~ m e m o r y

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my way

meets somebody's.


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So This Is Christmas

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Merry OLYMPUS E-410
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Very Merry Christmas, guys!

I almost forgot today's the day of greeting the fat red-dressed bearded old man even though now my house is fully covered with all kinds of Christmas decorating things and stuff...so where's my present?
I'm sure that I've stayed in the US for nine month but it has already become like a dream to me. I mean I can't believe I've been leaving here such a long period, feel like just a week or some. So, according to my inner calendar, I'm in April now. You know how it feels strange to see Christmas lights with a feeling of spring.

Oh, there is something I gotta tell you. I've got a big present from a job-searching agency today I enrolled in a few days ago. First of all, the agency is kind of biggest company in job outsourcing : they put their advertisements everywhere and say they have a lot of "closed job information" which they don't post on their open website, so you must be able to find a suitable and ideal job on their list. But they sent me an email says "We're afraid that we couldn't find any job information that match with your career. Because of the critical economic situation, we're running low on job offers. Thank you for your kindest understanding...blah blah blah." What a holy crappy Christmas present!!! I absolutely realize where I'm standing now by this: in a dark muddy ditch! Maybe I'd better throw my career away and try to get any kind of job I could have in a steady company with using my psychic power...because I don't know which company can get through it!!!

Here's a joke;
A man went to his bank manager and said:
"I'd like to start a small business. How do I go about it?"
"Simple," said the bank manager.
"Buy a big one and wait."


Haha!! Isn't it....not that funny : ( it's true! It's a reality!! omg...

Nothing can be steady nowadays. Even TOYOTA is going into the big red for their first time this year.Who can lead us to the normal society? Ask Santa Clause...

Waitin'

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A Holy Night

from OLYMPUS E-410

人にやさしく

--THE BLUE HEARTS ('87)

気が狂いそう やさしい歌が好きで

ああ あなたにも聞かせたい

このまま僕は 汗をかいて生きよう

ああ いつまでもこのままさ

僕はいつでも 歌を歌う時は

マイクロフォンの中から

ガンバレって言っている

聞こえてほしい あなたにも

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Beauty and the Beast

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校長からマイケルまで

From The Principal to Michael

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I HAVEN'T

written in English that much lately.

OMG my English ability is getting lower and lower, especially in speaking and writing. On the other hand, I'm still listening to american radio programs and reading English articles. Hope it would help me keep up.

As all you guys know, I need to...no I have to...no I MUST find a new job. I'm running out of cash...like the Big Three. haha

But seriously, Japanese economy is crazy bad as well as the Detroit-three now, price is going up up up everyday. Many companies have decided to cut their employees. A lot of temporary workers' contracts were expired. Moreover, some companies already voided their job offers which they'd made graduating students. Everything happened all of a sudden. It's nearly a criminal act!

Also, Japanese food companies are making their products smaller and setting higher prices --- I was shocked when I noticed how all snack bags were so small!!! I can't be satisfied with such tiny amount...since my stomach is now like an "American size."


I'm unemployed, I'm starving, I'm totally free on Christmas...but I'm fine.
My friends in OSULA are coming back to Japan next year. I'm really looking forward to seeing and talking to them. It will remind me of the delightful days in California!!

Huh, anyway, getting a steady job is a top priority to me. Oh, and continuing to study English is, too.

"国際化 -Internationalization " by OLYMPUS E-410

Mi Ra I

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あかるい未来へ。

t e a r s

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共存 -living together-

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Pumpkin-feeling

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I know the Halloween party was over.

Icy Flower

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It's cold cold here

Ko-Do-U

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...or just go crazy.

Thru Red Maples

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ReflectioN

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JAPAN

Hi guys,
I safely got back to Japan yesterday.
It took 22 hours...what a long day.

It's so weird because everybody's speaking Japanese here!
Like I'm in China, men!!

I'll take pictures of Japan as many as I can.
Please keep eyes on my blog.
Thanks!

and I Love You

This would be my last diary in the United States.

Now I'm flying to Japan.

It's so hard to say good-bye my lovable places and people.


Thank you America. lol

Thank you all of you who I've met here.

I shall never forget my greatest days in California and Virginia.


I Love You All.

See you guys very very soon!

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Now playing: Mr. Children - and I love you
via FoxyTunes

"Hikari" II

--following "Hikari" by Naoya Inada

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僕らは夢見たあげく　彷徨（さまよ）って

空振りしては　骨折って　リハビリしてんだ

いつの日か 　君に届くならいいな

心につけたプロペラ　 時空を越えて

光の射す方へ・・

Heads Up! [頭上注意]

"Ru~~~~~~n!!"

