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小道具

この夏、台湾でメガネを作った。大学時代までは両目とも2.0というのが自慢だったのに、歳とリーディングには勝てないもんである。コンタクトをつける必要性を感じるほど不便でもないが、教室で黒板の文字が見えないので、メガネを買った。
メガネをつけると性格が変わるのか...分からないが、左手の中指でずれ落ちたメガネを持ち上げたり、おもむろに外し布でゆっくり拭いたりと、メガネにまつわる動作が出来るのが結構うれしい。自分の表現方法の一部としてメガネという小道具をどう使うか、研究中である。

Number 111

( Korea and Travel )

In yesterday’s class, our teacher was telling us what phone numbers we should call to call an ambulance, or the police, or firemen etc. Then she put “111″ on the board and said “what do you think this number is for?” — Nobody could guess. She continued by saying “there used to be many of [...]

Hospital In Seoul

( Korea and Travel )

Seeing Michi blogging everyday, it feels like I should blog something more often, too.
I was sick a bit over the weekend and since there was an acute symptom, I decided to go to the emergency room on Sunday. They gave me necessary medication, and I had to go back to the same hospital to [...]

Happy Identity Crisis

Michi says that I have an identity crisis although I do not admit
that I do. He simply points out the fact that I attach myself more to Taiwan than to Japan. The more I think about my identity, the more confused I become about what it means to me. In a sense, I have a [...]

Random Thought on the Korean Language

( Korea and Languages )

Who said Korean pronunciation is easy? It may be relatively simple, but it still has some sounds that do not exist in Japanese. Ok. I have to admit that Japanese is a phonetically starved language. I envy the Korean language for being able to finish a word with a consonant, to be able to pronounce [...]