あたしメリーさん・・・ ~ I am Merry... ~

I LOVE HORROR MOVIES and STORIES, especially Japanese.

If you want to be scared or excited or something by watching scary movies, I would recommend you watch...

リング (Ringu)
呪怨 (Juon)
着信あり (One Missed Call)
The Grudge 2

I LOVE PLAYING HORROR VIDEO GAMES too.

when I was an elementary school student, I was sooo into,

クロックタワー２ (The Clock Tower 2)

This game is fu*king GREAT!! It definitely will make you PANICKED!

トワイライトシンドローム (The Twilight Syndrome)

was good too! it's all about Japanese 都市伝説 (toshi-densetsu; scary city folklores) and 学校の怪談 (gakkou-no kaidan; school ghost stories), such as 花子さん "Hanako-san" and メリーさん "Merry-san".

I found a nice, funny but scary CG movie about メリーさん (with English subtitles).
The voice actor of the teacher did a good job speaking Kyushu-dialect (it's funny that he speaks like yakuza or 不良(furyoo; anti-social teenagers who have gone bad smoking cigarettes and etc..))!

Enjoy!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vlf-3xo76yA&feature=related

あたし、メリーさん。今、あなたの・・・

う　し　　　ろ　　　に

い・・・　　　　　る

HamBurgers!

you know... hamburgers and fries are junk foods. but it's good to eat em' once in a while!

so i went to Betty's Burger, five minutes by car from my house.
i ate a regular Betty's burger, crispy fries, and onion rings.

it was goooood!

but, my stomach still feels oily, greasy, and heavy and
now i want to eat something light.
so that's why it's good to eat em' only once in a while.....

by the way why doesn't Japan have nice and good hamburger restaurants that are not just regarded as "junk fast food places" like McDonard's? maybe MosBurger (i hope the spelling is right) is the one that's nice and good...? or maybe if i explore especially places where many young people hang out i will find some nice places? anyways there aren't so many good and pretty hamburger places in Japan.

たぶんハンバーガーで健康的じゃないしジャンクってイメージがあるから、健康志向で高品質嗜好の日本人にとってはあまり好ましい食べ物ではないんだろうと思う・・・。美味しいけどね、たまに食べると。でも毎日食べたい？って聞かれたら絶対にNO!!!だなぁ。。
てか毎日食べたらそれこそSuper Size Meみたいに、病院行きになりそう。

anyways, after all, I love Japanese food...

日本人はやっぱり米と魚だよね。

what I want to do..

I will just list what I want to do for the rest of my life.
(the ordering doesn't really matter)

1. have a very short hair (soon)
2. get a teaching certificate for a high school English teacher (高校教員免許) and work in a high school in Japan as an English teacher
3. get lots of experience of teaching English (and Japanese)
4. go to a grad school someday to study 'teaching Japanese/English as a second language' or education or linguistics (unlikely)
5. have a life without a car in Japan and travel by train
6. OHANAMI(お花見; it's a Japanese traditional outside-party to enjoy seeing cherryblossoms while eating and drinking)!! belive or not, i have never done ohanami even though i was born and grew up in Japan for about 20 yrs.....
7. go to see my best friend in Poland
8. read all of Haruki Murakami's books
9. take Eiken 1kyu (the highest level of the official English proficiency test, which is the most common English test in Japan)
10. read lots of books about Japanese education (esp. problems regarding Japanese education. e.g., bullying-いじめ, Compulsory Education-義務教育, entrance examination-受験, etc..)
11. learn another language (Italian?, Polish?, I don't know yet...)
12. go to Okinawa-沖縄 and maybe live there for a few years if I like it there
13. travel to Indo-Chinese Peninsula (Vietnam, Thailand, Syngapore...)
14. be a cyborg like the main character (素子) in Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊) and jump from roof to roof, have a nice voluptuous body, and never get old

I should have a lot more things I want to do for sure but I just can't come up with them now so I just finish it for today...

bai bai!

The Professor's Beloved Equation

So last night I watched a Japanese movie, Hakase-no Aishita Sushiki ("The Professor and His Beloved Equation").

It was GREAT!!

This is the equation the professor loves.

e π i + 1 = 0

(e to the π and to the i (ROOT-1); e のπ乗のi乗)

You probably don't think this equation is romantic.
But you will think so after watching this movie!

220 and 284.

They are called 友愛数（ゆうあいすう）(literally translated as "the number of friend and love" - "amiable numbers"). They have a deep friendship.

ROOT　√

is a tough and gentle guy with "a wise heart" who protects anyone, any number.

『博士の愛した数式』を見た後、数学をいつか学び直したいと思いました。

"No one knows when numbers were born."

Numbers are like the nature. They just exist.