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12/19
That�fs right, ladies and gentlemen, I bought �gTakarakuji�h ^^ I have bought them before, but that time I just bought 3 tickets(should I call them tickets, or lots?), and this time I bought 40 of prospective �genriching*lol* me tickets�h*lol*). Buying the tickets wasn�ft easy, because of these reasons.

1: The place I went to is very well-known for producing lots of winning ticket.

2: It was a day called �gTaian�h which means most auspicious day in the six day Buddhist calendar(quoted from Excite dictionary)(what I think funny is that no one hardly cares about that in everyday life, but in some particular situation people are very superstitious, most of people won�ft have wedding ceremony on a day of �gButsumetsu�h, as you already inferred this, it has something to do with Buddha�fs death and considered unluckiest day in the six-day Buddha�fs calender)

3: The lady who I bought tickets from was so clumsy and taking forever, but she was nice, so that didn�ft bother me at all, in fact, I deliberately got on her line because I thought I should experience some unusual thing if you are going to buy lottery ticket, so I might luck out:p that�fs based on principle of pursuing a big thing, you can�ft catch it with usual, She was only one who took that long to give us tickets among the ladies who sold tickets. I think that�fs a little unusual, but somehow I still have no premonition that I would win*lol* Well, at least I have something to look forward to, right? I don�ft have any expectations over this at all. So don�ft get me wrong that I am dreaming on about what to get if I won:p

what would I want�c�c�c.?(envisioning a house, big TV, pool and girls)*lol* j/k,,,,,,,,,,,,, JUST KIDDING I SAID! Geez guyz*sigh*

Suggestion made by master megan 12/15
After suffering from wretched flu, I have recovered and been in a good health. I think riding on the moped for an hour everyday incurred this. But I had no inkling of what it would cause. I have come to realize that I only have 2 more weeks to spend a time in Japan, man I�fm aghast. Only 2 weeks,,,,, I haven�ft finished sending Christmas presents and other stuff yet>_< yeah, I do love my postponability*lol*(just coined one:p)

After all, all I think of when it comes to leaving is about people. I know, I know, it�fs inevitable that you have to be apart from friends or family were you trying to go do something at different place. And that I�fll get to meet with new people is tremendous thing. But still, I�fm always in a dilemma.

Jamie and Megan have graduated from their university. congratulations Jamie and Megan^o^ you guys did great.

Today is azusa�fs b-day happy b-day^^

Saddam has been captured!! I believe this is a good news. Could be disturbing one tho. He was hiding at the almost deserted village, as for myself, being under the impression that he would never be found, it was astonishing to me. I am alarmed about insurgency whether there is going to be more fight or less, and terrorism, some terrorist might just do terrible thing by fit, etc. One more thing, I don�ft really like the way it�fs transmitted. �gHe was just caught like a rat�hquoted from some news site.I don't know, you can blame on him, criticize him, but I don�ft think you have to jeer at him , mock him, taunt him with being captured or make fun of him especially on TV even though he was a dictator.

Pneumonia? 12/7
I don�ft think I am developing Pneumonia, in fact I don�ft even know what it�fs like to develop it. (BTW, why do you say �gdevelop the Pneumonia�h? or contract the Pneumonia? Can�ft you just say �gI have Pneumonia?�h dictionary gave me an example and it seems to be used with those �gcontract and develop�h), but it has something to do with lungs, right? And my lungs don�ft seem like working correctly, when you take a deep breath, it�fs hard to breath, like after you ran long distance, that�fs why I am wondering if I am developing Pneumonia. Let�fs see what�fs gonna happen. I watched the �gLast Samurai�h last night(that�fs the time I thought I was getting the cold), well, testimonial? I was so impressed by mostly the character �gWatanabe Ken�h played, and the way people in the village live their life.

You might wonder if the movie was made with full of stereotype of Samurais, and some people might think the movie is. but to me it seemed like it reflects many truth of theirs I can believe in, in fact, it didn�ft matter whether or not if it�fs true. I admire the way the Samurais respect, honor, esteem what they believe in. Sometimes they are more important than their lives.

