So what? I don't care!

English Teacher

2009-05-06T18:15:00.001+09:00

"I Wanna be a Teacher!" I made up my mind when I was in Jr.high and on my Jr.high-graduation, I promised with my respected English teacher Mr. Yasutomi who wrote a message "I hope you become a good English teacher!" on the first page of my yearbook.

Up to now, 7 years passed away. Do you think I despaired dream, being a teacher? No! Ah yes, no... actually yes, I have thought that I should give the dream up when I decided to enter technical college instead of going to university to study education to be a teacher. To be a 'official' teacher here in Japan, it's necessary to be educated at colleges or universities, not in technical college, that's damn regulation, I think! However, I've never thought that my dream has been shattered, yep I kept telling myself that "Be patient! I'll have a chance! (it's a quote from Mark's saying. Thanks Mark :D)"

Anyway, time is come! The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology started working toward making English education as a required-subject of 5 and 6 grades elementary school from 2011.

I checked about new English education system and now I'm strongly thinking about getting a license named "J-Shine," short for Japan Shogakko (Elementary School) Instructors of English, so I can teach English to the elementary school kids officially. YAY!!

In order to obtain this license, I required to take a course of the teaching of English at some organization which are approved by J-Shine committee and to pass some tests. After I finish taking all of them, I should be recommended by the organization I choose; once my paper work done, the committee judge whether I have enough knowledge to start teaching or not. I'm not sure how difficult this is, but According to rumor, not a lot of people fail in this stage.

Well, no matter the outcome, let's just give it a try!!

Extra Money!

2009-04-15T21:13:00.004+09:00

定額給付金, teigaku kyufu kin, the Supplementary Income Payments, is a one-time payment that was aimed to support the life of inhabitants for the purpose of reducing the uneasiness of them under economic recession and to revitalize local economy at the same time.￥12,000 for each parson ( but 20,000 yen for those whom age of 18 and under and age of 65 and over). In Adachi-ku(ward), an application form had been sent to each registered person from the city office on March 23, and acceptance started. My family ann I finally got teigaku kyufu kin today! V(^∇^)o iiVIVA EXTRA MONEY!!

Co.KEIOH from Gakkou e ikkou

2009-03-15T10:16:00.002+09:00

日本舞踊 (Nihon Buyō)

2008-12-21T23:18:00.007+09:00

日本舞踊 (Nihon Buyō) is a traditional Japanese performance.
Since my grandma is 師範 (the master instructor), of 藤阪流(one of the dancing ways called Fujisaka)]; I do Nihon Buyo!

The other day, we had a exhibition. If you want to see the movie me dancing, check out my page on facebook or myspace, thank you!!

Mi familia de Mexico!!

2008-09-03T22:35:00.009+09:00

Mi familia de Chi hua hua en Mexico- Familia de Ramirez- esata formada por (My family members in Chi hua hua Mexico -Ramirez Family- are) mi papa (my dad), mi mama (my mom), hermano mayor Carlos (older brother Carlos), hermana menor Yesi (younger sister Yesi) y Damaris (and Damaris) y por mi (and myself). Tenemos uno pero que sellama Niki (There are a dog name Niki).

Mi papa gusta leer, computacion, tocar guitarra, cantar y karaoke. (My dad likes to read, computer, to play guitar, to sing and karaoke). Mi mama gusto leer y costura (My mom likes to read and sewing). Carlos gusto anime, juego y Wii (Carlos likes anime, game and Wii). Yesi gusto leer y anime (Yesi likes to read and anime). Damaris gusto escuchar musica (Damaris likes to listen music). Ademas, hermanos las dos gustan baile. (And both sisters like to dance).

Shanghai

2008-05-12T07:37:00.002+09:00

現在我在上海。有意思。

我想旅居在上海长的時間。
但是、明天、我回帰日本。

我再去中国口巴 o(o _o)○

I'm at Shanghai right now. Shanghai is very interesting place to me. Really!
People here is interesting too. They're speaking Chinese with Shanghai accent.

