Tokyo Sky Tree

Do you know Tokyo Sky Tree?
Actually, I don't really know about it.
The only fact I know is that Tokyo Sky Tree is the highest free standing broadcasting tower in the world.

As you know, I don't really like height, so I'm not really interested in this.
However, there is Tokyo Sky Tree Town.
There we can enjoy aquarium, planetarium, and shopping mall!
I think we can enjoy there, so I wanna go there with you!!!

Someday! Let's do it!

Tosh

Sign

"Sign" is a song sung by Mr.Children, who are one of the best singer groups in Japan.

This is one of my favorite songs of them and also I listen to this song when I'm missing you.

In the chorus part, the lyrics are like this.

When I'm missing an ordinary time, 

you smiled, saying "It's love's doing"

The behavior you show me is a "Sign" directed to me

I'll never overlook any single things again

That's what I'm thinking

I'm not sure I could translate well, but this lyrics reminds me of the days I spent with you.

But we are gonna be stronger than before, so now we are far from each other.

If you like, plz listen to this song sometimes.

Tosh

Melon Pan

You know what I'm talking about!
Yes. Melon pan! One of the masterpiece of human kind!

I had this.
This melon pan was so good. It costed only 120 yen.
In Japan, there are many kinds of melon pan.
So when you come to Japan, I'll buy them for you!
By the way, I heard that in a week here may happen a big earthquake in Japan.
I'm scared, but I'm sure that we are fine!
That's because I wanna see you!
So a big earthquake will not happen!

Toshi

Discussion

Today, when I went to school,
some of my juniors were talking like this...

A: "Ah, I'm totally tired. They are dumb. I don't wanna talk with them any more."
B: "Yeah, you are right. Especially, E is sooo stupid. I can't really understand."
C: "It can't be helped. You know, we know that they are stupid and useless. So let's just do our best."

I wondered, and I asked them what they were talking about.
They were talking about their juniors(It means, about "my juniors" too).
They are working for an event called ITC and ITC is coming soon.
Now there are new Teaching Assistants for ITC and those new TAs are not so good according to them.

But let me say...

How can they talk about them like this?
They are working together and, if their juniors are not good enough, they have to take care of them as seniors. They were just blaming them for being stupid.

Umm... I don't really know about them.
But...

I don't know. I just felt sad.
I wanna talk with you later...

Tosh

Taking a Walk

is good for me to be relaxed.

I sometimes take walk with my dog and see flowers, other dogs, and so on.
Today, on the way, I took a picture.

I don't know the name of this flower, but I though t it was pretty.
Actually, it was funny that while i was taking this picture, my dog was pooping.lol

Tomorrow, I'm going to play Frisbee with some of my friends.
It's gonna be fun and I'm excited.
But in addition to having fun with playing Frisbee, I have to study hard too!
I'll do my best! So please do you best!

Tosh

About Cats

Before I met that cat, I didn't like cats.
There were some reasons;
1. cats are not so friendly,
2. their eyes are sometimes scary,
3. wild cats around my hometown scared me many times.

However, when I met Irene, my image on cats changed!
Now I like cats because they are soooo cute.
I like dogs too. So in the future, I may get both of them.
Sometimes I feel like looking for some videos of cats on YouTube.
Today I saw this.

This kitten is really cute, adorable, beautiful... It's an art!lol
I know you like kitties.
I like your kitty so much because she caused me to change my mind!
I wanna get a cute cat in the future together!

Tosh

Sushi!

Hi. This is Toshi.

Today, I went to eat sushi with my parents and my younger brother.
The sushi restaurant is called "Ohige Zushi" which means "Beard Sushi."
It is a little silly name, isn't it?
But the taste of sushi they serve is really good.
I'll show you a picture.

It's a little silly that I forgot to take a picture before eating one of them.lol
At this time, I have already had egg sushi which is like this.

Sushi was sooooooo good.
I wanna have them with you! I also wanna go to the sushi restaurant that you mentioned.

