I have to sleep early .

I was  so tired that I could not go to anywhere except my berth to check my boat before the typhoon had approached.

Fortunately wind seemed to be not so strong  .



 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

I read  the  classic novel "  The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" on the return way to my home .

I bought it from Amazon.com via E-book reader called "amazon Kindle" .

In the past , I was not interested in E-book because I thought that the view was not so good.

But now I think that E-ink seems to be  same as real book .

Free classic books are  supplied to everyone by Gutenberg Project .

Gutenberg invented typography .

English Study

I have taken TOEIC test .

Then I am deeply disappointed at the slowest  improvement of my performance for English communication  .

I have clearly found out the reason.

I should spend much longer  time to study English !

By the way I am a little bit surprised that so many people take the TOEIC test .

A tip for pronouncing "V" .

I take  an English lesson once a week .

Tonight I took the lesson.

Then I could get a tip for pronouncing "V" sound .

I would like to note it not to forget .

"V" sound can be made by using voice box .

Using voice box means that vibrating own's vocal cords .

I learned that the sound is called "voiced".

Conversely, the sound without vibrating own's vocal cords is called "unvoiced".

 For example , " V "and "Z" sounds are the voiced sounds .

Such as "v" of "vale" , "z" of "zip " .

"F"and "S" sounds are the unvoiced sounds.


Such as "f" of "fail" , "s" of "sip " .

Blogger New Interface

The new interface have been adapted automatically.

And it did not work well on  IE .

So I reluctantly had to change the browser from IE to Google Chrome.

The new interface might work well on Google Chrome.

I suspect that such a poor situation was caused due to a trick by Google.

Anyway I bought a board game called "Scrabble" from Amazon. com .

It is an interesting game to play for learning English words.

My English teacher introduced the remarkable game to me.

My concern is just only one that  I have no player with me ...... .

Buckwheat noodles

Today I went to Dongri-an in Toyohira town  in order to eat buckwheat noodles.

The restaurant was full of customers, so we had to wait for more than 30 minutes.

And I was  very disappointed about the taste.

Though it used to be so good ,  I felt so bad about it today.

In my diagnosis , too many people went to the restaurant so that the responsible staff could not cook buckwheat noodles as always  ( such as inadequate boiling time ).

Anyway I really confirmed that I should not have gone to the  restaurant on Sunday.

Forest road

I went to the remarkable forest by the off-road bike today.

There were many pools on the road because of the preceding shower.

But I felt that the condition of the road was relatively good.

The road was repaired by the reasonable method , thus putting additional ballast on the area to be repaired.

The river along with the road still runs as always with very clear water .

Then I could see many fishes called "Amago" in the beautiful river.

And I hoped that I would come to that place with my friends in the very near future.

No drinking day

I have completed the challenge for no drinking day  as 2 times a week for 10 weeks yesterday.

Therefore I hope my liver has got better than the past.

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The attached photo shows monkeys in the rice field.

Please enlarge the photo to see the monkeys.

I took this photo on the way to the hot spring in Shimane prefecture on  last Sunday.

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I tried to upload the photo from my PC.

But I couldn't do so.

Though I have checked on web to get any solution from anyone who published it .

But he only noted that all of sudden he could upload the photo as always .

I am really in trouble . 

One day touring

I visited  Shimane prefecture by my bike Serow 250 .

 My Serow was repaired completely yesterday.

So I decided to ride the motorcycle .

And on the trip I found many monkeys.