Ramen Truck

I may have pointed this out before but I wanted to do it again seeing as there is one outside of my house as I type. A ramen truck is the same as an ice cream truck... but without the ice cream, haha. They go around in this semi large truck playing a jingle and you go up to them and order a noodle dish. I am assuming that it is a hot noodle dish but in Japan they also have cold noodle dishes for the summer so I am not too sure which one would be inside. My guess is both and that it depends on the season/weather.

I have never done it before and have only gone up to an ice cream truck once before (That I can remember anyway) but my husband says that the food is mediocre at best, burnt and tasteless at worst. I suppose getting raman at a restaurant dedicated for it would be the best bet for tasty noodle dishes, but I'd like to try it. Just once. :)

Fish Tank

I have a virtual fish tank that I thought I'd point out if anyone is curious. It is at the bottom of my blog. Feel free to click on it and give them food. They will swim around your cursor if you keep it still long enough.

So in case you thought it was a dangerous Ad and did not want to get near it, fear not. It is something I put there purely for fun and entertainment.

English Class

I have an English class that I teach every Friday and one that I teach every Saturday. To be honest, I really have no idea what I am doing. Although everyone seems to enjoy it, sometimes I panic when I do not know the answer to a question. (Is this an Adverb? An Adjective? Why is it "does" and not "Is"? Etc) My class on Friday is of a much higher level than the class on Saturday. I thought that maybe if I went really slow and explained all the sentences and the structure as best that I could that I could start them off on something easy (Like a small news article) but relatively intermediate in terms of level.

I was wrong.

It is difficult because the range of levels in Saturday's class is so great that if I did something at the beginner level, some of the students would find it too easy. But as I explained above, if I did something of a higher level it will end up being too difficult.

The class has 18 students. There are 4 men and of those four I would peg three of them as intermediate. The rest of the class is in early beginner. Also female.

The old English teacher (Who I have never met and do not know anything about besides that his name was Joshua) gave them crossword puzzles and word searches as homework. But I have been told by a few that they disliked having to do that very much. ... But 1/4 of them really enjoyed it.

It would be nice to work with a company that had a book with set lessons and such. As it is, finding and making my own is proving to be difficult and moreso as time goes on.

So what I have been thinking and researching is if I couldn't buy some English teaching books online that have set lessons in them. That would make things easier for me but now the question is... which books would be the best to buy?

New Website!

Not for me, haha. I have created enough half-done blogs for a while. But for a family member, and I am proud of it (Even though it did not take that much effort to create). Check it out here: [Link]

As of this moment it is not completed. And so it still has some stock photos for a space filler until all of the photos that are wanted can be put up. Mostly you can find the stock photos in any of the photo gallery pages of the website.

Check out the old website here: [Link]

The image used of the puppy in both homepages is the same image - one was updated in the last year. I believe that puppy is no longer a puppy now. The image is probably 3-4 years old.

I remember that I was requested to make a photo gallery that was easy to scroll through, and how they wanted the images to pop out. However I was not very good at Flash programs and could not create the website that had those things.

The host of the new website is dedicated to Flash. And they made everything as simple as dragging and dropping. Although it did crash my browser several times. I remember trying to create my own website from the same host about a year and a half back but they seemed to be having problems then as my browser crashed every five minutes and I needed to restart everything. Now it seems that my browser crashes only if I ask it to do too many things at once. I lay part of the blame on the computer that I am borrowing. It is a few years old and has many things stored on it that makes it slow already. But it is a definite improvement. Which is why I decided to share it with you :)

What does "Omnomnom" mean?

The word Om nom nom (Or three words, haha) is a sound made by eating something delicious. The sound was coined by Cookie Monster from Sesame Street, but in the past 3 or so years it has become a very popular word used on the internet. Especially in places like chat room or forums where many people can get together and talk.

I thought I would clear that up for anyone who is not internet savvy :)

I decided to use the words for my blog because I enjoy Japanese food. A lot. It is delicious. I invite everyone to try or make some. And, no, that does not mean go out and buy sushi. ;)

Repost- Ponyo

Dumbledore VS Dumbledore

I have honestly been searching for this one image on dA for a good half hour. I was amused because I also was not pleased with how the actor decided to portray Dumbledore in Goblet of Fire. Eventually I gave up the search on dA (Although I knew for a fact that I had seen it on dA!) and went to Google. A quick image search of "Dumbledore, movie vs book" brought up this image several times! Thanks Google I don't know why I ever doubted---

Ah yes. Thank you for reminding me.

Some light Google searching tells me that KellyWormtongue from DeviantArt is the artist of the book/movie Dumbledore (although dA seems to think that she/he does not exist)

To be fair, I do not think I liked the second actor who portrayed Dumbledore from the beginning since he had said that he never read the HP books and did not plan to. Giving us the resulting Dumbledore.

He kinda reminded me of a hippie. With the hat and beard tie.