by personal | Jun 15, 2011 | Opinion
If you have been reading my blog well, I am currently learning Chinese and boy is it hard.
It seems I am the least articulate person learning Chinese in the class when in comparison to everyone else. I try to revise and study. I have got used to some of the words, but the characters can become very confusing.
Currently I have learned ba-pa-ma-pha… but I'm not very good at memorizing these symbols or characters. The one thing I have learned is counting. I can say my whole mobile phone number in Mandarin. However because there are 4 different tones in Mandarin, one slip up of the tone can either mean you are talking gibberish (i.e. it doesn't make sense) or it means something else. I'm pretty sure in my head on the tones, but it memorizing the symbols that gets me. I am also depressed at the fact that it seems everyone can remember the symbols, while I can't. I usually get laughed at, at the way I say the words or when I get uneasy and don't know what to say at-all.
Don't get me wrong, learning the language is fun, but when it feels like you are lower than everyone else, then it makes you feel bad, especially when you come in 5 days a week. It is basically your life for a year like this if it continues this way.
Today I just bought 2 books, which are pretty decent in explaining things. I bought an illustrated Chinese dictionary, which comes with a CD and it obviously has English and pying (sp?) and the ba-pa-ma-pha 'techniques' as well.
I am hoping to do a lot of revision today with these books and hopefully I will learn something from it. 🙂
by Jonny | Nov 13, 2010 | Updates
I’ve made it to Taiwan, half alive. We stopped of at Bangkok international airport and from there we made our way to Taipei. I flew with Eva Air, the major Taiwanese airliner in Taiwan. The food on the plane was nice and decent and the free drinks were great.
Taiwan from what I have seen is an interesting country. In some way’s it is good and in a lot of ways it is quite bad, especially if you want to settle and live on a small budget here. The goods from a £ to NT$ perspective is very good, what I’m trying to say is that the goods are really cheap. I managed to get a computer case with a large fan inside it for £10, then I got a 400 volt power supply unit for £20. In the UK I would have had to pay much more. As for the internet, alright, I’m paying around £7 for 512kb upload and 512kb download, the man was pressuring me to go for the 512kb package even though I hugely expressed interest in the 8 MB package. I’m thinking of upgrading since the page loading speed is dismal in comparison to my UK internet.
You are probably asking what is so bad about Taiwan?
Taiwan itself is a country which relies on foreign trade which is what it’s economy thrives on and is what its people survive on. However it isn’t this which bothers me. It is the conditions in which some people can live that bothers me. I looked at some areas and places where people I saw lived and I was shocked. What we can consider as “flats” in the UK they consider 2 rooms, at least with flats in the UK you have more than 3 rooms at least of  nice size. However here in Taiwan, you only have rooms the width of an alley way. Put it simply, the places people live are tiny. They are liveable however the word “cosy” doesn’t come to mind for me.
If you have a decent amount money or a decent job, then I think Taiwan would be a nice place to live. Though then again that does fall under a category where most countries are that way. However  doing a comparison of Taiwan and the UK, I’d rather live in the UK in terms of housing, however I would also rather live in Taiwan because it is refreshing to see a country like this. Whatever the case  I am here now and tired of blogging. I’m going to get some shut eye and then look around and I’ll be sure to get some pictures up later on, if I can be bothered. 🙂
by Jonny | Aug 30, 2010 | Videos
These videos are my top five for this week of music videos that I’ve come across on YouTube. I’m thinking of doing something like this on a weekly basis and creating a category in the random category section. (A subsection category) I think it might work out pretty well. So which one is your favourite. I personally liked the Americano one and thus why I listed it number one for my music of the week (MOTD) top five.
I don’t understand whatever is being said, but the tune and beat is amazing! It just makes you want to bob your head up and down!
Bup’ bup’ Americano!
They play this where I work and it is a nice tune from Iyaz!
I like the meaning about this music, plus it isn’t bad music as well. It is a good beat and tune to hear if you are thinking about something.
Like #3, it has a cool meaning behind it. It is good when music gets you thinking about meanings behind them. Just make the meaning up and see what you come up with. We all have varying opinions and the majority of them the same; come up with something different. 🙂
Again I like the meaning behind this. What this means to me is that today, tomorrow or whenever can be the greatest day in your life if you have the right person in your life that specific day or night can be the greatest if you make it the greatest! (I am cheesy)
by vlexo | Jan 20, 2007 | Updates
I’ve just come over some pretty good free script sites. These are actually decent scripts, these are scripts that are made in the functionality that they’re going to be free. It’s as if, the developer of these scripts have actually made decent scripts, which are worth paying for; as the functionality of these scripts are just great as well as the user/admin interface.
The sites I’m promoting on here are these:
Boonex
CeleronDude
These are decent script sites, which offer decent scripts that do not need mass editing, unless you want to change the appearance of these scripts. But I just came accross these, and I fought what nice people to offer these wonderfully coded scripts for absolutely no price. – It really inspires me to start training at php/mysql coding, seeing as you can make all these wonderful things in your free time; for free. 😉 I’ll be using one of these scripts for my website: keeperscafe.com, and what you see on keeperscafe now is nothing, it’s just a CMS script I was testing out, but I’ll be uploading something nice on keeperscafe.com. 🙂
The scripts are as follows: (celerondude.com)
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Uploader v6
This script allows you to run a “file hosting” service on your web server. For a demonstration of the script and of the latest version, visit CDUpload.com.
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Shoutbox
This is just another simple shoutbox. I needed one for my site so I wrote one. It’s meant to run inside your layout but can also be run by itself. A demo of the script in action is right here on my site. For screenshots of the admin section, scroll down.
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Simple Gallery
A simple gallery script. Drop images into the albums directory and you’re done. Create albums is as easy as creating a new directory, literally. I’ve put up a demo gallery here.
More scripts which are from: (boonex.com)