In-flight meal:P

I think that, when we choose which airlines to use, whether in-flight meal tastes good or bad will be a important, well...at least for me.

Of course how much we have to pay is important as well, however I would like to choose one with better food if I had two different airlines offers flight for same price.

Therefore today, I would like to introduce you a very nice web site:)

Kinaishoku,com(Which means in-flight meal.com)

This webpage shows you soe pictures of in-flight meals of about 50 airlines.
When you travel somewhere next time, may be you can use this page!

This looks nice:P

Date:2006/09/02Airline: American Airlines FlightNo: AA123 From: DallasTo: Osaka Class: Economy Class

Bad tooth...

Hello everyone!

Today, I am going to write about bad tooth, even if you are not interested.

Recantly, I found that I have bad tooth.

It is near the wisdom tooth in the right corner.

I think I have ate too much of chocolate and other sweets.

Talking about bad tooth, I have to go to a dentist.

I , you may think it is childish but, really hate dentist, first of all, I do not like smell of dentist, second I do not like that drilling noise, and I do not want anesthesia, as it is painful.

I do not mind injection on the skin as long as it is not inside mouth.

As soon as it is inside mouth, I cannot stand.

Mobile phone

Hello everyone!
Today I would like to talk about mobile phone.
I had used my red "au" mobile phone for about two years, and last Saturday, I have changed it to a now one!

For a mobile company "au", there are "WIN" phone and just normal phone.
My former one was a normal one, and now, I have a "WIN" phone.("WIN" and normal phone has different contracts.)
Since my former mobile was old, I was very surprised to know that there were a lot of new things that I could do with the new one.
This is really useful device!
I was thinking to get "ipod", but now, since my new mobile is a mobile called "Walkman keitai", I do not have to spend anymore money:)

Now, I would like to down load this song to my mobile phone.
This is very funny song and these guys are so funny!

"Tribute" by Tenacious D

"Rent" the movie!

Today, I would like to introduce you a movie called "Rent".

Some of you may have watched before, but anyway, the movie "Rent", was first a rock opera which was shown in Broadway, New York.

The story itself is mainly based on a opera "La boheme" by Giacomo Puccin, and different from the original opera version, location and a time setting were changed from Paris 1830 to New York 1989.

New version of the opera "La boheme", "Rent"(musical) was written by a composer Jonathan Larson.

In the story of "Rent", it shows how young people in New York in 1989 was living, with some problems such as HIV/AIDS, addiction to drugs, homosexuality and ethnic minority.

It is about 2 hours movie, and there are lots of things we could learn from this movie and sympathy with.

How Farhad Mahmud makes his arguement.

The letter titled "America, not Iran is the problem" was written by Fardad Mahmud on Nov. 13, 2007.

The letter is mainly about an assertion, made by the U.S., that Iran having and holding nuclear weapon.

This letter does not have any link on it, so it is not clear to which article Mahmud wrote.

As it can be expected by its title Mahmud talks about how conflicted the assertion is, saying Iran should revoke its nuclear weapons, contrasting the fact the assertion does not refer to the other nuclear owning countries such as Britain, and France, except for North Korea.

In the second paragraph, Mahmud talks about how the U.S. takes a role to protect other countries, and also caused the Taliban to be made.
However, because Mahmud does not show any information that support his statement, these statements seem too weak to have authority to pursuade people reading it.

In the last paragraph, he mentions about tendency of the U.S. policy being destructive.

Through out his writing, Mahmud seems to have strong opinion, however there is no enough information and authority to support them, so the writing does not seem to have so much power to convince readers.

Fingerprinting and photographing foreigners in Japan.

Today, I will write a response to the article "Not so welcome to Japan any longer" ,written by Kevin Rafferty.

The article is about the system starts from November 20th, fingerprinting and photographing all foreigners who enter, re-enter, and even people who have permanent spouse or working visa in Japan, and Rafferty says it is very discriminative.

There was a response (Fingerprint all Japanese visitors) which said that not only foreigners but also Japanese should be fingerprinted.

Idea of examining only foreigners, carefully seems to have bias that terrorists should be foreigners not Japanese.
Since there is a fixed image in Japanese peoples' mind toward some foreigners.
Also there was an insist that Japanese should also be fingerprinted and photographed.
This is good idea, but the system is not to discriminate against someone, or not done because others target you, but to prevent crime to happen as much as possible.

