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2009-12-04T09:51:00.005+09:00

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2009-11-27T10:49:00.008+09:00

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2009-07-10T09:48:00.007+09:00

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No music, no life Vol.10

2008-01-19T22:17:00.003+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music. I wanna many people to know so many awesome music because many people probably don't know about this music. Thus, I will show you a lot of bands or musicians whom I thought are awesome, entitling "no music, no life".

This time, I will introduce "zilch" to you. "zilch" is a Japanese and American band or unit. The band was put together by hide in 1995 (also please see No music, no life Vol. 1). The members are hide(vocal, guitar), Ray McVeigh (guitar, programming), and Paul Raven (bass), but the members are flexible, that is, the member without the three member varies according to the project. The characteristics of the sound is "Punk", "Heavy Rock", "Grunge", "Alternative Rock", "Industrial Rock", and "Electronica", and so on. Therefore, the band started from now, but then, hide passed away. Unfortunately, they released only one album, "3.2.1.".

More information about them is here, and another one is here.

This is one of my favorite song, "ELECTRIC CUCUMBER"!

Test is coming soon.

2008-01-16T13:23:00.000+09:00

Next week, tests will start. I have to take 11 tests from January 22 to 31 and to write some reports. It will be hard to me especially the tests of teaching, so I have to study harder on Thursday. The day, I will take 2 tests of teaching.

WEI

2008-01-16T09:19:00.001+09:00

Writing IVa: Portfolio
0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, and Words


Months	08	09	10	11	12	01	Totals
Book reviews	0	0	6	3	4	1	14
Blog posts	1	4	13	7	10	6	41
Words	183	934	3163	1369	2310	739	8698
TOTAL	---	---	---	---	---	---	---

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1.0. Movie Reviews

1.1. Showcase [+ links]	Dates on blog (yy.mm.dd)	¶	W	Notes
Toy Story	2007.10.10	4	379
Kill Bill	2007.10.30	2	519
Romeo and Juliet	2007.11.06	3	353
Mrs Doubtfire	2007.11.20	2	562
School of Rock/Forrest Gump	2007.12.01	4	591
Lilo & Stich/Shrek	2007.12.19	4	633
Totals	---	19	3037	---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs three or more sentences in length

W: number of words

1.2. Best Movie Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those movie reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

My best movie review is "Movie Review 2-05" because I wrote 591 words and because I thought I was able to write the sentences logically.

[Remove square brackets, including these remarks; identify your best essay, and write out reasons for selecting it here.]

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2.0. Comments

Total number of comments (use dashboard)
Months	08	09	10	11	12	01	Total
	0	0	2	0	3	0	5

Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts (yy.mm.dd)	Qualities of comments[]
Any one of your movie reviews	Movie Review 2-05	08.01.30	good
When did you respond to those comments?	---	08.01.30	---
How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	good
Any of your other posts*	Book Review 2-04	07.11.14	good
When did you respond to those comments?	---	08.01.30	---
How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	good

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post.

Recent comments display
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/12/book-review-2-11.html#c8495437166386144236

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where or why not?

Yes, I display in sidebar because people are easy to see my blog posts.

Additional reflections on comments

I should write more comments.

[Remove square brackets, including these remarks; write out your reflections on giving and receiving comments here.]

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3.0. Book Reviews

	Short titles with links	Dates (yy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
2-01	Book Review 2-01	07.10.02	461
2-02	Book Review 2-02	07.10.29	412
2-03	Book Review 2-03	07.10.29	176
2-04	Book Review 2-04	07.10.30	214	1
2-05	Book Review 2-05	07.10.30	369
2-06	Book Review 2-06	07.10.31	254
2-07	Book Review 2-07	07.11.07	124
2-08	Book Review 2-08	07.11.13	232
2-09	Book Review 2-09	07.11.20	323
2-10	Book Review 2-10	07.12.05	226
2-11	Book Review 2-11	07.12.10	294	1
2-12	Book Review 2-12	07.12.18	236
2-13	Book Review 2-13	07.12.26	205
2-14	Book Review 2-14	08.01.09	209
2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18


---	---	TOTALS:	3735	2

Note: Please calculate book review words and comments totals without the example (above).

4.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

My best book review is Book Review 2-01 because I wrote 461 words and because I was able to write the sentences logically.

[Remove square brackets, including these remarks; identify your best book review, and write out reasons for selecting it here.]

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0. Additional reflections on your blog writing
I should have written every week.

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6.0. Suggestions for your peers and successors
Please study harder!

No music, no life Vol.9

2008-01-12T22:17:00.000+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music. I wanna many people to know so many awesome music because many people probably don't know about this music. Thus, I will show you a lot of bands or musicians whom I thought are awesome, entitling "no music, no life".

This time, I will introduce "Dragon Ash" to you. "Dragon Ash" is already well-known as a Japanese mixture band. They have done a lot for popularization of "hip-hop" in Japan. Their music have characterstics of various music, for example, "Punk", "Hardcore", "hip-hop", "Electronica", and "Latin music". Also, the member is 7, so they are big band. The members are kj (vocal, guitar), IKÜZÖNE (bass), MAKOTO SAKURAI (drums), BOTS (turntable), HIROKI (guitar), DRI-V (break dance), and ATSUSHI (break dance).
in 2007, they are 10th anniversary, so they released 2 best album, "The Best of Dragon Ash with Changes Vol. 1" and the Vol. 2.
I like their various sound with "Rock", "PUNK", "hip-hop", and so on.

More information about them is here.

Book Review 2-14

2008-01-09T18:37:00.000+09:00

Today, I read this book, "JUMANJI", which has already been famous in the world as the movie in 1995.

In 1869, two boys buried big box made by wood in the ground in forest. In 1969, Alan who was a sheepish boy found the big box. The big box is a game named "JUMANJI", so he played the game with Sarah who is his girl friend but the result of the game really happened, so he was drawn into the game board.

26 years later, Judy and Peter found the game box in the attic and played it. Immediately, mosquitoes, monkeys, and lions appeared. Peter tossed dice and then Alan returned to real world. He became 38 years old. He decided to stop this nightmare to end this game with the sister. The three players continued the game and finally Alan finished first. Then, animals, jungles, and hanter returned to the game board. The next thing he knew was that young Alan was in 1969. He threw the game box into a river and then he got married with Sarah. In 1995, they saw Judy and Peter again at the Christmas Party.

I enjoyed reading this book. I want to watch the movie because I hane not watched it.

New Year's Party

2008-01-05T11:35:00.000+09:00

Yesterday, I went to a New Year's Party because one of my friends proposed that we held a New Year's Party. Of course, I went to the party in the fun. In the party we drunk, sang songs, and talked about my friend's news. As the result, the party became like class reunion because the most participants were my classmate in my high school.
I enjoyed the party very much!

Happy New Year!!

2008-01-01T12:20:00.000+09:00

Happy New Year!! It is the beginning of a new year!
In this year, I wanna get more English skill, especially conversation ability, and become playing the guitar well.
By the way, I went to shrines to pray, I mean, New Year's visits to shrines. I also bought lucky charms and draw sacred lots to tell my fortunes of this year. The fortune was "Tyu-kichi".

New Year's Eve

2007-12-31T14:05:00.000+09:00

Today is New Year's Eve! Probably, most people think time goes by with lighting speed. Did you enjoy in this year? I was able to enjoy various things in 2007. One of the things which I memorize is Kaigaikensyu(study abroad). In last summer holiday, I went to England to study English but I didn't realize that I could improve my English skill. Thus, I have to study English more next year.

Book Reveiw 2-13

2007-12-26T14:16:00.000+09:00

I read this book, "RAIN MAN". This story is well-known for the movie in 1988, which Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise star.

Charlie Buffman who is a second-hand car dealer went to Palm Springs with Susanna who is his girl friend. On the way to the city, he knows that his father died, so he went to Cincinnati to pay his last respects. He knows his legacy is only a car and a rose tree, at the same time, he knows Raymond who is actually his brother and who is an autistic individual is an hair to a properity, so he takes him out hospital. Thus, Charlie, Raymond, and Susanna go to Los Angels.

One day, Charlie decides to look after Raymond to get the half of his legacy. Susanna knows that and walks out on him. One night, they stay at a motel and then he finds Raymond was "Rain man" who only warmed his heart, so he changes his mind and he decides to be real gurdian for Raymond. Therefore, he have a strong bond with him. However, he loses a judgement in the court.

I like this story and I have not watched this movie, so I want to watch the movie.

No music, no life Vol. 8

2007-12-22T22:16:00.000+09:00

Movie Review 6 -Shrek-

2007-12-19T18:06:00.000+09:00

Shrek is an American movie, which is a fantasy, comedy, adventure story in 2001. Also, the movie was a full CG animation film and the story is based on a picture book written by William Steig’s in 1990. This movie is the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Animated. The award was introduced in 2001.
Shrek (Mike Myers) is a large, scary, green monster who lives a quiet life in his home in a swamp, but this life is disturbed when he help Donkey (Eddie Murphy) who is talkative and who escapes from his owner. Donkey can talk with people so his owner tries to sell him because soldiers of Duloc buy some rare goods and animals. The Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) gets involved in ruling a “perfect kingdom” and uses the Magic Mirror to select a princess bride who he can marry in order to become the king. He chooses Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz). She is captive in a castle where a Dragon lives. The Mirror tries to warn Farquaad about Fiona’s secret, but Farquaad ignores it.
Farquaad holds a tournament to select a knight worthy rescuing Princess Fiona, but then Shrek and Donkey break into the tournament. Farquaad orders the knights to kill Shrek but Shrek fights them and defeats them, so Farquaad decides that Shrek is the knight because he is the winner of the tournament. Shrek rejects the order once, but he decides to go to rescue Princess Fiona in order to remove fairy tale creatures which are in his swamp now from his swamp.
When they get to the castle, a rickety bridge is in their way to enter the castle. They begin to cross but Donkey is afraid to cross, so Shrek forces him to move back and finally stepping off. When they enter in the castle, they split up to look for Princess Fiona. Donkey finds the stairs, so Shrek remembers a book which said princess is in the highest room of the tallest tower. On the other hand, Donkey also searches for Princess Fiona, but he runs into the dragon which is fire breathing and which is guarding her, so Shrek and Donkey run away but the dragon chases them. They manage to catch the dragon and Shrek attempts to kill the dragon but Donkey protects the dragon, so the dragon, which is actually female, loves him. Finally, they find Princess Fiona and go back to the kingdom.
On the way to the kingdom, Shrek gets falling in love with Fiona and she also loves him, but she has a secret. It is that she is also ogre actually in night. She tries to say that to him but he gets something wrong, so he gets angry and thinks she considers that he is ugly ogre. Therefore, he forces to take her to the kingdom. He wants to get back to his swamp. Donkey knows Fiona’s secret so he blurts out her secret but Shrek remains refusing to hear.
After that, Shrek lives in his swamp as before. Donkey can’t stand keeping the secret and leaving them so he tells Shrek the secret and what Fiona loves him truly. He finds that, he rushes to Farquaad’s castle to stop their wedding but he isn’t able to make it in time. Then, Donkey whistles so Dragon appears and takes Shrek and Fiona. Farquaad realizes that Shrek loves Fiona truly and begins laughing. Then Fiona shows Shrek her true figure, which is ogre like Shrek. Farquaad is surprised and he offers to kill them. Shrek whistles so Dragon appears again and she swallows Farquaad. Shrek tells Fiona that he truly loves her and they share a kiss that turns Fiona into an ogress all the time.
At the last, Shrek and Fiona get married.

