That's an interesting article!!

Aha! Jokes Office Jokes Want a day off work?

Want a day off work?
So you want a day off. Let's take a look at what you are asking for. There are 365 days per year available for work. There are 52 weeks per year in which you already have 2 days off per week, leaving 261 days available for work. Since you spend 16 hours each day away fron work, you have used up 170 days, leaving only 91 days available. You spend 30 minutes each day on coffee break which counts for 23 days each year, leaving only 68 days available. With a 1 hour lunch each day, you used up another 46 days, leaving only 22 days available for work. You normally spend 2 days per year on sick leave. This leaves you only 20 days per year available for work. We are off 5 holidays per year, so your available working time is down to 15 days. We generously give 14 days vacation per year which leaves only 1 day available for work and I'll be darned if you are going to take that day off!

[Aha! Jokes > Office Jokes > Want a day off work?:(2007/11/29 9:51:41)]

So far I haven't had any work yet since I came back to Japan.However,according to this article,there is almost no day,I can work,from the beginning.

By the way I decided to learn Accounting and to take CPA which is Certificated Public Accountant.That's why I'd like to find a job which I can experience that kind of work and I can use English with foreigners.I saved money to learn English before I went to Canada so I can wait and choose a better way as I study them.

I started to read some books in English.
I am planning to read 1,000,000 words through reading books.

Shogi is a traditional game in Japan

According to
cause
deserve
-I'll use these words in my diary because I'm not used to using them-

According to
a result,bright-less lights cause making people inactive and also relax.
I had too much relaxing recently.That's why I went to buy some bulbs to make them brighter.
I could buy expensive bulbs.If I bought them,they would keep light on longer.
However,The expensive one don't deserve me so I bought some reasonable bulbs.

My room became brighter than before and I feel it's enough to be active in my room.
It's easy to read books,study something and surf internet as well.
If I could complain,the color of bulbs didn't match in my room.

By the way I had an opportunity to take a trial lesson about English
in Japan today.
One of the teachers asked me my favorites.
I answered some, and one of them was Shogi.
Shogi is one of the Japanese traditional games like chess.
How to move the pieces are really similar to chess but there are some differences.
And then the teacher told me that one of the teachers in the school likes it.
I was amazed to hear that but I didn't think I could have the foreign friends who play Shogi.
After the trial lesson,the person appeared and gave me his email address.
I will be very happy if I play it with a foreign friend.
I'm looking forward to playing it sincerely.

You've Been In Japan Too Long When...

I took a TOEIC test last Sunday.
I wish the score was over 900!!!
At least I hope it is over 500......
There were lots of questions I didn't understand but
I fell in all of blank with my answer.
When I finish solving them,the test just went out.


By the way I'd like to tell some very interesting articles.
Please click and read them.

You've Been In Japan Too Long When...
Too long in Japan...
Big in Japan: 33 Reasons Why You've Been in Japan Too Long - Gadling

That's interesting,isn't it?
This is for Japanese below.
http://labaq.com/archives/50779932.html

Enjoy~~

hmmm

I'd like to upload some articles but I'm lazy to do that......
Today I am going to take a TOEIC test today but I couldn't study well
about the test.

Anyway I'll do my best.
I'll put an interesting youtube video here.



How great!!
It's so amazing!!
The dog is better than me to skate.....

Ciao~

Typing Speed Test

"touch type speed test"

I tried to do this one.
It is for how speed you can touch type.
My score is below.

"You reached 226 points, so you achieved position 35862 on the ranking list"
"You type 303 characters per minute"
"You have 58 correct words and"
"you have 0 wrong words"

Can you overtake my score?
Please let me know your score.

"touch type speed test"

Ra-men is the great food in Japan.

Do you like delicious foods?Do you like Sushi?
The Japanese food is not only Sushi but also Ra-men.
Ra-men is a noodle is actually from China.
But here in Japan are lots of sorts of Ra-men.
It means Japanese love them.

This video shows one of the typical Ra-men and the restaurants in Japan.
I used to have this kind of food often but I cut back on eating it to save money and not to gain wight anymore....
However I couldn't stand it this time.I will be fatter,oh my god.

Regarding this Ra-men,you can eat in Funabashi in Japapan.
The taste and noodle are too thick.I usually love thick ra-men but I don't like the ra-men.
So I regret to have it.
The restaurant name is "INFINITY ra-men".
Too much naming I think.

