Vol.73 Live in terror

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Today's morning I consuletd me real estate agency about yesterday's incident.
He told me that he would contact with the old woman.



After one hour he called me back.
The following pieces of information were found.
Thre was a same incident happened to other resident last March.
In response to this, they introduced a security camera in the entrance.
Since that time there had no incidents like that.
So they thought the criminal was outsider.
But it was yesterday that the same incident happened.


He added, the old woman lives alone and she seems to suffer from depression.
Because of her depression she might have did such a thing, he said.
So there was any fault with me...
But I did not ask him why she attacked my house and whether she felt sorry for it.
According to his information, the criminal is related to the buiding owner.
So he could not request her to live in calm...
He told me to let him know if anythig happen again.





But after calling, when I was leaving home to library I saw her going somewhere.
As if she listened to all our conversation.
I felt scared of it, I started to go to the opposite direction.
But after a 2 minutes she appeard in front of me!
I was so scared!
So I escaped as soon as possible, and I took a rest in the other library.
But each time I saw old women like her UI remembered her....
even in the library, the street and the supermarket...
I feel myself being followed or watched by her...



At 20:30 she pushed the buzzar three or four times.
I ignored them.
Tomorrow I will cousult the agency about today's incident.
It does not mean whetehr she suffers from depression or not.
I just want to clearify why she did these foolish things.
Even though she has depression she can apologies.
Why she or her relation did not express any apologies?
This is the way of Tokyo people?


# 事故の原因を追求する
probe the cause of the accident

# （人）に全く非がない
find no fault with

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人の家のインターフォンを何度も鳴らし、出ても応答せず。
そして、窓をドンドンと叩いて逃げた挙句、
私と出会うなり「あんた何やってんだ？自分の胸に聞いてみろ」
とすごい剣幕を立てて怒られたのが昨夜。
今日の話では私のほうに非がないことが判明した。
原因はうつ病だという。
しかし、うつだからといってこれらの行為が正当化される理由になるのか。

今日は朝からつけられて、夜はまたまたインターフォンを鳴らされました。
が、怖いので無視しました。
目がいっちゃってる人なので逆上して刺したりしてこないか本当に心配です。
図書館でもスーパーでも商店街でも、その老婆に狙われていないかどうか怯えています。
大家の親戚らしいので、その人を退去させるのは難しいでしょう。
とりあえず明日も今日あった出来事を管理会社に話して、今後の対応策を考えます。
怖くて何も手に付かないです・・・。

nikukyu


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Vol.72 Hair cut ceremony

Today I had a lot of news around me.

1st in the library
As usual, the man complained about little things and informed it of staff working at the library.
You know, last time he was reported to the police on his making a public nuisance.
Today he complained about a young guy behaviour.
The young man is a person with intellectual disability.
In the past I was stared at by him but I knew he is one of the handicapped people.
So I did not mind it at all.
Despite his character, the man took him to the staff.
The office staff was fed up with his complaint.
They entered a room to discuss something.


After 5 minutes the young guy sat next mine.
He never seemed to understand why that happened.

* イメチェンする
change (up) one's look

# 迷惑行為を行う
make a public nuisance

知的障害を持った
intellectually disabled

2nd Hair Cut Ceremony
I had may hair cut after 3 months absence.
So my hair turned into something awful.
The beauty parlor which I went to provided me with nice hair style as well as reasonable price.
I paid just 1785 yen.



I often do not like idle conversation with beauticians.
Because they ask me everything like profession, hometown and other private things although they would not answer when I ask them the same questions.
I know they just try to find a topic that interests their customer.
That is their job!
So I was worried about if they asked me something I should answer what to say.
But the woman who cut my hair did not ask me any private things.
Maybe I was reading a magazine while my hair was being cut.


Anyway, I am satisfied with my new look.
My hair cut ceremony was successful.



* （人）の興味を引く話題を見つける
find a topic that interests



3rd Espresso
After changing my look I studied a little.
I ordered a cup of espresso for the first time in Japan.
But I was surprised at a small amount of it, and remembered this is espresso.
I really blew it!