Today, I would like to respond the article "Which minority group face the worst discrimination in Japan?", and a response to the article above, "Ebb and flow of discrimination".

In the article "Which minority group face the worst discrimination in Japan?", six people from different countries (Australia, the U.S. and Japan) answered who he or she think is discriminated against the most.
There were Chinese, Korean, black people, and disabled people who were given as the answers, and one of the respondents, pointed out the absurdity of Japanese people who discriminate against Chinese, and Korean people that "However, they also say they love Chinese and Korean food."

There is the response written by Mike Dewood who lives in Nagasaki, Japan.
Dewood says that discrimination against American happens often in Nagasaki, expressing about his own experience discriminated against by Japanese.

In my opinion, things that were mentioned in these article and response were very true in Japan.
As it is said in the article, discrimination against people who were given as the answers often happens in Japan.
I suppose discrimination against foreigners deeply related to how the country Japan is located.
Surrounded by ocean, with very few contact with different nationality for long time, and war happened long ago made some Japanese unable to accept difference of people.
For disabled people, it is same.

People discriminate people because they cannot accept differences of others.
I can understand that people can not forget terrible war.
However, discrimination is sad thing to do.

Responding to the letter responding the article about U.S. marines.

First is a response toward this letter ("Don't judge marines too fast") responding the article "Four marines investigated for rape".


First of all, the writer of this letter, Sandval, says "I know what type of people work in these places, so please don't make a hasty judgment about these four defenders of your country."
In this sentence, he wants to say that, "I know that people who work in the bar are kind of people easy to sleep with, so marines should not be judged right away."　
The sentence Sandval wrote implies, that he thinks that people working in the bar are easy to sleep with, so, the woman may have agreed to have sex with these four marines and later, the woman reported police for some reason.
Sandval is judging people in the bar that they do not reject when they were asked to go out or to sleep with.


This is such biased view toward people working in the bar.


Also Sandval said that, "Why did she wait to make the report to the police?".
This delay of the report commonly happen among women who were raped.
Since most of women feel very humbling and depressed after they are raped, they do not want to admit that they were raped, and telling to otehrs even to the police will be a painfulthing for them.


In the last paragraph of his letter, Sandval refers to the U.S. militaly protecting oversea countries including Japan, by stationing militaly based in other counties.


It can be true that the existance of the U.S. militaly bases in Japan, protecting Japan from other countries attack or at least reinning in other countries' desire to attack Japan.
However, it does not mean that the U.S. militaly people can do whatever they want to do in Japan.
Even if the U.S. militaly help Japan or Japanese government, Japanese self defence forces are also helping the U.S. government.
Not only Japan and the U.S., but also many other countries are hepling each other, mutual help.

Reason for me to be in IES.

Hello, everyone!
Today, I would like to talk about why I am in IES.

There are some reasons for me to be in IES, so I will tell you one by one.

First one, is that I like studying English.
I have some other subjects I like such as art, religion and some others, but the best one for me is English.
I have studied English since I was six, but I do not think of myself hating English at any point of my life untill now.

Second reason is that because I would like to live in English speaking county such as Canada and U.K. and work there.
To achieve my dream I really want to be able to communicate with people in English and understand each other.

Third reason for me is also related to working overseas.
My dream is to become a special make up artist.
Recently, I am thinking if I would really going to study about make up after graduating the university, but my current dream is to go to a school for studying special make up in Hollywood after graduate and hopefully, get job for make up.

Here is a link to the web page of the school which I am planning to go sfter graduation.

cinemamakeup.com

This is an example of special make up↓

So, studying English is very fun and important for me.

I am quite happy to be in IES, as I like speaking English and I believe that I can improve my English skills in the class, as long as I do my best

Thank you very much for reading my blog:)

Have a nice day!

Lately....

Hello everyone.
Lately, it is getting cooler.
But still in Osaka, it is much warmer than autumn temperature I think.

Recently, I really want to go on trip and relax.
It has not been long since school started again, however, I am already tired.
Living in Japan , going to university and studying English in a special course is such hectic.

If I could go wherever I would want, I would like to go tosomewhere near the ocean and sit outside and just want to spend time looking far in the sky and feeling wind breath.
Maybe place like this.
















Anyway, I have to keep up studying untill the next holiday.

