Metropolis

I have watched a movie "Metropolis" that written by Tezuka Osamu originally. I rented it from Tsutaya because it cost me fifty yen in a sale. During the sale we can rent old dvd with fifty yen so I rent four dvds. It is one of dvds that I rented. I watch it before lunch today.
It is story about a world of future. In this future there are many robots as a worker. Rich people use robots as a employee so many poor people lost their jobs and the poor hate robots. It is a scientific fiction but I think it can be in the future. Now in the world many company make robots and improve it so I think it can't be in the rest of my life but in the so long long future it can be. I think so.
In this movie, there is a robot named Tima that has emotion. From the first time she appeared to the last of her, she look for her identity. It is very sad for me. Human being made it, use, and break if they don't need in a self-serving manner. These behavior is in the real. Sometime everyone behave so. Of course me too. So we think about our life more and more seriously. The movie made me think so. It is just movie, but it has great message for us. I think every movie has message but there is a case we notice that or not. It is important to look for and think about the message of every movie.
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one of my faverite musicians

I'll introduce about my favorite musicians. This time I introduce the Asian Kung-fu Generation. They are Japanese rock band and they released many CDs so I'll introduce some of my favorite CDs that they made.
First I introduce about this band. It has four members, Gotou, Ijichi, Yamada and Kita. Goto is vocalist and guitarist. Ijichi is Drumer, Yamada is bassist and Kita is main guitarist. I like Kita and Ijichi because their playing is very unique. It always makes me excited.
Recently they released the best album of the band but it has songs I had listened so I haven't listened to the best album and I'll not listen that CD maybe.
Their music is not viorent. It's mild so I like it. I like violent rock musi and in the other hand I like mild music. They make mild and unique music that anyone can imitate. I think there are few bands can make so unique song different from so they are great.
My first favorite CD is the "World World World". The songs "Tabidatu Kimi e"(To you begin the trip), "Neoteny", "Wkusei"(Planet) and "Arumachi no Gunjo"(the ultramarine of a town) are in that CD. I recommend you to listen this CD. Even if you don't like rock, you will like it.
Next I like CD is Kimi Tsunagi Fiveen. There are "Understand" and "Denpatou". I like inderstand the best of many songs of Asian Kung-fu Generation. I like malodies of the song. It is god. Always I hear the song, it makes me want to sing the song.
In the last I introduce a CD that I want you to listen is "Mada Minu Asue"(To tomorrow that haven't come yet). It has "Myaku Utu Seimei"(moveing life) and "Mustang". They are good song. I like it so much.
They released other CDs. There are many songs that I like so I want to listen them if you can.
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snowy

Today is February 2nd. It is the day that I can get to know a result of a drawing lots of tickets. It is the ticket of bump of chicken live tour. In fact I subscribe for the ticket because I bought a CD of bump of chicken and it include a right of fastest drawing. If I get the ticket, I will give it to my sister and mother because they like the band more than me. At 1 pm I've got a mail informing me of the result and I fail it. That is too bad but I don't mind it because I will not go to the event if I get the ticket. I subscribed for my sister and mother and they told me that they subscribed too so I wish they get tickets.
After I know the results, I look outside trough the window and I found it is snow. Long time I don't have snow this year so it is beautiful for me but it is very cold for me to get out. So I decided to wait snow stop.
About three O'clock it stopped and I launched to university to submit my report and I did it by four O'clock. Even if snow stopped, it is very cold.
By the way snow reminds me a song of Kimura Kaere. I will introduce a CD of hers. It is eight eight eight. It is written on CD 8 eight 8. It is good CD. These days she made a song like pops so this disc includes that kind of song but there are many songs that played by some bands. The reason why I remember it, the song "an winter fairy is melting snowman" is in this CD. I like the song the best in this disc. It is co cute song. Always I listen to this song, it makes me excited. So I recommend to listen to this CD. There are pops like songs and rock like songs and so on in this disc.
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plans for vacation

In February and March, I should study for examinations because I have entrance examination in 25th February. It will held in Saga university. The reason why I want to enter the university, I want to study biology.

After the examinations, I will watch many movies that I have wanted to watch before. First, I want to watch Toy Story 2 and 3. I watched Toy Story 1 in this class for movie review. When I watched it, I get to want to watch the movie after 1. Next movies I want to watch is Back to the Future. I will watch 1, 2 and 3 in the vacation. I think it is the best movies that I have watched. It is very exciting movie. After watching this movie, it makes me want to ride De Lorean DMC-12.

