some people manage to do everything they want. I have been following some blogs now. And like some people manage to do gaming, watching anime, read manga, do their studies, their daily essentials such as sleeping, eating, pooing, showering etc, hang out with friends, go on a vacation and still manage to do everything, all of their other hobbies and staying up to date on every blog o__O Like my Google Reader has tons of blogs I want to follow, and never manage to stay up to date on every one. And anime… hehehe,  I’m waaay behind >.< Still got about 30 mangas on my shelf and never opened them.
Maybe I’m just an unorganized person that can’t manage anything XD
Life is short and people with many interests are too busy >.<

Right, back to topic. So I’ve been hooked on lang-8 and smart.fm
Pretty useful if you want to study any language you planned on studying. Lang-8 is pretty nice, especially for people who’re just like me “busy” (aka. lazy & undisciplined) persons. What you do is, you register an account. Make the whole profile etc. Then you can write a journal post in the language you’re studying and native speakers from that language you’re studying (in my case Japanese) will correct your mistakes and such. And you can do the same, by correcting the journals of other people who’re studying your native language (in my case Dutch =_=). At the same time you’re able to make some new penpals and friends with same interests. I’ve found some people on lang-8, who’re native Japanese speakers and surprisingly want to study Dutch o.O (wth wants to study Dutch I wonder). So together that’d be just awesome. I’ll be able to help that person with Dutch, and that person can help me with Japanese. You’re also able to use Skype, so you can hear each other’s pronunciation. Neat huh ^^

With smart.fm you’re able to learn through lists. Similar to a Dutch website I use for learning French, German and English words when I’ve got a test coming up.

Hm.. weather sux today. Just started to rain =__=

Oh right, I promised to upload my maneki neko collection (which isn’t very huge, but still expanding) and my very small collection of figures ^^

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