The Photo Exhibition

I went to Ms. Courtney Dauwalder's photo exhibition with her classmate who is my coworker, S. While we were driving, he kept saying that he was always jealous of her because she is so talented. haha


As matter of fact, her photos were great. those were haunting and made me eager to take photos again. I like how she showed that there's a story in each without showing too much.



Afterwords, we joined M, H, K and Mr. Taztu Nishi to eat dinner.

S told me that Taztu is a crazy artist from Germany.

<-- That's his work. Does it looks like just a regular room? But it's not! If you look at it carefully, There is a Picasso inside of the room because the room located in an ART MUSEUM!

We didn't talk that much about art-stuff during the dinner. mostly we have been talking about dirty one. haha, but it was fun anyway.

holy...

The fires are getting bigger and bigger. only 4 are contained.

I bet that natural disaster is the most scariest thing. If you are near the fires, please be careful.

konnichiWA or konnichiHA

Do you know how to white "konnichiwa(good morning)"? In Japanese,
I thought we wrote "こんにちわ" as how we pronounce. If you google "こんにちわ(konnnichiwa)", 8,720,000 pages show up which means everybody is using "こんにちわ(konnnichiwa)" like I do.

One of my coworkers told me that is wrong. Actually, "こんにちは(konnnichiha)" is correct. As you may know, when "わ(wa)" is a focus particle, we white "は(ha)" even if we prononce "wa". What she said was that the greenting "konnnichiwa" is used to be "今日は、よいお天気ですね("konnnichiwa yoi otenki desune" : today is good weather), then it became shorter, so we need to write "こんにちは" because the "wa" is a focus particle.

Umm... It's like saying "hallo" as hello. I am a little embarrassed not to know until now... OK. I will stop writing "こんにちわ" then. ;-P

mixi for Japanese Learners

Do you know mixi? It's Japanese SNS(Social Networking Site). My friends, who are TA for Japanese classes, are recommending Mixi to have Japanese friends. Making friends with native speakers is good way to learn the language. I should join myspace to learn English too. XD

Here are links that might be helpful :

How to use Mixi : http://gaijinwomen.com/
Mixi's community "FOR JAPANESE LEARNERS" : http://mixi.jp/view_community.pl?id=22179 (if you have an account already)
Mixi : http://mixi.jp/

You need an invitation to join, so anyone wants an invite can feel free to ask me for one. Enjoy!

being stupid

Here's the transcript:

I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some... people out there in out nation don't have maps, and, uh, i believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and ... I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US, er, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up a future for our children.

my bf's friends told us to check that movie out. oh...my. i feel sorry that everybody is making a joke about either south carolina people or blonde girls. i thought she must be too nervous or something, but at the same time i thought she could have said something better than that. anyway, it just hurt to watch... she is cute tho!

ellegarden rocks!

my bf's friend recommended me to check out the album "ELEVEN FIRE CRACKERS / ELLEGARDEN". since i love alternative rocks, i love them from the first time i listen to. all songs rock!XD i dont really know their background, yet in some reason they can sing english songs with no japanese accent. anyway, i highly recommend to check them out if you like alternative rocks!


Ellegarden - Ash Lyrics
Kirei na kotoba de katazukeru kimi gaDare yori kanashii kao wo miseru you niUtagau kokoro ya samayou yubisakiMayotta bun dake saki e susumun da Ato ni natte kou datte kizuku madeNando datte ubaiatteAsa ni natte kurumatte miagetaraMado ni sasu gaikou Yasashii hito ni wa narenai bokura gaKanashii kioku wo yurusenai you niWakatta furi nara dekinakute ii saWaratta bun dake saki e susumun da Ato ni natte kou datte kizuku madeNando datte ubaiatteAsa ni natte kurumatte miagetaraMado ni sasu gaikou My name is jack Just tell me you are ok My name is jack I've been standing next to you in the storyboardYou can draw another one of your own Ato ni natte kou datte kizuku madeNando datte ubaiatteAsa ni natte kurumatte miagetaraMado ni sasu gaikou

Camping

i went camping to Kern River on last weekends with S,T, M and sho-chan. i bought a tent, a sleeping bag and even a ramp for that. yes, i was so ready to camp! we were planning to go to big bear camping place, but all reservations were taken, then sho-chan found "kern river camping" instead. the camp site was so much nicer than i expected! the river's water was so clear, made us to swim. you can not only fishing also a lots of thing. it locates near sequoia: kern river. 3hours driving from LA. but we took more than that because how the google map said was wrong... we all are japanese so that, of course, took japanese style of food and ate curry. (i donno why japanese people often eat curry rice when they go camping. maybe super easy to make, that's why.) what bout fishing..? we got NO fish! suppose to get trouts tho...i guess because we had fun with swimming more than fishing. hahaha the camp ranger said ''more fish upper course of a river." we should have gone up the river. but it's ok! even if no fish are caught, fishing is fun! ahhh i wanna go again then spend more time!!!