2008年7月29日火曜日

Essay My hobby is Music

1. Introduction
I like music very much. Music is my only hobby. I have the strongest passion and interest for music. Let me talk about music now.

2. Body
my family like music
All my family can play some instruments. My father is so good at playing classical guitar. My mother is an excellent pianist. She had taught piano to my sisters and me when we are children. Sisters are good at piano even now. Old sister is also good at trombone and percussion. All my family likes music very much.

My instrument
When I was 15 years old, I began classical guitar. But the playing was difficult for me, I gave up it early. When I was 18 years old, I began bass. Bass is my favorite instrument. I like the heavy sound of bass. When I was 19 years old, I began guitar again. Now I want to begin drum or piano again.

Music I like
My favorite genre of music is rock music. I began to be interested in rock music when I was 13 years old. There are many excellent rock musicians in Japan. I respect them. Rock music makes me happy, excited, refreshed and sometimes sad. I also like ballad music. Beautiful and sad melody of ballad is impressive.

Band
I belong in 2 rock band. I play bass in the bands. We play a lot of music we like. I want to do concert frequently. The activity of band is so pleasant for me, and it is my best pleasure.

Composition
I often compose original songs with guitar. The genre is rock or ballad. The work is not easy, but I like this work. I can concentrate my passion on composition. I want to play my original songs as my band. I also want many people to listen to them.

3. Conclusion
Music is source of my energy and life. Music gives me many things. They are so important things for me. I’ll always be proud of the hobby in future.

2008年7月8日火曜日

Essay 7 Movie Review

I’ll write about my favorite movie. The movie is “THE SCHOOL OF ROCK”. The movie showed in 2003.


A guitarist Dewey Finn is fired by members of his own band, because he is egoistic and not cooperative. In addition, he is ejected from his house by his roommate. His life becomes to be boring. He has no job, dream and wish.

Dewey finds some new job. One day, he succeeds in getting a job. Accidentally, he pretends to be a substitute teacher of an elementary school. He begins to work at the school. But he doesn’t have teaching license, so his teaching is disreputable to all students. Dewey feels bored, and he comes up with teaching rock music and how to play instruments. At first children oppose Dewey’s doing, but gradually they become to be crazy about rock music. Dewey and students get a precious pleasure.

Parents of the students object against Dewey’s teaching, but Dewey and student continue the pleasing class in secret. They make a band. The name is “THE SCHOOL OF ROCK”. Students become to be good at playing instruments. They decide to take part in a contest of band. Dewey leads them.

The day of contest come. Dewey and students go to the place where contest take place secretly to other teachers and parents. They show wonderful playing. They are smiling. They enjoying genuinely. They win the contest. In fact parents of students come to there, but they become to be assured that and rock music and Dewey give children a precious pleasure and hope. Dewey shared joy of win with students and their parents. Dewey get so many friends and precious days.


I learned precious things from this movie. I think that keeping having pure heart and passion like Dewey is important. Such heart can make some precious pleasure and hope. I recommend you this movie with confidence.
(313 words)

Ghost

In summer season, I want to hear some scary story of ghost. I don’t like scary story, but my instinct want to hear it. I have never seen ghost, but I believe the existence of ghost. After I hear some scary story, I don’t want to walk alone at night. I live near a big river. I have heard that ghosts are apt to gather at the watersides, so I think that many ghosts exist near my home. It’s so horrible!!
Incidentally, I think that Japanese horror movies are the most horrible of world’s horror movie. Especially, I like “Juon”.
(100 words)

Book Review 15

DISASTER!

People have been interested in disasters. We are excited and frightened by them. There are many kinds of disasters in the world and some of them were not predictable several years ago, but now computers and many scientific machines can help to give warnings of possible disasters.
A volcano is one of disasters. If erupting, it will blow the cloud of ash in a large area. Sometimes mountains carry away lava. It is dangerous so people are in the panic if lava flows near residential areas. We often classify lava into three types and they are hard one, watery soft one, and those of middle hardness. Hard lava tends to comes out from a global mountain, and watery soft lava tends to come out from a flat mountain, and lava of middle hardness tends to comes out from a mountain of middle height. Therefore we can predict what kinds of lava come out to check the form of the mountain.
A flood is also one of disasters. If a flood happens, many inhabitants die of swallowed in a muddy stream. An infectious disease also causes death because people have to spend in a dirty state for days.
Disasters are very dangerous and they kill many people every year. All we can do is escaping. Even if predicting, we can never control them.
(223 words)

