How did you spend your X'mas?

Hello, everyone! How did you spend y0ur X'mas? Someone that have boyfriends would have a romantic night. And Someone that are single like me..also could enjoy X'mas! There are exactly many ways to spend a fun Christmas!

As for me, On Christmas Eve, I went to Dojyo to practice Kyudo with my teammates. At 1:30pm, we had lunch at Mos Burger Restaurant. As a special menu, we ordered five pieces of chicken and got a pink bear toy. We had a fun a lot.

And finally Christmas came! I, with the same mebers went to Fuchinobe Theater to see Howl's moving castle at 11:45. It was the second time for me to see this movie. But I liked the movie so much that I was able to enjoy it again. The girls seeing it were all content at it! And we all agreed that the dog appeared in the movie was so CUTE!! We can't stop love him!

After seeing the movie, the girls decided to go to my room. So we rented " Cutty Blond" at Tsutaya and saw it at my room. However, a unexpected happenings occured to us! We had both Japanese and English subtitles! And what is worse, English one lays on Japanese one so we couldn't see Japanese subtitles. Because Elle, the heroine is a typical American fast speaker.
We were busy at cathing up the whole meanings of words.

Well, these are the ways I spent my X'mas. Merry Christmas! And Have a nice year! ☆

knitting

knitting
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It is getting colder and colder. I am not that strong at coldness. So I have started knitting since last month.

I am knitting a muffler for myself.
Whenver I go out the street, I feel extremely chilly over my neck. All I need is nothing but a warm muffler!

It takes time to finish it. And I will try my best and decide to finish it during winter. I am looking forward to it!!

Christmas Special Menu

Last night, I had a X'mas special dinner in my dormitory.

We had really gorgeous menu exactly. We had the leg of Turkey, a piece of Chocolate cake,
and spicy curry rice.

Every food seemed so Christmas! I got full very much and I enjoyed my dinner!

One little happening tonight.

Hi, eveyone.
I am living in a student dormitory in Machida.
We have breakfast, dinner from Monday to Saturday. And we can have bath or get shower every day in public bath. So the life in dormitory gives us comfortable feelings just like we are at our own home. We are never troubled by buying food to eat or something.
Eveything is okay but except of only ONE problem that is unavoidable to face. That is FREEDOM! Every dormitory has its curfew! In the dormitory, we are supposed to come back by 11:00pm. At first I thougt of nothing, because I believed I would never come back after curfew.
However, a few weeks ago, I DID it. I went to Maihama to go to after SIX Disney Land with my friends. We did have a fun time. But when it turned to 10pm, I knew my face suddenly got pale. I would not make myself back to the dormitory in time. Because Maihama is never that close to Machida. It takes us more than one hour to get to it.
After hesitating for a while, I finally made up my mind calling to the manager in the dormitory. No doubt he was quite angry. But somehow I managed to persuade him not to lock the front door until i come back.
Since that, the relation between the manager and me have become a little strained. Of course I feel sorry for him, but I was giving much more thought to my freedom. It is not that easy thing especially for University students to not to go out late. I am in Kyudo club and sometimes i am to be staying late.
Tonight, however, my thought got a little changed. When I prepared to take a shower and down to the stair, I saw the manger and his wife were sitting on the sofa in dark. It was almost near to 12:00pm. No sooner than they saw me, the manager asked me abruptly, " Miss Kawakami, how do you say " you should come back by 11:00pm on time" in Chinese?" Yes, they were waiting for a Taiwanese girl to come back. They were waiting for her for about one hour. I suddently reminded of the truth I also HAD MADE them wait for me late at night. That time, I felt extremely sorry and regret I wasn't able to think at their side. I was only worried about myself instead of realizing I was bothering some people without self consciousness. That was a terrible thing.
I didn't know I was so selfish. I should have been more thoughtful. All I know today is that Freedom comes with responsibility. I think I must not forget it and bear it in my mind.

Thursday, 16th December, 2004

Today, it was a normal day. Nothing special had happened.
Maybe life is just like this. I do expect something special event happening to me almost everyday. I am dreaming of it all around when I am alone at home.
But things don't always go the way you want it to.
I know it. But somebody great said if you lose your hope. Hope is just like the oxygen, without hope, you will get despaired, and faint.
So I decide to keep on hoping.
Live my every day.
Life is beautiful.

