This year, our group at the church's year-end party performed lip-syncing of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody". Although the direct translation of lip-sync, 口パク, sounds rather negative, life a (professional) singer does it in the show when he…

Dear iKnow Engineers,Thank you for all your hard work and frequent updates to improve the system.Recently, I put a tag in my entries so they can easily searched by category. It seems that not many people do this if any. So if I search on t…

To reply to yasuyo-san's comment in my previous post, I wanted to say "warai-no tubo-ni hamatta", which (well, roughly) means 'something was so funny that I cannot help keep laughing'.What I came up with was 'to hit (perfectly) somebody's …

NY people like bagels. Some people have bagels toasted with butters. Some people like bagels with cream cheese. Talking about my taste bud, I like having bagel with creamcheese, usually not toasted (if you have a toasted bagel with creamch…

"Steel is a durable metal."Ever since I came across this sentence in the TOEIC dictation, I couldn't help recognize this as "Steel is adorable metal." and imagine an I-beam with some cute eyes and mouth. :) Please use plural after 'durable…

Some people dont' like the fact that people are encouraged here to write a diary in English. Although I don't agree with them too much, I have to admit that I, too, have difficulty in quickly scanning entries written in English. As a nativ…

そういうことをすると一度に書く量が2倍になるんだっけ。他の日記でやろうとして挫折したのを忘れていたよ。進歩ないな。。。 ======That means I have to write twice amount. I tried it once in my other blog and finally gave up. I should've learned.…

If you see English part first, that means I came up with the idea in English first and then translated into Japanese. If you see Japanese first, you know what that means. Well, I'll play around the style for a next few days/weeks, so it ma…

I want to be able to search blog entires in iKnow, too. ======日記エントリが検索できるようになってほしいっすよ。

By the way, one thing I want iKnow to implement in user search capability is to find users who are similar in terms of study progress. The current user search is not useful if you don't know who to look for in advance...

This is very addictive... I did 30 sessions today and finally finished one part of course. Clap, clap, clap...

I took a training course for improving presentation skill provided by my company. Although 10 people signed up, only 2 people showed up including myself. It was very helpful session as I could practice 5 times. What was interesting was tha…