Haha, I find this shirt amazing.  I use ‘nandeyanen’ ALL THE TIME in American.  Some of my cashiers will notice me saying it and be all like “what the hell?”.  Basically it means “you have to be kidding me” and you can say it when someone says something ridiculous.  Like if one of my cashiers asks for an additional break.  I picked up the habit at Nagano High School and just fell in love with the word.  It’s amazing.  This shirt is amazing.  I’m probably going to buy it.

Second is this “urusai” shirt.  Urusai is a little tricky to translate because its dynamic and can change meanings in different situations.  It can be used to insult someone or to tell someone to shut up.  Either way it means they’re being loud and obnoxious.  In ESS club sometimes the leaders would yell that out to people if they were talking.  Haha.  Japanese high schoolers.

Both are from http://www.gesshoku.org/ which has some pretty interesting tshirt designs.  Stumbled on the site totally on accident (thanks Google) but some of their stuff just cracked me up because of personal memories.

For those of you who use them, what can I do to improve my forums?  I want some user feedback.  I need a way to re-energize them, and keep them going.  They’re targeted mostly at young adults and high schoolers with an interest in Japan, or studying abroad.  I think I should advertise them more, yes, but other than that…?  This would be a good post to leave a COMMENT on, but ONLY if you really know what you’re talking about.  I do moderate all comments before putting them on the site.

Also, please comment if you’re willing to help me in my idea to create a Japan-centric wiki.  I’m very interested in having someone else help me with that, so please apply if interested!  Comment, or email, it’s all good~

Yesterday I had to go out to do some last minute stuff, which really wore me out.  Went to get a new cellphone, Sidekick 3, so now I officially am connected again.  I miss my old au phone of course though, never forget.  I got a haircut too, I think it looks decent.  Then I did some shopping and got two new shirts at American Eagle and two shirts at Abercrombie.  Couldn’t find any decent skinny fit jeans, store suggestions?  I like the scene look.

Anyways, today I’ve been just doing nothing.  Really tired out and stuff.  I won’t be able to go to the State Fair tomorrow either, which sucks.  My throat still hurts and everything too.  And last night I had a dream about seeing some of my Japanese friends and it put me in a bad mood.  *sigh*