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I haven't watched all of Kore-eda's movies, but I have watched a few in the past. In each of his movies, I am always amazed by children's eye level of his cinematography. I watched "Like Father, Like Son (そして父になる)" at TIFF Lightbox yesterday.If my friend didn't text me about this movie showing a day before, I would have missed the opportunity to watch this then. There were only 10 some audiences

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I have purchased a domain name again and I started to use Wordpress to exhibit my artwork. Let's see where this takes me to. www.transgraphik.com

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Excluding some headphones I have purchased, I think this is my first Sony product after my MD (Mini-Disk) player back in the 90s. In 2000, I hated Sony's strategy to exclude Macs as Sony wanted to sell its PCs, Vaios, so I didn't purchase any Sony products. As we can see now, that was a bad decision and Walkman was totally killed by Apple's iPod. The reason why I bought a Sony product

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I am occasionally reading news in Japanese, Canadian, American, and Korean media to understand what is happening around my two home countries, but I often end up with getting confused between the media. The recent Japan and South Korea political relation is one of the mysteries to me. Japanese media don't tell the Korea-related news at all or in details and they often lack of insight commentaries

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It's 2014. It looks like I have been lazy to write anything in my blog over a year. Is this blog's mission accomplished? I didn't have any goals from the starting anyway so I guess it's still going.Oh, nope, my new year's resolution wasn't to quit eating fast food.

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Do you remember Napster? It was a file exchange application that was popular in the beginning of 00's. I used this app to download many songs that were not available to buy in North America. I have been complaining about this protected-by-the-copyrights-laws world. I am not saying that I will download things illegally. In fact, I am willing to purchase digital contents. I wish we had region code

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我よ 健康な時ほど鬱のふりをし 終わりを想像する 我よ 病気の時は苦痛に耐えれず いつも通り生きたいと思う 勝手だな、お前 生きられるまで生きろ アホ Hey, you pretending like being depressed especially when you are physically healthy and imagining an end of your life Hey, you When you are sick, you can't bare with the pain and you wish to live as usual You are such a selfish guy Live as long as you can You, stupid

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I have visited a hospital in Toronto last Friday because I got excessively dehydrated from the symptoms of stomach flu. This was the third time to visit the emergency as a patient in my life in Canada since 1998. I can say that I am quite (otherwise) healthy. I stole J's Friday evening from 6pm to 1am. The total length of my visit was 5~6 hours. It sounds like that Ontarians don't like their

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At work, I found a book to practice correcting my accents in English. I started to read a little bit and I talked to my colleague. My colleague was born in Canada and she is a native English speaker. She curiously asked me why I think I need to correct my accents in English. She pointed out my grammar errors in my speech, that is often missing articles and objects. J and J have already told me

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書く事も無いまま、放置していたこのブログ。気が付けば、もう年男でもなくなっている訳で。昨年はよく食べ、よく飲んだ。結果、日本の基準から言うと多分デブの部類に入る訳で。これじゃいかん！と思いつつ、少し絞ろうと思って、禁チップス宣言、そして、週3の20分間トレッドミル。 明けましておめでとう★ I have been abandoning my blog because I didn't have anything to write about. I am no longer "toshiotoko"(a person that has the same Chinese zodiac sign as the year). I have eaten and drunk a lot last year. As a result, I may be classified as an

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日本の政党一覧（順不同・一部、Wikipediaより） Political Parties in Japan (INPO/Partially, Source: Wikipedia, Translation by me (Non-official English name)) 民主党 Democratic Party 自由民主党 Liberal Democratic Party 公明党 The Komei Party みんなの党 Citizens' Party 日本共産党 Communist Party of Japan 社会民主党 Social Democratic Party 国民新党 Citizens' New Party 新党大地 New Party of the Earth 新党改革 New Party of Reform 新党日本 New Party of

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近々、ソーシャルネットワークの各アプリによって、ブログの方はかなり放置されています。私事ではありますが、日々充実しているのも、一つの理由かもしれません。書くことが無ければ、無理にそうする必要は無いでしょう。書きたい時のブログですから。 I am kinda abandoning this blog because of the other social network apps. Also, the fact that I have been busy with my life (in a good way) is another reason why I don't blog much lately. If I don't have anything to say,it should be that way. This is the blog for when I want to