�c�c�c�c�c�c.. I need to stop here, it�fs getting worse -____-; feel dizzy now. I have to take my grandpa to the hospital, hopefully, I won�ft cause a car accident >D oh crap-___-

The very interesting peculiar thing 12/5
I heard from my friend is that,,, ahem -__-; my friend has had little troubles with his girlfriend lately. Well big troubles to be blunt. I knew they were having little troubles even before, but this time it�fs bigger, my friend(who is friend of my friend�fs girlfriend) sent an e-mail to ask for advise cuz she was suffering from having to deal with her friend and my friend�fs relationship, and from her perspective, my friend totally sounded jerk and I could almost give him a award of asshole. I heard that he cheated, became to use violence on her, and lots more:p �gsounds fishy�h I immediately suspected some information was distorted, so I needed to meet with him to ask what the truth is. I came across something so-called �gprobably true fact�h. It turned out that he did slap her cheek one time when she tried to commit the suicide by taking excessive intake of the sleeping pill. Only once? I grimaced, cuz my friend(the girl's friend) explained that he beats her. So, it follows that she was just exaggerating. What he did wasn't meant to really "hurt" her, just tried to wake her up, to make her come to herself. He is the last person to cheat on girlfriend, so she should not have to worry about him, but she just gets worried and it seems like getting from bad to worse, but you have to take into account that she does all things she does because she loves him. Given that, I can not really blame on her much, and he loves her too, so I just can hope everything is going to work out eventually.

one thing I really felt sorry for him is that she compels him not to talk to his friends who are females, I mean, friends are friends, right? And the main reason I object to what she does is because she does something she won�ft let him do, like going out with other sex(male) friends. It just doesn�ft make sense. Why in the world does he have to break off relations with friends?

ok if Megan wins "The not updating the blog award", I can win "The Mr. where is your country?" A few people pointed out on my blog, the 11/27 entry, many people must have noticed*lol* cuz it didn�ft make sense to me either>D so, just forget about it�c�c.. please? *lol*

Dream 11/28
Now I have one dream that I really wanna fulfill, which is, to take a picture with my family, whole family. It might not deserve to be called "dream" tho. I used not to know how important the family is to me, I�fve scarcely ever thought about me and my family having a strong bond, I think we still don�ft, but come to think of it, my parents are the one who support me at anytime when I need a help, no matter what, whether or not me being like a jackass dip-shit, my sisters are the ones who aren�ft ashamed by having a brother like me, encourage me to do what I really want to do, and my grandparents are the one who care about me most, and feel happy when I am around, sacrifice themselves to do anything for me.

Despite all the facts that I had detested my family for nearly entire my life, they had been there, and they are still there for me, it seems like an abiding devotion, I really hope someday in future, I will be able to have family I can do what my family is doing for me, and this is additional wish, that to have kids who can be aware of the importance of family relationship when they are really young, I don�ft want them to realize later like I did.

I have to take a family picture:p

Justification 11/27
Have you ever thought about something you are holing on to what you wanted and you know what is better to have? Whatever it is, I sometimes get driven to think about if that�fs ok or I should change my mind and veer around the way to where I really want it to be. But I am not going to make up my mind to change that, cuz currently I don�ft know that the fact is something I really want, rewarding to carry through, unfortunately, only time can tell, and there is still some reason I won�ft change it, I am not gonna talk about it though, or it will be so long so that I won�ft have enough time to write them all. If you do something you are not 100% believing that it will bear fruit, you have to justify something in order to carry it through. For instance, you have something you really, really want, or have, see. food, cloths, movie, etc, but you only have money to buy one of them, or one of each, and you are not sure if they have great qualities, not sure if you will be pleased after you got, ate, saw them. And there are something else obvious that you will be pleased after you got ate saw, them. They might be something you really want, but my opinion is still to eat get saw what you wanted first, even tho you aren�ft sure how good they are. Then you have to deal with the time you have to justify, cuz something you are doing is contradictory to what you think you should be doing, you might be asking yourself why you are doing this and that, or if you should change. So you justify, �gthis is what I really wanted, this must be�h or �gthat one must be inferior cuz that doesn�ft have this and that, blah blah�c..�h

I am the kinda person who does that, and try so hard to believe in what I have, so I think it�fs better to be like that than to be other way that you give up on what you have once you start to think that they might not be what you were looking for.

this entry can cause misunderstanding that someone might think I am talking about school stuff by implication, but it�fs not about the school:p just petty stuff.

