I'll let myself go with the flow

There are only four days left in this year!!

I'll leave Tokyo to escape from the stress of daily life and
to make clean riddance of my concern for a while.


There's nothing I can do about my problems,
so I might as well go with the flow next year.


Happy holidays♪

Amour Impossible

Je te demande pas plus.

On ne bâtit un bonheur que sur un fondement de désespoir. 

Je crois que je vais pouvoir me mettre à construire.

OSEF!!!

Les Jours Tristes

Fais que demain soit une journée ensoleillée

I Found The Reason Why The Mona Lisa is So Popular Around the World

 




"It's hard to understand what her countenance shows. 
That's why we are attracted by the Mona Lisa."


My friend said that, but I didn't think that it was the only reason that explains why she is so famous.
I had never understood its attraction.
Listening to the explanation from an interpreter at the Louvre,
I  finally understood why. The following is what I learned.

When Leonardo da Vinci was 65 years old, he moved from Italy to Paris,
and only brought with him three important paintings.
One of them was the Mona Lisa, shrouded in mystery even to this day.
In fact, most artworks works that we call masterpieces are still veiled in mystery.
That's why they became famous. (ah, I got it!)
There are so many hypotheses about the model used for the Mona Lisa.

What He Didn't Need to Tell

When I was a freshman at university, I was so excited to study new languages.

At the first Italian class, the Italian teacher said,
"When we talk together with people who are from many different countries,
we end up speaking English. So I think the most important language is English."



......................



-_-;




The semester had already started at that time and I couldn't change the course.
I had to learn Italian with such low motivation for two years
so I can't remember anything I learnt at all.

Not only because of this reason, but this is one of the reason why I study English.

English is very convenient language.

Farewell Party :(

My close friend has to move to very far  away at the end of this month.

I cooked many dishes and baked a chocolate cake for her farewell party. 

 

I usually don't curl the croissant's dough tidily so some cheese always spills out, but this croissant is always popular with my guests. (*^-ﾟ)vｨｪｨ♪


I had yet to decorate a Christmas tree with ornaments so I decorated it in a hurry before my friends came. (･o･*)=3 ﾌｰｩｰ
I often hung out with her and another close friend. I'll miss her....

Earthquakes Frequently Occur in Japan

Earthquakes frequently occur these days.
Because of that, I think my senses for detecting an earthquake have become less sharp than before.

I sometimes notice an earthquake by looking at when the light hanging from the ceiling starts swaying.

The alert system of my apartment immediately warns us with the loud sounds when any earthquake with a seismic intensity of 3.0 or more on Japanese earthquake scale is expected to occur.
It usually starts a countdown from ten to zero.
The sounds is so loud that it always scares me.
The other day, it said



"The earthquake is coming.       ZERO!"




Huh??!! Zero?!



I thought the epicenter was close to my place, and that there wasn't enough time for a countdown.




I hate earthquakes!

Giving an Apple

"Giving an apple to a teacher is a tired cliche."

This was used an example sentence

when I learnt the new word "cliche" the other day. 

I thought if apples can bring me a perfect score effortlessly, 

I have to scoop up apples!

After that, I found an article saying 

"Nowadays, some people give teacher ipad or ipad 

for students instead of apples. 

Oh, that makes sense!

My Love ♪

She is a off-key singer, but I love Charlotte's voice!

I dislike my voice!

About Tattoos in Japanese

It is well known in Japan that foreigners often get wrong or strange kanji tattoos on their body.
The strangest tattoos which I've ever seen are :
台所 (kitchen) 読書感想文 (a description of my impression after reading a book) and so on.

I laughed at a tattoo I saw last night for the first time in a while.
The man got his name tattooed in hiragana on his chest,
but the form of its hiragana is too terrible! It looks like as if a very small kid wrote it poorly.
みどり is green and his name, but it's usually a name for a girl in Japan.

Getting a wrong kanji tattoo is out of the question of course.
If people want to get a tattoo, I would strongly suggest to them that they should ask native people to check not only the spelling but also how beautiful the from is, before they do.

For your information.
In Japan, people who have tattoos are not allowed to go in a public hot spring and swimming pool because tattoos are still believed to be a symbol of Japanese Mafia.

It Was a Long Distance

I traveled through France and came back home. 

Thanks to this trip, I finally found the reasons why I like Paris and 

why the Mona Lisa is so popular around the world. 

I've been to Paris several times and seen the painting, Mona Lisa, a few times,

but I had never understood the reason until now.

It's a long story so I'll write about it next time. =)