http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/rss Tatsu's latest journal entries Lang-8 Inc. Wed Jun 19 05:34:03 UTC 2013 Wed Jun 19 05:34:03 UTC 2013 Lang-8 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lang-8 We both are Japanese, so it is not a style to teach each other.
But it was nice for us because we need a place to speak English.
I hope we can keep studying.

Posted at Wed Apr 20 14:26:35 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/896395 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/896395 Tatsu Wed Apr 20 14:26:35 UTC 2011 I bought this glasses two years ago.
When I decided to buy ones, I thought one thing.
The glasses would have been broken by my new babe.
So I chosed unexpensive but a little strong ones.

This is under my control. :)


Posted at Sun Apr 17 03:44:58 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/891216 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/891216 Tatsu Sun Apr 17 03:44:58 UTC 2011 I planed to go running with my daughter, but the plan was failed.
Do I just make a execuse not to do something?
I hope I didn't do that.
I like running itself, but it's tough to start with.
I'll run today!

Posted at Sat Apr 09 22:43:24 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/881249 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/881249 Tatsu Sat Apr 09 22:43:24 UTC 2011 We went to hometown for 13th anniversary for wife's grandmother death last weekend.
Then I went to business trip but my family stayed at her mother's house.
They came back with a souvenir.
It was Akahuku, Japanese sweets which is famous as Chubu area souvenir.
It is my favorite, and we ate up immediately.

Posted at Sat Apr 02 12:56:38 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/871442 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/871442 Tatsu Sat Apr 02 12:56:38 UTC 2011
A gymnastic contest was held today.
My daughter participated in the gymnastic contest.
We prepared a little earlier because of lack of trains for reducing amount of electricity consumption.
Then we ate lunch near the gym.
She played the rebound tumbling, mat, and vaulting box.
She performed really well!
At first I thought it would be a little boring for me because there were much waiting time, but I enjoyed seeing children.

Posted at Sat Mar 26 12:44:27 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/862284 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/862284 Tatsu Sat Mar 26 12:44:27 UTC 2011
At first I didn't think this manga is fun, but once I started reading I conldn't stop reading.
Uchu kyoudai, space brothers, is a story of brothers who are longing for going to space.
Younger brother became an astronaut in NASA, but elder brother had been given up.
But he decides to become astronaut.

I like the characters who keep making an effort for their aim with struggling something
and clear their hurdle step by step.
I feel refreshed when I read such books.

Posted at Fri Mar 25 11:11:30 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/861032 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/861032 Tatsu Fri Mar 25 11:11:30 UTC 2011 But I canceled when we heard this disaster.
I wasn't in a mood to go there and infrastructure was not unstable.
It would have been the first time for my children to go ski.
We'll go there next season.


Posted at Sun Mar 20 01:53:19 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/854121 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/854121 Tatsu Sun Mar 20 01:53:19 UTC 2011 Planned outage will be carried out each group.
Group1 would have been planed to stop power supply from 6:20 to 10:00 and from 15:20 to 20:30, three hours respective.
But the first duration was canceled at this moment.

Posted at Sun Mar 13 23:08:57 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/847022 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/847022 Tatsu Sun Mar 13 23:08:57 UTC 2011 He was said working time is starting from afternoon today because of planned outage.
So I checked train information if I can go to my office in the morning.
My commuting train is not running.
It makes me to take a day off today.


Posted at Sun Mar 13 21:19:58 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/846953 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/846953 Tatsu Sun Mar 13 21:19:58 UTC 2011 I felt it continued for a minute.
I didn't have any damage, but blackout has come.
So I couldn't get any information about this earthquake during blackout.
I went out and saw shops.
Every shops were also blackout, and many people made a line to buy foods.
It kept for about six hours or so.
I couldn't say anything when I knew how big this earthquake was.

I hesitated to write this entry because I'm not in such a mood.
But I've decided to mark this day in my entry.

