New CDs

I will have new two CDs! January 12th, RADWIMPS will release a new single CD, “DADA”. RADWIMPS is now so popular among young people with their special view of the music and great technique of performance. They use beautiful Japanese and energetic English at will. And they speak to us about their love, about the world, about the life and so on with their songs. I can find new point of view from them.

And February 23rd, BUMP OF CHICKEN will also release a new single CD. Its title is “友達の唄”. They are very popular and famous around the world. Their delicate and soft lyrics are famous, but they have also severe and cool aspects. Many people include me are touched our heartstrings by them. When we feel sad, or run up against a wall, or despair of everything, we can feel relieved from their songs. Last year, they worked energetically. So, I hope for their works this year.



(164 words/total 11006 words)

My Horrendous Dream

My first dream in the New Year was bad for me. It was horrendous dream. There is one girl. She was my friend in my dream, but in fact, I don’t know her. I’ve never seen such a girl. In my dream, she has an older brother. But she was always treated badly by him. And I don’t know why, but I knew that she would die soon. But of course her brother didn’t know that, so he treated her harshly as usual. At that time, she opposed him in tears at the first time. Just then, someone flitted across in front of her. In that instant, she lost her eyes. There were only two dark holes on her face. I sensed danger at that time. I thought that she would die by intuition. So, I embraced her tight, and then, I escaped from her brother with her hugged.
Then, I woke up. After all, I don’t know how she was. Did we success to escape? Did she die? I don’t know anything. But now, I’m sure that I wanted to escape not only from her brother but also from her death. I don’t know who she is, but she was my friend without fail in my dream.
My first dream in the New Year was horrendous. But there may be some messages in my dream. When I woke up, I felt only fear. But now, I found other feeling about my dream. The dream will unforgettable for me.



(249 words/total 10842 words)

Under the Bridge

These days, I found an interesting comic book. Its title is “Arakawa Under the Bridge”. The main characters are so characteristic and funny. They live together under the bridge, and they enjoy their free and oscar life.

The beginning of the story is joining one person. His name is Koh Ichinomiya. He is clever, handsome and perfect, and he is a president of many companies at the age of twenty. He has lived his life as he was taught by his father. His father also has many big companies, and always says to him, “Don’t run into debt.” But one day, he was helped by a girl, Nino. She is so beautiful and mysterious girl, and she lives under the bridge. He began to live there to pay a debt to her as her boyfriend.

At first, he despised strange inhabitants living under the bridge. But gradually, while he doesn’t notice, he has smiled more often recently. And he became to not care about a little debt. The best of it is that he made friends. He is a prefect man, so he was always alone. But now, he has changed.

This is a gag comic book. It always makes us laugh. But I think its bottom is serious. The taught of Koh’s father is the problem in common. If we never ran into debt, we wouldn’t touch anyone. So, before living under the bridge, Koh was always alone. Today, someone say that human social ties are very thin in Japan. I think so, too. This comic book gives us laugh, but it also gives us problems we have to improve.



(271 words/total 10593 words)

2010-2011

The last day of the year, I went to Minamata city which my grandparents live in with my family. We start there at about three o’clock, but we arrived there at about seven o’clock! We usually go there for about two hours by car, but this time, it took to go there for about four hours! The reason why it took so much time was snow! Since the previous day, it began to snow. And we unusually had much snow. We usually go there through an expressway. But we couldn’t use an expressway to Yatsushiro interchange. It also took thirty minutes to go down from an expressway. After that, we caught in a traffic jam. So, it took to go there for about four hours!
We arrived there with difficulty, and we ate sukiyaki with my family and my grandparents while we watched the Red and White singing contest. I really like sukiyaki which my grandmother made! It’s very delicious!
On New Year’s Day, my two cousins and their parents came to the house of our grandparents. My cousins are brothers. An older brother is the same age I am. He is very clever, handsome, kind and perfect! I’m proud of him! And he will be a company employee of a famous company this spring. A younger brother is also superior and good at drawing pictures. And their parents are so cheerful and energetic. They are very happy family. We ate traditional Japanese food prepared in advance for consumption during the first three days of the New Year and containing various specified ingredients and soup containing mochi vegetables and other ingredients, popular at the New Year together. The mochi were made by my grandmother, so of course they are so good! We had special time there!



(296 words/total 10322 words)

SAINT ☆ YOUNG MEN

Yesterday, I bought a comic book, SAINT ☆ YOUNG MEN. It is a new book, the sixth volume.
The story is very humorous and peculiarity. The main characters are Buddha and Jesus Christ. They live together at a run-down apartment in Tachikawa, Tokyo as a vacation. They live their ordinary days like us, but everything is special and interesting for them. They enjoy a vacation so much.
In a new book, they go and enjoy at the sea, enjoy dressing up as Dracula and Frankenstein on Halloween, play a special sport, go to karaoke, think about the heavens tour, make comics and Jesus Christ sees a dentist. There is nothing special for me. But they enjoy all out everything in their ordinary days.

In these books, there are so many jokes based on Buddhist and Christian histories or episodes and so on. Now, these books have greater popularity than expected in Japan. I think that this comic book will become only in Japan. Pious believers in Christianity or Buddhism can’t accept this book. Almost of Japanese believe in no religion, so some of them like it.
I think that this idea is very interesting. The situation of a simple life of Buddha and Jesus Christ is surreal and interesting. And I think if everyone and every country in the world became wholly peace, they could live such a homely life.
And I don’t have much knowledge about Buddhism and Christianity very much. There are many things that I don’t have ideas in this book. So, I want to learn much more things about them. I can learn many things and get special laugh from this book, so I like it very much!




(282 words/total 10026 words)

My Part-time Job

I do a part-time job at a cram school. And my part-time job in the period overlapping the close of the old year to the start of the new was so hard for me. I must teach for eighty minutes in one class. And I have to do it six times in a day. Everyday, I came home at about eight thirty, and then, I had dinner. After that, I have to do preparation of my teaching of tomorrow. But it was very hard. I couldn’t finish in the night. I went to bed at about one or two. And I woke up at six thirty in the morning. Then I took a shower. After that, I finished doing preparation. I had breakfast, and I went to part-time job at before nine. I repeated this life for eight days. I was worn out. But the examination is near at hand. So, I have to help my students as hard as I can.



(162 words/total 9744 words)