Tonight, I am watching the movie called "No body knows" , Japanese movie.
It is sad movie, and also very quiet movie.
May be some of you have watched it before, but if you have not, may be you could watch.
It is fiction based on a true story.
I do not think I could tell you what this movie is like, so if you watch it, I am sure you will know.
So, if you were interested in the movie, please watch.
Japanese title is "Daremo siranai"

TOEFL test.

Hello everyone!
Today it is very cool and I am really happy.

Recently, actually since I was a high school student, I have tried to make my own web site.
However, it is quite difficult to make it because I have to use some kind of special software to upload web page....

Lately, I am thinking if I will try to get a license as a teacher while I am in an University.
I really think it could be an advantage for me to have it, if I ever become a teacher.
However, I do not know if I would ever need it.
Honestly, I would never want to be a teacher.
Also, to become a teacher, I have to take some subjects that I am not interested in at all...
I know that I should decide by myself what to do because it is my life, but it is very difficult.....

Anyway....a title of the blog today,"TOEFL test".
I was TOEFL test last Saturday, at university.

First time, I took a Computer based test, which is much easier for me without marking, and this time it was paper writing test. I do not like paper based test because for me, it takes long time to mark out answers........ I hope my score went up.

The last thing I will write about today, is not about anything related to school or studying, but about movie. The movie called "The boon dock saints" As you may imagine, it is a movie that has something to do with religion especially Christianity but it is also about murderers.

It is interesting I think, and if you wanted to watch, you can rent from video shop, so please try.

Last time, I put an trailer from "You tube", but it got deleted, so if you want to watch, please go to "You tube" and find it.

Respond to two articles about modern Japanese.

Hello everyone!
Today, I will respond to two articles about modern Japanese.

First, since long before I read these articles about Japanese, I have been thinking that recently Japanese are getting confusing even for native Japanese speakers.

I often hear some words so called gairaigo on T.V. and most of the time I have no idea what the word means.
Also lately, on some T.V. shows, I see some gairaigo being explained, so that it is obvious that many people can not understand what these words means.
I sometimes question if even the person who uses the words understands the meaning fully.

Then why people use these gairaigo?
I think as Ms. Tomoko Otake (person who wrote the first article) says, it is a kind of showing off.
I think there is a kind of thinking in politicians and other people who use these gairaigo, that if they use these words, they seem superior than others, because not many people understand gairaigo even if some did.

However, regardless of if they have a kind of thinking that I mentioned above or not, it is true that it will not be genuine communication if one can not understand completely what someone says.
In this case I think people should use words that people, who they are talking to and trying to communicate, can understand.
Especially politicians and representatives of people.

By communicating with each other with the words people can understand,　I think people could interact and understand better with others.

Summer is nearly finished!

Hello everyone!
It is nearly the end of summer and I hope everyone had a good summer holiday!
Today, I would like to write about what I did during my summer holiday.

From 9th of August to 7th of September, I was in England.
It was first time for me to go on plane by myself, and what is worse, I had to change plane in Thailand, I was very very nervous worrying perhaps I could get lost some where on the way to England.
Maybe some people find it easy traveling alone, however, I was really sick before I got on the plane.
This time, I used Thai airways, and I thought it was quite nice.
Flight attendants were nice, food were nice, and movies which were on during the flight were nice as well.
There were movies such as "Ms. Potter", "Next" and some other new movies.
However, I was really tired, as it was at 1 a.m. in the morning my flight was, I fell asleep and did not watch the movies.

After long flight about 18 hours, I got to the Heathrow airport.
It was such a big airport and I nearly got lost.
At the arrival gate, my boyfriend was waiting, and we walked to the coach stop to get a coach to his house.
It took about 3 hours to get to the biggest station near his house, Exeter station.
His house is in a small town right near the sea, called Teingmouth.(pronounced like Tinmouth)
It is very beautiful town with many evil sea gulls.
The night we got to the town, it was very late, maybe around 4a.m. so we just went bed.















This is a picture of Teignmouth



On the first Saturday after I got to England, it was my boyfriend's mother's wedding day.
She was going to get married to the man who is Irish, have tattoos all over his body, and looks a little scary, but very nice.
Because it was their second marriage, they got married in the place somewhere like a town hall.
It looked very different from Japanese wedding, even I have never been to any, and only family members were there.
After wedding, we had a party in a pub inviting many friends of bloom and bride.
Everyone were drunk, and dancing crazy.

For few days after that, we spent relaxing, sometimes going shopping and beach.

