Lang-8 Diary #1-7

面接

  Nov 30th 2011 17:26

今日は就職の電話面接を受けた。面接官はちょっと忙しかったようで、私は２時間くらい待たされた。　（忘れちゃったのかな。。。）
でも、失敗しなかったのはよかった～　\(^o^)/

あと２回の面接を頑張ります！！

立ち去った人　（Katy Perry - The One That Got Away)

  Nov 20th 2011 19:41

立ち去った人


高校後の夏に、私たちは初めて出会った
君のムスタングで、Radioheadを聞いて、イチャイチャした
私の１８才の誕生日に、マッチングタトゥーをした

君の両親の酒を偸みつづけて、屋根に登った
何か分かるように、私たちの未来を話した
いつも君を失うことなんて考えなかった


※別の人生で生まれても、君の彼女になる
約束を全部守って、世界に逆らう
別の人生で生まれても、一緒にいさせる
君は立ち去った人だって言わないでもいいから

私はJuneと君は私のJohnny Cashいつも離れないって約束した
時々君に逢いたいと思うとき、あのレコードをかける
誰かが言った、君はタトゥーを消した町中で、悲しい君を見た
そろそろ音楽に向こう私はもう君のミューズじゃない

Repeat ※

こんな金たくさんあるのに、タイムマシーンは買えない
百万の指輪でも、君の代わりにはならない
君は誰よりも大切な人とよく言うべきだった
今ツケが回ってきたんだ



Repeat ※

私が恋愛できない理由

  Nov 16th 2011 18:05

今、「私が恋愛できない理由」というドラマを見ている。 このドラマは、性格が違う女の子たちの恋愛についてのものです。

藤井恵美は親友に恋している。 でも、彼はもうすぐ別の女と結婚する。

小倉咲は本当の恋をしたことがなかったけど、 結婚している男と恋に落ちてしまった。


半沢真子はいつも重いと言われている。


このドラマは今の女性の恋愛観を伝えてくれて、なんか勇気を与えてくれる。これを見てると本気で恋に落ちたいと思わせる。

もうすぐクリスマスですよねぇ。。。

  Nov 15th 2011 17:46

もうすぐクリスマスですよねぇ。　最近、ショッピングモールとデパートでクリスマスの飾りを見かける。

と言う事はもうすぐ2011の年末です。　時間が経つのは早いね。 だから私は仕事を早く見つけなくてはいけない。 もう怠けていてはだめ！

卒業

 Nov 13th 2011 18:59

今日は友達の卒業式に行った。　私たち６人はもう長年の知り合いなので、友達がアカデミックドレスを着ているのを見た時、 本当に嬉しかったよ。 写真をたくさん撮ったり、バカな事を話したり、夕飯を一緒にたべました。　とても楽しかった。

最近。。。

  Nov 12th 2011 19:40

最近、　私は iphone にハマってる。　ゲームより、日本語を勉強できるアプリの方が面白い。　インターネットではアプリがたくさんあるのに、Tae Kim's guide to learning Japanese が一番好き。毎日読まなくちゃ。

初めまして～  

Nov 11th 2011 18:44

初めまして、　夏実です、　本当の名前じゃないけど、この日本語の名前が好き。日記を書いた事があったけど、続かなかった。　今度日本語の上達のために、もう一度日記を書いてみる。　もし間違いがあったら、ぜひ教えて下さいね。

これからよろしくお願いします。　

Quote of the day #9

"I never used to fight over stupid things.
She stopped in the middle of the icy garden. It was precisely because she had found everything so stupid that she had ended up accepting what life had naturally imposed on her. In adolescence she thought it was too early to choose; now in young adulthood, she was convinced it was too late to change."


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"What makes a person hate themselves?"
"Cowardice, perhaps. Or the eternal fear of being wrong, of not doing what others expect."


