A fat teacher came to my preparatory school and left sheets of documents, in which a wide variety of unorganized knowledge about geography was written. But, I found two mistakes in the documents. Both of them were included in Singapore sec…

飛行機の中ではトイ・ストーリー3を鑑賞。 航路はトルコ→レバノン→シリア→ヨルダン→サウジアラビア→ドバイでした。 しかし、ドバイに着いたのは関空行きが出る50分前！ 焦って飛行機を出て、乗り換え口へ。しかし、ここでは荷物が検査に引っ掛かって取り調べ…

ホテルをチェックアウトしますが、フロントに「Why checkout?」と言われ、もう1人のボーイが私の部屋を確認しに行きました。どうやら冷蔵庫の飲み物を飲んでいないかどうか確認しに行ったようで。 何も飲んでいないことが確認されると「OK. Have a nice trip…

ホテルで起きて、また昨日と同じ様な朝食。 ホテルを出て、今度はトルコ国鉄のYenikapi駅へ。実はホテルからだとこの駅が最寄りだったりします。 約10分遅れで列車が到着。この列車でKüçükçekmece駅へ。 ずっと複線区間かと思いきや、Koca Mustafapaşa駅でか…

ドバイを出ると、アラビア海を北上して、クウェート、イラクの上空を通過してトルコ上空へ。 トルコを横断してイスタンブルに到着。この便には僕の他に日本人が1組だけ乗っていましたが、イスタンブルのアタテュルク国際空港に着くと他の便で来た日本人がか…

※写真は後日アップロードします。 飛行機は中国地方を横断し、日本海に出て、韓国の慶州に上陸。朝鮮半島を横断してほぼ仁川国際空港近くを通過しました。ここまでずっと低空飛行だったので下の景色がよく見えました。この先はタクラマカン砂漠の上空を飛ぶ…

※この日は写真がありません。 朝の時点で荷物の準備が出来ていませんでしたが、夜の出発なので何とかなりました。 夕方自宅を出て、近鉄と南海で関空へ。 関空から20時間余りは携帯電話を充電できないので、省電力モードで電気をケチりますww23:15ぐらいに搭…

MASHAVA, Zimbabwe (AFP) - Ms Susan Dhliwayo was stunned when she pulled her car over recently to pick up a group of male hitchhikers and they refused to get in. The reason? They feared being raped.Sensational reports of gangs of beautiful …

The graduation ceremony in my department was held today. Parts of my friends and most of my senior researchers won't come to the university for long. When I graduated from an elementary school, some of graduates cried because they miss the…

Anyone who wants to read it might see the diary three days ago and the diary two days ago.

When I helped my professor print out his poster, a girl in my department was also in front of a printing machine. She asked me "You wanna print out your poster?" I replied "No, my professor's."At least one student in each laboratory is sup…

CHILPANCINGO, Mexico (AFP) - At least 32,000 homes were damaged by an earthquake in southern Mexico, but no one was killed and just 13 people were injured, authorities said.Mr Angel Aguirre, governor of the southern Guerrero state, said on…

Because I didn't meet any happenings before riding Limited Express train "Kinosaki", I don't refer to events before noon. I took the train, but all the members except me went homes by car. The reason is that I had to go to the preparatory …

※No photoes uploaded on this day In the morning, I rode my family's car to go to Kinosaki. On our way there, the car picked my grandmothers and grandfather up. We took expressways to Fukuchiyama. From Fukuchiyama, we found remaining snowfa…

The friends are in the same department as me. At Yamato-Yagi station, I met them in an express train for Uji-Yamada. After reaching Uji-Yamada, we changed trains there and headed for Isuzugawa. Naikuu, a part of Ise shrine, is near the sta…

On JR Musashino Line, which connects Tokyo, Saitama, and Chiba as the circle line, Yoshikawa-Minami station was opened in Yoshikawa city, Saitama Prefecture. Though Musashino Line hadn't been an outstanding line for a long time, prominent …

After I took part in a meeting which is supposed to make couples, I sent a female attendee to go somewhere in spring vacation, only to be suggested that we should go somewhere with 4 members. Then, I held counsel with my senior researcher …

KABUL (REUTERS) - In Afghanistan, if Nato forces kill a member of your family, it is better in terms of money if he or she comes from from Germany or Italy than the United States or Britain.In the cold calculation of how much to pay for vi…

The Land Transport Authority on Wednesday announced it had finished installing half-height platform screen doors on all elevated stations on the North-South and East-West lines, which they said should help prevent track intrusions.The scre…

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - The long-haul arm of budget carrier AirAsia said on Monday that it would axe flights to New Zealand, its latest move to shed unprofitable routes and re-focus on the group's core Asian market.Malaysia-based AirAsia X, w…

She is a communication-disabled girl I referred to few days ago. I sent an e-mail to her in order to have dinner with her. But, because of her busy task, she told me she couldn't have dinner with me. That is, she has to struggle with maste…

Shogo Arai, governor of Nara prefecture, said "Where to construct the station of Chūō Shinkansen should be decided by GOD of transportation." with the uprising invitation competition of where to construct the station among local government…

In order to pray for victims of Tohoku Earthquake, some private railways decided to suspend all the trains temporarily on 14:46, March 11,2012. Train drivers in the trains have to pay silent on that time. But, I think it will be unsafe. Ex…

SYDNEY(AFP) - Australian carrier Qantas's plans to create a premium Asian airline were thrown into disarray on Friday after it announced talks with Malaysia Airlines had collapsed.While Asia remained a priority for Qantas and it wanted to …

The girl was referred to on this diary last Friday. Her laboratory's website includes photoes taken when events of the laboratory are held. But, her figure couldn't be seen on none of the photoes. Because I thought it was strange, I asked …

WASHINGTON (AFP) - North Korea has made progress in recent months on a home-built reactor that experts fear could be used to bolster the communist state's nuclear weapons programme, satellite images showed.The images, released this week by…

Last Sunday, I added tens of train photoes on this website. Especially, train photoes of JR West were dramatically increased. If you want to see the pictures, click "鉄道写真の倉庫(List of my train photoes)", which is written on the top of…

SYDNEY (AFP) - Most Australian children in their last year of primary school think cotton socks come from animals while one-quarter believe yoghurt is from plants, a study warning of the growing gap between city and country found on Monday…

I found the train at Yamato-Yagi station. The train consisted of two cars. Though the train was remodeled from 12200 series train, the train looks different from 12200series trains.

When I was standing on platform No.5 in Osaka station, my father said to me "Look at the man over there! He has a doll instead of baby. It seems strange." As he said, the man held the doll with his face full of smile. It was creepy. But, I…