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I kinda love this clip by the daily show, even if I'm a bit depressed thinking that it was probably too subtle for some people. (I was just discussing the non-comprehension of sarcasm in the US recently. Case in point, the proper response to me saying, "I keep souls in peanut butter jars." is not "Really?" *headdesk*)
In other randomness, does anyone happen to know the amounts of ingredients needed for sweet and sour turnips/carrots? Cause I bought some from my local Chinese supermarket and loved them, then saw that the only ingredients were vinegar, salt, sugar and msg. If I just knew the amounts of said ingredients, I could make the dish myself.
Last night, I started watching Atashinchi no danshi which is a jdrama about a young women who inherited her father's 1 million yen debt and lives as a homeless person to hide from her creditors. While running away from them, she is 'rescued' by an eccentric toy company owner who pays her debt in return for her marrying him and being his companion for the last month of his life (it doesn't seem to be a sexual relationship, but it is pretty weird). Of course, once he dies, she discovers that he had a few more conditions, namely that she had to stay in his house and become a mother to his six (adopted) sons, and also run the company. It's a fun show to watch with lots of cute guys and silliness. You get annoyed with the main character for not investigating the full contract (dammit, make them unroll the whole thing so you're not so surprised when new conditions are mentioned!), but other than that, it's just easy watching.
While Japanese continues to be a bore (excepting a hilariously long rant today about how much the professor was shocked! utterly shocked! by that Mongolian sumo guy and how she was glad he quit), my history of India class is quite fascinating. The readings are long and rather repetitive, but they contain so many topics I'd never heard of before (I didn't even know Jainism existed until last week), it's been really fun to learn so many new, interesting things. I'm glad I've had the opportunity to take the course.
In other randomness, does anyone happen to know the amounts of ingredients needed for sweet and sour turnips/carrots? Cause I bought some from my local Chinese supermarket and loved them, then saw that the only ingredients were vinegar, salt, sugar and msg. If I just knew the amounts of said ingredients, I could make the dish myself.
Last night, I started watching Atashinchi no danshi which is a jdrama about a young women who inherited her father's 1 million yen debt and lives as a homeless person to hide from her creditors. While running away from them, she is 'rescued' by an eccentric toy company owner who pays her debt in return for her marrying him and being his companion for the last month of his life (it doesn't seem to be a sexual relationship, but it is pretty weird). Of course, once he dies, she discovers that he had a few more conditions, namely that she had to stay in his house and become a mother to his six (adopted) sons, and also run the company. It's a fun show to watch with lots of cute guys and silliness. You get annoyed with the main character for not investigating the full contract (dammit, make them unroll the whole thing so you're not so surprised when new conditions are mentioned!), but other than that, it's just easy watching.
While Japanese continues to be a bore (excepting a hilariously long rant today about how much the professor was shocked! utterly shocked! by that Mongolian sumo guy and how she was glad he quit), my history of India class is quite fascinating. The readings are long and rather repetitive, but they contain so many topics I'd never heard of before (I didn't even know Jainism existed until last week), it's been really fun to learn so many new, interesting things. I'm glad I've had the opportunity to take the course.