Although Mandarin, a common language in China, is understood in Shanghai,
a local people are very glad when I try to talk with Shanghai dialect.

I can understand what they say somehow or other even I've never learned how to speak it in school. So how... I acquire some expression naturally from shopping in Shanghai. Here's some↓

Fi ni guan lin‥‥Welcome
Non Yo Sa?‥‥Can I help you?
Ba sha ja‥‥(No) Thank you
De ba zee‥‥Excuse me
Da ga ji dee? ‥‥How much is this?
Ze Bi ni nie‥‥Can I have a discount?
Ta ju la‥‥It's too expensive
～Kui a ma?‥‥How about $～
No min chi mio‥‥I have no idea
Yo a‥‥ I want this

Rin(0) Yea(1) Ryan(2) Se(3) Su(4) Mm(5)
Lo(6) Che(7) Ba(8) Ju(9) Ssa(10)

I want to talk to Shanghai people more so that I can master more. YES!

Multilingualist

2007-10-13T09:04:00.000+09:00

Right now, I'm in a great enviorment where 20 or more languages are flying one after another, which is great!! haha I told you, I shall be a multilingualist!!

I'm going to miss LA

2007-03-22T14:50:00.000+09:00

I have been here LA for only 10 days, but now I have kinda warm feeling now...

But..., I'm sure I'm gonna miss LA!!

I'm gonna miss Honbu Dojo!
I'm gonna miss Obata Kaiso, Mrs, Obata, Saito Sensei and all those who practice together!

I'm gonna miss Little Tokyo, Miyako Hotel, Super Mitsuwa and people there!
I'm gonna miss Down Town LA and jerry-built food booths, shops and stuff like that!
I'm gonna miss very complicating but useful transportations, DASH and Metro!

I'm gonna miss strong sun light!
I'm gonna miss Spanish!
Anda, I'm gonna miss USC! YAY!!

Oh, I will even miss Mexican foods that I ate everyday say tacos, burrito, bocadijo(kind lika sandwich, not sure about the spelling though) and etc... Can you believe that!?? You never thought I'm gonna miss hot Spanish food, right? Oh yeah, someone who couldn't eat even mild hot stuff misses ultra hot food! Wow, just amazing!!

Yes, Yes, Yes I'm gonna miss everything except street people who ask me for money, traffic jam, as well... I think I'm not gonna miss Yumi and Noah. lol

Thanks and I promise I will be right back to LA again!!

Wasting time and money!

2007-03-06T20:49:00.000+09:00

Today, I watched the budgetary discussion 2007 on House of Representative Internet TV.

-->http://www.shugiintv.go.jp/en/index.cfm

It was ridiculous! Politicians are not talking about important stuff! It was so boring that some of them especially underlings are not listening, talking with person who sitting next to each other, yawning, or even taking a nap instead of paying attention to speakers. Bullshit!

What they were doing was a completely useless effort… phew, they were trying to avoid wasteful spending, but I would say that the salaries for the idiotic politicians are actually prodigality of tax, which is our money, my money!

No hope for future of Japan… ヽ(´～｀；）

Kobe

2007-02-20T22:22:00.000+09:00

Yes, Kobe is a great player!! Now, who will stop Kobe is the question? Or is it better to say, who can stop Kobe? Hmm... I need think about that.

Vista

2007-02-20T21:01:00.001+09:00

Vista is Nice!! I just finished updating to "Vista" gahahahaha, and that's cooler, faster!! I feel like using Mac computer!!

ALL STAR 2007

2007-02-19T15:50:00.000+09:00

NBA ALL STAR game is one off the fun event, in fact I think ALL STAR games are just as exciting as Finals... Anyway what even better was it was held in "Vegas" this year that made me look forward much much more... why Vegas doesn't have any NBA team and it's pretty unusual actually under this kinda situation was the first time. Hmm must be exciting ever!!

