Yesterday, finally here's got into a rainy season officially. Though it had been so hot until then, the weather changed to hard rain in a day! In the morning I was pleased with cool shower, at night it turned out to be a heavy rain warning. (Mainichi Daily News Yomiuri Online: 日本語)
Calamity again... last Summer there was affected by flooding, also hit by the biggest earthquake ever in the last 100 years.....a convulsion of nature. In my area, the damage was ethereal but that made me think wide. About real good use of time given to my life.I saw many people got plunged into the depths of despair, friends and aquaintances got involved in the wreck of quakes. So, ultimately I realized that I SHOULD live my life better with faithful people and friends. Living in a falsehood just leaves me a caldron of question and wrath. [.....;)]
Ah, me.
::I must admit my grammar is a bit funny...go on to next post::
Somewhat I'm feeling disgusted with power-game loving people, forward almost anything self-advantageous... (I always hope the translation work right to express my way of thinking as a Japanese, spent almost all her life in this land of rice.) It's just confusing. Key is in a difference of each cultures... Or maybe that's why I decided to learn non-native language to translate/teach.
I started to learn English when I was 12 @ general, ordinary public junior-high school. At that time I almost couldn't find any foreigners speak English around me, and was regarding it as complicated. In fact my result was below the average. I was, rather, a student couldn't keep up with intricate studies till the middle of 2nd year. Luckily the change has come in my study life. That was summer vacation course of a cram school, enterprised by a mass corporation. I went there to improve my grades, but the classmaster was pit. He told me, "you'll never be able to pass the entrance exam, unless you study here every week or more" - in the end of that Summer. It was almost threat to me and my mother there to hear the steer, but I wasn't fool enough to be their dupe. Soon I dropped out from the jail-like cram and started to educate myself crazily, and it went quite well. I've get over exams that way from now. So I like studying by myself to satisfy my curiousity, but not much sophisticated or rather hate to be educated by others really.
Therefore, being translator or teacher was a bit strange idea. I was unsure whether it's right choice. But managed to study a year @ school of translation in Tokyo, after graduated from English department of local junior college. I made somewhat good results there (referring to former school days) but I hate its stiff environment and back here after finishing the curriculum. The school was fine but full of struggle for good seats. Exactly a disgusting intellectual war. Nevertheless, life in Tokyo gave me a lot of nice friends and experiences. Sometimes I miss friends there greatly to hang out altogether, hope they're doing well. (And contradictorily, I had missed my family, friends and the peaceful atmosphere of Niigata when I was in Tokyo.)
Thanks to a convenience of civilization, I'm learning something good and bad, mixing my brain with English and Japanese (or more). Right or wrong... I think my English getting better than going to take pricey lesson @ propaganda-committed shady language schools.....perhaps it's better than silence, I wish... and this status is an occupational disease. It's an essential condition to be a "good" translator...sad requirement to be a (popular) pro. Hah. Heady Sunday.
These days, I've had a lot of happy news from almost everywhere I go and visit. My boss on Fridays blissfully told me that she had pregnanted the 2nd baby, and I was asked to cover the teaching role more when her time approached (I'm a sub Japanese/Math + main English teacher there). She and me has kept company with since I was a junior college student, and been working together for a long time. So I'm very glad to hear the news.
And, the same I can say for my wonderful mates: marriage, love, success..... great. Congratulations!!! Go anywhere you like ;)
BTW, I'm always going my way. Things I hate the most are "control"-"rule"-"suprema cy"-"sham"-"dishonesty" etc. Frivorous. Just my personal view though.
"Lately, the number of women who seeks for serious relationship through the net is on the rise. We had a lot of female members in her 30s, 40s, or more in recent months. They might have had various circumstances, so we send this email to you track-recorded male members over 30, to fulfill those ladies' requests..."
:evil: Gross. How did they get my email address????? :?
At last. I listened Jamiroquai's new disk...speechless. It's beyond description. Just listen.....JK is towering genius of music. So great.
And, what made me so elated was that 'limited special release PV' of my top-favorite band Tokyo Jihen(incidents). I really adore the vocalist Shena Ringo. She used to be a solo-singer-songwriter,&n bsp;listed in Japan's top-chart. I love her works so much anyway, just try have a listen here. (Scroll down the page, there's Win/Real streaming buttons in the middle!) Awesome...!
This is the last introduction in this post...UA is really special, great person to me. I've been listening to her music since I was 17 or so, and still do love her world. Admirable.
...I sometimes aspire to perform. Still have a yearn for musicians give us big pleasures, by making music of their own. That's really wonderful.
P.S. related to musical button meme post on Friday 06.10.05
Today's quote from a book（about business deal): "Verbal promise is a cause of trouble" - it's hard to clarify the whole contents and prove them well. And fickle is the human. Even though it went well in the beginning, unsound deal can make it a big trouble afterwards. Then, sagacity of the man brings them(both employer and employee) an idea of getting out of it naturally. Therefore, contract is necessary. It testifies your formation and contents the most, will be a weapon in case of conflicts. Contract is like relationships; one time is peace, another time battlefield. After all, you'd better be ready for the breakup enough. Now you see how dangerous to make verbal promises mixed up with business - and the best way to avoid fights is trying NOT to make vague promises.
