what I want to do before I die

At first, I tell you that I am in good condition and I suppose that I have much time before I die. However I have a lot of things I want to do. One of them is lerning English to expand opprtunity to communicate someone who speak English on the earth. I have a passion for knowledge and many of what I want to do are learning something. For example, learning stock investment, taxation system, pension system, cooking, nutrition, law and so on. Each of them is closely related with my life. Whenever I think about what I want to do before I die I feel my life time is too short to do that. One of this year's resolution is to make best use of time. This aim are set to achieve my this end. Therefore, I have a lot of things to do everyday. After I wake up, take a bath reading aloud some English book, excercise for nicely shaped behind, open windows to getting fresh air, listening English on my iPod and reading English newspaper on the way to work and on the way home, writing this blog, watching TV program of English conversation almost everyday. This effort seems to be just a bit of what I want to do, though. There is no royal road to do anything. I will go slowly but surely.

horror movie

I watch "Silent Hill" which is a horror movie onDVD last night. I dislike horror movie. However I rent the DVD since there are any movie I wanted to see that day. The technology of VFX is getting better year by year. In particular, horror movies need the technology of computar graphics to represent gruesome scenes you have never seen. The company I work for makes CG images. So I rather check CG in a movie than others. The general audience think that these high quality CG was made easily because a lot of movies made in Hollywood use these high quality CG. However, it cost much time and money to make these quality of CG. In Japan, there are few works that the CG production get enough nomey to make high quality CG. I hope this fact will be commom to general audience and enough money will come into the VFX industry as Japanese movie industry grow up. Also I recognize again I don't like horror movie. I will not pick up horror DVD for a while.

visit to my friend's house

I went to see my friend and her children yesterday. When I visited to her house her husband happened to go a trip with his co-workers to Izu and she would have had to care 2 children alone. So I cared her children togherther. Her children are a 3 years old boy and a 1 year old boy. The older brother was now in a rebellious atage and he did the opposite what her mother said. Such a nauty boy was so cute that he had picked up off the street as a kid model. On the contrary, the younger boy has a great personality who didn't mind small things. He will amount to something in the future. There is a Kairakuen where is famous for Japanese plum nearby her house. Kairakuen is one of the big three Japanese garden. From February to March, a lot of tourists visit there to see beutiful Japanese plum. We also walked to Kairakuen, where was 5 minutes walks from her house, and enjoy seeing plums. Then we went to Oarai aquarium at a request of the older brother. We were excited to see the Dolphine show. I'm sorry but I was in very bad condition because of a hay fever. It was the worst condition in this year. It was getting worse at night. We would like to drink and talk together after the children went to bed but I slept early.

motivation

Recently, Neko appeares not to get motivated everything. I am a type who I don't need a certain cause to live by nature. In the company I worked for right after I graduated collage, there are a lot of works to do. The new recruits didn't have time to think about good causes for happy life. That you have no time to think about yourself is like that you forget even stress caused by hard work. In some ways that can become salvation though I don't want to select the way. However to have much time and nothing to do are not unwanted situation. It is bad for a person of negative thinking not to have some motivation to live. For a person of positive thinking, it can be done if you lost a hope. When I watched a TV program last night, a painter of Japanese-style painting died at the age of 37 after a month when he lost his sight. The genius of paintings lost all his motivation with his eyes and died. What a sad story!

go to my parents home

I went to my parents home today. My sister's family also came there. My sister and I decided to give our parents a tour to Hokkaido for the celebration of their retirement. Our parents seemed to meet in Hokkaido around 40 years ago for the first time. They happened to stay at the same hotel with each other's friends. They falled in love and married. In fact, we planed to give the present 3 years ago when my father retired. However, after his retirement, he after all came to work another year for a half salary. He cinsidered to work or not to work but he decided to work. Next year, my mother's aunt became sick and stayed in the hostpital. Because of the nursing for her, they couldn't help canceling Hokkaido tour. And this year, they will go to Hokkaido to see drift ice. It must be glourious view! I love to watch science TV programs very much. If I would have too much money to use I've never failed to go all World Natural Heritage sites. I'm sorry but I've never be any sites of World Natural Heritage. I have to make money and time as soon as possible!

on a diet

I'm on a diet now, but it is not so hard though. As is always the case, I ate too much at the beginning of this year. I gained around 2 kg. Someone don't mind 2 kg gain but it is some things for me. Today's main dish was Tofu hamburger with grated radish. Yesterday's dish was not used meat like vegitalian. Basically I like shojin ryori. It is the meal that has been aten by Japanese Buddhist monk in the temple, mainly the ingredients are vegitables and pulse offered. I am not good at oil, especially fried dish like dounuts, fried polk, tempra etc. I like them but I can't have them so much because they give me heartburn. I'm sorry but it is my habit of body. Instead of the disposition to be easy to have heartburn, I suppose to eat more than average woman of the same age. I have been interested in macrobiotics. For now, I haven't take my diet. However, I want to try it someday.

