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What dessert do you like?
Today, I ate custard pudding with my friend. It was very sweet!!

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What TV program do you like? I hardly have watched TV for 7 month, But have watched only the program of KIRIN. Please tell me.

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Do you join any circle or club? I play Tsugaru-samisen every week. Please tell me.

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Do you have any plan during winter vacation?I'm going to go to my hometown to get drivers licence.And I will busy to study to catch up with class.If you still have any plan, please tell me.

Please give me advice

I want to give my parents a present of their 20th wedding anniversary.
But it is not easy to select.
So please tell me what gift have you ever given to your parents.

Please tell me...

Please tell me your way to study English. You, classmates are very good at pronunciations. What do you study English with? Radio? TV news? The Internet? I'm confused now with how to improve my English though I'm trying to listen to English speach on the Podcast...

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What kind of movie do you like?
I like movies,especially Legally Blonde and PIRATES of the CARIBBEAN.

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What kind of music do you like?

I like rock and pops.

Please tell me

What's your dream ?
My dream is becoming an English teacher.

Can Robot Fingers Be God Ones?

Toyota presented their new robot who can play the violin with him flexible 5 fingers.
According to Yahoo!News:

Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said robotics will be a core business for the company in coming years. Toyota will test out its robots at hospitals, Toyota-related facilities and other places starting next year, he said. And the company hopes to put what it calls "partner robots" to real use by 2010, he said.

Toyota think that this technology puts to practical uses, not only robotics but also healing of human who suffers for him social position.

Yahoo!News:Toyota calls robotics a key business

NHK,a broadcasting station,announced "ZARD take part in KOUHAKU-UTAGASSEN of this year." ZARD is very famous pop singer group,but Izumi Sakai,a vocalist of ZARD, met with an untimely death.In TV program, they plan to televise image of Izumi with their songs.Many fans will be encouraged to see the program.

http://sankei.jp.msn.com/entertainments/music/071206/msc0712061819007-n1.htm

Japanese singer

Koda kumi gave a concert tour at the Tokyo dome in December 1.She is the faoums Japanese singer and very popular among women as well as men. It would be popular for the reason that she has an exceptionally powerful voice and it is easy for us to understand the lyrics is written by her.She said to her fans with tears in her's eyes,"I thougt my dream come true.Thank to everyone.I'll do my best after this."We can expect energetic activity of hers in the future.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071204-00000112-bark-musi

Okada gets official nod from JFA

Takeshi Okada was unanimously approved by the Japan Football Association's as natioal coach instead of Osim who remains in intensive care after suffering a stroke.
JFA president Saburo Kawabuchi said,

"We asked Ono(technical director) if Okada had any requests from us, and he said Okada had none. Ono told the board that a new coach of any team destroys the old culture, but he thinks Okada will keep the destroying to a minimum.Ono believes Okada is the right man to build on what Osim has left us so far. "

Daily Yomuri Online: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/sports/20071204TDY24302.htm

Crude Oil

The boost in crude oil is continueing.The price of kerosene is over 1700yen and the price of gasoline became most highest since 1987.This problem effect on everypeople. I was surprised to see sweet roll's price become from 100yen to 110yen.I don't think the boost in crude oil effect on my life.I want to research more what happen about gasoline from now on.

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20071205-00000108-jij-bus_all

A strange Christmas tree

There is a superstition in Japan that the cause of earthquake is an eel. People of former days thought eel has magical power, I would say. In our time, we recoginize the existence of electric eel. So, I found news about electric eel.

KAKAMIGAHARA, Gifu -- An aquarium filled with exotic fish here is using an electric eel to power lights on a Christmas tree. Each time the electric eel at the Aqua Toto Gifu aquarium touches a copper wire in its tank, it sends power that lights up globes decking a Christmas tree.

