A (slight) change in direction. And — Happy 10th Anniversary!

I'm not a poet, neither am I great writer.

I can't string words together to make them read sophisticated and "chim" — I know, an utter waste of the time spent at creative writing classes when I was in primary school; time that I could have spent watching my favourite Cardcaptor Sakura, seriously. But since I have this absolutely free space for all the weirdness in me, I'm gonna make full use of it.

Aside from the usual — hopefully less — childish ramblings, this medium will be where I try to practise the languages I'm learning/have learnt. Since I can't be speaking to someone native all the time, talking or writing to myself is probably the next best only method I can think of. I'm pretty confident of my Korean (not ready for some political debate anytime soon, though, thank you), but my Japanese is crap.

The best way to learn is always touted to being interested and picking things up along the trail of curiosity but really, guys, learning a language that you don't get a lot of exposure to is pure memorisation — 死背, 暗記, 암기 — well, at least at the beginning. I picked up Korean pretty naturally from the mass media products but if you were to ask me about a specific grammatical rule, I'll be like "미안한데 저도 잘 몰라요. 딴 사람 한테 몰어보면 더 나울 걸요?" and have no better reason for forming the sentence that way except that it sounds natural to me.

Since Japanese is much harder to learn via the usual channels, I suppose I should put more effort into memorising the grammar rules and vocabulary better. Thus, the change in direction. Well, not really. I suppose you can call it an addition?

In any case, that's the plan.

It might sound pretty amazing (and also rather anticlimactic to know this without much hype and fanfare), but this blog — (at then) trendily miss-spelled Dreamelesse. (with that full-stop!) — had it's first post ever on the 5th of June, ten freaking years ago! Insane. I have not the faintest recollection that I had been such a critic from such a young age (I was 14! Secondary 2! AHH!). That's probably why I want to keep this blog alive (though I've pretty much been gone from 2012 onwards). I'm not one to take many photos of myself — in fact, not even my friends and the environment — but everyone should have something to detail their lives and I suppose mine would be this humble blog with all my naive and juvenile rambling.

As always, my posts ends rather abruptly — I've still not master the art of concluding posts even after 10 years of on-and-off practise. I guess that consistency for you; some things never do change.

Happy 10th Year Anniversary, my very neglected but much thought-of blog. :)

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