http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2005/10/shuri-castle/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:43:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2005/10/shuri-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-51 lva Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:02:47 +0000 http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/?p=200#comment-51 Thanks May. I'm back on the island now, practicing every day. It's really quite scary! Only three more days of practice, and then we're off to Tokyo... Thanks May. I’m back on the island now, practicing every day. It’s really quite scary! Only three more days of practice, and then we’re off to Tokyo…

]]> http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2005/10/shuri-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-50 may Mon, 10 Oct 2005 19:02:48 +0000 http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/?p=200#comment-50 wow... have a good one! wow… have a good one!

]]> http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2005/10/shuri-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-48 lva Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:42:07 +0000 http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/?p=200#comment-48 I am merely tinging the ting-thing. But I am still a Jedi. And I am having to learn to count for many, many, many identical bars of ting-ting-ting-ting. I have found the most effective way for me to do this is to imagine a large white number (in a sans-serif typeface) that changes on the 1 of each bar. We don't usually have a ting-thing, but in the competition you have to have one, so it is me. The ting-thing (<span lang="jp" title="narimono">鳴物</span>, if you're being fancy) is like a large, heavy metal ashtray. It is all very, very exciting. I am merely tinging the ting-thing. But I am still a Jedi. And I am having to learn to count for many, many, many identical bars of ting-ting-ting-ting. I have found the most effective way for me to do this is to imagine a large white number (in a sans-serif typeface) that changes on the 1 of each bar. We don’t usually have a ting-thing, but in the competition you have to have one, so it is me. The ting-thing (鳴物, if you’re being fancy) is like a large, heavy metal ashtray. It is all very, very exciting.

]]> http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/2005/10/shuri-castle/comment-page-1/#comment-47 Kim Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:32:15 +0000 http://www.lightvesselautomatic.org/diary/?p=200#comment-47 > I will now be playing in the Tokyo International Taiko Contest Wow! That is so exciting! I am super jealous and impressed. Rock on, taiko jedi! Don't get too many blisters practising... > I will now be playing in the Tokyo International Taiko Contest
Wow! That is so exciting! I am super jealous and impressed. Rock on, taiko jedi! Don’t get too many blisters practising…

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