And I got married. Happier.

Absolutely nothing of note

I asked out a very beautiful Japanese woman (who doesn't speak English^^) last Saturday and she said yes.  Plus she lives in the touristy area of Arashiyama (not too far from where I live, really), so I can go there and feel all the Kyoto-ness all the time.

I turned 102 (one hundred and two) and decided not to grow any older.

Tzadeck wrote:

I asked out a very beautiful Japanese woman (who doesn't speak English^^) last Saturday and she said yes.

Phew...

If you asked an ugly man and got accepted. That would be something!

kitakitsune wrote:

And I got married. Happier.

Grats.

As for the rest, the year isn't over yet... but my long term achievements seem to go well...

NoSleepTilFluent wrote:

I thought about reading a book.

So, did you read the book?

I stopped dicking around and started seriously learning Japanese. It only took me a year of living in Japan to get there!

Moved to Tokyo and got a new job. Only moved from Takasaki though, so not that big a deal.

Huh. Not very much, really. I wish I was better at getting my shit together.

This year is probably the worst year yet! But maybe it can turn out to be the best year yet, will tell after the next 2-3 months (will say why so below)

My achievements:

-A year of bad work experience (negative achievement if I can say so).

-Starting three projects, which are: learning playing the electric guitar (which I didn't achieve much in because I sacrificed it after two months for the sake of other things, but I practice daily for 15-30 mins), preparing for a scholarship (tried once and gave up under time stress, will try again soon, after finding a good job) and learning Japanese, which I finally managed to stick around with recently and almost done with RTK lite + all first 700 Kanji.

-Meeting a Japanese person for the very first time, which was a very exciting experience!*

-Joining a Japanese class which improved my motivation for self study.

-Joining a gym and improving my diet which resulted in greatly improving my figure.*

-Speaking of depression, I took a self-diagnostic test for depression, tried to be as honest as possible and the outcome was that  I had severe depression, lol, thankfully, recently I've been much better, YES!

-What might make or break this year for me is the outcome of the huge paradigm change of mine that resulted from going through the last hellish 15 months. Let's just say my view of many 'things' has greatly changed, hopefully for better and more realistic. Will tell after the next 2-3 months!

*Those are what I'm really happy about!

kitakitsune wrote:

And I got married. Happier.

Congratulations! A unique achievement indeed. For me this will have to wait for around 7 years

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At the very beginning of the year (end of January), I finished RTK. So this year has been me trying to figure out how I personally learn best. I finished Tae Kim's Basic, Essential, and Special Expressions sections. I got about half way through Core2k before I realized that all the sentences were boring and I was starting dislike studying Japanese (bad news bears). Since then, I've just been focusing on gathering sentences that interest me.

Also, a couple of days ago I finished reading through my first manga, Detective Conan volume 1. (w/ no dictionary lookups. I just highlighted words that I didn't know/was unsure about). I'm planning on going back through and mining anything that sticks out. This is definitely the way to pick up vocabulary. While it may not be as efficient, it's much more fun and keeps me motivated to continue.

NoSleepTilFluent wrote:

also started the water margin in English though...

Very cool.  I'm always hesistant about reading something that old, even in modern translation, but Water Margin seems pretty interesting.

I read "The Brothers Karamazov" this year, in translation, and consider it something of an achievement, even though normally I wouldn't consider reading fiction much of an achievement.  But that there's a long and sometimes fairly difficult book.  It's as good as they say, though.

-found first j-gf...
-got a job through classifieds working for a japanese company off and on...also made great connections that have let to professional and personal j-friendships
-received a residency fellowship to live and work on an island in the seto naikai for 3 months this summer... also made tons of tokyo friends and never need to get a hotel again there
-found 2 more j-gf's back in new york upon return...
-finally learned to get past the awkward phase of speaking!!! lots of mistakes still but I can get my point across and dont need to worry about awkward moments or getting stuck. this makes everything easy from here on...
-read around 50-60 manga...