東京徒然草 二〇〇七年一月二十六日

My blog's tittle is "Tokyo Essays in Idleness". "Essays in Idleness" means 徒然草(Tureduregusa) which is a classic literature of Japan(14th century), one of three major essays in Japan. It is written by 吉田兼好(Yoshida Kenkou). It is said he wrote it just to kill time but the substance is how human lives in the world. It is a hermitic literature. That's why I titled. You know this is English edition. I have Japanese one.



Well, I use an ipod but its battery runs out soon these days. I need a new battery but it seems it is better to buy new ipod. However, I guess new one's battery come to goes flat soon. I want Mac to make ipod which run on dry battery.



That's why last sunday I bought a Book titled "Kikutan super 12000" it contains English words and CD. ( In addition, I bought it because I thought it contains 12000 words but in fact it contains only 1200 words.) Many English words are pronounced in Japanese-English. So, often I've said it as Japanese pronounce. I need to listen English words which I haven't listened.



When I say "Sit down please", always I remember my friend said it at high school. His pronunciation was not good. So, he has said "shit down please". Because his "delivery" was so sensational, infectiously I might say it even now. always I take care not to say "shit". Of course, no one pronounce "h" in Japan. Just he was a funny boy.



I was a student of international corse. The English teachers were really nice. They were from Pennsylvania. The days they come to school, I always visit their office, and talked with them. They told me that certain Japanese student can be good student in America. And he said "you are a good student in America except your napping." to me. Although I lost contact, someday I do want meet with them. When I image ideal American, always I image them even now.



When I was a high school student. I always used to eat something. I bought rice balls on the way to school. I ate them during the first class sneakily. I went to school cafeteria after the class and I ate Udon or Soba(both are Japanese noodle). After second class, I ate hamburger. After third class, I ate yoghurt and played base ball with my friend. After the fourth class, I again went to school cafeteria and ate Katu-don (pork cutlet on rice) or Katu-teishoku(combination meal with pork-katu) and played base ball again. After the 5th, 6th, 7th class, I ate again or played base ball sometimes both. On the way to home, sometimes I went to Chinese restaurant and ate at least 3 dishes, and of course I ate dinner at home.



If I do such thing now, my stomach would burst like balloons. I take care to eat plain food these years. Rather, plain food is delicious. However, in Japan, plain food is often more expensive than others now.



Generally speaking, Japanese monks eat meat and drink. Many monks ate duck sneakily in olden days. Precisely they didn't drink but drannk Hannya-tou. They call alcoholic beverage as Hannya-tou. Hannya means wisdom. Tou menas hot water.



I haven't heard Buddha drank in India. But according my teacher, Buddha and his followers seems to also ate pork meat. Researchers found the evidence from the sites. My friend who is a monk was glad after the class. :-) However, I've heard that animal protein is not good for meditation.



To get back to my original point,,,, I don't know which one is original point though, maybe Topic about English is the original point. Well, I don't make progress on English studying these days. As a last resort, I decided to memorize more English words. This is easy, just memorizing.



It is a photo of Seto inland sea.



Have a great weekend, everyone!