Book Review 2-12

2007-12-18T13:48:00.000+09:00

I read "Romeo and Juliet"

I was impressed by the tragedy about Romeo and Juliet. All in all, I think that the most impressed thing is the tragedy of their love but I noticed something odd about “Romeo and Juliet” so I will mention Contradiction about it.
Of course, I think “Romeo and Juliet” is immortal literary work but characters in the story should deliberate more.
First, I think about Romeo. He should reflect common sense. If he was found by the Capulet people in the dance party, the friction between the two families was worse and worse.
Second, I look at Juliet. Because she is a Christian (she was wedding ceremony in a church), she cannot divorce Romeo simply so she had to say to her father that she got double married when she was ordered by him.
Third, I write about Father Laurence. He should ponder some good ideas more than giving dangerous drags. If he didn’t give the drags, they were not dead.
Last, I have a think about the ending of this story. Both families could make up the conflict for hundreds of years without their death if the conflict was able to be solved only their death.

That is why I think Romeo and Juliet must reflect more. If they did so and if they kept their wits about them, this tragedy didn’t cause. Eventually, Romeo and Juliet were too young.

No music, no life Vol. 7

2007-12-15T22:15:00.000+09:00

Book Review 2-11

2007-12-10T11:30:00.000+09:00

I read this book, "Forrest Gump".

Forrest Gump was raised by his mother and was a mentally-challenged child. When he entered at elementary school, he saw Jenny who offered her seat to him and she became his only friend.

One day, when he was bullied by classmates, he could ran all the way to the end of the world. He was able to enter at university as an American Football player because he was able to run fast. He was selected to All-American so he received encouragement by President Kennedy. Five years later, he went to Vietnam War. His platoon was attacked by the enemy with aggravation of the war situation. He helped Bubba who was a best friend and Lt. Dan Tailor who was the platoon commander, but Bubba was dead and Dan who lost both his foot blamed Forrest on his help. After that, he saw Jenny again but she left him. In the hospital, he played table tennis and developed his skill, so he took part in the World Championship. Also, he and John Lennon was paired together in TV so that he achieved a popular status. Then, he bought a fishing boat. This thing was a promise with Bubba. He got good catch, so he became rich. After that, his mother's death made him return to his home and then he met Jenny again. She also loved him but she left again.

He had run for three years. He became a demigod and a hero. He visited Jenny after he received and read a letter. He found his son there and Jenny named the little boy "Forrest". After that, he got married with her but she died soon.

I enjoyed reading this book but sometimes I did not understand Forrest.

No music, no life Vol. 6

2007-12-08T21:32:00.000+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music. I wanna many people to know so many awesome music because many people probably don't know about this music. Thus, I will show you a lot of bands or musicians whom I thought are awesome, entitling "no music, no life".

This time, I will introduce "ZEPPET STORE" to you. I had showed you bands which play heavy sound, but this time, "ZEPPET STORE" played "tender" Rock. Their sound is Rock but is tender, so I feel comfortable and am moved.
They were recruited by "hide" because he loved their album, "Swing、Slide、Sandpit" which was in Indie label, so he wanted to see them. He loved them more so he decided to make his label, "LEMONeD" to introduce them to people.
Unfortunately, they disbanded in 2005.

More information about them is here.

This song is "SOMETHINGS SIMPLY VANISH", which is one of my favorite songs.

Book Review 2-10

2007-12-05T00:13:00.000+09:00

I read this book, "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS".

Cora was going to see his father who is a front-line colonel with his sister and Heyward who is a major fall in love with Cora, who can not find the answer to his curtship. Then, Magua who is an Indian and whose wife and children was killed by Colonel Munro attacked them. When Cora was trained his gun on, Chingachock, his sons, Uncas, and Hawkeye save her.
Cora and Howkeye loves each other, but Heyward who was torn by jealousy charge Hokeye with treason and inprison him. Colonel Munro surrenders to the French troops and then the Huron attacked the army. In the chaos of the war, Howkeye saves Cora and Uncas saves Alice. However, Cora and Alice were caught by the Huron. Howkeye asks them to save Cora and Alice. The cheiftain say that we tear Cora limb from limb and that we force Alice to get married with Magua. Heyward substitutes himself for her so Howkeye and Cora go free. However, Uncas tries to help Alice but he was killed so Alice suicides then. Irate Chingachock fights against the Mohicans and he defeats Magua. That is why Howkeye becomes "the last of the Mohicans" and he gets married with Cora.

I didn't understand why this story moves people. I didn't enjoy reading this book.

No music, no life Vol. 5

2007-12-01T20:11:00.000+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music. I wanna many people to know so many awesome music because many people probably don't know about this music. Thus, I will show you a lot of bands or musicians whom I thought are awesome, entitling "no music, no life".

This time, I will show you "Marilyn Manson". Marilyn Manson is an American band and is also the leader of the band. The band name come from Marilyn Monroe as a symbol of beauty and Charles Manson as a symbol of evil.
His music is categolized various genre such as Hard Rock, Industrial Rock, Altarnative Rock, and Pops. He affects Japanese "Visual Kei" band. His live performance is very radical and he makes 2nd album, "Antichrist Superstar", so he often is criticized by Christian. However, he just sing about freedom, but hardheaded people cannot understand it.
...Anyway, his music is awesome I think. In addition, some songs of him used in some movies, for example, "The Matrix", "The Matrix Reloaded", "Resident Evil", and so on. Also, he has various talent because he paint a watercolor and makes a film, "Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll" now.

More information about him is here.

This song is "Rock is Dead" used in "The Matrix".

Movie Review 2-05

2007-12-01T12:19:00.000+09:00

"School of Rock" is an American comedy movie in 2003. This movie is about one rock musician changing strict school students through rock music.

Dewey Finn (Jack Black) is the guitarist and singer in his heavy metal and hard rock band. He loves rock music and his band, but one day, he is fired from the band. In addition, he lives an apartment in which his best friend, Ned Schneebly (Mike White), also lives but he is behind in his rent so Patty De Marco (Sarah Silverman) who is Ned’s girlfriend complains about Dewey.
Then, the telephone rings and he answers the phone. The call is from the principal, Rosalie Mullins (Joan Cusack), of Horace Green Elementary School which is a highly prestigious prep school and she asks Ned to be the substitute teacher. Dewey who is in financial need gets an idea that he passes him off as Ned and that he is to be a substitute teacher in the school.
Thus, he becomes a teacher nicknamed “Mr. S” as Ned but he doesn’t teach anything to students. He just says to students that take a break so they are at a loss and say to him that please teach them, but he repeats that. One day, however, he sees their music class and hears their music so he discovers that some of them in the class have musical talent and decides to give a special school project, which is to take part in “Battle of the Band”. Dewey selects the members of the band. Zack Mooneyham (Joy Gaydos) who is nicknamed "Zack Attack" is the guitarist, Freddy Jones (Kevin Alexander Clark) who is nicknamed "Spazzy McGee" is the drummer, Katie (Rebecca Julia Brown) who nicknamed “Posh Spice” is the bass guitarist, and Lawrence (Robert Tsai) who is nicknamed “Mr. Cool” is the keyboardist. Moreover, Tomika (Maryam Hassan) nicknamed "Turkey Sub", Marta (Caitlin Hale) nicknamed "Blondie", and Alicia (Aleisha Allen) nicknamed "Braceface" are the back-up singers. Also, some students work behind the scene as a security, a roadie, working smoke machine, and groupies. They are absorbed in playing and studying rock and especially, Zack write a original song, “School of Rock”. When Dewey listened to this song, he was exited and was amazed.
Finally, they take part in “The Battle of the Bands” but before that, Dewey’s real identity was revealed, so he was fired. He loses his sense of purpose in the school and in his life. However, the students take him on the way to the contest. He apologizes to them and they rush in the contest. They arriving there, Dewey decides to play not "Legend of the Rent" but “School of Rock” because he think that the song Zack wrote is really cool. Most of bands finish their performance and the time has come. Definitely, Dewey and the students lose but they enjoy own performance, so they are satisfied. Then, the audiences loudly boo. They want School of Rock to play again, that is, they call for an encore, so they play their music again.
In the credit, the students play rock with Dewey and Ned teach how to play the guitar to little children.

I like this movie because I also love rock music. In this movie, so many names and music of famous rock bands and rock musician over the world are used, for example, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, AC/DC, The Who, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Sex Pistols, and so on. I like these bands, so I understand why Dewey teaches that.

No music, no life Vol. 4

2007-11-24T17:49:00.000+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music. I wanna many people to know so many awesome music because many people probably don't know about this music. Thus, I will show you a lot of bands or musicians whom I thought are awesome, entitling "no music, no life".

This time, I will show "Coaltar of the Deepers".
"Coaltar of the Deepers" makes noise and tone, that is, the sounds are mixed various music such as Thrash Metal, Neo Acoustic, Techno, Bossa Nova, and so on. The band receives the backing of enthusiastic rock fans and NARASAKI who is the leader conducts various musical activities.
Most Japanese don't know the band, but people around the world appreciate their music. I think that their music is Rock which Japanese perform to the world. I like such bands which get their music known in the world.

More information about them is here.

Enjoy their noise!

Book review 2-09

2007-11-20T14:00:00.000+09:00

I read this book, "APOLLO 13". This story is also an American film in 1995 which is based on a true story.

Jim Lovell who is an experienced astronaut will board APOLLO 14 but the project changes, so he boards APOLLO 13 on very short notice. He chooses his team member but he is informed that one of them, Ken, may be at risk for German measles. Jim makes the decission to bamp Ken off the flight and replace him with Jack.
On 14th April, APOLLO 13 takes off. Immidiately after the launch, an explosion occurs. As the result, oxygen leak from the oxygen tank and developed power of fuel buttery get dropping. Experts predict that it is hopless situation but Gene who is the flight directer tries to return the crews. On the Earth, Ken simulates how to return to Earth. In the APOLLO 13 they sustain hope that they return to Earth. Then, they decide to penetrate the atmosphere. After the atmosphere entry, they can not communicate for about 3 minutes. However, it already takes 3 minutes after the atmosphere entry. Then, they can communicate. They return to Earth safely.

I enjoyed this book. I like this story.

