So I am officially back from my vacation in the province, with a brand-spanking hair style to boot (which explains the smexxy Zero avatar in this post). And yes, did manage to sneak in the study time for my japanese language lessons. Aha! Where there’s a will, there’s way!

And I’ve got plenty of pictures from my vacation to show everyone! *searches in pocket for the pictures*

. . .

Oh dang.

So I got the initiative to continue my japanese lessons a few days ago.. but forgot to download my vacation pictures to my pc. Trust me to procrastinate on something. T_T

*shuffles feet and goes back to translating Ouran High School Host Club volume 9*

Due to the lull I received after finishing part of the web project I had before, I am now concentrating solely on improving my japanese. I’m trying to memorize and understand the numerous japanese sentence patterns. It’s encouraging to read my japanese manga after brushing up on my japanese sentence patterns since I understand more of what I read after learning the patterns.

The effect? I bought several japanese mangas online. Oh, dear. Will I be overwhelmed? Well, at least I know it’ll be more than a month till they get here so I’ll have plenty of time to practice. ^^

I’m also looking forward to translating the mangas for Michan’s manga scanlation site. *rolls up sleeve* I’m ready to polish my nihonggo skills!

Despite the fact that Wordpress released version 2.1 almost 30 days ago, I still haven’t gotten around to upgrading my blog. Why? Well, one reason should be the annoying fact that I upgraded this blog 3 times in the span of two weeks because the WP people released version 2.0.6, 2.0.7 and 2.1 days apart from each other. It was annoying how I’d login to my site and then see the notice up on the Dashboard that a new version is up yet again after I’ve upgraded days before. >.<

But the main reason now would be because on the advent of 2.1, several of the WP template tags have been deprecated and they won’t work with future versions anymore. Most of the tags I use that are now deprecated are:

• wp_list_cats
• wp_list_categories
• get_archives
• and the wonky listing of links in 2.1

Yes, I’m being lazy but I want to see some more changes in WP before I do some remodeling. Or maybe I’ll just wait for new version to come up.