Where on the web can I see polls for each city or county, not just state?

This is a machine-translated blog entry from Japanese (mixi.jp). Can you guess the meaning?

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Title: Cram school lecturer interview/mother is recalled.

It applies for the cram school teacher as one step because of becoming the mathematics teacher, and the interview has been received. The interview was awfully tired though the feeling was good. It was considerably tired to have received warning of various prohibited matters (commonsense things of the classroom diplomatic style prohibition, the Mead exchange prohibition, the sexual harassment prohibition, and the power harassment prohibition, etc. with the student and dress codes) with the video etc.

However, the person taught physics at a level the third grade of high-school might be able to work even at once because there seems to be demand that draws near considerably.

The interview is the one that becomes a considerable stress even though the feeling of the interview was good. It comes to want to rely on dying mother when a large stress hangs. The appearance of mother who talks by "Often held out" and the smile floats on eyes. (^_^)

In Japanese:
http://bap.net/2003/?z=538&f=1

1.
神はわがやぐらわがつよき盾
苦しめるときの近きたすけぞ
おのが力おのが知恵を
たのみとせる
陰府の長もなどおそるべき
2.
いかに強くともいかでか頼まん
やがては朽つべき人のちからを
われと共に戦いたもう
イェス君こそ
万軍の主なるあまつ大神
3.
あくま世にみちてよしおどすとも
かみの真理こそわがうちにあれ
陰府の長よほえ猛りて
迫り来とも
主のさばきは汝がうえにあり
4.
暗きのちからのよし防ぐとも
主のみことばこそ進みにすすめ
わが命もわがたからも
とらばとりね
神の国はなおわれにあり

I'm getting a new cell phone soon! It's this Sony-Ericsson & NTT docomo phone. I'm changing the carrier to docomo from SoftBank because I talk to my grandma a lot, who uses docomo. If both of two people who are relatives use docomo, the call is absolutely free. Moreover, docomo provides a service that warns you about your next phone bill price according to the threshold amount you set. Very customer-friendly. I'll give my AQUOS cell phone (SoftBank 912SH by sharp) to my dad.

So I was hospitalized again, for back pain, mild despair, mania and mild paranoia this time, but I got out of there yesterday very genkily. There were two more events yesterday. Our family had a dinner party with a neighbor woman Chang Mingyong whom I befriended in my church and her 2.5-year-old son Yohan (John in English). We had tons of fun with them! Mingyong speaks fluent Japanese (she has been in Japan for 6.5 years, 3 years in Tokyo and 3.5 years in Kyushu. She is from Seoul.), except that she has a hard time pronouncing TSU (つ). When she say 作る, she says ちゅくる. Anyway, we ate Korean yakiniku called Pulgogi, and we served to them chirashi-sushi and omelet. We played with Yohan for a long time. He was particularly interested in our cat Miru and the toys we brought from our storage. He also drew a picture with crayons (I drew with crayons a lot myself when I was in hospital.)

And yesterday was my sister Megumi's birthday too! We sang happy-birthday song, Yohan and Mingyong in Korean. It went like "Lam Sam Ha Hamnida.." I said ごちそうさま in Korean ("Chalmogo sumnida."), which I had studied before. I gave a picture I drew to my sister as a birthday present.

Today, my grandma's family (grandma, grandpa, uncle, aunt and cousin) came over to our house! My grandpa had been depressed for several months but he seemed to feel a lot better now. My free-spirited cousin gave a small bag with a green ♡ symbol to my sister. My uncle and aunt had bought a new Honda. It's got a DVD player screen hanging from the ceiling and internet-connected GPS navigation. Can't be any cooler.

So life's been very fulfilling to me.

Here's a link to a Skype chat I'm hosting. It's about Macintoshes. You don't have to have a Mac to join it!

Okay, I'm outta hospita! Very likely I will sue the hospital for human rights voilation, but before that, I will my spend time enjoying my freedom fully, here in Kanda and Akihabara, Tokyo.

Yesterday I met up with my best friend from grade school, and then with computer club friends from college. Both fantastic (it's okay for a guy to say 'fantastic', right?).

