May 31, 2008

고마워요

Yesterday, I was taught a power of a word by a friend. I don't want to tell about that but I have to say that, so I'm going to say that in Korean. The word is "고마워요". Can you read that? Maybe most of people can't read and pronounce it. And I'm sorry I'm kind of stingy guy so I don't tell the meaning of it right now, but I want you to figure out the meaning that you should ask about this to the friend via me by yourself. I think you guys can guess the meaning!! komawoyo

고마워요 has really important power. I do have to say that to everything. If I say that everyday at least once, the life is going to change to good direction. If I don't use this a lot, my life is going to be really bad. It is definitely true because she is experiencing this now! I want my life to be better than now, so I decided to use it a lot. Using it a lot sounds like kinda religion, but it isn't! Right?

Anyway, we should use that whenever we can!

[197 words]

May 24, 2008

Busy, busy, busy!!

I'm really busy recently because I have lots of things to do. For example, I have to finish 15 units of powerwords by Reading class on Thursday, I have to prepare a presentation for Honors English Seminar, I have a test on Monday, and things like that. In addition, I'm writing the application for the exchange program exam this year. It's really hard to write about my purpose of the study abroad. No, actually, it's easy to write it, you know, but I mean, I can't write well. I can't tell my purpose to someone else. How can I write? I don't know, but all I can say is that I need my friends' and people's who went to abroad using the program help. They are my origin of my power, so we can help us each other.

I have no time to take a rest right now, but I think that it's good for me. I can gain a confidence from them, and it makes me more powerful. This is one of my favorite quote below.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. We're liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
What I want to say is that we can do all things!

[302 words]

May 19, 2008

It's incredible!!



This is the Slam Dunk Contest of NBA(National Basketball Association) in 2008. I love basketball, so I often watch NBA videos on the Internet because I can't watch the games by TV unfortunately. I check the information by the NBA.com everyday.

Now, this video is the slam dunk contest 2008 as I said. Did you watch it? All of the dunks were amazing and great, right? I wish I could do that... I can't do that unfortunately. I think that people who play basketball know how difficult to do that. But that is NBA. When you watch any NBA games, you can watch several amazing plays which are not only dunks but also clutch shots, dribbling, and some things like that during the game.

The contest is held on Saturday during the All-star weekend which is one of the most exciting days in NBA and is held every February. The Saturday night is also one of the most exciting days during the season. Most of people watch their plays via TV or Internet, and they are excited! Nobody is not excited! I'll never hated basketball and NBA.

[193 words]

May 18, 2008

BR 1-02: Grasshopper On The Road

I read this book, "Grasshopper On The Road". This is easy to read, but it's good for me.

One morning, Grasshopper found a lovely road to follow, and the road looks fine to him. On his walk, he met plenty of folks who want him to join them. But Grasshopper was happy just walking down the road.

He found a sign on the side of a tree, and the sign said "MORNING IS BEST". Soon Grasshopper found another sign and a group of beetles. They love morning, and they wanted him to join the group. He joined the group, but he was quited the group because anyone who loves afternoon and night can never be in the group.

After that, almost noon, the road went up a steep hill, and Grasshopper climbed to the top. He found a big apple lying on the ground. He thought the apple is good for lunch, so he ate a big bite of the apple. Then a worm who lived in it. The worm claimed that it is not polite to eat a person's house. Just then the apple began to roll down the road on the other side of the hill. The apple was rolling faster and faster. Grasshopper couldn't catch the apple, he tried to do that though. The apple rolled and rolled, rolled all the way down to the bottom of the hill. The apple hit a tree and it smashed into 100 pieces. However, the worm climbed up the side the tree, and he said that this is fine time for me to find a new house.

Grasshopper found a cloud of dust, and it was caused by a housefly who was sweeping the road. The housefly thought that the road is very dirty and covered with nasty things. The housefly started to explain the reason why he is sweeping the road. He won't stop sweeping till the whole world is clean, clean, clean.

