□My 3-sentence Diary
ネット上で日記は、個人的にはthe last thing
I want to doでした。しかし、英語を書くことが
学習の一環と言う立場にあるものが、sampleになるのも意味のないことではないだろう、
自分も毎日、英語に接する機会も増えるし、また、このホムペになんらかの足跡を残すことに
もなるかな、などなどlong, sleepless autumn
nightに考えて、半ば勢いでcreate。
3-sentenceとなってますけれども、not necessarilyです。要するにnot
longということです。
Starting on October 3, 2003.
Sunday, October 31, 2004 Cloudy
My wife was watching the Korean drama " Beautiful Days" all
day. I was taking it easy today. In the evening we went shopping for cat
food and moromi vinegar. Our second son needs the vinegar to improve his constitution.
I am having a hard time trying to memorize Korean words. Well, I am telling
myself it is not the result but the process that counts...
Saturday, October 30, 2004 Rainy
Did a lot of work at home almost all day, and then viewed the Korean
drama I had long left unfinished. Studied Korean a little. In the evening,
picked up my wife and ate out. Our second son went to Yokohama by night
bus to see job interviews done to other university students. Brutalities
continue in Iraq. A young Japanese man may have been beheaded there.
Friday, October 29, 2004 Fair
My right hip joint hurts. I know something is wrong with that joint, but it has been OK so long that I have totally forgotten about it. I realize that man sure is mortal. From a child I have always been thinking about the meaning of life. I used to be a strange child. Even after I die, this world continues to exist as if I had not existed and I will never come back to life. This is nothing but absurdity.
Thursday, October 28, 2004 Fair
Habit is a second nature, and when you learn a foreign language, it is
like getting a new habit, so you just keep doing it. It takes willingness
and patience. In just one word, it is enthusiasm. There was just one conference
to attend to discuss next year's curriculum. Later on chatted over coffee
in the lounge area.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004 Fair and quite cold.
Last night after eating supper, I had an irregular pulse for a couple
of hours. Maybe I was too tired. Attended the last session of the sign
language course, the closing ceremony. Spend quite some time working online,
trying to input my address etc. for the year-end tax adjustment, but got
lost. What a system! It stinks!
Tuesday, October 26, 2004 Rainy
In spite of the rain, quite a few came to the sign language circle's
weekly meeting. As soon as it was over, I ate lunch quickly and headed
for the Korean language school. I am beginning to understand how the Korean
be verb is used. Yesterday was my second son's birthday. However, the usual
confectionery being closed, we celebrated his birthday today. The first
son was unable to come, though.
Monday, October 25, 2004 Fair
In the morning, I was busy at the computer keyboard typing. At work,
I was busy correcting students' assignments. On my way home, I bought some
doughnuts because my wife sent me an email, saying she would care for some.
And luckily I won a fancy teapot in a lottery at the doughnut shop.
Sunday, October 24, 2004 Fair
Yesterday's earthquake in Niigata was bigger than the Great Hanshin Earthquake,
but compared with Kobe, the disaster area was sparsely populated. Now food
is short there. It is very cold and there are not enough blankets. Aftershocks
still continue. Even without calamities, life has enough absurdities, though.
Saturday, October 23, 2004 Fair （severe earthquake in Niigata )
Went to a building near Shin-Osaka to have my ingrown toenail treated.
Looks like I have been wrong in the way I wear shoes. A pretty large-scale
earthquake happened around 7:00 p.m. and strong aftershocks are coming
one after another. There seem to be casualties. I paid money for my son's
antivirus software by mistake. Got to contact the company.
Friday, October 22, 2004 Fair
Teachers are going to be evaluated and that evaluation is going to be
reflected in their salaries. Competition or rivalry is to be introduced
into education. Money talks and it is going to be a free market. Also obedience
to bosses is to be taken for granted. I am afraid a serious mistake is
being made in Japan again. Values are becoming so mercenary.
Thursday, October 21, 2004 Fair
There were two meetings−a staff meeting and a teachers' union meeting.
There was an election of the chairpersons for the latter half of the year.
The more words you utter at staff meetings or the louder your voice is,
the more likely you are elected. It depends of the size of your ego. It
is surprising that quite a few want to transfer somewhere else from this
school.
Wednesday, October 20, 2004 Rainy
I left my place of work early to avoid danger officially because of Typhoon
No. 23, but the wind was not strong at all where I live. Maybe we were
in the long eye of the typhoon. However, the typhoon did a lot of serious
damage here and there in the Kink area, too. I wore my new glasses as much
as possible today to get used to them. Now I l seem to look as old in these
glasses as I actually am. I look young with no glasses on.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 Rainy
As usual, I went to both the local sign language circle and the Korean
language circle. A blind and deaf man came to the circle. I know this man
because I met him a few years ago. Korean is getting harder to learn as
there are more and more things to memorize. Ate out with my family and
on the way home, drove to the optician's shop for our new glasses. From
today on, I will wear glasses. This is day one with my glasses. Another
typhoon coming up this way!
Monday, October 18, 2004 Fair
Right now I am reading in English reference books about school subjects.
It is fun, but I cannot cover many pages the way I read novels in English.
Did so much desk work at school and strained my eyes. I sure need reading
glasses. It takes time, though, to get used to glasses. At first, you get
iirritated, I hear.