I wouldn�ft have been regretting if I didn�ft find the store that sells what I already got with cheaper price,,,,,,*lol* well, this could be the trigger, and I just thought about something like what I wrote, so I wrote it.^__^

The girl named flower 11/17
Ok this is what happened to me when I was at work, after I taught basketball, I was in the front office with 2 colleagues and someone knocked the door and opened it, there she was! The girl often comes around 8pm with her mom to pick her son up from swimming class, and she usually has the time she somehow has to kill, and I help her to do so, and since then she likes me*lol* and today she made necklace for me!!! When she opened the door and she goes �hhere, teacher�h I was like �ghow frigging sweet!?�h of course I didn�ft say that:p I gave her a biiiiig hug and played some games like seek and hide, heads or tales kinda stuff. I am going to keep the necklace forever, it�fs not something you can really wear, but it counts that she made it for ME. So sweet. And every time she comes with her mom, she brings me a flower and it puts smile on my ugly face>D well, after 2weeks working this company, I really like it so far so that I would probably say yes if they ask me to work for them when I�fm not planning to go somewhere out of Japan, I like the way I am, how I talk to those kids, how I treat them. As you grow, you become not to have to talk to people who you don�ft want to talk to, and you can avoid them, but I have to talk all kids I see, whether or not if I like them, or they like me, so it�fs really a education, and because of that, I can be nice to who I talk to even if I don�ft like them(tho there aren�ft many who I don�ft:p) which is something even I have realized. Some people would not agree to that tho, like Jenilee who thinks I am complete brat*lol* Well, I better go to bed, I work tomorrow too. Her name is Hana, flower in Japanese.

primero experiencia de alimento mexicano verdadero en Japan 11/10
¿Sabe usted cómo hacer tako y material? ¡Ayer mi amigo Ruth y yo hicieron alimento mexicano y resultaron ser tan bueno!

Ok don't even think I can speak Spanish this much, I just used the translation site�Eand copied the sentence*lol*

T___T I meant to write more, but somewhat it's time for me to goooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

11/7
How much does the relationship between parents affect their kids? I have no idea, but I have an opinion, that if you are parent, you never show kids you and your spouse fighting or being mean to each other. I really, really don�ft know if it has affected me at all, but I saw heard them fighting and arguing and having a quarrel, I really was scared of it when I was a kid, so I think about it if it had to do with my personality now I have, I know my character has been built by so many things, people, etc, but I think it does have something to do with kids�f personalities, cuz I heard them today arguing(it�fs really small argument, and really petty) and it made me feel really bad, I can�ft explain this feeling well, so let�fs forget explanation part:p and let�fs finish talking about this*lol* I heard them by chance, so it�fs not really serious issue to me, I have not been abused*lol*

11/4
Can any one who is Japanese explain what the Shinto is? Well, I can not. But I read the book about Shinto and author talked bout how people now a days get affected by Shintoism and learn it without knowing it, and how it still influences culture, society and even characteristic of people now when no one knows about it. I can almost assert that most Japanese (specially young one including me^^;) can not explain what the Shinto is(I think you guys know about it better) and its principle, but we learn it as we grow up and we(I) don't(didn't) consider that religion(still don�ft realize that is Shintoism), it�fs not something like �ghey, pray for the God�h but it�fs like �gcare about other people�h that�fs why Shinto is sometimes said �gReligion of people�h in order to build up nice human society in stead of like worshiping �gGOD�h so enthusiastically, that�fs I think part of the reason it�fs said polytheism though, we don�ft have specifically one god to pray for, that MIGHT be also the reason why we kinda celebrate something like Christmas, because of the principle of Shinto that everything has been taken care of by its god, so from that mentality, MAYBE we might have been able to accept the holiday like Christmas that is from other religion( in this regard, I assume there�fs some company�fs strategy involved to sell more their stuff by taking advantage of the custom of the day, like St. valentine�fs day) without overreacting(I guess:p)

I just wrote about this because I felt admiration for it because I remember when I was a kid, I was taught that every single thing has a god, water, mountains, food,etc, so I was made to say, �gsorry�h to god of rice when I dropped a grain of rice on the floor, also said �gsorry�h to god of desk when I had to step on the desk to fix the light or something, I am surprised that they are all based on Shintoism. well, I hope they are*lol* Anyways, this might be a good opportunity for me to learn Shinto a bit. Any lectures would be appreciated:P

PS: If you are not familiar with this, just don�ft swallow what I talked about completely as if they are whole truth and information on online or textbook is false, cuz I think things I talked on this page are contradictory to what on the textbook is, but I believe this information is also true, so any correction is accepted too^^

10/31(11/1^^;)
Happy Halloween!!! ^o^/ Well, it's already past, but in the states, it still is Halloween, right? I remember last year, many kids flying around on the street and invading*lol* the neighbors from door to door. It was freezing but fun.