Let's go eat a lot!
Tosh

GyuDon

Hi I'm Toshiya from Saitama in Japan.
My favorite thing is eating delicious foods!
Today, too, I'm going to look for great food!lol

I went to my university to study for my thesis.
I left my house around 11 o'clock and I got to Kokubunji Station (which is the closest station from my university) around noon.
Then, I thought, "I should eat something on my way to school."

When I was walking, there were a lot of restaurants attracting me.
However, I remembered that I have not been to the GyuDon Restaurant yet since I came back to Japan.
Gyu Don Restaurant is one kind of the fast food restaurant in Japan and there are plenty of that kind of restaurant.
So I entered Matsuya. I ate Gyu Don.

The first bite was sooo good.
I was happy...
However, soon I noticed that this wasn't sooooo good.

Now i 'm sure that I wanted to eat one which my mom cooks.
That must be soooo good.
So i'll ask my mom to cook it.
I wanna learn how to cook it then because i wanna cook it for you too.

Tosh

A Place I Wanna Go

is Prague in Czech Republic. (Actually, i didn't know how to spell "Czech.")
I learned a bit about the city on Wikipedia today.
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic.
As the main sights, the varied collections of architecture must be so nice.
I want to see Prague Castle with the St. Vitus Cathedral, Charles Bridge, St. Nicholas Cathedral, Pisek Gate, the Lennon Wall.
They are in Hradcany and Lesser Town. There are also Old Town and Josefov area, New Town area, Vinohrady and Zizkov area and so on.
Actually, there are so many things to enjoy visiting.
Of course, there are a lot of photos on the website, however, without seeing it directly, I can't be satisfied as we say "Seeing is believing."lol

St. Vitus Catheral

I wanna see this view! This must be amazing!!!

I wanna go to Prague with you.
Let's think about it!lol

Tosh

Neck-less

Look at these!

This neck-less was made by my mom.
Do you like it?
If you like it, I'll send you one!
She can make the one with red stone too if you like better.

Today I studied geography a lot and I have many place where I wanna visit with you.
So let's do it!!!
I finally realized that geography is actually an interesting subject
after spending 24 years in my life.lol

Tosh

The Sky!

I like to see the sky.
I think it's beautiful and also makes me relaxed.

Yesterday it was stormy and today was really hot.
When I went to school around 10:30, I saw the sky.
It was like this.

 I took this picture at the plat home.
The shape of clouds were pretty.
And the blue sky made me feel great.

When I was on the way home from school,
I took this picture.

The sky was pretty again in a different way.
I like to take pictures of the sky.
I'll keep taking pictures!
And then, I want to show them to you.
Of course, I wanna see your pictures of the sky.

Toshi

Typhoon

came to Japan.

Now I can hear the sound of strong wind which scares me sooo much.

In summer, typhoons come to Japan so often.

That freaks me out! 

Because of typhoon,

① I can't go outside.

② it scares me.

③ my dog whines at night and I can't sleep well.

④ it makes me feel like watching funny videos that force me to procrastinate.

By the way, I found this picture on the website.

The Japanese letters means, "The typhoon Family."

In Japan, when a typhoon is gone, we express it by saying,

"Taihuu ikka (台風一過)."

This picture tells us a gag... stupid though...lol

Now, I'm still scary so I'll go to bed.

Tosh

English

I've been studying English since I was 11 years old.
In my junior high school and my high school, I didn't study English so hard
because English classes were really bad.
My teachers were not good teachers.

To enter a university, I practiced reading English hard.
After entering the university in Tokyo, I started practicing English conversation.
Last year, I studied abroad to improve English.

Why? Why is English so hard? I still can't write correct English, speak English well,
read English passage fast, listen to native speakers speaking English.

Today, I was reading a passage in English and the content was about the development of the human beings.
Human beings have developed their culture and created the new traditions thanks to the language.

While I was reading the passage, I was confused many times about what the writer of this passage talking about. I noticed that English I usually speak and write is composed of plain English words and grammar.
That's why I felt the difficulty reading that passage.

I think I should try to talk about a bit more difficult topic with others in English. I should try to use a lot of new words while talking with you and writing on my blog.
Then, guess what! I'm totally using easy words right now!lol

My apology.