Here's that list in my order of preference (best to 50th):
Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, George Mikan, Karl Malone, Julius Erving, Elgin Baylor, Bob Cousy, Bob Pettit, Hakeem Olajuwon, Moses Malone, Shaquille O'Neal (the only active player on the list), Jerry West, John Havlicek, David Robinson, Kevin McHale, Charles Barkley, Isiah Thomas, Walt Frazier, Patrick Ewing, Willis Reed.
Dolph Schayes, Dave Cowens, Billy Cunningham, Elvin Hayes, John Stockton, Rick Barry, George Gervin, Earl Monroe, Pete Maravich, Nate Archibald, Paul Arizin, Dave Bing, Sam Jones, Clyde Drexler, Robert Parish, Scottie Pippen, James Worthy, Lenny Wilkens, Wes Unseld, Bill Sharman, Nate Thurmond, Bill Walton, Jerry Lucas, Dave DeBusschere and Hal Greer.

Assuming the next official NBA all-time team will be the top 75 players for the league's 75th anniversary, here are the active players I believe already have clinched spots (in order of my preference): Tim Duncan, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Kevin Garnett, Jason Kidd and Gary Payton.
Other active players who are well on their way to making the top-75 list: Steve Nash (a third MVP award would be the clincher), Dirk Nowitzki, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Tracy McGrady. Dwight Howard, Vince Carter, Ray Allen, Jermaine O'Neal, Gilbert Arenas, Elton Brand, Amare Stoudemire and Chris Bosh have more to do but can't be discounted.
Five retired players who didn't make the 50th anniversary team but will deserve consideration for the 75th anniversary team are Dominique Wilkins, Bob McAdoo, Reggie Miller, Alex English and Connie Hawkins.

Well, the game result was that West beat East by 153-132...

LeBron James, who had 29 points and 6 rebounds for the East was recorded the youngest ( 21years old) MVP in the history last year, led the East with 28 points!! What I was surprised was his shooting ability... man, he's good! Make sure, don't let him open! I bet he will be big like MJ, haha, he needs a champion ring though....
Carmelo Anthony from the Denver scored 20 points and 9 rebounds, was nice!! He's entertaining us by playing hot!!
Amare Stoudamire who from Suns, he got 29 points and some rebounds, was cool as well.

But, compare to Kobe Bryant from the LA Lakers, eventually those players are nothin' he scored 31 points which was the highest, oh man that was hot!! you know, he also got 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 6 steals!! Wow, he's incredible!! No wonder he was chosen as the MVP!! WOOT!!
And, I was hoping to see Steve Nash from The Suns but he didn't play because of injury... Rokcets's Yao Ming or Naggets's Iveson also; I always like to see Kidd's play so I was kinda dissapointed about that!
Ultimately, however,, it was not as good as I expected actually... well I hope next year wherever it will be held is going to be better than this year!!

Cheers!

Lost confidence

2007-02-11T19:02:00.000+09:00

I watched Full House (I guess 4th or 5th season) on TV today... and I couldn't catch what just Michelle said... I only heard "dude" at the end of her comment. That means my english level is same as or could be lower than 5 years old kids....

Teaching!!

2007-02-10T20:46:00.000+09:00

Now I have been difficult time to find a job for future... I'd like to do some kind of teaching job, a Japanese teacher would be the best, but that might be hard for me since I don't have time and money (to become a Japanese teacher, I need to go school for it first)... hmm, spending money for studying right now is not what I want... yes, I need to save the money for going study abroad. However, today I found out that teaching English to kids is one of the my desires that I can do without any licence, that's cool! So I will probabry send a reseme to some schools where I can teach Englidh to kids. Hope some of the company will hire me.

How can I concentrate?

2007-02-08T19:40:00.000+09:00

“I can't concentrate while I’m studying” is one of the difficult tasks of my life. Even though we all have the ability to concentrate; yet most of the time, it is quit difficult for me to keep my mind upon one thing. However, I do concentrate sometimes, without realizing it though. For this reason, it is impossible for me to tell you that my most successful study techniques. Nah, we can’t say impossible never…, but now question is when I’m concentrate or not. I think it is much easier to find its answer from going over when I can’t get back on the truck.

