Sorry, I don’t have the time to maintain a personal blog so you’ll have to put up with me as I talk about personal stuff that has nothing to do with this blog. I think I’m breaking rule #3* of blog writing or something but I don’t care. La la la…<\/p>\n
I saw an old man on the train the other day doing a sudoku<\/a><\/i> puzzle. This is the first time I’ve seen anybody doing sudoku in Japan. I was totally blown away at how popular that puzzle has gotten when I was visiting the US last month. Barnes&Nobles had a whole sudoku section with its own tag and everything. I think the sections in that area of the store were like: Health, Cooking…, and Sudoku. I’m totally puzzled with it’s recent popularity since it’s supposed to come from Japan and yet I’ve never seen it or heard anybody talk about it here. I couldn’t even tell you where to go to buy some puzzles. I mean, the Brain Training Game for the Nintendo DS is originally a Japanese game but they added<\/i> sudoku puzzles for the American version. That would be like McDonalds adding fries to their menu in their Japanese stores while American get stuck with \u679d\u8c46 or something. Pretty crazy, if you ask me.<\/p>\n Anyway, I was guessing that maybe sudoku in Kanji would be something like \u300c\u6570\u89e3\u300d using the characters for “number” and “to solve”. On reflection, I guess that was unlikely because \u300c\u3059\u3046\u300d is the on-yomi and \u300c\u3068\u304f\u300d is the kun-yomi. \u300c\u6570\u89e3\u300d would probably be read \u300c\u3059\u3046\u304b\u3044\u300d or \u300c\u304b\u305a\u3069\u304d\u300d instead. I was surprised though when I found out that the actual Kanji is \u300c\u6570\u72ec<\/a>\u300d. I got the “number” kanji right but the second one means, “alone”. I guess those numbers are just alone and lonely until you solve the puzzle by filling in the rest of the numbers. Aww… those poor, lonely numbers. You have to help them!<\/p>\n I ate a \u30b3\u30f3\u30d3\u30cb\u5f01\u5f53 for dinner tonight and it was supposed to be a \u4e2d\u83ef\u5f01\u5f53. I think almost every country probably has their own version of Chinese food. I’ve had American-Chinese, Japanese-Chinese, and Korean-Chinese so far. As usual, when it comes to food, I like the Korean version the best. (The one version I’ve never had is, ironically, Chinese-Chinese). You can tell when Chinese food is Korean in disguise when they bring out the Kimchi, \u6ca2\u5eb5<\/a>, and raw onion with the mysterious black sauce. To this day, I have no idea what that black sauce is but it doesn’t stop me from eating it with sliced, completely raw onions. (I think you have to kind of get used to it from birth). Also for some reason, you almost always eat \uc9dc\uc7a5\uba74<\/a>. It’s called \u30b8\u30e3\u30fc\u30b8\u30e3\u30fc\u9eba<\/a> in Japanese but the Korean version tastes much better. Again, I have no idea about the actual original Chinese dish.<\/p>\n Rule #1 is “you don’t talk about blogs” and rule #2 is… ok, this joke is overdone so nevermind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry, I don’t have the time to maintain a personal blog so you’ll have to put up with me as I talk about personal stuff that has nothing to do with this blog. I think I’m breaking rule #3* of … Continue reading Yet more random thoughts<\/h3>\n
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