Book Review 14

RAINFORESTS

There are rain forests around the equator. The area is hot all the year round and usually between 20 degrees Celsius and 28 degrees Celsius every day. The weather is always wet and most rain forests have more than 200 mm of rain in a month.
Rain forests are important because more that half the species of plants and animals of the Earth live in the rain forests. Moreover the people of the rain forests have always used plants to make medicines and we can recover from some diseases by having the medicines. There are rubber trees there and rubbers are made of the trees.
More than fifty million people live in the rain forests of the world and most of them don’t hurt the forest that they live in. They eat the fruits that grow on the forest trees, but they don’t cut them down. They kill some animals to eat, but they don’t destroy the species.
We shall never know about some animals which live in the rain forests because every year about a thousand different species disappear for ever. Many animals are in danger of extinction because we are destroying the rain forests. To take care of the animals are certainly important, but not to contact with the animals and the forests may be more important for us.
(222 words)

2008年7月7日月曜日

Niji

This song is composed by L’Arc~en~Ciel. The name “L’Arc~en~Ciel” mean “rainbow” in English, and mean “Niji” in Japanese. I like the band and this song for a long time. The song is one of their masterpieces. They are top musicians of Japan.
Incidentally, I can play the bass part of this song. My band also plays this song.
(58 words)

Sunprotect

Ultraviolet rays make my skin sunburned. I hate sunburn. I want to keep my skin white, so I bought a sunprotect yesterday. I buy sunprotect every year, but I am apt to forget to put it on me. As a result, my skin becomes to be black every year. I decided to not forget it this year. Sunburn is bad for body and health, so we should be careful.
(69 words)

Summer has come!!

Did this year’s rainy season ended? Lately, it is so hot. The temperature is so high. I have already have worked my room’s air conditioner work from a few days ago. Air conditioner is the most indispensable facility for me on summer season, because I am extremely weak at heat and I sweat all over because of heat of summer. But summer also has enjoyable events for me. This year’s summer vacation will begin about a month later. I have many plans for summer vacation. And my birthday is August 26. I will be 22 years old. Summer is a season that is full of happiness.
(106 words)

2008年7月6日日曜日

Book Review 13

The Big Picture

There was Ken Harada who was a photographer. His job was to take pictures of famous people and sell them. His wife’s name was Sachiko and their son’s name was Tetsuro. Ken was going to take a picture of Takahanada who was the famous sumo star and his girlfriend, Kumiko Okada who was a beartiful actress. Many photographers wanted to take a picture of them but only Ken could take it and he thought the picture would be expensive.
He took a taxi to go back to his home and a car came beside the taxi. There was a man with a gun. Ken managed to escape and he went back to his home. As soon as entering his home, he watched out of the window but nobody was around his home. He and his wife were not living together and he went to his wife’s house. When he went back to his house again, his room was different from usual. Everything in there was broken. He realized who did it.
He was taken to somewhere by a mafia but he could go away from them and went to a police station. There was another accident. That was a murder affair and the police was investigating it as well. The police finally caught a member of it. It was the man with a gun and two problems solved at the same time. The reason the mafia looked for the picture was that there was the murder scene in the picture of Takahanada and Kumiko. Therefore they tried to get the picture.
(264 words)

2008年7月4日金曜日

Book Review 12

JUST LIKE A MOVIE

There was Brad Black who was a handyman. He loved movies very much and one day he met a woman whose name was Gina outside a cinema. She worked as a teacher and they were both poor. They became to know each other and they started to get along. She thought that money was not important but he thought that he wanted much money.
One day they went to watch a movie and they watched Dead Money. It was about a man and a woman who were poor just like them. This man and woman had an idea. She knew another man who was very rich old man and she married the rich man. Then the rich man died of a disease and she got all money of his and the young man and the woman finally got much money and happiness.
After watching the movie, Brad had an idea to get much money. Then one day he met Carrie who was a rich young woman. She didn’t have any brother or sister and her parents died because of car accident a few years ago and she had no relatives. Brad and Carrie became to know each other and they started to get along. He didn’t tell about Carrie to Gina. He married Carrie and was going to kill her in order to get her money. One day he was fixing the roof of Carrie’s house and he told her to help fix. He pushed her on the ladder and tried to kill her, but she escaped at once.
He went to a police station and the police told him that Carrie may be dead but they didn’t find her body, so he put her pen near a lake. Then the police found it and told him about it.
He finally got her money and he was going to go abroad with Gina and they were at an airport. Two police men came to them and he was caught by the police men. There was Carrie at the police station. He was surprised that she was alive.
Carrie got to know Gina for the same work and talked about Gina’s boyfriend and Carrie’s husband. They noticed that the men were the same person and he was Brad. After he tried to kill Carrie, she told about that to Gina and Gina told her to stay a small hotel and never go outside. Then he was arrested.
He told about that to Joe who was a man in prison. Joe told him to make much money writing the story and making the movie, but he told Joe it was too late. That was because Gina and Carrie had already written the story and made the movie and got Oscar. He passed a newspaper of that and the title of the movie was JUST LIKE A MOVIE.
(479 words)

