Japanese pension system Most of all Japanese wakers have to pay the money for the pension. It is our obligation as a Japanese citizen, but we have actually doubled that we really can receive it when we retired or reached certain age. Because the pension system has began to collapse. In fact, pension beneficiaries income(amount) of the pension has got lesser and lesser in spite of the increasing the price in addition, our birth rate has kept decreasing. There is a condition for receiving the pension, which is that we have to pay for more than twenty-five years otherwise we would lose the right to receive the pension. Many people can't afford to pay the money for the pension at the moment, but there is a way that we can go back as long as ten years and pay the money for it. It means we can pay the money when we are affordable to pay it. On the hand it is proven that Japanese government have enough money for the pension so they desperately collect the money from its citizen. If my memory is correct, it was just as far back as five year we can pay when I was young. But Japanese government has extended extra five years so that we can trace ten years for paying.

I'm struggling with the word choice when I speak. I've memorized a lot of English words for the test. If I passed that exam I would be able to read CNN and BBC news articles. That is the main purpose of this test for the English learners. They can increase vocabularies and put the grade of that test on their resume when they look for job. I've been increasing vocabularies but I got confused which words I can apply to my casual conversation, which words are used for writing or the formal conversation. My friend said I have trouble with word choice when I speak. How can I tell the difference?

"a" and "the" are really confusing Japanese English learner. I know how to use "a" and "the" before nouns but I don't understand well. "a" is used for only one thing which is nonspecific also general speaking while "the" is used for the thing we already talked or knew about it, which means the is use for specific things. The is also exemptions such as the moon, the sun and the universe. There are recognized by people that these are only one. I will try to write using these two articles. I went shopping with my daughter at the store she have always been asking me to take her. She wanted to buy a blue, lowrise pair of jeans but that store didn't have the good pair she wanted. My daughter and I were very hungry and decided to go to a restaurant when we went shopping in center of Tokyo. We didn't know what kind of restaurant that area has so we searched it on the net and found the good one. My computer was finally out of order so I decided to buy a computer. When I went to the store there are many kinds of computers such as brand-new, second hand, branded and non branded. I was at a loss to choose but I picked up the pink, non branded, second hand computer. There are any words such as "a" and "the" in Japanese so I'm really confused when I write and speak English. I know how to use but I can't apply these well in the sentences I make.

Did you satisfied with the ending of Breaking Bad I watched all the seasons of Breaking Bad. At the beginning, I couldn't feel sympathy with the main character. I didn't like whole scenery and atmosphere of the drama because it's dismay. But without knowing myself, I was getting into the story. It is totally unique and unpredictable what the ending of it. No matter what reasons, making money from illegal way can't any excuse and beautify the story. I couldn't guess the ending at all but it was not betray my expectations. If you haven't watched that drama yet, you don't understand but I highly recommend the people to watch it. I read an article about the figure of main characters with the detachable suck of money and blue crystal are selling alongside children's toys. I think it's not good idea. I like the characters but It's a little complicated when it comes to be made into an action figures of drug dealer like another action figures.

