Maitta! Always - Daily Amazing Confusions -

Listen, listen, listen ...... This is an advice from a English teacher who has influenced my learning style of language. After taking his advice, I listened to his lesson audio files and news spoken in English over and over again. I'm not sure if this has enabled me to speak English without efforts, but at least I have been much more familiar with spoken English as well as written English. In this week, I listened and listened on the train to work as usual, but it wasn't spoken English. I listened to a soundtrack of a video game, my favorite genre of music. I've been so tired recently that I didn't want to listen to any spoken language except for ones essential to my daily life and my work. Instead, I wanted to focus on listen to music to feel better. This is a rare thing since I took the teacher's advice. I noticed that I have listened to spoken English almost every day for 6 years, without any 3-day break. There may be some days I didn't listen to music, but...

I work on a laptop at work, and at home I like to play video games, so caring my eyes is one of my concerns. I often use eye drop when my eyes sore or become dry. Sometimes warming or cooing my eyes is more effective then eye drop. I warm my eyes, sometimes taking advantage of hot water of the bath, or the heat of hot canned coffee, or sometimes I microwave a wet towel for some 10 seconds, take it out, and put this hot wet towel on my eyes. I feel much better in the eyes especially when I'm tired with long time computer work or I'm about to begin to work.

The other day I had to do my work on my laptop without a mouse. The laptop was equipped with a touch pad as a pointing device, so, I managed to do my daily work. At the same time I realized that I depend so much on the mouse in my work on laptop. At work I select pieces of text hundreds of times to copy (or cut) and paste so the accuracy of the pointing device is important. With a mouse, I can select a piece of text with accuracy. With a touch pad, however, I can't be so accurate as I use a mouse. Also, a touch pad is not as handy as a mouse, and I tend to resort to more keyboard shortcuts than when I use a mouse. Through a workday without a mouse, I felt that a mouse is indispensable when I copy and paste information hundreds of times a day.

Yesterday kids were playing with Ripstik in the lunch time at church. The way they balanced was similar to that of snowboard. I thought it might be fun, but I thought twice, thinking that it was not on the snow, just as I go to skiing, and it would be much more painful if I fell. On the snow, it won't be much painful when I fall, if the way of falling is not terrible.

The first thing which arrived home was a CD Atelier Totori Original Sound Track. The other thing, books and a game disk, will probably arrive in this week. Pleased with music, listening through a CD, as well as through game plays, healed me much. This made me search related CD of other Atelier Series, and other game music CDs from Gust, like Ar Tonelico, which was also my favorite, Co. and finally noticed an interesting thing. Many of game soundtracks are now available at Amazon MP3 store. These items has been available since just one month ago. I had been shocked at the high price of some used soundtracks, so these MP3 version soundtracks motivated me to buy some.

I ordered yesterday some books, a game software and a soundtrack of another game in Amazon. One of the book is about Microsoft Access and it's a Kindle ebook. The other books are textbooks of business manner tests, and the tests in the past. I bought each item from different store, so deliveries are separated. Probably I'm going to receive 5 deliveries in the next 7 days, before, or perhaps after the "Golden Week".

When being taught a lesson at work, (and in the past at school and at home) I feel so much pain that I almost cry out loud. I feel a sharp feeling like a pain then, but I can't describe where I have such a pain. In elementary school when I cried out loud, some teachers and some classmates said that I cried out loud I wanted to draw attention. Even I myself had believed that I wanted to draw attention because many people around me said so. To be sure, for a few time I did really wanted to draw attention, but in most cases, I wanted to cry out loud because I felt such a sharp feeling like a pain, I feel when I make a mistake and am taught a lesson, but I can't explain where is my pain and whether it's really pain. Today on the train back home, I felt such an acute feeling, it wasn't nowhere in my body, and even not in my heart either, and if I have to tell where is the nearest, I felt such a pain 2 to 3 meters off in front of my eyes, obviously not a part of my body. Th...