2012年12月24日月曜日

what you do

Hi everyone!

When are you happy?

Are you happy when you are with your nice friends, get a lot of money or drink alcohol?

They are, of course, happy times. I think people have their own happy time, but I know interesting

saying  about this.

It is...

What I have to do is what I want to do.

I think if there are people who say this saying, they must be happy.

This saying doesn't mean they are selfish.

It means they know what they do and they believe it is what they need to do.

I think the most boring time is when people do something without thinking its meaning,

so if we find a worth  in the things we do, we will be spend happy time even they are looks boring.

Now, in my case, what I have to do is studying for a final exam.

I want to say it is what I want to do, but it is difficult for me to say so!







beautiful flower

Hi everyone!

Do you know Naoko Takahashi?

She is a Japanese famous long distance runner.

She got a gold medal at the Sydney Olympics!!!

She even got a National Award of Honor (国民栄誉賞)!

In this post, I want to introduce such a great person's saying.

It is ...

In the cold day when a flower can't get sunlight, it tries to grow its

roots,and after that, it will blossom very beautifully.

In this saying, she compares herself to a flower. she had made done big effort

even when she couldn't make good score.

I was a member of track and field club, and I was also long distance runner when I was high school

student, so I respect her very much.

I think she has both physical and psychological power, and this saying shows how strong she is.

I think such a great person's saying give us strong impression.


                                                              
Naoko Takahashi







2012年12月23日日曜日

Words in the song

Hello everyone!

What kind of song do you like?

There are various kinds of songs like rock, ballade and etc, but the most important factor of

them is the same. it is, of course, the lyrics. The words to a song are a way to give the message,

so I think there a lot of nice sayings in the lyrics,

and I know one musician whose song's wards are very meaningful.

His name is Kazuyoshi Saito

I like his songs very much and I want to introduce you some of nice words of his song

Those are...

If you spend today dishonestly, your tomorrow will be the same as today (歩いて帰ろう)

I hope your days will be more beautiful than your beautiful memories
(ウエディングソング)

An old man said "the old days were better than today", but there is no time machine today(僕の見たビートルズはテレビの中)

Those are sentences of his some Japanese songs, and I translated them into English,

so they has my interpretation. Thus they may be different from your interpretations,

so please listen to his songs! I think other his songs are also very meaningful.

He is also going to join this year's Red and White Singing Contest(紅白歌合戦)!!!

Kazuyoshi Saito

2012年12月20日木曜日

Book's saying 2 - stranger came to house...-

Hi everyone!

what are you doing now?  I am reading a book with drinking a hot coffee in my warm room

and I found nice sentence in this book. Please let me introduce it.

That saying is ...

People had come to their house as strangers and would leave as friends

This sentence is in the scene of a party.  I think this phrase expresses the how a party is nice very well.

If you are interested in this sentence please read the Evening Class published by PENGUIN READERS

and try to find it!

I think English books have a lot of good sentences, so if you'll find them. Please let me know!



                                                       
Evening Class
                                                             
Maeve Binchy


Book's saying 1 -You are the most beautiful girl in...-

Hi everyone! 

What do you do recently? I think most of you stay inside because these days have been too cold.

I think the best thing to do in such a case is reading  a book with drinking a hot coffee in your house.

When I did so, I found some nice sentences.

I want to introduce some of them in several posts.

The first saying is ...

They told you that you are the most beautiful girl in Paris. They

were lying.You are the most beautiful girl in Europe. 
                                                                 by Rick(As time goes by)

This is European gentle man's saying. This is nice and cool saying.

but I think if Japanese men say same saying,it will sound funny or stupid.


This sentence is in the PENGUIN READER's book,

so If you are interested in them, please try to read the book and find that saying!


AS TIME GOES BY
     
byMICHAEL WALSH

2012年12月12日水曜日

the difference between travelar and tourist

hello everyone !

today I have a question.

Who is tourist ?  and Who is traveler?

I think this is a difficult question. we don't think the difference between both.

but I know interesting idea to this question.

It is ...

Tourists want to escape from their daily life

Travelers want to go to somewhere

when tourists and travelers go to one country,

tourists
 
In the tour, they want to spend special times by eating delicious food, visiting famous spot, and

staying good hotel. Their purpose is escaping from their daily life,

so they don't care where they are or  how the country and people in their.

They doesn't decide what they do there because all they have to do is following the plan of tour

travelers

Their purpose is going there. They try to know about  that  country and people. 

They go to the place where they are interested,

and they talk that country's people who they meet.

So they decide all thingsthey do here.

I heard this in a class, and a professor said if you go to study abroad, you should be a traveler.

I agree with it !

Thank you for reading!  If you have some opinion to this saying. Plase let me know your opinion !


2012年11月29日木曜日

A person who has never made a mistake

we are often said

"  Don't be afraid of making a mistake"

But mostly we can't do so. We don't want to make a mistake.

However Albert Einstein who is a great physicist had different idea. He said....

Anyone who have never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

So if you make mistake, it's no problem, because It means you tried a new thing.

If there is a person who has never made mistake, he is not so great, because

Everything he can do is plobably what everyone can do.