Movie Review 4 -Mrs. Doubtfire-

2007-11-20T01:25:00.000+09:00

Mrs. Doubtfire is an American comedy movie in 1993.
Daniel Hillard (Robin Williams) who didn't like serious was a voice actor and had a lot of kinds of voices. He had a wife, Miranda Hillard (Sally Field) and three children, Lydia (Lisa Jakub), Chris (Matthew Lawrence), and Natalie (Mara Wilson) and loved them very much. He worked some animation studio but he quited the job because he lived up to his beliefs. The day, he gave a birthday party for Chris who was his son, so he invited so many his friends and animals. They had a wild time and littered his house but then Miranda who was serious came back home. She was stunned to look at own house, so she decided to divorce him. As a result of trial, he lost custody of his children for two months because he didn't have a job and house to live in, so he could meet his children only in Saturday. He despaired and lived off his brother, Frank (Harvey Fierstein) who was an aritst doing a makeup. He had to find a new job and new house in the two months, or he lost custody of his children forever. At first, he looked for a new job and found it. His new job was carrying some properties in TV studio. However, he couldn't stand seeing his children only once in a week because he was anxious to see them, so he decided to be a housekeeper. Then, he asked his gay brother to change him for woman. With the cosmetics skills of him and of his brother’s partner, he became an old woman as Mrs. Doubtfire. He succeeded in being a housekeeper and he worked perfectly as a housekeeper. His children studied harder and got better grades at school because of him/her, and Miranda also felt happier. Therefore, Mrs. Doubtfire was accepted by them. Then, Miranda met Stu (Pierce Brosnan) who was her former boyfriend again and then it came out for children except Natalie that Mrs. Doubtfire was Daniel, but they promised not to tell that.
Daniel criticized some TV program which was for children in his workplace and Jonathan Lundy (Robert Prosky) who was the president saw his clowning with toy dinosaur and he thought it was interesting, so he wanted to hear his idea for new TV program, and so he promised to meet at diner. He was happy but the day was Miranda’s birthday, so Stu invited her, her children, and Mrs. Doubtfire, so meeting with the president and diner with the Hillards and Stu was at the same time and at the same restaurant. Thus, he had to change clothes in the bathroom to go both to his family and to his boss, but his disguise was revealed. Miranda is shocked to learn that her beloved housekeeper is really her ex-husband.
Finally, he lost custody of his children, but then, he could have his TV program as Mrs. Doubtfire. Miranda and the children missed him/her, so she decided to ask him as their father to take care of the children.
I thought this movie was very interesting and heartwarming story. This movie also teaches what family is and importance of family. What impressed me was personally using Aerosmith’s song, “Dude” in this movie. Mrs. Doubtfire danced to the music of it with cleaning. I like that scene.

No music, no life Vol. 3

2007-11-17T12:29:00.000+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music. I wanna many people to know so many awesome music because many people probably don't know about this music. Thus, I will show you a lot of bands or musicians whom I thought are awesome, entitling "no music, no life".
This time, I wanna show you "NINE INCH NAILS" which is an American band. Now, I introduced "NINE INCH NAILS" as a band, but actually, the band is also a project of Trent Reznor who is a main person in the band.
"NINE INCH NAILS" is an Industrial band. "Industrial" is one of genre of music and the sound is made by electronic instruments or computers, which is often found in Rock and Dance music.
Trent Reznor makes innovative and precisive sound and performs radical staging, so his sound and performance have impact on many artists. Industrial music was considered as an underground music but he made the music popular.
He won Grammy Award as the best metal performer in 1993 and in 1996. Also, he was named TIME's Person of the Year in 1997.

More information about him is here.

I though he is a genius when I first listened his music and sound. He is awesome!!!

acquiring driver's licence

2007-11-14T09:33:00.000+09:00

Finally, I got driver's licence. I felt that it took so long time. Actually, I went to driver's school for about 10 months because I was too busy at that time such as writing so many reports, reading so many books, and like that.
Anyway, I am happy to acquire driver's licence.

Book Review 2-08

2007-11-13T10:15:00.000+09:00

I read this book, "MR BEAN". Mr. Bean is famous as a strange and funny character around the world. "MR BEAN" was a film based on the TV series in 1997.

Mr. Bean is a curator in an art museum, The National Gallery. He is sent with a painting, "Whistler's Mother" to America as an authority of the painting but what he is the authority is a lie. He blows up a storm at the airport in America. After that, he decides to stay in David's home but he breaks "Whistler's Mother". He sneeze in front of the painting so the part of the painting is broken. Thus, he juggles with a poster of the picture and exhibit it.

On the day of the exhibition, the poster as "Whistler's Mother" doesn't come to light and Mr. Bean's speech surprisingly touches the hearts of the people. Then, he knows Jennifer who is a daughter of David was involved in a traffic accident. Mr. Bean brings her back to life by coincident.

At the last, he returns to England. He gets into bed. Before he went to bed, he looked up at the wall opposite his bed and smiled. There is the famous painting with the funny face.

When I read this book, I was happy. I thought Mr. Bean is so interesting, so I want to watch the new movie, "Mr. Bean's Holiday".

No music, no life Vol.2

2007-11-10T12:10:00.000+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music. I wanna many people to know so many awesome music because many people probably don't know about this music. Thus, I will show you a lot of bands or musicians whom I thought are awesome, entitling "no music, no life".
This time, I will introduce to you one of Japanese bands, "THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS".
"THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS" are KYONO(vocal), TAKESHI UEDA(bass, vocal, programming), and MOTOKATSU MIYAGAMI(dram, programming). They are often categolized "Mixture Rock" or "Digital Hardcore" but it doesn't matter to me. Anyway they play so powerful music and the sound ownz.
They had played their music in England two times, and they took part in big rock festivals in England which are called "OZZ FEST" and "KERRANG FEST", so they are popular in Europe.
Therefore, I think they are one of leading Japanese Rock bands. Please check it out!!

More information about them is here.

This movie is their performance in SUMMER SONIC which is one of the biggest rock festival in Japan.

Book Review 2-07

2007-11-07T13:31:00.000+09:00

I read "the JUNGLE BOOK".

A family of wolves takes a little boy, Mowgli, into their home in the jungle. Mowgli learns and plays with the other cubs. In the jungle, we can see so many animals such as Baloo which is a sloth bear, Bagheera which is a black panther, and so on. The two animals, Baloo and Bagheera, teach Mowgli the law of jungle because he becomes the king of the jungle.

Thus, Mowgli overcomes difficulties to become the king of the jungle, and then, he fights Shere Khan which is his long time enemy, so he won.

I had read this story in my childhood, but this story is difficult from the story I read. However, I enjoyed reading this book.

Movie Reviw 3 - Romeo+Juliet

2007-11-06T00:46:00.000+09:00

Romeo and Juliet was a play written by William Shakespeare who was an English dramatist and poet, and who was the best English writer of English literature. He was also well known as writing the four best tragedy of him, which were Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear.

In first day, Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) met Juliet (Claire Danes) in the masquerade which was held by Capulets but they were rival house and knew that each other. However, they fell in love at first sight each other and promised getting married. In second day, they got married but Romeo saw Mercutio (Harold Perrineau Jr.), one of his friends, killed by Capulets, so he killed Tybalt (John Leguizamo) who was a cousin of Juliet and he was deported on a court order. In third day, Juliet went to take advice from Friar Lawrence (Pete Postlethwaite). To succeed in their love, she once accepted getting married with Paris (Paul Rudd). After that, she took a drug to be state of apparent death. Friar Lawrence thought that he sent to Romeo to tell a plan that their going to Manture after she woke up, but he was not able to accept the letter. In the last day, Romeo kissed Juliet who slept by a drug and she woke up but he got something wrong and thought she was dead, so he decided to suicide by drinking poison. However, she didn’t die and found his dead, so she despaired and also decided to die.

I have watched this movie filmed in 1968, so I thought the movie impressed me but I couldn’t enjoy this movie. This movie was filmed in 1996 and it is said that this film was a contemporized version of it, so the characters wore an aloha shirt and they used not swords but guns, but it was funny for me. Why did they wear an aloha shirt? Why murders were only reprimanded? I had many questions while I watched it. Of course I thought it was interesting to put the situation contemporary, but I thought Baz Luhrmann had everything his way in this movie.

No music, no life Vol. 1

2007-11-03T15:40:00.000+09:00

I love music very much, so I cannot live without music.
Then, I will show you a lot of my favorite bands or musicians, entitling "no music, no life".
This is the first time, so I want to show you a guitarist who is the greatest musician or guitarist for me. The artist is "hide".

Do you know "hide". He was famous for the guitarist of "X-JAPAN", at first. From 1993 he made his solo debut and he released two solo singles, "Eyes love you", "50 % 50" at the same time. After that, he released CDs one after another.

The greatest characteristic of him was his sense. He had great sense of music, fashion, and ideas. Music which he composed had various elements of so many kinds of music such as Industrial, hard rock, heavy metal, J-pops, and so on. So, I think his tunes are very awesome!!
Also, he designed some guitars, which called "hide model". I want these guitar because the guitars are so cute and cool! But these are expensive for me now. If I save money enough to buy one of them and if I become to play the guitar well, I will buy the guitar, "Yellow Heart".

Anyway, please listen to his music, and more information about him is here.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide

This is my favorite song, "MISERY"!

Book Review 2-06

2007-10-31T00:49:00.000+09:00

I read "Of mice and men". John Steinbeck who is a famous writer wrote this story in 1937.

In Depression era, George who is clever and knowing and Lennie who is mentally deficient and too strong are wandering from one farm to other farms. They hope one day to fulfill their shared dream of settling down on their own piece of land.

George and Lennie arrived at a ranch. They meet some members like them and work harmoniously with colleagues. When they get used to their work, Candy who is one of their colleagues and who is the oldest person in their group offers to pitch in with George and Lennie so they can buy the farm by the end of the month. They feel their heart heap but Curley who is a son of the owner of the farm hates them. One night, Curley does violence to Lennie so Lennie inflicts serious physical injuly on him accidently. Slim who is their leader help them through this difficult time. On Sunday, Lennie is disconsolate about the death of puppy and then the young and attractive wife of Curley came there. He accidently kills her. He is surprised and run away from the farm. George and Candy unearth the body and understand the situation so they try to settle the problem but Curley knows that. Therefore, Curley decides to kill him and he pursues Lennie with guns. George finds Lennie before Curley does. Then, he shoots Lennie.

I thought what a sad story this is.

Movie Review 2-02

2007-10-30T12:54:00.000+09:00

"Kill Bill" is an American movie and the main theme is "revenge".

We audience were greeted by the ghastly sight of The Bride (Uma Thurman), the main character, lying in a pool of blood in the start of this movie. She was wearing a blood-spattered wedding gown after she was lynched the assassins who were originally the same party in the wedding chapel. She attempted to tell her would be killer, Bill (David Carradine), that she is pregnant with his baby, but he shoots her in the side of the head.
Four years later, The Bride arrived at Vernita's house. Vernita (Vivica A. Fox) was one of the assassins and was codenamed "Copperhead". Vernita opened the door with a smile but the Bride attacked her in order to kill her. However, Nikki, who was Vernita's daughter, arrived home from school, so they paused the fight until she was taken to her room. In the kitchen, Vernita apologized for being false to her trust but the Bride refused. Vernita gave a suggestion to the Bride to a knife fight later that evening. Vernita then, however, tried to shoot the Bride with a gun, but she missed and the Bride killed her with a knife. Then, Nikki accidentally witness the fight, so the Bride apologized her and said to her that the Bride will wait for her if she grows up and wants to revenge the Bride. After that, the Bride left in a car.
The Bride woke up after her slumber. She escaped from the hospital after killing a man. She deprived a car of him and hid in the back seat. Then, she tried to work her limbs. In the back of the truck, the Bride recalled O-Ren (Lucy Liu) to her mind. She had her personal bodyguard, Go-Go Yubari (Chiaki Kuriyama), her friend and lawyer Sofie fatale(Julie Dreyfus), and Johnny Mo, who was a leader of the Crazy 88, O-Ren's personal army.
The Bride went to Okinawa to get a samurai sword from Hattori Hanzo (Shinchi Chiba), who was a master craftsman of samurai sword. Though He strongly decided to never make another sword, so the Bride persuaded him to make a new sword. He finally decided to make it and created the best sword for her.
The Bride went to the "House of Blue Leaves". After the Bride arrived there, she fought Go-Go Yubari and members of the Crazy 88, and so she killed all of them. Then she eventually fought O-Ren with samurai swords in a snowy garden. Thus, she killed O-Ren.
This story stops here in "Kill Bill volume 1", continued to volume 2.

