Father's birthday

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I got an invitation to high school reunion. It says . . .


Te….10th anniversary ?!


YIKES ! !

So it's been 10 years already!

Never thought time would go by this fast.

It seems like I receive the invitation to reunion every year（＾＾；）

Is this how it goes? Aren't you gonna appreaciate it less if you met your classmates every year?

Is it also common to hold it every year in Japan?

Actually I've never attended it so far . . . I occasionally meet my friends whom I wanna meet, and I didn't have much chances to get myself concerned with the school deeply as the things went pretty crazy soon after I moved to this senior high and debuted.(・ε・` )

Every year the place of reunion is chosen by a questionnaire since the graduates are all scattered across different parts of the world. Most of the time the result ends up being devided in two, either US west coast or east coast. It was held in San Fransisco last year if I remember it right.

They say, this year it's to be held in New York! Then I might be able to make it! I feel kind happy about it!

I guess there should be some people who wold come all the way to the US from overseas . . . just for the reunion. Just how desperately they wanna reunion their classmates! (lol)

So perhaps it's held every year taking people living in different countries into consideration. Because you know, not many people would gather if it's held once every five years.


Hmmm so it's already been 10 years since I graduated from senior high~! It was just after I released "Wait & See ~RISK~." I was 17 years old!

In America you enter schools in September and finish them in June, so the time around now in summer gives me kind of sweet-sour feeling. Maybe in Japan you would feel this feeling in around early spring I guess. The excitement, high aspirations you get before you enter a college or start a new semester, and the sense of loneliness made by graduation. So many feelings come to my mind.

And after that . . . it's been a long 10 years I should say. ＿|￣|○

It's been like, I juggled around here and there, following my interests, feeling my way, not caring about myself at all, without learning what it means to relate to others, what it means to take care of people around, having enjoyed lots of fun things with no responsibility nor reproach. I did well in business but matter of fact is I was running on the road to perdition . . . something like that, it was.

Woot, this looks pretty much like I enjoyed my youth doesn't it ! ! ! (Er, am I wrong on this? (lol))

Seems like my youth has lasted pretty long (lol) I mean, it seems like I've been a child for a long time.

I made some pretty grand statements in my book I released as the 10th anniversary of my debut, and I think I wrote them in a way like to shake off people around, and it was a selfish revealing.

I would like to face myself more level-headedly, grounded, with love, and interact with myself and people around.


Those thought come into my mind this summer, 27th summer for me.


What I've written above has nothing to do with this but today is my father's birthday.

Dad, happy birthday to you

Mother's birthday

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Today was my mother's birthday

I woke up early in the morning, at 5.30am

Hopped on the train

to go to the Chiba Park

to see Ooga lotus

which is desinated as a natural treasure, known as "the world's oldest flower"

all alone - - - - - ! ! !

Yaaaaaaaaay ! ! !
“(`(エ)´)ﾉ彡☆ !!

It's been a loooooooooooooong time since I last took a train in Tokyo! All alone! All the way to Chiba! Woot!

. . . Huh? Did you say "All alone"? (and excited that much . . . ?!)

Y, yes . . . all alone . . .

Cause . . .I happened to learn the blooming of Ooga lotus thing in Chiba Park on a TV news, and I happend to feel like going there to see it, and I happened to check it on the net . . . and I found out this Ooga lotus was to come into bloom at around from 6 to 7 am, then start to close at around 9am, so you gotta come to see it at 8am or so.

"Too early! (tough for musicians)" I thought, but I decided to go to Chiba by myself, thanks to my strange positive energy!

Actually it didn't have to be "all alone" but . . . say . . . whom could I ask to come with me for such a thing . . .＿|￣|○

Well I've got a couple of friends I could ask, but do you dare to ask this to them?! Or if you were them do you wanna be asked such a thing ?!

Would you dare to meet me at the station at 6.30am to go all the way to Chiba just to see a lotus?!

If I were my friend,

I would respectfully decline the offer ! ! ! (lol)

So. I went out on a petit solo journey.

That was really fun(●＾口＾●)

The Ooga lotus, this ancient flower woke up from 2,000 years sleep and came into bloom. Looked pretty elegant and beautiful.

A flower's life is short, but a plant's life is unmeasurable. Greatness of life~! Greatness of seed~!

A bug's life and a human's life, they don't make much difference . . . this morning just before I left my house I encounted a roach in the bathroom. I screamed around like "Aaaaaaaghh" "Awww" "Y, Yarrr!! I'm sorry! Sorry!!!" and killed him . . . I feel guilty. I couldn't help but feel I gotta kill them every time I find them, but come to think of it I might not need to kill them actually . . . but but what if they arrived in large numbers? . . . if only I had the skill to catch them and let them loose into the balcony . . .

