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Okay, so I am currently at NIC in Courtenay (that's where I'm going to school now that I've graduated and stuff) and there are many Asians here. I'm assuming that they're all either Japanese or Korean as that's typically what we seem to get here. They're international students or whatever. Anyway, there's a small group of them sitting at a table to my left and they keep nattering on in Japanese (or Korean) and kind of gesturing towards me. I'm slightly apprehensive as I don't know what they're saying or if they're actually talking about me or just something that happened in my general vicinity. Sometimes I wish I could speak Japanese. I mean, I'm not one of those anime freaks that dreams of running away to Japan or anything, I'd just like to be able to watch Kill Bill without having to fuck around with subtitles for an hour. Seriously, I torrented it the other day, but the version didn't have the Japanese subtitles hardcoded so I spent a bunch of time trying to find a decent .srt file for just the Japanese scenes. I eventually found one, but it was about a minute or two behind the audio so I spent an exorbitant amount of time trying to get them to line up. After I managed to get the first part lined up (the bit with Pei Mai's voice over) I quickly went through to the anime section with O-Renn killing Boss Matsumoto the subtitles were a good minute or so behind! By that point I was frustrated and just gave up. I've seen it enough times with the subtitles to know what they're saying. I just wish I had them for the scene where Beatrix Kiddo goes to see Hatori Hanzo and yells at his employee about getting sake. I love that part. My favourite part though, would have to be the scene where Gogo Yubari fights Beatrix. I love the meteor hammer with a passion. I wish I knew how to use it. If I did, I'd scour the globe to find one like hers. Most of the ones I've seen have been small-ish and attached to a long rope. I want a spiked one on a chain, please. I could do without the blades though. Knowing me, I'd injure myself with it pretty quickly. But yeah, meteor hammers. Mmm.