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"The Road Not Taken"

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　And sorry I could not travel both
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　And be one traveler, long I stood
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　And looked down one as far as I could
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　To where it bent in the undergrowth

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Then took the other as just as far
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　And having perhaps the better claim
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Because it was grassy and wanted wear
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Though as for that, the passing there
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Had worn them really about the same

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　And both that morning equally lay
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　In leaves no step had trodden black
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Oh, I kept the first for another day!
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Yet, knowing how way leads onto way
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　I doubted if I should ever come back

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　I shall be telling this with a sigh
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Somewhere ages and ages hense
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Two roads diverged in a wood
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　And I took the one less traveled by
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　And that has made all the difference


　　　　　　　　　　　　　　--Robert Frost

Finally...

I took pictures of a squirrel.

The squirrel looked at me
as if it knew that I had been dreaming of shooting him...or her

and said,


"I know you."

...Maybe I'm still dreaming.

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Virginia Breeze

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Music -That Old Black Magic-

Cool,cool!

Big ME

"Big ME"

"いぬといす - A Dog & Chair"

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Imaginations

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Sky Plays

"Back to the 19th century"

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The sky danced in Virginia today.



I have remembered when I was little, I was saying to my mom
"I'm from the sky."

I would look up the sky from a swing in a small park and tell her
"my real mother and father are in the sky."

...I'm wondering how she felt about me at that time.

Hope she won't bring me back to my "real" parents...




I'm returning to Japan next week.

Figure's figure in figures

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"I can't figure out where I am now."

It's raining

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I've lost my voice

I can't talk, I can't sing

But thank God, I could take

When everything seems happy, I take pictures

When nothing good seems to happen,

I also try to take pictures

OSAKA STRUT

←　　　　　　梅田　　　　　　→

なかつ　　　　　　　うめだ　　　　　よどやばし

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Now playing: ウルフルズ - 大阪ストラット
via FoxyTunes

High Up Into the Sky

-Washington Monument -

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Movie -The Color Purple-

The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.

Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on female African American life during the 1930s in the Southern United States, addressing the numerous issues in the black female life, including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.

The novel was adapted into a film of the same name in 1985. It was directed by Steven Spielberg.

[Rifer from Wikipedia - The Color Purple ]





"Don't say there is no discrimination in your country. It's impossible."
My teacher said to us when we had a discussion about discriminations in our countries in class.

What a clean and great society it is, if there is no discrimination...but it will never happen.
Discriminations exist anytime, anywhere. In some ways and in many thoughts.
They have formed our society and history, and they will make our future as well.



　Sister, You’ve been on my mind
　Sister, We’re two of a kind
　So Sister, I’m Keepin’ my eyes on you

　I Betcha think I don’t know nuthin’
　But singin’ the Blues
　Oh Sister, Have I got news for you
　I’m somethin’
　I hope you think that you’re somethin’ too


Ms. Shug snag this song for Celie (Whoopi Goldberg) and told her "you're something important,"
even though she was being treated as "nothing" by her husband.

Many years later...


　If I were you, I would say yes, speak, Lord. Speak to me.
　Oh, Speak, Lord. Won't you speak to me?
　I was so blind, I was so lost until you spoke to me
　Oh, speak, Lord. Speak, Lord. And hear my mind,
　Oh, with your word, heal my soul
　Oh, speak, Lord. Speak to me. Speak, my Lord.
　I love you, Lord. Save my soul

　Can't sleep at night and you wonder why
　Maybe God is trying to tell you something
　Crying all night long, something's gone wrong
　Maybe God is trying to tell you something

　Oh, you can't sleep at night and you sure wonder why
　Maybe god is trying to tell you something

　Trying, trying, trying, trying, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm trying
　Maybe God is trying to tell you something right now



Mr. Shug had also been forsaken and treated as almost nothing by his farther, the priest.

Everybody sang "God is Trying To Tell You Something" and appreciated that each of them is "something important."


　"See daddy, sinners have soul, too."


I strongly recommend seeing this film if you have never watched it.
You will see many beautiful scenes and be impressed again how Steven Spielberg is a great director.

I cried a lot with this movie.

A Pause...

CAN I FLY?


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探検 -Exploring-

"Gotta Fly"

"紺碧 -Another Blue"

"dizzy"

"A Unicorn!"

OLYMPUS E-410 in Rock Creek Park

Take, Take, Take

"Push the Small World"

"fall"

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