i have to keep it up

i haven't studied English for a long time.
so my English skills become very bad...
of course im participating in foreign forum since i had joined.
but that not enough...
so i restarted this blog for brushing up my English level.
but im very busy recently...
i haven't posted this once again!!
i have to keep it up...

my funny animals

i created this yesterday.
using Internet pics.

i come back

i haven't logged in this acount for about 3 years!!
i cant believe... i even forget my account information and even my blog address,
but i come back.
of cause i can make another blog.
but this blog is very important.

i have been doing various things for these three years.
i have participated in foreign community and get used to it.
and have also been doing Japanese blog for affiliate type of things.
this is very hard...

Death Note movie

I cant believe myself... I haven't posted this blog for about 6 months!!Where's my challenge spirit for getting acquired English languige going?

Well the other day, I went to see the movie called "Death Note". It's Live Action movie based on the Japanese popurar manga series. It's actually divided into 2 parts. So there's 2 death note movies. The first one was released in June. Still now releasing. And second part will be released in October. To date, Death Note manga has sold 18 million copies. And when the movie was released, it topped the Japanese box office for two straight weeks. What a phenomenon!

When I see the movie, its really about Raito(A very intelligent young man who kill criminals using death note one after another for making the world better) and L(A mysterious smart detective)'s psychological battles. yeah, storyline was so intriguing. Characters also interesting. Although when I read the reviews on the Net, many ppl seems like dissatisfied it. I know the reason. Cause many ppl have already read the manga... And movie seems like much the same as it. Well at least I haven't read it. So somehow I hooked it!
In the movie, it ends with Raito's first meeting with L. I definitely want to see the next one!

You can watch the trailer at here.(2 min)
http://meta.yahoo-streaming.jp/cgi-bin/yahoo/movies.asx?cid=20060608000cs0000movie500k

Official site is here.
http://wwws.warnerbros.co.jp/deathnote/

You can get more info at here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_note

Japanese Emoticon

In Japan, we usually use emoticons called "kaomoji", literally "face mark", which can be understood without turning one's head to the left in the e-mail or web discussion forum. It's so much different from western style.
There is a bigger variety of characters that can be used in emoticons.
For example, (^_^)　this is very basic style, so we usually don't use this type of things. Japanese usually tend to use much more complex ones. I'm not sure these can be displayed collectly. But it's something like this.

「 今日ディズニーランドに行きました。（V＾－°）イエイ！ とっても楽しかったです。（*’-’*） エヘヘ。また、行きたいです。v(￣∇￣)v 」

It means " Today I went to Disneyland. :) Yay! It was very much amused. :) haha...I want to visit there again. :-P "

It is often meant to use for making the person look cuter. especially for woman. Of course Japanese young woman always use these item. But it's also usually used by senior woman. It's kinda weird though...
Well, Isn't it interesting? You can check these variety of Japanese emoticons at this site.

http://www.kaomoji.com/kao/text/yorokobu.htm

Sigh.

There are only 2 days left in this October.
Im a sad... Clocks should be moved back.
I dont think my English writing/speaking ability has not improved much. And I didn't take that important test this month. I haven't even studied it at all. I think im a stupid...

Well it's the end of October. So I should post some Autumn pics. It's called "cosmos".
Cute little flower with pink and red and white color that just spreads over the whole place. This is a flower that blooms only during fall.
Not from my backyard though, I took these photo in my neighbor.

KILLER STREET

Time for music. 10.05(wed) release " KILLER STREET" This is my fave band.

The Southern All Stars consists of five members.With stylish lyrics and characteristic vocals, the name "Southern All Stars" spread throughout Japan. Because of their unique performance, they were criticized as a comic band at first. However, since the third single "いとしのエリー(Itoshi no Eri)" became a big success in 1979, Southern All Stars became a band that represented Japan. Their 44th single "TSUNAMI" sold 3 million CDs and won the 42nd Japan Record　Grand Prize in 2000. In 2003, the band celebrated their 25th anniversary. Southern All Stars' fanbase consists of all ages, and both genders. The band's songs cover many genres, including: love songs, ballads, social songs, and humorous songs.

Because they're so unique, I think they're not well received by foreigners... So despite of their popularity in Japan, I guess they've never been debut in the US. Anyway, it's really cool band. A new album for the first time in 7 years will be released on October 5, 2005. You can hear at this site. Check these links out!
http://www.sas-fan.net/killer_st/mokuji.html

「FILM KILLER STREET」DIGEST
http://www.sas-fan.net/killer_st/movie.html

A Glimpse Of The Future

Is it really possible of these things?
Japanese research team have predicted the earth of 50 years after.

The predict that special space elevator would be built connecting surfice with their space stations and that people would get around in vehicles that hovers just about the ground.

Joint reserch team of Tokyo University and Nomura Securities have developed computer graphic images to illustrate these ideas.

• Space stations orbiting at 36000km would be linked to earth surface by elevator with the jarney just taking about 6 hours.
• People would travel in linear mortor vehicle that flows over the ground. Because fully automatic, even the children can ride them alone.
• Dog would be trained to check people's health.
• Special cloths would be developed indicate what's going on under your skin.
• And children would be taught by robot instead of private tutors.

Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa of Tokyo University says "We need to have a dream for the future. Something may come true or something may not. But the most important thing is to work to achieve that dream. Researchers says publishing their prediction because it's essential to have innovative ideas and reseach if sciense and technology are to develop.

I bet You probably think that these things can't be possible only in 50 years. I also doubt it. But come to think of it, 50 years ago, could really anyone imagine this present situation? Anyone predict this "World Wide Web"? So another 50 years, our sorroundings must be dramatically change again. That's for sure.

For the better? or worse. You can see what's coming sometime in the future.