a unique love letter

What if your heart is a system, Then I will scan you to find out which ports are open so that there is no doubt when I do “c:\>netcat.exe -l -o -v -e” to your heart, but I only dare to ping behind an anonymous proxy. Is this feeling is called fall in love so that make me like a loser or that maybe I am indeed a pure loser! pure lame, or whatever!

What if your heart is a system,

I feel like I want to take an advantage of your vulnerabilities, use a PHP injection like r57shell or something like that so that I can do “ls -la; find / -perm 777 -type d” so that I know that in your heart there is a folder that can be written or do I have free space there? Do I really need to install a back-door “Remote Connect-Back Shell” so I just wait for connections from you, I do not get wasted like this.

What if your heart is a system,

When all my requests are received, I will keep always stay in bugtraq to know your new bugs and I will patch and always patch the system. I will try to keep your service to avoid crash and I will became your firewall. I will install ports entry, and setting your error page “THE PAGE CAN NOT BE FOUND BECAUSE HAS BEEN OWNED BY  SOMEONE , NOW GET OUT!!” I promise that there will be no potential malicious program or hidden service, because I really care and love you.

Language learning is like falling in love

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This evening I have to give a short talk in Japanese to about 30 members of the Japan-Canada Chamber of Commerce. I am a Director of this Chamber, which consists mostly of recent Japanese immigrants to Canada who are involved in their own businesses here. Here is what I intend to say in Japanese.

Language learning is like falling in love. In fact you have to be in love to learn a language well. I mean in love with the language. You have to have a love affair with the language. You do not have to marry the language. You can have an affair and then move on to another language after a period of time. But while you are learning the language you have to be in love with it. And you will learn faster if you are faithful to the language while you are studying it.

Just as when you are in love, you want to and need to spend as much time as possible with the object of your love. You want to hear its voice and read its thoughts. You want to learn more about it, the many words and phrases that it uses to express itself. You think of the language wherever you are. You start to observe the object of your love closely. You notice all the little things it does, you become familiar with its peculiar behaviour patterns. You breathe it. You hear its voice. You feel it. You get to know it better and better, naturally.