It may be that we can use ell power generation in the future.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/national/news/20071203p2a00m0na017000c.html

Hideki Matui

Hideki Matui is a famous baseball player all over the world. He plays basesall in NBA. He kept a good records, so he is noticed by a lot of people from the young to the old.

http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/hideki_matsui.html

Spoils ending of ''I Am Legend''

An American actor Will Smith came to Japan in December 4 to promote his new movie ''I Am Legend’’. In a press interview, he spoiled ending of the movie. According to Reuters, Akiva Goldsman who is a co-producer and co-screenwriter of the movie shouted ''Don’t give away the ending! ’’. And the press handlers asked the press to keep the ending secret. The Mainichi Newspaper says it may be a reaction against his lonely filming. Because his role is the last person on the earth. This happening may reduce viewers and box-office profits.The movie is scheduled for release in both Japan and the United States in December 14, 2007.

Sports news

Japan was defeated in worldcup volleyball by 1-3.
Brazil suffered from the beginning, and Japan scored the first set.
But Japan suffered for Brazil's quick and powerful play.
I thought Japan did their best, and this Worldcupvolleyball will be a power for the Beijing Olimpic.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071202/sp_wl_afp/volleyworldmen_071202140300

My Weekend

I'm sorry to late writing blog.In weekend, I go to shopping to buy clothes, shoes , heater which I need for winter. heater which I bought use not kerosene but electricity.price of kerosene is rapidly increasing so that Iwann to save money as much as possible.In this month,Iuse much money.I want to try not to buy things which isn't necessary.

Blogging a news story: Darfur

I said you could write about any kind of story for your own blog entries, but for my own I thought I'd write about an ongoing story that is simply horrific. The situation in Darfur is one of the world's worst conflict situations, and even threatens to spread outside Sudan to neighboring Chad. It is a situation that is now involving the UN Security Council, NATO, the African Union, the Arab League and other international organizations. There is supposed to be intervention to stop ongoing genocide, but the logistical and political problems are very serious.

According to Jennie Matthew writing from Khartoum:

The head of the UN peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region has highlighted an urgent need for helicopters, saying the global community must donate them or the entire mission must be reviewed.

The international force, set to number 26 000, will formally replace a small African Union mission on January 1, but still lacks six combat and 18 transport helicopters, vital to operate in a war-torn Sudanese area the size of Texas.

She quotes the head of the African Union force on the ground as saying:

"The international community has got its back to the wall and some are asking 'really is it impossible for the entire international community to mobilise 24 helicopters,'"

She also notes that the UN blamed the Sudanese government for the problems:

On Tuesday, the head of UN peacekeeping, Jean-Marie Guehenno, complained that Sudanese government red tape and lack of resources are delaying the deployment of the peacekeepers

But Reuters News said that the Sudanese government blamed the UN itself for the delays:

SUNA [Sudan's state news agency] quoted senior foreign ministry official Suraj el-Din Hamid as saying President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had already issued directives to allocate all the land the mission needed, and that the United Nations had delayed meetings in New York to discuss the deployment twice in two weeks.

"The problems in dealing with the United Nations on this peacekeeping operation reflects the ability of the peacekeeping unit to direct this mission," Hamid said.

Meanwhile China threatened one of the major rebel groups fighting the Sudanese government. The Justice and Equality Movement, an Islamist group fighting against Arab domination of the Sudan, had said that Chinese troops were only going to Sudan to protect Chinese investments, and said that they would specifically target Chinese troops among any United Nations forces.

According to a report on a South African website:

China on Wednesday fired back at a rebel group's threats against its peacekeepers in Darfur, saying Beijing was committed to stabilising the troubled Sudanese region and urged the opposition to join in peace talks.

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Rebels in the Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement have warned that they could target Chinese troops because Beijing supplies military and economic support to Sudan's government.

The movement, which has boycotted peace talks, claims the Chinese were sent to protect Beijing's investments in the oil industry. Last month, its fighters attacked the Chinese-run Defra oil field in neighbouring Kordofan region and abducted two foreign workers.

I hope you will take an interest in this important, ongoing story and learn something of the background to this conflict. If Japan is really going to ask for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council and take a more important role in international affairs, people will have to learn more about what is going on in the outside world.

More information is available at the Save Darfur website, among other places.