I dislike this movie. This movie is an action movie but is like a comedy, an animation, and a comic for me. If we think this is what his movie is about, it may be interesting. In addition, why did animation be used from the middle of this movie? I mean, the scene was that O-Ren was a child. Moreover, I don't like that Japanese is used in this movie halfway. That is why I am not interested in this movie.

Book Review 2-05

2007-10-30T00:30:00.001+09:00

I read this book, "TITANIC!". This story is well-known for being made into movie in 1997, which was an American romantic movie and which Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star in. Also, this movie win eleven academy awards, which have ever been unbreakable, and is the highest grossing film.

In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett was salvaging TITANIC to find a necklace set with a valuable blue diamond called the "Heart of the Ocean". He found a picture of a young woman wearing the "Heart of the Ocean" and the date was the TITANIC sank. An old man, Rose Dawson Calvert who was one houndred years old watched the scene on TV so she came to see him with Lizzy who was her grand children. Rose was one of the survivers and she began to talk about the tragic voyage.

In 1912 Jack Dawson who was aspiring artist won a bet and got the ticket so he got on the third-class cabin before the TITANIC left. Rose who was seventeen years old at that time and who was better class of people got on the TITANIC with Cal, Ruth and Molly. Cal was her fiance, Ruth was her mother, who forced her to be engaged to Cal and Molly was a rich woman. Rose wanted to refuse getting married to him so she decided to suicide and she tried to jump off the bow of the ship but Jack saved her. Jack was invited to the first-class party and he knew upper-class life but at the same time he fell in love with her. After that, he drew the picture of her wearing the valuable blue diamond. Cal knew that and got jealous of Jack so he made a false charge against him and he kept him imprisoned in a cabin. At the midnight, the TITANIC collided with an iceberg and began to swamp slowly. Therefore, the crews launched lifeboats but the ship didn't have enough the boats. Rose helped Jack in priority to get on the boats. They were waiting rescue holding on the wrecks in the freezing sea. Rose was saved but Jack died.

I had watched this story in theater so I was not so moved.

Book Review 2-04

2007-10-30T00:29:00.002+09:00

I read this book, Robin Hood. This story is well known all over the world. This story is summarized as follows.

Robin Hood was clever, strong, and brave. He loved advenrure, and he was the best fighter in England. He took money from rich people and gave it to the poor people. The greedy Sheriff of Nottingham hated Robin, and the beautiful Lady Marian lobed him.

This story is the most famous Robin Hood stories. Many countries have stories about brave and clever adventures, but is Robin Hood only a story? Perhaps he really did live, and perhaps not. There was a King Richard, who was king from 1189 to 1199. He left England and fought in Jerusalem. When he was away, Prince John was the most important man in England, and then, John was the next king when Richard died.

The story said that Robin Hood lived with his men in Sherwood Forest, near the town of Nottingham. Sherwood Forest and Nottingham were about 200 kilometres north of London. Many people there said that Robin Hood really lived in the forest.

I knew this story, but I forgot most of the story, so I remembered it when I read this. Of course, it is interesting but this story is for children, I think.

Book Review 2-03

2007-10-29T17:09:00.003+09:00

I read Moby Dick, which was written by Herman Melville. This book is rated as the best of literature about ocean.

Main characters are Captain Ahab who was wearing a prosthetic limb, Starbuck who was a chief mate, Ishmael who was a narrator, Queequeg was a whaler. They came aboard "the Pequod" which is their ship and followed on white whale, which they said some call "Moby Dick" over the years. They got rid of a multitude of problems, so the journey came to its dramatic and tragic end when the Pequod, sailing despite dark portents, sights Moby Dick. For three long days the ship battled the white whale. Moby Dick shattered the Pequod’s hunting boats and then charged the ship itself, finally sinking it. Ahab and all the crew drown except Ishmael, who used the coffin built for Queequeg as a buoy. By pure luck, the still-searching Rachel sailed by and rescued Ishmael.

It was a adventure story I thought. It was interesting but a little boring for me.

Book Review 2-02

2007-10-29T17:09:00.001+09:00

I read A Christmas Carol. This book is well known as a work written by Charles Dickens and as "little Christmas book". The story was instantly successful, selling over six thousand copies in one week and, although originally written as a potboiler to enable Dickens to pay off a debt, the tale has become one of the most popular and enduring Christmas stories of all time.

A main character in this story is Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge who was an elderly merchant, was as cool as ice, and was as hard as nails. He underwent a profound experience of redemption over the course of one evening and was a money-charger who had devoted his life to the accumulation of wealth, so his name is "Scrooge". "Scrooge" means a person who is very unwilling to spend money. He held anything other than money in contempt, including friendship, love, and the Christmas season.

The story begins by establishing that Jacob Marley who was dead. That day was Christmas Eve. Scrooge and his clerk Bob Cratchit are at work in the counting house with Cratchit stationed in the poorly heated "tank", who was a victim of his employer's stinginess.

Three ghosts who were "the first of spirits", "the second of spirits", and "the last of spirits" visited Mr. Scrooge. I think we can consider "the first of spirits" as "the past ghost", "the second of spirits" as "the present ghost", and "the last of spirits" as "the future ghost".
"The past ghost" brought him back to his childhood days. In the past, he was lonely but had a dream and was naive, so he wasn't a money-charger and didn't have love of possession.
"The present ghost" led him various place in London and he was poor but he had a happy home. Then, the ghost showed him Cratchit's house and he knew Tim, a Cratchit's son was sick and wasn't able to live long. Mr. Scrooge went all over the world with "the present ghost", so he was tired and slept. The next day, he saw "the future ghost" who extended his arm. He heard a person of bad reputation dead from the ghost, but he didn't know who the person is.
After that, he saw Tim died and his own name on an abandoned grave. Then, he was borne away by an impulse. At the end, Mr. Scrooge knew that he could change his future.

I like this story because this book taught us being able to change the future.

X reunite!!!!!!!!

2007-10-23T06:40:00.000+09:00

Today, I was surprised to know "X-JAPAN" which is one of my favorite bands will reunite when I watched "Mezamshi TV", one of TV programs in every morning, in this morning. I was so happy to hear the news because I thought the band was never able to reunite for the death of the guitarist, hide. The fun of the band including me never thought that the band could not reunit without hide and that the band without him was not "X"!
That is why YOSHIKI who is a leader of the band decided to sampling hide's sound, which means using sound of guitar which hide was playing! Awesome!

This is the news on TV.

Fireworks in my home town

2007-10-21T22:44:00.001+09:00

Fireworks displays were held in my hometown, Yatsushitro on October 20th and this year is the 20th show of annual event. A lot of the workmen from around Japan participate this exhibition every year and they display their own fireworks and compete in the event.
I found some different type of fireworks in the event and learnt that. For example, "Star Mine" in Japan or "Mine" in other country is firework which is displayed consistently, so the type of firework is like a star. Also "Jyugoudama" (10号玉) means the large of the firework, so the large is about 330 centimeters. Last, I watched "Music fireworks" which is desplayed with music.
Anyway, those fireworks were so beautiful, so I had some pictures.

This is the video on you tube.

English Weekend

2007-10-21T22:41:00.000+09:00

I took part in "English Weekend" with my friends last weekend. "English Weekend" is held every year and for deepening friendships with exchange students. We stayed overnight at hostel in Goshi town, talked with each other, played games with English, having a barbecue, going to a hot spring resort, took a tour of beer factory, and so on.
Thus, we had a nice time and got along with each other.

I'm as busy as a bee!!!! 2

2007-10-17T09:25:00.000+09:00

I lead a busy life.I have not changed doiing a lot of homeworks such as doing lesson plans, making note for a speech, writning book reviews and reports, and more!

Movie Review 1

2007-10-10T15:11:00.000+09:00

“Toy Story” is a Disney CG animated movie, which was released in 1995 and is known as a first full-CG cartoon.

Andy (John Morris) like his toys. Woody (Tom Hanks), a cowboy toy, is his favorite toy, so he always play cowboys with his toys. In this story, toys speak and act secretly. Woody is a leader of Andy’s toys and is happy because Andy plays with him but things have changed. Andy’s birthday is coming so he gets a new toy, which is Buzz lightyear (Tim Allen). This toy is the latest action figure so children want him. He has a lot of functions, such as having a laser gun and wings, some buttons, so Andy like him soon. Woody doesn’t like that because thinks he thinks Buzz deprives his business. In fact, Andy prefers Buzz to Woody, so Woody envies Buzz. Then, Woody pushes him from a window. After that, Woody and Buzz are taken by Sid (Erik von Detten), who is a cruel boy. They meet Sid’s toys which are mismatched. In his room, Buzz has a lapse of confidence because he watches TV commercial about himself. He believes strongly that he is a “space ranger”, so he doesn’t listen to what Woody says, but he knows that he is not a “space ranger” but a toy which is made in Taiwan. However, they cooperate with each other and get back Andy’s home. Then, further problem is happen. Andy has already moved. They work together again. At that time, Buzz can fly actually, so they come back Andy’s hand safely.

This movie is exactly what the title says it is. I think “Toys move and talk in secret” is a dream which everyone has in childhood, thus most of adults also enjoys this movie. What impressed me most is a scene that Buzz knows his real identity. When Buzz who was depressed can fly in the final scene, he says that was falling with style to Woody.

Of course this movie is interesting to adults, but this is still children’s movie. I mean, adults predicts what happen next. For children, this movie is very good because this is a full of dream and adventure, so kids are interested in this film and can learn important things.

I'm as busy as a bee

2007-10-03T10:06:00.000+09:00

These days, I have a lot of homeworks such as doing lesson plans, making note for a speech, writning book reviews and reports, and more!
I'm tired within the first week in this term.

Book Review 2-01

2007-10-02T21:14:00.000+09:00

I decided to read this, The Secret Garden, as the first book in Autumn semester.
The Secret Garden is famous as a novel written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and is considered a classic of children's literature now.

Mary Lennox was a sickly, sour-faced little girl who was born in India to wealthy British parents, who was father who was very busy with work and didn’t come home, and was mother, who was very beautiful, spent all her time going to parties, so an Indian woman, Kamala, was paid to take care of the little girl. She was always giving orders to Kamala, who had to obey. She never thought of other people, but only of herself. In fact, she was a very selfish, disagreeable, bad tempered little girl, who was lonely.

