Japanese Word of the Day - 51 to 55

Oh gosh when I did some counting on my calendar, I realized that I'm suppose to learn my 100th word today. But unfortunately for me I did not catch up at all. I'm so disappointed with myself in my progress and here this post I'm only at halfway point. I should not drag this so long so I'm going straight to the point here but before that I really love to associate my daily life if I could with the words that I learn. I really want to put more than just words to a post. Instead I want to put life into things that I learn and hopefully you enjoy reading, learning and knowing a bit about me too.

1. Pacifist - heiwashugisha, 平和主義者
2. Quake - jishin, 地震
3. Race - minzoku, 民族
4. Sacrifice - ikenie, 生け贄
5. Tablespoon - ōsaji, 大さじ

Quake and race is easy to remember since it's kanji again, especially race because the way to pronounce is so close to mandarin. Happy Learning as always.

Japanese Word of the Day - 46 to 50

Another 5 words in this post, I try my best to learn them but honestly katakana is a bit harder because I have even learned the basics but it is soon to be one of the things that I will learn once I believe I am familiar enough with hiragana. As for words that are kanji, it's easier because of my Chinese education background. Apart from learning this, I actually have an idea of a post on how I learn Hiragana but I haven't started on the draft yet but maybe sometime this month or May.

1. Keen - surudoi , 鋭い
2. Laborer -  rōdōsha,  労働者
3. Machine - kikai, 機械
4. Nail polish - manikyua, マニキュア
5. Oasis - oashisu, オアシス

The first word is a mixture of kanji and hiragana. I was happy when I look through the dictionary on laborer and machine and found out it's written in kanji and it also sounds like mandarin. As for nail polish and oasis, it's in katakana.

Japanese Word of the Day - 36 to 40

Oh gosh! I have totally lost track of how many words I'm suppose to learn. I seriously have no excuse in delaying all this and it's due to my laziness that it turned out this way. It's a bad habit where every time I have some time I then use it to do things that shouldn't matter so much. If I'm to be serious with learning and to be at least able to speak and read a bit, this progress is not the way. It's terrible of me to act like this because it doesn't benefit myself. So this week while I try to catch up with all my blog (I have lots of drafts with titles but no content), I will just randomly learn those words. I plan to pick from A-Z in my dictionary and the 4th word appearing in those alphabets. So below will be A,B,C,D,E:

1. Abandon - akirameru, あきらめる
2. Bachelor - dokushindansei, 独身男性
3. Cabin - koya, 小屋
4. Dagger -   Tantō,  短刀
5. Eagle - Washi, 鷲

Japanese Word of the Day - 31 to 35

There are 24 hours a day, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and the rest are just for other stuff such as eating, traveling and etc. But I don't know why I can't keep myself up to date with my Japanese learning. If I have to analyse properly, I have to be honest and say I spent a lot of my time watching YouTube videos, watching TV series and playing with my handphone. Sometimes I do wonder what I'm doing, thinking of what to do when I have things to actually work on. I lack motivation in a lot of matters in life and tend to go the easy way out which ends up with me being lazy. I have this inspiration app on my phone that reminds me everyday that in life without hard work there is no success, it also reminds me to chase after my dreams. To make my dreams come true I need to put in a lot of passion, effort and determination. Life is short and while I'm still young I feel it is time for me to put in my best effort to make sure my dreams come true. There is no time to waste and I will try my best to live the fullest. So today to catch up with my Japanese learning I will pick those 5 words from this short paragraph that I've written here.

1. Motivation -  Dōki,  動機
2. Passion -  Jōnetsu,  情熱
3. Inspiration - Hirameki, ひらめき
4. Effort - Doryoku,  努力 　
5. Determination - Kettei,  決定

Japanese Word of the Day - 26 to 30

Sometimes I have no idea what to write here, what words to relate to in my everyday life. So this post I'm gonna be a bit open and list my bad traits and learn those words in Japanese. 

1. Lazy -  namakemono, 怠け者
2. Stubborn - ganko (na),  頑固(な)
3. Assume - katei suru,  仮定する
4. Waste -  Rōhi,  浪費
5. Careless -  Fuchūi(na),  不注意な

So these are my bad traits where I'm trying to get rid of. I really hope this is keep reminding me of my mistakes and encourage me to try to change everyday and improve to become a better person

Japanese Word of the Day - 21 to 25

I think there should be more than 50+ Japanese words that I should had learned but I'm not. I feel kinda shameful that I did not follow through with my plan and honestly I have no excuse in this. When I set my mind to write this I didn't want it to be just plain Japanese words only but I wanted to share a story or an experience with every word to make it special. Sometimes it's hard because my memory just isn't as good as when I was in college where I could study and remember with photographic memory. I remembered those days where I can memorize slides that have been printed knowing at what placement it was on a page (I print 6 slides per page). Throughout the years I notice that my memory did not serve me well where I forget things that I wanted to say almost within 5 minutes. I can't even remember what I've ate last week. I think what I need is memory exercises if it exist. I used to play brain age on my DS to help and I totally stopped playing for a long time, maybe it's time to practice again. So in relation with what I've written I will again learn 5 words this time.

1. shameful - hazubeki , 恥ずべき
2. excuse - benkai , 弁解
3. college - daigaku , 大学
4. memory - kioku , 記憶
5. exercises - renshū, 練習

Japanese Word of the Day - 16 to 20

So when we reached SG on Friday night it was already quite late and everyone just went to bed after reaching my uncle's place. The next day, I woke up feeling hyped up and thinking what to do for the day already. I had my breakfast which I can't remember what. Later lunch which unfortunately I can't remember either, my memory has not been good like how I used to be when I was in college. I do remember what we did after that, we all went to Orchard Road for shopping. The streets were really crowded with people as I think most of them are aiming to do last minute CNY shopping.

It was a fine day but my cousin was sick so we rushed home when we had planned to have some ice cream :(. Totally took a nap before heading out for dinner. Dinner was messy as the place was flooded with people, the food was average nothing amazing. After dinner, my grandparents went back first, where else my family and I went grocery shopping with my aunt at Nex's fair price. I was shocked to see the place as it was so so crowded until trolleys was banging other trolleys, it was so hard to walk and look at every aisle. For a person as skinny as me, I already had difficulties moving around. It was crazy because I know people are stocking up for the holiday. So in conclusion it was an okay day where I feel it was not spent to the fullest. I suppose a holiday is a time where you rest and relax which I totally agreed.

So the words that I want to learn from this experience are the following below:

• Home -  katei, 家庭
• Crowded -  kondeiru, 混んでいる 
• Shopping - kaimono, 買い物
• Nap - hirune, 昼寝
• Sick - Byōki no, 病気の 

Japanese word of the day - 10

Every Monday, that feeling creeps up to me, Monday blues. But this Monday is not like any other one because it's just one week away from Chinese New Year and I'm 5 days away from visiting my grandma. This year my family will be traveling to SG again to celebrate with my uncle and his family since there's complications for the elder to travel far. It's not too bad because being with family is important so traveling isn't a problem at all. I'm so so excited that I put crosses on my calendar counting down the days. I decided to learn the word excited as it's the feeling I wake up with this morning instead of feeling blue. Kōfun shita - 興奮した, the first two characters are kanji which is also traditional chinese at the same time which have the same meaning.