Could You Give Me Your Mouth, Not Hands?

 

I usually buy several boxes of water at a time. I especially like regular Perrier, but the last time I ordered lemon flavored Perrier by mistake! When I realised that my order was wrong on the confirmation page, I tried to go back to the previous page, but I clicked the "Buy" button instead. T_T  It was too late. On that web site, once you order something, you can't cancel it. If it were lime water, it would have been better than the lemon one. I willed my finger to click another button, but it was being silly. 

The box under the lemon's one is regular Perrier. I don't like lemon Perrier... I will have to force myself to drink it for a while. I wish it will be gone soon. 

I'm crazy about water, so my refrigerator at home is full with various types of water bottles. Now I realised that the water bottles in my fridge are very international.

The green bottle, Sanpellegrino is from Italy.
Evian is from France.
Chateldon is also France. This water is quite costly!
Voss is from Norway.

How Amazing My Workplace is!

Since two of my students were absent from my lesson, I had two hours free time on Thursday. When I was about to go to a cafe to kill time, I heard a beautiful piano melody coming from the room next to mine, so I decided to stay and listen instead.

The person who was playing the piano is one of my colleagues and the pianist who broke my piano at home the other day. Probably, her students were also absent. I sometimes go to her room to pass time, but yesterday I felt like listening to her play the piano. I read a translated book which was written by a French author while I was thinking that this music may be one of Schumann's pieces.

I realised how amazing my workplace is!

I can read a beautiful Japanese book and listen to beautiful music there. Live performance is much better than CD even if there is a wall between us. I tried to ignore the poor piano melody which was coming from the opposite room and listen to her piano playing. If I was in the same room as the pianist, I couldn't concentrate on reading the book so this distance was comfortable for me.

"Would you like to use a larger room with the grand piano?" The school staff sometimes suggest this kindly because my speciality is not the piano and I use a small room with an upright piano, but even so, I wanted to stay there to listen and so declined her suggestion.

The pianist was playing the piano very carefully so I was wondering if she had a concert coming up soon.
I had a very happy time. ^^

Liberté

Sur mes cahiers d'écolier

Sur mon pupitre et les arbres

Sur le sable sur la neige

J'écris ton nom

Sur toutes les pages lues

Sur toutes les pages blanches

Pierre sang papier ou cendre

J'écris ton nom

Sur les images dorées

Sur les armes des guerriers

Sur la couronne des rois

J'écris ton nom

Sur la jungle et le désert

Sur les nids sur les genêts

Sur l'écho de mon enfance

J'écris ton nom

Sur les merveilles des nuits

Sur le pain blanc des journées

Sur les saisons fiancées

J'écris ton nom

Sur tous mes chiffons d'azur

Sur l'étang soleil moisi

Sur le lac lune vivante

J'écris ton nom

Sur les champs sur l'horizon

Sur les ailes des oiseaux

Et sur le moulin des ombres

J'écris ton nom

Sur chaque bouffée d'aurore

Sur la mer sur les bateaux

Sur la montagne démente

J'écris ton nom

Sur la mousse des nuages

Sur les sueurs de l'orage

Sur la pluie épaisse et fade

J'écris ton nom

Sur les formes scintillantes

Sur les cloches des couleurs

Sur la vérité physique

J'écris ton nom

Sur les sentiers éveillés

Sur les routes déployées

Sur les places qui débordent

J'écris ton nom

Sur la lampe qui s'allume

Sur la lampe qui s'éteint

Sur mes maisons réunis

J'écris ton nom

Sur le fruit coupé en deux

Dur miroir et de ma chambre

Sur mon lit coquille vide

J'écris ton nom

Sur mon chien gourmand et tendre

Sur ses oreilles dressées

Sur sa patte maladroite

J'écris ton nom

Sur le tremplin de ma porte

Sur les objets familiers

Sur le flot du feu béni

J'écris ton nom

Sur toute chair accordée

Sur le front de mes amis

Sur chaque main qui se tend

J'écris ton nom

Sur la vitre des surprises

Sur les lèvres attentives

Bien au-dessus du silence

J'écris ton nom

Sur mes refuges détruits

Sur mes phares écroulés

Sur les murs de mon ennui

J'écris ton nom

Sur l'absence sans désir

Sur la solitude nue

Sur les marches de la mort

J'écris ton nom

Sur la santé revenue

Sur le risque disparu

Sur l'espoir sans souvenir

J'écris ton nom

Et par le pouvoir d'un mot

Je recommence ma vie

Je suis né pour te connaître

Pour te nommer

C'est mon mémo français. :)