Posted at Sat Mar 12 23:08:13 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/845620 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/845620 Tatsu Sat Mar 12 23:08:13 UTC 2011 When I heard his death, I wan in a express train from Nagoya to Tokyo.
My grandfather lived in Nagoya, so I had to return there.
the next day, Wednesday, I went to work to change my working schedule.
Then I went to his funeral yesterday.
Since he lived in hospital recently, I was not so surprised.
I was the first grandchild for him, so he cared me so much.
I have many good memories for him.

I hope he is enjoying his new life in another world.


Posted at Fri Mar 11 02:07:59 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/842587 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/842587 Tatsu Fri Mar 11 02:07:59 UTC 2011
After I went to go shopping, which was written the last entry, I entered manga-cafe.
I tried to find a manga that I had wanted to read, but I couldn't.
So I took a manga displayed around me.
That was Aozora yell(青空エール).
It is amazing.
The story is that a high school student starts trumpet at the strict club in a high school and grows up with her good friends.
She never gives up and keeps practicing.
The main characters are honest, earnest, and positive.
I like such a character.
I was so moved.

Posted at Tue Mar 08 00:19:12 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/838270 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/838270 Tatsu Tue Mar 08 00:19:12 UTC 2011 This PC was so old that it frustrated us because of its performance.
So I went to Ohsu, which is famous for PC shops like Akihabara,
and bought two 512MB memories.
I helped my father set them to PC and now it's rather comfortable.

Posted at Mon Mar 07 14:33:26 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/837738 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/837738 Tatsu Mon Mar 07 14:33:26 UTC 2011 There are two main purposes to come here.
One is to see my old friends.
They were members of a club that I joined in university.
I haven't seen some of them for many years
and one of them changed so much that I couldn't recognize who they were.
Anyway I enjoyed so much.
Another is to have a business meeting tommorow.

Now I take a day off and stay my parents house.

Posted at Mon Mar 07 01:52:37 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/836881 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/836881 Tatsu Mon Mar 07 01:52:37 UTC 2011
I wrote about hinamatsuri festival at last entry.
Today I'd like to write about after the festival.
After May 3rd, we usually retvert the prince and princess dolls like the picture above.
It means that we pray daughters can get married at their best timing.


Posted at Fri Mar 04 15:51:15 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/833874 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/833874 Tatsu Fri Mar 04 15:51:15 UTC 2011


The day May 3rd is called Hinamatsuri in Japan.
Hinamatsuri is a boarder of the seasons between winter and spring.
We celebrate girls growing up well and pray keeping them well.
We usually display dolls, called hina-dolls.
The first picture above is my family's dalls.
There are five dalls and two steps.
Top two dolls are prince and princess.
People prayed their daughters to be like a princess.
I'm not sure now.

What do we do in this day?
We just eat and drink!

The second picture is hina-dolls that my daughter made when she was 5 years old.

The third picture is our dinner that my wife has made.

Posted at Wed Mar 02 12:10:31 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/830729 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/830729 Tatsu Wed Mar 02 12:10:31 UTC 2011

Sometimes, I go cycling with my daughter and usually we don't decide where to go.
Today we had decided to go cycling for taking photos.
At first we planed to go a temple.
But once we found a street that we've never been to,
we changed the mind and went along with the street.
We got to a lake, called Kamakura lake.
We ate rice balls that my daughter made and hung around the lake, then came back home.


Posted at Sun Feb 27 12:00:54 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/826792 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/826792 Tatsu Sun Feb 27 12:00:54 UTC 2011 It was rainy the day before yesterday, warm and fine yesterday, and fine today too.
It is nice for me, but seems so bad for my wife.
Her eyes are red, and her nose is stuck.
When this season comes, she said to me, "Don't get in the house before remove pollens adhering you".