2008年7月3日木曜日

Book Review 11

NEW YORK

People often call New York ‘The Big Apple’. In the 1920s and 1930s, jazz musicians all wanted to work in New York. ‘There are a lot of apples on the tree,’ they said, ‘but when you take New York City, you take The Big Apple!’ More than twenty million people visit New York every year. Lots of them say it is the most exciting city in the world.
Four hundred years ago, Manhattan Island was the home of the Algonquin Indians. In 1609, a man called Henry Hudson came up the river to Manhattan. He was British but he was on a Dutch ship, The Half Moon. Today the river is called the Hudson River.
There are a lot of things to see in New York and it is easy for the visitor to get to the different parts of the city. The representative things are the New York subway, the straight avenues of New York, New York buses, a yellow cab and the Staten Island ferry.
There are some places to go. They are Chinatown, Little Italy, Greenwich Village and Central Park in Manhattan, and Coney Island in Brooklyn.
The city is full of skyscrapers, and many of them are not very beautiful but some are wonderful, and very modern. The representative things are The Statue of Liberty, The Empire State Building and The United Nations Building.
We can enjoy shopping, eating and entertainment including ballet, sport and museums. We can also enjoy parades. New Yorkers love parades and there is one in some part of the city most months of the year. The representative parades are St Patrick’s Day parade, on 17 March, and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.
I have known New York but I have not known the famous place and things, so I am glad to know about New York this time. I want to travel New York someday in the future.
(318 words)

2008年7月2日水曜日

Book Review 10

Animals in danger

There are more than thirty million species of animals in the world. Every year some of these species disappear and we never see them again. Animals disappeared before there were people and the decrease became rapid after there were people. Around Africa, it is more serious than any other continent because deserts are expanding every year. In addition to the problem of deserts, it is very hot so it is difficult to live not only for human beings but also for animals. What we can do is to cherish every thing we use. We destroy environment and animals are in danger. Lots of animals do not die if we live without wasting food, electricity, and it also include too much luxury. We made many useful things and our life became comfortable, but instead of the life, we destroyed the environment and killed many animals. To cherish environment is important, but I think to continue that is the most important and difficult.
(164 words)

Book Review 9

APOLLO 13

It is Monday, April 13, 1970 and Apollo 13 is flying through space. The three astronauts in the command module are going to the Moon. Suddenly, something goes wrong. There is a loud noise and the command module loses power. Oxygen is leaving the ship. The astronauts can not live without oxygen or power. Though there was some accident, they could go back to the earth. To be astronauts is very difficult but many children want to be it because it is special job that goes to space. I think that looking at the earth from space is wonderful and beautiful, but space is dangerous place so it will be strange atmosphere. I think trips to space will surly come true in the future. Now we can go to space bur it cost vast money. I want the price of trips to space to be more reasonable in the future, and someday I want to go to the moon. I have never felt zero gravity so I don’t know what it is like, but I have watched the scene that an astronaut jumped highly in space and I thought it interesting.
(193 words)

Shounen

This song is composed by Kuroyume. I like this song very much. This song moves my heart. Especially I am impressed with the words. I think this song is full of so intense feeling and sad feeling.
Their ability to compose music and write words is great. Incidentally, vocalist Kiyoharu’s voice is so amazingly good!!
(55 words)

2008年7月1日火曜日

Self introducrion



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2008年6月27日金曜日

Kuroyume


I like Kuroyume. It is a name of a famous Japanese rock band. They had already disbanded. They left many fantastic songs for world of music in Japan. I like the vocalist named Kiyoharu. The way of them singing is unique. I want to imitate him.
There are many songs I like, but especially I recommend the 2 songs, “Shounen” and “Maria”.
(62 words)

2008年6月24日火曜日

Essay 6 2008 self introduction

Hello. My name is Toru Ikeguchi. I am 41 years old. I live in Tokyo with my family now. My family is wife, 10-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. We family live at a solitary house in a quiet residential area.
My hobby is activity of my band, playing guitar and bass, composing music and karaoke. I like music very much. My hometown is Kitakyushu. I like Kitakyushu the best of all prefecture and region. Prefecture I like the next best is Kumamoto. I live in Kumamoto for 4 years when I was a university student. It is about 20 years ago.
My job is songwriter and producer. I supply many songs for many singers. The work is so hard, but it is worthwhile. I wanted to work at a job related to music when I was a university student. I am satisfied with that I work at now job. Why I live in Tokyo now is because it is convenient for me to I do my work.
I like children, so I often lead my son and daughter to near park and I play with them. They are so active. I became to be happy when I see the son and daughter. We have good time together. I sincerely love them. of course I love my wife the best.
I want to live in countryside in future. Now, I live with my wife and children, but when my children become independent from us parents, I want to migrate from Tokyo to somewhere countryside with my wife.
(256 words)