Toshi

Salmon roll and Shrimp roll

are my lunch today.
I totally forgot to take pictures though...
I'm stupid.

Today, when I felt tired, I looked for some FUNNY stuff on the Internet.
Look at this!

I found this on Engrish.com.
This shop is in Shibuya I'm sure.
This made me feel like going to pee.
Actually, I peed.
And then, I saw this.
And I went to pee.
Just kidding.

So after going to the U.S., I started to think that there are so many funny sources
especially in America.
 You know, if I didn't go to the U.S., I didn't know this website and so I wasn't laughing today.
And of course i didn't go to pee today.
Oh, this is a lie.

Anyway, what I want to tell you is I want you to share funny things with me.
I really love them.

So I'm waiting for you telling me funny stuff tomorrow.lol

See ya.

Toshi

it was raining...

It was raining today in Japan.
This means I couldn't go outside today.
I did not exercise today.

I feel like going outside.

Today, I started watching a movie, "Field of Dreams."
I'm still watching this film so I don't know what's gonna happen from now.
But so far, the story is fun for me. It's interesting.
I hope the ending is impressive.

By the way, speaking of movies, I wanna watch Ted!
So let's watch it together later.
I love to watch movies with you.
I often fall asleep though...lol
I'll try not to fall asleep next time.
So let's watch a lot of movies together!

Toshi

Boring Days

♪♪
Boring days~
I am studying all day
makes me sick~
and I wanna kick
my textbooks on my desk
sksksksskskskskskskskssk
♪♪

so I'm bored these days.
You know, I have to study, and I study.
But when I study, I feel really bored and wanna run away.
But I shouldn't.

That's why I only went outside when I took a walk with my dog and when I ran for exercise.

While taking a walk with my dog, I saw a beautiful flower, which was hydrangea.
Look at these pictures.

Edited.

Original

They were beautiful but I didn't know how to take good pictures of this kind.
So when you came to Japan, teach me how to take good pictures of flowers
cuz here are so many kinds of flowers in this town.
Flowers are waiting for you with me!

Toshi

Introduction 3

I'll introduce myself again.

First, look at these pictures!

 This is my dog, Kotaro, one of my family members.
He was born on February 2nd. He came to our house more than 3 years ago.
He is so cute. He is attractive. But he is also selfish and annoying sometimes.
He also get easily jealous. For example, when I'm talking with my brother, he comes us and starts barking.
But you know, I don't really care because he is cute.lol
Today, I took a walk with him. I took this picture while I was talking a walk.

In spring, here are a lot of flowers, and they are pretty.
I want to take a walk with you some day.
I hope you'll like this town.
I'm looking forward to seeing you here in my hometown.
Now, see you tomorrow! Have a GREAT day!

Tosh

In-tro-duction.Ⅱ

I'll introduce myself today again.lol

I live in Saitama prefecture in Japan. 

This prefecture is next to Tokyo, so sometimes it is spoken ill of by others

because Saitama and Tokyo are compared and Saitama is more of a countryside.

It's actually not countryside though...

I live in Shiki which is a really small city, I guess.

There are a lot of cherry blossoms near my house.

I think they are famous!

I took some pictures in my hometown today on my way back home.

 This place is the entrance of the mall in front of the station near my house.
There are only a few people basically. This makes me sad sometimes.

 This is the building I live in now. This building is not so old.
I live on the 9th floor. Here is quite high.

This picture is the street just in front of my apartment.

I always cross this street and go to the station.

OK. I'm willing to take more pictures in Japan to introduce me.

So if you have any request about where I should take pictures, tell me!

Toshi

Disney

These days, what I have to do is studying.

I wake up and eat, then study.

I have lunch and then study.

I go to school and then study.

I have dinner and then study.

How cruel it is!

Then, I need to take a rest every day, of course.

Today,

I was watching some videos on YouTube.

My favorite for today is this one.

I like Disney movies after I went to U.S.

They are awesome.

I can't compare Disney movies and Ghibli movies because they both are extremely great.

I'll continue self-introduction tomorrow, I guess.lol

Toshi

Introduction!

I'm gonna introduce myself today.
That's because I have't talked about me in Japan.
You don't know me in Japan.
So I want you to know even a bit today.