In Japan: it begins 20 July and ends 31 August @ elementary/junior high schools. (Highschools, colleges & universities are each different)
In my area: begins 24 July, ends 31 Aug. :(
For Tourists: The best time to be crumpled up in a crowd @ sightseeing spots.
For Travellers: The best time to escape overseas.
For students: The high time to go "radio-exercise" (ラジオ体操)from 6:30 a.m. and correct stamps, play outside, struggle with a ton of assignments.
For government teachers: The high time to spread their wings.
For supplementary school teachers: The high time to teach and earn.
For me, supplementary school(学習塾）teache r [Japanese, English] N English instructor(to some followers) N fredgling freelance translator(wannabe pro): The high time to work work work.....and have fun, relax in hometown. (Then, spend the savings (hopefully to travel somewhere) in non-high season... :) My pattern though, that's reasonable and good for me, heated-concrete-jungle + crowded-sightseeing-spots phobia...)
And so I've been thinking about this summer's blueprints to ride out.
Dedicated and responsible, you are a rock to your friends. You are skilled at working out even the most difficult problems. Low key and calm, you are happiest when you are around loved ones. Ambitious and goal oriented, you have long term plans to be successful.
FIREFOX IS JUST SO AMAZING!!! Everyone should shift from Internet Explorer to Firefox. No disorderly codes and irritation of net-surf. So fast...!!!!! (ニッキー！『ファ イアーフォックス のブラウザで見 と、文字化けしな いよ。グーグルの 本語ブログが読 た！！！誕生会、 楽しくて良かった ！） People already downloaded it might think me a tardy, but most of my friends in Japan (not much in PC industry) don't know of it I guess...like me just a local teacher/translator. Although I've seen a lot of buttons and banners on others' sites and blogs - never ever realized what it is till a couple of days ago, in honest! Unbelievable. P.S. But I have one question: I can't see my t-blogs as they are (Esp. fontsize, also post's editorial functions like colors, linking, etc.) because something's wrong with my way of Firefoxing.....
:P {Feel so happy and my stomach is full now!} Tonight I went off to the city center & enjoyed lovely dinner with former volunteer team members + some new people @ a Italian restaurant. Lately I was feeling a bit bored with monotonous work & rainy season, so it was quite nice to fulfilled with treats (and beers, of course...cheers :) !) altogether. With talking about honest sentiments about the project we did, every members had a mountain of pizzas, pastas, salad, ice-creams etc. and drank alot. Chatting about myself and listening to others' talk is really interesting. Esp. with delicious plates!!!
I'm sure that my family's fairly freaky, not just like a moderate Japanese household @ all - more or less. That wonder made me think alot but sometimes it helps greatly. Especially, I've never found the one as peculiar as my father. He's quite unique person: sour but friendly, uneasy but relaxed, serious but fun etc... AB blood-typed, dual-dimentional one.
Since I was born as this guy's daughter, I've been told his "not to be the same as others" philosophy everytime it occured to his mind. And exactly I'm like that way now, however, still tryin' to stuck with a flow of what's happenin' to the periphery of this unstable world. One time I smile with happiness, another time I feel so blue with sadness. Then words of my father's strike me in a twinkle, everytime I got frustrated by something or someone.
"Hey, some people tryin' to live just the same as others - to be reassured with the fact that they're majority, by themselves. But I'd rather be remarked as an eccentric, than to be nothing - it's so dreary, tryin' to be assimilate with every other person. And it's so nice to be different, don't you think?!"
Ah yes, I definately agree.
And the other day, my 15 yod cousin told me:
"I hate mainstreams. Why the hell every other teens love to be the same? Damn popuralities, varieties and uniqueness are tiptop cool to me. What do you think?"
Oh yeah...presumably it's a genetic inheritance of our cran. We three all hates wasabi & raw fishes.
Queer ducks...(but I can't jest them much though, I myself am just as such) I love their way of life so much.
Uh... Volunteer project finished and it's June, time flies so quick quick...! And now I'm here after struggling with re-setting my email account - but I failed again and it doesn't work right, can't receive emails!!! :?
Give it up today. What happened to my Outlook Express??? Hah. Currently I mainly use free-accounts as alternative of it, but I need the primary one for the business occasion. What should I do for those issues? *Sigh...*
Moreover, tenacious bid phonecalls for "optical fiber" connection （光接続） of Internet...persecutes and tempts me alot. Ah~.....! I know well that it is so fast to browse pages (tried several times @ campaign stalls :o) but...I've just changed my home's net-run from dial-up to ADSL, last November! .....Unbelievable that now I DO blogging even though I'm just such an amateur/beginner of IT thingy... Monomaniacness and unyielding personality of me brought a dramatical change in months. Terrible...
Alive in the sun!
Momo, a long-coated chihuahua.
Chibi, a mix cat.
