Soup curry, a local special dish in Sapporo Today, I have had a great day! :) In morning, after breakfast, I enjoyed reading a book. I was so in to it that I forgot about time. I went to a gym from the afternoon, and took exercise in a sweat. It was pleasant! After coming home, I went to a restaurant with my family and we ate soup curry for dinner a little while ago. I was able to relax and spend time with them for the first time in a long time. By the way, soup curry is known as a famous dish from Sapporo. It is so delicious! I'll show you a picture. It look delicious, isn't it? Try it if you come to Sapporo! :) I hope that tomorrow will also a good day. ;)

The cherry-blossom front came! "Cherry Blossom Front" is a line graph illustrating the forecasted blooming dates of cherry blossoms in various locations of Japan. In every March, the Japan Meteorological Agency announces the timetable, and the areas where the blossoms will bloom on the same date are connected making lines. I live in a rather northern city of Japan, named Sapporo. So, every year. the blooming date is relatively late. And the day finally came yesterday! I got out of my house in haste when I heard the news that the cherry-blossom front came to Sapporo. But now if i think about it, I didn't have to be in a hurry! I love flower, especially one of my favorite flowers is cherry blossom, so I wanted to see it soon. I can't believe that there were a lot of snow and it was very cold here just the other day but the cherry blossom season came already. Time is really going fast. Many people stopped right in front of a cherry blossom tree, and look at the beauty for a while. And then, they took a picture of the tree while feeling warmth in a nice spring day. When I noticed that they were taking pictures with the Smartphone, I thought again that time is really going fast. I do want to stay young forever! Hehe :P I show you a picture I took yesterday! Cherry blossom is beautiful, isn't it? Thank you for reading this to the end. Would you be willing to correct my writing? :)

How much land in 'Roppongi' could you buy with 100 yen? (Rewrite) I just saw a TV program, where a man asked this question. In the show, people were talking about 'the value of 100 yen'. The man said, 'With 100 yen, you can get 3.3 pencils. With 100 yen, you can get 2.7 erasers...' He cited more examples, and one of them was 'With 100 yen, you could get __ of the land in Roppongi'. (By the way, Roppongi is the city center of Tokyo, and there are a lot of office buildings) Can you imagine how much you could buy? The answer is 0.4 ㎠ (0.4 square centimeter)! It's incredibly small! I thought it was very interesting, so I wanted to share it you:) (Special thanks to Kirsten-san!)

How large do you think you can buy the land of 'Roppongi' when you pay 100 yen? I just saw a TV program , a man asked the question of the title. In the show, people were talking about 'the value of 100 yen'. And the man said, 'With 100 yen, you can get 3.3 pencils. With 100 yen, you can get 2.7 erasers...' He cited more examples, and one of them is 'With 100 yen, you can get __ of the land in Roppongi.' (By the way, Roppongi is the city center of Tokyo, and there's a lot of office buildings.) Can you imagine how large? The answer is 0.4㎠ (0.4 square centimeter)! It's so so so so small! I thought it's very interesting, so I want to share you with that:)

Today's Diary 'I'm not curved!' I felt down today because of an unexpected occurrence. I usually chat with foreign friends on Skype to learn English and to teach Japanese. Today, probably around the noon, a man called me on Skype. By the way, I write my Skype ID on my profile on italki, so there're a lot of people I don't know in my contact address list. The man was one of them. I don't know him at all and we have never talked with each other. I thought, however, we just talked in English and Japanese then. First, we said hello and introduced ourselves in turn. He was a very nice guy, and we found a thing in common, 'weight training'. So, we had a lively conversation about it. And just then, he said, 'Why don't we talk on video call?', and I consented to the proposal. On the screen of my computer a Caucasian macho man was in a tank-top and he twitched his muscles of the chest. I thought he was just a funny person. And then, he said 'let me show your muscle.' I felt so embarrassed but I took my outerwear off and show him my muscle. Obviously, mine was inferior to his, but he admired mine. 'Let me show your leg muscle' he said. I have played soccer for a long time, so I was proud of my muscle of the leg. I changed my trousers into half pants and show him it. And then, 'I don't see it clearly. you should take the pants off.' I thought it was weird, so I refused. But he persisted with that. I ventured to ask him 'are you gay?' And then, he said 'I'm bisexual.' ... I hanged the video call up immediately, and blocked and deleted his ID from my contact list. First of all, I'm straight! I have a mustache, and some gay people have a mustache, while it may be true that, it's not necessarily that all the people who have a mustache are gay. I don't hate gay people, but I just want to learn English! I want to talk with girls...(mumbling)

My body composition [2015/03/15] <Physique> Weight: 167.11 lb. (Normal weight) Standard weight: 155.43 lb. The difference: +11.68 lb. BMI: 23.7 (Normal weight) <Fat> Body fat percentage(BFP): 13.2% (Not obesity) The BFP of arms: 13.4% (Normal) The BFP of legs: 12.8% (Low) The index of visceral fat: 55 (Not obesity) <Muscle> Muscle mass(MM): 62.39 lb. The MM of arms: 7.5 lb. The MM of legs: 29.32 lb. Muscle percentage(MP): 37.3% (Normal) The MP of arms: 43.3% (Rather high) The MP of legs : 55.1% (Rather high) <Metabolism, Bone, Moisture> Basal metabolic rate(BMR): 1768 kcal (Normal) Standard BMR: 1819 kcal Constructive bone quantity: 7.28 lb. Amount of moisture: 106.26 lb. <Personal information> Height: 5 ft. 10.47 in. Waist: 2 ft. 7.89 in. Age: 22 Sex: Male I like exercising! I really want to get into shape!

"May I propose a little toast?" What's the meaning? I saw this question when I was watching a movie. Please tell me the meaning. In addition, what kind of situations do you use this phrase in? Thank you :)

Difference between "acceptable" and "respectable" I saw the following passage: The Rothschilds are a very respectable family and their family members hold a number of responsible positions on the town council. In this context, can I use "acceptable" instead of "respectable"? In addition, if I can do that, could you tell me the delicate shades of meaning? Thank you :)

A interesting tendency I saw a interesting passage when I was studying Chinese today. The passage is written in Japanese; To put it simply in English, English-speakers who are the beginners of Chinese have a tendency that they can't use Kanji but they can pronounce Chinese well, while Japanese can't pronounce the language well but they can use Kanji. This tendency is caused by pinyin: the thing expresses the way of Chinese pronunciation with alphabet. English-speakers can understand it easily because they are used to seeing alphabet, but Japanese can't. On the other hand, Japanese can understand Kanji easily because they always use it too, but English-speakers can't. I felt this tendency was very interesting because I could know the cultural difference by studying the third country. Thank you for reading:)