When I’m not concentrating, there are always my friends around; yes, in my case friends are the worst PEST for me; yes gadgets are not so destructions as compare to the friends. Therefore, I won’t never concentrate as long as friends distract to me. In other words, I should be alone when I need to concentrate. Next, I think when I’m giving attention to things, I’m listening to music, my favorite one are even better though. For me, it’s a really factual, even though to listen music would be distraction for some people. For another point here, as I deliberate, I need to sleep, do some excises and eat well first. When I’m sleepy, of course I can’t stand against sleepiness, only I think about is that ‘I’m try not to fall asleep’…. ‘I won’t nod’… zzz… die ultimately… zzz, so I never get into a mood at all…. How about an empty stomach, is it bother my study time? Oh yeah, it is troublesome! Temptation for appetite is one of the things that I really can’t control unless I have some snacks. To end with some excises, I could keep my mind on study more when I was playing basketball, which data tells that I need some activity in favor of studying. Oh, wait… I almost forgot to mention about a depression, an anxiety and a stress, I would add negative feeling about something else also; because to deal with them are pain in the ass really, yes they are the one lose my enthusiasm. Even supposing some say it’s not good way to solve the problem, I consider that we sometimes can depend on alcohol for concentration, I didn’t say drug, only by drinking proper amount though. According to Asahi daily newspaper, some liquid make us relax both physiologically and psychologically.

To put it briefly, for focus on studying, I necessitate staying away from friends, luck of sleep, food, excises plus worthless emotion, in addition, enlist music or things whatever help me to concentrate like alcohol as my friend, then no problem, victory will be mine!!

THE SAMURAI AND THEIR USE OF BUSHIDO

2007-02-07T22:01:00.000+09:00

In Japan the warrior class was known as samurai, also called bushi. They formed a class in and of themselves during the 9th and 12th centuries. They appeared from the provinces (area, region) of Japan to become the ruling class (the class that controls country) until their decline and later total abolition (ending) in 1876 during the Meiji Era.

The samurai were fighting men, skilled in the martial arts. Samurai had extensive(wide) skills in the use of the bow and arrow and the sword. They could just as likely have killed you with their bare hands. Samurai were also great horsemen.
These warriors were men who lived by Bushido; it was their way of life. The samurai's loyalty to the emperor and his overlord (lord=reader), or daimyo, was unsurpassed. They were trustworthy(dependable) and honest. They lived frugal(economical) lives with no interest in riches and material things, but rather they were interested in honor and pride. They were men of true courage(spirit). Samurai had no fear of death. They would enter any battle with no hesitation. To die in battle would only bring honor to one's family and one's leader.

Samurai usually would rather fight alone, one on one. In battle a samurai would call out his family name, rank and accomplishments(successes). Then he would seek out an opponent with similar rank and do battle. When the samurai has killed his opponent he severs his head. After battle he takes the heads of his enemies back to show proof of his victory. Heads of generals and those of high ranks were carried back to the capital and displayed for the officials and others. The only way out for a defeated(win against) samurai was death or ritual(ceremonial) suicide, which was seppuku.

Seppuku or Hara-kiri is when a samurai stabs a knife into his abdomen and literally disembowels himself by cutting out his guts. After the samurai disembowels(take internal stuff out) himself another samurai, usually a relative or friend, slices his head off. This form of suicide was "performed under various situations: to avoid capture in battle, which the samurai did not believe to be dishonorable and degrading(shaming), but generally bad policy; to atone(make up for) for a misdeed(wrong) or unworthy act; and perhaps most interestingly, to admonish(reprove) one's leader". A samurai would rather kill himself than bring shame and disgrace(shame) to his family name and his leader. This was considered an act of true honor.

