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I just found out that Russell in UP is actually modeled after Korean American boy. No wonder he looks like Greg. haha. He is voiced by Japanese American boy though.

Up

James said "Did you see UP yet?" and we were like "...no. what's that??" "what!? you guys haven't seen it yet!? oh my GOD. You've got to see it..."

So, we started to watch it. James is very famous among movie/computer games critics, so I was pretty sure it was a great movie, and there. I like it the best so far in Pixar works. The married life scene was so touching that we even went back to that chapter to watch it again after finished whole movie. A Wilderness Explorer, Russell, was so adorable. I later heard that he was modeled after an American born Japanese boy. Funnily, he looks so much like the manager I used to work for, and he was a Korean American guy. Some of you might know, yes, that's Greg. Russell reminded me of Greg so much, which brought me extra laughs.

Baby girl Musette was crying big time as BGM, we felt sorry for her. But I'm sure, she would enjoy that movie when she grows up!

Christmas Illuminations

I went see the Christmas illuminations for the first time (and possibly the last too) in this year. Since it was in suburb area in Tokyo, Tachikawa, I didn't expect much, but it turned out to be the best I've ever seen before! Their biggest decoration was the Champagne glass tower which was like 4 or 5 meters height and water coming down from its top. Besides that, huge area of the park was decorated so beautiful that I forgot that it went down below zero Celsius that night.

Sigunature? Right.

Here's pretty awkward Japanese thing.
The other day, a banker came in and asked me to sign on the paper which does do with my account changes or something. So I did. And he looked at it and was like "Oh, I meant your FULL NAME in KANJI." I was like What the hell? You said and even paper says "signature here." Why don't you just say so in the first place then?

Supernatural

I at some point of my life begun to believe in supernatural things, or in other words, I realized that those things are not like what I thought before. For example, in the situation that everything around you starts giving you a clue of something, you tend to think it's coincident and almost like miracle or some kind of grater force is affecting you; however, I believe that YOU are the cause of everything. In that kind of situation, YOU care about something and that is always in your mind no matter if you realize it, so that your mind picks up things related to what's in your mind around you unconsciously and that makes you think that they somehow happen to come into your life which could be called by some people supernatural or miracle or coincident. This can apply to most of the things called supernatural such as "ki", cancer which was healed miraculously, charms and so forth. This is totally part of holism. I am so interested in that now.

Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

She was like a real last living Cleopatra on the ice rink. It's ashamed as a Japanese, but it was the first time for me to watch Miki Ando actually skating on the ice. I didn't expect much from the performance for that reason, and she just completely took away that idea from me last night.

Not only her but all the skaters (or should I say performers/entertainers/professionals?) and their performances were so moving. Their total expression was speechless. And Mikity. Oh my god. She even gave me goose bumps. Her Cleopatra made me feel like somehow I was time-tripped to B.C.. I re-recognized that human and art could make people feel that way. What a beautiful thing.