tennis

I will play tennis nearby park tomorrow. So I have to get up 5:00AM tomorrow morning. I signed up for the court from 6:00AM to 8:00AM. I usually get up at 6:30 and listen to the english radio program. Although I try to stay awake, I often fall asleep. It is good to get up early in the morning because I can use efficiently much time the day. It will be long day tomorrow positively.

English training

Next sunday, a man is coming to our office from US. He is a person of technical support. Our company became a resellar of his company's product in Japan. He is coming to Japan to train us. Of course, he can't speak Japanese, and we talk with in English. It would be a free English lesson! I'll enjoy it.

DVD review

The Gift
Cate Blanchett
The heroine has supernatural power. By reading cards, she tell someone's future or somthing. After all, she sould solve a case. But I don't want supernatural power. I don't see dead men nor get into a great deal of trouble. I'm busy with my own thing.

Session 9
This is a thrilling psycho horror film. I remember the music was hardly used in the film. That enhanced the horror. I had a terrible nightmare after I saw this film.

Truth or Consequences, N.M.
Vincent Gallo, Mykelti Williamson, Kiefer Sutherland
This film is like Gang&Road movie. It was a painful and lonely movie.

tennis

I got a tennis racket today. Because I will play tennis nearby park in fall. The park is public park and inhabitants of the ward can use the tennis court and baseball field in the park. In order to use the facility, we have to apply for the member of the ward. The member's card was issued last week and a tennis racket is in my hand. I'm ready. I will play tennis this Thursday. I'm looking forward to this Thursday coming.

prepare against disaster

I was given a helmet and a cotton work glove from my company. They are preparations against disaster. Long ago, on September 1, the strong earthquake hit Tokyo. Since then, every year on September 1, we Japanese carry out the emergency drill. These days, many earthquake hit Tokyo. Of cource, it wasn't a devastating earthquake. But preparing against disaster is good. I hope this helmet protect me.

typhoon

The typhoon is approaching. Heavy rain is beating against a window and strong wind loose a window outside our room now. However I like typhoon knowing that it may sound imprudent. Because it seems like before the festival and it is exciting. Every time the typhoon is approaching I hope that I couldn't go work tomorrow morning due to interruption of train service. Every time I hope it, I can't get my desire.

Nintendo DS

Finally, I got a Nintendo DS which was a popular game console in Japan today. I'm not a gamer and never have game console yet. But I wanted it because the software for adults was sold. I bought the software named "DS brain training for adults" with DS. The software imposes some daily trainings on us. It seems the daily training gets active our brain which ages after 20. We can check our brain age with the software. For your information, my brain age was 30. It was 2 years younger than I really was. I was relieved. But I will train everyday so as not to age.

natto

I like natto with rice very much. Natto is fermented soybeans, and smells powerfuly. If I didn't grew up eating natto since a small child, I probably would dislike natto. I often eat natto with rice when I feel it's a pain to make my dinner. It is a simple but nice dinner for me, also it is cheap. I appreciate someone's courage who ate nermented smell bad soybeans a long time ago.

auction

I put things on Yahoo auction for the first time. When I went to parents' house, I took some pictures of the table wares which my parents got a present. My mother and I plan to place them on a flea market in fall. Before then, I tried to put them on the auction because I have nothing to lose. If they are sold, I let you know in this blog. Hepefully something will be sold.

walk

I went for a walk because it was a nice day today. There are 2 walking trail near my house. I took a stroll along one walking trail, then I went out of the way to a side road. There are many paths in Setagaya while the streets are set out in a grid in foreign cities. It is hard to go through all the paths. Every time I took for a walk, I find something new. So is today. I found a park where was near my house in fact. However, of course, I haven't been there yet. There were a lot of trees and much green in the park. It was nice because it wasn't artificial. I found cast-off skin of a cicada.

DVD review

12 MONKEYS
Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt
The story was that a man try to save human being. He can come and go between the future and the past. So he flies to the past and let a female doctor know that a lot of people die because of a bacteria in the future. But he couldn't. It may be fate and nobody can change fate, I guess. Life might be only temporary.

UNBREAKABLE
Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson
The unbreakable man cracked the cases, which were airline crash, train derailment, fire. All of these was terrible accidents and suvivor was only one, the unbreakable man. The criminal was a poor man with congenital disease. Ridiculous obsession is a horror.

