空虚

我が恋は 

 むなしき空に 

 満ちぬらし 

 思ひやれども 

 行く方もなし

私の恋は むなしい空に満ちているようです

いくらあなたを恋しく思っても 

思いのやり場はありません

あなたの心は他の色で染まっているのです

Impure Motives

How do you keep your motivation for studying someting?

Unfortunately, my motivation for English is from a bitter experience from the past. On the other hand, one of my friends who studies Japanese has a beautiful motive. He can't smoothly communicate with his special someone in Japanese, so he studies Japanese very hard. Recently, his Japanese ability is getting better rapidly.

Our motives are very different and I think that my motives are impure. Compared to him, my motive is so trifling that it doesn't deserve to write here.

I wonder if my studying is making rapid progress when I have a special someone who speaks English.... It can be!

The power of love is terrific.

Strange and Instructive? English Sentences I Learned

When studying English, I sometimes find strange or interesting sentences.

The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.
The more I realize I don’t know, the more I want to learn.

Albert Einstein

The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know.
The more I realize I don’t know, the more I keep away from my desk.

Ari


From my text book:
1) I was abducted and assimilated by aliens.
2) Condemning her husband’s laziness, she considered punitive measures.
3) The child was so violent that it took four adults to constrain her.

These sentences have no practical use, but I regretfully memorize only such sentences easily. I told a native English speaker that I memorize a lot strange words. He was surprised at one of the words and said this was his second time ever to hear that word in his life. The word is so terrible that I can’t write it here.

Someone said this: you can’t concentrate on a topic unless you stop paying attention to grammar and can speak languages unconsciously. Capability of doing two things at the same times: singing a song while taking a shower, talking about something while driving, is based on unconsciousness. The most important thing to produce this “unconsciousness” is repetition.

Oh, by writing this entry I memorized the sentences perfectly, so I may be able to use them unconsciously on a planet somewhere if I’m abducted by aliens!

遥かなる・・・

夕暮れは　

雲のはたてに　

ものぞ思ふ　

あまつそらなる　

人をこふとて

夕暮れになると 雲の果てを眺めて  物思いにふける 

空高く  手の届かないところにいる 

君を想って

今日は台風     籠の中の蟻

au secours.....

j'ai sommeil

Confession

Last week, I went out for dinner with two colleagues after the job.
We were talking about some mishaps at school. The school I work at had some problems this summer. 

First of all, one of colleagues sent some teacher’s schedule to every students by her mistakes. I guess the number of the students was about 300. Actually, the computer has such a program. When the school needs to notify some information to students, it is supposed to be sent easily. The person who sent the message felt very sorry and said, 

“I wondered what the button was for and clicked...” 

I couldn’t believe that she clicked before confirming what the button was for, but I understood her urge.

Secondly, some computers didn’t work for a while, and office workers couldn’t find its cause. After a while, those were restored and are still working smoothly. The school had problems on a computer this summer. Then, one of two said, 

“I’m not sure, but I guess the cause of the second problem was me. I was in a very bad situation at that time, but I managed to fix it up.” 

According to him, one day he couldn’t finish his job in a day and took out the computer to his house. The day after he took it out, the accident happened. That’s why the computer spread some virus to others. Meaning that he looked at obscene sites. A general rule at the school, taking out a computer is not allowed. Another woman and I were lost for words, but after all we laughed and were saying “stupid!” 

 
Although it was not a big deal because those computers don’t have an important information except student’s addresses.” Even though it was such a topic, he always talks about everything fluently as if he has seen a normal movie. Our conviction that the cause was him was confirmed. Of course we will never expose his secret. Probably :)

目に見えぬ色

色なしと

人や見るらむ

昔より

深き心に

染めてしものを

これには色がないとあなたは見るでしょうか、

本当は昔から深く思う気持ちで染められているのです

染められていない生地とともにこの歌を贈るなんて、粋ですね

凹凸 are KANJI!!

Unbelievable!

I had been thinking 凹凸 were a kind of world common sign such as ♀♂, but last week I learned that those are Kanji!


凹凸 read : OU TOTSU means : Irregularity, Rough, Ruggedness...

If it was in reverse 凸凹, you can call it DEKOBOKO, which has the same meaning as 凹凸, but this reverse way of reading and writing are not proper. I guess that it's used more in conversation. 

Japanese people sometimes use it and it is a very common word. Perhaps, many of them use it as a sign like what I did. 

Do they look like kanji to you?

They didn't look like it to me!