いよいよ明日はハワイの日本語ラジオ放送局KZOO主催のカラオケ・フェスティバルです。
例年通りシェラトン・ワイキキ・ホテルで催されます。
8月に行われた予選を通過したファイナリスト53名が800人以上の観客の前で、のどを競い合います。僕は1990年代に流行った中西保志さんのヒット曲「最後の雨」を歌います。ポップス系の曲なので、ステージコスチュームは黒のブーツ、黒のジーンズ、黒のタンクトップに黒地に赤の模様の入ったシャツを着ます。この日のために仕入れてきました。心を込めて歌います。
いよいよ明日はハワイの日本語ラジオ放送局KZOO主催のカラオケ・フェスティバルです。
例年通りシェラトン・ワイキキ・ホテルで催されます。
8月に行われた予選を通過したファイナリスト53名が800人以上の観客の前で、のどを競い合います。僕は1990年代に流行った中西保志さんのヒット曲「最後の雨」を歌います。ポップス系の曲なので、ステージコスチュームは黒のブーツ、黒のジーンズ、黒のタンクトップに黒地に赤の模様の入ったシャツを着ます。この日のために仕入れてきました。心を込めて歌います。
先週末、月に一度催されているカラオケ同好会の集まりに出席し、開始前の数分間をお借りしてバイオリンを演奏させてもらいました。曲目は「白鳥」「千の風になって」「荒城の月」の3曲でした。まだ初心者レベルですが、暖かく迎えて頂きました。これからもできるだけ機会を見つけて、人前で演奏する練習を続けたいと思います。

This week has been extremely stressful for me. I seem to have come up with one problem after another, and I am so thankful for the weekend break. I am even more excited that I have but two more days of work remaining before I’m headed off for a much needed vacation. My plan originally was to go with my husband to Japan, but unfortunately we were unable to find a way to get there on an economically sound budget. We are trying to save money for a future investment and therefore are very cautious of our present spending habits. It’s a shame the Japan trip fell through because I really wanted him to have the opportunity at a first-hand experience in the land I dearly remember since my departure from there in 2004. I just know he would have loved it as I do. Now we are forced to rethink our vacation plan at the last minute. We have been bouncing different ideas about where else we could go. My husband thought we should find another foreign country to visit so we can use the passports we went through the trouble of obtaining because we had thought we would need them. He is not much of a traveller as I am and has never required the use or seen the need for one. It took months of poking and prodding on my part to get him to apply. My thought was to stay local and visit one of the neighbour islands right here in Hawaii. I’ve always wanted to see an active volcano and the Big Island provides that chance. Another idea was to visit one of the lesser known island countries like Fiji. Wherever we decide to go I’ll be happy regardless because at least we will get to go somewhere together. Who knows, maybe there is still a way to make it to Japan.
さて、今日は全体のサークル活動がお休みなので、5人で冬ライブに向けて練習です。ベルトーン(?)が苦手な私。どうにもコツがつかめず。メンバーさん、ごめんちゃい。
でも、反復練習のおかげでもうちょっとでできる気がする。個人練がんばる! 次合わせたとき、「なんなん?ばっちりやん!!」とみんなで言いたい(笑)
あと一ヶ月ちょい。11/22にむけてがんばるぞーー。来週はとろ家で鍋パーティー。アカペラは信頼関係ですからね、親睦深めますよ。鍋パ楽しくなるといいなぁ〜。しかし…か、片付けなきゃ。
I currently live at home with my mother I know crazy right. I really feel that paying rent is just throwing away money, you have no benefit for it. So what I do is I save what I can and try not spend lavishly. Recently my girlfriend wants me to move out and in with her, which I am really considering. It will be much more difficult in this economy to find a place and also to get financed. I am confident that I will be able to move out by march of next year. I have been looking around and I got to say the fun is in the hunt. I have some friends that are looking for roommates which gives us some options in looking for a place. Ultimately I would like to get my own place soon. I think that I can make that happen within the next few years. I’m thinking that with gas prices being as high as they are moving into town might just save me some time as well as money. Oh well we will see!
iraira… irairaira… 落ち込むし、イライラするし、一体最近のこの沈みようはどうしたんだ。こんなにも気分のムラがある自分、あんま好きじゃない。と思ってたら、なるほど
あれ と これ と それ が、原因かなと納得した。そんな日に限って拍車をかけて今日の準夜勤はごった返してるし。そんな時に同期が、「どうにもならんと思ってるやろ。 どうにかなんねん。」
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「な、オレの言った通り、どうにかなったやろ。」 偉そうに。たしかに…ホントその通り。悔しいけど。ビビッて、へこんで、ブーブー言ってた自分の時間と労力が勿体ないと思った。
以前お伝えした母の畑から大量のさつまいもが届きました。どれもこぶりなのがチョイスされていて、焼き芋専用さつまいもです。今週末あたりに、仁淀川沿いの川原で焼き芋祭りですね。秋、秋、秋です。
ONとOFF。職場ではON。カチ。
OFFになったときのこの無表情がたまらなく虚しい時があります。
挑まないと何にも解決しないんだよ〜。逃げています。
今日は10月16日、この秋初めての霜注意報がでました。朝方の温度は華氏36度(摂氏1.5度)の予想です。
真夏の日本で1ヶ月過ごして、9月23日、米本土で最初に着陸したミネアポリスで、黄色に色変わりした木の葉を見たときは、やはり驚きました。うっかり数ヶ月失ったような、それとも努力することなく余分に獲得したような、なんとも不思議な気分がしました。
それにしても、見慣れた景色が日に日に色を変えていくのを見ることが出来るとは、なんと贅沢なことでしょう。
しかし、自然の饗宴とは無関係に、人間社会では思わしくない景気に加え、まもなく大統領選挙と、ここしばらくは暑い時期が続くようです。
(ちなみに、10月16日の朝の温度は華氏32度(摂氏0度)まで下がりました)。
I was working and I saw that I had a request for me. I love this but it also puts a little unwanted pressure for two reasons. The first is that I didn’t recognize the name, so I might not remember the party. I try to remember everyone of my guests but there is just too many. Secondly there is a little pressure to perform as great as you did the last time. Sometimes your just so ON that you can do no wrong, then when the guests return the expect you to just perfect again although I try to be everytime it can put a ton of pressure. To my delight it was my girlfriend trying to surprise me and surprise me she did! I have told her in past not to come in because I was embarrassed to serve her. I want her to be impressed with my service but what if she is not? As the evening went on I could tell she was analyzing my service and judging me. For me being under the spot light makes me a little tight and for me to perform at my best I need to be loose. Later that night she told me that I really do a great job and she enjoyed watching me work. She said that I look so happy doing what I do and look as though I’m having so much fun at work. I think now she can respect what I do! Her mother though is really Japanese and thinks only of her daughters well being, to her me being a server is beneath them. I’m not sure how I will win that battle but I will try!