One very hot morning, something strange was happening when Mary woke up. In that day, cholera epidemic made her an orphan, that is, her parents passed away suddenly and Indian servants ran off, so no one was in her house and thought of Mary. She hid in her bedroom an sometimes cried and sometimes slept. When she woke up the next day, the house was silent. Then, men were in her room and they were very sad about this tragedy. After that, they found Mary. At first, she was taken to an English family who had known her parents but she hated their untidy house and noisy children, and preferred playing by herself in the garden. One day, she was sent to an isolated country house which her uncle lived in in Yorkshire, in the north of England. Her uncle, Mr. Archibald craven, was also bad tempered, had no friends, got a crook back, and was horrid.

While Mary lived a lonely life in Mr. Craven's house, she found out that it is happy to play in the garden and to relate bards. In the garden, she found another garden surrounded wall. Another garden was closed by Mr. Craven because an incident happened. Moreover, her deceased aunt, Mrs. Craven loved another garden. Mary searched about the entrance of the garden because she cared about trees and flowers in the garden. Then, she finally found the key of the entrance and entered there. She felt the garden was like alive. She met Dickon and decided to revive the garden as of old with him secretly. They found being happy to do that. Also she met Colin, who was her cousin. He was sickly in his bones, so he had never been to outside and he didn't have his parent's love like her.

In the end, Mary, Dickon, and Colin seized back childlike emotion

I think this book is cheerful for readers when we feel some anxiety such as living and loving.

9th DVD "How do you like Wednessday?"

2007-09-26T21:51:00.000+09:00

Today, I bought a new DVD, "How do you like Wednesday?(Suiyou doudesyo)"!!
I like this TV program very much, I think there is no quite interesting TV programs than this!
Yo Oizumi appear on this TV and he is familiar to TV viewer now, I think Also he is on TV drama, "AVARENBOW MAMA".
Anyway, it's very interesting to me! I can go on my life when I watch "Suiyou Doudesyo", so I want everyone to know this. I'd strongly encourage people to try this TV program.

"the pillows" LIVE!!!!!!

2007-09-25T20:16:00.000+09:00

On September 22th, I went to watch live of my favorite band "the pillows" in Fukuoka with my friends, which was named "Wake up! Tour", because the live consisted of thier tunes which were included in thier new album, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"

Of course, we were so excited especially when they performed thier old tunes which we loves.

They are awesome! If you become interested in them, please check thier homepage.

http://www.pillows.jp/

Thier wiki page is here. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pillows

Last, I intoduced one of thier songs, "Sweet Baggy Days".

Visit to International Dome

2007-09-25T20:15:00.002+09:00

I went to International Dome last Friday to see exchange students and to ask their schedules.
I am a member of "English Lounge", so I needed to know and to tell their schedules to Mr. Okamura who is our an adviser.
After that, Mr. Waterman, economic teacher, invited us to playing games and to dinner, so I went to Mr. waterman's house with my friends. When we got to his house, his wife greeted us at the door. We went straight to play the train game, which is a board game. While we played the game, Mrs. Waterman treated us to pizza which was great. We played the game again after dinner, so one of my friends won the game.

Kaigaikensyu1 -Week 1-

2007-09-25T20:07:00.000+09:00

I went to Leicester, England in this summer as an overseas training (kaigaikenshu), so I write about my experiences through the overseas training. Then, I write about week one, from 23rd July to 28th July, at first.

Monday, 23rd July

We was supposed to get together at our university at 6 a.m. and went to Fukuoka International Airport by bus. In the airport we went through embarkation procedure and then took the 10:30 flight for Incheon International Airport in Korea. we arrived at the airport at 11:55 a.m. it took about 90 minutes. Then, we left the airport for Heathrow Airport in England. It was about 13 hours to take in the flight! I was so tired and bored. I talked with my friend, played cards and games, watched movies, listening to music, and slept while abroad an airplane but it was too long to kill time because it was almost half a day.

After getting to Heathrow Airport, we went to De Montfort University, which we went to by bus in weekday, and then we met our own host family and went to their house. When I got to their house, I called my parents and I slept at 1 a.m.

Tuesday, 24th July

I woke up at 8 a.m. and ate two pieces of toast which melt cheese on and salad. In the day, we went sightseeing in Leicester city from 1 p.m. Leicester is a multiracial and multicultural city, so I could see many kinds of people, such as Westerner, Asian, Arab, and so on.

I was surprised that my host family had other international students. One of of them is from Spain and the other is from Turkey. Both are cheerful and friendly. In my case, my host family has a child who is 17 years old, so I could make friends with him.

Wednesday, 25th July

The day was the first day that we took classes. Our teachers were Emma and Sarah who were very kind and always smiled for us, so we enjoyed the classes.

Thursday, 26th July

I have got a minor development in the day. I was lost with my friend when we went back our host family's house, so we wandered near the houses for 1 hour. Eventually, we were able to get back the houses but we were so nervous and tired.

Friday, 27th July

In the morning, I took classes, Listening and Reading, and from afternoon we did sightseeing in Leicester by "Open Top Bus".

Saturday, 28th July

The day was all day excursion to London. I had to get on the first bus, so I had to wake up at6 but I overslept. However, I could barely catch the bus. At 8 a.m. we went to London by coach, and arrived there about 2 hours later. At first, I saw “Big Ben” when I took a boat trip on the Thames River because “Big Ben” is beside the Thames River, so I took some pictures of it. We went to Piccadilly Circus. where is is a famous road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster. The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in a central location at the heart of the West End. Its status as a major traffic intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting point and a tourist attraction in its own right after we had a lunch in the street Then, we got on "Tube" which subway is called in England. I was surprised that tube came every 5 minutes so we didn't have to wait. After that, we went to "Harrowds" which is well known all over the world but I bought nothing because it was so expensive in London. In spite of that, I went to a souvenir shop and bought souvenirs for my family and my friends. We came back home at 9 or 10.

QUESTIONNAIRE in England

2007-08-10T22:08:00.000+09:00

QUESTIONNAIRE ENGLISH HOUSES

Q1. Which do you like old houses or new houses?
A) old houses B) new houses

Q2. What kind of houses do you live in?
A) detached house B) semi-detached house
C) cottage D) terraced house
E) bungalow F) flat

Q3. Is your house built of brick? If no, what is your house built of?
Yes
No( )

Q4. Do you have a fireplace and a chimney in your house? If yes, do you use them?
Yes, and use them.
Yes, but don’t use them.
No

Q5. How many rooms are in your house? If possible, please tell me the detail, for example, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, study, and so on.
A) 3~5 ( )
B) 6~8 ( )
C) more than 9( )

Q6. What kind of heating do you have in your house?
A) radiators B) gas heating
C) floor heating D) other( )

Q7. Do you take off your shoes when you go in your house?
Yes No

Q8. Do you have both a front garden and a backyard? If yes, what purpose do you use them?

The Last Day in Spring Semester

2007-07-21T12:14:00.000+09:00

Today, it is the last day in spring semester in my university, so I took the examination of An Introduction of English Linguistics.　I hope that I get the course credit!
Next week, I will go to England (Kaigaikensyu), so I'm looking forward to seeing my hostfamily and to having a homestay at Leicester!

Final WEI

2007-07-18T10:01:00.002+09:00

How many words
in Week 1: (40)
in Week 2: (107)
in Week 3: (147)
in Week 4: (405)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (1520)
in Week 7: (236)
in Week 8: (677)
in Week 9: (40)
in Week 10: (457)
in Week 11: (761)
in Week 12: (44)
in Week 13: (1128)
in Week 14: (376)

Total words up to this point: (2219 + 1410 + 2309= 5938)

How many posts
in Week 1: (1)
in Week 2: (2)
in Week 3: (2)
in Week 4: (2)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (13)
in Week 7: (1)
in Week 8: (4)
in Week 9: (1)
in Week 10: (3)
in Week 11: (4)
in Week 12: (1)
in Week 13: (5)
in Week 14: (4)

Total posts up to this point: (20 + 9 + 14 = 43)

Are all your posts labeled? Yes
Do you have a label element in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a picture in your self intro? No
Do you have a feed in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a list of links that feature links to 4 other students' blogs? Yes
Do you have Kumamoto Links in sidebar? No
Do you have other links in sidebar? Yes
Do you have reviews on Amazon (linked to from blog)? No
Do you have listmania lists on Amazon (linked to from blog)?No
Do you have any wiki or similar contributions (linked to from blog)? Yes
Do you have advanced media (Slideshare, Bubbleshare, etc.)? Yes
Link to your book reviews here
Review 1-01 (142, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/04/book-review-1-1.html
Review 1-02 (297, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-2.html
Review 1-03 (293, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
Review 1-04 (151, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-04.html
Review 1-05 (341, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-05.html
Review 1-06 (271, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-07.html
Review 1-07 (184, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-07_26.html
Review 1-08 (321, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-08.html
Review 1-09 (318, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/book-review-1-09.html
Review 1-10 (231, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/book-review1-10.html
Review 1-11 (177, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/book-review-1-11.html

Link to your essays posted to your blog here
Essay 01 (245, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
Essay 02 (191, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay2-description-of-object.html
Essay 03 (236, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay3-my-favorite-animal.html
Essay 04 (202, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/essay4-my-memorable-day.html
Essay 05 (211, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/essay5-worst-day-in-my-life.html
Essay 06 (480, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/07/essay-6-my-favorite-movie.html

How many postswith link(s): 4 + 3 + 5 = 12
with 1 picture/photo: 10 + 7 + 7 = 24
How many complex posts? (at least 2 links and 1 photo): 2 + 3 + 1 = 6

Comments (look in your dashboard):
How many comments are there on your blog? 8Have you made at least 8 comments? Please link to the 8 comments you think are best.
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-19.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/april-23th.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/golden-week-holiday.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay-1-self-introduction_21.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-20.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/finiiiiiiiish.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/puyo-pop.html

Please link to your best non book review, non essay blog post.
Why do you think it is your best?
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
I like this story very much.
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
I think this essay is written well.

Please link to your best comment on another blog.
Why do you think it is best?
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
I like ‘BUMP OF CHICKEN", too.

Book Review 1-11

2007-07-18T10:01:00.001+09:00

Today, I read "MEN IN BLACK", which is one of famous movies with Tommy Lee Jones as 'Kay', Will Smith as 'Jay' and Linda Fiorentino as the beautiful Dr Laurel Weaver. Have you watched this movie? If you have not watched it, please check it out.

Kay and Jay are "Men in Black(MIB)". They have a very important job. They have to find and watch all the aliens in the world, but now there is a Bug in New York.

Kay and Jay have to find the Bug before the bug finds the Third Galaxy. The Bug wants to use the Third Galaxy to start the fighting between the Baltians and the Arquillians again. That will be very dangerous for everybody. In the end, they can clean up the Bug and Laurel becomes the member of Men In Black, so she is called "Elle".

In this story, there are a lot of technologies in the near future which can erase memories and which are various special guns. I like them so I think this story is interesting.