2008年6月23日月曜日

Cigarettes

I like cigarettes. I can’t stop smoking. I know that smoking is so bad for health, but my instinct need cigarettes. My reason gives way to the impulse. It is a vicious circle. I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. I worry about my health. I heard that the price of cigarettes may become to be high in near future. The price will maybe rise to 1,000 yen from 300 yen. Oh, my god!! I can’t buy cigarettes. I should stop smoking early, but my instinct refuge the reason. The problem will be shared with only smoker.
(98 words)

2008年6月17日火曜日

Stolen Bicycle

My bicycle was stolen about 1 week ago. I forgot to lock. I regret not doing so.
From the day, I walk and walk because I had no transport to go somewhere expect bicycle. I was so tired. But today I found the stolen bicycle near university. I’m so happy!! I noticed the importance of my bicycle.
(57 words)

Book Review 8

HULC

Bruce is different from other young men. His father was a strange destroyer so Bruce was it as well. He majored in chemistry in his college and one day he got a bad wave on his body and something was boned in his body. It was a kind of nuclear but his body was fine. When he gets angry, his body changes. It turns green and the Hulk is born. Hulk is very strong and very dangerous. He doesn’t have a memory while he is hulk. Hulk wants to destroy everything the feelings are dangerous, but I think that everyone has that feelings and everyone sometimes gets angry and destroy something. However we can control our mind and we don't become like Hulk. Therefore Hulk may symbolize a human that loses a reason. It is important that we control our mind and that is a little difficult for children. But we have to learn that while we are children because it is more difficult to learn that after we are adults.
(172 words)

2008年6月14日土曜日

Book Review 7

THE PIANO

This story is about a poor boy who becomes a good pianist in the future. His name is Sir Anthony and when he was a child, he had never played the piano. He doesn’t like a music class because he was shy and dose not like sing a song in front of others. When he was 13 years old, he and his friends graduated from the school and it was the time that they started working. He found his job and started to work for a farm. One day a farmer told him to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. In the middle of the rubbish, he found a beautiful old piano. He had never played before, but then, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the musician to him and the music moves his fingers. A man was standing by the entrance of the building and listening his piano. The man thought he will be good pianist and said him to go to a college in London. He need to work for money so he worked in a morning and afternoon, and took the man's lesson in an evening. Finally he became a good famous pianist and took place concerts all over the world.
(220 words)

2008年6月10日火曜日

Karaoke

I went to karaoke today with 2 my friends. I like karaoke very much. Singing songs loudly make me refreshing and happy. Most of the songs my friends and I sing are rock music. We like to sing songs of L’Arc~en~Ciel, X JAPAN and LUNA SEA etc. My friends are good at singing, but I am not good so much.
(60 words)

2008年6月9日月曜日

GTO


I like "GTO". It is a popular comic.Maybe my best book I have ever read in my life is this.
This book's main story is school days.One crazy teacher named Eikichi Onizuka change the bad student.
This book Sometime some time makes me laugh sometime makes me cry.
(50 words)

2008年6月7日土曜日

Hunger

Lately I stint myself of meals to save money. I have little money because I don’t work at a part-time job now. I cook for myself almost every day. It is hard for me. A few days ago, I passed 1 day without food. I felt terrible hunger.
Lately I have lost much for my weight.
(56 words)

2008年6月3日火曜日

Drunk

I drank liquor from yesterday night until this morning with a friend at my home. I don’t like alcohol, but I like the mood of drink with my friend. We were drunk reasonably. We had a good time together. Then I go to class at first period today. It was so hard for me.
(54 words)

2008年6月1日日曜日

Rainy Season

Lately, it is often rain. I am depressed. I hate this season. I rarely go out except going to university. Rain makes me dull.
I can’t do washing on this season. Wet laundry doesn’t dry for long time. The rainy season is my enemy. I wish summer season come early.
(50 words)

2008年5月29日木曜日

My Room in an Apartment


The apartment I live in is very good house. I have lived in there for 3 years and 2 months. The exterior of the apartment is old, but the interior is very nice. Each room is large. It is an eight-tatami room. The flooring is beautiful wooden floor. Bath and toilet is divided with each small room. A big washstand is furnished originally. The interior is modern.
The apartment is near to university. It takes 5 minutes to go there by bicycle.
(82 words)

ROSIER

The song "ROSIER" was composed by LUNA SEA. This is the song which is representing LUNA SEA. When I listen to the song, I get to be excited very much. Their performances at lives are also cool. I was affected by their songs and performances.
I also play this song with bass guitar in my band.
(56 words)