That's what I was idly thinking on that day in the morning. Surrounded by lots of old men and women who came to see Ooga lotus . . .

Every time I have a close look at a lotus it makes me think "how big it is!" Perhaps you can't get its fineness through this photo but anyway the flower looks beautiful, isn't it(´▽`)

So. What I wrote has nothing to do with this but

Mom, happy birthday to you

Sniff

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The match against Paraguay . . . what a pity, just one step away from winning o(´□｀o)

This frustration lingers, really.

I was just watching the game and get frustrated this much. I have no idea how much frustrated the players are . . .

It was a really good team.  This is the first time for me that Japan's national team (not limited to football) made me want to cheer for this much from the bottom of my heart.  They were bright and shining . . . I'm pretty sure Japanese society is positively influenced by them. (lol) After all I watched all of their matches in real time . . .

I wish I was able to watch their matches more.

Thank you very much for showing us a lot of good matches（つДT）

That said, World Cup is not over yet! There still remains Germany vs Argentina match and such!  It's needless to say that we couldn't cheer for them more than we did for Japan, but the fun still continues!

I heard Paraguai decided to change the day of the match to temporary national holiday on very short notice, bacause people can't watch the match if they are at work . . . awesome . . . South America has got a lot of spunk, seems like（；･`ω･´）

To celebrate Japan's advance to the final 16

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The☆Kuma's Hand goal


I drew something really surprisingly 'loose' for the first time in a long while (lol)

Wowza!

They advanced to the second round~!

Bonjooooooour

“(`(エ)´)ﾉ彡☆ !!
of Joy ! ! !

Grinning

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I guess many of you are now excited waiting for the kickoff of Japan - Denmark game. What I'm gonna talk about is completely nothing to do with it.

Look at this thing.

What do you think this is?

A ginger, you know ! ! It's a ginger ! ! !

I took out one of them from the bag and faced this, our eyes met(´ロ｀)

What the heck is this grinning creature, with frog-like big eyes !

All those warts and gaping mouth-like division . . . . all those things are positioned in a miraculous fashion . . . I didn't cut it, I'm showing it just as is.

I mean, this really looks creepy . . . I mean it＿|￣|○

I have no idea but something in me is reacting to this at the DNA level . . .

My impression on it was

Ewwwwwwwwwwww Don't look at me------!!!
(|||」｀□´)」

So I peeled it soon after I took this photo, then grated it.

That's all.

Backstage

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"Whew"

'You stayed up late tonight, Kuma Chang! You look very cute in the photos!'

"Heh me say so-so Hikaru-chan you need a little more practice don't you"

'Aww! Mmm my apologies Kuma Chang!'

"Well keep trying next time anyway"

'Absolutely! Good night!'

"Hmm perhaps me watch Cameroon - Denmark match too"

'I'm going to bed as I feel sleepy. Kuma Chang it seems you are young~!'

"Hmm well me is active at night after all"

Sergio Kuma

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"Japan lost Hikaru-chan"

'Lost 0-1~. Regrettable, cause there were good points and chances too~!'

"Yup but me think they fought a good game against Holland the tournament favorite me expected they could win"

'And you saw your favorite Nakamura-san at the end!'

"But me think Nakamura's switch was off"

'Was it?'

"Me wonder what's wrong with him Me worry cos he looks stubborn"

'Let's continue cheering for them at the match against Denmark! The more I learn about football, the more I find to learn about it, it's the sport where the strongest cannot always win, where you can never guess what's gonna happen~. I signed up with Sukapa- as Kuma Chang, you told me you wanted to watch the games, and I made a good desicion!'

"Hehe finally you got to see the fun of football Me is happy"

'And when have you learned a lot about football, before I knew it . . .'

Loud vuvuzela

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'Go~! Nippon! Go go~!'

"Go for it Nakamura"

'Your favorite Nakamura-san is not in the game yet!'

"Huh what what why Hikaru-chan"

A gift from my fan 2

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A hand-made gift - - - !

A plate - - - !

Kuma Chang in the center - - - !

And Super Kuman at the end of the whirl - - - ! ! ! !

Look at this. You can see all the names of my singles from my debut~! In the form of whirl! It even includes my singles released only on the internet ! !

Aww~ you know it so well ! I'm so impressed!
Thank you very much, Shinoda-san ! !

Hmmm perhaps I should display it somewhere to see, rather than use it at the table . . .

Oh, but say . . .

Imagine Kuma Chang in the center has ika natto and such put on his face . . . imagine him putting up with the smell and stickiness . . .

Such thoughts do turn me on ! ! !

(*´д｀*) aHAAAAN ! ! !

Alright! I'm gonna use it!

That's enough o(●ﾟｰﾟ●)=○)ﾟOﾟ).｡･