Posted at Sat Feb 26 00:54:58 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/825179 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/825179 Tatsu Sat Feb 26 00:54:58 UTC 2011 I haven't been there for two month because of my busy days.
I went there yesterday.
There was a senior woman.
The first time we talked is more than three years.
And I hadn't been there for almost three years.
Then I started going there four month ago. We talked at that time.
I talked with her yesterday too.
She remembered me.
But she didn't remember she talked with me four month ago.
She remembered the meeting before four years ago but not four month ago.

I understood why she talked me "Hi, long time no see!".

I'm sorry that this entry is not a temporal sequence.

Posted at Thu Feb 24 14:06:25 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/823980 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/823980 Tatsu Thu Feb 24 14:06:25 UTC 2011 You can see sudoku the site below.
http://www.sudoku.name/index-jp.php

My daughter, aged ten, brought a paper from school which sudoku was written.
My wife tried to play the sudoku.
Then she addicted to it.
She bought a sudoku book.
When she couldn't solve a sudoku, she asked me to play it.
Now I almost addicted to it.


Posted at Tue Feb 22 14:09:48 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/821407 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/821407 Tatsu Tue Feb 22 14:09:48 UTC 2011 I prepared for leaving.
And now I'm all set.
I have 15 minutes left.

So I checked train running information on the web and am writing this entry.
Now I'm leaving!

Posted at Sun Feb 20 21:37:32 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/818857 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/818857 Tatsu Sun Feb 20 21:37:32 UTC 2011 I enjoy once I start running but it takes time till starting.
And I make reasons easily for not running.
I'll not run today because I have an important appointment in business tomorrow.

Posted at Sun Feb 20 02:17:23 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/817542 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/817542 Tatsu Sun Feb 20 02:17:23 UTC 2011 It will be finished next Monday, after reporting work result to my customer.
It was really tough last week.
I'm all set.
Only things are to practice my presentation and keep my health.


Posted at Sat Feb 19 06:51:00 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/816395 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/816395 Tatsu Sat Feb 19 06:51:00 UTC 2011 but not to leave Democratic Party.
They also mentioned that it might be against bill budget that Democratic Party made.
The reason why they did is their shadow boss, Ozawa, is given some penalty by the Party.
Actually they don't care about the contents or aim of budget.
They don't see Japan.
It's so childish.
Their mother should discipline them.

なお、今回は民主党だけど、別に特定の党に限ったことではありません。

Posted at Thu Feb 17 15:58:38 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/814315 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/814315 Tatsu Thu Feb 17 15:58:38 UTC 2011 So I usually go home even if I have a pile of work.
This rule is not so lucky because it doesn't make my work reduce.
A pile of work is carried over next day.


Posted at Wed Feb 16 13:37:11 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/812539 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/812539 Tatsu Wed Feb 16 13:37:11 UTC 2011 He wrote a message to the most famous BBS site in Japan, called 2-channel.
The message was "I'll kill someone at around the entrance of the Shinjyuku bus highway".
He was arrested before he did.
Actually he seemed not to intend to do anything except writing the message and seeing people confused.

Police was so nice that they could identify him and find him before the day.
But it spent much money. 280 police man were involved once someone wrote a bad message to the site just for fun or releasing their frustration.

He was 15 years old though, he should be punished rather heavy to inhibit following mischief.
And mass-media should treat it big.

Posted at Mon Feb 14 13:32:40 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/809583 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/809583 Tatsu Mon Feb 14 13:32:40 UTC 2011 This is my first entry, so I'd like to write my short introduction.
The below is the same with my profile page "about me".

I'm Japanese male living in Kanagawa-city, Japan.
I'm 36 years old and a software engineer.
I sometimes read technical document in English with my work, but I don't have much chance to talk with and especially to write in English.

My hobby is reading books and manga, running, surfing the net, and studying English, maybe.

Don't hesitate to contact me.I hope I'll be your friend and know each other, then improve our language skills.

Posted at Sun Feb 13 12:14:09 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/807869 http://www.lang-8.com/238587/journals/807869 Tatsu Sun Feb 13 12:14:09 UTC 2011