busy.. busy >_<"

ohisashiburi mina san .. long time no see ^^;
It has been a long time since the last post in this blog, but I'm really sorry, lately I was very very busy that I sometimes haven't had time even for completing the post I started writing it after Eid Al-Fitr !! and in most of the these days I don't have time for watching even one episode of Anime !! many things happened with me the last 2 months; maybe I'll talk about them later, but I wanted to tell you that I'm still alive - for now :p - and I still have the intention to post more & more because there're many topics I want to share & discuss with you .. so wait please & keep checking my blog ^_^

Question : who can guess the topic of the next post ?
Hint : it's about one of the Animes I like (^_^)b

Technology (o_O) !!!

　

Omoshiroi Kanji 2 : 雨

For the second time : Ohisashiburi* mina san .. sorry for not posting for a long time ^^;
* ohisashiburi : it's been a long time; long time no see

Last time in the first post of this series I talked about my favorite kanji ( 愛 ) which means ( love ) ... This time I'll talk about another interesting kanji which is ( 雨 ) .. its reading is ( ame ) and it means ( Rain ) .
　
I like this kanji because I think it somehow resembles the view of rain , look to the dots and the way of drawing them .. the other reason that make this kanji special to me is its presence in many KANJIs which refer to meanings very close to RAIN ; for example :

雪 ( yuki ) : snow
雷 ( kaminari ) : thunder
雲 ( kumo ) : cloud
霧 ( kiri ) : fog , mist

notice how every one of them include the kanji ( 雨 ) as an upper part of it ^_^

Drawing & stroke order :
The green dot is the starting point


nice ne ? like usual .. starting from up to down ; left to right & horizontal before vertical ^^
see you with other KANJIs later in sha' ALLAH (^_^)//
　

Artificial Sea Beach in Japan

Ohisashiburi mina san .. long time no post ^^;
Today I want to talk about this amazing Japanese Artificial Sea in Kyuushuu Island .


Japanese have created world’s biggest artificial indoor sea beach in the southern Japan. This huge Ocean Dome allows you to lie on crushed marble pebbles without worrying about the tan and bugs. Either it is tress or birds everything is man made in this premises. Inside the Dome, climate remains always pleasant and surfers enjoys themselves in the chlorinated salt free water. Every afternoon seems like a carnival here.


World’s most organized beach is located on Japan’s Kyuushuu Island close to Tokyo. It combines a 140 meters wide sea, 600 tons of marble chips and an 85 meter sea shore surrounded by shops. Key West, Marco Polo, Buena Vista and many others have their outlets in the premises. It is a part of a leisure complex called Seagaia.


Interestingly a natural beach is just 300 meters away from the Ocean Dome but obviously it’s less appealing. But unlike a natural beach you have to pay a big sum to have fun here. You will be required to pay $50 as Entry fee is, $10 for the boogie boards and for the rides also you have to pay extra.

Kagaya Yutaka - 加賀谷 豊

Kagaya Yutaka ( 加賀谷　豊 ) is a Japanese digital artist who is known for painting elaborately detailed and spectacularly colored images , his images often include elements with a luminous quality, and his favorite subject is astronomy , he spent his childhood in wonderment of the stars in the sky, and never stopped painting them , he has had a successful career as an illustrator for astronomical books and magazines .

Kagaya Yutaka

Kagaya is very famous in North America & Japan , so the minor planet 11949 is named "Kagaya yutaka" after his real name in honor of his contribution to astronomy as an artist .

I'll let you to enjoy some of his wonderful images , don't forget to press on the image to watch the high quality full size .. there are additional links for more great pics ^^


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Nihongo lecture in the Nature !

Today's Nihongo lecture was special .. we didn't take it in a class ; we took it over the grass ^^


Since a week; CSDC started their maintenance works (varnishing the walls , rearranging things don't need to be rearranged , .. etc) .. and because of that we had to find another place to give Nihongo lessons at ; so we were going to an empty class room and starting writing Nihongo with chalks :p

The problem is that they have to close those class rooms early (usually before 3:00 PM) ; knowing that we start our lecture at 2:15 Pm , we hadn't enough time to take a real informative lecture , so firstly I changed the number of lectures from 2 lectures (MON-WED) to 3 lectures (SUN-TUE-THU) , and today I had to change even the place to keep giving the class ^^;

In our preferred room at CSDC

After getting out of the class room ; we searched hopelessly for another opened one but we didn't find any , I looked to the greenish G-square in front of CSDC then said "guys.. I'll give you the lecture here .. on the grass (3al7asheesh)" :p

We stayed for 3:30 PM talking about "to issho ni" & "te-form + imasu" , even though I taught them these rules at the last semester but I felt they need to review them again , it was a nice lecture today .. sitting in the shadow of trees .. enjoying the scenery of green grass and waving our hands right & left to get the damn flies off our faces :p
For me .. this was the first time to sit on the grass in my whole university life :p
　

夏の日本語クラス - Nihongo Class for Summer

Yesterday we started Nihongo lessons for this summer semester , after thinking .. I'll not give this time a class for beginners because this semester is very short and there's no much time to teach them a good material ; and I don't want students to learn a huge amount of information in one month .. that's why I'll just continue teaching more Nihnogo grammar for the previous semester's students .

Previous semester's announcement for Nihongo lessons

This week lessons will be a review for the material we had taken last semester , and next week we will start learning more useful information in sha' ALLAH , and I'll not start by teaching normal lessons .. no, we agreed to give them an ENTRANCE EXAM in Nihongo to see how much they had learned from the previous semester's lessons .. I hope the average will be good and not like our averages in university exams ^^;

By the way .. I just remembered something funny happened with us last semester ; when I was teaching the students the Numbers in Nihongo I said that number 10 is (juu) then talked about the bigger numbers like 53 for example how its reading will be (go juu san = 5, 10, 3) .. and when I wanted to say "number 100 is ..." ; one of the students interrupted me & said immediately : "yea, it should be (juu juu)" :p