Dear Diary, I'm actually feeling pretty motivated right now. Mostly because learning Japanese has been pretty fun so far. Currently I'm ging through a flashcard deck that teaches you the 1000 most common Kanji meanings with little stories. It's called RRTK by the Mass Immersion approach if you want to look it up.
So far I really like Kanji and all the little stories that come from them. A lot of these stories are super perverted too since they were lifted from a public website where people can make up their own stories. They made a deck that doesn't have the stories because someone complained avout the sex stuff. I find them funny though. For example on the card for the Kanji 九 which means 9, someone wrote that it reminds them of a woman bent over waiting for a 9 inch penis. That made me laugh out loud. It's vulgar, but it sticks in your head which is the whole point.
It also feels like I'm learning a secret language with wacky symbols. When I was a kid, I made up my own symbols all the time, so it reminds me of that. Plus it's super fun when you recognize something. The other day I saw that the logo for an asian restaurant here is the Kanji 東 for east. And when I looked through some japanese newspaper articles today I actually deducted one of the words: 小学校 elementary school
I've also benn contemplaiting love again the last few days. Three days ago I received a like on Tinder. I carefully swiped through the images to find the one that matches the blurry preview picture, you get of your most recent like, but I couldn't find it. And then that "Secret Admirer" thing that is supposed to show you one person that likes you popped up. But it failed so the like was actually a ghost like. Kind of symptomatic of my whole love life really. Just a blurry ghost. God, I hust want to hug a girl. Just once.
In one of my manga there was a short story about a couple that was super sweet. Because she actually approached him (with astral projection even) and then she soon wanted to live with him. They were so cute together. I love these stories about women seeing something in men that they like. I wish so much that it would happen to me.
The closest thing to that for me is Belle. She is crazy enough, but I also don't she is the type who would just approach a guy. She is kind of conservative in these things. But when I first met her, I kinda saw us like Cloud and Aerith from Final Fantasy 7. At the beginning when Aerith drags Cloud into all those shops and makes him wear womens clothing. Aerith is playful, but also very feminine. Belle is like that too.
Her newest idea is that she wants to make a parody movie of the song "Part of your world" from Arielle. She bought a mermaid costume. And I'm supposed to be that fish. Thats going to be something if we really do it 😂 Maybe you see now why she reminds me of the manic pixie dream girl trope. Thats what I like about her.
Sweet Dreams!