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elusivekMeh. Life has been uninspiring. Nothing bad, just nothing special. It's going as well as it can be.
Birthday passed, no mood at all. Big fight with Mom. She's upset with me that "I'm not generous enough to understand my Sis needs help", and I'm upset with her "with this reasoning, never ever for the rest of my life will you include me for fun stuff." Now it seems like... nothing happened. There's an invisible line of politeness. Is that what people say an impasse? Sure, that's great. I don't need to try so hard anymore to get on her good side. There's no place for me on her any side anyway.
Mechanic booked the annual inspection for my car early. "But my car is schedule to be inspected in March?" I asked. "It's fine, January-March inspections can be booked any time within these 3 months," he replies. I never heard of it, but okay, he's the specialist.
Mechanic threw in a car cleaning for me, haha, apparently my car was too dirty for his liking. But hey, his cars aren't that much more cleaner, so I don't get why he's so ticked by my dusty car. The inside is clean, it's just the outside that's dusty and leafy because I park outdoors. But I've started a new ritual now. I use a feather duster to swipe over the leaves and dust every morning before I leave for work now.
Korean classes have started. Korean vowels are weird. It's not an actual A-E-I-O-U by sound. It sounds like A-Oh-Ou-Uuh-Eh-I. I don't mind so much the Korean writing. We're still going through the "alphabets" and maybe next week will finish the basics. Then we'll go to "combination alphabets" I guess.
Chinese class structure is better this term than the last term. But the admin part of it is terrible. The teachers keep forgetting to upload course materials, update assignment dates (they're still using the due dates from the previous semester for this semester), so it's vexing in another way.
Birthday passed, no mood at all. Big fight with Mom. She's upset with me that "I'm not generous enough to understand my Sis needs help", and I'm upset with her "with this reasoning, never ever for the rest of my life will you include me for fun stuff." Now it seems like... nothing happened. There's an invisible line of politeness. Is that what people say an impasse? Sure, that's great. I don't need to try so hard anymore to get on her good side. There's no place for me on her any side anyway.
Mechanic booked the annual inspection for my car early. "But my car is schedule to be inspected in March?" I asked. "It's fine, January-March inspections can be booked any time within these 3 months," he replies. I never heard of it, but okay, he's the specialist.
Mechanic threw in a car cleaning for me, haha, apparently my car was too dirty for his liking. But hey, his cars aren't that much more cleaner, so I don't get why he's so ticked by my dusty car. The inside is clean, it's just the outside that's dusty and leafy because I park outdoors. But I've started a new ritual now. I use a feather duster to swipe over the leaves and dust every morning before I leave for work now.
Korean classes have started. Korean vowels are weird. It's not an actual A-E-I-O-U by sound. It sounds like A-Oh-Ou-Uuh-Eh-I. I don't mind so much the Korean writing. We're still going through the "alphabets" and maybe next week will finish the basics. Then we'll go to "combination alphabets" I guess.
Chinese class structure is better this term than the last term. But the admin part of it is terrible. The teachers keep forgetting to upload course materials, update assignment dates (they're still using the due dates from the previous semester for this semester), so it's vexing in another way.
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Date: 2026-01-20 09:28 (UTC)Are the phenoms pretty specific like in Japanese?
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Date: 2026-01-20 14:28 (UTC)In Japanese, each “character” (hiragana, katakana) denotes one sound, so “Ka” “Sa” “Ba” each is one specific “character”.
In Korean, it’s somehow like Chinese, there are “consonant radicals” and there are “vowel radicals”. So there is a radical for the “K” sound, and the radical for “A” sound. Put together to make the “Ka” sound. And you can use the “S” radical together with “A” to make “Sa”.
There’s more combinations but we haven’t learned that far yet. At this moment I think Korean will be an easy language to learn to read. Understand is another story, I’ll see if I can pick it up easily later.
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Date: 2026-01-20 14:49 (UTC)Misspelling on my part. Phonemes. Sorry!
But your answer does answer my question though.
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Date: 2026-01-20 12:51 (UTC)Here in Canada I constantly think how to clean dirt and, especially, salt, that we drag from streets inside the car during winter months.
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Date: 2026-01-20 14:30 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-20 14:55 (UTC)