This is a wiki page.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF_%28%E6%98%A0%E7%94%BB%29

3 TESTS

2007-07-17T23:59:00.001+09:00

I took 3 tests today. These are tests of A Brief History of American Literature class, Reading, and Intercultural communication but I was so busy to do my home works and I prepared "kaigaikenshu", so I can't study well. Maybe, I think I fail to these classes. (T_T)

I bought an iPod!

2007-07-17T23:57:00.000+09:00

Finally, I bought an "iPod" yesterday! I have wanted it for a long time because I love music, so I wanted to listen to music until I went to my university by the train. It takes about 90 minutes, so I am very bored in the train every day. I can listen to a lot of music after today. That is why I looking forward to using the "iPod".

Drinking Party!!

2007-07-12T14:15:00.000+09:00

I went to "Jyuttokuya" with my friends, famous guests and Jeff!! We took "Survival English Conversation" class and it was the last class in summer semester, so we have a drinking party after the class. I was really enjoyed this party!
Thank you, my friends! I am happy to become friends with you!
Thank you, Jeff! I learned many things about English conversation and cultures. I will continue taking this class in fall semester, too. I'm looking forward to seeing you again!

Book Review1-10

2007-07-10T16:05:00.000+09:00

My tenth book review is "ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN". We students who take A Brief History of American Literature class second periods on Monday knew this story because we watched the movie in the class, so I also know most of this story.
That is why I talk about the plot.

Huckleberry Finn who called "Huck" by his friends lived with the Widow Douglas in St. Petersburg, Missouri. His best friends are Tom Sawyer and the Widow's black slave, Jim. (In the movie, Tom didn't come on the story.) Huck and Jim traveled down the Mississippi river from St. Petersburg to Cairo in which it was free. On the river, they have a lot of adventures and met a lot of interesting characters.
Huck and Jim often traveled at night because Jim was a runaway slave. Around the time, they were caught if they ran away, so Huck and Jim have to be careful.
Tom Sawyer also loved adventures. Huck liked Tom because he was very smart and he always had a lot of good ideas, but these ideas usually got the boys into trouble.
In this story, Huck thought what real justice is. He wrestled with his conscience over again and again.

I was impressed Jim's lines. He said that not justice everyone believed was real justice. I agreed his opinion. In this world, things I believed are actually untruth.

Here is a wiki page.

Heavy Rain makes river!!!!

2007-07-10T14:18:00.000+09:00

It rained heavily four days ago and issue warning a heavy rain and local flooding all in Kumamoto Prefecture, so the road near Suizenji station became a river and the drain made whirl! Thus, I couldn't go to my university in that day.

Mt. Aso

2007-07-10T14:13:00.000+09:00

Two weeks ago, I went to Mt. Aso with my family.
I took this picture near the mountain summit. Unfortunately, however, it was cloudy. After that, we ate roasted corn. It's very good! I think it is more delicious for me to eat it because I breathed fresh air there. I want to go there again!

Book review 1-09

2007-07-10T14:11:00.001+09:00

The book which I chose was "ALICE'S ADVENTURES in WONDERLAND" because this story is very famous and I knew the plot of the story but I forgot most of it, so I want to know this story and I want to read this book. I think most of people know this story, but anyway, I talk about the outline.

A girl named Alice was bored while on a picnic with her older sister, who was reading a book which had no pictures or conversations in it. Alice was interest in a passing white rabbit that was dressed in a waistcoat and he said he would be too late. She followed the rabbit down a rabbit hole, then she found herself that she fail down into a dreamlike world. As she continued to try to follow the rabbit, she had several adventures. She grew to great big size and then got smaller. She met a group of small animals swimming in a sea of her own tears, and got stuck in the rabbit's house when she enlarged herself again. After meeting the Duchess, she carried away a baby which changed into a pig, and then met the Cheshire cat, which disappears, leaving only its smile behind. She joined the Mad Hatter and the March Hare at a never-ending tea party. Then, she went to the seashore and met a Gryphon and a Mock Turtle. Finally she attended the trial of the Knave of Hearts, who has been accused of stealing tarts. Just as Alice refused the Queen of the hearts. Eventually, the dream ended and Alice woke up at the picnic with her sister.

I think "ALICE'S ADVENTURES in WONDERLAND" is a masterpiece of fantasy and full of dreams. Moreover, this story is a famous fantasy story as above, so this story has an impact on various works such as literature, paintings, comic books, animations, movies, TV, and music.

Here is a wiki page.

Essay 6 My Favorite Movie

2007-07-04T01:30:00.000+09:00

I will talk about my favorite movie. What is my favorite movie? I have watched a lot of movies, so it is difficult for me to select the best movie but I would venture to say that the best movie is “The Lord of the Rings”, which is my favorite movie.

“The Lord of the Rings” is famous as an epic high fantasy novel written by J. R. R. Tolkien, which is also the origin of the movie. The story can be divided into three parts, “The Fellowship of the Ring”, “The Two Towers”, and “The Return of the King”. Therefore, I leave out all these plots because it is too long to talk about them, so I will talk about the prologue and characters of these stories at first.

These stories concern humanoid people known as Hobbits, Elves, Men, Dwarves, Wizards, and Orcs. In addition, there is the Dark Lord, Sauron, who made Ring of Power and person who has the ring can control Middle-earth, the world of these stories. The nine braves fight with the forces of evil over the ring. The nine braves consist of various races as above so the members are Frodo who is main character, Sam, Pippin, Merry, who are Hobbits, Gandalf who is a Wizard, Aragorn, Boromir who are Men, Legolas who is a Elf, and Gimuli who is a Dwarf. Each of them has them own features. Hobbits have a kind heart, love for nature, and especially, they are short. Wizards have a special power but they become good or evil depending on using the power. Elves are noble and elegant, and what’s more, they have magical charm. They have basically immortal life. Dwarves have a keen sense of justice. Men only satisfy own desire, so they are described as feeble human in these stories.

Next, I will talk about my memorable scenes because a lot of scenes impressed me. One of the scenes was that Sam said to moribund Frodo that he can’t bear the ring’s burden but he can shoulder him. Saying so, Sam shouldered Frodo and took one step at a time. I think there was nobody but was moved to tears watching this scene, so this scene is my most memorable scene. In addition, I was impressed that there was “Elvish languages”. The language was made by J. R. R. Tolkien and came from Old Celtic. There are two characteristics in the language. First, it sounds a song for men so most of men can’t understand their language. Second, their words including dull sound were used in a bad sense. Therefore, the author, Tolkien creates an origin language. It is wonderful for me that he originates new language.

That is why I like the movie, “The Lord of the Rings”. I never get tired of watching this movie and I learn a lot of things watching this movie.

Here is a wiki page.

I can't go back home!!!!

2007-07-02T18:38:00.000+09:00

The heavy rain make me stay at my university just now because my train go out of service by the rain, so I can't go back home......(T-T)
Only please stop raining! If it doesn't stop raining, I can't go back home! Please stop raining!!!!

Book Review 1-08

2007-06-26T14:21:00.000+09:00

Today, the book which I chose is "RETURN TI EARTH". The story is as follow.

Some people are have a telepathy, just a little. They know what another person, perhaps a brother or a sister, is thinking. If you know someone really well, you sometimes know what they will say before they say it, but are they sure it's all right? To know 'everything' that other people are thinking and feeling, and to know their thoughts that are secrets in their minds in every minute, every hour, and day after day. To know everything is also that you can not refuse.
One day, Harl traveled through the time and space to a distant planet. He returned to Earth after many long years away. Ellen who was Harl's girlfriend and a scientist wasn't interested in space travel, because she wanted to change life on Earth to do something very new, very exciting, and very different and she believed her experience will success. Thus, Harl said goodbye to Ellen and went traveling space.
When Harl went back to Earth, environment on Earth changed drastically, so the world was a very different place. In the world, some of people grew to be adults, but other people were all right when they were young children. However, they began to die like flies, one after the other when they were about ten or eleven years old, because human have got bad minds, so they looked at themselves deep down inside. It was not comfortable to think about it. They hid from their true selves and when they spoke, they didn't always say what they thought or felt, so they also hid from other people too.

That is why I think 'telepathy' is so terrible and I don't want to have the ability. How would you feel this story? Do you want 'telepathy'? Is the 'telepathy' really great? As for me, I answered 'NO'. How about you?

Book Review 1-07

2007-06-26T14:14:00.000+09:00

I read this book, "JAWS". This story is very famous as a very exciting film which Steven Spielberg made and the film made him world-famous. Most of people went to see the film and cried out in the cinema because they were so afraid.

Amity is a quiet town near New York. One night a young woman went for a swim in the sea, but she didn't come back. In the next morning, the police found her dead on the beach. Brody who is a good police man thought there was a shark near Amity, so he tried to close the beaches, but business people in the beach didn't listen to him because the only way to live is to sell something to eat or to drink and so on. However, another victim was found, so Brody, Hooper, and Quint went to kill great white shark.

Eventually, only Brody was able to survive and killed the shark.

I was not feel fear when I finished reading this book because I think the movie is more interesting and more powerful than the book, of course.

Here is a wiki page.

FINISH!!

2007-06-21T16:27:00.000+09:00

Recently, I have had tons of homework, such as reports, written descriptions of my impressions and so on but I finished finally most of my homework today. I feel so tired because I didn't sleep.
Anyway, I finished them so I can sleep well tonight!

WEI 2

2007-06-21T15:39:00.000+09:00

How many words
in Week 1: (40)
in Week 2: (107)
in Week 3: (147)
in Week 4: (405)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (1520)
in Week 7: (236)
in Week 8: (677)
in Week 9: (40)
in Week 10: (457)

Total words up to this point: (2219 + 1410 = 3629)

How many posts
in Week 1: (1)
in Week 2: (2)
in Week 3: (2)
in Week 4: (2)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (13)
in Week 7: (1)
in Week 8: (4)
in Week 9: (1)
in Week 10: (3)

Total posts up to this point: (20 + 9 = 29)

Are all your posts labeled? Yes
Do you have a label element in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a picture in your self intro? No
Do you have a feed in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a list of links that feature links to 4 other students' blogs? Yes
Do you have Kumamoto Links in sidebar? No
Do you have other links in sidebar? Yes
Do you have reviews on Amazon (linked to from blog)? No
Do you have listmania lists on Amazon (linked to from blog)?No
Do you have any wiki or similar contributions (linked to from blog)? Yes
Do you have advanced media (Slideshare, Bubbleshare, etc.)? Yes

Link to your book reviews here
Review 1-01 (142, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/04/book-review-1-1.html
Review 1-02 (297, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-2.html
Review 1-03 (293, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
Review 1-04 (151, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-04.html
Review 1-05 (341, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-05.html
Review 1-06 (271, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/book-review-1-07.html

Link to your essays posted to your blog here
Essay 01 (245, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
Essay 02 (191, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay2-description-of-object.html
Essay 03 (236, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay3-my-favorite-animal.html
Essay 04 (202, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/essay4-my-memorable-day.html
Essay 05 (211, good)
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/06/essay5-worst-day-in-my-life.html

How many posts
with link(s): 4 + 3 = 7
with 1 picture/photo: 10 + 7 = 17
How many complex posts? (at least 2 links and 1 photo): 2 + 3 = 5

Comments (look in your dashboard):
How many comments are there on your blog? 8
Have you made at least 8 comments? Please link to the 8 comments you think are best.
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-19.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/april-23th.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/golden-week-holiday.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay-1-self-introduction_21.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-20.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/finiiiiiiiish.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/puyo-pop.html
Please link to your best non book review, non essay blog post. Why do you think it is your best?
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
I like this story very much.
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
I think this essay is written well.