First of all, look at this picture.

 This is my room. I took this at my desk. My room is quite a small, so I don't have enough space for my clothes. I put my clothes under the bed, because it has some drawers.
I have a trophy that I got in a basketball tournament when in elementary school.

Next, I took a picture from the station named "Yanasegawa Eki."
This station is the nearest station from my house and I use this every day.

I'll talk about more about me in Japan later.. I'm sleepy, so plz looking forward to it.

Toshi

I went to a restaurant with my family for dinner tonight.
The restaurant is "Saint Marc."
I think this is a pretty good restaurant.
As for the main dish, I ate beef stew.

This was sooooooo good! I loved this.

 After coming back home, I started studying.
These days, when I'm studying, mosquitoes are so annoying.
Because of them, my legs and foots are itchy all the time.
So here is the final weapon against mosquitoes.
This one is called "Katorisenkou."
Now I checked the dictionary, and I think I can tell you like this.
I burnt a mosquito coil of incense.
Does this make sense? I hope so.

So now I don't have to worry about mosquitoes.
I win!

Then, now I'm gonna bed, I think. Have a good day, my sweet heart.lol

Toshi

Movies.

I like to watch movies, especially with her.
Movies tell us much important information.
But the movie I watched today was not the one with so many lessons.

The movie was "How to Make Love to a Woman."
The story is what the title says.
Some parts were just stupiddd.

However, I liked some parts.
First, the characters talked about "friendship".
A guy was angry because his friend (that is the main character.) didn't even show up in front of him after started dating a woman. But the main character said, "Even though we can't see each other, we are the best friends. We are brothers...  in our souls." (I'm not sure this is correct or not.lol) I felt like having this kind of friends. If there is any, I wanna see him.

Second, actually the last, the main character is really stupid and he doesn't tell his girlfriend that he loves her. Then, she gets really mad at him. You know, the most important thing between couples is the words such as "I love you."

I learned a bit from this movie. I'm dating you and we are far from each other.
We can't see each other, so i sometimes feel anxious.
"She must be sad, and she might feel like breaking up with me."
Like this. I'm sorry. Call me stupid later.

But I know I love you so much. I even feel you are "the one" in my life.
We don't know about the future, but at least I can say "I love you."
So I'll keep say so.

"I love you."

Toshi

Flowers

When I was taking a walk with my dog, Kotaro,
I saw flowers!
Of course, I took a picture. Look!

I wanted to see this with you.
But of course, I couldn't.
So I took this picture.
Then, I remembered that my iPhone has some applications about photos.
So I tried one of them.
I edited this and made new pictures.

What do you think of these?
I like the second one better cuz of the colors.

I'm looking forward to hearing your opinion!

Toshi

I was bored? I don't know.

I was just studying all the day today too. 

I woke up and started studying...

I had lunch with my mom. OH! I had a French toast.

It was good! My mom is a good cook, I guess.

I have to practice cooking for her a lot.

Then, now I remembered that I'm gonna have a Gyoza Party with my friends later.

We will do that probably after my test.

Gyoza Party is a party in which we cook Gyoza a lot and eat them altogether.

We also put some weird stuff in Gyoza, for example, cheese, kimuchi, natto, and so on.

This is FUN!

Oh, I wanna do this with her...

It can't be helped. So I'll wait until the day we can see each other again.

I can wait because I love her so much.

I can do anything for her.

I'm gonna be a stronger guy for her.

So I wish your luck all the time. Don't worry.

I'm always in your heart and encouraging you hard.

I hope you are having fun now.

Have a good day.

Toshi

Studying is not fun.

I wanna write a song with this title someday.

Just kidding.lol
By the way, I was studying all the day.
Of course I sometimes played tetris while taking a break.

When I got tired and looked outside, it was like this.

I took these pictures at the same time.
But they are totally different because of the way of using the camera.
Cameras are interesting as you know!

Do you like the view from my room?
I hope you like it so that it's gonna be fun for you to come to my house.lol

Tomorrow will be a nice day like today. I hope so.
So let's get relaxed and let's just wait for tomorrow coming to us.