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I am trying to grow my moustache now. No, it doesn't look as good as my father's. Oh well. I have better sideburns and beard instead. Father. I will probably never be one in my life but I often have a chance to think if I were a father recently. It's because of my partner, J. Luckily, this virtual dad feeling doesn't come to me 24/7. What kind of father would I be? Yesterday, I said

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When died, everything will end. Well, subjectively. The world around you will most likely continue to exist. When someone or something that you love is dying or died, I realise that death of my own really exists just around myself. That's a lesson that we can learn from owning a pet. I had spent only for 3 years with my cat that is dying in my life, but her presence was always welcoming and

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A man from the continent, a man from the peninsula, and a man from the island. A man from the continent had always ruled the peninsula and the island directly or partially by its advanced technologies and studies. This changed when the continent was invaded and interfered by the imperialism from the other end of the world. The island wasn't invaded by the imperialism luckily and the man from

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I can feel the air is moving. From left to right, up and down. In the apartment where I grew up, there were always draughty windows. I was 4 or 5 years old. My older sister was out and I was alone waiting for my mother or my sister coming home. The air brought so many smells to me through the draughty windows. I fell asleep on the floor beside my plastic toy train trucks. I smelt earth a

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So, it starts to rain. I can hear the sound of rain in my bed. It is one of the happiest moments. So relaxing ... Until it starts to rain harder. 雨が降り出した。 ベッドに居ながら、雨音が聞こえる。 至福の時。 とってもリラックスなんだけど。激しく降り出すまでは。

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Maybe, I want to live like a doughnut in an automated production line at a doughnuts factory. Everything is in a uniform. It's easy to walk on a guided walkway. Everyone looks the same. I just need to keep walking. Where does this automated line end? It's the end of the world, where water falls into the absolute darkness. The absolute giants are holding the earth where we stand on above

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Japan is currently having issues over disputed islands with 3 countries – China, Russia, and South Korea. The sea around the each island is very rich for fishing and there may be resources for energy (such as natural gas) in the area. South Korea is claiming an island in Japan Sea (East Sea) that it belongs to South Korea. Because of South Korea's nature of strong patriotism, South Korean

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When August starts in Toronto, you start to feel cooler air in the morning and the evening. I don't want to say it loud, but summer is ending. It has been a hot summer, so I could enjoy swimming outdoor and walking around the city. It was too hot this summer then I wasn't so keen to take a seat at the patio very much. I whisper, "summer is ending." I have been having too much fun but I

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Last Saturday, J and I went to Riverdale Park to swim again. We were at my apartment and I had a little sense of adventure then, so I suggested to take a different route to get from Eglinton station to Broadview station that is a nearby station for Riverdale Park. This ended up with a bad decision, but I personally think that this route is recommended only if you want to see

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While I am taking a shower, I think about fantasy and reality. Fantasy and reality contradicts each other, but they are parts of our life and we are living in a fair balance between fantasy and reality. We need to fantasize to live in the reality sanely. In this society, (it's such a small number of people but) there are some people who can take their fantasy full-time, 24-7. Having a such

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I didn't know that you were still standing there. Was it winter 1999 when I was a student at Centennial? I brought my Casio's digital camera to take pictures for my art assignments. It was freezing cold but I walked with my Mini Disk player on, from my basement apartment in the Annex all the way down to Spadina Quay. I was young so I could walk forever. I took some pictures of you. I don't

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If you are in Japan and keep digging straight through the earth, you will hit the land of Brazil? Who can dig the diameter of the Earth? It is just a daydreaming like in a high school classroom in the afternoon. もし日本にいて地面を真っすぐ掘り下げていったら、その先にはブラジルがある？ 誰が地球の直径の距離を掘れんねん？ 午後の高校の教室でのただの空想。

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What colour were you? I was light green when I was a teenager and then I became blue. I turned into purple for a short period of time and I was orange all after that. I have been painted over and over. What colour will you be next? I was just grey before getting any colour, you know, a dull, monotonous colour. It just appears on the surface. My colour in the core won't change at all. In

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