Nabi on Feb 21 2009, 06:44 PM said:

Like you BB, I also made a very minor time calculation mistake...about 48 hrs ..... ..plus I think I caught the BF bug (more the anxiety attack type)...is it, isn't it, don't tell me, is it,.......oh great, great, it's still here..sigh.... ....

...Mai-nichiyobi wa nani o shimasu ka (what do you do on Sundays, BB-san)? Eating green tea ice cream and hopefully practicing your calculations from now on.... ..

casandra on Feb 22 2009, 02:14 PM said:

Chigaimashu. (U made mistake). Casandra's Japanese is much better than mine - I have to admit and I can certify

Mai-sunday (every sunday) I do nothing much . .. but recently I am more into Gari-gari kun (Hakugen Milk) than anything else.

And, what did U do?

Making 48h mistake is much better as U end of on the same time of the day - it is horrible to wake up early in the morning and run to lab and wonder if U can make it for your promised lunch.

Nabi on Feb 22 2009, 07:59 AM said:

and I'm beginning to agree with you that my survival pidgin japanese is a bit better than yours BB. Instead of chigau (chigaimasu) I think that the more correct verb to use in this case is machigau (machigaimasu- to make a mistake/error or to be wrong) i.e. I was wrong with my time calculation. Chigau usually means to be different or to say that something is not whatever.........but I could be wrong again, therefore machigaimashita instead of chigaimashita... ....my apologies to Lady Murasaki Shikibu......

casandra on Feb 23 2009, 05:47 AM said:

I will not disagree that your Japanese is much better than ours (& many Japanese too).

But may be 'Chigau' is what is usually used in that situation. 'Chigau' also means 'U r wrong' . . what U said did not match with what is real. 'Machigau' is 'make mistake' .. I will wait for expert opinion on this - dochi ga tadashii kana (which one might be right)

Nabi on Feb 22 2009, 07:57 PM said:

But I see your point now BB....if you meant that what I said is different from what really is/was, then I guess we can use chigau. But I was thinking more of how mistaken/wrong I was about my time calculation so I'd use machigau instead...and btw, how can my japanese be better than yours...you live there dude, you probably use it everyday ..I was just teasing you about it...and I will never write anything in pidgin japanese again....zenzen...

wakarimashita (understood). I live in Japan but not all people are equal - some are good at learning new languages and others are very good - I am in the third category : 'disable'. Beside, when it comes to learning something I am a namakimono (sloth). I don't know even the basic phrases.

Demo, your nihon-go is really good. (another reason to consider U being 'one of them')

Nabi on Feb 23 2009, 01:46 PM said:

hi girls, konnichiha

this morning i came at lab at 11am (it was soo difficult to drag my self out of bed, hehe) and guess what i`ve found?
everyone was in our meeting room, having sotsugyou happyou renshuu (practice for final presentation) for the undergrad.
not only that, it turned out that the renshuu had started since 9 am. so i came to the room right on the last presentation, 30 min before it finished.
so, to add one more reibun (examples?) using my story today, this is what I said to my sensei after the presentation finished:

XXX Sensei, sumimasen, happyou renshuu no sukeju-ru o memo suru no ga machigatte shimaimashita.

which is true, because i really wrote on my note that the renshuu would be tomorrow.
so, that was my big machigai

conclusion: i hate monday and i think monday hates me too.

Did he take U to the nearest cliff and pushed U off or did U yourself commit harakiri then?

Nabi on Feb 23 2009, 05:39 PM said:

hahaha...thank God, no. if he did that for every mistake we made, there will be no one left in our lab except him :DD

saru moh ki kara ochiru (even monkey falls from a tree) : but looks like there is a troop around U.