From 19th to 22nd of August, my boyfriend and I went to France.
It was first time for me to go to France, and we got a small plane from Exeter airport.
Before the plane depertures, we had some problems.
Pilot said that there were some troubles with the propeller.(It wad propeller!)
Eventually, we changed the plane and left England.
However, I was a bit worried as it was a very small plane and had propeller!

We got to France, and first impression is not very nice.
At the airport, if we spoke in English, workers of the airport were unkind.
My French teacher, and my boyfriend who is half French, have told me that some French people do not like English speaking people, but I have not expected it to be that bad.
I felt a little sad facing the reality that some people are just hating others because of peoples nationality or language.

In the city of Paris, it looked very European, which is only natural.
Beautiful and old, and I enjoyed it very much from the inside of the taxi.
However, as soon as I got off the taxi in front of the hotel we were going to stay, it stunk.
It was such contrast of beauty and smelly of Paris.

First day, we just got some food, drink, and went bed.

On the second day, we went to Disney resort Paris.

it was a little hot and many people were there.

It was similar to Disney land in Tokyo, however, Paris one had another park called Disney studio instead of Disney sea.

It was very good in Disney land, however on the train back to the hotel, I was a little surprised.

French woman maybe around 22, was holding a Disney Barbie doll.

My boyfriend who can speak French told me that she said that she got it for herself and it was very expensive to her friends sitting nearby.

I do not say it is bad or waste of money, but I thought it was a bit like child.



After that, for 2 days in Paris, we went to Arc de Triomphe, Tower Eiffel, Shamps Elysees, Nortre Dame Cathedral, and Louvre Museum.

To the top of Eiffel tower, we walked up steps, and it was very high on the top.

In Nortre Dame Cathedral, there were very beautiful stained glasses and many people were praying.

Louvre Museum was very big and full of art.
Even a small part of ceiling, there were paintings and curving.
We also looked the painting Mona Lisa, it was much smaller than I have expected and many people were in front of the painting.



We had very good time and good food in Paris.



After we gone back to England, we went to the place called "Lands end".
It was the one of two ends in U.K., the other is the place called John O'Groats in Scotland.

My boyfriend and I also went on the steam train, and it was very good experience.
It was first time for me and I loved it very much.

I really had a good time in England, however, I was busy after I came back doing home works.
It was good to have two months holiday during hot summer.

Summer holiday!

Tomorrow will be a last day of class before summer holiday!!

Since yesterday morning, cry of cicadas started and it makes me feel that the hot summer has really started. Talking about cicadas, I really hate them as they are really noisy, ugly, and I sometimes want them to just die before the summer end, but because they have to stay under the ground before thay come out, I just let them be, and I do not have any masical power or right to disturb them any way.

Any way... about summer holiday, I was going to talk about.
Oh and on 21 st of this month, I am going to go watch the musical "Phantom of the Opera".
I have waited this for long time, and I really cannot wait!!

Also during summer holiday, or may be after, I and some other friends of mine are planning to make a short video and also make own web page of ourselves, and now, we have a video making group name, but we are planning to change. Since no one have ever read our group name correctly.....　:(

By the way, I hope that everyone will have a good summer holiday and live safe!

Today, I would like to put a trailer of the interesting movie I have seen recently.
Title is "Bad education", it was interesting, and if you were interested in it, please watch it.
However, before you watch it, it is about gay people the movie is, so if you do not like that kind of movie, please do not watch.
It is in Spanish.

Questions.

Hello.
Today, I would like to ask you 3 questions.

So, first of all, please remember what you have had last night for dinner.
If you did not have any dinner, you can remember this morning's breakfast.

Have you remembered?
Did you have what you have eten in your brain?

So, first, in your memory when you remembered, were there just a food you had, or you eating a food?
If you have memory of yourself eating something, that means that someone else was there.
I probably say something else, means something like spirit, in other word, ghost.

Second question is that, please imagine yourself walking inside your house to the end of your house, may be entrance to living room, bath room, toilet, family members' rooms, and finally into your room.

Finished?

So again, it is about where ghosts could be.
If you ahve met someone in your house while you imagining walking inside your house,it means there is, or there are, depending on how many you saw.

So today, I have aked you some questions relating to ghost, and it is the last one I ask you.

Do you believe in ghost?