2008年5月26日月曜日

Essay 5 The worst day in my life

I’ll talk about the worst day in my life. It happened about 1 year ago.
In those days, I worked a part-time job at a pub. One day, a regular guest came. The man had been very good to me, so I chatted with him the day too. After we chatted for a minute, he let me drink his brandy. I had not drink brandy as yet, but I had been interested in the drink. I drank a glass of brandy with ice. It is without water. The brandy had an alcohol content of 40 percent, but the taste was so good for me.
I couldn’t stop drinking it. We drank together for a while. He generously let me drink many glass of the brandy. It was so quick pace. I became to be happy and cheerful quickly. I am strong on alcohol by nature, so I made light of the effect of brandy at the time.
2 or 3 hours after I began to drink, I was terribly drunk. I was slurring my words and I couldn’t walk straight. Even just before closing time, I didn’t sober up at all. I couldn’t do works well before closing. Just as I was leaving, chief of the pub cared about me and saw me home by taxi. At the time, I probably couldn’t arrive at my home for myself.
Next day, I had a hangover. I stay in bed all the day. I thought that I didn’t want to go through such hardship.
(252 words)

2008年5月24日土曜日

My Life in Rock Bands

Now I belong to 2 bands. Both of them are rock band.
One of them is organized by 4 people. They are my friends in university and me. We play songs of L'Arc-en-Ciel and X JAPAN. The name of the band has not decided yet.
Another is organized by 5 people. Some of them work on usual job. I was asked to belong to the band by a member of them when I met him first a few months ago. We play songs of LUNA SEA and Nightmare. We will practice at a music studio next Thursday. The name of band also has not decided yet.
The 2 band give me many shock and pleasure. They make me excited and aggressive. I live a wonderful music life now.
(128 words)

2008年5月21日水曜日

Essay 4 A memorable day in my life

A memorable day in my life is the day when I went to America in summer 2 years ago. The travel is Kaigaikenshu.

I had been looking for the event since I enter the university. I had never been to America. From in spring at second-year, my host family and I had talked about many things sending mails each other. At this time I had been beating with hope, pleasure and fear. I couldn’t get to sleep at the day before departure.

I had been tensed up when we were at airport and in airplane. My heart was beating so fast. After the long time in airplane, we arrived at America. The view of the country is completely different from it of Japan. It looks like a different dimension. I can’t hide my surprise. Everything I saw looked shining for me. I couldn’t believe the situation. Hotel which we stayed at the day is so beautiful and exclusive. I couldn’t get to sleep at the night because I was so excited.

Next day, many host families came to the hotel to welcome us. I had little fear, but soon the fear was gone at the moment I met my host family. They smiled and hugged me when they found me. The smile was so gentle and wonderful. It made my heart happy. Such wonderful meeting was the first time in my life.

Now, I still remember the time vividly. I will not forget the memory in future. That meeting is my precious memory of all my life.

(257 words)

2008年5月14日水曜日

Answer

Q.1 Is your sidebar organized and have your visited all of your classmates blogs at least once? If not, explain why, if so, give your impression.

There were many good blogs. I admired them deeply.

Q.2 Have you labeled all your book reviews and essays?

Yes.

Q.3 Does your blog include pictures and/or videos?

Yes. There are many pictures concerned with music.

Q.4 What is your best post? Why? (please also link to it)

My favorite post is "Silent Jealousy" at April, 29. The post express my taste in music. Other people will know it when they wacth the post.

http://tokimeki69.blogspot.com/2008/04/silent-jealousy.html


Q.5 What is your best book review? Why? (please link to it)

My favorite book review is "RECYCLING" at May, 2. I am interested in recycling. I am greatly concerned about the grobal environment. It is a very serious problem. I want many people to know my thought about the problem, so I wrote the book review.

http://tokimeki69.blogspot.com/2008/05/book-review-4.html

Q.6 What are the good points and bad points about this writing class?


Good point is that there are few private talk of student.

Bad point is that there are some students come to this class late.

Q.7 (3rd year+ students only) What problems are you having in class? What can I (Mr Tomei) do to help you?

This class is interesting. Now, blogging is one of my hobby. I have no problem in this class.

2008年5月13日火曜日

Internet

Internet is so improtant media for me. I often use it on my PC. Internet give us so many informations and joys. I often use YOUTUBE. It is a service that we can watch several movie and dorama. It is so convenient. I can't live without internet.

2008年5月12日月曜日

Zoo


I went to zoo today with my friends. I like animals very much. Animals make me happy and calm. Especially, I like monkey. actions and voices of monkey are so comical. there are many kind of monkey at the zoo. They make me refleshed.

I want to the zoo again.

2008年5月11日日曜日

Mother's Day

Yesterday, I was back to my parent's home. Today is Mother's Day. I bought a bouquet of carnetion for my mother. The flowers are so beautiful. My mother was very pleased at the bouquet. It was the first time that I give some present for my mother.
I respect my mother. I will give present for her next year.

