I always went to karaoke with my friends( Maybe twice a week lol) and learned lots of good songs. So today Im gonna introduce some of my recent favorite songs.
1. A thousand Miles
By Vanessa Carlton
Its really beautiful song. I like her voice.
2.Im like a lawyer with the way Im always trying to get you off(Me&You)
By Fall Out Boy
I know this title is sooooo long,(Titles of Most of their songs are so long somehow...lol) But this
song is awesome, not so heavy punk, so that you can listen to it also when you feel down.But
the problem is you cant sing this song at karaoke....X[ By the way this PV is really impressive!
Plz watch it!
3.Underneath your clothes
By Shakira
I knew the song when my friend sang this at karaoke.The lyric of this song is awesome.
4.So sick
By Ne-Yo
Actually I dont listen "R&B songs" so much.But when I heard this song(Again I knew the song
at karaoke lol) I was fallin love with this song!LoL really impressive lyric!
So these are some my recent favorite songs!If you hav free time,plz listen!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Alone at a time of danger
In this article, “Alone at a time of danger”, Peter Sidell criticizes the attitude of Japanese citizens toward affairs. To persuade his opinion of us he used two examples, the first one is “The murder of a young woman in Kawaguchi City, Saitama” and the second is “The affair of a raped young woman in Osaka”.
In the first example he questions two points.
1. Why did the neighbors do nothing to help the woman even though they heard her
screaming and a loud banging?
2. Why a coworker took two days to find the woman’s body even though he was
afraid that he has lost contact with her for a few days. Shouldn’t he have
reported to the police or checked if she was ok soon?
In the second example he questions a point.
Why did the affair happen even though all passengers on the train where the
woman and the man were looked on what happened?
By questioning these points, he blames the attitude of Japanese citizens toward affairs, saying “Is it too "troublesome" or "inconvenient" for people to help each other?”, and blames that Japanese society makes a point of just “the group” rather than “individual life”.
In the first example he questions two points.
1. Why did the neighbors do nothing to help the woman even though they heard her
screaming and a loud banging?
2. Why a coworker took two days to find the woman’s body even though he was
afraid that he has lost contact with her for a few days. Shouldn’t he have
reported to the police or checked if she was ok soon?
In the second example he questions a point.
Why did the affair happen even though all passengers on the train where the
woman and the man were looked on what happened?
By questioning these points, he blames the attitude of Japanese citizens toward affairs, saying “Is it too "troublesome" or "inconvenient" for people to help each other?”, and blames that Japanese society makes a point of just “the group” rather than “individual life”.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
The responce to the article by Kevin Rafferty
Now foreigners can enter Japan if they have a particular passport, but from Nov 20th, every foreigner has to be fingerprinted and photographed to enter Japan, which was adopted by Japanese justice ministry.
There are two reasons for the scheme from Japanese view of point, to prevent international terrorist activities, and to prevent the re-entry to Japan of deported and other aliens banned from entry.
Against this scheme some, especially foreigners, say it’s discriminatory and neglect of privacy against foreigners.
From foreigners it looks discriminatory, since they have to take this audit without reserve (There are few exceptions though.). But it’s not discriminatory from Japanese. By carrying out this scheme we can get more relief toward foreigners. Who can let unknown person enter your house without checking? It doesn’t mean denying the people, but we have to check to know if the person is safe enough to enter your house.
This is the responce to the article,"Not so welcome to Japan any longer" by Kevin Rafferty.
There are two reasons for the scheme from Japanese view of point, to prevent international terrorist activities, and to prevent the re-entry to Japan of deported and other aliens banned from entry.
Against this scheme some, especially foreigners, say it’s discriminatory and neglect of privacy against foreigners.
From foreigners it looks discriminatory, since they have to take this audit without reserve (There are few exceptions though.). But it’s not discriminatory from Japanese. By carrying out this scheme we can get more relief toward foreigners. Who can let unknown person enter your house without checking? It doesn’t mean denying the people, but we have to check to know if the person is safe enough to enter your house.
This is the responce to the article,"Not so welcome to Japan any longer" by Kevin Rafferty.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Today’ s article is about “Which minority groups face the worst discrimination in Japan? ”. In this article there are 6 people who are talking about discrimination in Japan. The groups of people which the 6 people think are discriminated in Japan are Chinese, Koreans, Black people, Handicapped people and “Burakumin”.
To this article, Mike Dewood wrote response. In this response he said he actually experienced to be discriminated in Japan.
I think actually discrimination happens because of our “preoccupation”. Usually people who discriminate against some groups or people don’t know about them so much. For example “Chinese” and “Korea”, we often hear they don’t have good impression about Japanese on TV. Actually I didn’t have good impression toward them because I heard such things on TV so many times, I think not a few people don’t have good impression toward them because of the same reason. But in most cases they have never talked to Chinese or Korean actually. As I told before, I didn’t have good impression toward them, but recently I had a chance to talk to Koreans and after talking to them I don’t feel that way any more.
I feel really sorry after reading “Ebb and flow of discrimination”, maybe the people who left in the post of Mike Dewood and who spit in his face just look at one side of “American” and don’t know about “himself” actually. I hope people won’t judge each other from just one side and these things will never happen again.
To this article, Mike Dewood wrote response. In this response he said he actually experienced to be discriminated in Japan.
I think actually discrimination happens because of our “preoccupation”. Usually people who discriminate against some groups or people don’t know about them so much. For example “Chinese” and “Korea”, we often hear they don’t have good impression about Japanese on TV. Actually I didn’t have good impression toward them because I heard such things on TV so many times, I think not a few people don’t have good impression toward them because of the same reason. But in most cases they have never talked to Chinese or Korean actually. As I told before, I didn’t have good impression toward them, but recently I had a chance to talk to Koreans and after talking to them I don’t feel that way any more.
I feel really sorry after reading “Ebb and flow of discrimination”, maybe the people who left in the post of Mike Dewood and who spit in his face just look at one side of “American” and don’t know about “himself” actually. I hope people won’t judge each other from just one side and these things will never happen again.
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