And my thoughts are sad... 月見れば 千々に物こそ 悲しけれ わが身ひとつの 秋にはあらねど

心待ち About to watch Makoto Shinkai's "言の葉の庭". Wonder if it's good. Hope it's as good as 秒速5センチメートル. I am a confirmed optimist. ^^ Can one say "confirmed optimist"? Does it make any sense? Hm, how can you say it in Japanese? If possible, I'll try not to use subtitles. Every week, every new 漢字 I learn, makes it easier for me to understand this beautiful language - 日本語 (おっと, that sounded a bit pompous, sorry ^^). Anyway, 楽しみにしています!

Cold silence I have a feeling that somewhere above Russia, right in the sky, lives a very wicked giant. When he gets bored, he tears up his gigantic pillows with his bare hands and the feathers from the pillows slowly fall down to earth. As they fall down, they turn into fuzzy snowflakes. Yesterday almost 40 cm of snow came down on us. It seems our giant had a lot of fun. Did you know that when snow falls, it mutes the surrounding sounds? Sunday, March 24, 2013 was silent and cold.

「As you have noticed」 は日本語でなんと言いますか。 「As you have noticed, I am... (e.g. very accurate)」は日本語でなんと言いますか.考えてみてください.

「謝らなくてもいい」と「謝る必要はない」- 何が違いますか 謝らなくてもいい and 謝る必要はない- is there any difference? Is this what you say, when you are asking someone not to apologise for something? Are there any other ways (formal) of saying: please, don't apologise?