揺蕩う

わりなくも

寝ても覚めても

恋しきか

心をいづち

やらば忘れむ

That Was my Sweet Delusion

When I was a junior high school student, I sometimes talked with my friend about how I would like to be proposed to by my special someone in the future. My friend liked cellists and hoped that a cellist would play a song by Bach as a proposal for her. I thought that might be nice. If I were her, I wanted my future special someone to play Brahms’s Intermezzo.

I guess we were kind of weird teens.

When I was talking about my favorite music with a pianist during break time at work yesterday, he started playing Brahms’s Intermezzo while saying “I like this piece.” Ohhhhh! His playing reminded me of my school life. However, it would have been more romantic if he is single and he was much younger.

My sweet delusion was a mere delusion. However, that was nice because if shows that music connects us beyond our age. This music has a romantic story which was written for Brahms’s love interest. 

Oh My Goodness!!

Since I recently got some really bad news, I've been depressed, but at last, I got a little good news from my friend yesterday. My friend told me that her child, who is a nine year old girl, dreams of becoming me! Yay!!

I've been feeling depressed so please forgive me screaming it here! I don't know why she thinks so, but those words coming from a little kid made me very happy. Thinking back now, every time I meet her, she praises me. Even though she says good things about me, I always just say “thank you.” I didn’t doubt her words, but this was a bad habit of mine. I sometimes feel that people just try to flatter me, so I can't trust their normal compliments. That's why I'm not good at praising people. While writing this entry, I recalled a proverb maybe I have written before here.

Kind words can be short and easy to say, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

I want to try to say good things honestly from now on. Words, like the ones she said to me, can be helpful to people.

What I See?

Some of my friends sometimes tell me, "You often see really interesting or odd people in the street." Yes, actually I often see various types of people as I have written about that before here.

When I was in a public restroom in Paris, two girls were putting on a makeup. Then, one of them said to me,


"Could you apply sunscreen on my back?"


"Ehhhh?! Why me? Why not your friend? Again?"


I told myself that. To tell the truth, I had the same experience in London last year. At that time, they looked like delinquent girls so I obliged to their request without complaining. This time they didn't look like that, but I thought applying something on a stranger's body may not be unusual thing in Europe. Although, I didn't have enough abilities in French to talk back to her. That's why I applied it on her back even though the upper body was almost naked.


After I got back to Japan, I told this story to my British friend.
He said, "I don't think that is normal. You met an unusual person again!!"

Is there anyone who has ever applied sunscreen on a stranger's back in a restroom?

I'm guessing that the answer is NO!

Imperfect Match

"I've loved you for so long. I will never forget you. I have been regretting that I didn't give you the rose bouquet that you wanted. I want roses to bloom again and then I want to give the rose bouquet to you."


This is a part of the lyrics from a French song called "À la claire fontaine."

I saw the movie "The Painted Veil." This French song was used in the scene where the main character died. I cried a lot because I knew the meaning of the lyrics. 

After seeing the movie, I told a French friend that the song was beautiful. However, he said the song  is for kids in France and it doesn't relate to death.

"Ehhhhh!?"

That scene and the song were a perfect match. Moreover, those lyrics are for kids? What a surprise!

Encounters During a Trip

When I go abroad by myself, I often encounter various types of people.

I thought I was used to using Paris' public transportation so I was supposed to read a book at a bookstore until a limousine bus left for the airport. After a while, I realized that I read books for too long! It was too late to go back to the hotel I stayed at by using subways. I asked where the taxi stand was at the information desk. She tried to call a taxi for me, but since I didn't have time to wait, I declined her offer.

That was a bad idea.....

There were no taxis at the taxi stand. Even though I found a taxi in a street, it already had passengers. After trying to get a taxi for 10 minutes, I gradually grew impatient. I was loudly hailing a taxi on the opposite lane. Then a fashionable old lady watching me caught a taxi and called me from a short distance, "Madam, you can take this cab!" My behavior must have stood out because it was a high status residential area. Thanks to that lady, I was able to catch the bus at the very last minute.

When I was in a trouble at the station in Paris, a French lady helped me. After we had a conversation, she gave me her business card. She runs her own French restaurant and invited me. A few days later, I went there. It was a very nice restaurant and the food was very tasty!

That's why I like travelling by myself!!

物思ひ

宵の間に 

 

いでて入りぬる 

 三日月の 

 われて物思ふ 

 ころにもあるかな

宵の間に現れて早く沈む三日月の姿のように、

心が割れてしまったような気持ちで物思いにふけるこの頃です

Soooooo Stupid!!!!

I lost my file which had some important music sheets somewhere.

I'm looking for it and am calling to as many places as I cam remember, but I've still not found it. There is no way to find it so I searched "how to look for something I lost" on the internet. In the end, I found a lot of incantations for that.


"Try looking for it while saying …..#+$*%!?&!~..... blah, blah, blah........"

Most of them are really meaningless except for one. The good information I found was that when people looking for something, people tend to look for it anti-clockwise direction in their house. How about trying to look for it in a clockwise direction?

If I lost something in my home, that may make sense. When you lose something in your house, for example a key or something, how about doing that?

Could you tell me if you did that and whether it worked or not? 

My late German teacher wrote a lot of things on those music sheets. Even if I bought the same music sheets, I can't recall everything he wrote on them and can't ask him. If anyone knows how to look for something lost, could you tell me? I really really need that!!

Last month, I forgot to go to work and this month, I lost the music sheet file. -_- How stupid I am!

I hope it is because of this hot weather. 

春雨

春雨の花の

枝より流れ来ば　

なほこそ濡れめ

香もやうつると

春雨が花の枝から滴るのならもっと濡れましょう、

花の香が移るかもしれませんゆえ

こんなことをさらっと詩にできたら素敵かも

食材を連想させてしまうけど、今日のタイトルは「春雨」