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Christmas

Christmas party

Baby

A child was born.
It will be one month tomorrow.
I am lack of sleep every day.
But a baby is pretty. Therefore I can do my best.
Her name is Haruna.
She gained 1kg. I am a muscular pain.
I go out to a company to play in spring. Please call out to me if I see me.

Dear Santa

Dear Santa,
I have been a pretty good boy this year, and so I hope you will visit our house on Christmas Eve.

This year for Christmas, I want a DVD-RW for my computer. I can use it a lot, and it's not so expensive.

I'd also like some new winter pajamas so I'll be nice and toasty warm on the cold winter nights.

The last thing I'd like is a couple of 2GB memory cards for my digital camera. That way I can take many many pictures of my family's Christmas fun!

I hope you and Mrs. Santa have a Merry Christmas too! Please say hello to the elves for me!

Sincerely, Brad
PS. I'll leave some cookies and milk for you on the table on Christmas Eve!

guppy

I keep a guppy.
A guppy bore a child the other day.
There are 60 of them.
I lent how many days, and some guppies grew big.
However, 10 of them have died.
I am sad.
I look forward to growth of a guppy every day.

High Speed cam

Cool movie file!

http://www.visionresearch.com/index.cfm?sector=htm/app&page=gallery

I like 4th file from top. What do you think?

Challenge your IQ!

I got this from a kendo forum. Enjoy. It is very very frustrating.

There are a few rules which you need to know in case you can't read Chinese...
1. Everyone needs to cross the river
2. Only 2 people on the raft at any one time
3. The Father cannot stay with the Daughters without the Mother's presence
4. The Mother cannot stay with the Sons without the Father's presence
5. The Criminal (striped Black & White Top) cannot stay with a family member without the policeman there
6. Only Father, Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.

http://tinyurl.com/5jl20

Click on the person to put them on the raft.
To move the raft, click on the pole on the opposite side of the river.
To start, click on the big blue circle on the right hand side of the entry screen.

I wrote the answers in the "comments" section of this post.
Good luck!

My favorite books

Good morning! I'm ra-men.
During summer vacation , I came back to hometown after an interval of several months.

This time , it introduces my favorite books.

The first one is "Water know the answer(by Masaru Emoto)" .
We can know the mysterious world of crystal of water , and what is important in our life from the book.
http://www.masaru-emoto.net/newemoto2/index.html

The second one is "Asakura Kyosuke series(by Hase Syuhei)".
If you like hard-boiled novel, you surely like this book.
This novel is six , all. I finished reading this novel in one month.
http://oosujp.jugem.jp/?eid=101

Please read these books by all means.
See you next time!

Iaido Rules!

Hey everyone. I just thought I'd give a little news about recent events for myself.
As you know, I practice iaido 居合道 here in Japan. I really enjoy this martial art, and hope to teach someday when I get back to the US.
Two weeks ago I competed in the All Shizuoka Iaido tournament in Shizuoka City. There were 150 people who competed from 1-kyu to 5-dan. I competed in the 3-dan group and got 3rd place overall. The top 4 people in my group were all from the Numazu dojo. We also got 1st and 3rd in the 2-dan group, and 1st in the 5-dan group. Pretty well overall I'd say!
So, now I have a small trophy at home that says 3rd place. Cool.
Also, last weekend, I went again to the same dojo in Shizuoka. It's located at gokokujinja near the mountain. It was pretty darn hot inside, but I took and passed my 4-dan test. Yeah! We had to do 5 katas that the judges chose, and also to write a small written test about the concepts of iaido. I wrote my essay in English, but it was good enough. So, I passed!

Travis Pastrana Double BackFlip Complete

Do you know Travis Pastrana? He is one of the most crazy and greatest motocross rider. I like him! He made double back flip at the X-game 12 for the first time in the world. This is fucking crazy action! I can't believe... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYSZtV6ZvI

Picture is Travis's other action [BackFlip lazyboy] at X-game 12. He can return to the bike before landing. Can you believe?

Circus market

Finally I’ve read a book. The title is circus market. The author is Miura Akihiro. He had Edogawa Ranpo award at another book. I heard he likes fly fishing from fishing magazine. This book has fly fishing’s things sometime.

Are you interested in hearing different people's accents from both native English and non-native English speakers?

The first one http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml is a good example of diferences in native English speakers` accents.

The second one is an interesting one - differences in English accents of non-native speakers http://accent.gmu.edu/browse_language.php

Both of these links can also be found on the side menu of this blog under "Other Interesting Places."

