Amazing!!!!

I didn't know about this and was impressed by it!!
If you have time, try to take a look!
If you want to skip the beginning, you can start from 6:24.
It will become common shortly. Or has it already become common in America?
I liked that he pinched a file on a piece of paper and moved it to his PC with his fingers.

Super Moon with an Airplane

It's super moon tonight. It's cloudy here in Japan 

so it'll be difficult to look at full moon. 

I'm going to post the link from last year.

It's beautiful, isn't it?

The Day Came

I might have been dimly foreseeing that the day will come someday
, and the day finally came tonight.




His huge disservice really made me weep.

憂き身を窶す

有明の

つれなく見えし

別れより

暁ばかり

憂きものはなし

As our society has become more convenient, have we lost something important?

The other day, I discussed this topic with a British man

who has been living in Japan for a long time. 

In Europe, a lot of stations don't have an escalator or an elevator so 

people help each other when someone has heavy luggage. 

Every time I see that situation, I'm impressed by that.

On the other hand, most stations have an elevator or an escalator in Japan. 

So we don't have a habit of helping people who are in slight trouble. 

When Japanese companies get complaints from customers, 

they try to improve it as soon as possible to make more profits than other companies. 

I think European people still have this habit so they don't need escalators or 

elevators and don't complain about it even if it's an inconvenience.

The most shocking news was that since coming to Japan, 

the British friend stopped helping people who are in trouble 

because he doesn't want to stand out helping people. 

He said Japanese people are really kind, but they don't know how to help people smoothly 

and just don't have experience helping very much.

That makes sense.

A service has become more advanced and has made society more convenient. 

Instead of that, we might have lost something important. 

When you lose your way in Japan and you are just looking at a map, people rarely help you,
but people will help you if you approach them and ask them for help.

At top of BARNEYS NEW YORK in Ginza

I had really fantastic night last night. :)

His username means "Die" in Japanese

I got a message from a person named SHINE!!!

His name surprised me very much because, 

as I already wrote in the title, "shine" means "die" in Japanese.

The way they are pronounced is different, but their spelling is exactly the same.

If the word was not capitalized, I might not have noticed it.

The meaning, capitalized letters and three exclamation marks looked very angry 

and made me laugh. 

I hope he uses the word to mean shine.
He is not a Japanese learner, he should not know this meaning.

There were many names that he could have chosen, 

but he chose that one, SHINE!!!

It is a Season When Molesters Show Up

You may not believe this, but this is a true story in Japan.


During this time, as the weather turns warm, 

schools teachers would warn the students to be careful of gropers or perverts. 

I'm not very sure about other schools, but at least in my school, 

teachers used to warn us about them every year. 

A typical groper wears a spring coat and nothing underneath. 

On dark streets, you can easily find signs with warning 

"Be careful of molesters" during this period in Japan.

I guess a lot of girls and women have ran into various type of molesters in Japan. 

I usually can sense it if a person might be a pervert, and I avoid them quickly. 

However, my instincts sometimes do not work.

One afternoon a man in a wheelchair had gotten stuck in front of the company I work for. 

Some people helped him before I could help, so I walked away, 

but I felt someone in a wheelchair following me. 

I was not sure if he was a pervert, but I kept away from him just in case.

Since I kept feeling something weird, I went back to the company. 

After 30 minutes, I went out, but he was still there. 

After I did some maneuvers, I noticed that it was unusual that he was still following me 

so I ran away from him. Usually, I would make sure that I don't walk ahead of a pervert, 

but that day, I thought he couldn't move faster than me and I ran away. 

After running several meters, I looked back. Then, I saw him standing right behind me. 

The person who can't walk and who needs people's help 

when he got stuck in the street was running and was standing!!
I became scared and rushed into a small shop to seek refuge. 

Even though nothing happened and he didn't touch my body, 

he was the strangest of perverts whom I've met before.
I'm usually very good at fleeing from them. haha :)

Romantic?!

A Japanese violinist composed a short piano piece named "Dolce Vita"
and asked his girlfriend to play with him.

They started playing the music together, but the song was endless.
After they had repeated the piece a few times, she asked, "What's this?"

The name of the piece means "Sweet Life" in Italian, and
it was endless because it was symbolic of the endless life he wished to live with her.
This was his proposal to his girlfriend, but she didn't understand Italian and
didn't realize what he meant until he explained.

The music sheet was painted with some colors very beautifully.

I thought his proposal was romantic, but my friends said,
"If she didn't understand what he meant, it was no longer romantic."

She is right.

Hypocrites

Hypocrites can be worse than evil people.

Sometimes you're worse off with just a tiny sliver of hope

than you're with no hope at all.

Don't give me false hope, please.

World of Nothing

If I'm not mistaken,"World of Nothing" this is from a buddhist lesson.

The "world of nothing" refers to the state of being to examine 
one's own heart without being affected by anything from the outside.

I've been thinking about things that worry me a lot recently.
I may achieve spiritual enlightenment soon. lol

My Heart Beats a Thousand Times a Minute

An American man wrote a card to one of his relatives who is hospitalized.

"...... its heart beats a thround times a minutes."


Looking at his card, a Japanese woman said,

"You shouldn't write such a thing!
If human's hearts beat a thousand times a minute, people would die
and it brings bad luck to him."


That's right! lol

In any case, that sounds too romantic for me.