Happy Birthday to Me~~♪

Friday, December 10th was my birthday! I am 19 year-old now! It was also the day I said farewell to 18~~Ah, now I feel so complicated. What on earth did I do last year? What did 18 year-old mean for me? And how should I spend my 19? The age of 19 is the last year as an teenager. I am not ready to be an adult yet. (^_^;)

By the way, today, it was a great day for me. On saturday, i went to Kyudo club and practiced hard as usual. And when I finished the club, i was called to come to the circle of all my fellow peers, then at sudden the applause was occured. Happy Birthday to Miki!!♪ They cheered all together! I was surprised because I never thought I would have so many people celebrate my birthday. I felt extremely happy and moved. Today it was the last day of our regular practice in 2004. And it absolutely became one of my most unforgettable day~♪ I want to say to everyone that Thank You All A Lot!

Christmas is coming up soon. I haven't decided how to spend it yet. I am thinking of going see Howl's moving castle again with my peers in Kyudo club, or coming back to my hometown Okayama spend time with my parents~I have a few choices♪So what is everyone's plan of X'mas?

BARBABAPA!

BARBABAPA!
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Here is my Birthday Present I got on Saturday. It is a RED Barbabapa! I love the color of Red, because red means passion! I like this very much~

800 arrows in two months!!

Hello guys. How is everyone doing these days? Last Sunday, it was INCREDIBLY HOT, and the highest temperature was 28C!! I can't believe it! It is winter now!! No doubt that GLOBAL WARMING is proceeding day by day. But it is winter after all. The day time is warm and when it gets dark it get chily. So people should take coats or wear warm for it.☆

Well, let's return to the main topic this time. Maybe some people already know that I am in Kyudo club? We practice Kyudo very hard twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday. Except the regular practice, we would usually go to routine sport centers together to play Kyudo. So it is not difficult to have a chance to see us with two meters high archery in the campus. Actually TODAY I have brought my own archery to the school~=

As we are to have two months holiday, we would not have played Kyudo in the club since next week. It's good to have a long vacation...BUT!! The leader of our club has made an goal to all of the members! That is to shoot 800 arrows during the holiday!! You know, Kyudo is an martial art that need physical strength. We normally only shoot 4 arrows in one Tachi ( stand). And 800 means we should do 200 tachi in total!! Our seniors said it was never a big deal and that it was no more than a piece of cake!! But to us, freshman, it is NEVER that easy!! Just last Sunday, I went to the Dojyo and was playing Kyudo for over 8 hours. However, I was only able to shoot 65 arrows on that day..(>~<) What is more, we have to pay 200 yen in every two or three hours..it is not free..which means if i don't work dead harder, i would come to use enormous amount of money!!

Um,,this time i got a little excited...sorry. But it never changes my mind that I still LOVE KYUDO!! Well, ehen,, I will go to practice Kyudo after finishing 4 period!! For my fairly Kyudo~~Forever~~♪Cheers！！☆☆☆

Christmas Tree in Disneyland!

Christmas Tree in Disneyland!
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

I wish you a merry christmas, you wish your merry christmas♪

X'mas is coming up! And Disney won't miss it of course! It was a quite large tree!! I am sorry my camera phone is out of date, that it wasn't able to express the beauty of the tree! But never mind, just feel Christmas!

Mickey and his girl friend

Mickey and his girl friend
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

This is the picture I took in Disney Land this Wednesday. I went to there with my friends at 6 o'clock at night, so it was really dark that day.

It was my first time to visit Disney Land, and I liked it very much!!

Howl's　moving castle

Howl's　moving castle
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Last weekend, I went to Fuchinobe theater to see Howl's moving Castle. It was great.

People going see this are almost with family. Of course it included children and little BABIES!! Young parents made themself busy with gathering the cusion on the seat so that little babies could have a view of movie. That was quite interesting to me. Howl is really popular among wild age zone.

Kimutaku's voice was also really charming. He actually did very well in playing Howl. I was satisfied with that.

So what do you feel about this movie? Did you see it already? Tell me your feelings about this movie~

cat

cat
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Um..you know what, not only human can speak..Cats have their own language which our humanbeing can't understand. From their conversation, you will see how cats communicate..Just, ,,have a fun~~

About my part time job＼(゜ロ＼)(／ロ゜)／

Hello everyone! How did you spend your day on Tuesday? I did my part time job at a factory again. This time, I was mainly putting together celluar phones as the last job. This time, it was much easier and not that tiring compared to the last time.

