Happy Birthday, Koichi!

Semi-terrifying. XD

Very bright and colorful though, eh?

Ah yes, and happy birthday XD

I feel like the photo colors were modified to be more bright and lovely. Erin's good at that - thanks for the bday wishes!

And we have a winner for most embarrasing picture ever!

Nah, It's not that bad XD
Happy Birthday Koichi from Merry old England

This picture's kind of embarrassing for me, too, since you can see all my juvenile posters and stuff in the background. But I figured the sacrifice had to be made.

Ah, see, I just assumed that they were all of Koichi's embarrassing juvenile posters. It fit well with the picture. ;-)

Nice AKFG poster in the background... I don't think that's embarassing! >___>

I agree, Sol-fa is an excellent album.

Thanks!

Happy Birthday Koichi先生！　you're the coolest Frood I know　On the whole of the internets. Good things are going to happen　to you, you're a good person!　（こー＾）/
Thanks for the cooking lesson!!
はい

Thanks Quinsy! And also, thanks for coming to the cooking lesson last night!

bwahaha nice though,
happy birthday koichi

also he needs to shave ?
looks like that 8c{]

I Alllways need to shave, because I have so few areas with hair, so it looks weird if I don't. Thanks for the wishes!

happy birthday koichi!! my birthday is on october 27th...guh i'm turning 25, i'll be an old man >_<

Woo hoo! We be old together :)

Hehe, thanks Erin, for the birthday post...and the fake hat. Looks nice! Where can I get a hat like that in real life though?

You're welcome!

They probably sell those hats at Party City or something.

Oh, also, when exactly is Viet's birthday? I've never figured it out.

The month and day the Vietnamese Communist Party was founded....

That's my clue to you....

Yeah really.... seriously.... What an odd day to be born on.

Wikipedia didn't succeed in helping me D:

You didn't put any effort into it :P

Hello everyone,

It's February 3rd! yay?

I hope that I've got it right for some odd reason.... hmm...

-QuinsY. (correcting some entries on lang-8 (`^_-) ).

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOICHI! Eat all the cake you want! xxx

Mmm, but I like salty things! Thanks!

Hm...celebrate Mole day or Koich's Birthday..

Decisions ..decisions. jk. hah

My b-day's on valentines day, so at least ppl dont call you "a valentines baby" or "a sweet heart" **all done in a very condiscending voice**

anyways..

Happy Birthday Koichi!!

It was sad...in chemistry, in high school, the teacher said (of course, on the 23rd, but I didn't know anything about moles)...

"You know, everyone. Today, is a really special day. October 23. Does any of you know why today is special?"

And here I thought the teacher loved me...turns out my heart was crushed that day.

So tragic :(

At least you get to celebrate Mole Day and your birthday, and if that's not enough for you tomorrow is United Nations day so the party never ends!

Happy Birthday Koichi!

aw. that must've sucked. next time you gotta wear a t-shirt to let everyone know its ur birthday.

Then they'll be like "EVERYONE, let's are give koichi a round of applause, just for being him, on his birthday."

23! nice. getting old koichi, happy birthday :)

I know yeah!? Old :(

Thanks much!

お誕生日おめでとう！

ありがとう！

Does anyone remember that anonymous guy some time ago arguing in that fluency is possible through unorthodox methods and kept spamming a website called "alljapaneseallthe time"? Well the guy running the site appears in this video by TyoSam and talks;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J34i9lr94pI

Thats a great website. Makes a lot more sense on how to "learn" Japanese.

御誕生日おめでとうございます!!!

what are you doing to celebrate? I hope it's the best!!

I just got an account and the comment above is me! just an FYI!

Prolly just eat something...maybe bake a tofugu cake :)

Happy Birthday Koichi! You're a really hoopy frood.

And YOU know where your towel's at!

おたんじよび　おめでと！
:D

Thanks Mai!

The room!! :D Seriously, that pic is awesome!

Well anyways, congrats Koichi!

