1. What I enjoyed in this class?
I like to write something on the paper, so the whole of this course enjoyed me fully. It helped me to think about the theme that teacher Mark let us do as we like.
There are various suggestions: for example, I suppose it is the first time to write a whole story in English, and I had never thought about writing my obituary until it came as a topic! That was so interesting to me.
2. What was difficult for me as an author?
Instead of free topics I can choose, write one article on it continuously is difficult to me. I tried to avoid the similar content or article than the last one, but in each time I was suffered from my poor expression and imagination.
In addition, I found my problem in grammer. I like to publish pieces for my sufficient to express and analyze myself, but another skill is required when I ask someone to read.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Open topic: Dear Old Japanese
In my high school age, my favorite subject was old Japanese. (Once my friend laughed at me when I used "ancient" to explain it, but is it correct to use "old"?) First I love stories and expressions used in them. It is not a big problem to understand what the people in that age through the difference of language. I suppose my hobby helped me to do it a lot.
I guess Soichiro does, but I like Karuta百人一首 since I was in elementary school. The first song I remembered was the one starting with "Hototogisu...", a bird's name. Of course I didn't know what the song meant (actually I cannot explain it now...I almost all forgot those meaning although I remember the songs), but I was fascinated with the rythems of it. It was my first communication with old Japanese.
As I grow up, I love to read stories and Karuta much more. However, I am not a good player of Karuta because I am a slow player. I am tend to read it rather than play it. Those songs have only a few words, but people decide and see the creator's character through those words.
My favorite song was once Ukon右近's "Wasuraruru...", but now it is Syokushi-naishinnou式子内親王's one. "Tamanowoyo..." is the beginning of it, expressing the patient to hide her love. She wrote, her life should come to end if her love came out in front of people. There must be different system of society with currrent society, but it is cute to express this understandable feeling in the song.
Old Japanese is not far from present people. It is ancestor of and I think their feeling and Japanese people's feeling are in some range the same. No, not only Japanese people but also the people who have defferent ancestors. If you have some opportunities, I recommend you to touch those works!
I guess Soichiro does, but I like Karuta百人一首 since I was in elementary school. The first song I remembered was the one starting with "Hototogisu...", a bird's name. Of course I didn't know what the song meant (actually I cannot explain it now...I almost all forgot those meaning although I remember the songs), but I was fascinated with the rythems of it. It was my first communication with old Japanese.
As I grow up, I love to read stories and Karuta much more. However, I am not a good player of Karuta because I am a slow player. I am tend to read it rather than play it. Those songs have only a few words, but people decide and see the creator's character through those words.
My favorite song was once Ukon右近's "Wasuraruru...", but now it is Syokushi-naishinnou式子内親王's one. "Tamanowoyo..." is the beginning of it, expressing the patient to hide her love. She wrote, her life should come to end if her love came out in front of people. There must be different system of society with currrent society, but it is cute to express this understandable feeling in the song.
Old Japanese is not far from present people. It is ancestor of and I think their feeling and Japanese people's feeling are in some range the same. No, not only Japanese people but also the people who have defferent ancestors. If you have some opportunities, I recommend you to touch those works!
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Open topic 7: What is VOCALOID?
Do you know "vocaloid"? You may have heard some songs which its vocal is not a human voice. Vocaloid is a word which is made mixing "vocal" and "andloid". As you already guess, it is a singer robot.
Today, there are various types of vocaloids in the world. The first vocaloid is named Miku Hatsune, with cute voice and green hair. "She" is created by Crypton Future Media Inc., as the same as the other vocaloids. Their voices are basically from human voice, and through processing them till it sounds like robots the characters can get their voice. They are hit products of the Inc. I suppose, and a lot of people get those vocaloids.
I don't have any of them and don't know how to do it, but the appeal point of them is that customer can write a song for their vocaloid to see how they sing, like a producer of vocaloids. They are called "xxP" which means the "name" plus "Producer". There are many Ps as you will search song of vocaloid easily in Youtube.
For example, I translated one Japanese song to English, Nakimushi Pippo, in this blog. Watch carefully its name...lyrics and music must be from Sasakure P(producer!), and vocal is Miku Hatsune. This is one of the original songs from Sasakure P, not a pro-musician I suppose.
In this way, everyone can be a producer and enjoy to create to show their songs on website or another place. Easy process, this is why people love to be a producer.
Concerning with their songs, they sometimes too direct or selfish words in it; however, there are much more wonderful songs produced by amatour people. They doesn't come through media, so it is easy to be pulled in as I sometimes listen to these musics when I want to feel one's feeling strongly to act.
Vocaloid never sing in a crazy pitch except producer programmed to do so, so they sing in clear and beautiful tone. They can go beyond technical problem of human without phrasing. Vocaloid increased the range which is asked for songs.