Today I went to Akihabara to go to see maid Chrome-san (http://www.mai-relax.com/tokyo/) for the first time in seven months, and then had a party with long-term (from 1995) online friends from a HyperCard club that was on NIFTY-Serve (now on Yahoo! groups Japan and mixi).

After that, I went to this Younger Sister Cafe called Nagomi where they were having "Dragon Quest Brave Heroes/Heroines Day." When I enter the cafe, the waitresses said "Whaddaya want, Boss Troll?" and I was surprised, but I got the humor five seconds later. I gained 50 HP (health points) by dining there, and when leaving, I said to one of the waitresses "Since you cast the Mahotora (Magic Power absorption) spell on me, I will reluctantly pay 550 yen to you. Next time we see each other you'll get a 'critical blow' by me, who is a Boss Troll (I resemble one)." I think there I showed the female warrior a good sense of humor ;-).

I have been hospitalized in a (so-"cold") mental care center,but I am okay.

After my mom's tragic suicide, I suppose that this was only a matter of time. I've almost never liked this particular hospital!Reason: nurses and doctors so distant that they look at me in too objective a viewpoint and they just don't do any real mental/spiritual care. They only obey policies and rules and they get self-satified and praise, but that's no true help for the patients...Is this Japanese Zen and Bushido are all about? I hope not.

Sincerely I want to fly over this Pharisees' WorkNest, talk with my loved ones and go to church, indeedy.

59163 dpi.

Happy new year, almost.

I hereby pray for all the poor, the bullied and the suffering in the world, and let the universe be filled with joy of Your birth.



In the name of Jesus Christ I pray, Amen.

By the way, I feel jealous enough to want to turn those street-smart guys with beautiful-looking girlfriends on the main street of the city into mashed meatballs (ok, sorry Jesus, I made a terrible joke).

This was my mom's favorite song...

Audio Clip (RealPlayer required)
http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/sas/songs/data/I115800101.html

TSUNAMI (English translation by somebody else)
Southern All Stars
Words and music: Keisuke Kuwata

I am timid, and lost in the wind
The shadow of that day passes me by
The truth is, I have a past of easily crying
More than it would appear

Fresh water, flowing without stopping
A devilish fire that burns without disappearing
There won't be a summer again
Where I'll meet a girl that I love that much

Everyone searches for love, destined to wander in the darkness
So I trust myself to the wind, oh, my destiny
Until my tears dry up

When we gaze at one another, I can't talk to you naturally
Loneliness like a tidal wave
I know...I'm afraid of it, hoo
From the time we met, the magic hasn't gone away
In a dream like a mirror
My memories are rain everyday

When the dream is over, and I wake up
The dawn comes in the thick darkness
The truth is, I'm more tough
Than I would appear

Gazing at the sky that seems about start crying, seagulls float above the waves
This world is certainly pathetic, oh, sweet memory
Journeys in my heart

A person can't grow up without showing his tears
A love like glass
I know...I notice it, hoo
My body and heart can only see the girl that I love
Inside my heart that seems about to break
How do I endure this sadness?

When we gaze at one another, I can't talk to you naturally
Loneliness like a tidal wave
I know...I'm afraid of it, hoo
From the time we meet, until I die, say that you love me
In a dream like a mirror
Who is it that smiled at me?

Why do I cry, even though I love you?
My memories are rain everyday.

I have this Yngwie Malmsteen (Swedish Hard Rock guitarist) video and I don't understand this Swedish... any help? Below is the audio file. Hakan, I need ya.

(I tried to LJ-Cut but it didn't work!)
Pretty please. My learning skills aren't good enough.

( Read more... )

Hardcore NES(The 80s Nintendo) shoot-'em-up games make you do STRANGE things, like this watermelon-explosion-by-16persec-finger thing. (I'm a native Japanese who was an elementary school student in the 1980s who had a Famicom who's a fairly good English speaker nowadays.)

Get ready for culture shock...



... This is why st*pid Americans make movies like "Lost In Translation" and "Kill Bill." Well well. Oh well.