In the evening, Grasshopper walked slowly along the road. The sun was going down, and the world was soft and quite. The world was getting dark, and he watched the moon rising over the land and watched the stars come out. He was really tired but happy to be walking slowly down the road. He lay down in a soft place, and he knew that the road would still be there in the morning, taking him on and on to wherever he wanted go.


This book is described a day of the grasshoppers. I like this book because I want to walk outside and meet people like him sometime. His adventure is to be continued...

[442 words]

Awesome University Life

I'm a sophomore, majoring in English, at KGU right now. This time, I'm going to tell about my awesome university life. I have 3 things to tell to you guys. They are about my friends, exchange students, and English. OK, check them out in order, one by one!

First, I'm going to tell about my friends. To me, friends are flipping important. They are really good at English, so I'm often jealous of them but I'm also thinking that I need more practice using English. I'm surrounding good friends wherever in college, so every weekday is good day, it is really hard and tough recently though. I always like change. I'm tired of commonplace days, but my friends bring me some changes every day. That's why I can have fun my college life.

Second, I'm going to talk about my English. As you can read, my English is very bad. I think that it sucks... but I'm taking writing A class. I don't know the reason. Anyway, I'm training English whenever and whatever I can. For example, I'm studying TOEFL, talking with exchange students in English, mailing with a Korean and a Finnish girl in English, and some things like that. By the way, I have a dream. It is to go aboard using exchange program. I need more scores for TOEFL because I don't have good score, so when I got the result, I'm disappointed. Studying for TOEFL is not only good for TOEFL, but also good for other English subjects. Therefore, I keep studying for TOEFL whenever I can. I hope my English skills are getting better little by little day by day.

Third, let me talk about my friends, not Japanese. I'm often with international students because I often go to the dorm where they are living in. I was afraid of talking to people who from overseas when I was a freshman. However, I changed when I took part in Freshman camp last year, and from when I met an awesome American at the camp. He is not here now but is the first friend who is from overseas for me. Since then, I am not afraid of talking to exchange students because I noticed that making friends is such a nice thing. Therefore, I'm able to be friends with the exchange students quickly, and I have many international friends. They are good friends and English teacher for me.

I think that these are not enough to explain my university life. But I'm enjoying my college life with the sweetest friends in the world I've ever seen everyday. And I'm using English hard whenever and wherever I can. And more, I'm enjoying spending time with exchange students who are not only from English-speaking country but also are from Asia. I have great, wonderful, and awesome university life because of the 3 things!

[498 words]

May 17, 2008

Cuz we hopeful, take this music and use it!



I'm going to introduce one of my favorite songs. This song is "Hope", and it is sung by "Twista feat. Faith Evans". This is sad song. However, this is not only great, but also extremely touching and meaningful song. I love this song. This song always reminds of me one of my favorite movie, "Coach Carter" all the time. And some of parts of the movie are used in this music video. And also, some actors in the movie are appeared in this music video. I think that they are the after the movie.

The man who is saying something on this music video first is Cruz, and his words are my favorite quote. "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." I used this quote in the speech contest last year because this is true. We have a power, we just don't use it now. We can do whatever we want and need because we are hopeful, hopeful for today. Take this music and use it. Let it take you away, and be hopeful and we’ll make a way. I know it isn’t easy but that’s OK. Because we are hopeful.

This is the lyrics below. Several points are wrong, because I just stole it from a web site, and just pasted. I don't have the real lyric of this song. Sorry.

