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All there are inside a building. Many ramen shops in one place.

so do I!!

 

Maybe useful.... depending on your taste........

 

Is this guy a Japanese999 copy cat? runnyrunny999?! :-)

 

Hummmm. I am not sure......

 

This is how it's done... apparently

 

This how it is done... apparently

 

I personally like it.

Shameless announcement about Japanese999.com got listed on the infocobuild.com learning Japanese list.

Just want to thank David from infocobuild.com to recognize Japanese999 as one of the useful resource for learning Japanese.

Ever since I was a kid, my mom kept telling me not to be so Wagamama (わがまま). As recent as last week, I was talking to her on the phone and yet again she used that word on me.

So I wonder, is being wagamama so bad?

First of all, lets see what "wagamama" actually means.

A quick internet search brought me to this page

http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/leaf/jn2/237719/m0u/%E3%82%8F%E3%81%8C%E3%81%BE%E3%81%BE/

according to it, wagamama is 自分の思いどおりに振る舞うこと。また、そのさま。気まま。ほしいまま。自分勝手。

basically it means someone who wants to do whatever he/she wants. Someone who acts the way he/she feels like. (Can also be used to describe someone who is selfish).

so am I a "wagamama" guy?

I have a certain "vision" to things that I care about. Some people may think "why don't you just compromise" but that is just the way I am. I like things to be done in certain ways and I want to live the way I want to live.

I am not sure if because of this people tend to think I have high (or weird) standard and I complain too much. I guess I should take actions and do something about the things I don't like instead of just keep complaining but that is another story.

Like the song sang by Lenny Kravitz "Are you gonna go my way" !!

I recently had a phone conversation with someone who had been living outside Japan for quite sometime and recently moved back to Japan.
We were talking about the Japanese999 website and the topic moved on to about how Japanese is like recently. Apparently there are so many words that if no body explains to me how they are used, I would probably not be able to figure it out by myself.

Here are some of the words that I found particularly interesting.

• アラサー (arasaa) = short for around 30 years old


• アラフォー (arafoo) = short for around 40 years old

Apparently they are used to talk about age.
For example,
私もうアラサーだから、そろそろ結婚しないと。
(I am around 30 so got to get married.)

• レス下さい (resu kudasai) = Please reply to me

It is a short for レスポンスください（resuponsu kudasai)　"give me a response"

by the way, if you change that to "レズ下さい" it becomes something completely different.... :)

スto ズ..... only one character, but something completely different.

what a Japanese evolution in real time