Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

Now I'm checking my blog post records. I've been updating this blog every day since the 20th October until now, the end of 2013. Updating everyday by writing something in foreign language has been a little bit hard work for me, and most articles during this period is nothing more than trivial things. I hope I'll be able to write something daily in the coming year too, and also hope I'll be able to write something more than trivial, something that give you information and more courage.

Basically, I go skiing by public transportation, for I don't have a car. Today I took a train, transferred to subway, and then transferred to bus. It takes more than one and half hours, and I'm on public transportation most of the time. As well as a half hour when I'm going to work, and twice as long, it's perfect time for reading on the way of skiing. Today I went my first skiing for this season, and I did enjoy skiing, and on the way to and back skiing, I also enjoyed reading of a biography of Edison. Reading speed was so fast for me as to advance about 20% of the book for today (I've only read less than 50% by 2 days ago since I began to read the book 2 months ago, and I couldn't tell the detail either even with such a slow pace), I didn't remember the details, but I'm so impressed by his hardworking as well as his inspiration. The remainder for the book is slightly less than 20%, so I hope I'll be able to read it through within the year 2013.

I plan to go out for skiing for tomorrow, December 30th. It is much later than past years in which my first skiing for the year is between December 7th to 15th, and by the end of year I had skied 3 to 4 times. Not only this is my first skiing for the season, it may have the meaning of rehabilitation of social activity as well as skiing itself. This decline of the pace of going skiing is firstly due to declining of my energy by aging, and due to the decline of my mental condition, struggling with coping with stresses of going to work and communicate with other people daily, and thirdly because, I've been feeling like giving up the vision to be active as a skiing instructor, being impossible to coping with mental health without lowering the priority of skiing activities. I even thought that giving up skiing altogether. It wasn't good idea in terms of stress coping. Skiing is a good way of recreation and have a good effect on my mind and body as long as I spare my physical a...

Weather forecasts say that a low pressure like a serpent (the cold front stretching to southwest surrounding Japan as if one) lies far northeast from Japan, and broad area of Japan may have heavy snow, especially the Japan Sea (western) side of northern Japan. Although my city lies in the Pacific (eastern) side of Tohoku (North East area of Japan), we, in a western suburb of the city, have already had much snow that requires snow shoveling. On Christmas, it was slightly "white" in our area in that we had snow a little bit, and a few days after Christmas, we have a lot of snow, which makes the holidays "super white".

In Japan, Christmas is not a holiday, so I went to work the days around Christmas. The Christmas trees in front of the central station disappeared after Christmas, but I saw the illusion of them. Today was the last day for the year, and I've been relieved that I was back without much trouble, although I was so tired that I sometimes limped while I hurried home. I wonder if I can sleep well tonight, for when I was back, the excitement I made today to sustain myself for the work won't wear off easily, even though I know now it's time I was able to relax. Even if I can't (I hope I can because with good sleep I can have quality holidays like going skiing), I need not to worry. Now I need not to be worried about the condition if it is good enough to go out and meet people. Now I'm getting used to the idea I'm also having holidays several days later than those who have holidays since Christmas, and can't help wishing them really happy holidays!

I can communicate in one language without being specially intelligent. Why can't I in two two languages in this way? In this way, the illusion was broken that I became specially intelligent because I mastered a foreign language. I've long been seeing in this illusion because in junior high school, high school, and entrance exams for collages or universities mastering  a foreign language was highly evaluated.

I'm not sure, but it may be due to my aging that I have sore eyes and knees most of this year. As to eyes, I'm careful not to go on working out over an hour without a rest. As to knees, take plenty of rest too and after recovered, acquire better logic to keep good posture longer by using muscle of my hip and abdomen.