2008年5月5日月曜日

Composition

I sometimes compose songs and write lyrics for the songs lately. When I compose songs I use my guitar. I have composed about 10 songs. The genre of songs is various, for example rock, ballad, and pop. Composition improves my sensibility. It is so interesting.
I think writing lyrics is more difficult than composition. The work spends a lot of time, but I am often crazy about the work.
I am proud of the hobbies.

2008年5月4日日曜日

Essay 3 My Favorite Animal

My favorite animal is dog. I have liked dog since I was a small child because there is a male dog in my parent’s house for 11 years. He is nothing less than my brother.

Dogs have so many surprising abilities.

Dogs are very intelligent. They have good ability to memorize many things. When their owners tell them something, they can memorize it soon. Moreover they remember it so long time. My dog is also intelligent. He still remembers many things which I told him once a long time ago.

Dogs have very strong loyal sentiment to their owners. They obey their owner’s order obediently. They respect their owners so deeply, so they guard their owners from danger occasionally. Probably Dogs have stronger loyal sentiment to human beings than other animals.

Dogs have so many feelings, for example happy, sad, angry, and annoyed. They can gather their owner’s feelings from watching owner’s expressions and movements. This ability of dogs is very high. I think this special ability of dogs let themselves have many feelings. My dog also can gather my feelings and atmosphere of there, and he act according to those.

I think dogs are very reliable friends and a member of family for human beings. Dogs have lived with human beings since antiquity. Other animals can’t be human’s pet like dogs which are so familiar with human beings.

I want live with dog in my lifetime. Dog give me healing, rest and love feeling. Now, I wish that my dog live for long life.

Book Review 6

Bad Love

There was a woman who is a detective and her name was Flick Laine. She attended a party with her friend, Judy Kaplan who was a doctor. Judy took place the party and there was a man, Jack Daly who was a doctor and worked at the same hospital with Judy. Daly had a lot of girlfriend and he talked to Flick. He gave his phone number to her and the party was done.
A few days later, Daly called Flick and said that he wanted to talk to her, so they were going to meet the next day. In the next morning, Flick went to her police station, her office and her boss, Leo told her that Daly was dead. She immediately went to his office and found the dead man. There was a young detective and his name was Reno. He thought that Daly killed himself because he was dead with a gun on his hand. However, Flick was skeptical. She remembered that he had a glass on his left hand on the party and she thought that he was left-handed.
The person who found the body first was Mark Johnson and he cleans the office. He said that he lost the key of the office and one hour later he found. She thought someone made a copy of the key during the time. She went to the store that made copies of keys and asked the staff about it. The staff said a young woman came and the woman had short brown hair. At the funeral of Daly, she attended with her friend, Judy, and they were talking about his girlfriends. There was a lot of young woman who was his girlfriend. Judy said that he had a lot of girlfriend with angry. Then Flick found a young woman who had a short brown hair and walked to her, but she ran in her car and went away. Flick chased her and found her house. She opened the door and she told about Daly. She had her brother and he was a football player, but one day he had something wrong with his back and consulted a doctor. The doctor was Daly. His illness didn’t become good and he finally killed himself because football was everything to him. She asked about the murder but she denied. She never killed Daly. Flick went back to her office.
On the way to her office, she turned the radio on and was listening to a song. Its title was bad love and she thought who killed him. She noticed the murder was Judy who was her friend. Judy was short brown hair and said at the funeral something about him with angry. She was his girlfriend and she loved him, but he didn’t love her. She wanted to be the only girlfriend of him. Flick was sad because it was a bad love.

2008年5月3日土曜日

Book Review 5

FLIGHT

Birds move their wings up and down and they fly. People can move their arms up and down but they don’t fly. This is because a bird has big wings and a small body, but people have small arms and big bodies. People watch birds that fly freely and wanted to fly like birds.
The first aero planes were made by the Wright brothers who were from Dayton, Ohio, USA. They made two hundred different wings and tail planes, and watched them move in the wind.
There are many kinds of airplanes in the world. Some of them are used to carry passengers and some of them were used by army. Today airplanes became a famous traffic way but many scientists still continue studying about them not to drop and to be able to fly safely.
I think airplanes are dangerous because passengers can not do anything if the airplane starts dropping. All they can do is waiting. Though they are dangerous, we use them because they are useful, so I hope them to be more safely.

2008年5月2日金曜日

Book Review 4

RECYCLING

We feel recently that pollution has become one of the biggest problems in the world. A lot of countries have developed and there are many factories and they are working hard. The technology’s quality is now high and the working always makes a lot of trashes, but we have not minded about them. We only concentrate to make the technology high and we have not minded about environment. Now we are facing a big problem about trash that we put out.
People often dump trashes in a forest or in a far place from their house. That is because it took money now to dispose trashes. Some companies dump oil drums or tires, and residents have to live under the pollution. Many people are suffering from the irresponsible behavior.
There are a lot of nuclear power stations in the world and they produce us electricity, so they are necessary for our lives, but they produce trashes as well that can not be disposed, so we dig ground and bury them deeply in the ground.
What we have to do is reducing them but that is not enough. We have to recycle them as well.