Upload test

I just tried to take a Video at the highest quality in my mobile phone camera.
It shows around Funabashi st. which is the part of Chiba in Japan.

To conclude, I cannot take a good video by this cell phone.....

Besides and Beside

I started to keep a diary in this blog.I realized several things.One
of them is that the dictionary made of paper is better than the
electronic dictionary to look up words which I don't understand how to
use well.

I'd like to practice to find out "Beside" and "Besides".
I confused "Beside" with "Besides".

(I'll try to make sentences to understand.So it's a fiction story.)

I saw my girlfriend was walking with an another guy beside a river.
I was so beside myself with sad that I couldn't understand "beside"
and "besides".
Besides it,she kissed him beside me!!(She didn't realize I was beside them.)
I don't have any bad memory besides it.

(That's it.)

Does it make sense?
When you feel it's weird,just let me know,please.

-------------It's for my information------------
Merriam-Webster Online
"Entry Word:
besides
Function:
preposition

Text: 1 in addition to <besides me, there are five people working on
this project> Synonymsas well as, beside, over and above Related
Wordsplus; including Phrasesalong with, together with Near
Antonymsexcept (also excepting); less, minus 2 not including <your
essays should be three pages long besides the bibliography> — see
except"
http://www.m-w.com/thesaurus

Do you know POP DICTIONARY

Have you heard of POPjisyo.comi.

"Jisyo" means "Dictionary" in Japanese.
This website provides popping the meaning up which you mouse over the
word which you don't know in English,Korean,Spanish,German and
Japanese.

I will show how it works.Please click
this LINK English to Japanese.

After that,you can know the meaning in Japanese when you mouse over the word.

If you want to know in another languages,you can try these bookmarklets.

Add Hints English → Japanese
Add Hints English → Korean
Add Hints English → Espanol (Spanish)
Add Hints Japanese → English
Add Hints Japanese → Deutsch (German)
Add Hints Chinese (GB2312) → English
Add Hints Chinese (Big5) → English
Add Hints Korean → English
Add Hints English Computer Terms
Add Hints Webster's Unabridged 1913


Add these links as bookmarks,and click it when you want to read with this service.
It is quite easy to use it.


I would like to read English articles recently.That is the reason I
introduce this website.
If you know an interesting website or blog,please let me know.

I am interested in reading these websites so far.

del.icio.us

Wired News

Lifehacker, tips and downloads for
getting things done

I would like to read a lot of articles in English if I could.
However I need much more time.I cannot read so many articles.
It is one of the reasons that I'd like to learn English.

Oops

I did not keep a diary yesterday and a day before yesterday....
I was supposed to do too many things in this blog.....
I should write it freely.

I am going to take a TOEIC test next Sunday but I have not studied enough....
Regardless of it,I'll do my best until the test.

Unless

I cannot think about this diary right now.
So I'll just make a sentence with a word which I don't know well.

I have a lot of words which I don't know well.
For example,"Unless","Though","Even though","Even if","Despite" and so on.

When I don't have a diary which I want to write,I'll write a diary with one of these words to understand them.

I'll use this word "Unless" today.

The Collins Cobuild New Student's Dictionary says,
You use unless to introduce the only circumstances in which an event you are mentioning will not take place or in which a statement you are making is not true.
For example,"I'm not happy unless I ride or drive every day."

I actually looked English-Japanese dictionary up,too.
I understood how to use it and I'll make a diary with "Unless".


"I won't write a diary unless I have a good idea to write it."
"I will write a diary everyday unless I forget to write it."
"Everybody spend money unless they are broken broke."

.......Oh,no.I just wrote some examples........but it's O.K.
Writing everyday is the most important for me so far.
After that I hope I can write a diary with unknow words.


By the way I don't know the difference between that
"I won't tell them --- not unless you say I can." (It is written by Oxford advanced learner's dictionary.)
and
"I won't tell them --- unless you don't say I can."

Both of them are O.K??
Maybe later....

corrected diary

I had many great corrections from my friends. =)
Thank you for correcting!!

If I did not realize them,I would make the same mistakes.So they will be my asset.
I know I must make me embarrassed so that I learn English but sometimes it is difficult because of my cheap pride.
So I'd like to welcome any correction.