In the moring on Tuesday, I got up in 6 o'clock and left home for the office in 6:40! I thought I was the last person to be an early bird, but in case it was a job with responsibility, I had to keep my appointment. I was first told to wait at the office from 7 to 10 in order to go to the facotory instead of people those who are absent. While I was reading " Umibe No Kafuka" by Murakami Haruki , I was nervous because I couldn't help wondering if i would be called next time. So i wan't completely able to put all my concentration on reading the novel. And at last, I was told to go to the factory at once..Although I had thought to go back home in 10 and sleep again. (ーー;)

However I knew I had no time to worry too much, all i had to do is to concentrate and finish my job. When i arrived at the site, I was surprised that almost all the workers were so young, not that older than us. The girls did everything briskly and the girl who was as young as me also had a good leadership ability. I respected her in that and I realized that Experience tells everything. It makes no different if you are older or younger. It is important to learn some things that you could never do in the campus. This Tuesday, I saw how people worked efficiently and figured out what is the real "Syakaijin". It is always with our responsibility. And what we can do from now on is to find our own way to prepare to be a Syakaijin. That's more important than just earning money, at least I think.

Hana Yori Dango

Hana Yori Dango
Originally uploaded by mikiyan.

Have you read Manga series ? You may have heard that its drama made by Taiwan is now on air in Japan at 10pm every Saturday! The girl in the middle is Tsukusi and F4 members!

Feel Like An Idol☆ミ

Last Tuesday, I went back home from school earlier than ever because I had an appointment with the manager of dormitory in which I live. A few days ago, I was asked to come back by 6:00pm to have an interview in dormitory. Since I hadn't been informed much about that stuff, I was kind of excited and interested.

After I come back to the dormitory, I saw two men in black suits waiting for us. Yes, I was to be interviewed about the life about student dormi with the other girl. At first, I thought it would be finished if interview was done, but later I foud out that the main purpose is to advertise the dormitory and put new introduction in homepage of dormi for the new comers next year. Therefore, we were required to be the models of the dormi, then was taken lots of photos that would be uploaded in the website. We were asked to smile happily and do some seems-like natural pose, which I think it would look more unnatural. Hehe. What confused us is when they asked us to read a magazine together and have a look at camera. You know, it sounded quite impossible because we can't concentrate on two things at once!

Anyway, we had an interesting experience and had a fun exactly. That day, it made me feel as if I was an idol and an Actress! :-)

☆Kyudo☆, my forever dream and entertainment♪

Today, I am going to talk about Kyudo ( Japanese Archery). What do you peoople think of Kyudo? Well, I started Kyudo when I enrolled in the university. Do you remember the day when every club and circle trying hard to invite freshmen to join their club when we first went to this campus? As I was wandering around the campus alone, I was talked into going to Dojo watch how they practice Kyudo. I soon got interested in it because I was totally attracted by the cool dress of Kyudo ( Hakama and Dogi). Although the color they wear has only white and black, but it was enough to promopte me to start a complete NEW thing.

People may think Kyudo is no more than a traditional, Japanese Budo( martial art). But it also provides you with a great chance to develope your spirit, and patience. Of course when you shoot the bow aiming at the Mato( target), you should put all of your concentration at Mato. It gives you great joy when your bow( ya) hit the Mato. That's why there are so may people that can't help themselves stop Kyudo like me~

However, our bows don't always go straight into Mato. Every move is key point to decide which direction your bow will fly to. Kyudo doesn't only require the basic knowledge but also your high attention in every move. Sometimes it bothers me a lot because even I know what I am wrong in my technique, but once I want to correct it in real move, it always doesn't go smoothly for me. So a good posture is really important. For example, if you move your shoulders too up and your left elbow goes strange, you may probably hurt your own elbow by bow rubbing it. So I sometimes get bruised in my elbow. (-^-;) Hehe, so everybody just be carefull~~That do develpe your spiritu and patience, don't you think so? :-)

PS: Here is my club's URL. Please check it out~~

http://aguk.fc2web.com/

Moominvalley

Moominvalley
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Friday, October, 2004

This morning, as soon as I finished my breakfast, I got preparing and went to register the short part-time job. When I arrived in the office, I was quite nervous but fortunately the stuff there was really easy going person so I was able to talk really in a really relaxing atomosphere. We was talking for about one hour and I put reservation what time and when I can go to work.