Kiss Me Here

I got a message from 浮き雲 living in England the other day. :) Her name reminded me of Tokyo Jihen's guitarist because his name is also 浮雲. Although her name may not have anything to do with that guitarist at all. Another friend wrote about the singer of the group on his blog. These things made me recall their songs. 

I'll paste one of my favorite songs of theirs here. The singer wrote this song, "koko de kisu shite" which means "kiss me here" when she was a teen and it was released in 1999, but I think it is not old-fashioned still now. Actually, this singer also has a solo career.
I translated its lyrics. If you need them, please refer below.

Enjoy it!

Kiss me here
I never be able to give up on you
So never say good bye and kiss me once again
I would never shed tears in front of you
Meaning that this is to fit for you who are anarchism
The person who can put handcuffs on you like today's Sid Viciou is only me

Don't go anywhere else
I hate being alone without you
I'm seeing only you
Kiss me here right now

I know that you are looking at other girls wearing other school uniforms
Don't you feel a stinging pain around back of your head with my eyes?
I'm not kind of beautiful or gorgeous types women, but look at me

Don’t go
Plumb my ideology any time
I love your long eyelash, delicate big hands and everything
There is no one like you anywhere
I'm seeing only you
Kiss me here right now

Don't go
I hate being alone without you
I'm seeing only you
Kiss me here right now
I feel so nice 'cause you are with me now
It is certain I love you so much baby
I'll never be able to give up on you
So never say good bye and kiss me once again

My favorite place ☆

I like book stores which have huge amounts of books!

in Paris

New York Public library

While I was writing this entry, I tried to search interesting book stores and found this site.

Have fun if you like book stores!

http://www.miragebookmark.ch/most-interesting-bookstores.htm

Death and Life

The other day my close friend safely gave birth to a baby girl. Since I just had a death in my family two months ago, I was so moved by the new life that on the way home, I almost cried.  I never imagined that I would see death and life at the almost same time. It was a really beautiful day.

By the way, in Japan, if a family member dies, the family can't celebrate the coming New Year to get into mourning. According to Japanese culture, I can't send a New Year's card to my friends this year, but I'd like to keep in touch with them so I'm wondering if it's possible to send Christmas cards instead of a New Years's card. Yeah, I probably can!


I miss my friends!
I miss my special someone!


I might have exaggerated today's title compared to this topic.
Thank you for reading this gloomy topic. I'm okay.

I just felt like writing something like this today.

The Things That I Want to Forget Are Unforgettable Things

How can I forget about it?

I've been thinking about my biggest concern for seven months. 

I'm wondering if I can ever forget about it

I want to cure myself of this heartache!

神無月って・・・

神無月って神がいない月じゃん！と今日ふと思った。

なんか不吉・・・でしょ？

気になる由来は、こちら↓

「水無月」と同じく「の」を意味する格助詞。つまり「神の月」。

とか、10月に神々が出雲大社に集まり諸国にいなくなるため「神無月」になったとか、諸説色々。

英語で書くつもりだったけど、

どうしても神無月に間に合わせたくて今日は日本語で。

これも言葉の勉強だから、たまにはいいのです。

そして今日はハロウィンでしたね。

ってかハロウィンって何だっけ？収穫祭だったっけ？

イギリス人に聞いたら、

「アメリカ発祥のお祭りだからよく分からないけど、

楽しいからパーティーするんだ～」

だって。ま、いいけど・・・

で、やっぱり気になってこれも調べたところ、

「ヨーロッパを起源とする民族行事で・・・」 

おいおい！アメリカじゃないじゃん！ 

本当の国際人は、自国のことを海外に説明できる人らしいよ。

本当の国際人になるため、日本を勉強しよう思った瞬間でした。

あ、書いている間に霜月に。しまった・・・