A dictionary lover

I don’t have a handy electronic dictionary. If I had bought it at the start of lerning, I wouldn’t have needed dictionaries as many as four volumes. They are English-English and English-Japanese dictionary. The two dictionaries are at each both of home and work. And what is more, COBUILD is at home, too. I seem to be a dictionary lover. Right, I like reading E-E dictionary.

I don’t think that I don't want a handy electronic dictionary. Of course, I want a gadget. I want one that included Longman. But there is a reason that I haven’t bought one until now. Despite most handy dictionaries have a lot of dictionaries that are rarely used, I needs additional purchase to use Longman dictionary. And that they are expensive. I want iPod touch, too (^^)

Anyone who are reading this blog, do you know “LONGMAN English Lab”? I have an interest in this! This is possible to reverse resolution from Japanese to English. But this gadget is not rested at anywhere. And I couldn’t find any user on Web. Information I found were something like shopping sites. Actually, I want to know about the sense of use. Please tell me about it!

By the way, Is it possible to use LDOCE on iPod touch? Potentially, maybe this way is better.

Imitation plants

There are imitation plants on my desk at work. Really I want real live plants. But I’ll not put ones here. My desk can’t get sunlight all through the day. So even if I decorate on the desk with live plants, perhaps they will die soon.

One of them, showing up at the left of picture was 100 yen. I bought it at Daiso. Considering the cheap prices, it has the look of real plants. And then, another of them was a air freshener that I bought it about ten years ago. It’s a way to use with dropping aromatic oil on the small red pumice soil. I almost haven’t used it as a air freshener, only put it on recently. Even so I have used it for a long time.

I’m escaping

I joined the BlogMURA. I don’t have confidence in English sentences I wrote. But perhaps I guess other members who are writing diary in English feel a similar thing. So I decided to join it. My blog is where I practise writing. Even if there are sentence of mistakes in there - well it's no wonder, I’m going to keep writing. Otherwise my English will be better.

By the way, I feel hesitant after reading blogs of other learner because I don’t try to take a test. It’s TOEIC. I mean, I can’t overcome the tension and so I’m escaping it.

Peugeot 1007 or Citroen C3

This year is a time when my car has to have a car inspection a second time. Now I’m having a C3 of Citroen. I intended the next car would be a domestic one. But there was nothing to want. It really bothered me that I need replacement by purchase by June. I wonder what am I going to buy?

About a few months ago, A car in a parking of a shopping center interested me in electric slide doors with both sides, driver’s and passenger’s. It was cool and pretty and compact. I felt that it was a good to do replacement. But the car was Peugeot, was not a domestic car.

While I was wavering, I went to the dealer and have got the estimation last Saturday. It was possible to pay. That day, I got back home with excitedly as if already bought the car. I was stoked.

But next day, I changed of mind. I thought I would keep using my C3 another two years or so. That’s why I was frightened when looked the estimation; trade-in value of C3 was much lower than I guessed. I believed it’s the right decision not to do replacement because of trade-in value as nearly nothing.

paw prints?

Look these pictures! When you look them, what do you bring up the image? I bring up paw prints. My wife found and did the shooting them at the morning on wednesday this week.

As having a clue about the size of them when you compare the something like paw prints to next bricks, these seem to be big. If these were really paw prints, the animal that has these paw prints is pretty big. It’s never a dog and a cat. Was it a tiger or a lion? It was no way! Then, what was it? Who, what did leave the mark? Are these pranks? These are like mystery circles.

Two cats are coming to have feed on my garden every day. But I don’t think they did that. If they had done, I would think they were very very jokester. Then I can’t think a suspicious figure broke into, neither. My wife and I enjoyed delving into the mysteries. But after all, we didn't found answer.

EnglishClub.com

A few days ago, I found a interesting site to learn English, named EnglishClub.com. There are a lot of contents in there. They are such a lot as to hesitate to read where to start: Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading, Writhing and Games etc. So, At first I didn’t carefully read them in particular, but looked around each page as glance.

I seem that it is pleasant for me to read a description of grammar and articles and otherwise in English. Now, I’m reading “Dairy English Lesson” and “English Grammar” every day and trying “Crosswords”, too.

I prefer this site to iKnow. I’m sure to think that iKnow looks nice and the application is usability. But I was bored and was not a delight to learn with it. Of course, I’m going to keep using it to pick up more words. My vocabulary is really very poor. I can’t retain my memory. Each my memory must has been added into a stack of autorelease pools. :-p

Flash of Bright

I finished reading a novel, Flash of Bright. To imagine the situation in which the main character was relatively easy. He was a genetic disease and had known the fact that his own was adopt son because of the disease. But considering he seemed active and jollity as the subject of this novel. This story was never gloomy.

As was always the case, I couldn’t read without dictionary and there were a few difficulty understanding lines for me. But I felt I got good practice to read.

... I don’t have enough time to write a diary. I’ll update only these paragraphs.

OnMyCommand

I installed a plugin, OnMyCommand to use my own light programs on the context menu. Since before when I search google and online dictionary, I have wanted to input phrases and a word are selected on any different applications without cut & paste. Those function are possible to use AppleScript, but to make these programs for each application is very hard for me. So I despaired of getting it.

Still, I have wanted to get the function! I have just had a choice using the plugin. This plugin helps me add functions. Of course, I have to write a few scripts. Even so the work was getting simply. I’m delightful.

For the meantime I consulted this site to understand a way how to write a command. Thank the site’ owner for the explaining it.