Adios, May!

May is almost over.

June, a rainy season, is coming.

Usually, May is supposed to be a super comfortable season; sunny, breezing, birds are singing, not too hot, not too chilly and everything is shining light green.
But this year, there weren't fine days as many as always. It's kinda weird.

Well, have I finished preparing for the rany season?

Attitude; Good
A new umbrella; OK.
Cleaning my room; almost OK
Having hair cut;not yet
New rain shoes;not okay ^__^!

I gotta go to get water proof shoes.
Adios, everyone!

Tummy Button Thieves

On my way home, I was caught in a big downpour and saw some lightnings which were very bright and vivid. So all the people there were shocked ,"oh!"
and almost talked to each other like "Did you see that? Perhaps it might hit somewhere very close from here, don't you think so?"

Whenever it thundered, my mom asked me to hide my navel because 'Mr. Thunder' were going to stole my belly button. Now I know it's just a made-up story. But I'm not sure why Japanese mothers say so? It might be to keep kids' bellies warm for their health.

Did your mother tell you a similar story?
The idea that "thunders would stole your navels" is an international standard?

How about in your country?

The Da Vinci Code

I went to see "DaVinci Code" today. It was pretty interesting.

I read the novel in English, so it was hard to imagine each scenes in Louvre, a park, a rich guy's house and some churches.
But the movie showed me them perfectly and clearly.

The Louvre pyramid looked beautiful and fantastic. Actually, my first travelling abroad was to Paris. The movie also reminded me of it.

My computer has recovered!

I called the help desk and got some advice. As I followed it, I reinstalled Windows.
Now I can surf internet freely....yay!yay! I'm so happy ^__^

From Manga Cafe

I uninstalled a few softwares to clean up my PC, then suddenly my PC doesn't work well.
I'm writing this post from Comic Books Cafe where I can read comic books and use internet.

It costs about 3dollors an hour and you can read comic books as many as you like.
It looks like a library and you can get soft drinks for free.

I think "Internet Cafes" are common in your countries, right?
Are there any "Manga Cafe" around your house?

"Prison Break"

Have you ever watched an American TV drama called "Prison Break"?
I'm watching its premiere on the internet.
The DVDs will be released here in Japan very soon, so a Japanese internet TV company is providing the first episode for free.

Maybe as you know, the outline is like..
A guy was arrested and sentenced to death because of a false accusation.
His younger brother who is an IQ200 architect comitted a bank robbery to enter the prison. Now he is struggling to break the prison to get his brother out.
I've realized why the guy looked so confident about it.

He said, "I designed this prison...."

He has a big tatoo all his body that shows the blue prints of the prison.
It's getting more interesting!!


And I heard it's as popular as "24" now in the States.
Is it right?
Should I get/rent the DVDs?

Please give me some advice ^___^

Email Exam;about Kyoto

Today I started working on a text book to take an English examination in June. The exam has a free writing part.
It's pretty interesting: Read an email from your friend "Chris" from overseas, then write appropriate response to him and it should be around 100 words in lenght.

Let's see the question email.
"Dear Naomi (please imagine you're Naomi),
I'm so excited because in a week I'll be in Japan, so please be sure to meet me at the airport, ok?
I'm also interested in Kyoto. Can I see real Samurai or Ninja there? Can you tell me something about Kyoto, please?
Best wishes, Chris" ....I like Chris Carrabba of Dashboard Confessional:P


I gave it a try but I think my email was too casual, so I need a training to get enough points from markers.

Actually, Kyoto is worth visiting.
Kyoto used to be a capital of Japan. It has a lot of shrines, temples and old buildings, so you can experience the traditional atmosphere of Japan there.

I think I've visited there 6 or 7 times or so. It's still an amazing place for me.

As you know, there are no more Samurai and Ninja now but if you are lucky, you might see real Geisya on their ways to work, or some actors playing Samurai/ Ninja in a famous movie studio.

Well, I have to get back to work...it's not a real work. I'm arraging my ipod music list using an Excel file. I've discovered it this morning.
Ohhhh, it's very convenient!

Fortune Telling Slips

I went to a famous Onsen(hot spring) area called Hakone yesterday.
Before Onsen, I went to a shrine.
At a shrine, we usually do 2 things.
Pray and then draw a fortune telling slip called Omikuji.





Of course I drew one.
Do you want to know what my slip told me?

It adviced me very strictly ...like "you'll find your missing article soon, but it's useless (what!!!??)" , "if you are still idle, you'll spoil your life, so study hard." It's too strict, isn't it?

But I think it's kinda right. Recently I couldn't spend enough time on studying because of a cold even though I'm going to take an English examination in June.
I swear to begin preparing for it from tomorrow.
huwaaaaaaa, I'm so sleepy now.
Good night, guys:D