# 失敗したなあ！
I really blew it!


4th Who knocked the window?
On entering my room, somebody pushed the buzzer.
I thought it something strange because then it was 21:30.
I grabbed the receiver with a little scared of who rang the bell.
But nobody answered.
So I thought it must have pushed the buzzer by mistake.



But my relief turned into fear.
"Don,Don! Don, Don!"
Somebody pounded on the window facing the street.
I first thought it was by mistake, but it pounded the window repeatedly.
I got out of my house and rushed to the scene.
But there was nobody to be seen.
I returned to the entry of my building and I found a old woman.
She was suspiciously acting and was casting about for something.
I sensed she did it.
I asked he what happened.
But she criticised with angry face, "What were you doing?"
I did not understand why she was so angry.
I asked her, "What I did something wrong?"
She said to me, "Ask your conscience!!"
And then, she entered her room.



I can't stand what she did it and what she said.
Because I am sure that I have not done anything as will hart my conscience.
Why she pounded the window? Why she escaped? Why she was so angry?
Come to think of it, I remembered that somebody pushed the buzzer but it was no respond.
Also, I sensed someone standing by my window facing the street two weeks ago.
I am afraid if something bad will happen to me...
I am sure Tokyo has a lot of mad people like her and the man in the library.
That's why I hate Tokyo.
The air of Tokyo makes us crazy....


Anyway tomorrow I will consult my real estate agency about this incident...


# チャイムを押す
push the buzzer

受話器を取る
grab the phone

ドアをドンドンとたたいた。
I pounded on the door

そういえば、あなたが欲しがっている部品が家にあるかもしれない。
Come to think of it,

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今日は四本立て。
最後の件は本当に悩んでます。
もしかして犯人と鉢合わせたら刺されるんではないかと思って心臓が飛び出しそうでした。
こういうことがあるかと思って、通り沿いに面した住居は避けたほうがいいと最初は考えていたのですが、何せ家賃が安かったものですからつい・・・。
こちら側から窓を開けると通りからも開けられるようになってしまうので、
今はまだ開けていませんが、これから暑くなることを考えると、
安心して窓を開けられるようになりたいですね。
この件でますます思ったんですが、東京は本当に変人が多いです。
東京で子どもを育てたくないという親の気持ちがわかります。
早く東京から脱出しないと・・・。

nikukyu


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Vol.71 Take chances

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On my way home I saw a man selling portraits by his drawing on the streets.
I know him because...



I sometimes meet him on the same streets.
Last time I saw him begging people, but he was treated badly.
His age seemed to be the same as my father or more than that.
He must be at the begging of homeless people because his dressing looks still clean.
I had not met him for a few weeks, so I wondered what happened to him.



Today he sat on the street.
He was selling portraits and displayed one as a sample.
But it was way less than flattering.
His pen and paper were put down beside the sample.
He must have bought them at a 100 yen shop.


In other countries, homeless people excercise their ingenuities in begging money.
Visit here.


It is apparent that he is not good at drawing pictures.
He has few prospect to escape from homeless society.
I think the goverment should create safety network so that we will not produce homeless people any more.


His new attempt to take chances has started.




似顔絵を描く
draw a portrait

# それはお世辞にもよく撮れた写真とは言えない。
The picture is way less than flattering.

# 工夫を凝らして～する
exercise one's ingenuity in doing

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ある駆け出しのホームレスが路上で似顔絵を書き始めた。
だが、お世辞にもうまいとは言えない。
似顔絵を売るという名の物乞い行為にしかすぎない。
彼は社会の底辺から上に這い上がることができるのだろうか。
こうした人をこれ以上増やさないためにも、社会が受け皿となるセーフティネットづくりが大事だ。

nikukyu


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Vol.70 First Visit to My Friend

Yesterday evening I visited to a dormitory of my friend.
He lives in so large a dormitory that can accommodate as many as 300 residents.
It looks like a school.
It has a big lounge room, cafeteria and court for tennis.



Each person has own room furnished with a bed, desk and chair, refrigerator, and toilet and sink.
When I used the bathroom I found a water pot.
He seems to use it to wash his hands.



In his refrigerator there were ready-made frozen pizza, normal bread, Coke and so on.