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"I must get a grip on myself. I'm the kind of person who sticks to any decision she makes, who always sees things through.
It's true that in her life she had seen many things through to their ultimate consequences, but only unimportant things [...] She was intransigent about the easy things, as if trying to prove to herself how strong and indifferent she was was, when in fact she was just a fragile woman [...]
She had overcome her minor defects only to be defeated by matters of fundamental importance. She had managed to appear utterly independent when she was, in fact, desperately in need of company [...]
Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything [...]
She might have impresses a lot of people with her strength and determination, but where had it left her? In the void. Utterly alone."


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"What was God? What was salvation if, that is, the world needed saving? Nothing. If everyone [...] just lived their lives and let others do the same, God would be in every moment, in every grain of mustard, in the fragment of cloud that is there one moment and gone the next. God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith."


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"If you live, God will live with you. If you refuse to run his risks, he'll retreat to that distant heaven and be merely a subject for philosophical speculation."


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"Is wanting to be different a serious illness?"
"It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else. [...] It's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests, he did not create a single leaf the same as another. [...] People go against nature because they lack the courage to be different..."


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"... the danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort."


~Paulo Coelho 'Veronika Decides to Die'

Taylor Swift - If this was a movie (lyrics)

Taylor Swift - If this was a movie

Come back, come back, come back to me like
You could, you could if you just said you're sorry
I know that we could work it out somehow
But if this was a movie you'd be here by now


Could I come back if I just said I was sorry? Just like a movie? I don't think it would be that easy, and if this was a movie, I should have been there with you by now....

大塚愛 - クムリウタ (lyrics)

大塚愛 - クムリウタ
詞曲: 大塚愛

立ち止まってすべてを無にした
目をそらして 逃げてたことを
恥じらって 向かい合うことができたら
奇跡を信じた

蝉は鳴く 響くように
歌うように 死んでいくかな
私も明日消えるなら もっと
ちゃんといれるのかな?

ここに立っていることさえ
時々意識を失いそうになる

曇り空、泣くな まだここは通過点で
曇り空、泣くな 心は本当は強い

フワフワ流れるように
なんとなく 過ごせるけれど
本当は虚しいことには ずっと
前から気付いてた

傷を持って もう一度って
強く誓え 自分を見捨てるな

曇り空、泣くな せめて心を信じて
曇り空、泣くな 待ってる人はいる

深海の中を くるり 泳いで
聞こえる水の声 思い出す
あの雨の日も こんなに暗くて
二つある扉

曇り空、泣くな まだここは通過点で
曇り空、泣くな 心は本当は強い

立ち止まって すべてを無にした
目をそらして 逃げてたことを
恥じらって 向かい合うことができたら… 
奇跡を信じた


It's been a while since I've listened to Otsuka Ai and I realised I forgot about her magic- the bitter sweet, nostalgic melodies, and the beautiful lyrics that sometimes can convey immense sadness or love (or whatever the theme). Of course her happy tunes are brilliant too and all her songs show great creativity, but it's the ballads that I keep coming back to. 


I love this song, the melody is so sad, especially the chorus. It's like you can imagine her looking up at the gray sky shouting for it not to rain, which is that she is also telling herself not to cry. It has that same helpless feeling where you feel like you are shouting at the top of your voice but no one can hear you, no one can help you, you can't change anything. But looking at the lyrics, it's not quite as hopeless- she's telling you (the listener, or herself?) not to cry, because this isn't the end, we are stronger than that, there is someone waiting for you.


曇り空、泣くな まだここは通過点で
曇り空、泣くな 心は本当は強い


Actually the verses are kind of calm. Almost like she's already cried her eyes out and is now feeling numb. I am not quite sure what the verses actually mean (even with the translation :s ) but I find the chorus kind of healing. I'm also quite curious as to what she means in the bridge about there were 2 doors- maybe she means there are 2 choices, you could choose one door which is staying sad and depressed and hopeless, or you could choose the other which is moving on and finding happiness.


傷を持って もう一度って
強く誓え 自分を見捨てるな