If I can go to the future or past, I want to meet me or my son or daughter in the future and talk about my life. And I want to meat my father or mother in the past and chat with them but I don’t think that I want to change my life in present.

Other movies I want to watch in vacation is Beck, Kisarazu Cat’s Eye, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Kung-Fu Panda 2 and Dreams and so on. The Dreams is made by Akira Kurosawa. I watch a little part of it in the movie English class. The part of the movie was good so I want to watch whole part of the movie.
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a place where I write this

Now I’m in library of KGU to write this post and other assignments and read the book that Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It is warm in the library than outside. There are some students that I don’t know them. Some of the student is chatting with them friends quietly. I want them to stop chat because it is noisy even if they chat quietly. There are many book in the library. I'm sitting the chair and using laptop computer.

I think it should be kept quiet in the library, so if they want to speak, they should get out of the library and speak as they like. In this term library is always crowded but after five pm there are few people so I like to go to the library of KGU after five pm. I can read many books and write some assignments with comfort. Now is about ten to six pm, so there are few people in the library.

In fact, I reading the book Breakfast at Tiffany’s at the library. It is the book written by Truman Capote. One day I want to read it and search for this in the library to rend this book but there isn’t so I went to Book Off to buy this book yesterday. I don’t finish reading this. I think it should be put on the library. I hope so
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a place where I eat lunch

I like the school cafeteria in KGU because it’s reasonable to eat but it is crowded at lunch time so don’t want to go to eat at lunch time. All of shops in KGU are crowded at lunch time so I go to buy my lunch to Seven Eleven near by KGU. It isn’t crowded. Stores crowded take me so long to time to buy. It is the reason why I don’t like crowded store. Because of crowded, I have to eat lunch in short term. I want to eat with comfort. So everywhere is crowded, I usually eat lunch in back yard in third building. It is not crowded. In another reason, it is near by Seven Eleven.

If I can get up early in the morning, I make lunch in my home. I strongly think the best way to save money is to make lunch by myself. If I make lunch, I need not to buy lunch in KGU or other store. And a lunch made by myself is very good to my health. There is no synthetic seasoning in the lunch that made by my self. In fact, there are many synthetic seasoning in foods sold in convenience store. I told it is not very good for health by my teachers so I try to eat something that is good for my health but often I have no choice. I want stores to sell foods good for health.
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cold weather

I don’t like cold weather because it makes so difficult to get up early in every morning. Always I don’t want to get out of my futon or bed. There is no heater in my room so my room is very cold in winter. So I want my new heater in my room. If I get it, I can make my room hot and if I use it in early morning, I can get up more early more easily. I don’t like cold weather but I like snow because it is so beautiful. A snow scene is very beautiful. Especially I like the snowscape of Aso. For example a mountain covered with snow, snow on the river, snowman is very beautiful. I like it very much.

In winter, I don’t use any scarf because I’m not good at to wind it around my neck so I need some time to wind it. I don’t use it but I use neck warmer because I don’t need to wind it. It is loop shape so I just through my neck to wear it. It is very warm and I can wear easily without some moments. And I ware long under pants to stay me warm. It is very warm. By the way, I think the best way to stay warm is not going to outside of building so I like to stay in my house, class room, library and so on.
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about my pet

I have a dog as a pet. His name is Sophie. He is miniature schnauzer. Five years has passed since he come my home as a family. When he came to my home, he is very small but now he grew. He is very loud because he always barks when visitors come to my home and see another dog. It is so loud and that barking often makes my mother angry. So I don't want him to bark but he doesn't quiet barking. He likes to eat. Sometime it brings a problem. He eats anything to eat for human and he can eat anytime even if he has finished his supper. In the past he ate my cup noodle that placed on my desk. It made me angry. In addition he can eat things that not for eat. For example cardboard, flowers, books and so on. Once time he ate my text book. It suffered me because I must use in a class. He has one more problem for my family. He piddles anywhere in my house. Of course he peed in my room. To make matter worse he peed on my guitar. I want him to pee on his toilet.