I would say I do, even if I do not want to think so.
As my mother's side of family have some kind of inspiration and they some times feel or even see it.
However, I am not an occultist, so please do not think I am strange after reading it.

Strange dream

Hello everyone, today, first of all, I am thinking to write about dreams that I had recently.

Firstly, I recently see some bad dreams.
Not really a nightmare, because I am usually not scared in my dream.

So, before I will tell you what kind of dream I had, I will introduce you who were in my dream.

Ms. K→Teacher
Ms. H→Teacher

and some of my friends from high school.
Main charactors are mainly teachers and 1 girl that we do not know, and we are sure that she has killed someone and may be I will call her S.

I think it is really a wired story, and may be difficult to understand, however, if you could read it, I will be happy.

So, story begins from nearly the end.
I guess I do not really know where the end of the story is, but I still felt that there must have been some other happenings happened before that sciene.

CREEPY DREAM

As far as I can remember, I think two teachers, S, and about 10 of my friends from high school, and I were in a big room which looked like kitchen, as there were some fridges, a big kitchen counter, and some sinks.

I and my friends were standing on one area gathered, and S staring at us with scary eyes and she was smiling creepy.

I was thinking that S is really creepy person, and as I have said, I knew that she killed someon even if I did not know who was killed.

Two teachers were also smiling, standing next to her, and I and my friends could feel that these three people were going to kill us one by one, or may be at the same time.

However, we were not so frightened, we all felt as if we were looking at us from the position of others.

Then, Ms. H made action, and we all thought that she would come up to us and kill us.
However, that did not happen.
I have no idea why, but she started to stab her left hand fingers with some toothpicks, and doing that, she was screaming something like "It is painful".
Ms. H looked really scary, and this time, Ms. K made action.
She suddenly transformed into a wolf like creature, and started to growling.
Then she looked at all of us as if she was looking at preys, and she said "Meat stuffed steamed buns for dogs."


Then, my dream ended.
It was really a strange dream and a bit funny at the end.

New start.

Today, I would like to write about my friend.

For high school, I went to international high school, and there, I have got really good friends.
One of these friend, is going to go study abroad in Hawaii, and she will depart tomorrow.

I believe that she will do her best and she will also enjoy it.
This is new big start for her to go abroad and study.
It might be difficult, however, I think she can deal with it because she is my wonderful friend......and I really envy her that she can go live in Hawaii!

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I have wrote that I want to live in Hawaii, but actually I do not really like hot place,but it is less humid and there are beaches and beautiful placed and delicious food.

So, if you could live in any place and do whatever you wanted, where would you want to live and what would you wanted to do?

For me, I would like to live in Canada and have one cat and live happily and relaxingly. My dream is to become a special make up artist, so perhaps if I could be, I could not live slowly, but I want slow life if I could.

Hello, Phantom!

Hello everyone!
How are you today?
I am really annoyed because it is raining outside now, and I hate walking with holding an umbrella in my hand...

By the way....today, I think I am going to write about a musical movie "Phantom of the Opera".
I am going to watch a musical of it in July, and I am looking forward watcing it!

So, do you know about the story?
It is about the Phantom of the opera house obviously, and an innocent girl,Christine, who was a chorus girl but later becomes a best cantatrice(female opera singer) in the opera house.
In the story, the Phantom loves Christine, and the Phantom tries to make Christine a top cantatrice, so to improve her singing skills, the Phantom teaches her how to sing as "an angel of music".
As story goes, a lot of breath taking, romantic and creepy things happen.
This story is really good and beautiful, so I would like you to watch if you had time, so I will not tell you any more information about the story.
If you were interested, please watch.

Here is a web site address of English one.

I could not paste here, but there is also a trailer in the web site, and it is very good, so if you wanted, please check it as well!!

BABY HATCH

Today, I would like to talk about "BABY HATCH".
Have you heard of baby hatch?
It is a facility that enables to keep abandoned baby safe and get appropriate medical care, when parents of babies abandoned their babies in the baby hatch.

Recently in Japan, Jikei hospital in Kumamoto prefecture, stsrted to put this facility in there hospital.
Whoever goes to there with there babies in their hands can open a door of baby hatch and put baby there, and whenever people do that, bell makes noise and tell doctors and nurses that the baby has been put, and they immediately go to the hatch and gives baby enough medical care if needed.

Some of you may think that it is a good idea, and others may not, and as you think, there is a big controversy about the issue.