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[VERSE 1 (Twista)]
I wish the way I was living could stop, serving rocks,
Knowing the cops is hot when I’m on the block, And I
Wish my brother woulda made bail,
So I won’t have to travel 6 hours to see him in jail, And I
Wish that my grandmother wasn’t sick,
Or that we would just come up on some stacks and hit a lick, And I (I wish)
Wish my homies wouldn’t have to suffer,
When the streets get the upper had on us and we lose a brother, And I
Wish I could go deep in a zone,
And lift the spirits of the world with the words with in this song, And I (I wish)
Wish I could teach a could teach a soul to fly,
Take away the pain out cha hands and help you hold them hi, And I
Wish God never gave the men power
To be able to hurt the people inside the Twin Towers, And I (I wish)
Wish God woulda turned they hearts righteous,
When they started to take innocent lives and become snipers, But uh
We will never break, though they devistate, we shall motivate,
And we gotta pray, all we got is faith.
Instead of thinking about who gonna die to day,
The Lord is gonna help you feel better, so you ain’t gotta cry today.
Sit at the light so long,
And then we gotta move straight forward, cuz we fight so strong,
So when right go wrong,
Just say a little prayer, get ya money man, life go on!!!
Let’s HOPE!

[CHORUS (Faith Evans)]
Cuz I’m hopeful, yes I am, hopeful for today,
Take this music and use it
Let it take you away,
And be hopeful (hopeful) and he’ll make a way
I know it ain’t easy but that’s okay.
cause we hopeful

[VERSE 2 (Twista)]
I wish that you could show some love,
Instead of hatin so much when you see some other people commin up (I wish)
I wish I could teach the world to sing,
Watch the music and have ‘em trippin of the joy I bring, (shiit)
I wish that we could hold hands,
Listen instead of dissin lessons from a grown man, And I (I wish)
Wish the families that lack, but got love, get some stacks
Brand new shack and a lack that’s on dubs, And I
Wish we could keep achieving wonders,
See the vision of the world through the eyes of Stevie Wonder, (you feel me) (I wish)
And I hope all the kids eat,
And don’t nobody in my family see six feet, (ya dig)
I hope them mothers stain’ strong,
You can make it whether you wit him or your mans gone, And I (I wish)
Wish I could give every celly some commissary,
And the po po bring the heat on them priest like they did R. Kelly, And I
Wish that DOC could scream again
And bullets could reverse so Pac and Biggie breath again, (shit) (I wish)
Then one day they could speak again,
I wish that we only saw good news every time we look at CNN,
I wish that enemies could talk,
And that super homie Christopher Reeves could still walk, (I wish)
I wish that we could walk a path, stay doin the right thing
Hustle hard so the kids maintain up in the game,
Let’s HOPE

[CHORUS (Faith Evans)]
Cuz I’m hopeful, yes I am, hopeful for today,
Take this music and use it
Let it take you away,
And be hopeful (hopeful) and he’ll make a way
I know it ain’t easy but that’s okay.
cause we hopeful

[VERSE 3 (Twista)]
Wish the earth wasn’t so apocalyptic,
I try to spread my message to the world the best way I can give it,
We can make it always so optimistic,
If you don’t listen gotta live my life the best way I can live it,
I pray for justice when we go to court,
Wish it was all good so the country wouldn’t have to go to war,
Why can’t we kick it and just get em on,
And in the famous words of Mr. King “Why can’t we all just get along”,
Or we can find a better way to shop and please, And I
Hope we find a better way to cop a keys, And I
Wish everybody would just stop and freeze,
And ask way are we fulfillin these downfalls and prophecies,
You can be wrong if it’s you doubting,
With the faith of a mustard seed you can move mountains,
And only the heavenly father and ease the hurt,
Just let it go and keep prayin on your knees in church!!
And let’s HOPE

[CHORUS (Faith Evans) X2]
Cuz I’m hopeful, yes I am, hopeful for today,
Take this music and use it
Let it take you away,
And be hopeful (hopeful) and he’ll make a way
I know it ain’t easy but that’s okay.
cause we hopeful

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[240 words - except lyrics]

May 14, 2008

Cockyroachy...

I killed a cockroach today!! Yeah! I know you guys hate it. I also hate it. I don't want to say the name..!!!

I had part-time job which starts at 17:00 today, and it finished at 22:30. I went home. And then, I was doing several things with my laptop computer. I noticed that I don't take a shower yet and it's almost 1:00am. So I took a shower. After that, I went to kitchen to get something to drink... and I saw it... I was frozen because of it. I couldn't believe it. I didn't move for a while... because I was thinking how should I kill it. Can you guess how did I kill it??