I don't require all the people to love vocaloid, but I hope many people meet the musics of vocaloids and be interested in those musics.
Today, there are various types of vocaloids in the world. The first vocaloid is named Miku Hatsune, with cute voice and green hair. "She" is created by Crypton Future Media Inc., as the same as the other vocaloids. Their voices are basically from human voice, and through processing them till it sounds like robots the characters can get their voice. They are hit products of the Inc. I suppose, and a lot of people get those vocaloids.
I don't have any of them and don't know how to do it, but the appeal point of them is that customer can write a song for their vocaloid to see how they sing, like a producer of vocaloids. They are called "xxP" which means the "name" plus "Producer". There are many Ps as you will search song of vocaloid easily in Youtube.
For example, I translated one Japanese song to English, Nakimushi Pippo, in this blog. Watch carefully its name...lyrics and music must be from Sasakure P(producer!), and vocal is Miku Hatsune. This is one of the original songs from Sasakure P, not a pro-musician I suppose.
In this way, everyone can be a producer and enjoy to create to show their songs on website or another place. Easy process, this is why people love to be a producer.
Concerning with their songs, they sometimes too direct or selfish words in it; however, there are much more wonderful songs produced by amatour people. They doesn't come through media, so it is easy to be pulled in as I sometimes listen to these musics when I want to feel one's feeling strongly to act.
Vocaloid never sing in a crazy pitch except producer programmed to do so, so they sing in clear and beautiful tone. They can go beyond technical problem of human without phrasing. Vocaloid increased the range which is asked for songs.
I don't require all the people to love vocaloid, but I hope many people meet the musics of vocaloids and be interested in those musics.
Fixed topic: My Obituary
Kaori Yamamoto was attacked on April 15th, 2037 at the age of 46. That was the day she came back Japan from Iceland. It is not clear whether the attack was pointed at her or just an indiscriminate murder. She seemed to pass away without pain.
She was born in Mie on August 30th, 1991. She moved to Yokohama after a year, and Tokyo after 4 years. Graduated public school and entered to ICU high school, where she met some people who influenced the whole life of her.
Environmental studies was her major in ICU, and she continued to pursue this course. That was the reason she went to Iceland to study the lifestyle with nature, where she had said she wanted to go for a long time.
She loved Minbu and Kagura she met in ICU and continued to learn them. For this activity, she had health body during she was alive. Sometimes it became a stress to deal, as she was mentally weak when she was a club leader, but they taught her amounts of things including going over the stress.
As other hobbies, she loved to be with musics and pictures.
There were her husband and children in the half of her life. They loved each other and cared about so much. She told that she didn't want to be in hospital to suffer her family, thus it seemed she could died as she hoped.
Her funeral will be held in private. If someone hope to attend, please tell to this number: 042-xxx-xx35. She will be buried near a cherry tree, as Saigyo.
She was born in Mie on August 30th, 1991. She moved to Yokohama after a year, and Tokyo after 4 years. Graduated public school and entered to ICU high school, where she met some people who influenced the whole life of her.
Environmental studies was her major in ICU, and she continued to pursue this course. That was the reason she went to Iceland to study the lifestyle with nature, where she had said she wanted to go for a long time.
She loved Minbu and Kagura she met in ICU and continued to learn them. For this activity, she had health body during she was alive. Sometimes it became a stress to deal, as she was mentally weak when she was a club leader, but they taught her amounts of things including going over the stress.
As other hobbies, she loved to be with musics and pictures.
There were her husband and children in the half of her life. They loved each other and cared about so much. She told that she didn't want to be in hospital to suffer her family, thus it seemed she could died as she hoped.
Her funeral will be held in private. If someone hope to attend, please tell to this number: 042-xxx-xx35. She will be buried near a cherry tree, as Saigyo.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Fixed Topic: What is the religion?
Religion, the sound seemed to be far from me until I entered in ICU high school. I did not decide to come to the school neither for English nor Christianity, so when I knew I passed the exam, I realized a strange feeling. I would never be influenced by the religion Christianity: it was what I promissed to myself to be a student of the school.
I don't why but religion had something dangerous impression to me. If I make an assumption of it, I remember I once was told that one religional group did terrible murder with poison in subway.
Now I think religion is belief everyone has in each of them. Not only Christianity or Buddism but also Capitalism or pessimism is a kind of religion. They have different names on them, but what's the same is that people require it to believe and to lean their heart on it. Human being desire for mental rest, and it creates those religions I suppose. Even if a part of religion has political power, its start is such a little belief.
I cannot accept the people who force to believe one religion politically because I BELIEVE it is free to choose their belief. Religion have appeared and will appear in past and future where people are, and it should be free to believe at least.
