GLAYYYYYYY I am completely in love with them. I think I first started to like them in 2000; someone in the Digimon fandom who I very much respected at the time (though I can't remember their name now) mentioned they liked them, so I sought it out. The first song I listened to was "Rain" and I fell completely in love. I don't keep up with the new stuff either (at the moment) but oh, the old stuff is so wonderful~ especially the songs you mentioned (those are some of my favourites)
<3 They're the only Japanese band that I own CDs for. Getting stuff like that is very difficult and expensive here, so I try to be satisfied with the 4 that I own. Gah, can't remember how much it cost, but it was a lot - and they were used, too. Completely worth it though.
Anyway! I will keep that in mind <3 Food is, after all, a good thing to talk about. And NO we don't put maple syrup on noodles ;p I don't think that would turn out well. Just on pancakes and French toast really, and those are not things that people eat frequently. Or sometimes on supperfood - I know how to make a nice glaze for meat using maple syrup. And it can also go in ice cream too. But really, we don't eat it all that much. I tend to find the stereotype a bit silly, because I hardly even know anyone who likes maple, really.
asdkjf you've opened a big can of worms here. I can babble about Canada for even longer than I can babble about Estonia, and that's the truth.
Okay. Well, to start out talking about culture and festivals and so on. This is very difficult for two reasons: firstly, Canada is so big, and secondly, the population is so unevenly distributed. Consider in comparison to Malaysia: our population is only about five million more than yours but our area is thirty times the size of yours. For this reason, things tend to be narrowed down to not only provincial culture but also regions within the provinces. The northern portion of my home province, Alberta, isn't really much like the southern part. Pretty much the only thing that is the same across the country are the holidays - Canada Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, Easter.
On the whole, I would say that the only other thing we have here that applies throughout the entire country is the cold. We're constantly either waiting for winter or complaining about winter. During summer we complain because everything is too hot. But if it does snow, as it did in June, we complain about that. Then in autumn we're constantly counting down the days until the first snow, not because we want it to come, because we don't, but because after it is here we can stop fussing over when it will come. Then all throughout winter it's grumble, grumble, grumble, even when it's not so bad. Essentially, this is a national sport: complaining about the weather, especially cold weather. It's strange, because many of us don't really mind so much; I guess we just need something to grumble about.
... Fff, reading over that, it all sounds very silly. I'll think of something better when I am not so sleepy.
Anyway. Bookmarks? RAID AWAY. Bah, I need to update those, though. I don't have much at all, woe is me.
asjdf Saiyuki and Weiss Kreuz. Oh my god, I love them both, though it's been a while since I re-watched either of them. Man, blast from the past - getting my hands on those fansub tapes was such a pain in the ass. Totally worth it, though.
Oh my god. It's 4:45 AM. WHY AM I STILL AWAKE. Mmph. I should wrap this up... and sleep. Yes.
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Re: Estonia's sparkles do not work on France
Date: 2009-07-25 10:48 am (UTC)I am completely in love with them. I think I first started to like them in 2000; someone in the Digimon fandom who I very much respected at the time (though I can't remember their name now) mentioned they liked them, so I sought it out. The first song I listened to was "Rain" and I fell completely in love. I don't keep up with the new stuff either (at the moment) but oh, the old stuff is so wonderful~ especially the songs you mentioned (those are some of my favourites)
<3 They're the only Japanese band that I own CDs for. Getting stuff like that is very difficult and expensive here, so I try to be satisfied with the 4 that I own. Gah, can't remember how much it cost, but it was a lot - and they were used, too. Completely worth it though.
Anyway! I will keep that in mind <3 Food is, after all, a good thing to talk about. And NO we don't put maple syrup on noodles ;p I don't think that would turn out well. Just on pancakes and French toast really, and those are not things that people eat frequently. Or sometimes on supperfood - I know how to make a nice glaze for meat using maple syrup. And it can also go in ice cream too. But really, we don't eat it all that much. I tend to find the stereotype a bit silly, because I hardly even know anyone who likes maple, really.
asdkjf you've opened a big can of worms here. I can babble about Canada for even longer than I can babble about Estonia, and that's the truth.
Okay. Well, to start out talking about culture and festivals and so on. This is very difficult for two reasons: firstly, Canada is so big, and secondly, the population is so unevenly distributed. Consider in comparison to Malaysia: our population is only about five million more than yours but our area is thirty times the size of yours. For this reason, things tend to be narrowed down to not only provincial culture but also regions within the provinces. The northern portion of my home province, Alberta, isn't really much like the southern part. Pretty much the only thing that is the same across the country are the holidays - Canada Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, Easter.
On the whole, I would say that the only other thing we have here that applies throughout the entire country is the cold. We're constantly either waiting for winter or complaining about winter. During summer we complain because everything is too hot. But if it does snow, as it did in June, we complain about that. Then in autumn we're constantly counting down the days until the first snow, not because we want it to come, because we don't, but because after it is here we can stop fussing over when it will come. Then all throughout winter it's grumble, grumble, grumble, even when it's not so bad. Essentially, this is a national sport: complaining about the weather, especially cold weather. It's strange, because many of us don't really mind so much; I guess we just need something to grumble about.
... Fff, reading over that, it all sounds very silly. I'll think of something better when I am not so sleepy.
Anyway. Bookmarks? RAID AWAY. Bah, I need to update those, though. I don't have much at all, woe is me.
asjdf Saiyuki and Weiss Kreuz. Oh my god, I love them both, though it's been a while since I re-watched either of them. Man, blast from the past - getting my hands on those fansub tapes was such a pain in the ass. Totally worth it, though.
Oh my god. It's 4:45 AM. WHY AM I STILL AWAKE. Mmph. I should wrap this up... and sleep. Yes.