Omochi

How do you say Omochi in English? Is there the culture to eat Omochi in the US or UK?
Maybe not. I think it is called sticky rice because Omochi is kneaded rice. Omochi is a food and Japanese people often eat it in the new year's day. In fact, Omochi is not called sticky rice. The answer is rice cake.

This year

This year will soon end. I enjoyed this year and want to enjoy the rest of this year. The memorable thing in this year was that I went to the US during this summer vacation. I want to enjoy next year as well.

Book Review2-14

Bad Love
There was a woman who is a detective and her name was Flick Laine. She attended a party with her friend, Judy Kaplan who was a doctor. Judy took place the party and there was a man, Jack Daly who was a doctor and worked at the same hospital with Judy. Daly had a lot of girlfriend and he talked to Flick. He gave his phone number to her and the party was done.
A few days later, Daly called Flick and said that he wanted to talk to her, so they were going to meet the next day. In the next morning, Flick went to her police station, her office and her boss, Leo told her that Daly was dead. She immediately went to his office and found the dead man. There was a young detective and his name was Reno. He thought that Daly killed himself because he was dead with a gun on his hand. However, Flick was skeptical. She remembered that he had a glass on his left hand on the party and she thought that he was left-handed.
The person who found the body first was Mark Johnson and he cleans the office. He said that he lost the key of the office and one hour later he found. She thought someone made a copy of the key during the time. She went to the store that made copies of keys and asked the staff about it. The staff said a young woman came and the woman had short brown hair. At the funeral of Daly, she attended with her friend, Judy, and they were talking about his girlfriends. There was a lot of young woman who was his girlfriend. Judy said that he had a lot of girlfriend with angry. Then Flick found a young woman who had a short brown hair and walked to her, but she ran in her car and went away. Flick chased her and found her house. She opened the door and she told about Daly. She had her brother and he was a football player, but one day he had something wrong with his back and consulted a doctor. The doctor was Daly. His illness didn’t become good and he finally killed himself because football was everything to him. She asked about the murder but she denied. She never killed Daly. Flick went back to her office.
On the way to her office, she turned the radio on and was listening to a song. Its title was bad love and she thought who killed him. She noticed the murder was Judy who was her friend. Judy was short brown hair and said at the funeral something about him with angry. She was his girlfriend and she loved him, but he didn’t love her. She wanted to be the only girlfriend of him. Flick was sad because it was a bad love.

Eiken

I am going to take the English proficiency test, what is called Eiken, on January 28. It takes place on a weekend and during the tests of university. It will be busy around the time so I have to study hard before them.

Nengazyo

Nengazyo is a Japanese traditional post card which people generally receive on January 1. We write a message of new year greeting on the card to our friends or relatives. Moreover there are kinds of lottery at the bottom of the card and we may be able to get something good.

Book Review2-13

Help!
There was Frank Wormold who is a writer and his wife’s name was Teresa. She worked hard as a lawyer but he didn’t work hard. He was a writer but he wrote anything before. It was in a morning and he was at the table and read a newspaper. She had to leave their house to go to work. She told him to get a real job and got out of the house.
He stood up and went to bed again. Then he heard a sound that someone knocked the door and he opened it. It was a postman and the postman gave him a letter. The letter was from Mel Parks who was a Hollywood producer and said that his book of “Every Morning” was great and wanted him to write the second story. He telephoned to Mel and Mel told him to have a lunch together this afternoon with the second story. He accepted that but he didn’t write the second story yet and it was nine o’clock. They were going to meet at twelve thirty in the afternoon so he had to write without taking a rest. However he wrote with his hand writing so he couldn’t write fast and it was the time to leave house to go to have a lunch with Mel.
He told Mel that the second story was not finished and Mel suggested buying a computer. He didn’t have much money so Mel gave him a lot of money and he started his work using the computer. Then the telephone rang and it was Teresa and she told him that she couldn’t go back to the house that night.
There was Chip, a woman, on the screen and Chip wanted to help him write. It was good in the beginning and he worked all a few days, but Chip became to want more help and Chip finally changed his story. He got angry and threw the computer far away from the house. He went back to the house and slept in his bed.
Someone woke him up and it was Teresa. He told about Mel and the computer, but there was nothing proves his story. It was a dream. She advised him to write the story and he started writing about the morning.

Snow

We had a lot of snow at this time of last year, but little snow this year. When I was a child, we had a lot of snow in winter as same height as my knee. Today we indeed feel the effect of global warming, so I worry about that it may never snow in the future.

Rain

Rain is sometimes dangerous for us. If it rains hard, flood may happen. If there is no air resistance on the earth, rain is very dangerous. Rain breaks through umbrellas like a gun and hurts us! Air resistance is important!

Book Review2-12

The Big Picture
There was Ken Harada who was a photographer. His job was to take pictures of famous people and sell them. His wife’s name was Sachiko and their son’s name was Tetsuro. Ken was going to take a picture of Takahanada who was the famous sumo star and his girlfriend, Kumiko Okada who was a beartiful actress. Many photographers wanted to take a picture of them but only Ken could take it and he thought the picture would be expensive.
He took a taxi to go back to his home and a car came beside the taxi. There was a man with a gun. Ken managed to escape and he went back to his home. As soon as entering his home, he watched out of the window but nobody was around his home. He and his wife were not living together and he went to his wife’s house. When he went back to his house again, his room was different from usual. Everything in there was broken. He realized who did it.
He was taken to somewhere by a mafia but he could go away from them and went to a police station. There was another accident. That was a murder affair and the police was investigating it as well. The police finally caught a member of it. It was the man with a gun and two problems solved at the same time. The reason the mafia looked for the picture was that there was the murder scene in the picture of Takahanada and Kumiko. Therefore they tried to get the picture.

Brown hair

I dyed my hair recently. I seldom dye my hair but I can do that only this period while I am a university student, so I decided to dye my hair. Maybe this is the last time for me to dye my hair.

Under my influence?

My friend is going to start to play the harmonica. I played the harmonica when he came to my room and he tried playing it for the first time. Since then, he has been crazy about it and said to buy it and play it. I am glad to be understood my hobby.

Book Review2-11

NEW YORK
People often call New York ‘The Big Apple’. In the 1920s and 1930s, jazz musicians all wanted to work in New York. ‘There are a lot of apples on the tree,’ they said, ‘but when you take New York City, you take The Big Apple!’ More than twenty million people visit New York every year. Lots of them say it is the most exciting city in the world.
Four hundred years ago, Manhattan Island was the home of the Algonquin Indians. In 1609, a man called Henry Hudson came up the river to Manhattan. He was British but he was on a Dutch ship, The Half Moon. Today the river is called the Hudson River.
There are a lot of things to see in New York and it is easy for the visitor to get to the different parts of the city. The representative things are the New York subway, the straight avenues of New York, New York buses, a yellow cab and the Staten Island ferry.
There are some places to go. They are Chinatown, Little Italy, Greenwich Village and Central Park in Manhattan, and Coney Island in Brooklyn.
The city is full of skyscrapers, and many of them are not very beautiful but some are wonderful, and very modern. The representative things are The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State Building and The United Nations Building.
We can enjoy shopping, eating and entertainment including ballet, sport and museums. We can also enjoy parades. New Yorkers love parades and there is one in some part of the city most months of the year. The representative parades are St Patrick’s Day parade, on 17 March, and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
I have known New York but I have not known the famous place and things, so I am glad to know about New York this time. I want to travel New York someday in the future.