Sometime he suffers my family but we love him.
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video games

I use to play video games when I was elementary, junior high and high school student but now I play video game not generally. When I use to play video games, I like Final Fantasy, Smash Brothers, Mario 64, Kingdom Hearts and Kirby of the stars super deluxe. Final Fantasy is role playing game. It is very exciting game. I like 3, 7, 9 and 10. Especially 9 is greatest game in Final Fantasy series. I like Vivi that is a character of the game. He is magician so he can use black magic. I always use him in playing the game because I can win battles with no difficulties. I use to play video games but in fact I don’t like battle game like the street fighter because I’m not good at it. I don’t like any other fighting game. I always lost the game but I want to win so I challenge more and more. But always I can’t win so I get it dislike. Also I don’t like first person shooter. When I play video games of that kind, I always get headache. So I just saw playing of my friends when we play those games. Because I can’t play those games, I like role playing game and the game for an only player.
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about sports, playing and watching

I like watching soccer. My favorite player is Nakata Hidetoshi. I think he is the greatest player in Japan. He is hard worker and very skilful. If all the members of Japanese representation team agree with his opinion, they won in the world cup. I think so. In his last world cup, he insisted to the members that playing with more running and little walking but it is not agreed with by almost of all members. I’m very sad when I heard that he tell so on the TV program. I want the team to win in the world cup because it was last game for him but they can’t. Now he made the Taka Action Foundation and he supports many children in developing country by charity soccer mach. He is respectable person. I want him to keep on his actions.

Also I like playing soccer very much but I’m not good at playing soccer. In fact, I wanted to belong to local soccer team when I entered this university but I didn’t so because I’m not good at playing and I like guitar more than soccer. So I don’t belong to the soccer team. I like watching soccer games than playing soccer. Especially, super plays of players in the world always make me excited. So I don’t sleep well when the world cup is held because I watch the games on the TV.
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my favorite music and musicians

I’ll write about my favorite music. I like rock, metal, fusion and jazz. I enjoy listening to those music everyday by my i-pod. Listening to music is very effective for me because it makes me fun, sad, coreage, and so on. I introduce my favorite musicians of each genres to you.

First, I introduce about jazz musician. My favorite musician is Wes Montgomery. His playing guitar is great. His feature of the playing is octave rendition. It is rendition that play same scale in different octave. Thst sounds is very beautiful, so I like him. I recommend to listen to the album”incredible jazz guitar” That is good.

Next is about fusion. That is hybrid music with rock and jazz. I like it because of many cool solos by instruments in this music. My favorite artist is Casiopea. The song “Asayake” is very good. I also like the “T-square”. You have listend the song “Truth” certainly.

About metal, I like “Bullet for My Vallentain” the best. Them sounds is very violent but the melody of the song is very cool and beautiful so I ilke the band. Almost of all people don’t like metal thinks that music is just violent. But the band is differ from that image. I want you to listen to a CD of the band.

Finally about the rock. Thre is so many genre in the rock. For example, hard rock, shoe gazer, punk rock, electronica rock, mixture, grunge, emotional rock and so on. It is too many to write all. There are many my favorite artists. It is also too many to introduce to you so this time, I introduce one of my favorite artists. It is “Jimmy Eat World”. It is represent band of emotional rock. Them music is not violent like heavy metal but mild and comfort. I think people don’t like violent music will like songs of the band
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advice for next year's student

I’ll advise for next year’s student. I recommend you to write blog periodically because all the student of English course must write so many words. It is inable to write many words in short term. I recommend periodically writing on your blog but it is very defficult so if you can’t find a theme of the blog, I recommend to write about your favorite things, for example, your favorite music, plant, season, your hobby and so on. When I can’t find a theme of the blog, I allways write about a CD of my favorite band and I discrive about the band on the blog. I think periodically writing is very important and I can’t do that.

In fact, there is another way to write the blog that I recommend to you. It is translation. First find the book that witten in japanse and you are interestead in. Next translate the book on your blog. Find the book that you are interestead in is very important. You don’t need to translate all the book. Translate of a part of the book is ok. Finally write your oppinions about the book. This way is so enjoyable I think because you can read your favorite book. On the orther hand, you can write your blog. It’s very valuable.
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local old tale

I write about the old story of Kumamoto in other words, a local old tale. In other day, I found a book named the old tale of Kumamoto of course it is written in Japanese. One of stories that written in the book is so funny so I want to translate it. That is it.

Yajardon.

