Still Around - New Side Blog

I made this blog for fun for some peeps at work.

Some pics are ripped off from http://icanhascheezburger.com/ and http://cuteoverload.com/

Some include my own test.

Enjoy.

MOTIVATION

Uhhhhhhhh

Last night I went with Momo (aka Mung Mung aka Mung Bean) to a dinner with some of her work colleagues. It was at the Löwenbräu in Sydney’s Rocks area.

I chatted to Momo and her colleagues while enjoying a litre stein of Löwenbräu Original (she had a half-litre shandy of Original) and, having been to the restaurant before, decided to share a dish and a side of garlic bread.

We shared a Shweinshaxn, an : ‘oven Roasted Pork Knuckle with Sauerkraut, Löwenbräu Bier Sauce and Mashed Potato’ Momo found it a little salty, but it was perfect with beer.

We also listened to a trio of bizarre musicians - old yodellers - one of which was thrusting his pelvis and doing other weird things...

The garlic bread turned out to be sourdough and was great, too. I finished my meal with a shot of schnapps - a 56% alcohol killer that was bright blue and tasted like Cointreau. After, to my later regret, we went to have dessert at Pancakes on the rocks and shared a tall stack of pancakes.

I shouldn’t be surprised that I never feel like eating ever again. So much for Valentine’s dinner.

Update on research proposal

The dissertation proposal I mentioned in a previous post was recently accepted.

Here is the latest incarnation of the title:

Loanword phonology:
Language proficiency, linguistic transfer and the individual; a comparative study of the pronunciation of English loanwords and non-loanwords by Japanese speakers of English of low and high level proficiency.

I'll have a year from June to complete it - not much at all, really, seeing that I have to actually collect empirical data - which means a lot of time, prep and testing.

I'm also working on another research proposal, which has to be in in around April. I have a fun research topic in mind, but I'll keep it to myself until I have some idea of feasibility.

Elephant in the way

Mari-chan

Note to Self

Amazing! I feel like blogging again!

Planned updates - coming soon:

Photos of Sydney Chinese New Year parade 2007

The Wrath of Spam

I don't need no goddam viagra!

Time flies

Time flies like an arrow.

Fruit flies like a banana.