هل عندك هاتف؟ عندي هاتف هل هزا ماء النيل؟ شربت ماء النهر.

This must be a pen

Everybody makes mistakes, and especially when you try to write foreign languages. I do very much, of course. That said, we cannot help laying eyes on some funny product names. They don't mistake --- they don't even try to be correct. The grammatical correctness is not important, because a foreign language functions as a sign for exoticism or a [false] pedigree certificate:

"Je préfère des sons chauds" ("I prefer hot sounds")

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"Viva Nap" sanitary napkin.

Help her find a better hobby.

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"Aid Helper" adhesive bandage.

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And finally comes :

"Aid Helper Supporter".

and who assists that supporter? Again, don't blame nor laugh at foreigners for mistakes if they want to communicate. The examples above are not for communication. They are not for English speakers, but they are signs/designs.

Matsuken Samba  : Shogun plays Samba

First, see this ---
A shogun with golden kimono plays samba. homepage
Actually, he, Ken Matsudaira, is a TV actor famous by a drama Abarembo Shogun, in which he plays a role of Shogun.

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A wiki-like system. To try a demo, click the link above.

My DSL is disconnected frequently

I'd been happy in October with my 5Mbps DSL. Now it slows down to 128kbps plus repeating half-a-minute disruptions, followed by 10sec ephemeral connections.

Ô vraiment marastre Nature,
Puisqu'une telle c'nnexe ne dure
que du minuit jusques à 00:01!

Now I am posting with trad 40kbps modem. I know that the situation is far worse in the rest of the world, however, this instinct toward the speed... something druggy is here.

My vote set

(murder, abortion, gay) = (NG, OK, OK)
I still understand of the people who insist: (NG, NG, NG), (NG, NG, OK) or (NG, OK, NG) because those theories are at least consistent, if not approvable.
What is incomprehensible is that there are people with (OK, NG, NG).
The word pro-life is an irony.

On that election

I had not found a good word to describe my impression before I saw a logo of a toilet roll package sold in Japan:

Peter Jennings for President

Not really. Or whoever.
When the automatic voting machines, ie machines for vote and machines who vote, are counting and recounting each religion, Mauritania is fighting against the illiteracy. (Agence mauritanienne d'information).

Eskerrik asko,

Blex

For pro-Bush American citizens

You have said ``Leave us alone. This is our country. '' ...
One thing to consider: this world is not only yours. Once, black people, or women, they did not have right to vote. Now they have it, provided if they have American citizenship. You might think it's natural, but that's not the whole story. A presidental election of a country usually affects the country only. If this were the case, you could vote for anybody. However, you like it or not, America is a country whose policies might, say, benefit or kill , us people in the rest of the world. What's important here is that we (the rest) don't have right to participate directly in that American political process which would affect our future.
Though I know my writing is poor, I wrote this because I cannot help but hope.

Nodame Cantabile  #11

will be published January 13th 2005, according to the author. This info was on the author's site. That site also shows some extras, ex. this.

Who is loyal supporter of Bush?

Osama bin Laden.
Osama adresses; Americans get scared; vote for Bush; `Beat those Arabs!'; `Yankee go home!'; FOX News! Al-Jazeera! captives! weapons! found! misreport!
Good job, Osama.

Is Bush wired?

PopuloCheat™ Receiver GWB-2004 Not suitable for use in the presidential elections

Alumni meeting

Everybody except me has grown. My first love is cute even today. And I -- shemelessly confessed my past love to her. She smiled back, and said to me that she was happy to hear that. Maybe that is an end of the story, but I was also very happy that she's become a wonderful woman as expected.

Boring for gift

Recently I was reading many blogs by clicking 'Next Blog' button and I found that so many people use the word ``boring'' in their own blog, e.g. `A boring day' etc. Unfortunately, those blogs themselves were also boring at the point that all their borings are displayed in the same way. So I have made some gifs to be used in blogs when you feel something boring. , , and or .

What kind of person at your current age did you think you would be, when you were 10 years old?

Or, with 20 years old? Are you very person as predicted before?
I didn't think I manage to live today. Old friends have changed a lot. They are adult now. They are great. For me, nothing has changed. This depressive person walks alone like a horn of rhinoceros.

Tout le monde en parle

Serge Raffy, Khaled

L'immobilier au Japon

Est-ce qu'il y a quelqu'un qui veut habiter à Tokyo? Trop cher? Je vais en entreprendre.

David Beckham dislikes parsnip

Fuji TV (Japan). In a feature Kuwazu girai oh of a TV variety show, each of two celebs eats four dishes that [s]he claim his/her favorite are, but only one of four dishes is actually what [s]he dislikes. Today's match is fought between David and Utada. For your info, Utada's unfavorite was Hamburger steak; the reason is because she hates demiglace.

Actually, it is a little easy for Japanese to guess what Chinese newspapers say just by reading characters.
Following is taken from Google!news (HK):

學者指日本成常任理事國最大障礙是歷史問題(中央通訊社)

Scholar pointed out that the biggest barrier for Japan to become a Permanent member of the Security Council is the problem about history

“統一聖戰組織”再次威脅處死英國人質(新華網)

`Unified Jihad Organization' menaces British hostage again with death

英媒體評布什在聯國發言意在大選(香港文匯報)

British media comments that Bush's speech at UN aims at Presidential Election