2008年4月30日水曜日

LUNA SEA


I like a Japanese rock band "LUNA SEA". They are so cool and brilliant musicians, but they disbanded some years ago. The sound they made gave me heavy shocks. Especially, the voice of the vocalist RYUICHI was so clear and beautiful. My favorite song of LUNA SEA is "STORM." I will respect them forever.

Guitar


I have an electric guitar. I bought it about 2 years ago. The colour is so cool. The sound of the guitar makes me so excited. I have practiced hard, so my skill has progressed in playing.
I want to play many music with the guitars. I will continue to playing guitar for all my life.

Joyful

I like Joyful. Joyful is a name of a famous restaurant. I went to Joyful near my home with 3 my friends. We stayed at there for about 4 hours. We were chatting during the time. We had a good time.
Anybody can go to joyful easily. Foods of Joyful are delicious and low-priced. Joyful is open for 24 hours, so people can go there regardless of time. Joyful is very convenient restaurant.

2008年4月29日火曜日

Wig and Sunglasses

I bought a wig and sunglasses. I have interested in disguise from long ago. The wig is red and has long hair. I look so funny when I wear the wig and sunglasses. I want to go out wearing the wig and sunglasses.

Silent Jealousy

I like this PV. This song is “Silent Jealousy” composed by X. “X” is former name of “X JAPAN.” This song is a masterpiece of X. I become to be so excited when I listen to this song. This song is full of the great ability of X. This PV is so cool!!

Book Review 3

THE CINEMA

Today it is possible to buy or hire a video and watch a film at home, but millions of people all over the world still prefer to go to their town or city cinema for a night out.
Hollywood is famous for movies. There are several great studios at Hollywood and a lot of movies are made there.
Animations are popular now and there are a lot of excellent animation movies that made by the great Hollywood studios. In particular, Walt Disney has made many animation movies.
Computer graphic is famous method to make movies. This method enables us to make movies of ancient scenes or dangerous scenes. It now improves and the quality is high so we can enjoy watching movies.
I think movies make our lives happy. We can spend time with a family to watch movies, so I hope to be made a lot of great movies in future.

2008年4月28日月曜日

THE YELLOW MONKEY


THE YELLOW MONKEY was a Japanese rock band. They had composed many good songs. They disband a few years ago. I like the voice of the vocalist Kazuya Yoshii. I also like other member’s performance.My favorite song of THE YELLOW MONKEY is "BURN".

2008年4月27日日曜日

Book Review 2

Help!

There was Frank Wormold who is a writer and his wife’s name was Teresa. She worked hard as a lawyer but he didn’t work hard. He was a writer but he wrote anything before. It was in a morning and he was at the table and read a newspaper. She had to leave their house to go to work. She told him to get a real job and got out of the house.
He stood up and went to bed again. Then he heard a sound that someone knocked the door and he opened it. It was a postman and the postman gave him a letter. The letter was from Mel Parks who was a Hollywood producer and said that his book of “Every Morning” was great and wanted him to write the second story. He telephoned to Mel and Mel told him to have a lunch together this afternoon with the second story. He accepted that but he didn’t write the second story yet and it was nine o’clock. They were going to meet at twelve thirty in the afternoon so he had to write without taking a rest. However he wrote with his hand writing so he couldn’t write fast and it was the time to leave house to go to have a lunch with Mel.
He told Mel that the second story was not finished and Mel suggested buying a computer. He didn’t have much money so Mel gave him a lot of money and he started his work using the computer. Then the telephone rang and it was Teresa and she told him that she couldn’t go back to the house that night.
There was Chip, a woman, on the screen and Chip wanted to help him write. It was good in the beginning and he worked all a few days, but Chip became to want more help and Chip finally changed his story. He got angry and threw the computer far away from the house. He went back to the house and slept in his bed.
Someone woke him up and it was Teresa. He told about Mel and the computer, but there was nothing proves his story. It was a dream. She advised him to write the story and he started writing about the morning.

2008年4月24日木曜日

Book Review 1

Dracula

The story of Dracula is a very famous story all over the world. A man travels to Transylvania and visit to the home of Court Dracula on business. He doesn't really want to go because he is getting married to his beautiful Mina and he doesn't want to leave her. While he is staying in Castle Dracula, he meets Court Dracula and three female vampires, and he can see them only in nights. He thinks he will be killed by them so he tries to kill them. Mina is also in danger, and they finally killed the vampires.
I don't think the existence of vampires but I like horror movies, so this is interesting for me. I think that Dracula is from Europe so Dracula lives in a house like European architecture. I have watched on a TV about Dracula several years ago and it was not true. I don’t believe the existence of Dracula now but I think there was Dracula long ago. I think they had already perished somewhere.