HEAVEN
Cate Blanchett
I am a big fan of Cate Blanchett. She plays an amazing range of roles. She was like a tottaly deferent person every movie she apears in. Additionally, she enhances the depth of the movie. Also, this painful love story has beautiful visuals. I guess the lovers go to heaven.

snap election

A snap election is going to be held at 9.11 in Japan. I went to a election once before. But I couldn't be interested in politics till now. It felt that the election was an afair of other people even though I have a right to vote. However, I am going to vote in the next election. The indiference wouldn't change anything.

LOTO6

I sometimes buy a lottery ticket. Especially I am suppose to buy a kind of something jumbo lottery ticket. It is a lot of fun to plan my life after I win a lottery. Today I bought 3 lottery tickets named LOTO 6. You can pick 6 figures from the figures 1 to 43. I often select the figure of my birthday. Of course, I have never won the LOTO 6. No, I have won it once. However the winnig price was just 6,000 yen. It can't hold a candle to the total amount that I had bought. But I couldn't win the lottery if I don't buy it. I will continue to buy lottery to dream of making a fortune at one stroke.

today's dinner

Today, he and I made spaghetti for our dinner. That is "the spaghetti green perila sauce". There are meny green perila in my parents' garden, I got a lot them yesterday. First, I chopped garlic and he mushed up pine nut, then green perila, garlic, pine nut, olive oil, salt and pepper was mixed with the electric blender. Spaghetti was just dressed with this sauce. Green spaghetti was done. It is best eaten for summer.

DVD review

[TAKING LIVES]
Angelina Jolie(FBI agent), Ethan Hawke(murderer)
The murderer have brought up as he wasn't loved by his mother. One day he killed a boy who has the same size and shape as his and he lived as the boy for a while. Since then, he continued to take other's lives. I have also a desire that I live as other's life. But as for me, I don't kill others but I just want to play in the movie or something.

[American Rhapsody]
Nastassja Kinski(mother:Margit), Scarlett Johansson(daughter:Suzanne)
Hungarian family get separated by the asylum to America. Because the youngest baby couldn't escape from Hungary. After 6 years, the little daughter was reunited with her family members in America. As she grew up, she want to know about herself. She went back to Hungary one day. The movie make me think about the family, culture, history.

I stayed at parents' house yesterday. As I was awakened by my boyfriend, we went for a walk early this morning. I usually just have an overnight stay at parents' house these days at new year's day or on parents' birthday and so on. I went to the junior highschool where I had gone to before with him. The school is a long distance from parents' house. At that time, it took about 30 minutes to the school. It was a long way as what I thought it was. However, I surprised that the beautiful green countryside still remained. I had forgotten that there are rich natural environment near my parents' house. It was a pleasant feeling like when I was traveling. On my way home, I met a pretty cat. The temperamental cat didn't turn to me.

Installation of traffic signal

I came across the installation of traffic signal on my way to work this morning. I had seen it up close for the first time. The signal was bigger than I thougt. One of the three lights was much bigger than my face. The signal in Japan has three lights, that is blue, yellow, red starting from left. Each meaning was, blue:go ahead, yellow:caution, red:stop. The signals had replaced by the new one which was used LED from around a year ago. We were now able to see the signals clearly even on a sunny day. I guess LED lights could conserve energy also.

iTune

The Music Store of iTune which is the software of Apple computer launched a service of selling songs in Japan these days. I visited the store today. In the store, it was sold for 150 yen per song. The case I want to buy just one song in the album happen frequently. In a case like that, I had to buy the album until now. However, it won't be necessary to waver between buying and not-buying from now. It is wonderful! I need an iPod next time!

dull boss

My boss can't make a dicision and blames others when thing go wrong. That is, a poor boss. He has worked over 20 years in this company. My friends said to me before "You had better work with highly capable colleagues and bosses." I also want to work with such people but things are not going well. My friend who advised me so quitted a famous ad agency a few months ago and he has run his own buisiness. I suppose he can find excellent staff.

