Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

It was a hot day today, but when I went to the first floor at lunchtime, it was raining outside. It was not until after I was back home that I knew that the rain in the area the office building was so heavy. I didn't know the rain was so heavy, but at least I knew it was rain because I had a chance to look outside. My colleague, who wasn't left office floor at all perhaps had no chance to look outside, so chances are she didn't know it was rain outside at all around this noon. I'd like to ask if she knew if I remember tomorrow.

When I go to work today, suddenly a woman next to me was surprised and left her seat. Another woman in front of me, although not standing up, looked panicked. Soon afterward, there was a buzzing sound and I saw a small beetle. Fortunately it wasn't one which gave off bad smell, so I picked it up and released it outside from one door when the train arrived at the next station. I was surprised because it was unlike ones really dangerous or harmful, I knew it doesn't do any harm except for its buzzing noise, but for many people, the buzzing sound and the movements of six legs especially when it was on its back.

To bathe enough time to make my body heat high, I counted up and counted down. First, I counted in Japanese 1 to 100 twice, and then counted down once from 100 to one. Considering the pace of counting, it took a little bit more than 5 minutes. After I washed my body I bathed again and counted down in English from 100 to 1. I guess it took twice I had done in Japanese. When I counted down to 80 (eighty), the next number I came up with instantly was ninety-nine (99) and after thinking a little while, the next number should be 79 (seventy-nine). Besides that, I found it difficult to count down from 8, 7, 6. That's what never happens when I speak in Japanese. Counting down is quite simple, but tells a lot about how I'm fluent with a foreign language.

The other day I told that I have a piece of cacao-rich chocolate to control appetite. Since the stock has become scarce, I bought a new box of chocolate right after I left work for today. It was not 86% cacao I bought the other day, but it was 95% cacao. On the way to the station, I ate a piece of it. It was milder than 99% cacao chocolate I ate years before. It tasted chocolate just as a piece of 86% cacao, which was almost as bitter and slightly sweeter, did, but it wasn't sweet at all. While I couldn't enjoy it as sweets, it gave me the energy to stand the train from work.

Yesterday I bought computer glasses (JINS PC) because the nose holder of my old ones are broken. There were some choices, but I chose the same one with same color, because I had been satisfied with its fitting and there was no better color I thought match better. I bought the old ones last August, so they lasted a little bit less than a year. Not bad for its price, around 4,000 yen, considering proper glasses cost at least 20,000 yen.

I haven't ridden a bike for 3 years since right after the great earthquake of March 2011. The last time I rode a bike, all public transportation was down, and there were no way to make contact with anyone in my workplace. Bike was the only feasible way to reach the office in time on the Monday. When I got to the office, one of the staff member was there and told me that employees didn't have to go to work until the company made contact with them. It was the last time I rode a bike. It was because tires, wheels and brakes of my bike were worn out. After public transport was recovered, I didn't feel like riding a bike taking the trouble to fixing the problems since then. I had already ridden the bike more than 10 years, and I was thinking that if I ride a bike again, it would probably be a road racer, thinking of participating in a triathlon. Today, I went to the city to look for a bike, because I felt like riding one again, and my bike doesn't work well any more. ...

I looked up how to use an air conditioner when sleeping. I learned that lowering body heat is a good way to have a good sleep, and to lower body heat, raise it before you want to sleep, by bathing or taking a mild exercise like walking. Now it's time to bathe. It'll be 8 P.M. after I'm back from the bathe. 10 P.M. will be the target time to go to sleep.