I find that after drinking Diet Dr. Pepper for a while, I cannot go back to drinking Diet Coke. It tastes all watered down and bland.

I <3 you, peppery goodness.

I just can’t get through this book, and I’m not sure why. I started reading it in the fall of 2005 and I’m still not done with the damn thing! It’s not that I don’t like the book. I love it! I just can’t get through it. Sooo weird.

I don’t want to ever stop consuming this. I listen to it at least once a day. I’ve never been a big Bjork fan until I heard this album, and now I’m totally hooked. Love it.

Impossible to play on DS.

I put so many hours into this game, but ran into a really bad bug that made my game freeze every time I went outside. That really, really sucked.

But this game is SO fun, and there’s tons of things to do. I really wish it wasn’t so buggy. I think that the localizers and developers need to put more effort into the next release.

I have a paid account at pogo.com, so of course I had to get this game! It’s really fun and is an easy way to get tokens. I’ve gotten about 50,000 tokens in one week playing this game!

You can transfer your tokens to your pogo.com account using the DS’ wireless capabilities.

I have 2 complaints about this game, though.

1) Not enough games. There are only 5 pogo.com games on this, so it can get boring at times. I want to play other ones! There’s no reason that there couldn’t have been more games on here, unless they’re going to put out more versions to milk people for money. It IS EA, after all.

2) Badges that you earn in the game cannot be transferred to your pogo.com account for all to see. What’s the point, then? Totally lame.

I’ve been wanting to learn the 百人一首 for a while, mainly because I like learning really obscure shit, and this is the perfect game for it! The 百人一首 is a collection of 100 famous poems. Each poem is written on a card, and this card game is played by many Japanese as part of New Years festivities. How the game works is, each poem is broken up into a top part and bottom part. The bottom parts are on cards, and spread out on the floor, kind of like Memory. Everyone sits on the floor by the cards. Someone reads the top parts of the poem aloud, and the players have to beat each other to find match the bottom part first!

So anyway, this game teaches you mnemonic devices in order to learn the poems. It takes the first character or few from both the top and bottom parts of the poem to make a silly phrase that will make it easy to remember. They also have silly pictures to make it even easier! You have an opportunity to memorize each phrase or picture, and then the game will quiz you in groups of 5 poems. If you pass the quizzes, you will then move on to compete against a lady wearing old school Japanese robes and speaking old school Japanese!!

In another mode, you can just compete against 5 different people (all dressed and speaking accordingly old school).

Another cool mode, is that you can have the DS randomly choose poems to read aloud, and if you have a set of 百人一首 cards, you can play along!

Only very advanced learners of Japanese would be able to benefit from this game, in my opinion.

I ordered this game, but haven’t received it yet.

Any kind of game that I can play quietly at night in bed is a game for me. I hope this game will be fun!

I’m not sure what it is about the game, but when Yoshi moves, it makes really weird tracing effects on the screen and hurts my eyes, so I haven’t been able to play this game much.

I got this game on sale. I tried to play it, but had no f’ing idea wtf I was doing. The Japanese isn’t difficult, I just had a hard time knowing what the hell to do. Maybe I will try to play it again.