2016-01-01から1年間の記事一覧

0:40-1:26I should write something before I forget. I passed the exam. It was an effort continuing for three years, so now I rather bewildered what should I do hereafter. Maybe I should start learning Chinese from now on. Anyway, now I'm fr…

2:21-2:54I've just noticed that I've already been writing this blog for more than 10 years. And, apparently, I was just married when I started this blog, preparing our marriage ceremony. Hmm...A decade is surely a long time. It seems Haten…

3:13-3:56Today's a day 3 of my speech practice. I'm still undecided which is the best material I should use. One is 三修社's 「英語で話す力。」And the other is James M. Vardaman's 「毎日の英文法」. The former one looks more suitable for to…

3:17-3:54I measured my reading speed for English text. With several method, they always indicate my reading speed is around 170-180 wpm. So...they say it is almost equivalent to 4th grade students. And, considering to the average of native…

1:11-1:56Gyaah! I'm dying to see Kingsgraive! I can't wait till the movie released on the internet on August 30, but I can't afford to go to U.S. on 19! Because I live in Japan! Anyway, speaking of English translated Japanese anime or movi…

1:03-1:32I haven't loafed to write diary this two weeks, really. I wrote it on my notebooks, and I didn't have time to copy them on here.The best thing when I wrote diary on the notebook is it doesn't restrain what I write about in my life…

1:45-1:59I should write some today. But, since I need to wake up early tomorrow, I write 15 minute today.I went to my parents' house this week end with my family. And we celebrate my daughter and her cousin's birthday. The problem is that …

23:08-23:40Um, I have to write some today. Since I attended at the training seminar, today wasn't much busy day and I dismissed in rather early hour. After the work, I went back to the station where I live and spend four hours or so readin…

23:50-0:22I bought a new fountain pan at Tokyu-Hands in the Tokyo Station building. Initially I went to there because I have to buy a shoulder strap which the old one was broken, but recently, the Kakuno I usually are using, it's pen point…

1:53-2:24The interview exam's result arrived. I'm almost there. But I confirmed that the bar isn't that high, so I think I can pass in this year.I have finished to read Yukito Ayatsuji's "Another S/0". That was good. And I tried to start t…

1:18-1:46It's bad that I don't write something for three days straight, so I should write something today. I could take these three holiday full, and this is the first which I don't have anything to prepare for exam in two or three months.…

2:25-3:15First thing's first, I should write about the interview this Sunday. First, I should prepare some introduction of me to start conversation. I thought the exam might began when I entered to the room, and thought interviewers should…

Gun control in U.S. and the difference in Japan

What is it? It seems that gun related crime continued to be common in today's U.S. Even with only last week, there were incidents that police man shot to kill black people happened twice. And gunmen killed five policemen happened afterward…

The cause of Brexit: or prevalence of isolationism around the world

What is Brexit? It is a national referendum in United Kingdom that people vote whether they should leave from European Union or remain. The result was leave side's won by 52% to 48%, which cause huge financial turmoil all over the world. F…

3:16~4:32The interview is waiting the next day of tomorrow. I was so nervous today, so I took off from work... I was preparing some speech for whole day, maybe it soothed me a little. Followings are the results I wrote to prepare. Hope at …

1:49-3:06Today's Thursday. Somehow, recently for me, Thursday is the day I'm looking forward most. It's because there's an advice column on the newspaper, and there's a new episode of "And you though there is never a girl online?" at the s…

1:58-2:44I left my workplace a bit earlier than usual day, and returned home early today. Definitely I should study today too. Unfortunately, instead, I found that English version of Project Itoh's The Empire of Corpse was already released…

1:08-1:40Well, I didn't write yesterday. And I don't have a lot of things to write today too. Umm...The good thing was that Kadokawa's stocks unexpectedly rose today, so it covered my loss on this year around 10% or so. I hope the trend of…

23:57-0:38At last, the interview test is waiting on next Sunday. I can stop studying English if I pass that...I spent almost whole time of this weekend for preparing the interview, but I don't know it's whether effective or not. In the end…

2:09-2:45I should write some today, too...Urm, I wrote I shall continue to write about Brexit today on yesterday? Then should I? Umm...Apparently, after U.K. leaves from EU there will be two countries which could seize a moment, acoording …

2:29-3:02Since I need to gather materials or topics to use for the interview, naturally I'm watching closely about Brexit. I think it's good that I tidying up ideas about it. Why did that happen? The British prime minister and most of all …

2:26-3:04Eww...I cannot die until I watch Kingsgrave: Final Fantasy XV movie's English dubbed version! Today I watched its English version trailer on ANN, and I noticed its lip sync was targetted to English! And, that was awesome! Accordin…

3:18-3:48Apparently, I passed the exam of Eiken 1st grade's 1st section. I totally gave up this time (since, there was a woman sat next to me was crazy. She wrote every words down to her test paper and made significant noise), surely the l…

0:54-1:26As soon as I finished the Eiken exam, I had to study hard to prepare another exams and finally it finished today in success (Not Eiken, I think it wasn't good enough this time again). So I have time to start to do many things at l…

22:25-At last, tomorrow is the day of the exam of Eiken. I did the last past exam as a practice, and the result was bit lower than the passing line, and time is bit shorter than enough to write for appropriate length in Part 4 essay, I thi…

2:30-2:58As well as last week, this week's extremely busy and I haven't been able to spare my time to study. The exam is only 3 days from now. This is really bad.As today is Thursday, I bought the Japan News and copy its Troubleshooter col…

1:48-Well, I should write something today too. I almost finished to read novelized version of Disney's frozen. Though the book is totally targetted to children, there are words I don't know in the book, more than occationally.I tried to ke…

2:13-2:51I forgot to write this, but I finally watched President Obama's speech at Hiroshima on youtube yesterday. Anyway, I felt maybe it's better to read the script than hear or watch actual speech. It felt more celemonial than I thought…

1:45-I should write someting today, since I was truat for more than three days to update or practice this diary. Finally, the exam waits a week later. But I did afraid that if the work would be too hard to allow me to prepare the exam, and…

2:01-2:31Yesterday, I coudn't but sleep early since I was so exhausted. And I need to wake up early this moning for having my daughter to take bath and shower. And after that, I work at my workplace from 10AM to 11PM. I know, it's really d…