French restaurant

I went to dinner with my boy friend near my house. It was a french restaurant. I ate french dinner for the first time in several years. The menu we ate were...
appetizer) vegetable comport / beef pate
soup) cold tomato soup / cold onion cream soup
main) sea-bream poele with red-wine sauce / grilled guinea fowl with walnut sauce
dessert) melon / pudding
I'm sorry but I forgot to take photos of these nice plate. When I noticed that, there was just dessert on our table. All dishes were good and great-looking. Breads were hand-made at the restaurant and also delicious. However the dinner was so nice that we overeated tonight. I will eat less than I usually does tomorrow.

disc

I went to orthopedic hospital today since last Friday when I had a MRI check at the hpspital. The result was that the pain of my neck have never become well because my disc was wrong. Oh my God! The wrong disc of my neck was black in the MRI film, and the good disc was grey. The doctor said the solution was exercises and inproving blood circulation. By doing these things, pain will weaken. I have hardly pains now, but when I bend my neck backward or right side I have a little bit pain. I suppose insufficient exercise is the root of all evil. I have my mind set on playing tennis in fall.

finished watching "24"

I finished watching "24" on DVD today. This week was the week of "24". Terrorist in the "24" or other movie says the same thing "Some sacrifices are unavoidable for changing the world.". But the terrorist's daughter is an exeption. It is a controdictory theory. However, even though the terrorist can kill his daughter, it can't change the world. I think everyone is important. I can't survive on a hate but a happy future. By the way, the DVD of "24 series 4" is on sale September 2. I will go to the rental DVD store and have not slept enough about that time.

movies I watched today

I watched 3 movie titles on DVD today.
"BASIC"
It was the story you find out the criminal who killed the Army instructor.　Although suspects deposed what happened one day during the military training, each evidence was little bit different respectively. Finally, there was a surprise ending in the movie.
"21 gram"
Man is lightened by 21 gram when you die. This was the phrase which the leading charactor narrated in the last. The weight of man's spirit is 21 gram?
"American Splendor"
It was the story that the common man's dramatic life. That is... All life is dramatic and exiting. Fact is stranger than fiction.

orthodontist in August

I went to see the orthodontist today. The treatment method started from last time was that a small rubber band was used. I have to hang a rubber band to upper tooth and lower back tooth except the time when I ate something. The mouth became to be hard to open because of the small rubber band. This time, the treatment was a little changed. The placement hooking the rubber band was changed. My mouth hardly open as I wear the rubber band there. So I hook it only when I sleep at night. As I leave, the orthodontist said to me "It is almost done.Keep it up!".

amazon

I sometimes buy books at amazon.co.jp. Of cource, I also like a not-online bookstore and often go there to browse books. However, amazon is intended for the time you have already decided the book you want. This time, I tried to sell a game soft for kids for the first time. I happened to discover a software for kids computer was sold out at amazon. As I check it at Yahoo auction, it was cheaper than at amazon. So I tried to resaell the software I bought at Yahoo auction at amazon. I wish it could be sold soon.

My friend came back to Japan

My highschool classmate came back to Japan from Shanghai. She had gone to Shanghai to study Pekingese at a unversity in Shanghai about 2-3 years ago. Before she had been HongKong to study Cantonese. She says that she like Cantonese or Pekingese because these language is beautiful as a sound. However, in April this year, the anti-Japan demonstration happened in Shanghai near her house. I emailed to her worrying about her safety. It was written that she felt betrayed by China in reply to my email. I was sorry to hear the news of the riot. She had said that she often asked "Where are you from?" or "What's your nationality?" at that time and answered "I'm a Japanese." proudly. It's a pity that Japan can't maintain friendly relations between Japan and neighboring country China. I wish both nation could lead Asia cooperatively in the future.

Kanazawa

I went to Kanazawa to give a demonstration for a university today. I made it and felt certain that the university was potential customer. The problem happened on the way home. The Haneda Airport broke down for 1 hour because of the power cut after I left for Kanazawa this morning. The accident caused many delays of the flights for Haneda Airport. As expected, my flight had delayed. I had to wait at the Komatsu Airport in Kanazawa for 1 hour half! After 1.5 hour, I thought I could board. However, it started to have thunder over the Komatsu Airport. It came down to me waiting for more 30 min. After all, I flied out of the airport behind 2 hour. I ate Ankoromochi bought for the suvenir. It was so sweet and good!

coworker's child

I met my coworker's child after a long time. He came to my office with his mother because his mother who was my cowarker's wife came to have anual physical examination at the health center near my office. He is going on 2 years old. A child grows up very soon. Although he was a baby when I met him previous time, he became a child this time. He was shy with me first, but he was gradually getting used to me. We watched "Shark Tale" on DVD and play with a ball until she came back to my office from the physical examination. Then my coworker, his wife, his son and I went to lunch to the nearby restaurant. My coworker's boy looked pretty much the same as his father, especially their eyes was a carbon copy. His wife told that her son resembled to her husband in his old photo of his childhood. I wished I had a child. Whenever I met a pretty child, I think so.