This year I had different kind of halloween.I must say, in Japan of course. Ruth, her friend Hiroko, Hiroko's friend Oda-san and I went to ID Cafe (club in Nagoya) where they were throwing Halloween party, I didn't know they do that kind thing in Japan, well, I could guess^^; but anyways, we paid ridiculous amount of money(at least to me, 3500yen is not the money I am happy to pay to just get in) and there were bunch of people in the costume and that made us happy, and also regret cuz we didn't buy any special costume to wear, well, Hiroko wore Chinese dress and Ruth put the bunny ears and some fluffy things around her wrists. And we danced, I mean I tried to, I can't dance, sadly >_< but it was fun, and had some drink, I think it's like 2nd time for me to have an alcohol since I came back from the states in June, so of course I am weaker now that means I easily get drunk>_< I have to confess that I got little tipsy*lol* but not drunk -___-v "horoyoi" you say in Japanese, not drunk*lol* I think I never got "drunk" as not being able to walk straight, well, excetp one time back in Oregon... anyways I had blast and it's totally worth paying that much money, I have not been to clubs so often, maybe 5~6 time for 2 years I spent in Nagoya^^; last night sure was best time I had.

Unfortunately, we had to leave the club after 11 (so early)(T___T cuz we needed to catch the train to go back, so said good-bye to funny and nice people there wearing funny costumes, we headed to Nagoya station.

looking at Japanese pumpkin carved as a lantern wasn't bad at all, in fact they looked really good.

ok guys, quizzzzzzzzzzzz^^ if you got it right, I will give you something, ready?

how much is the cost(expense) to issue a 10000 yen bill?

thinking time (?___?)

still thinking (@___@)

answer is, 22 yen^^ did you get it right? in this connection, 5000 yen bill requires 20 yen, 16 yen for 2000 yen bill, 14 yen for 1000 yen bill. ok I am going to name this program as "Quiz Who Cares?" *lol*

My Life 10/26(posting on 11/1^^;)
Without Me. I really liked this movie even though the ending was not really clear so I was like, �g?? that�fs it? *lol* but this movie has many parts that I can talk about, first of all, I got interested in this movie because the name is kinda distinctive and after I watched it, of course I thought about what 10 things I wanna do before I die would be, but I couldn�ft came up with 10, I could come up with 4 or 5 at the most. I was moved where she recorded her voice message for her 2 kids�f birthdays, she made tapes for each years until they become 18. However, I somehow don�ft think many people is going to like this movie, maybe because of the ending. But I really loved the way she is, after she found out she is going to die, she didn�ft despair her self but determine to do what she wants to do and can do for people who she loves. That�fs kind of people who I really, really respect and adore, who really can love other, some of my friends are like that. I really hope I can do that no matter what, it�fs just too hard for me, but eventually, I get there. Hopefully*lol*

10/25
I watched the movie called �gSSU�h tonight, it�fs a Korean movie, we could not decide which movie to see between �gTears of the Sun�h, �gKill Bill�h, and �gSSU�h. I usually prefer American movies because it�fs good practice for my English, but this time, I knew what the movie is about and about other 2 American movies, and we figured that SSU would be the one that has better story than others, so we decided to watch it. As we got upstairs, there is the line which I�fve never seen at the theater (in The Riverside Mall), that�fs for the Kill Bill, it�fs started today, so I can understand, but SSU, there weren�ft any line, and there were just few people came to see the movie, the movie has started playing today too, it�fs regrettable that not many people were there to watch it, because it�fs really nice movie.

The movie is mainly about 3 people who works at sea rescue department , 2 men and 1 woman , and Jun and Sojin fell in love, but Jun later found out that his friend Tehyon loves her too, so he is going to back out of her for him, that kinda story^^; well, overall, I looooooooooooooved this movie, characters and casts are sooooooo fitting, I didn�ft even know the Korean actors and actress, but �gShin Hyonjun�h played really likable guy Jun especially when he is goofy and silly, and �gShin Ungyon�h played spirited straightforward woman Sujin. Never underestimate the Korean movie, they do really great job, I didn�ft know that.

well I�fm gonna watch one more movie tomorrow, called "My Life Without Me(I think^^;)�h and Japanese title is (10 things that I want to do before I die(in Japanese)), I have really high expectation toward this movie, so I�fm getting excited^_^ I can�ft wait!! Well, I should goooooooooooo, bye