Here is an article written by a person who is against baby hatch,

This person is saying that he now works with people who were abandoned by parents and they have overcame that sad and shocking experience, so she has given a example that says even if there was no baby hatch, they could still live and overcame.

He also says that there was a first child who were taken to Jikei hospital and he was tree years old.
He gave a factual information, and says that even if there is the facility in Jikei hospital, parents still abandon their children wherever they want.


Here is an article written by a person who is agree with baby hatch,

This person talks about an event, that had happened few years ago in Japan, the event that junior high school students abandoned their child, and the baby died.
He gives us factual information, and also because it is a sad event for many people, it could appeal our emotion as well.


I THINK....
Personally, I think it is a very good facility.

I know that some people think that this facility could lead the increasing number of people who abandon their children.

However, I know that when Jikei hospital started to put this facility, they have said that "Even if we have this facility, we are not suggesting you to abandon your children easily. We just want to save as much life as possible."

I think if parents really love their child, but they have no other choice but to abandon their child, because of money problem or other inevitable problems, then they can use the baby hatch.
It is safe, and I think it is much better than just on the street.

If parents kill their children because they can not bring their children or, they do not want, I think baby hatch is a very good facility to have.
May be it could lead children to better future.

It's getting hot:(

Today, I have one thing that I really want to say.

I HATE HOT HUMID SUMMER!!

...sorry I just wanted to say it....

Any way... today, I'm going to write about movies.

I really love movies, and because Yuko asked me to recommend her movies that I like, and I also would love to do so.

First, I would like to show you this,


Sorry it is not a photo but a picture that my friend sent to my mobile about two years ago.

Some of you may know these charactors, and others don't, and may be some of you would think it is creepy.

However, I like these charactors very much, and I also like other movies that were directed by same director as this movie.

The director who dirested this movie is TIM BURTON.
Here is a link, if you wanted to know more about him.→l

Now, I would like to introduce you some good movies that I recommend.

First, is the movie, "The Nighmare Before Christmas"

Also more information about the movie here.

I rally like this movie and all charactors are so attractive!!

Any way... I think you will know how it is wonderfull if you watch it!

There are also some other good movies directed by Tim Burton.

There are some examples, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Scissor Hands

There are some others, however, I recommend these three. and also there is a link for "Corpse Bride", so if you were interested, please visit!

For last, I would like to show you this,

Isn`t it nice?

LINK

Hello, how are you feeling today?
I'm good , but hungry.

Today, I would like to show you a good web site, Movies.com.
In this site, you can get so much information about movies.

There are many photos of movie stars, trailers and clips.
I hope you will enjoy it!

MY CAT

Hello, everyone.

This is photo of my cat, Kimbery(shorten name, Kim).

This is a first photo of her that I took.

We have met in a park, somewhere in Nara prefecture.

At that time, she was really small, about 18 centimeters tall without tail.

She was alone in the park and she had nothing to eat and just drinking water.

My parents were there as well, and at first, they said that we cannot keep her.

However, after me convincing for about an hour, they finally saik O.K.

Now, she has lived with us for about one and half year.

She scratchs every where, and bites me really hard sometimes.

But I really like her so I cannot yell at her....

SISTER ACT

This is not today's main photo, but it is photo thatI like, so I put it.

There are some of my friends of same high school, and it is a photo we took when we sang and danced "SISTER ACT" for school festival.

We all wore nun's costume, but I don't have head thing because I was pain charactor.

BUSY BUSY BUSY!!

Hello, it`s Ayaka.

Recently, I`m really busy, because I have to make a music video for class asignment with my classmates! We are very busy, but we are emjoying it so far.

I just hope it will not rain tomorrow, as if it rained, we couldn`t shoot outside scenes!

Today, we are going to shoot some other outside scenes.

Have a nice day!

Commercial of AC(an analysis)

Today I would like to talk about a commercial by AC, "AC Care". This commercial is on Japanese TV sometimes.

Perhaps some of you have already watched it on TV, but please watch it once again.



Target Audience

First of all, this Tv commercial is not trying to sell anything but it is trying to warn audiences and trying to give them some messages.

I think this commercial is directed toward everyone who sees this.

In this commercial, two plants shaped like some living things. One of them is a human, and the other is a dog. Human represents all living human beings, and a dog represents all animals.