Toshi

OMG!!!

I went to Starbucks today to study.

You know, I can concentrate on studying in cafes rather than at home.

That's because when I study in my house, I am distracted by my laptop, comic books, and so on.

I was studying in Starbucks from 1:30 to 5:30.

This accident happened around 4:30.

I was sitting at the table near the bathroom and so I could see people in the shop going to the bathroom. (Of course, I didn't want to see them.lol)

Around 4:30, one guy entered the bathroom. After a few minutes, another girl was going to enter the bathroom.

But there was the guy in the bathroom from a few minutes ago. So the door was not supposed to open.

Now, you know! It opened!lol

The guy didn't lock the door (maybe) accidentally. So the girl screamed, and then shut the door soon.

They apologized each other over the door, but I was watching the process all the time.

I laughed! Some people who were watching this were laughing too.

This is a story in Starbucks today.

Then, now I remembered an accident which happened to me in the same Starbucks about 1 year ago.

I went to that Starbucks on that day.

I was studying, and then I went to the bathroom.

At that time, I felt something strange with my contact on my right eye.

When washing my hands, I took off the contact, but, mistakenly, I dropped it.

I searched for it, and then I found it.

I was relieved and reached my hand to it.

At the same time, water came out from the faucet! I said good bye to my contact.

(The faucet was an automatic one. That's why water ran out of the faucet.)

That's all for today.

I'm tired today, so I think I can sleep well tonight.

Good Night! I'll see you in the morning! 

Toshi 

Evernote

I started using one application named Evernote.

I noticed that if I use this effectively, this must be so useful.

We can keep anything with this like memos, notes, some information online, and plans.
Then, we can share that information with my other electric devices like iPhone and iPod.
Now I'm studying for the examination for being a teacher, so I have to memorize a lot of knowledge.
So I gathered the necessary knowledge on the Internet and pasted them on Evernote.

I can check that information without my laptop from now on. because I can confirm the knowledge on my iPhone whenever needed.

If you want, you can try using it.
Then, you can remember the important website that you want me to check.
Then, I can check it and I can buy you some cute stuff.lol

Just a recommendation.lol

Toshi

Messy

I've been studying hard recently for the examination to become a teacher in Japan.
So I haven't cleaned my room especially on my desk.

Today, I was studying and then, suddenly, I noticed that my desk is messed up!
And so I took a picture on the desk.

Actually, here are 2 cellphones and 1 iPod touch.lol 

My mom told me to clean up on my desk, but I don't want to.
That's because I'll mess up my desk again quite soon, I think.
However, I should have a habit to clean up my room and my desk some times in a month.

Let's think about the future.
I live with my most important person. We both are busy, but are living happily.
One day, she wants to use something on my desk.
However, she can't find it because I mess up my desk.
She gets mad and upset. She is in trouble.
Then, I'll be upset too.

Oh, no. This is bad.
OK, then, I'm gonna clean up tomorrow.
I'll get used to cleaning.
Don't worry. I'll be a person who can clean! Hehe.

Toshi

おお！神よ！

I met a strange guy on the train today...

I went out around 1 o'clock in the afternoon and went to the station.
I was waiting for the train for 2 minutes or so.
At that time, he appeared.

I first thought he was a high school student.
That's because he was wearing a school uniform.
But... he was a little older than other junior high school students.
He wore beard and his hair was half white. I mean, black hair and white hair were mixed.
He looked like he is around 40 or so...

That was weird. I felt like
"Oh my God! He must be crazy. I shouldn't be close to him."
So I went far from him, and then the train came.

I got curious about him even though he was scary.
So I moved from the place where I got on the train and get closer to him.

He was trying to find something from his bag.
He found his head phone and wore it.
Suddenly, he stood up and started singing and dancing!
Many people around there stood up and moved to other place.

He was really noisy and crazy.
Unfortunately, I had to get off the train soon, so I don't know after that...



at that time, I woke up. That was really weird dream.
I don't even know that middle aged guy.
I just felt strange and worried about myself for having this stupid dream.

I wanna see you in my dream. I hope I'll have a great dream tonight.
See you soon!

Toshi