We enjoyed chatting over nuts and coffee.
He asked me what the most effective medicine for growing hair is.
I searched for it on the Internet, and found it Reup.
He is worried about if his hair becomes more and more balding.


We felt hungry, so we walked to nearby station.
On the way to it there was a Okonomiyaki restaurant.
He said, "I have been to it, and they have menu without pig meat."
I was relieved to hear that and we entered it, but it had no vacant table.


We began to walk again for a restaurant and found Lapauza.
I had him order menu in Japanese to practise.
The food was not delicious. but we enjoyed talking.
When I tried paying a bill, he started to insist on his paying it.
I also insisted to pay it, but he paid with saying,
"Today you came visited me all the way, and you must have paid train fee a lot. You are my guest. Let me pay the bill."
Though I felt sorry, I respected his attitude.



Leaving there I took him to Starbucks to offer to buy him a cup of coffee.
But he started to insist on his treating me again.
I asked me to pay but after all I was a loser.
When he visits my house I am going treat him.
We talked over cups of caramel coffee.



His dormitory is located in calm area.
Near his dormitory I saw a lot of gorgeous houses.
I understood why people call the area as high-class residential district.



When I saw big trees I said,
"Wow, look at that tree! it is like Japanese tree."
He said,
"Hey, here in Japan!"
I have still feeling as if I had just come back from a foreign country after a long trip there.



I got nuts from him as souvenir because I told him many times that the nuts are tasty.





He kindly brought me to the station.
On the way to the station we met his friends by chance.
They seemed to come from Turkey and Iran.
I met an Iranian woman without putting hejab to cover her face for the first time.


According to my friend, some Iranian people drink alcohol even they are said to be rigid muslims.
They were good at speaking Japanase wel.
I was asked "Where are you from?"
She thought I was a foreign person because I was with him.




In the train to Shinjyuku I saw a man sleeping on the floor.
It was funny that he was sleeping by his glass.



# はげ
baldie

# （人）に夕食をおごろうとする
offer to buy someone dinner

高級住宅地区
high-class residential district

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友達の住む寮に行ってきました。
大きくてキレイで治安も良く、文句なしの環境でした。
トイレに手洗い用の水差しがあったのには笑いましたがｗ

最近髪の毛について悩んでいるようで、
何か良い発毛剤がないかと相談されたので、
ネットで調べて「リアップ」なるものを薦めてみました。
発毛の近況報告もブログにてアップするつもりですｗ

nikuyu


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Vol.69 Takorice

Last night I made a Takorice.
It was very delicious.




In the evening I am going to visit a domitory of my friend.
I am looking forward to seeing him.


nikukyu

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Vol.68 My Golden Week (3rd day-2)

After having ramen we visited a winery and tasted some local wine.
We had ice cream wih wine flavor, too.



We went to Yonezawa City, where it is known as castle town.
I was moved by the following phrase;
"If you try, you can make it. If you don't try, you can't make it."




On our way to get back home, we stopped at Namedu Falls.
It was not such a big fall.

We bought braches of Actinidia for our pet as souvenir.



In the evening, we all had dinner at a Japanese style pub where mother works at.
We enjoyed drinking syoutyu and beer with eating delicious meals.


We went home on foot although it is about 2 km between our house and the shop.
We really enjoyed walking, too.


By the way, our cat was captivated by the matatabi.
She seemed to be the happiest of all.


マタタビ属
Actinidia

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これにてＧＷ日記完結です。
観光した場所は印象にはありません。
それよりも久しぶりに過ごした家族との時間が楽しいと思えたＧＷでした。
次回帰るときは良いニュースを手土産にできるようこれからまた頑張ります。

nikukyu


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Vol.67 What is your treasure?

photo:http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruno_misseeuw/2131891646/





I can say with confidence
"My treasure is friends".

I was happy to get this message from a friend of mine.

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Dear XX,



You have no idea

You have no idea

How much your e-mail affected on me positively,
you are really my dear friend I felt very nice feelings
from the way you wrote your e-mail and
as much as you want to see me I want too.


See you brother

XXXXXX

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nikukyu


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