The reason why I say again and again is that the person who can teach my mistake worry about my disappointment.
I DON'T disappoint AT ALL!!
I am just glad.
I'm sorry for too many same sayings.=)


I will write Japanese life with videos for my foreign friends.

Changed Akihabara

This is a video which shows the places around Akihabara station in Japan.I didn't know that Akihabara became has become so clean recently.So so I took a video to upload on my blogI have uploaded a video to my blog.This is one of sight the sights in Akihabara.

As I was taking this video,I couldn't remember the word which is a noun and very easy except for "movie" I was thinking about another easy word for "movie" but I just couldn't remember it..I meant I knew only remember the word "movie", and I couldn't remember the word "video" and any other way or any other related words.But I have heard of that there was an another better word to say instead of "movie". I know there's a better word for "movie".I wanted to remember the word.

In Akihabara there are much more foreign people than where I live in.So ,so I have decided to ask one of them whom I never know the strangers.It was very embarrassing for me because I'm not used to this kind of situation.I have made this my a mission which I had to do must accomplish.I don't come here often so it's rare to talk to them.(In my living place I cannot see so many foreign people.It's rare.) I don't get the chance to talk to them.Finally I asked a female Caucasian how I can call say "movie" in the other way anather way.She answered some words which I forgot she said but she didn't say "Video". She has given me some a bunch of words,which I have already forgotten, but I know she didn't say "video".Maybe she couldn't a little bit didn't completely understand what I meant.Then I suddenly remember the word,"Video",suddenly before she told me.

After that, I asked her what is the difference between "movie" and "video".She answered,"Movie is bigger."it is I have already imagined.

In the end,I got the word by myself but I have not felt fine.... because I wasn't really satisfied because..... I'm still wondering that if there is a better word.Do you know how to call "Video" in the other way another way.I think it is how they call "You Tube"....I forgot.... Maybe I might just know regardless of my concern remember the word sooner or later. But if you realize the word know which word I'm talking about,please let me know.Thank you. =)

In Japan,Micky is called....from VOA

Recently I listen to and readhave started listening to and reading VOA news recently.The reason is because that it is very easy to do that I could do that easily when I use my cell phone which is HTC with the HTC phone I bought it I've bought
in Japan!!! The name of the model is X01HT from HTC TYTN and it's made by HTC TYTN.
This blogging is also sent by updated with the wonderful device!! I love it so much!!

By the way I have read a the following article.Please read it from below.

VOA News - Walt Disney,
1901-1966: It All Started with a Mouse

Mickey Mouse appeared in hundreds
of cartoons during the years that followed. He became known all over
the world. In Japan, he was called "Miki
Kuchi." In Italy, he was "Topolino." In
Latin America, he was "Raton
Miquelito."

[VOA News - Walt Disney, 1901-1966: It All
Started with a Mouse:(2007/11/14 3:39:34)]

We,Japanese,NEVER call mickey "Miki
Kuchi"!!!!!!


What is that!!??
I was surprised when I heard the name.
If you know any the detail about this,please let me know.

Already Forgotten to diary

It's the second day but I've almost forgotten to write a diary already....

I'd like to tell my friends about this diary because I can communicate with them
through this blog.
I can tell them about myself.I could wroteIf I write in this diary.I hope I can continue and remember remember and continue to write in this diary....

movie

I'd like to put a movie post a video.
If I can do this,it's very interesting to me. It'd be very interesting if I could do this.

:)

From mobile device

Now I am just trying sending email to put a diary by cell phone right now.If it works,I can write diary diary entries all of the time.

By the way he is my kitten who is taken in my picture. the kitten in the picture is mine.Actually he is not a little he is actually not so young and so cute.
Because his eyes are round even though he is a cat...
However all of my family love him. not so cute and so young anymore,and I think his eyes are rounder than they are too round.
However all of my family members love him.

The first diary

Hello,everyone.

This is the first time that I write am writing a diary in English in this blog.So I want to introduce myself.
I'm a Japanese guy. and I want to improve my English.That's why I'll try to keep a diary in English to practice the use of the language and use English.Probably I'll may have may make many mistakes so if you notice or realize them do catch them,please let me know.

I'll be not able to continue to keep this....I have no confidence to do that but I'll do the best as much as possible. I am not sure if I will be able to continue updating this blog...and I don't have much confidence, but I will do my best.