I’m not very motivated to write anything these days, so I’m not often around on Hellotalk either. この頃、何も書く気が起こらないので、ハロートークもあまり使っていない。 If I think of what I really want to write about, maybe something like …

Last weekend, I finished reading the fantasy adventure novel Dragons of Summer Flame from the Dragonlance series, in English. 先週末、ドラゴンランスシリーズのDragons of Summer Flame というファンタジーアドベンチャー小説を英語で読み終わった…

The Olympic Games seems to happen despite overwhelming cries of objections. 圧倒的な反対の声にも関わらず、オリンピックは開催されそうだ。 It’s outrageous that the government is pressing so hard on the sport event amid the unprecedented pand…

Out of what I’ve heard about IOC recently, I began to think that the Olympic is nothing different from the fighting of gladiators at the colosseum in the age of Ancient Rome. 最近IOCについて聞いたことから、オリンピックって古代ローマ時代に…

I realized that it’s been about a year since I created my blog page. 自分のブログページを作ってから1年が経ったことに気がついた。 The reason why I started it is because at first, I wanted to seek some way to monetize my English skills and t…

I kind of believe that there is some life cycle of humans involving after death like reincarnation. 僕は、生まれ変わりのような、死後を含めた人間の何らかの生のサイクルがあると何となく信じている。 At the same time, I simply accept the genera…

Last night, after everyone went to bed at home, my youngest son came to me and said he couldn’t sleep. 昨日の夜、家で皆寝床についた後、次男が僕のところに来て、眠れないと言った。 It was around 11PM. 夜の11時頃だった。 I tried to soothe him …

Today is the final day of my Golden Week, but since I took a day off on Friday; I’m going to have a three-day weekend, I don’t feel too disappointed. 今日は僕にとってゴールデンウィーク最終日だ。でも金曜日に休みをとったからー週末は3連休にな…

There have been several couples around me who divorced after long years of marriage. 僕の周りに、長年の結婚生活の後に離婚した夫婦が何組かいる。 It’s not hard to guess that the reasons they did so would differ according to each individual c…

Japan has entered Golden Week starting today. 日本は今日からゴールデンウィークです。 Golden Week is a long holiday series that happens from the end of April to the first week of May. ゴールデンウィークは4月末から5月の1週目にある連休です。 …

(今日から和訳も加えてみた) I’ve been practicing English R and L sounds while watching some YouTube videos for some time. しばらくの間、YouTubeのビデオを見ながら英語のRとLの音を練習してきた。 However, when I have a test for my recognition o…

It’s been a while since I stopped writing journals in English as often as before. 以前ほど頻繁には英語で文章を書かなくなってからしばらく経った。 These days, I feel like it’s bothersome to come up with what to write about. この頃は、何を書…

Today, I bought a new iron wok to make fried rice for dinner. Until today, I didn’t know that they would burn off anti-rust sealant coated on a new iron pan or wok before starting to use it. But that was what the instruction said and accor…

(I wrote about the book Educated. This could be a spoiler) Yesterday, I finished reading a book titled Educated. It’s a memoir of a woman who was born and raised in a religious family. In her upbringing, especially her father cast strong i…

Yesterday, my family and I went to buy some school items for my eldest son entering junior high school. The main focus of the shopping was a pair of white sneakers. Most of junior high schools in my city have white sneakers designated for …

Learning something might be about observing yourself. In the process of learning, you are forced to see in yourself, what you are good at and what poor at. Improvement will mostly happen when you cope with weakness by trying to rectify it …

I’m trying not to think about work for tomorrow, but I don’t think I’m successful not doing so. I would like to change jobs in the future. I’ve been thinking so for a long time already. This is the prime reason why I had started learning E…

We are all conditioned to feel so big and important, but in reality just a flicker in the universe. (This is mostly plagiarism from someone)

In Japan, the public health centers have been taking full control of authorized COVID testing from the very beginning of the pandemic, which is likely to be one reason why there aren’t as many tests done as in other countries: man power is…

I took a day off for today so I have a three-day weekend. Since the pandemic started, I’ve been taking days off more often than before just because I’m not extremely motivated to go to work every day amid this unprecedented disaster. I’m g…

At the turning of the year, I set a bunch of the goals that I want to achieve this year like new year resolutions. However, I already struggle to conjure up the motivation to work on them. I have a slight headache, some pain behind my eyes…

Today is the last day of my winter break. Tomorrow I’m going back to work. I don’t have specific plans what I’m going to do today. Most likely, I’ll go out to walk for a bit at some point during the day. I’ll try to read in English or watc…

I know some people claim that GoTo travel campaign is a very effective economic stimulus program and many people have been traveling around while making use of the discount given for the campaign. Some people seriously seem to think that t…

Tonight my family and I went to a ramen shop for the first time in a long time. I think it’s risky to go out to eat during the pandemic, so I usually don’t do so but suddenly I felt nostalgic for going out together with my family. Also, I …

Today I heard from my wife that my father had suddenly resigned from his taxi driving job several days ago. My mother told my wife so when she dropped at my house. The news took me by surprise although I had been encouraging him to do so b…

I took a day off today to go see a doctor because my left chest slightly hurts. The pain started yesterday and hasn’t disappeared until now. Probably it’s nothing because it’s a quite mild pain. The good part of Japan’s healthcare system i…

We are supposed to talk in each language for 20 minutes. During the English time, you mostly listen to what I say, taking notes of necessary, and at the end of English time, show the points that I made mistakes, corrections or suggestions …

Pain is inevitable. There are moments you can’t avoid it no matter how hard you try. The world is full of pain, or a countless number of people suffering it. Nowhere to hide from it, with no exception. The world goes on with pain and suffe…

I made hígado encebollado for dinner. I referred to a couple of different recipes. In the end, I went for not adding tomato. It tasted like it was supposed to do, but I messed up with seasoning. It was too salty. Next time, I’ll add tomato…

I finished watching Eurovision some time ago. It was the first film that I watched after a long time. Lately I can’t keep watching a film for long at a time, so I only watch tv series of which one episode only lasts for less than an hour. …