This monkey only goes one way; to prison.

Chase The Gaijin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:59:32 +0000

For those that are highly enameled towards me probably remember that I’ve worked at English factory #2, Nova, which still exists as evidence that zombies do exist. Anyways, the head bosso of Nova was a guy called 猿橋　望, or Nozomu Saruhashi in English; he never liked having a last name that is literally “Monkey” (猿、さる) “Bridge” (橋、はし) so he went by the name Nozom Sahashi. You might ask “Where the hell did the u go?”, but this question falls on no nears.

Gimmie a break! A 3 dead hooker a week habit is expensive.

Sapienoverpass will be spending some time in prison, 3.5 years or so. Hopefully he will use this time to repent of his evil ways and go back to his old name, Monkeybridge. Then the healing can begin.

From the article…

Former Nova President Nozomu Sahashi was sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 years in prison by the Osaka District Court for his role in skimming off employee funds in 2007, just before the foreign language school giant’s bankruptcy that October.

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Sahashi was charged with funneling nearly ¥320 million from employee benefit funds to a bank account belonging to a Nova affiliate in July 2007. He denied embezzling the funds, telling the court he used the money on behalf of his employees.

Master Japanese in a mere 37,960,000 days. Lesson 11: I thought you might think about that so I put a device in your head to stop you from considering such an action. You can thank me later.

Chase The Gaijin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:43:38 +0000

Everyone has a different way of studying, but I always wonder if there aren’t those few people that learn new things in some strange way. With over 6 billion monkeys it’s bound to happen at least once you’d think.

Speaking of that, let’s do 思う (おもう, to think) and 考える (かんがえる, to think, to consider) today. As you can see, they’re very similar. 思う is usually used when giving something that you have already given some thought to; e.g. opinions. This means that 考える is mostly used for when you are thinking about something or considering something. Let’s start, shall we?

買いたいかどうか分からなかったから店員に「考えておきます」と言った。
かいたいかどうかわからなかったからてんいんに「かんがえておきます」といった。
I wasn’t sure whether or not I really wanted to buy it so I told the staff member that I’d think about it.

その外国人は変と思わないか？いつも超おかしなこと言う。
そのがいこくじんはへんとおもわないか？いつもちょうおかしなこという。
Don’t you think that foreigner is a little strange? He always says really strange things.

考えすぎるのが悪いと思う。
かんがえすぎるのがわるいとおもう。
I think it’s bad to overthink things.

Now go use your new ability like Scanners!

Chase the Gaijin » Monkeys

This monkey only goes one way; to prison.

Master Japanese in a mere 37,960,000 days. Lesson 11: I thought you might think about that so I put a device in your head to stop you from considering such an action. You can thank me later.