I've been watching an anime series called "Inu Yasha" these days. The character development for the main characters are fascinating. I happened to see the same series on the Cartoon Network last night and it was horrible! They did an awful job dubbing it in English. The dialogs are bad and the voice actors don't portray the intensity of emotions that their Japanese counterparts do. This is why I prefer watching foreign films/anime/television in their original language with subtitles. The only dubbed movie that I thought was good was when I was visiting Korea in 1992 and saw "Beauty and the Beast" dubbed in Korean. It flowed amazingly well even when they were singing.

Scott and I went to the Huntington Library yesterday since it was a free Thursday. Entrance fee on normal days is $10. It was so packed that we had to find street parking. The rose garden was bare. I missed the sweet fragrance. The Japanese garden was our favorite because we saw a turtle, two ducks, and lots of huge fishes, walked over cool stone bridges across the ponds, and walked through the bamboo forest. It was nice to just sit on the wide grassy areas in the sunshine and talk. Through my conversation with Scott, I realized that I don't make much of an effort to have meaningful conversations on a regular basis with people. It's not that I don't think about serious things. I just internalize them and don't express them because I don't like to just blurt things out. I need to organize them in a logical order and then find the right words to express myself properly. I also like to be concise. If I am in a confused state of mind or working through a topic, I tend to be quiet until I can come to an acceptable conclusion. I haven't even been journaling lately at all.