I killed it by a dish liquid. Why did I use it? Because I've killed ants by a shampoo. The ants were dead immediately. That's why I just wanted to use it to kill it! Yeah, it was freaking good way to kill it. It was dead in an instant. Using a dish liquid, not an insecticide, is the best way to kill it! Believe it or not, try this when you found any cockroach, and you can see the result immediately.

[210 words]

May 10, 2008

Good song! I guess...

Yesterday, I went to the dorm as usual. And people started playing Beer-Pong. During the game, we were having some songs, and I found this song below. OK, check it out! Maybe you like it.




They are "Dynamite Hack", and the name of song is "Boys In The Hood". This band was formed in Austin, TX, in 1997. I'm not familiar with this band because I just found it yesterday, so will anybody explain about this band, please??
Below is the lyrics. Oh! CAUTION! This song has some taboo words. hmm, maybe it's OK. Right? Because we just listen to it. We don't use the taboo words.

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Woke up quick at about noon
Just thought that I had to be in Compton soon
I gotta get drunk before the day begins
Before my mother starts bitchin' about my friends
About to go and damn near went blind
Young niggaz on the pad throwin' up gang signs
I went in the house to get the clip
With my Mac10 on the side of my hip
I bailed outside and pointed my weapon
Just as I thought, the fools kept steppin
I jumped in the fo' hit the juice on my ride
I got front and back side to side
Then I let the alpine play
I was pumpin' new shit by NWA
It was "Gangster Gangster" at the top of the list
Then I played my own shit, it went somethin' like this:

Cruisin' down the street in my 6-fo'
Jockin' the bitches, slappin' the hoe's
I went to the park to get the scoop
Knuckle-heads out there cold shootin' some hoop
A car pulls up, who can it be?
The fresh El Camino rollin Kilo G
He rolls down the window and he starts to say
It's all about makin' that G.T.A.

Cuz the boyz in the hood are alwayz hard
You come talkin' that trash and we'll pull your card
Knowin' nothin' in life but to be legit
Don't quote me boy, cuz I ain't said shit ...

Bored as hell and I wanna get ill
So I go to a place where my homeboyz chill
The fellas out there try to make that dollar
I pulled up in the 6-fo' and hollered
greeted with a 40 and I start drinkin'
And from the 8-ball my breath start stinkin'
I gotta get my girl to rock that body
Before I left I hit the bacardi
Pulled to the house get her out of the pad
And the bitch said something to make me mad
She said somethin' that I couldn't believe
So I grabbed the stupid bitch by her nappy ass weave
She started talkin' shit, wouldn't you know?
I reached back like a pimp and slapped the hoe'
And her father stood up and he started to shout
So I threw a right-cross and knocked his old ass out

Cuz the boyz in the hood are alwayz hard
You come talkin' that trash and we'll pull your card
Knowin' nothin' in life but to be legit'
Don't quote me boy, cuz I ain't said shit ...

Punk ass trippin in the dead of night
homies score and key is gonna fly, punk ass fly
they rippin off everybody, man

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[111 words - except lyrics]

What do you do in the Weekend??

What do you do in the weekend?? Listen to music? Study? Part-time job? Hang out with friends? Or just chilling at home? In my case, I usually listen to music, go to the job, or just chill out.

By the way, do you know the meaning of "chilling" or "chill out"? This is a kind of slang, but good slang. Actually, "chilling" and "chill out" mean "cold" or "frighten". But in this case, the meaning of "chilling" and "chill out" are same as "relax". And they are used like this below,

-What did you do yesterday?
-I was just chilling at home./ I chilled out at home.

Did you figure out? Sorry, I can't explain about it well, but I hope you understood about them.

OK, so I have nothing to do on weekend. No, I have something to do actually, but I don't find it. I love chilling at home on weekend because I'm tired because of the school and job. And I often go to the dorm, so going to the dorm makes me more tired. I shouldn't do that for a while.

