Abnormal Summer

Every year, my recent living place has a massive light-up display during the winter season to commemorate the victims of The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and their hopes. It will only last for several days, around mid-December if I am not mistaken. The name is 神戸ルミナリエ「Kobe Luminarie」 Not only that, soon after Halloween occasion passed, all public places and shops are also changing the decoration with Christmas' ambience.  Long twinkle light trails, Christmas' songs, and Santa Claus decor are almost everywhere. Everywhere feels like a light-up display. Can't resist but feels so nostalgic. Back then when I was at home, I always wait for the light-up on the Christmas tree. Every year, during the Christmas holiday, my family and I were packed to go to my Granma's home. My family is an exception because each member has their own religion, included my Granma and half of my relatives who are protestants. Since I was in junior high school, she moved back to her vil...

Nowadays, I'm learning Japanese in purpose to prepare my prospective study and visit in Japan. Honestly, I've been learning that language for several random years since I was in junior high school. The difference is I did self-study back then meanwhile now I enroll in a formal class in local language course. Then, I found out a fews trivia (or maybe simply the lexically meaning) of some japanese word and I used to be wrong lol. 1. Genki ➡ fine using in a sentence like, Ikaga desu ka ? ➡ how are you Genki desu ➡ I'm fine I used to say them carelessly even when I talked to the native lol. My Sensei (teacher) said that literally Genki means fine, but tend to refer to positive emotional state of someone, rather than physical health. It means, when we are sick (like getting cold, leg injury, etc), we can't say, " Genki ja nai " ➡ I'm not fine. Otherwise, we should to say " Kenkou warui desu " or " Byouki desu "➡ I'm sick (phy...