Norah Jones’s so cute! can’t believe she’s turning 30 this year!

I’ve finally found a Karate place in this town! One of my classmates in my English school goes there.

I’m gonna go take the trial lesson tomorrow and see how it goes. sure, gonna love it cuz believe it or not, the teacher in the Karate plave used to practice in WORLD OYAMA KARATE in New York, which i loved in San Francisco!!

What a coincidence!! small world!

oh, I really do miss people who I practiced with in San Francisco.

was in Okinawa on my birthday!!

just awesome!

swam with them.

one textmassage　reminded me of something important today. It was from a student who’d come to our rehab center as a med-internship student. He said he liked the way I treated my patients and was hoping that I was still doing the same.

I’m not sure what made him like my treatment, but I was really glad that he said that and he used to follow me and observe my treatment even though I had the least work experience in our rehab center and he could choose whoever he wanted to follow. he came to me so often that his superviser even told him to observe every therapist equally. Since our hospital is kind of big one, we have bunch of students for these kind of internship programs almost all the time, but usually the students think they should follow the therapists who have long work experience(or, experienced-looking therapists, which appears to be the most important factor, and which is totally opposit to me )

of course, i learn myself and do my best, but am never confident about my treatment.

he gave me a bit of confidence.

sometimes i can’t keep my motivation and just get by at work, having a lot on my plate and dealing with my laziness.

he reminded me that I should at least enjoy working and keep smiling.

take it easy, ppl!

peace,

It’s been about 2 weeks since i broke up with my boyfriend.
He was the first one who tought me that it is easy to trust someone.
that had never been easy for me.
but he proved without any effort, word, time or anything.
i don’t know how he did that. he was just there, being him. and somehow i knew that he would never hurt me. he would be the one for me.

and he’s left. the decision was a part of him, i know.
this decision is what the person who i trust would not avoid to make.

i still don’t know if i can get over this.

or, i don’t even know if i should get over this and move on.

this might be the last chance for me to stop to think about it.

he’s left.

Today, I went see the movie “Departure(OKURIBITO)”, which recently won the Academy Award. A guy in the movie asks himself, “Why do we all struggle, knowing that we die in the end?” Another says, “one’s death is like a GATE, which he goes through in his life.”
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By the way, I’ve finally got my master’s diploma. Very impressive moment. I’ve been going for it, even loosing some other things instead. Since I didn’t attend the graduation ceremony, today, the day that I received the diploma, is my graduation’s day.
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Graduation is also expressed with the word “gate” or “departure” in Japanese.
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Every time I finish something and start something new, going trough a “gate”( like graduation from college, leaving Japan for the U.S., coming back to Japan, or leaving my home town for my new job), I feel excited rather than missing. Of course I do miss things, though. Just my expectation always wins. Expectation for the things ahead of the gate.
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Spring is a season of leaving and starting. A lot of things change. A whole bunch of gates.
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It might have been some sort of destiny that I watched the movie on the same day of my graduation.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/03/02/nyregion/1194838289252/snow-day-in-new-york-city.html

some kids getting bunch of snow from the sky, having fun
and
another kid getting bunch of boms from the sky, losing his eye and arm
in the world at the same time.

NO WAR.

I’m stuck in a library after work, dealing with my master thesis.  I’m pretty much half-dead. 

hopefully, I’ll be done with this  in the end of  Feb.  and be enjoying whateve i’m putting away now.

 

I’m looking forward to getting in touch again soon with all my friends who I’m missing so bad now.

i saw these fireworks from the very close distance.

i can’t appriciate that enough.

i could even see them reflexing on the surface of the sea , which is very rare for Japanese crowded fireworks festivals.