my strategy for reinforcing Listening English

I talked about the score of the last TOEIC test with my colleague. He said that almost candidates for the TOEIC test get higher score in the listening part than the reading part, and you will be able to get much higher score in the next trial than this time by training listening. I think so, but how? I listen NHK radio course on the way to work and home on weekdays. The level is the introduction course because I like the teacher hosting the course now. Therefore, I had listened the intermidiate course or advance course ever which the teacher hosted. In these lessons, I can listen and understand the dialogue above 50% when I listened for the first time. Listening the lesson repeatedly enables a deep understanding of the dialogue. In TOEIC listening part, the descriptions or questios are read only one time. That is, the candidates have to listen and understand by listening one time. Besides, we have to read 3 or 4 choices of answers and select the best one. We need the speed of reading to some extent. If I would have kind of confident of my reading ability, all that I have to do is to be able to listen and understand in one time. How? I have been bad at listening for a long time. I probably think in Japanese not English when I think something. However, to be good at listening I need to think something in English. I know that but I don't know what is the best way of traning for listening. Anyway, I tried to seeing American drama DVD while I keep doing the conventional way of studying. My colleague advised it. My end is not getting high score in the TOEIC but communicating people on the globe. I wish I enjoy and study English.

just a cold

I seemed to catch a cold on Sunday. Sunday is fine day and I took a walk around Setagaya. When I took a coffe break I couldn't stop sneezing for a while. The feeling it might be caused by allergy of pollens went through my head. However I believed that I must be recovering an allegy of pollens because I kept having KW lactobacillus this year due to prevent from an allegy. So I tried to think it was just a cold. At night, when I checked my temperature I confirmed it was just a cold. I had a temperature of 37 degrees! Next day, I felt dull and slept whole day. I couldn't see a doctor because the day was a national holiday. On Tuesday, I still felt dull. It was too much trouble to do anything by 100 times as usual. I thought it might be a flu. 2 years ago, I had an influenza for the first time. I felt horribly weak and continued to sleep whole 2 or 3 days. This time, my temperature was about 36.5 degree and it was not high but this kind of dullness seemed to be caused by a flu. Just in case, I went to see a doctor. He said to be just a cold. I felt good it was not an allegy of pollens nor an flu but just a cold. I feel at ease now.

Second Life

I examined Second Life yesterday in my work because our company got involved in Second Life contents. Second Life is a kind of virtual world, we can enjoy life in the Second Life world, which is made of 3d CG. We can fashion our appearance to our own liking, of course we can walk, run, sit, dance and even fly in the air there. Unfortunately I don't feel something new. It is true that I haven't seen this type of 3d virtual world but the idea is the same as real world. People buy virtual estate from the owner with real money to live and do consumption there. I can't believe that. Today we can buy anything at online shop though the online shop is just a web page and we can't see the shop visually. That's good enough for me though. I rather interested in like Google business model, we can get chances for free. The concept we can start without money except Internet environment is the key point, I think. There is a parody site of Second Life "Get A First Life".

shortage of exercise

I haven't been getting enough exercise since I started working. Come to think of it, it was not enough in my collage days even though I sometimes played tennis. I feel lack of exercise these days. The other day I went to see a movie with my friends, we talked about our shortage of exercise and needs of exercise. However this kind of plan is easy to go up in somke. My friens seem to not like activities. Especially they don't like, for example, just running or walking. I think that they need a sense of game or meaningful activities. In fact we had to move our body whenever we did anything in old times. Now that we can use the Internet to do something for free, that contributes our lack of exercise. We live in cynical time. I wonder if there are some no-money sports we can enjoy.

outcome of the 3rd TOEIC try

In this try, I made the target score 750. I cleared the target point, in addition I had some reserve point. At this moment I got 795 point, I feel regret for not getting 800 point. The more I get, the more I want. There is one thing I figure out. Is it not impossible for me to get 850 point at next test. The score at my first TOEIC try was 585 in September 2005, next time was 660 in May 2006 and this time was 795 in January 2007. The score at this time apeared to be a fluke as you see the scores I have ever gotten. In order to prove that I didn't get this score by a luck, I decide to get 850 point at next try. Anyway, this score encouraged me to learn more and more. I feel that I can read English faster than before as I am a optimistic and forward-looking person.

"CRASH"

"CRASH" was added to my favorite movie list tonight. It seemed that the mail character was played by Sandra Bullock when I began to see the DVD. I like Sandra and was looking forward to seeing the title. Additionally, "CRASH" has been rented out at the nearby video rental shop these days. It must be good, I have convinced. Whenever I expected so much the DVD was not so good because I had excessive expectations of the DVD. So I tried to make my mind even. However I knew that I didn't need that. "CRASH" was mighty good movie. A lot of characters are described in the movie and each of them are the main characters. It was like a social drama of racial problem at the same time a gripping human drama. The comlicated relationships are everywhere. I don't feel racial problem in Japan because I am a Japanese. However there are a lot of similar problems that we feel unfair in the world. This is not a black and white problem. That is a problem and might be interesting.