I have to study... I don't like studying but it makes me tired as you know. But no pain, no gain... My friends are studying hard right now. I do have to do that and to be ahead of them. Let go of my negative outlook on life, and always maintain a positive attitude, right?

[246 words]

May 9, 2008

Study for Test of English as a Foreign Language!

Today, I studied TOEFL in the library of KGU with two of my friends till 11:00pm. We just planned it yesterday. Therefore, today was the first day to do that. I think, we must be tired, but we had good time.

As I said, we planned it yesterday. We need to study for TOEFL a lot because we are going to apply the exchange exam this year. One of the conditions to pass the exam is that how much do I have the score of TOEFL. Of course, enthusiasm for study abroad is more important than the score, I guess, but sure enough, score is important as same as the enthusiasm. That's why, we started studying TOEFL today.

We are going to study it every Thursday at 7:30pm to 11:00pm. Today was just three people who studied it include me, but we are going to keep studying till July. I have three opportunities to take TOEFL during this semester. I have to get higher score... I know, it is really hard to get it. But I can do it because I started studying with them! Between you and me, I already started studying it by myself, but I was tired to do that... so it was freaking fun for me that I studied it with friends.

Oh! it's almost 3:00am right now! I have to sleep! I will study TOEFL tomorrow as well, but I'm not going to be in the library tomorrow. Maybe I'm going to be in my house. We can do it!

[263 words]

May 8, 2008

GW...yeah, did you have fun?

The Golden Week was over yesterday finally... Did you guys have fun?
I didn't do special except the birthday party on Sunday. What did I do during the holidays??
OK, I'll try to remember... So, on Friday, after the school, I went to the dorm as usual, I guess. I can't remember what I did on the night clearly... I must be tired right now...

And on Saturday, I was chilling at home... I didn't do anything special. On Sunday, as I posted before, I went to the party for a friend from Thailand. We went to a Thai restaurant in downtown, and we drunk a lot of alcohol like cocktail, beer, and things like that. Yeah, it was really fun! We spend flipping good time!

On Monday and Tuesday, I had part time job which starts at 17:30. Monday night was quit busy because soooo many customers came the restaurant!! And I pissed off a little because although work was crazy, the owner didn't work so much. He was just standing in the floor. He is kinda crazy! But after the work, we drunk some alcohol, ate some foods, and talked till 1:00am! It was really fun time! I ate so much ice cream and drunk 3 glasses of juice. Oh, I didn't have to pay, so I could eat them up for free!!!!

And I have a few things to tell you guys. Tuesday's work was crazy as well, but it was not busy for me because I was standing on the parking area for about 2 hours and 30 minutes. During the easy work, I met Jeff! He was smoking in front of Lawson by chance. We couldn't talk a lot because I was working and he had to go to his bar. But I spent good time with him, it was really short time though. And yeah! Four of my friends suddenly came the restaurant! I was really surprised, and they were surprised too! I gave them juice for free, and after the meal, I gave ice cream for free. They seemed satisfied. I was glad to see them.

That's all, I guess. What I want to say is that I just wasted the time during the past Golden Week. Actually, I was supposed to go to Beppu, but I couldn't do that. I don't tell the reason twice, so if you guys know the reason, please check my post out!

[418 words]

May 7, 2008

Living by myself? Maybe yes, maybe no.

Yeah, I started kind of living by myself. Hey, you thought like "what do you mean, 'kind of'?" I mean, I live with my grand parents but I can't rely on them right now. As I said on my post before, my grandma has broken her back bone, and she can't do anything right now. Till this afternoon, my mother was here, but she has gone back home. So I have to make meal, do the washing, and get food. I know it's really hard because I have many classes everyday and have part-time job on weekend and Monday or Tuesday.

Does anybody teach me cooking??

I didn't cook a lot before, so I'm not good at cooking actually. I do have to learn cooking. I have to make supper... I can't make good meal. But I do my best every cooking.