Today is beautiful day, so Yajardon went to a mountain to get plants used for thatching with a bar to catch those plants.
When he got to a mountain stream, there is a crab. He said that “ok. Let’s sting it with this bar!” and he aimed the crab and sting with a cry. But the bar slipped on a shell of the crab and a sickle that fitted on opposite side of the bar hit his neck! So his neck is cut from his body and trundle on the road.
“What? Human’s neck is on the road. Who did fall it? It is so important parts.” he said so and picked it up.
“Oh, this face is looks like me!” he said and he wanted to touch his neck by his hand but he can’t touch and he got to aware that it is him neck and said “Wow, it is my neck!”
So he pushed it into proper place in a fluster.
He said “That’s OK! Let’s go to the mountain!” and started to walk but it is hard to walk for him. So he said “That’s hard to walk. Why? It is out of form.” and soon he see his house in a distance.
“Wow! No kidding! I walk to the mountain but I got back to the home!” he said and he was going to scratch his head and finally he noticed. He placed his neck front side back.
He said “Oh! It is front side back! It is hard to walk to me cause of it. I walked to back!” and he replaced his neck to proper position and started to walk to the mountain.
Yajardon was walking on the mountain path and said “That’s good. There are not anyone near here and anyone see my opposite neck. If I was seen, I feel ashamed so much!”. He muttered to himself so. Though there are someone who see that happening. It is a raccoon dog and fox of the mountain. They talked about it.
“Hey, Yajardon did something strange. His neck is opposite and he walks to back, and replaced his neck. We have passed many years but we can’t do like that so he is great” the raccoon dog said so.
And fox said “Ok. I don’t want to fall behind him. Let’s scare the hell out of him!”
The raccoon dog said “What will you do?”
The fox answered “ok. I take the shape of the greatest horse in Japan at six thirty in tomorrow morning, so you take the shape of Yajardon and lead me to a village headman and sell me to him. The price is about six ryou I think and take equal shares. I will escape from headman in the evening with crying cough cough.”
“Oh I see! That’s ok! Let’s do that!” the raccoon dog said so. They were discussing about it. And Yajardon heard about someone’s voice and listen to it carefully so the dog and fox talk with each other. He clapped his hands and pleased very much.
Next morning Yajardon visited the fox at six and fox was surprised at and said “Wow! You are too early! You transform yourself into Yajardon very well but we decided that we will meet at six thirty, don’t you?”
Yajardon said “Yes we decided so but village headman is early bird so we have to visit him early in the morning. I think so!” and he waited transformation of fox and lead him to headman.
“Good morning headman.” he said.
Headman said “Yajardon, what’s up? It is early in the morning.” and Yajardon answered “You love horses so I want to sell this horse that I bought in Kumamoto to you. In fact I went to Kumamoto and I found this horse. It is good horse!”
Headman said “Mmm. That’s true. This horse is good horse. How much is it?” and Yajardon answered “It is six ryou.” And headman said “Come down to five ryou.” Yajardon answered “No no no! If it is five ryou, I will lose my money. That is so good horse so I must receive six ryou.”
After them talking he gave the horse to headman by six ryou, tie the horse to headman’s stable and got back to his home keeping his countenance.

This story is so funny. For the first time I read this story, I laughed at it very much. There are rest parts of this so I translate it next time.
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application for admission

I submitted an application for admission to Saga university at about three O'clock. First I need to go to my high school to get my investigation report so I went to Buntoku high school over Kamikumamoto. It is so far from my home. The way to the school made me tired because I went to there by my bike. There are many up and down slope in the way to high school. Next I paid my examination fee in a family bank near the high school. And at last, I submitted my application for admission to the university.
After the submitting, I went to the library in Kumamoto Gakuen University and solve problems of math. It is difficult. It is clearly different from language. In the examination of English and Japanese, I can expect the answer and write it if I can not find true answers but in math, I can not do like that. So it is more difficult than language I think. bye bye (167)

my favorite movie

My favorite movie is the Back to the Future. It is funny and interesting movie. There are three parts of movie and every part is good movie. The story is elaborated well. I think the best movie that I have watch is this movie and the best movie in this world is this movie too. Every time I watch this movie, it makes me excited even if I know about the story. It is great. If we know about following of the story, it is not exciting but especially the Back to the Future is not in this case. At least I see those movies once a year or more. I can not decide the most interesting part because all parts are good.　In another reason, casting of this movie is good. Michel J Fox as Marty is good acting in this movie and Christopher Lloyd as Emmet is better than any other actor in this movie.(157)

my favorite motto

A motto that I like is “not regret without doing, regret with doing”. I think it means that challenge anything that you want to do, even if it is very difficult or it seems to be impossible. We never know the result before we challenge. So if you challenge it, there are possibility of success and fail but if you don’t challenge, there are just fail. If you are failed it, you can challenge again if you can. I like this motto. Sometime those words made me brave and it will help me in the rest of my life. I think my life is once time and it is not again. It is so common but it is very important. We have just one life so we should do anything that we want to do in young ages if it is excusable. So I will challenge anything that I want. (150)

