Vol.14 Hopeful News

I woke up by a call from an employment councilor at 10:00.
He told me that a company which I applied for was going to have a job interview.
Though I submitted a job application form 2 weeks ago,
there has not been any reply from the company so far.
I have just known that this delay was caused by the personal reshuffle.
Anyway there is still hope left for me.


Another news is I may do translations.
A friend of mine offered this job.
Payment is decided by the number of translated papers.
I do not want money. but this job will be a good reason to explain my blank from last month in my CV for the job interview.


BTW, I found a very lovely movie!
Check it out!

Vol.13 I may have already lost my hometown...

My recent hit song is this.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iqi5jrflmw

"Ballde dedicated to mother" by Tetsuya Takeda

I like the opening of this song's lirics very much.
This song starts with lirics below,

「お母さん、今ぼくは思っています。
ぼくに故郷なんかなくなってしまったんじゃないかと。

そして、残っている故郷があるとすれば、

それはお母さん、あなた自身です。

お母さんは何から何まで故郷そのものです。」


The above song is sung by Tetsuya Takeda,
but I reccomed you that the same song impersonated by Korokke who is one of the famous impersonaters be worth listening.

He is great!


I sympathsize with what the lirics are telling...

Last month my mother visited my apartment for the first time.
She came by express bus for 5 hours to see if I was fine or not.
To my surprise, she brought several kinds of vegetables like carrots, potatos, pickles as well as rice! All of them were from my hometown and my kitchen garden.

I remembered a scene of a film whose name is "Kitanokunikara".
In this film there is a scene that a father visited his son, who lived in Tokyo,
and he brought several water melons...it is the same as my mother.


Everytime I go home I can not realize that I am at home without seeing my mother.
I am not mama boy, but I think almost everbody has this similar feeling.
So, during having dinner with mother, I felt as if I went home and had dinner.


Mother is great.

Vol.12 Long night brought by neighbor

I am still awake though I went to bed at 23:00 last night.
Because sounds from a person upstairs who has just moved was noisy, so I missed a chance to sleep.

My apartment is a steel-frame buiding,
but I think performance of the struction is badly poor.
Because today I heard the guy upstairs popping a sound in bathroom!
It is like that I and he live together in same room!
I pay 82000 yen for housing expense monthly,
but cost and performance is disappointing.
If I had known this problem of this building, I would have chosen another one...
You can buy comfortablity by paying money.


Anyway, I reviewed the textbook which was planned to do tomorrow.
But I finished it by 3:00.


So, now I am reading a book.


What time I can fall asleep?

Vol.11 Strange African

I woke up at 14:00 because i could not go to sleep so I had been studying until 5:00.


Today I tried a new textbook for TOEIC which I bought yesterday at a BOOK OFF in Jiyugaoka.

The percentage of my correct answers was 70-80%, which was higher than I expected.
I will review tomorrow.


By the way, during my studying at a library there was a strange foreign man.
This library has a study room composed of 4 tables and 8 chairs.
I and another person occupied the 2 tables, respectively.
Suddenly a stranger foreigner, who looks like from Africa, and another person quarrel each other over temperature of air conditioner.


African guy said, "why it is too hot here?"
Another man answered, "not hot! it is cool! 21 degrees now"
Yes, that room is too cool for some reason.
Judgeing from their conversation,
it seemed to me that they have known each other, but Japanese man hates this guy.


This guy had an umbrella despite no suggestion of rain today.
He sat the seat next to me though there were the 2 remaining tables.
And then, he huffed dust on the table and wiped the table with his umbrella.
His odd activities made me leave there immediately.


I will go to bed earlier than usual because I have slight fever.

Vol.10 Broccoli in Curry

I cook almost every my meal myself to minimize my spending as much as possible because now I have not had any earning since Feb.

So, in terms of meals, the most important thing for me is not what I want to eat but how I can make my stomachache satisfied. Unfortunately, he requires lot of food though I am slim and am in poverty.

Currys require more initial cost because of various vegetables and a meat.
But do not worry, you can recover the initial cost later because you can cook currys for some meals!



BTW, Today I cooked broccoli in curry for him.
The curry was not so delicious but it was enough acceptable for me to satisfy my stomachache.
If you are starved you feel delicious whatever you eat.

I am looking forward to eating the rest of the curry tomorrow.

Vol.9 Two days straight Prowrestling

it is the first time for me to go a Prowrstling match since I set to in Tokyo.
Strictly speaking, this is the second time if Kobashi's comeback match I watched outside of Nihon Television is included.

I took a old friend who we lived together in a Univ. dormitory to Ryougoku to watch All Japan Prowrestling. Carry on can beer into indoor was restricted, so some people including me drank beer to consume them.
Although it was the 1st time for him to watch a live match he was so excited as well as I.







The next day, I went to Kudanshita to watch NOAH by myself.
Now there are many companies offering Prowrestling, and my favorite one is NOAH.
Today I expected that the challenger Morishima would win the match.
He was not the same person he challenged one year ago and he succeeded.

Vol.8 Reunion with old friends

Today these two books were received.
I am gonna concentrate on them from next week.


At evening I met three old friends who lived in a University domitory together for the first time in 3 years. Very little has changed since then except the fact that all of us got older.

Topics we talked about were recent news of people we know.
He is going to get married with someone,I met someone by chance, and so on.
Fortunatelly, my friend is also going to have a wedding party in Hamamatsu.
Conglatulation.

It's been a while since I drank alcohol with someone as well as laughed and smiled.
I hope that I will get friends like them　here in Tokyo, too.