Hello 2014  >> As lots of Japanese, I also go to the shrine for "Hatsumode" on New year's Day. I went to the Ookunitama Shrine which is very close to my house with my mother. We arrived at about 9 and there were lots of people. But we didn't wait on line and went into smoothly.
>>In the afternoon , I went to the Tokyo Tower with my friend. last time I came here was 2010 (or 2011 ?). But I remembered that I took the picture at the same place and there is just one difference in the first picture-the number.
>the lights changed after few hours.
>> I can stay home today and tomorrow. I am so so happy though there are lots of
things to do.
Maybe there are many difficulties waiting for me in 2014, but I will try my best and not give up. I believe myself.
Goodbye 2013 Maybe it is little late to write this diary, but I still want to leave something about the last year.
At the beginning of 2013, my mental and physical conditions were very poor. It wasn't a good start, but there are still good things happened. Like I got the scholarship again, got the license, got the Grade 2 of secretarial skill test, and the grade of the spring semester is well (I think). Also there are not good thing like I did not pass the test of bookkeeping, didn't make Toeic over 700 points.
It was very busy from November to December. I was tired very much, because I just had 2 complete days to rest in the last 2 months. I had to go to school , go to the job session, to do the part-time job. So even the school had started the holiday, I had no feelings. Everything that I need to do going out makes me tired .
But it is also can be said that I lived a full life in the past 2 months. I think I had started to enjoy the job hunting - enjoy all including the failure, just my body got tired. >> On December 29th, there is a year-end party of my part-time job. I have done this job for about 3 years and a half. There are lots of things happened in this long time- everything that happy or sad or angry makes my heart warm. Time flies so fast and I really appreciated for the time when I was there - because I changed a lot.
I don't know there are how many time I can leaving there, but I will cherish it and do my best to work.  all you can eat in a big hotel where we can see the sky-tree(^^)
>> On December 30th, I went to Asama hot spring with my mother. It took over 3 hours to go by bus. We slept one night there and came back to Tokyo on December 31th. The view of there was very good though the wind was cold.
This week I want to share a movie named "The godfather". In fact, there are 3 movies of "the godfather",and they are a series about the same family.This time I want to talk about the first one which was made in 1972.
This is a story happened in 1940's,, about a New York crime family, and the don of it - Vito Corle- is the "godfather". He has 4 children, 3 sons (one is foster son as the second son) and 1 daughter. In the movie, the family and other 4 crime families erupt in open warfare. The oldest son was killed. The youngest son took over the place of the old Vito and started to revenge after his father died. At last he succeeded and became the new don of the family.
This movie is based on a novel of the same novel. It takes about 3 hours and it is a very long, deep movie. It won many awards and nominations , like in the Academy Award in 1973, the Golden Globe and the Grammy Award.
Many people said they were moved by this movie. Also me. It is a story about a crime family, but there are not so many violet scenes. It talks more about the relationship of a family, the emotion, responsibility, wisdom of the man. And the nice performance of the players makes me as if I was in the story. When you saw it, you will think of the behaviors and words deeply. So after I saw this movie, there are many feelings left in my mind.
I want to recommend a very nice movie today. In fact, I just saw it right now and I am moved very much, so I share it at once.
The movie's name is "The King's Speech", which was directed by Tom Hooper.
The story is about the king George who was a stammer that how to correct the stammer when he speak in the public with the help of his speech therapist . In this movie, Calin Firth (British) acted the king George VI and Geoffrey Push (Australian) acted the king's speech therapist Lionel Logue.
This movie was showed in America first in 2010 (Telluride Film Festival), and then in Canada (Premiere in Toronto International Film Festival in September,2010 ), Russia (November,2010), Canada(December,2010) , UK (January,2011) ,China (February,2012).
 In the 83rd Academy Awards, this movie get 12 Oscas nominations and won 4 Oscas- Best Picture, Best Actor (Colin Firth), Best Director (Tom Hooper), and Original Screenplay (David Seidler) in 2011.
There were also some disputes about the history of story. But I think it is not the most important thing to a movie. Like in some history dramas, in fact not all the scenes are as some as the history and there must be some changes. Not of the movie can be the history text. "Movie" is most like a kind of art and teach (or tell) people things that is not just the correct history .
This story is very nice and the movie can be said very successful. Because you will feel that there are no any superfluous scenes here and the story from the beginning to the end can catch your mind. I don't think this movie is the kinds that can make you cry or move you just at some scenes. All the story are the climaxes.
And the performance of Calin Firth is perfect. He act a stammer very good! I can think of Leonardo Dicaprio acted a mentally retarded children in the movie "What's eating Gilbert Grape". They both acted so nice! Also Geoffrey Push's performance is very good.
At last, this is a very moving warm movie which also can give people the encouragements like the movie "Forrest Gump " or "The Shawshank Redemption". You will not be disappointed to see it.
 Last week I saw two movies. They are both adapted by the novel "Byakuyako", which is written by Higasino Keigo.
The novel also was adapted to a drama, and broadcast from January 12, 2006 to March 23, 2006. But I haven't read the novel or saw the drama before.
picture of the drama
Korea made the movie of the novel first in 2009.
Though some places of the story were changed, the movie was still very good. And the actor and actress acted very nice! (Son Yejin is so beautiful!)
This version made the story more like Korean. And there were more scenes than Japanese version that made me cry.
 Japanese version was made in 2011.
I remembered that I saw many posts of the movie at the train station. But I didn't know the story.
I saw the Korean version first, so when I saw the Japanese version I knew the differents of them.
A big different I found is that, in the Japanese version, there are no scenes that heroine and hero appeared in the same time after they got older. There just one time is when the hero died in the front of the heroine. This is the first and the only scene they appeared in the same time. But in the Korean version there are many scenes of it. Maybe it the reason of the next different.