I must get up at 7:00am every morning because I have to dry clothes in the sun before I go to school and I have to make breakfast. I can't take sleep properly from now. I'm going to be tired soon, but I... you know.

[197 words]

May 4, 2008

MR 1-01 "Shrek"

I've never watched this movie before, but actually, I've watched Shrek 2 before. Yes, it's strange because I watched Shrek 2 before I watch Shrek 1. But maybe it's OK.

All right, so let's begin the Movie Review!

"Once upon a time, there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower for her true love and true love's first kiss..." Shrek read this story. And this princess is the princess, Fiona. Anyway, it doesn't matter right now.


Shrek is an ogre, with green skin, and he is living in a swamp by himself. And he is called big, stupid, ugly ogre by people. He doesn't have any friends. One day, fairy tale things are dumped from their place and forced to go to Shrek's swamp by Lord Farquaad who is the master of Kingdom of Duloc. And at that time, a donkey who can speak and is a super chatter boxer was among those who are dumped from their place. He escaped from followers of the Lord, and then, he met Shrek by chance. Shrek helped him. They became kind of friends, and they went back the swamp. At night, there were freaking many fairy tales things in the swamp, they forced to go to the swamp by the Lord. To Shrek, this makes him freaking annoying. He decided to get them off his land and back where they came from to take back his swamp. So Shrek went to the Duloc with Donkey.

The Lord looks for princess to be king. He used the magic mirror, and he chose princess, Fiona. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Therefore, he gathered brave knights to take back the princess instead of his going. Shrek and Donkey were chosen as the rescuer. The Lord promised that he is going to get squatters off Shrek's swamp if Shrek takes the princess from the castle. They went for adventure. They fought against the dragon in the castle, and they rescued the princess. They were going back the Duloc, and on thier return adventure from the castle, Shrek and Fiona fallen in love each other. But she has big secret which she can't tell anyone. Yeah, she changes her appearance at night. She becomes an ogre like Shrek because of an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss.

Their loves were not rewarded. She married with the Lord, but Shrek who found that she loved him interrupted the wed. Shrek and Fiona got married, and he kissed her with true love. She can't be beautiful lady anymore, but instead of it, she got true love.

Yeah, this movie is really interesting and funny, but this is good movie as well. The themes of this movie are frendship and love, but it's not only them but also its looks. Shrek doesn't have good looks because he is ogre, however, he has really pure heart. Why beautiful princess, Fiona, fallen love? Because he had pure heart. So no one judge people by their looks.

[572 words]

MR 1-02 Outline of Shrek

1. Title
 ●Shrek

2. Characters
 ●Main
   - Shrek
   - Fiona
   - The donkey
   - Lord Farquaad
 ●Minor
   - Fairy tale things
   - Dragon

3. Story
 ●Beginning
   - Once upon a time…blah blah blah
   - Wanted: fairy tale creatures reward
   - The Donkey met Shrek
   - Go to the Duloc
 ●Middle
   - Go for adventure to get his swamp
   - Battle against the dragon
   - Rescued the princess, Fiona
 ●Turning Point
   - Princess, Fiona, changes her appearance at night
 ●Climax
   - Fiona marries with Farquaad?
 ●End
   - Shrek and Fiona got married.

4. Theme
   - Friendship
   - Love
   - Appearance

5. Feeling
   - Intersting

Drinkin', drinkin', and gettin' drunk.

I have a birthday party for an exchange student from Thailand tonight. I'm going to go to the dorm at first, and then, we are going to go to a bar in downtown. And we are going to get drunk there!! I've not been drinking recently, so I'm really glad. Actually, I'm not allowed drinking alcohol in the law, but I drink. Yeah, I'm bad boy. NO. I'm not bad boy, I'm crazy boy though...I guess.