It's the first time for me to do a part time job. Frankly speaking, I don't lack of that much money. All I want to do is learn some precious experience through the job. What bothered me at first is that my mother doesn't agree me to do any part-time job while I am in the university. In her opinion, part time job is never an easy job and really worrisome thing that demand you too many elements like patience, tolerence and strong will against the pressures. I can't totally disagree with her and what is more I understand what makes her think so. In her situation, language barrier does exist. She can't speak Japanese that fluently because she is originally Chinese. So it is unavoidable that some problems in communication would happen. And some misunderstanding in working with the other coworkers occasionally made her depressive. But I DECIDED to do some short part time job because I want to do it. My mom did go through tough time, and I think I can learn some thing from her experience.

By the way, Aoyama Festival is coming up! Let's enjoy it all together! Have a nice holiday""

stacie_1280_1024

stacie_1280_1024
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Stacie Orrico is one of my favorite singers! I love her voice very much!

Monday, October25th. 2004

Hello! Today I have another news to tell everybody. I went to Fuchinobe theater and saw "Vanhelsing"! It seemed it was the last day that this film would be on air today, so I decided to go to the theater with my friend in the third period. In order to see the film, I bothered to skip the class in the third period.(^_^;) Hehe. But anyway, "Vanhelsing "
deserved it. It was actually worth while making time to see the film. At least, it IS in my case.

Here, I want to introduce the main st0ry of " Vanhelsing" in brief. It is the story about terrific war between manster hunter Vanhelsing and the vampires led by Dracula. Hugh Jackman's marvelous performance and the dynamic scenes are all the great points to check. The best finction movie will definitely make you feel excited!

Well, I am looking forward to hearing from eveyone who have seen this film. And please tell me how you feel about it. Thank you!

Saturday,October 23rd, 2004

This morning, as usual as I do in Saturday, I got up early at 6:30am for my Japanese Archery club. In our University, we don't have a Kyudo Dojo, so you can image how inconvenient it is. But anyway, we get totaly used to this way. Even though we are to pay money for the ticket.

Here, I want to introduce a REALLY INTERESTING book to all of you people. It's the novel with the tytle " Trinity Blood" It's the story about the battle between humanbeings and vampires! The hero of this story, however, himself is a vampire that suck vampire's blood. That's quite beyond the imagination. People who get interested in this can click the URL I offer. You can see the beautiful pictures of the heros and the characters in this story. The pictures are in the Banken category.

http://babu.jp/~cross/top.htm

Babyclone??

babyclone
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Clone, a forever hot topic can be used in humor too.:-)

Anispy Cats

They are so cute!! I hope people seeing this picture will have more smile~~

Anispy Cats
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Do you figure out why the second cat from right thinks " I thinks there is a spy among us"? Yes, the left animal looks like a cat at the first sight, but if you look carefully, you will find out what makes the cat suspicious about.:-)

Sonny! i, Robot!

Sonny! i, Robot!
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

Huhuhu. Here comes Sonny~!

I had hardly seen the movie when I uploaded this picture on my desktop. As I had mentioned before, i, Robot is my favorite movie so far.

I recommend everybody to have a watch this movie. Because it is not just a SF film, but also worth thinking deeply about the relationship between human and high technology civilization as robots.

Ariel

Ariel
Originally uploaded by mikifu.

It is the pannel displayed during the school festival in my senior high school.
What special in this pannel is that the funny face fishes.

About the three items..

Nowadays, technology is everywhere. People can't live without it. Master card, copying and Internet are all the symbols of human civilization. In the short, they are all the evidence that show the difference between humanbeing and animals. >

In additon, the three items are similar in the point that they are all the consequence of the invention of Language!
Language itself is invention. People invent technology to fill up the flaw of their bad at memorizing things by language.

Monday, October04, 2004

Hello, again. This is apple-peace's webmaster, mikilan. Today, there was something very exciting happened to me. It's an unexpected lucky! The third period, my most dislike class was canceled because of the teacher's matter, and since I and my friend had nothing to do, we decided to go see a movie in Fuchinobe theater. It was my first time to buy the ticket in the purchasing department in our campus, and I felt extremely fresh. Guess what movie we had seen? It is i, Robot! Hihi! :-) Actually, I didn't feel much interested and that high expectation for that movie at first, But! After I finished seeing that, I was struck and impressed with every action and thrilling scene! The vivid face expression of Robot and the great performance of Will Smith were all so impressive! I didn't know I could be so moved by a movie before. I just can't help my exciting feelings and I really would like to share these feelings with all of you! Ahh,,even now, I feel my heart fluttered with great joyment and excitement.