Another different I felt is that, in the Korean version, I could feel the love between the heroine and hero much more than that in the Japanese version.
Different countries have their different comprehensions and made the movies in their ways. I feel that they both are very good. I think the most reason is because of the nice this story written by Higasino Keigo. I would like to read the novel when I have time.
 Last Saturday, I found out two books when I was cleaning my room. They talk about the same story, but the languages are different.
The name of the story is " The little Prince". It is a story written by the french writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
The story goes that, there is a little prince living on a small star.He loves a rose which is also living on his star. But the rose is little haughty and it hurts the prince. So the little prince decides to travel in the space. He go to six stars , and the seventh star is the earth. On the earth he meets many different people (animals) who helped him and the experience makes him think a lot. He also makes a friend with a little fox who loves him. But the prince still loves the rose and misses her very much. At last the little prince goes back to the star where the rose is living.
Last time I read this story is about 3 years ago. I couldn't think of very clearly about it. But I still remember the feeling when I was reading it- the moving and the sad.
I read it first time when I was studying Japanese. I have forgot the sure time that I bought the book. It is written by both Japanese and Chinese. And the second time, I bought the English version for studying English. It is easy to read and not very long.
I would like to share some good sentences that moved me and made me think .
-"It is lonely among the people, too," (P 74/ L 13)
-"We do not see clearly, except when we look with our hearts. The things that are most important cannot be seen with ours eyes." (P 90/L 19)
-"The desert is beautiful," the little prince said, "because a well is hidden somewhere in it" (P 97/L 12)
-"For different people, the stars mean different things. For travelers, the stars guide them. For others, they are nothing but small lights in the sky. For people who are scholars, the stars are things to think about. For my businessman, they are made of gold. But all these stars are silent. You, You will have stars unlike any other..." (P 110/ L 12)
----Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The little prince"
(translated by Miki Terasawa)
Recently I am fascinated with a game. I want to a brief introduction about it here.
If you don't have time to read the words, just seeing the video below is also OK. =]
The name of it is "Rhythm master". It is very popular in China. Even there was a competition of it.
It is a mobile game, but also can be played on tne Ipad.
 This is a rhythm game that you can listen the music and touch the screen . There are lots of buttons coming down and you need to touch them, with the rhythm of the music.
There are are two kinds of buttons, one is blue and another one is green. The green one is long, sometimes they also change the direction and have a arrow at the last. So you need to touch the green one (as the direction) until it disappeared .The blue one is easy and you just need to touch one time.
There will appear "perfect" if you touch the button with the rhythm. If the time of touching is not good, it will be "great". If you miss, it will be "miss". The point will be counted by the number of them.
You can choose the keys and the speed of the rhythm to play it .
There are 4 keys, 5 keys and 6 keys.The picture on left is 6 keys and above is 4 keys. And there are 4 kinds of speed, the speed is faster, the point is higher.
There are many songs, not just Chinese song but also Korean and Japanese songs. Every song has "easy","normal" and "hard" model. But if you want to play the "normal" model, you have to get an "A" in the "easy" model. The same as the "hard".
There have really difficult songs. If you miss the buttons many time, you will "be gamed over ". Many people take the video when they are playing. I have seen many videos. They are too fast!
I think it is crazy!
You can see the video below. This is one of the most difficult songs. The name of the is Croatian Rhapsody. It is 4 keys with the fastest speed.
After this video is over, you also can find some videos about this game on the Youtube. If you want to see more, you can see them.
P.S. If you want to try the game, tell me.=]
I just want to introduce a good song here this time.
The name of this song is "If you want me" from movie "once".
Singer Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard sing it.
In fact, I like the feeling of the song in the movie more, but I couldn't find it in the Youtube.
Anyway, very beautiful voice and very beautiful song.
The movie is also good. I like it very much.
It is becoming very nice and cool. Even I can feel the autumn .
I know time always flies fast , and this is not the first vocation which I think pasts fast. But it is really hard to believe that my summer vocation will be over in this week.
Every time when I am conscious of the ending of the vacation, I feel nervous - not just because of the homework which I haven't finished. I feel that I couldn't think of what I did in the vocation - Also this time.
I find that with getting older, I could't remember the things even it happened on last week. Maybe it is just an excuse, I know the reason why I feel the vocation is like a write paper. I didn't do anything special in fact, and most time I was "ゴロゴロ" in my house.
These days I am writing my Seminar's report. I don't know why I always leave the homework until the ending of the vacation. I always thought to finish it as soon as possible, but every time I fight with the homework in the last days. Maybe it can be the most special thing of my vocation. I wish this time I also can finish it at time.
I know I just wrote a diary and it is boring to read the words. So I want to share some music from movies I like very much.
The first movie is "Notting hill", there are two pieces of famous songs-"When you say nothing at all" and "she" .
The second one is "pretty woman " , and the name of the song is "oh, pretty woman".
The two movies are old, but I like them because they both are happy ending.
PS. I like the second song "she" very much.
I want to introduce an interesting movie here.
The name is "Pacific Rim".
The story:
there are monsters ( Kaiju ) coming from the deep of
the Pacific Ocean. To protect all human, the world get
together to make the big robots called Jaegers to fight
with the Kaiju It is controlled by two pilots and
their minds are locked in a neural bridge. Even Jaegers
help people to defeat the Kaiju, it is becoming difficult
to fight with the strong Kaiju. The scientists find that
Kaiju are created by aliens and know how to stop
the Kaiju coming to the earth. The two pilots, Charlie
Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi, shoulder the
responsibilities to complete the mission.
I think this movie is very interesting. Especially it is very good to see the 3D movie in the cinema
I like the Japanese actress very much. I think her performance is very good.
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