What was the best thing that happened this year?
What was the worst thing that happened this year?
What is your resolution for the new year?
2013-12-31
2013-12-28
Tropical Island :D
I have to practice 23 pieces of music in a month.
It's too many, isn't it?
By the time these projects are finished, a tropical island will be waiting for me!
Ahhh, I miss warm places!
waku waku kyaha!! :D
2013-12-25
No Holidays for Christmas Here in Japan
We have no holidays for Christmas
even though there is such a illumination.
Can you read the message in this picture?
If you use your cell phone, it'll be easy to read.
kore omoshiroi
2013-12-23
Photos Impairing Memory?
"Eyes are better at mental snapshots than cameras, study suggests."
Founding this headline on CNN, I knew I had been right all along.
Nowadays, you can take tons of photos with your digital camera,
as opposed to an analogue, without even realizing.
The statistical base is small, but I agree with in part.
Experiences which stimulate the five senses leave us with more powerful memories.
The researcher said,
"People just don't pay attention to what they're even looking at,
like just capturing the photo is more important than actually being there."
This holds true with regard to tourists.
They tend to focus too much on talking photos, especially my father!
He brought a single-lens reflex camera and a normal camera to France and
seemed busy taking photos during his trip.
I see such people at sightseeing spots all the time.
After feeling that I don't want to become one of them, I stopped taking so many photos.
When I last went to France, I took only two pictures with my cell phone.
koredake... sukunaiiii :D
Although I know that it will be hard to keep all my memories in several decades.
2013-12-18
Capillaries
The length of a human's capillaries is about two and a half times as long as
the circumference of the Earth. It's very long, isn't it?
The exhibition called "the mysterious human body" used to take place in Japan a long time ago.
It has currently been banned from taking place because of the ethical issue.
We could touch real human's organs processed in a special way.
I don't know why I didn't hesitate to touch them at all.
A kidney was very heavy. Thinking back now, there was an ethical issue surely,
but it was interesting. I wish they could have it again by using fake organs
that look exactly like the real ones. It's obviously gross though!
Having that exhibition is banned in Japan, France and some other countries,
but I think it is taking place in New York now.
I found a card of hand's capillaries, which I bought there, yesterday and
it reminded me of this topic.
I think if you see the picture, you would think it's gross!
I might have been a weird teenager for buying such a card.
2013-12-17
An Air Cleaner on Her Back!
As you know, China has a serious air pollution problem now.
The other day, a woman was spotted walking
while she was carrying an air cleaner on her back in Shanghai.
As the air quality outside was terrible, she had refitted the machine to be portable.
When I had a layover in Beijing two months ago, I only stayed there for a few hours.
Arriving at my destination, I felt some pain in my lungs at night for two days.
On my way back home, I had to stay in Beijing for about 10 hours.
After coming back home, I felt a lot of pain in my lungs for a week, especially at night.
I thought I might have caught a cold, but my friend who came back to Japan from Beijing had the same experience. We still don't know what the real cause of our pain was though.
Come to think of it, when the pilot was able to land safely at Beijing airport even though a lot of flights were cancelled because of low visibility due to air pollution, the passengers in the plain applauded. Thus, the situation is really bad.
2013-12-13
Learning English is like learning Japanese!
When I look up English words in a dictionary, I sometimes can't read the kanji
and have to look up them in a kanji dictionary again.
My cousin living in New Zealand also said,
"I'm studying a lot of kanji here!"
The kanji used in a dictionary can be old fashioned.
Maybe I should study Japanese before studying English!
2013-12-11
Beauty Brain's Fanny?!
I found a hair salon named "Beauty Brain's Fanny."
I didn't know the last word and looked up it in a dictionary.
The meanings that I found were indecent. O_o;
I couldn't find a suitable meaning for a hair salon.
I guess it was just a mistake, but they might actually be able to make my brain beautiful.
If the name doesn't make sense, maybe I should submit this picture on this website.
These were my favorite ones. lol
2013-12-09
Panda Diplomacy
China regarded as important countries, especially to trading partners.
Those countries have to pay about one million US dollars a year, per panda to China.
Even if rental pandas gave birth to a baby in your country,
the baby panda belongs to China in a rule so that
the country has to pay additional rental fees.
When a panda died a few years ago in Japan,
we had to pay five hundred thousand US dollars to China in compensation.
A few years ago, when President Barack Obama continued meeting with Dalai Lama,
China got mad and took back two pandas from the Sates.
If I'm not mistaken, there is no pandas in America now.
I admit that pandas are soooo cute, but to pay for them is obviously waste of money!
2013-12-07
2013-12-06
Appearances Are Decptive
There was a rumor in my workplace that one of my co-workers,
who looks quiet and nice, actually has fierce temper.
I had a chance to talk with her the other day and I realized, rather than having a fierce temper,
or she sometimes acts a bit strange.
For example, arguing with her husband one night, she ran away out of her apartment and
hit the building fire alarm.
The residents had to evacuate.
In another squabble, she had an urge to push the emergency button
to stop the train at the platform.
Although I think pushing a fire alarm is also terrible.
I forgot to ask her why she has such a strange tendency.
Does anyone know why she does this?
I have no idea.
Maybe she just wants to get her husband's attention.
In any case, that's quite strange!
2013-12-05
The Negative Effect of using a PC
We can easily type kanji by using PCs or cell phones,
but it's getting harder to remember kanji when we write them out by hand.
This is currently an issue in Japan.
Do computers negatively affect native English speakers
when they write things out by hand?
Is it harder to remember spelling
when you write things out by hand?
I was wondering about them and asked to Native English speakers.
They said that there is a negative effect that comes from using a PC,
but it isn't as big or visible as it is in Japan with Kanji.
About 2000 kanji are used commonly in Japan.
As you know, kanji has two ways of reading so
we have to memorize at least about 4000 ways of reading.
Hmm... I doubt I know all of them!
2013-12-02
What my friend who is going to get married soon said
One of my friends who is the most beautiful lady whom I've ever met
invited me to her wedding ceremony. I'm really looking forward to it!!
She said, "it's easy to decide to get married with a partner
when I feel that I would be able to be happy with him,
but I've also felt that I want to be with him through even the troubling or painful times
and deal with them together.
That's why I decided to get married to him!"
I'm sure she will have a happy marriage! I'm so happy for her.
I wanted to write about something happy today because the last entry was too gloomy. :P
2013-12-01
Medical Checkup
I had a medical checkup for the first time in two years two weeks ago.
I got the result and found that there was a big problem.
I was so shocked at this result and almost cried on the train on my way home
that I pretended to read a book to make an excuse of my red eyes.
It is not a life or death matter, but I bet my parents will cry much more than I did.
Therefore, I can't tell this to my parents or friends yet.
By the way, I think having internet friends can be good under such the circumstance.
Since our relationship is not so close even though we sometimes talk with each other,
we can talk such a topic and don't need to worry each other too much.
It's strange to write about this here even though I can't tell it to my parents.
I just don't want to make people around me sad.
It seems to be impossible to change this situation,
but I think I'll be able to accept and deal with this.
That's it! I'm totally okay now. :)
It's the last month of the year.
I'd like to make this month wonderful to end this year off.
All's well that ends well!
Guys!
Please get a medical checkup at least once a year even if you are young!
Enjoy your life!
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