Please link to your best comment on another blog. Why do you think it is best?
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
I like ‘BUMP OF CHICKEN", too.

Essay5 The Worst Day In My Life

2007-06-20T16:41:00.000+09:00

I can remember clearly the day when I had a lot of misfortunes. I think it is the worst day in my life.

The morning on the day was rainy so I went to my university with my umbrella. It was so far so good but I found that I forgot to take my commuter pass with just when I got it, so I went back my home to take it. Then, I rushed back to the Yatsushiro station and managed to catch a next train. In the train I got sleepy so I didn't know when I arrived at Kumamoto station. Because I got off hastily the train to change trains there, I left my umbrella in the train but then I didn't find it. I found it when I left Suizenji station. It is too late then. The train had gone. Therefore, I hurried through the rain to my university and I got wet in the rain. As a result, I was soaking wet all the day because it was rainy when I also went back home.

That is why that it started forgetting my commuter pass all, so I have always taken care not to forget something since that day. I think the day was my worst day.

Watching movie!

2007-06-19T13:51:00.000+09:00

The last Sunday, I went to watching the movie, "The Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" because I like this series and the actors, Johnny Depp, Orland Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, and Keith Richards.
I was interested in the story when I watched the first story, so I watched the second movie, too.
Through the series, I think it is the amusing stories and characters, especially "Captain Jack Sparrow".
Wiki page of this movie is here.

This is a movie's trailer. If you have not watched this movie, please check it out!

Book Review 1-06

2007-06-15T16:13:00.000+09:00

Today, I read this book, "SHERLOCK HOLMES short stories" because I'm interested in the stories of Sherlock Holmes. There are three short stories in this book, for example, THE SPECKLED BAND, A SCANDALIN BOHEMIA, and THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS. In this occasion, I will write about THE SPECKLED BAND.

One morning, a young woman, Helen Stoner, came to see Holmes and she asked him to solve a case which is that her younger sister died 2 years ago. When her sister died, she was only thirty and her hair was already grey. Now Helen's hair is just like her hair, so she thought that she was also died because her hair turned grey. they had a stepfather and his room is next to her sister's room. she said her sister heard strange noises such as a whistle and a minute later the sound of falling metal from his room when her sister died.
Mr. Holmes decided to help her, so he went to her house and investigated the case staying overnight there. There were a lot of wild animals and the gypsies. He searched her sister's room and he found clues to solve the case. these were the bell-rope and the air-vent.
He said that the criminal was a snake. The snake came through the air-vent and down the bell-rope, and on to the bed, so the snake bit and killed her.
However, the real criminal was their stepfather because he masterminded the snake, so the sound of a whistle and falling metal to order the snake.

I was surprised that their stepfather was the criminal, so I enjoyed reading this book.

My favorite band on TV!

2007-06-14T18:47:00.000+09:00

Yesterday, I watched the TV show, "ROCKET COMPLEX" which is an access program in Kumamoto because my favorite band got on the TV show. The band is "the pillows".
They released a new CD, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!", so they appeared on the TV show to promote the CD. Of course, I bought it.
They talked about their new CD, for example, "What did they express in their CD?", "What made you decided to write music?" In addition, their promotional video was broadcast in the TV show.

This is the promotional Video!

MEGA TERIYAKI!!

2007-06-11T15:31:00.000+09:00

I had a "MEGA TERIYAKI" for lunch on Saturday.
I think probably this hamburger is about twice as big as a hamburger, so I have a full stomach and tastes better than "MEGA MAC" which is a first "MEGA~" series.

My favorite band will be reunited!!

2007-06-05T13:28:00.001+09:00

Yesterday, I knew so happy news for me.
"X-JAPAN" , one of my favorite bands, will be finally got back together!!
This news was reported by Sport Nippon which is one of sport journal.
Anyway, I'm so happy because they will play a live show in this year. When the live shows are realized, I go to their live at any cost!! Only please be reunited!!

This is wiki page of them.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_JAPAN

This is Live video.

Book Review 1-05

2007-06-04T18:03:00.001+09:00

I read "GHOST IN THE GUITAR". When I found this book and looked at this book cover, I thought it was cool and interesting. So, I read this book.

Katherine, main character of this story, and Tom, her boyfriend, spent happy days in their band, Steel City. Member of the band were Katy (Tom called her "Katy"), Tom, Aruna and Danny. Katy played the Keyboard and Tom played the guitar. Aruna was their bassist and Danny was their drummer.
They practiced their instrumental to win "The Battle of The Band". It was a big competition for bands because the winners of the competition were able to make a CD at a local record company. They hope their own CDs so they want to win the competition.
One day, Tom's guitar was broken through Katy's carelessness so they went to buy the new guitar but they had only a little money and couldn't buy most of the guitar.
A few days later, the trouble began. Suddenly Tom can play the guitar very well, but he seemed to be a different person like changing another person. He was always very kind to everyone but then he was always angry. Katy wondered how he changed. She investigated his new guitar so she knew the secret of the guitar.
The truth is ghost’s work. The ghost is a great guitarist who died 20 years ago. He and members of his band couldn't win the competition so he was angry. After that, he died in a car crash. The guitar Tom bought was his one so the ghost inhabited the guitar.
As a result, Tom went back to be himself because Katy broke the guitar. However, the ghost wasn't such a bad person because he just wanted to win the competition.

Through this story, I sympathize with Tom or the ghost because they just wanted to play the guitar well. I also like playing the guitar and think so. I think it wouldn't hurt to be possessed by the ghost if I play the guitar well.

Essay4 My Memorable Day

2007-06-03T22:49:00.000+09:00

I have a lot of memorable days so I will talk about one of my memorable days. I think it is a trip to Yokosuka with my family.

When I was 18 years old and a cram school student in the summer vacation, I went to Yokosuka because I wanted to go “hide museum” in Yokosuka. I’m a big fan of hide. I had never been there, but the museum was going to close in September of that year so I once wanted to go there anyway. Of course I was a cram school student so I had to study more and more to pass university entrance exam, but I thought I lived to repent if I didn't go there.
When I went there actually, I was deeply moved by a lot of displays about hide such as his guitars, his photo, his stage costumes and his hand written song lyrics and so on. After that, I went shopping in “LEMONed SHOP”, which was produced by hide. There are many goods of limited edition so I bought the goods.

That is why my memorable day is this trip. It was quite special trip for me so I know I’ll miss him forever.

Provisional licence

2007-05-31T22:17:00.000+09:00

Today, I took a provisional license test.
I couldn't go the driving school recently because I have been busy for the last few weeks.
So, I got in an instruction car after a long time and I was so nervous.

But, I can pass the test without difficulty!! It was good to be able to pass it.

Essay3 My Favorite Animal

2007-05-28T15:42:00.000+09:00

What are my favorite animals? I like nothing special. To stretch a point, I like dogs and cats because they are cute. So, I will talk about dogs and cats.

First, I mention characteristics of dogs. They have social conscious and they act in a group. Human beings and dogs have known each other long so they are obedient to us. Dogs also are essential for our life such as a shepherd’s dog, a seeing-eye dog, a police dog, a search and rescue dog and so on.

Second, I state features of cats. They have whiskers to decide to pass through narrow aisle or not, so that these whiskers help them run away natural enemies. By the way, why do we think cats are cute? It is probably that they have big eyes for their face comparatively and they have a round face.

In addition, dogs and cats are often used as a word of the proverbs. In proverbs using a word, “dog”, there are “Let sleeping dogs lie.” “Every dog has his day.” On the other hand, “cat” also appears in some proverbs, such as “Even a cat may look at a king.” “A cat has nine lives.”

Thus, dogs and cats are on friendly terms with us and they are popular as a pet because it is easy for us to have pets. I have never had pets so I want to have pets.

English Lounge

2007-05-21T19:50:00.000+09:00

I do my utmost to take part in English Lounge but I have been there only twice because I'm free at 5 periods on Tuesday and Wednesday and am so busy now.

In English Lounge, I have been taught some greeting words by my senior at university, for example, "What's up, ~?" instead of "How are you?"

So, I can know natural English. I want to go there again!

Book review 1-04

2007-05-21T19:17:00.000+09:00

On this occasion, I read this book, "THE BEATLES" because I like them.

My favorite their songs are "Help!", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Hey Jude" and so on.

The characteristic of this story is that their own mind was described well in every changing their situation. I think each of "THE BEATLES" was divided, for readers, to understand this story.

Moreover, there were a lot of backgrounds of their songs so we readers can know easily why they wrote the songs.

Through this book, I learned most of "THE BEATLES" such as the progress of putting together a band and the conflict of opinions in the band , especially between John and Paul

Did "THE BEATLES" succeeded easily? No, of course not.

They experienced a lot of hardship or miseries, for example, social criticism for them.

That is why I enjoyed learning a history of "THE BEATLES" so I wanted to listen to their music again.

It's miracle!!

2007-05-21T18:40:00.000+09:00

Last Saturday, I went playing billiards with my friends.

Suddenly, my friend spilled oolong tea on the sofa but the can of oolong tea fell headlong into the sofa so the can did full handstand and became the situation like this picture!

How do you like Wednesday?

2007-05-21T09:58:00.000+09:00

I'm absorbed in watching the TV variety show, "How do you like Wednesday?" (in Japanese "Suiyou Doudesyou")

I think this TV show is ever so interesting! I have never watched such a interesting TV show!

Do you know Yō Ōizumi? He is a Japanese popular personality. He is one of casts in this TV show and he became more famous for " The Style of Temporary staff"(in Japanese "Haken no Hinkaku") If you know him, I hope you watch this variety show.

Incidentally, this picture is their the seventh DVD!
The picture and the project are silly unbelievably but very interesting!

The homepage is here.

The wiki page is here.

Book Review 1-3

2007-05-21T00:01:00.000+09:00

The other day, I looked for some books in library.

Then, I found a book, “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”. The movie that was directed by Steven Spielberg is one of the most famous movies. When I was a child, I have watched it but now I have forgotten most of the story.

So, I want to read the book because I want to remember the story.

One day, the spaceship came slowly dawn to Earth. The door opened and the extra-terrestrials walked out. They are small and fat so they couldn't walk fast.
Why do they come to Earth? They came surveying the plants on Earth because they loved plants. Most of people didn't know that they were coming but some men already knew it. They were scientist and they wanted to know about the extra-terrestrials. The extra-terrestrials felt that scientists were coming so they hastened leave from Earth, but one of the extra-terrestrials was left behind on Earth.
After that, he met to an Earth boy, Elliot. They took up with each other so Elliot call the extra-terrestrial “E.T.” Elliot decided he helped E.T. who wanted to go home.
In the end, Elliot got help of his sister and friends and E.T. was able to go home.

