Hipopotamoj: 2015

2015-09-20

2015-09-17

Red Cloud

Today's the first time that I think of nicknaming myself as Red Cloud because the birthmark on the right side of my belly looks like a red cloud.

2015-09-11

2015-09-10

Earth's Terrible Climate

With the current great rain and flooding in eastern Japan, Japanese would realize Earth's terrible climate. They should think about outer space colonization. The Earth is unstable.

Zukkiini

One of my favourite loanwords into Japanese is zukkiini, which is zucchini.

Esperanto Words

It's quite worthwhile to study Esperanto words. They're not just fantasy.

Umeboshi

Umeboshi is one of my favourite Japanese words, as it means pickled or dried plums.

Japanese may have the most extensive vocabulary in this world. With a native substratum, there's inclusion of many mainland Asian words via the Kanji logograms, as well as English and other Western words via the Katakana phonograms.

Niven's Ringworld

JAXA

I've looked at the website of Japan's space agency JAXA, and I think it's still early morning for Japan's space ambitions. There's much potential.

Voyager

An interesting feature of Star Trek: Voyager is that the ship's crew, being lost far away in the other side of the galaxy, all want to get back home, instead of making a new home. How would you choose?

Talking with the TV

Often, people on TV talk to me, and I can talk to the people on TV. In Science, the phenomenon may be explainable through faster-than-light waves or particles called tachyons or psychons, which can travel back in time. In Buddhism, the phenomenon may be the workings of Māyā or Illusion. I rely on Buddhism or Science to explain it. Such works for me.

2015-09-09

Like Medicine

An Asian stranger has hinted that Esperanto words are like good medicine.

My English from Star Trek

I suppose I have learnt a lot of good English from all the Star Trek shows. There are a lot of good samples there.

Miss Universe Japan

Ariana Miyamoto is Miss Universe Japan. Her father was an African-American sailor, and her mother was Japanese. She can speak Japanese fluently. She grew up in Japan. Biracial people in Japan are called hafu.

2015-09-06

Latino Melting Pot

Latin America is a melting pot of different races. All you need is a complicated map, showing where Caucasoids, Mongoloids, and Negroids, as well as Australoids, live. Some places have more of one type than others, and so on. There is definitely a lot of mixing. Latinos, both Hispanics and Lusitanics, are multiracial.

The races were not planted separately. They all come from the same root. Racism often springs from the ignorance of biology.

Ringworlds, Donutworlds

2015-09-03

Kanji

After your university years, learning more Kanji becomes like a trap because there are just too many of them, and you should have learned them in childhood. A Kanji dictionary is like a junkyard, as there are many fun vintage things in it, nevertheless.