my favorite place I've been

My favorite place that I’ve been is Kinpo mountain. The mountain is in Kumamoto. First I went to there with my friends at the night. We can see great view of Kumamoto city from to of the mountain. I think it is most beautiful view that I have seen in my life. There is good place but a road to top is dangerous and narrow. There is just regrettable point; there are many couples at the night so I want to go there at the morning or day time. I recommend so strongly.
Next place I like is Nagasaki on march because the festival of lanterns is held on march. I went there tow years ago and I saw the festival. It is so beautiful. There are many lanterns in the city and many place is decorate with those lanterns. I feel as if I’m not in Japan but in China. (151)

my favorite clubs

I like swing band club that I belong to. When I entered this university, I was invited to this club by my friend that quit this club soon. I can play guitar and I want to play in any club in university so I get in to the club. I know that the club is jazz band and I think I can play it because my friends said teach me about playing of jazz but it is very hard more that I think it is. I practiced harder and harder. So I get better to play it before but it is still difficult for me so I’m going to continue to practice jazz. Playing instruments is good hobby to me. It is good to have some hobbies that we can put our hearts into. It will be continued forever in our life and help us sometime so I will continue to practice playing guitar. (154)

my favorite season

My favorite season is spring because the weather is not hot and cold. It is warm so I can do anything with comfort. I can go to fishing, play the guitar, listen to music, read books and sleep with comfort without air conditioner. It is very good season to do anything except swimming or sports that played in winter. And in spring I can get up early more easily than winter. So I like spring. When in spring, I go to fishing to sea and lake. The view that I can see when I fishing is good. I like fishing in spring the best. On the other hands, I don’t like winter. The cold weather of winter always makes to get up early in the morning hard. It is very hard for me. I don’t like winter but I don’t hate it because I like snow scenes. It is good point of winter. (153)

My favorite sport to watch

I like to watch a game of soccer. I always look games in TV but I have watched soccer game in stadium with my father in Kumamoto when I 12 years old. It’s so excited game, Jubiro Iwata and Oita trinita. Iwata won at that game. It’s the first game that I watched in stadium and the last game that I watched in stadium. By the way, I like to watch soccer game in TV. I watch games when the world cup is being held. Watching games is very fun and talking about games with friends is fun too. When I was high school student, I watched the game that starts at 2 pm in Japan. It’s so exciting game but I got sleep after Japanese team getting a point. When I get up, I think Japanese team won but actually the team lost. (144)

my favorite dessert

My favorite dessert is an ice cream. I like it very much. A soft ice cream is very tasty. Of course I eat ice creams in summer but I eat ice creams even in cool or cold seasons. For example I like the ice box. That is a kind of ice cream. Many big crushed and seasoned ices are bottled in it. There are many kinds of flavor. For example, grape, grapefruit, and so on. It is tasty and we can eat it without difficulty. When we eat ice creams, we have to eat them hurriedly before ice creams get melt but we don’t have to eat hurriedly in case of eating the ice box because we can drink it after it got melt. That is very important for me. I don’t care of ice creams if it melted or not. (141)

book review#12-Danny's Dream

“He tried everything, but he was never good enough and he always ended up feeling sad.” P.7
I read Danny’s dream. First Danny called bone is not good at any sports for example softball, basketball, football and volleyball. He is short and not strong. He is not good player in sports. After his feeling sad, he watched a race of marathon and there are many runners like Danny. In the other words, all the runners is skinny so he think I can’t be good at sports but if I can run. At the night that he watched the race, he saw a dream that he runs in a race in his sleep. Next day, he start a training to win school’s cross country. He trained so hard. Race day came and it is started. First he is the last runner but after and after he passed many runners and in the last he win the race.
I like this story. First Danny is never good at all sports but he won the race in the last. I think just do what I can do is not important, making an effort even if we can’t do it is important. Danny made great effort to win the race so he is great. I want to be like him. bye bye (218)

Nelson Australia 2008

Jack Gaboeinscy

Karen Oppatt

book review#11-Shipwreck

“No more crackers. Breakfast bars, dried fruit, nuts… they’re all ok. But no more crackers!!” p.24
I read the book, Shipwreck. It is a story about brother that is shipwrecked. First in a yacht, there are four persons; those are father, mother, sister and youngest brother. But after they had storm and shipwrecked, they are separated in parents and kids. I think those kids are great. If I was in those ages, I couldn’t be surviving in an island that there is not anybody in that but they do it. In the last of this story, kids met their parents.
By the way, I want to go to an uninhabited island of course not by shipwreck. If I can go there, I go in summer because I can swim and I want to fishing and eat fish that I got as supper in the night. (145)
Nelson Australia 2008

Carmel Reilly

Samantha Asri and Steve Mahardhika