Kazusa Girl

Two girls hired for our ISH booth's coffee couter were so cute.

Especially Mika was cuter on the inside. Finding that the 5-day medical event was not so busy - rather boring - she casually studied her old world atlas at the counter when no visitor was around, saying that she wanted to enjoy a bit of "where are you from" talk with those medical professionals, 2/3 of whom were from abroad.

Impressed, I asked her where she was from then, and she pointed at Kazusa, far west side of Nagasaki, excitedly adding how beautiful the place was with sea and mountains and all.

Now the place has become one of my "want to visit at least once in my life" places.


私：　加津佐　って初めて聞いた。いいトコそう！
彼女：　そうなんです～。島原鉄道の最終地で結構有名なんですよぅ～

というわけで　
つい一緒に地図を見させてもらいました。

地図って、そこらの雑誌よりずっと楽しいと私は思う。

Sunny Side Down

7 stitches on the forehead
+ 4 books (essays)
+ 3 liters of icy cold tomato juice
+ 2 sq. meters of the outside world looking upside-down

= My 2006 Obon summer holidays


(do people still say "sunny side up" eggs??
just wondering)


五月蝿かった ・・・　「八月蝉」かった

Nicci mo Satchmo

I'm stuck
Can't move a step forward

So I sing,
"You say tomato..."


「二進も三進も」って
これもラテンぽくない？　ない？

こんなこと言ってる場合じゃないんですけど

Ichi-ca Bacci-ca

I think I'll give it "one or eight"
take a chance
not too hard but
in a junko-ish manner

イチカバチカ　ってラテンな響きだから
訳さなくても通じそうじゃない？
通じないかな・・・

などと　月曜の朝から考えている

Rhapsody in Blue

Sorting out old project documents,
my eyes instinctively caught
his blue-ink, hand-written comments
on a draft paper.
It was so artistic
I just couldn't throw it away


[手書き文字]

ザザっとしてて、けどトメ・ハネのメリハリはある大きめの強い字が好きで

具体的には　姉の字と　あと

「裏窓」の
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HER?"
あれ、彼の直筆ですよね？　

・・・ジミー、なぜそこまで素敵。