I learned later that “E.T.” meant “The Extra-Terrestrial” when I read the first page. This story is full of heartwarming scenes so I was impressed the last scene. E.T. can go home through Elliot’s help. When E.T. went home, he asked to Elliot that he came with him but Elliot answered that he stayed sadly. Then, E.T. touched Elliot on the head with his finger and said that he will be right here, and the finger of E.T. shone.
I wanted to watch the movie again.

Essay2 Description of an object

2007-05-20T19:53:00.000+09:00

Today, music is loved all over the world. The music can be divided into several types.
The first type is the classical music. Generally, classical music is considered to be Western traditional music, but originally, to be Western traditional religious music and music of Imperial Court. The second type is jazz. The origin of jazz is mixture of the labor song which blacks song, blues, and white music culture. A characteristic of jazz is a free form of expression. Now, jazz is one of the modern styles of music art beyond a race, nationality and genre. The last type is rock music which is a genre of popular music born in the U.S. in 1950’s. The rock music gave not only other music but also, thought, fashion, art, and pop cultures a shock, very strong. The rock music tends to strongly express a rebellious spirit and against the established general ideas and system. Moreover, rock music can be divided into more groups, for example, hard rock, heavy metal, punk rock and more!
These types are just a few examples of types of music. New genres may be born from now on.

Essay1 Self Introduction

2007-05-20T19:47:00.000+09:00

Hello! My name is Hi-Ho. I’m from Kumamoto, Japan and 20 years old. Now, I’m in Kumamoto Gakuen University and my major is English.

I love music, so my hobbies are listening to music, especially rock, and playing the guitar. However, it is very difficult to play the guitar smoothly so I practice now.
My favorite Japanese bands (musicians) are “X-JAPAN”, “hide”, “THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS”, “ZEPPET STORE”, “the pillows” and so on. I like lots and lots of bands!
Moreover, in foreign bands, I like “Nine Inch Nails”, ”Stone Temple Pilots” and oldies(The Beatles etc…) Do you like music? If you answer “Yes”, who musician do you like? Please tell me about them.

What do I like reading? I like fantasy stories, for example, “The Load of the Rings”. I was greatly moved by the movie, so I read it written in Japanese. Now, I want to read it written in English.

By the way, I have two dreams. First, I want to be an English teacher. When I was a high school student, I met a great English teacher. English he taught is very interesting so I like English. That’s why I want to be an English teacher like him. Secondly, I want to be a translator because I became interested in translating when I watched the movie, “The Load of the Rings”.
That is why I like English through music, reading and having a marvelous English teacher.

I’m looking to seeing you!

WEI

2007-05-20T14:38:00.001+09:00

How many words
in Week 1: (40)
in Week 2: (107)
in Week 3: (147)
in Week 4: (405)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (1520)
Total words up to this point: (2219)

How many posts
in Week 1: (1)
in Week 2: (2)
in Week 3: (2)
in Week 4: (2)
in Week 5: (0)
in Week 6: (13)
Total posts up to this point: (20)

Are all your posts labeled? Yes
Do you have a label element in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a picture in your self intro? No
Do you have a feed in your sidebar? Yes
Do you have a list of links that feature links to 4 other students' blogs? Yes
Do you have Kumamoto Links in sidebar? No
Do you have other links in sidebar? Yes
Do you have reviews on Amazon (linked to from blog)? No
Do you have listmania lists on Amazon (linked to from blog)?No
Do you have any wiki or similar contributions (linked to from blog)? Yes
Do you have advanced media (Slideshare, Bubbleshare, etc.)? Yes

Link to your book reviews here
Review 1-01 (142, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/04/book-review-1-1.html
Review 1-02 (297, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-2.html
Review 1-03 (293, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
Review 1-04 (151, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-04.html

Link to your essays posted to your blog here
Essay 01 (245, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
Essay 02 (191, good) http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay2-description-of-object.html

How many posts
with link(s): 4
with 1 picture/photo: 10
How many complex posts? (at least 2 links and 1 photo): 2

Comments (look in your dashboard):
How many comments are there on your blog? 6
Have you made at least 8 comments? Please link to the 8 comments you think are best.
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-19.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/april-23th.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/golden-week-holiday.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay-1-self-introduction_21.html
http://manatuki-april.blogspot.com/2007/05/may-20.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/finiiiiiiiish.html
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/puyo-pop.html
Please link to your best non book review, non essay blog post. Why do you think it is your best?
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-review-1-3.html
I like this story very much.
http://7th-tunes.blogspot.com/2007/05/essay1.html
I think this essay is written well.

Please link to your best comment on another blog. Why do you think it is best?
http://shout-a-battle-cry.blogspot.com/2007/05/my-favourite-japanese-rock-band.html
I like ‘BUMP OF CHICKEN", too.

Dinner!

2007-05-20T00:11:00.000+09:00

I went to "Jyuttokuya" and ate out with my family there last night. "Jyuttokuya" is an izakaya (a Japanese style pub) and is like a bar and a restaurant combined so my father and I drank.

These pictures are alcohol which I drink. The left picture is "ume liqueur" and another one is "cassis-orange".

Mah-jongg!

2007-05-18T16:14:00.000+09:00

Today, I played mah-jongg with my friends in free time.
I know a little the rule of mah-jongg because I have played it once or twice, but I really enjoyed playing it!
So, we had played mah-jongg for about 3 hours!

My Favorite Artist!!

2007-05-16T11:07:00.000+09:00

I could buy 5 CDs (single CDs) last Saturday at last!!

I was saving to buy these CDs which are long-awaited are "MISERY", "Beauty & Stupid", "ROCKET DIVE", "ever free", and "HURRY GO ROUND" !! These are hide's works.

I'm a big fan of "hide"!!!!!! Without knowing him, I couldn't love music.

For more information about him, please check here.

http://www.hide-city.com/

and wiki page about him.

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hide

In addition, this is a PV of "ROCKET DIVE"!!

Self Introduction

2007-05-16T11:05:00.000+09:00

Hello! My name is Hi-Ho. I’m from Kumamoto, Japan and 20 years old. Now, I’m in Kumamoto Gakuen University and my major is English.

I love music, so my hobbies are listening to music, especially rock, and playing the guitar. But, it is not easy to be able to play the guitar smoothly so I practice it now.

I like rock especially so my favorite Japanese musicians (bands) are “hide”,“X-JAPAN”, “THE MAD CAPSULE MARKETS” , "the pillows" and so on. Um… too many to name.
Moreover, in foreign bands, I like “Nine Inch Nails”, ”Stone Temple Pilots” and oldies(The Beatles etc…) Do you like music? If you answer “Yes”, who musician do you like? Please tell me about them.
What do I like reading? I like fantasy stories, for example, “The Load of the Rings”. I was greatly moved by the movie, so I read it written in Japanese. Now, I want to read it written in English.

By the way, my dream is an English teacher. When I was a high school student, I met a great English teacher. English he taught is very interesting so I like English. That’s why I want to be an English teacher like him.

“How do you like to spend your free time?” “What are your hobbies?” I want to know about you.
I’m looking forward to seeing you!

Yours cordially

Bad day!

2007-05-16T09:09:00.000+09:00

Today, it is unhappy day for me because I overslept and I forgot my umbrella in the train. Probably, it is rainy today.

Book Review 1-2

2007-05-07T18:00:00.000+09:00

I read "DRAGON HEART" this time because I took a fancy to this title.

When I looked for some interesting books in library, I found this title. Then, I thought it was cool.

This story is about dragons and knights, kings and peasants.

The keyword of this story is "the Old Code". This word means that kings were kind to peasants and knights helped their king. If the king made it a rule to keep "the Old Code", life was good and everybody in the country was happy.

However, the king forgot "the Old Code" and he enjoyed killing the peasants so everything started to change. Einon, son of the king, and Sir Bowen, one of knights, hated it.

One day, the king and knights fought with peasants. Then, the king was dead. Einon who watched his father die fought with peasants but Einon was also dead.

Only the great dragon, which is the last dragon, could bring Einon back to life. The dragon revived him by giving half dragon's heart because Sir Bowen promised teaching Einon "the Old Code" to dragon.

That is why Einon revived but he became cruel king like his father. Sir Bowen thought dragon's heart made Einon cruel so he went to fight dragon. However, they recognized each other after a long fight. After that, Sir Bowen named the dragon "Draco".
Eventually, Sir Bowen and Draco fought to Einon but Einon didn't die because the half of his heart is the same as Draco's! In fact, Einon's death means Draco's death.
In the end, both Draco and Einon died so Draco became the biggest star in the sky.

I was very impressed by the last scene! Draco gave his life for believing in peace so he became the biggest and brightest star.

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

2007-05-02T09:50:00.000+09:00

Today, the album "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"　is released!
This is a new album of "the pillows". I like this band very much!

The contents:

01. Wake up! dodo

02. YOUNGSTER(Kent Arrow)

03. PROPOSE

04. SCARECROW

05. BOAT HOUSE

06. The Pleasure Song

07. Serious Plan

08. Skinny Blues

09. Private Kingdom

10. Century Creepers(Voice of the Proteus)

11. Sweet Baggy Days

What's "the pillows"? "the pillows" is a Japanese rock band.
If you want to get more information about them, please check here!
http://www.pillows.jp/

and wiki page about them is here!

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pillows

This is the PV of SCARECROW. This song is also a new single.

labels

2007-05-01T13:43:00.000+09:00

this is my labels post

Book Review 1-1

2007-04-25T10:11:00.000+09:00

I read this book, "King Arthur", because I like fiction.
The stories of "King Arthur"are very old so that story have various style, for example, Old England, French, and so on.

I know the sword, Excalibur. Only King Arthur used this sword because he can put the sword back into the stone. All the knight tried to take it out, but the sword didn't move.

I impressed Chapter 6 "The Grail". Sir Galahad, the knights of King Arthur, had seen the Grail and he said that he was happy when he died. Then, an old man came and said to him that his work was done and God calls him!
Why Sir Galahad said like that?
I think it is the background of Christianity. Man live to fulfill the mission imposed on him or her from a point of view of Christianity.

Survival English Conversation

2007-04-19T22:08:00.000+09:00

Yesterday, I took Survival English Conversation class with my friends.
Jeff(Mr. Jeffery Morrow) taught us Survival English in this class.
In all, there are 10 members in this class. Some people are our university students such as Eibei, Shougaku(Commerce) , and Keizai(Economics) students, but others are graduate students. I think this class is chance to socialize with them, so I wanna take up with them and be able to speak English more fluently!

Horibble Crowding Train

2007-04-18T10:03:00.000+09:00

I go to KGU by train every morning.

Today, the train was horrible crowding!
The train was more crowing than usual because I think it has rained since morning today.

So, I was very tired...(;_;)

Oh manager

2007-04-17T14:18:00.000+09:00

This is Oh manager. I took this picture when I went watching spring-camp of Softbank Hawks in Miyazaki, but I know it's hard to understand him...If you say you don't understand him, I tell you that he wear uniform number89.

My first post

2007-02-14T19:10:00.000+09:00

I begin my blog on today!
I open my blog for the first time so I feel nervous a little now...