Thanks ヨナス！

Aww lol I just read about the chemistry thing! =[ Oh well...btw that thing about 'I like salty things' really creeped me out for a second!

Hey Happy Birthday Koichi :D

happy birthday Koichi

p.s u share a birthday w/ my sister @_@

I guess this isn't related to studyin gJapanese. Maybe kanji, well

http://lang-8.com/img/jpg/w_h/0/img_cache_t_935...
from lang-8 user's post.

it's funny and it's got something to do with kanji if you're learning chineseeeee
today, on a popular american radio show (NPR) - they were describing how on the voting election ballots, that in certain neighborhoods, they "translate" the names of the presidential candidates so non-english speaking could perhaps recognize the name phonetically - otherwise, if you only had the names in english, and they could not read english, they could not vote accurately.

I thought it was funny that McCaine in Chinese would sound like wheat victory polite.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I've been lagging in comment posting, but I should at least comment this right now!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
¡Feliz Cumpleaños!
Thanks for working on tofugu this entire time! Keep it up!
The last few posts have been awesome by the way!

誕生日おめでとう！！

hahaha i almost thought i lost(past) your birthday
i read the post was made on the 22nd
but ur b-day is on the 23rd
so happy birthday Koichi ^_^
oh and it should be special because ur turning 23 and the date is 23
like mine is on the 16th and my 16th b-day was the best and really special =]

Happy Birthday Koichi! You look awesome with that unreal looking hat, and that shade just makes you more cool. hehhe Nice editing as well.

Cherish your birthday. Best wishes :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOICHI-SAN!

You've been such an infinite help in my (and countless others') quest to seek the Holy Grail of Japanese Fluency. Know that, while you may not recognize all of us, you nevertheless have a loyal army of friends across the world, ready to start book burnings of "Learn Japanese iNsTaNtLy!1!1!" texts at your command.

In short, thank you for being such a great guy. =)

Dang. I'm a day late.

Happy birthday! Thanks so much for all your work on the site and through youtube too~

I'm a day late too... Ah well: gefeliciteerd Koichi!!
That's Dutch for happy birthday =)

Oh no, I'm late... Sorry... Happy birthday Koichi!! Χρόνια πολλά!! (Since Ank sent it in Dutch I thought you should see it in Greek as well :) )

Κι άλλος Έλληνας στο Tofugu? Ωραία! The more the merrier! So, Χρόνια πολλά from me too, Koichi!

Cool! Happy birthday is Greek is like 'Much good luck/fortune/prosperity'! (right?..)

''Χρόνια πολλά'' literally means ''years many'' in Greek, kinda like banzai in Japanese.

happy birthday!

Happy Birthday man.

Happy Birthday from theGUE :) May all your days be merry and bright, and filled with silly hats!

お誕生日おめでとう!
even though I'm 3 days late -.-'

Happy belated birthday. The best birthdays are the ones where you wake up naked on a bridge with a police officer holding out the handcuffs. (^_~) I hope you had fun.

Kind of late, but still wanna say Happy Birthday Koichi.

LOL. Asian Kung-Fu Generation poster. Were you on the Tofu Records street team too? xD

I'm so sad that they are gone but then it's not so hard for me to find a Book Off in my area.

I was... also have L'arc en Ciel and Polysics posters and stickers and several extras (I was a lazy street team member). <.<;

I cut the Asian Kung-Fu Generation picture out of a magazine because I love the album art they always have, haha. So what does being on the Tofu Records street team entail? You hand out band-related stuff to people and help promote new albums? If so, that sounds like a neat job!

xD Koichi is soooo adorable in that photo! x3

Yeah, I really like his hair in this one, haha.

happy birthday!!!

Happy birthday Koichi!!
You are great!

Happy Super Related B-Day, Koichi! :D

Happy belated birthday, Koichi. I just turned 24 on Oct 29th. You're a Scorpio too, right? Hope your birthday was better than mine!