And I have news. One of my senior who graduated KGU in March and is working at Minamata high school as a teacher is in Kumamoto now, and he is also going to come the party! I'm looking forward to seeing him and drinking and talking with him! Tonight is going to be crazy but really good night! I do have to have fun tonight. Why? Because I have part-time job tomorrow and day after tomorrow. Therefore, my Golden Week is going to over today.

Oh, I will post the movie review today!

Yeah, today is flipping hot… I am going to melt… no just kidding. It’s going to rain tomorrow, so tomorrow is going to humid.

[193 words]

May 3, 2008

Old, but really famous!



Do you know this band? They are "Eagles. They made debut as a country rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in America, 1971. They got worldwide popularity, and they are one of the top bands in America. This song is "Desperade". Actually, this video is old. On April 25-26, 1994, the reunited Eagles perform live at Warner Burbank Studios for an MTV special. But they are still active in the world.
To tell the truth, I didn't know this until recently, but Anthony Keidis from Red Hot Chili Peppers said this was the inspiration for the song "Under The Bridge." This is one of beautiful and touching songs, huh?. Definitely one of my favorites.

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These are the lyrics of this song.

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
You've been out riding fences
For so long now
Oh you're a hard one
And I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasing you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
Another Queen of Hearts is always your best bet
Now it seems to me some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can get

Desperado, you ain't getting no younger
You're pain and your hunger
They're driving you home
And freedom, oh freedom
Well, that's just some people talking
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're losing all your highs and lows
And funny how the feeling goes away

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses
Come down from your fences
Open the day, it may be raining
But there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
You better let somebody love you
Before it's too late

May 1, 2008

BR 1-01: Frog and Toad All Year


Today, I read "Frog and Toad All Year". This book is for children, so this is easy to read but this is good for review, I think.

There are two main characters in this book. They are Frog and Toad. As you can guess from the name, they are frog. They are always with each other like brother, but they don't live together. This book is written about their life in 4 seasons with 5 stories.

One hot summer day, they sat by a pond. And Frog wanted to eat some sweet and cold ice cream. Toad went to a store, and he bought two big ice-cream cones. Frog likes chocolate best, and so does he. When Toad was walking along the path, a large, soft drop of chocolate ice cream slipped down his arm. The ice cream is melting in the sun. Toad walked faster, he had to hurry back to Frog. However, more and more of ice cream was melting. It dripped down on his jacket, it splattered on his pants and his feet. He can't see anything because of the melted ice cream, so he cannot see the path.

Frog still sat by the pond and was waiting for Toad. Then a mouse ran by him, and the mouse told Frog that I just saw something awful, it was big brown. Then a squirrel told Frog that something covered with sticks and leaves is moving this way. And then, a rabbit told Ftog that here comes a thing with horns. Frog couldn't guess what is that. Frog hid behind a rock, and he saw the thing coming. It was the thing what they said to Frog. Frog realized it is Toad. Toad fell into the pond, and he sank to the bottom, and came up again. He washed away all of their ice cream.

Frog knows what they can do. They ran back to the store quickly. And then, they sat in the shade of a tree and ate their chocolate ice-cream cones together.
As I said above, this is easy to read but is really good to read. I have to take care of my friends like them. I don't have to be like them, but I should do that as they do.
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What a hell is that!!??

Day before yesterday, my grandma broke her bone of the small of the back at about 3:00pm at home. I didn't know that till when I got up the day. I was really surprised!! I didn't figure out what should I do at that time. I mean, I upset.

She made me make lunch, so I made lunch for her, grandpa, and me. I don't cook usually, but I can cook actually. They satisfied the meal which I made.

I had to go to the dorm in order to tell about taking picture of the pamphlet of Eibei Gakka to 2 of exchange students on the day. Yeah, I went to there to do that.
But I had to go home soon because of grandma and my job.

When I came back home, my mom was there surprisingly. She came here to take care of grandma by herself. I don't know when she is going to go back Beppu, but all I can say is that she is still here and she is very helpful. I wrote that I'm going to go back home on the Golden Week, but maybe I can't do that unfortunately. I'm going to help her during Golden Week.

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