My son got a girlfriend. My 19 year-old son got a girlfriend. She made him change a lot to be better person. It was first time for him to meet the person who inspired him so much. He had has some girlfriends but any of them couldn't keep him because he likes hanging out with his friends more than dating with his girlfriend frequently.( He is a little selfish and childish may be) My son and I are not typical mother and son. We can talk many things like a friends. Yes," like a friends" which mean including that I lost power as a mother and can't handle him anymore but be keeping good relationship. One day, he talked about the relationship between him and his girlfriend are in a crisis. I don't want them to break up because his current girlfriend is the one who can handle him well and make him grow up. There is her birthday in next month. My son started selecting the gift for her but I happened to know that my son have no sense of choosing the gift. I decided to help him to do that even I didn't want to. In generally, a girl is really happy when she receive the gift from the person she likes but if she happened to know the details of the item she receive, it's not good. Especially the price, grade or quality. My son choosed the necklace on the net. It was cute but the quality was not so good. It has three grades. One of them is made off K10 , another one is made off K 14 and last one is made off K 18. I would like to tell him what things he have to forces on when he choose the thing that he would really like to buy for his girlfriend. I recommended him to buy the highest grade. If he can't afford to buy, it's better to choose lower price of thing but the highest quality in it. Of course the most important thing is his feelings for her though. He bought the necklace which has the moon shape of pendant made off K 18. I don't want him spend a lot of money for the girls but rather than that I don't want him to be stingy guy in the future. There are many guys who buy expensive stuff for the girls but nothing rerun to them. I don't want my son to be common guys like that but I don't want him to be cheap on his girlfriend when he find out the girl who is deserve receiving the gift from him. I pushed him to buy that necklace but I have a little bit complicated feeling as a mother. Well, I'll stop giving advice and see my son how he grow up with his girlfriend.

Oh my mother! Oh my mother! My mother is careless person. All my family member know that but finally she made a big mistake and made us freeze. I have two brothers and one of them got remarriage lately. We are living so far each other and enable to get together so easily but we could have dinner together and having fun our conversations. We were relaxing and trying to catch up our recent conditions and suddenly it happened, when my mother served us fruits, she called my brothers ex-wife name to new one unintentionally. Good atmosphere changed into cold and inflated nervous air was spreading out in the entire living room. Nobody fixed it and feeling dull and becoming to end of our family reunion.

I have been the US for a month I visited to my friend's house in the US and stayed for a month. It was third time to go to the US but this time, I had to change the airplane at Cicago to Nashville in Tennessee made me get nervous. I printed out the map of Cicago airport, duplicate of e-ticket and some of the information but things were going well and arrived smoothly. When I arrived in Nashville, my friend were already there to pick me up. It's been for four years since I met him last. First five days, I caught a clad and not good condition but after I recovered from it, we went to Florida Orland. It is really nice place and we could enjoy sightseeing. My this trip was completely on my vacation and I have many good experienced there. I tried to have conversations with my friend's family members and his friend but I couldn't expose well my expression about the things I wanted to. I stayed for a month, it was not short as a vacation but even though I had many memorable expariences there, my memories are fading away a little by little along with going back to normal day. I almost put all of the things back in place from my luggage. I really miss my friend and his grandmother. She treat me like one of the family member. I was comfortable staying her house. I promised her that I definitely come back her house in 2014 and she said anytime is okay for me to come back there but she added that there is no guarantee that she alive at then because she is 94 years old. My friend laughed and said she has been saying for twenty years since when she was in her seventies but she is still spanky so I don't have to worry about it. I really want to meet her again and short trip with my friend in 2014.

The generation Gap When I was a teenager, many adults called us " Aliens", because they had trouble understanding young people thoughts. But I was thinking we are not so complicated why can't they understand us or they don't want to understand us? I thought at the time. I promised to never become an adult like people around me, especially, like my mother. However, kids are growing up as they are seeing their parents and learning many things from them. After I became a mother, I thought I would like to show them something like my parents did to me. My motivation of studying English came from it. But contrary my intention, my kids just use me as an easy dictionary when they work out with their homework. That is the reality. Recently, I don't understand my own teenage kids thinking. Even though I was the owner of young peoples clothing store and know about young people's fashion. We ague about many things and never agree. I often think why they don't listen to me? why they don't notice that they waste of time and spend a lot of time to fix their hairstyles instead of steady? Who cares about so much such small things about them? Yes, I completely fall in the gap of the generation while I was assuming that my soul and spirit are younger than my real age. When I turned on the TV and saw young entertainers, when I listen other teen's story from my friends, I feel there is big thing standing between my generation and current teens. It is definitely called "Generation Gap" If our generation was alien, I would call them "super monster" I finely realized I had become just like my mother but I hope they find out an importance in studying new things or keep studying and it'll makes their lives more enrichment in the future.