I think this is also a commercial mainly for Japanese people, or people who can understand Japanese as there is no subtitle, however, I guess some people who do not understand Japanese might get what this commercial want to tell us, because it has a strong visual image.



Authority

I think, it does not have much authority in it, but I think that many people know AC’ｓ(organization which made this commercial) name, and people know that AC often makes commercials that is about some important things for us to think about.

Therefore, I think if people saw this commercial, they will think about this "Global warming" problem.



Emotion

I think, this commercial has big power for emotion.

It uses emotion "scary".

In this commercial, two plants die down, and ground gets dried. I think when people see this, they will imagine themselves, their pets, and also ground around them getting dried. And people feel scared because they look like a human and a dog. And also, people will might feel "endangered", and might think that they should be care full and do or think of something that they can do to solve the problem "Grobal warming".




Logic/Information

I think this commercial have some information for audiences.

Firstly, people can see what will happen to plants and ground when "Grobal warming" gets worse. And also people can get imaginal information about how people and dog and other animals will be when "Grobal warming" will get worse.

However, i think, to notice these information, terget audiences need to have basic knowledge of "Grobal warming".




Evaluation

I think, for some people this commercial will be really interesting, and for others, it is not. Because I guess not all people in this world are interested in concerning about environment. But, I am sure most of people do not want to die easily, therefore, I think this commmercial makes people to think about or encourage people to do what the can do for environment.

For a reason I have wrote above, I think Targeted Audiene can be anyone in the world　as long as they are interensed in environment or their own lives.

On a scale of 0-10, I would rate this commercial a good solid 8.

I gave it a 8, because targets are not limited, as long as people are interested in their lives. It may also convince people's indifference toward environment with its strong pathos. However, it does not have strong authority.

20 QUESTIONS WITH ME!

(This is an interview conducted on May 1, 2007. The interviewer wasn Takuji Murakami)

Q1. Who is your favorite musician?

A. I like Bon Jovi, and if I choose from Japanese musician, it will be Bump of Chicken.

Q2. Do you have a girlfriend or boyfriend?

A. Yes I have a boyfriend.

Q3. Which country do you want to visit?

A. I would love to visit Italy.

Q4. Why do you want to visit the country you answered?

A. My image of Italy is that there are lots of delicious food and many beautiful places, so I want to visit Italy.

Q5. Which countries have you ever been to?

A. U.S., U.K., China, Korea, Indonasia, and Thailand.

Q6. Why did you decide to come to Kansai Gaidai?

A. Because I did not pass any other university.

Q7. Why did you decide to major in English not Spanish?

A. First, I am not really interested in learning Spanish, and secound, I like studying English.

Q8. What is your favirite movei?

A. I like Lord of the Ring torilogy and From Hell and some others.

Q9. What is the most important thing when you decide to date someone?

A. May be that persons charactor.

Q10. What do you do when you don't have class at school?

A. I usually talk to friends if any of them had time, and if no one did, I go to a library, do homeworks or read books.

Q11. What kind of person do you think you are?

A. I think I seem a quiet person at first, but after you spend some time with me, I will turn to be a noisy, sometimes too noisy that annoying, and may be a little funny person.

Q12. What do you want to be after graduating from Gaidai?

A. Hopefully, I would like to go to the United States Hollywood and study about special make up.

Q13. What did you want to be when you were a child?

A. Sweets shop ownwer.

Q14. Do you like Kaori Momoi? Why or why not?

A. Yes, I do. I like her way of talking.

Q15. What do you think is the most important thing of university life?

A. To enjoy whatever you do.

Q16. What do you want to do the most until you become 50 years old?

A. I want to travel around the world.

Q17. Do you think gun control should be done in the U.S.? Why or why not?

A. Yes, it should be done or done more strictly. Reason for saying this is that it is dangerous if people can get gun easily.

Q18. How will you act if a homeless person asks you to give him or her 1,000 yen on the street?

A. May be some people think that I shoud give him or her a thousand yen but personally, I think i will not give.

Q19. What do you think about Prime Minister Abe?

A. Nothing really.

Q20. Where do you likr the best at Kansai Gaidai?

A. Big fauntain.

Hello, this is ayaka.

Hello, I'm ayaka, student of IES a in Kansai Gaidai. I like this school, but comuting for about 4 hours return a day, already making me tired... But it's O.K. it's golden week soon, I can have rest!

So...this is a short introduction but i hope you will enjoy what i'm going to write.