Honk!!

OLYMPUS E-410 "Confuuuuuused!"


Oh my runny nose...I can't stop blowing it.
I can say that I've used the same amount of tissues today as I would usually use in a month.

I remembered Japanese small sized tissue papers.
Japanese companies use tissue papers for ads.
They insert their ads into the pocket of the small package of tissue papers.
We Japanese call small sized tissue papers (= facial tissue?) as "pocket tissues."
Anyway, I realized a pocket tissues are very useful.
We could get them anywhere because they were given out in front of most major stations.
We didn't have to carry our "own tissue papers."

I miss pocket tissues...they're very necessary for me, for today.


By the way, I watched this video which Barack Obama is giving his top 10 (funny) campaign promises in January, the Late Night With David Letterman Show.



Every promise is so funny.
He has eyes on jokes...or someone made that?

No.4
"I won't let Apple release the new and improved iPod the day after you bought the previous model."

is exact what I want!!

I have a bad memory of that just two weeks after I bought a new iPod, Apple came out with the new model which was the same price but had double sized storage and half thinner body of mine.

"That's why I approve this message."

lol

A Blue Sky on the Ground

OLYMPUS E-410


Let's stop looking down.

Time To Fly by Un-known Bird

OLYMPUS E-410 inspired by "It's time to fly by seagull"

Ellie My Love

There were times I left your heart it pain
Time again I’ve turned and walked away
I’d get to where I’m going just to find
Won’t be happy in this world if you’re not by my side
Ellie, my love so sweet

My heart told me to break away
Now I’m out here far away
Wish that I could hold you in the night
Then I’d wake up to a morning
that is warm and bright
Ellie, my love so sweet

Smile for me, won’t you, baby
Forever you’ll be on my mind
Drink with me, won’t you, baby
We’re gonna make it right this time
There’s no one else like you
Anything you want, I’ll do
Ellie, my love so sweet

My heart told me to break away
Now I’m out here far away
Wish that I could hold you in the night
Then I’d wake up to a morning
that is warm and bright
Ellie, my love so sweet

Smile for me, won’t you, baby
Forever you’ll be on my mind
Drink with me, won’t you, baby
We’re gonna make it right this time
There’s no one else like you
Anything you want, I’ll do
Ellie, my love so sweet
Smile for me, won’t you, baby
Forever you’ll be on my mind
Drink with me, won’t you, baby
We’re gonna make it right this time
There’s no one else like you
Anything you want, I’ll do
Ellie, my love so sweet


Wow! I didn't know Ray Charles covered this song!!
This song was originally Japanese popular song.
What a amazing work...he covered the song perfectly!
In my opinion, covered songs tend to lead bad imitation...especially in case songs are translated from other languages.
But Ray did a great job. I really love this song!

You know, my name is Erie...sounds similar to Ellie.
So my father always sang this song to me, and some of my co-workers did too when we went to Karaoke together in order to make me happy.
Next time, I'll ask them to sing in English...it's much more pleasant!

Who's bad?

OLYMPUS E-410 "Remember Japan"

Guys!
Finally, I found a TRADER JOE'S in Virginia!
I supposed there is no T.J. in East Coast...
But I saw, some people trashed T.J. paper bags outside and I thought...
Oh, it seems here is T.J. nearby!
I searched on the Internet and found it is 1km distance from the station.
Thank goodness and Information Technology!
Of course I went there after school today.

I bought a soy milk, honey, ginger, and Udon.
I've got a cold since Thursday and it's getting worse...
My friend told me that a cup of 'ginger honey soy milk' would help me to be better.
I made it, drank it, and ate Udon.
What a typical treatment for a cold!
Hope get well soon...

I won't be able to go out tomorrow.

That's toooooooooooooo bad.

異邦人 -foreigner-

OLYMPUS E-410 "Catch the Clouds"

子供たちが空に向かい　両手をひろげ
鳥や雲や夢までも　つかもうとしている
その姿は　昨日までの何も知らない私
あなたに　この指が届くと　信じてた
空と大地が　触れ合う彼方
過去からの旅人を　呼んでいる道
あなたにとって私　ただの通りすがり
ちょっと振り向いてみただけの異邦人


I was like a child until yesterday.

Because I hadn't known anything --- I'd believed that I could catch birds, clouds, my dream, and you.

The sky and the earth are holding each other on the horizen.

I could reach there by way of this road -- this journey.

Nobody knows me here.

I'm just a foreigner here.


Oh my goodness...it's really difficult to translate Japanese lyrics into English.
(It's not a complete translation. I gave up some expressions 'cause I couldn't describe the feeling of those words.)

異邦人(ihoujin) is a very famous folk song in Japan.
It's an old song played by Saki Kubota in 1979.

One of my favorite folk songs.

(口：口）

OLYMPUS E-410 "A Station"

Cansei de esperar por você

Quando cansei de esperar você
Vi minha estrela maior renascer
Vi minha vida mais colorida
Cheia de encanto e de mais prazer

Vi quando o mar se abriu
Deixando passar todo o meu sentimento
Até na chuva e no vento
Vi a luz da poesia

Minha alegria voltou
Brilhando no alvorecer
Quando deixei de amar
E esperar por você


I really love her songs.
I wish I could sing these beautiful Brazilian songs in Portuguese.

秋分の日 -Equinox Day-

Thanks Bob, reminding me that today is the Autumn Equinox Day in Japan.

Yes...fall season has come.
We say "according to the calendar."

It's still hot, but we can feel autumn breeze and autumn flavors everywhere.



Sometimes, in fall, we feel like remembering the past and thinking how we were at that time.

Most of the time, it makes me feel sad.

It is a mysterious power of fall.


I like fall.


Canon IXY DIGITAL 10 "Half Summer, Half Autumn"

It's a little early for Halloween

He knows it.


Hi there!

My school has midterms now.

We took a written exam last Friday which included grammar, reading, and two essays.
(Sounds like a big test? Yes it was!!)

Also we need to give a five minutes presentation tomorrow.

I'm preparing for it.

I'm going to talk about "Salmonella."

Yikes!!!