OK, you need some explanation. Around 1985-1987, shoot-'em-up games from Hudson Soft, namely Star Force and Star Soldier were big hits. Then came Takahashi-Meijin (高橋名人, "Meijin" means "Da Master Of Us All" or sth and Takahashi is his last name) who can fire the Hudson Joystick button 16 times per second. He is still popular and he has a podcast/blog in Japanese.

Then, his rival Mouri-Meijin (毛利名人) came up and he was considered a cool, urban kind of goal-oriented great Star Soldier player, although he could fire only up to 14 times per sex... or sec. (Sorry)

Ok, so the above movie is the opening of 1986(I suppose) Japanese film 「GAME KING 高橋名人VS毛利名人 激突!大決戦」 (Translation: GAME KING Takahashi vs. Mouri Furious Collision Grande(italian)-Winner-Determining Fight :P) The game there is Star Soldier for the NES.

And the following movie is the content of the fight. In the next few months, I might wanna work on English subtitles but you get the spirit.



References:
Takahashi's Podcast: http://www.16shot.jp/16shotradio/index.html
Hudson: http://www.hudson.co.jp/index.html

Current Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Current Mood: proud-to-be-a-sickojap
Current Music: Amazing Grace

THIS is the reason I love Japan so much. Period.

By the way, today finally I turned 30! Insult me and celebrate me at the same time, would ya please?

Check this movie of me out...

http://gallery.mac.com/turbolaserguy#100007

Essay (Homework 5 for "English Program" class, Inter School Fukuoka, Japan)
Teacher's Name: Wendy Lotteria Burgerking. (Okay. Her real name is *el** McDonald.)
Title: Does your cellphone make you a Paparazzi or a Vigilante?
Takaaki Furukawa

Do you consider yourself a cellphone-using paparazzi spying on your kids, or a cellphone vigilante with a signal jammer^[1]? If you would rather be a mentally healthy person, I hope that your answer would be... ( Read more of my essay! )

References:
[1] Cellphone vigilantes using signal jammers, Author Unknown, International Herald Tribune, Monday, Nov 5, 2007.
[2] "Surveillance society - Big Brother meets Big Parent, Ellen Goodman, Washington Post.
[3] Silencing the chatterbox, Matt Richtel, New York Times.

Who cares about Billy's Boot Camp or Atkins low-carb when you have Turbolaserguy's Special Theory of Appetite?

6. The Special Theory of Appetite (A joke theory)

Second Edition, Dec. 3, 2007
Turbolaserguy

Turbolaserguy weighs as much as 1.35 x 10^8 milligrams. This outstanding achievement of his has been made according to the result of the effect according to the following theory.

It is a commonly accepted notion that the key to weight loss is keeping track of your metabolism, calorie intake and calorie burn. However, it is nearly impossible to keep the calorie intake low when your appetite is significantly high. In order for an advancement of weight-loss technology to be made, it is our manifest destiny to express appetite in a mathematically beautiful equation.

Let A be your appetite, measured by a series of questionnaires on a certain scale.

Let us call the threshold value at which your satiety center sends the satisfaction signal as q.
Similarly, let p be the threshold value at which your hunger center sends the devastation signal.
An average Japanese would likely have values close to q = 500 and p = 60.
If you have a mutation in β3-adrenaline receptor caused by obese gene expression, the values should take q > 950 and p > 200.

Let s be the evaluated value of your psychological stress.

Furukawa's distinguished intuition says:

A = ∫exp(λ(q - p))dt + k s^3

where λ being the metabolic constant and k the psychological stress-tolerability. ■

Isn't it a part of human nature to have the urge to pop-pop the bubble packing thing?
Here's an innovative solution.



This 「∞プチプチ 」thing's been a big hit here in Japan. It even has a speaker and makes random sounds when you push the "bubbles."

http://www.asovision.com/putiputi/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLp2O-uEOiU


This URL and the fact that I am a native Japanese man. 'Nuf said.

I need more soldiers. I will give you 9,999,999,999,989 shells for the radioactive-sewage-infested-lab-rat-thrower of yours. Stand up and fight. In the comments, turbolaserguy is me, of course.