The samurai became the ruling class during the 1400s and the 1500s. In the 1600s there was a time of unification(fusion); warring in Japan had ceased(finish). Then toward the end of the Tokugawa Era (the late 1700s), Japan began to move towards a more modernized and Western way of life. There was no need for fighting men, for warriors, for samurai. The samurai and their way of life was officially abolished in the early 1870s, but it was not forgotten.

Baby-making machines

2007-02-06T13:16:00.000+09:00

It has been current topics on everyday news are about Hakuo Yanagisawa, who is a Japanese health minister, described women as "baby-making machines" also requested women to "do their best" to prevent a trouble that the birthrate in Japan is going down and down.
That was ultra impolite!!
I believe that he needs to take responsibility for this problematical statement and resign. Let me add this…. Even though someone who like, Shinzo Abe, the prime minister of Japan, should force him out of government, Abe has been standing up for him rather than make him to leave that I can't understand!!

Cool stuff

2007-01-19T22:59:00.000+09:00

Haha, awesome, this is really cool ever I have done (='c'=)b
Yes I created my own playlist!!

Aww...

2007-01-11T15:52:00.001+09:00

My family is a bit gibberish sometimes haha... you know, that's why I am also.
At Yamada-denki, an electrical appliances store, near my house; they are trying new machines that moving is like riding on horseback... silly; however, I heard these are hit products right now with buildup "slim down," hahaha, hmm... let's see if lose weight or what... just curious.

20years....

2007-01-09T21:47:00.000+09:00

I became 20, that means from now on I will be regarded as an adult, wow!!
This is a picture of me wearing kimono for the coming of age's celemony yesterday.

Kinchan's Kaso-Taisho

2007-01-07T10:56:00.002+09:00

Kinchan's Caso-Taisho has been one of my favorite TV program since I was a little girl...hehe. Here is the homepage for it --> Kinchan no Kaso Taisho, also you can see some winning collections here --> Kako no Sakuhin. Kinchan, Kinichi Hagimoto is famous Japanese comedian is its MC, also Shingo Katori, one of the members of singer group SMAP. Basicly, participants give a performance and contested by 10 judgers(famous people; actors/actresses, entertainers, athletes... etc). Each of them have two points to evaluate performance, so perfect score is 20p, and over the 15p is pass, under the 14p is failer.... Last they announce each prizes and champion!!

New Year’s reservation of 2007

2007-01-02T19:18:00.000+09:00

Following a Japanese traditional custom, I have to set a new year’s reservation on January 2. And, today is January 2. Well… I know I really need to set a new goal because I always give up on the half way; I have never completed things…. What a week will I have...

Anyways, I have to figure out what is the most important thing I will need to be done in this year. Let’s think about what I couldn’t be done during past years….

First I was less communicative entire my life… oh yeah, I need to talk more, but I'm losing confidence for speaking English right now…, it will be very difficult for me to achieve that; maybe impossible??... Oh, I already make ready to run away… not good…. Hmm… I need to communicate well in any case, eh? Now… how can I overcome this shyness. Donno…

Okay, I decided one! My goal this year will be… “Make others happy!!” hahaha how’s that??

Christmas Illumination

2006-12-26T10:19:00.000+09:00

Last night, I went to Fuchie Park 15min from my house with my grandma. As soon as I finished videotaping all the light turned off for some reason... Oh year, I was lucky!!

Cute!!

2006-12-23T20:15:00.000+09:00

I love this!! I found them near Daiba station (Yurikamome), Tokyo!!
I hope everybaby will have a happy Christmas!!

Upwords

2006-12-23T01:28:00.001+09:00

I played 'upwords' against Kevin, John and Ryan the other day.

Here are the results...

Of course I fell... I need to build up my vocabulary, you know that...

UPWORDS No.1

GIRDER

FLOORS

Z E V T

MAW S ALA

OX N

C BA D

SHANTY

UPWORS No.2

BUNTING

L 0

A F

N RE LAYS

C I O I QU

H SC O PES A

E H OR W

DEF I N ES L

R OT