today we had our health screening at the company.
But I had a pass on the X-ray as I had one just about 3 months ago.
健康診断
けんこうしんだん
kenkou shindan
physical examination
Ｘ線
エックスせん
ekkusu sen
X-ray
レントゲン
roentgen
X-ray
健康診断 is a very common word in Japan. Vocabulary acquired at work when our officemates take a leave to have their check-ups.
I cant be really sure but I thinkＸ線 is more widely used than レントゲン because it had an entry on wikipedia. レントゲン on the other hand returned image results in the first results page displayed (google).
yey! finished another minesweeper expert game today @ 174 (after lunch @work) ^ ^
second successful finish for my borrowed windows computer
played without flags. played without hints. played without the left+right click “cheat”
thats how i play minesweeper since i learned to play without marking mines with flags poodle (computer name) fastest mine sweeper times:
beginner: 12 seconds
intermediate: 59 seconds
expert: 166 seconds
the scores are not that high though
just reasonable scores for the first successful games
and which i did not attempt to beat for record (except for the expert though)
i also cant remember the best times i scored for each category since i started playing minesweeper. but i think i had an 8 for the beginner and about 30 for intermediate.
erm… im not sure ToT
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so as usual here is the japanese word for minesweeper: 掃海艇 【そうかいてい】soukaitei
but i think this word is applicable only for sea mines (naval mines to be more accurate)
掃means sweep 海means sea (read as umi) 艇means boat (also read as tei) 掃海means sweeping the sea for mines
and for land mine, the japanese word is:
地雷 【じらい】jirai 地means ground or earth (read as chi) 雷means thunder (read as kaminari)
there is also another word 地雷火 (jiraika) but it returned only about 250,000 results in google compared to 8million for 地雷
and after some googling i found this site with this image T_T sad sad world
and do you remember the scene in Finding Nemo where there were a lot of naval mines? AND did you know there is a Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Disneyland, California? the spooky graveyard of sunken ships surrounded by naval mines is also featured in the ride
Spent a few minutes reading through the first paragraph of chapter one of the book ^_^ Yep, I finally decided to start with Harry Potter. Have to start getting used to reading vertically down T_T
Below is the first paragraph in case you are curious ninyo and interested to read the japanese version
Puribetto toori shibanchi no juunin Daazurii fuzai wa, [Okagesamade, watashidono wa doko kara mite mo matomo na ningen desu] to iu no ga jiman datta. Fushigi toka shinpin toka sonnna hijoushiki wa marukkiri mitomenai jinshu de, makafushigi na dekigoto ga karera no shuuhen de okoru nante, toutei kangaerarenakatta.
I havent been able to log in to this account for more than a year and im surprised there are still a few comments coming in. ^_^
About the files, I wont be able to reupload those soon as I dont have the files in my laptop right now and I left my external hd back at home. So I might not get my hands on it for quite a while. Im sorry guys.
Anyway I am in Sg now so Im thinking about updating this blog once again so I wont forget my Japanese
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