X JAPAN


I like a Japanese rock band "X JAPAN". They have leave so many brilliant legends in the world of Japanese music. Songs of them shocked me when I first listen to the songs. Their skills of compose music are so high. I think they are geniuses.

2008年4月23日水曜日

Listening to music

I listen to rock music every day. I also like ballad. When I am listening those music, I can forget time. I can become to be happy. Music is my source of my energy. Music makes me happy. Music makes me excited. Music makes me refleshed. I can't live without music.

2008年4月22日火曜日

Part-time job


I look for some new part-time job now. I leaved a job last month for reasons of management. I was shocked because the job was so pleasing and challenging work for me. The job is waiter of a pub. I want to work at place like the pub now. I have little money. I should find some job before my money run out.

Nirvana


My favorite American rock band is Nirvana. The band is legend of the music world. The vocalist Kart Cobern died when he is late twenties. I am very sad. songs of Nirvana I like is "Smells like teen's spilit", "You know you're right." I have been so happy to know such a fantastic rock band. I want recomend many people to listen to songs of Nirvana. Those are really good music.

Bass


I like playing bass. Sound of bass reverberate through my body. It is the good point.
I have played bass since 3 years ago. Now, I use 2 bass. I like both of them. They are my treasures. They are so expensive for me, but I don't regret it. I want to continue to play bass through my lifetime. Bass is my favorite instrument.

Rock Band


I belong to a rock band now. I am a bassist of the band. About 2 months ago, I was asked to join the band by a member of the band in an instrument shop.
We play songs of LUNA SEA and Nightmare, famous Japanese rock band. We respect them. We have a plan to perform in a live music club in the summer. I want many people to see our playing.
Photo is Nightmare.

Essay 2 My Treasure

My treasure is my family especially my parents. Now they live in Kitakyushu. I live alone in Kumamoto. My parents have paid my school expenses through the university. They also give me the cost of my living and rent for the apartment I live in. I appreciate the kindness to me.

My parents have given infinite loves to me since my childhood till now. They have let me live to lack for nothing. They have been so tender and sometimes severe to me. When I did some good things they admired me tenderly. When I did some bad things the y scolded me severely. Therefore I have always lived rightly and cheerfully. My father has worked so hard almost every day for living of family. He is so intelligent and great person. I respect him so much. I want to be a person like him someday. My mother has done a lot of house work for family to live in the house comfortably. She also has worked part-time sometimes. She was beautiful and sociable lady. Such great parents bring up me to present me.

I want to repay for my parents someday. When I graduate the university and begin job, they will be pleased so much. When I make a success of life, I want to do some big return. Now I have plans that I will buy some present for my parents at this mother’s day and father’s day.

I can’t live without my parents. I want them to live long and finely.

2008年4月16日水曜日

HIDE


I like rock music very much. There are so many musician who I respect. Now I will introduce HIDE to you. He was a great guitarist of a rock band "X JAPAN." He had a good guitar skill. He also composed many good songs.
He died in 1997. He was 32 years old. I was so sad, but now I become to be fine when I listen to his songs.

2008年4月15日火曜日

My hometown


My hometown is Kitakyushu. Now I live alone in an apartment in Kumamoto. I like my hometown best of all prefectures. However, it takes about 3 hours to go to the hometown by train. I can't be back there so frequently.
There is a big downtown in Kitakyushu. I used to go there frequently with my friends when I lived in Kitakyushu. There are many amusement place and restrants and pub.
Picture is a nightview of Kitakyushu.

Spring

I like spring best of 4 seasons. Spring give me gentle warmth and energy. I can be refleshed. I like neither heat nor cold, so summer and winter are my enermy.
I can go out easily now. I am so happy. Yeah!!

Essay 1 Self Introduction

Hello, nice to meet you. My name is Toru Ikeguchi. I am a university student in Japan. I am in the third year in the university now. I major in English in the university. I have hoped to go to your country since childhood. I am also interested in the cultures at meal and manner, and so on. The cultures of your country are different from those of my country. I think that I can’t understand and make friends with people in other country without learning the cultures of the countries. I should learn and understand many cultures of your country, because I want to make friends with many people in your country. Please show me many things about many fields. I also want you to know cultures in my country. I am proud of my country Japan. Japan is wonderful country. In Japan, there are many unique things at various fields. I want to introduce various Japanese cultures to you. I will take something Japanese traditional goods to you.
I want to talk with you about various things. I want to go to various places with you. I want to experience various things. I will try my best to the home staying, and I want to improve my English skill and knowledge in the term of the staying. Please assist my learning and effort for 6 weeks in the summer. I am looking forward to meet you. Now my heart is full of hope and excitement. I hope to meet you with smile in the summer.