Sunday, October 17, 2004 Fair
The old monitor broken, I went out to get one and found a very reasonable
one. But I had to carry it a long way home, so I eventually got a lower
backache. Too bad. As my personal computer is old, a second-hand display
will do. Looks like it is working O.K. now. What a relief!
Saturday, October 16, 2004 Fair
Overslept and went to the English conversation school a little late.
While using the personal computer, the display went black all of a sudden.
The picture would not come back. There had been something wrong with the
monitor for some time. At last, it broke down. I will have to go get one.
Friday, October 15, 2004 Fair
I am out of the cold medicine, but I still cough a little. My throat
is itchy. What a persistent cough! I realize that a person with a persecution
complex or persecution mania is often a persecutor, not a victim. Such
a person wants attention, always looking for somebody he or she can put
the blame on. You really have to watch out for such morbid souls. They
are so good at making you feel guilty.
Thursday, October 14. 2004 Fair
Prepared lunch for both my sons. Hung the washing out on the balcony
to dry. The weather was nice−autumn weather, at last. The temperature
has been fluctuating so widely quite a few people seem to have a cold,
coughing from time to time. I am no exception. Although I want to watch
the next episode of the Korean drama, I am so sleepy now. What shall I
do?
Wednesday, October 13, 2004 Fair
Attended my fellow teacher's volunteer Korean lesson and then Osaka City's
sign language class. Today was my birthday. All my family got together
to celebrate it. I ate too muck cake at midnight. It was held at midnight
because my first son came all the way from Kobe very late at night. Then
I watched the Korean drama "Mr. Duke" until 3:00 a.m.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004 Cloudy
Christopher Reeve, the one-time well-known Superman star on a wheelchair,
died yesterday. When my sons were still little kids, I took them to the
Superman movie. I feel as if it were yesterday. I will be his age tomorrow,
my birthday. I like the movie "Somewhere in Time," in which he
starred in 1980.
Monday, October 11, 2004 Fair
My family had a shopping spree. I guess we spent around 300.000 yen in
a day today. For one thing, I needed reading glasses because I had difficulty
reading Korean-Japanese dictionaries. I eventually bought two pairs of
glasses, which cost me almost 150.000 yen. Besides, my wife and my son
bought a new pair of glasses, too.
Sunday, October 10, 2004 Fair
In a book, I read that the truth will set you free, but that it it will
first piss you off. How true! I am, after all, a cog in the wheel, very
replaceable anytime This is a hard fact. But most men want to feel important,
which is also a fact. A contradiction. Got another book on Korean while
taking a walk at night.
Saturday, October 9, 2004 Rainy and then cloudy.
The typhoon swerved toward the Kanto area, so I went to the prefectural
education center on business. There I met up with a colleague and had a
chat over coffee in the cafeteria. The autumn festival is being held in
the neighborhood, causing traffic jams here and there. Took a walk at night
and bought a book of conversational Korean while I was at it.
Friday, October 8, 2004 Rainy
Another typhoon. Something must be wrong with nature. Nature is no longer
natural. I did go to see the doctor and had my chest X-rayed. My lungs
were those of a smoker. The doctor prescribed different medicine. Medical
bills are really expensive these days. I studied Korean a lot today, but
I have a hard time memorizing words. I will keep it up for at least for
three years.
Thursday, October 7, 2004 Overcast
The cough still persists. I may have to see the doctor again. A new strain
of virus? T.B.? Something wrong with the bronchial tubes? Asthma? I cough
fitfully . Right now my web page has two URL's and two counters. I think
I will remove the old URL by the end of this month. One counter is enough.
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 Fair
Attended Osaka's sign language communication class as usual. On the way
there, bought a used Korean-English dictionary for 2.000 yen at a secondhand
bookstore. An ex-colleague passed away, so I went to the wake. He was my
age. Prayed his soul might rest in peace.
Tuesday, October 5, 2004 Rainy and then fair.
Went to the local sign language circle and then hurried to the Korean
language school. Day one. There were 20 students in all. The instructor
was a native Korean. She taught us some of the Korean vowels and a couple
of simple Korean colloquial phrases. My web page is now being moved to
New Geiocities. I have done the online procedure.
Monday, October 4, 2004 Fair
The other day my wife got a postcard telling her to pay some overdue
bill, but she could not think of such a bill. Therefore, I called this
city's consumers' center and asked about it. The bill proved to be a fraud.
How can anybody do such an malicious thing? Is human nature fundamentally
evil? I hope not. But ...
Sunday, October 3, 2004 Cloudy and then fair.
There was an athletic meeting. It started at 10:00 a.m. and ended around 3:00 p.m. I timed the races-a timekeeper. It was rather windy and a bit cold, so I put on a thin sweater and a jacket. I tried to memorize some Korean words, but it was difficult. While taking a walk at night, I went over some of the words I had tried to memorize before.
Saturday, October 2, 2004 Rainy and then fair.
Something seems to be wrong with my computer display. Letters and images
fade away and get pinkish and blurred. This happened all of a sudden today.
The display screen is very unstable. I must do something about it. I may
have to buy a new one. My first son came back home and was here for a while.
Friday, October 1, 2004 Fair
I still have this wasting and persistent cough, and my physical condition
is pretty poor now. But one problem after another crops up at work. I had
little time to study Korean or read an English book. Paid 3.150 yen for
Virus Buster 2005 at a convenience store.