新幹線大爆破(Shinkansen Daibakuha)

I'd like to introduce old Japanese movie. It's title is "Shinkansen Daibakuha". This story's heroes are three bombers. They plant a bomb under Hikari Shinkansen 109. This bomb operate at a speed of less than 80km/h. They demand money from Japanese police and government. Japanese police and JR try to remove this bomb and arrest them. Is it possible for Japanese police and JR to remove this bomb and arrest them safely, or is it possible for three bombers to get big money? I recommend you to watch this movie and confirm end of this story for yourself!

Toyota Technology

I found funny CM. [Human touch Toyota...]
Cheak this web site. You must be laughing!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzma3cgLVSQ&search=toyota

東京タワー

I recently read the book called, "Tokyo Tower." It is really good book. I was almost crying after reading it. The part of story is set in Fukuoka, which I was born in, and my friend recomended strongly, so I started reading it. I don't like reading, but once I started, I couldn't stop reading it.
I don't know how much I should tell you about story, but I am sure you will like it.
This story will become a T.V drama, starting from end of July, and a movie, being released next year. It would be good to read it both after watching T.V drama and a movie and before wathing them.

Numazu Densen OJT Blog

I like historical novel and historical comic.
My favorite historical comic is "sengoku"

Story and art by Myashita hideki.

Hero is sengoku gonbei. Age of sengoku period.

senngoku gonbei is served three general.
First general is Oda nobunaga. Next is Toyotomi hideyosi. Last is Tokugawa ieyasu.
Story is activited under Toyotomi hieyosi.
Story have battle and heart and love story to very interesting.
This book is the publication is 9 volume now.



Numazu Densen OJT Blog

Brave story

I like Miyabe miyuki. She is famos novelist in Japan. She wrire novel "Brave story"
is very interesting. Of course her other stories are interesting, too.
"Brave story" The world of this story is not reality.A chief character is Wataru.
He is a primary schoolchild. He goes for adventure to grant one's wish.
Because the reason is he wants to change a family of real world. He's mother attenpted suicide. He's father had an affair and left a house. He is very hard.
So, he go to adventure another world.There is a goddess changing fate there.
He want to meet to a goddess. He have some friends and some problems.
Don't forget to tune in read book.

There is a goddess changing fate there.The movie is shown in July.I look forward to watching a movie.

A good book - Looking forward to the Movie!

I recently listened to the 6th book in the Harry Potter Series, The Half-Blood Prince. I have to say that I think it is probably the best book in the series so far.  

Ever since the 3rd installment, "The Prisoner of Azkaban," the movies have started to become a little darker. The first death of a student occurs in book 4, Voldemort returns in book 5, and the story continues to get darker in "Prince."

The kids are growing up (they're now in their 6th year at Hogwarts) or about 17 years old, and are starting to experience some of the things that all teenagers have to deal with.

Harry suspects that Snape and Malfoy are up to something no good and is trying very hard to catch them at it. Harry's two companions continue to help him, and Headmaster Dumbledore starts giving Harry private lessons which give us more insight into the life of Tom Riddle and how he became Lord Voldemort.

There's a surprise ending that I won't tell you about because I don't want to ruin it for you, but you WILL be surprised!

I've read the book once, and this time I decided to listen to the book on audio. Jim Dale, an Englishman, reads the story quite well. He changes each person's voice and makes it very entertaining to listen to. I suggest that you listen to the audio version if you have already read the book yourself. It's a great way to hear the story!

I am really looking forward to the new book 7 and of course to seeing "The Order of the Phoenix" movie when it comes out.

I got a trout again this season, too.

I can’t get trouts this season than I expected.
I don’t know that reasons but I think it may be a lot of rain this year than last year.
This morning I went to fishing near my house’s river.
I got a few trouts, one was a big its size was about 25cm AMAGO TROUT.
It was really beautiful.

Back to work

Well, Golden Week is over and now it's back to work. I hope that everyone had a nice holiday. I had a chance to spend time with my family and played a lot with my son. It was a nice break.
I didn't enjoy the traffic though, it was so crowded everwhere we went! It's amazing how crowded it becomes just because of the holiday. It took us hours just to go a short distance by car. I really hate travelling during the holidays in Japan because EVERYONE else is travelling at the same time.
Well, I hope you all feel refreshed and ready to go again - I'm still feeling "slow" from the holiday.
Ganbarimasu!