I don't why but religion had something dangerous impression to me. If I make an assumption of it, I remember I once was told that one religional group did terrible murder with poison in subway.
Now I think religion is belief everyone has in each of them. Not only Christianity or Buddism but also Capitalism or pessimism is a kind of religion. They have different names on them, but what's the same is that people require it to believe and to lean their heart on it. Human being desire for mental rest, and it creates those religions I suppose. Even if a part of religion has political power, its start is such a little belief.
I cannot accept the people who force to believe one religion politically because I BELIEVE it is free to choose their belief. Religion have appeared and will appear in past and future where people are, and it should be free to believe at least.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Open Topic 6: Minbu teacher's knowledge of our body
I belong to the Japanese Traditional Dance Club(so called Minbu), and I met a fantastic teacher for it. The teacher, Yoko sensei, had worked as a PE teacher of ICU for 30-40 years I suppose, and even now she comes to teach as the dance!
Her researching theme is about the health of human body. She have told me and the other her students of what she learned in her life:
1. Concentrating on the center of gravity(?)(Jyushin) is good for health
Center of gravity(?) of our body is on our gat, what is important to human health. She told me that the point is also the center of movement. Moving from the point makes easier to live. Activities against it, for example swimming which our gravity come up from the gat, are sometimes not good for health.
2. Teate(placing our hands on our body) is effective when you get hurted
The action is meaningful literally, because human has energy to cure own body inherently. If you get hurted, put your hands on the place, and continue doing it until it stops acing. Then put your hands off...the blood from the hurt will be stopped!!
3. Taue(rice planting) has been the best training for our body
Japanese people have lived with rice for a long time, and it has made their body strong as farmers. It requires to work on bowing position and standing on rice field firmly. Even though They were not so tall, particularly their lower side of body got strong. As I wrote above, the center of gravity was the important part of farmers' action.
It was difficult to explain these kind of topic in English, but I will try to tell you more when I can remember the information from Minbu teacher.
Her researching theme is about the health of human body. She have told me and the other her students of what she learned in her life:
1. Concentrating on the center of gravity(?)(Jyushin) is good for health
Center of gravity(?) of our body is on our gat, what is important to human health. She told me that the point is also the center of movement. Moving from the point makes easier to live. Activities against it, for example swimming which our gravity come up from the gat, are sometimes not good for health.
2. Teate(placing our hands on our body) is effective when you get hurted
The action is meaningful literally, because human has energy to cure own body inherently. If you get hurted, put your hands on the place, and continue doing it until it stops acing. Then put your hands off...the blood from the hurt will be stopped!!
3. Taue(rice planting) has been the best training for our body
Japanese people have lived with rice for a long time, and it has made their body strong as farmers. It requires to work on bowing position and standing on rice field firmly. Even though They were not so tall, particularly their lower side of body got strong. As I wrote above, the center of gravity was the important part of farmers' action.
It was difficult to explain these kind of topic in English, but I will try to tell you more when I can remember the information from Minbu teacher.
Fixed Topic: What is the Love for me?
To discuss this theme, it is required to define what kinds of love there are.
I think, in whole meaning, love is all of the feelings which we have when we care about something. There must be various target of love: to family, to friends, to lover, to pets, to plants you raise up, to books you like, to philosophy, and even to yourself. It is applied to everything in the world which has its heart.
I think love from everything around me has raised me up. When I was a little child, I tended to require what I want to people around me. I suppose I had thought them as a mean which grants my needs...no, even wants. Thus I did not like people who scold me by no exception. I was a child who could not understand that their words were one shape of love to care about me. In this age, I finally understand advises effects me desirably in my head. (Actually I am still afraid of making a mistake as I am not good at accepting my fault.... That is why I am childish.)
And now, I am trying to care about someone with love-like feeling. At first I have a duty to give my parents back for their regard to me. The others come next: my friends, classmates, lover, book, etc.... Those are so important me, and I feel like living for those things!! Thanks:)
I think, in whole meaning, love is all of the feelings which we have when we care about something. There must be various target of love: to family, to friends, to lover, to pets, to plants you raise up, to books you like, to philosophy, and even to yourself. It is applied to everything in the world which has its heart.
I think love from everything around me has raised me up. When I was a little child, I tended to require what I want to people around me. I suppose I had thought them as a mean which grants my needs...no, even wants. Thus I did not like people who scold me by no exception. I was a child who could not understand that their words were one shape of love to care about me. In this age, I finally understand advises effects me desirably in my head. (Actually I am still afraid of making a mistake as I am not good at accepting my fault.... That is why I am childish.)
And now, I am trying to care about someone with love-like feeling. At first I have a duty to give my parents back for their regard to me. The others come next: my friends, classmates, lover, book, etc.... Those are so important me, and I feel like living for those things!! Thanks:)
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