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I've been writing a diary in English since Jan. 2003 to make me think something in English. I wanted to put some article here, so I checked my diary, then I found I wrote about English Conversation School pretty much every day. I suppose I was obsessed about it. It's me. Always if I think it's fun, I'm very into it. Now I'm into watching films, so I bought a lot of DVDs from Amazon. Some of them I bought from Amazon.co.uk and some of those don't have any subtitles, I mean English subtitles. Some part of that they have an accent, so I can't get it well though, I can understand what is going on.
I like to make database. So I decided to make film database, and actually I made it. But normal database is insipid, so I decided to make them with blog, then I can put some comment on. I'm not sure how long I can keep it though, I'd like to keep it for a long time.
My first film which I watched at cinema was Romeo & Juliet by Olivia Hussey, then it has past almost three decade after that, I watched her Mother Teresa. Actually she is famous in Japan, I guess, of course it's not for young people though, she used to married to Japanese singer Akira Fuse, and she mentioned her kids in the interview, then I thought they were his.
When I saw her in the film, I thought it was her, Mother Teresa. I believe she performed very well. I don't know much about award things though, she could've gotten a lot of prize.
When I was a kid, we got more snow. We could play the snowball fight with my friends and make a snowman. Recently we seldom have a big snow around here, occasionally perhaps every four or five years, we have a little snow. In summer we had a shower of summer almost everyday, but now there is a few shower of summer because we have all asphalt roads in the city, we can not have an evaporation because rain water does not soak into the soil. Instead of traditional weather we get some strange weather every year.
This summer we are having a very hot days. Two years ago, we had a lot of typhoon and they started to hit Kyushu very early time in May, it usually starts to hit Kyushu in July most of the time. Also last year we had a lot of rain, so the price of the vegetable soared. Then this year, we had many clear days in rain season but once it rained, it was heavy.
When we think about weather, we have to think about the global warming. Many people know about the word, but most of them do not know the system of it. Some people know a few reason of this, some people know only one reason. We have to keep eye on our life and consider what we can do. It is difficult to change our life into simple like old days, but we can try to reduce to make the reason of global warming.
Most countries have their own traditional events and we talk about them, they tend to be seen from only one side. Also if the events themselves are slightly different we sometimes can not talk about them.
For instance, Obon is one of the most famous Japanese traditional events in summer and many people talk about Obon, but indeed, some people do not know what Obon is. Because of very traditional events, every regions has it's own way of dealing with Obon, and I do not know much of them.
In Kyushu, there are some famous event as Obon festival, one of them, in Nagasaki, is called Shoronagashi. In this ceremony, they put a candle in a small paper boat and lit it up, then float it on a river. I'm not sure what they do in the other areas as Shoronagashi, they are usually aired on TV every year but most of them do not mention much about why they do this or where come it from but impress people just by their beautiful scenes.
My parents are not buddhists, so I didn't have such event in my family therefore I only know about very normal common sense things. If you want to be an "international person", you should study a lot about Japan. People think, because you are Japanese, you suppose to know about Japanese traditional events well.
