Monday, May 5, 2008
Saturday, July 7, 2007
The door of summer
Seiko Mazda was a one of the most famous Japanese idol singer.
I like this song especially lyrics.
髪を切った私に
When I cut my hair
違う女みたいと
You said I didn't look like a girl who I was
あなたは少し照れたよう
You seemed being shy a little bit
前を歩いてく
Walking in front of me
綺麗だよとほんとは
Honestly, I wanted you to say
言って欲しかった
I was beautiful
あなたはいつも”ためらい”の
You are always
ヴェールの向こうね
Over the veil of hesitation
フレッシュ！フレッシュ！フレッシュ！
Flesh! Flesh! Flesh!
夏の扉を開けて
Open the door of summer
私をどこか連れていって
Take me somewhere
フレッシュ！フレッシュ！フレッシュ！
Flesh! Flesh! Flesh!
夏は扉を開けて
Summer will open the door
裸の二人包んでくれる
And wrap two of us being naked
Monday, July 2, 2007
Harry Potter
Finally! It's been less than three weeks to go till the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". What will happen to Harry in the end of the story? Will he die or not? And what about Snape??? I am so excited! Personally I am expecting that there will be lines about Norbert the dragon (appeared in the 1st book's) in the 7th book, I am a big dragon lover like Hagrid.
Harry Potter series have a lot to do with my English study. When I was a child I loved science fictions and fantasies so much, I read Dr. Dolittle, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and hundreds of Japanese SF novels. I think learning language is similar to making myself again in another way of logic because when I think about something I use to use only Japanese language but recently I think in both English and Japanese. If a languages consists our thought, the language(words choice and way of speaking) will be our character. So when I started studying English, I wanted to produce myself in English same as I grew up in Japanese. Harry Potter series were ideal books to fill my fundamental part of English. I read all Harry Potter series(so far released) 3 times and I have been
reading aloud Harry Potter and philosopher's stone(1st book) over 30 times after Stephen Fry's audio book. I think it worked well for my English so far, but there is a problem. I am not good at TOEIC or EIKEN examinations. It's obvious, these examinations have nothing to do with hocus-pocus. I'd better try O.W.L. or N.E.W.T. lol
reading aloud Harry Potter and philosopher's stone(1st book) over 30 times after Stephen Fry's audio book. I think it worked well for my English so far, but there is a problem. I am not good at TOEIC or EIKEN examinations. It's obvious, these examinations have nothing to do with hocus-pocus. I'd better try O.W.L. or N.E.W.T. lol
Friday, May 25, 2007
I am sorry, Max!
Ikebukuro is my ex-working place. It`s located northern part of Tokyo and is so called "entrance of Saitama prefecture" because a lot of rail roads are running from Ikebukuro to Saitama prefecture. Last weekend, I had a meeting with my bad friend and went to a Chinese restaurant which is near by north exit of Ikebukuro station. Recently Ikebukuro is famous for the Chinese community that includes Chinese grocery stores and restaurants. When we were hanging around in Ikebukuro my bad friend said to me "I read an article that there is a restaurant which serves dog meat around here, so what do you say?", The restaurant`s entrance was on a tiny alleyway and we went down a staircase to the basement. I asked to a restaurant staff "Do you serve dog meat?" and he said "Yes, sir". The dog meat we ordered was a spicy soup with chopped dog meat. At first the dog meat had the flavour I`ve never experienced but after a couple of scoops I began to get use to it. This time I can`t rate this restaurant properly so no rate. If you were interested in dog meat, why don`t you go to Ikebukuro?
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Mini Bruce Willis
His first appearance was a Japanese TV show. When I saw him for the first time, I couldn`t breath at all. Look at his "masculine" shoulders! Recently he maid his short movies and showing them on his Myspace blog... enjoy! :-)
Mini Die Hard : The battle with Hans
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
The beginning
Sometimes I am asked why I started English study. Actually I don`t have a particular reason for that so I always said it was my new year resolution.
My English-study life has started since Jan 2002. Before the time, I was a normal Japanese guy who thought I could manage the conversation in English if it was necessary. It`s a typical misconception for a Japanese guy who works for a software company because programmers can program in English code therefore I can speak English.
Whereas it was a terrible mistake. On the first day at Nova I got a level check exam and an Australian girl was in charge. We were packed in an enclosure and she showed me a couple of pictures which I was instructed to explain the situation in English. I got extremely nervous... and in the end she said "YOU ARE SEVEN BE desu!" Oh my gosh!! (T_T) I had thought I could have been Lv6 at least, I was devastated. But of course I could not complain about it in English, I was a 7B.
Why Japanese people get so nervous when they have a situation speaking English? This is only from my experience but... Our Japanese start studying English at junior high school first year(12 years old). The first-ever English sentence we learnt was "This is a pen" and the teacher snap the pencil in two and said "This was a pen". Then we applied the sentence to "I am not a pen", "We are not pen" etc etc... Thus we learnt English sentences like mathematical formulas like "One plus one equal two". At the end of junior high school our English lessons got more and more complicated. We had to use past perfect sentence, past perfect progressive sentence and future perfect. "The more grammatically difficult sentence is the cooler" that was typical our perspective. That meant English was not a language but a logic and that image made English highly academic. Therefore when I heard the English sentences which were pronounced by native English speaker, it sounded like bellow.
I learnt difficult words and sentences picked up from News Week or New York Times by Japanese English-teachers but I was not use to hearing casual conversations and slang. So they sound like academical spell. That`s why I got extremely nervous when I joined Nova.
(To be continued...)
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
I made my food blog
Because of too much inappropriate posts, my food contents had to migrate to another place. Plz visit my foodie blog below.
http://foodiekawasaki.blogspot.com/
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