Summer break is about to end. Fall semester is almost there. To be honest, my summer was lazy, but it was fun. I enjoyed summer in LA. I started surfing. I went surfing twice, and will go surfing every sunday, hopefully. Once summer break ends, I can’t be lazy. will be automatically productive. During summer, I did

• find a apartment and moved
• scored for a short film
• got a job at music department office and started working
• ->got SSN -> change cell phone plan to cheaper one
• taught music
• started surfing
• some parties, met new people
• practiced piano

Maybe I feel like to do one more thing. something. like, going out of LA. I’ve never been to out of LA since I came here LA.

BTW, does anyone have wet suit and surf board for me? 

It is way late to write a review about Nexus One. People don’t need reviews of it at this time. You can find lots of reviews. What I want to let people know is that an earphone attached to Nexus One is so good. I had been using an Audio-technica’s almost $100 earphone. It’s not cheap nor very expensive. It satisfied my minimum demand as a musician, for iPod. Recently I lost it. That’s the reason I started using Nexus One’s earphone at this late timing. I judged the earphone must not be good because it is just an earphone attached to a cellphone. I didn’t even open it. I was totally wrong. Nexus One’s earphone is so good. I like this more than former one I lost. It is worth $100 for me. I bought Nexus one for $580, but now I kinda feel that I bought cellphone for $480 and earphone for $100, on which cute Android character is 

I went to sushi place in Pasadena today. What funny was that all the chefs and servers were chinese. Even the ladies sitting next to me at a counter were also chinese. I originally was a  chinese. No Japanese ppl in sushi place. lol It was kinda funny  I think more than half of sushi places in LA are owned by Korean or Chinese ppl, not Japanese ppl. haha. Sushi here in LA is very different than Japanese one. The place was very good, I enjoyed it anyway.

One of my friends in LA, who is American, told me that he had not known the difference between Japanese and Chinese till he went to high school. To say correctly, he thought there was no difference. Almost all the asian countries were the same culture-wise, he thought. surprisingly this may be not uncommon, but no wonder once you go to “chinese sushi restaurant” 

Wow, it’s been a week since the last post. Yes, I am 三日坊主. Anyway, I’m doing good. I’m keeping practicing piano Monday to Thursday. I’m not 三日坊主 at this point so far. But I have not composed any music during summer break. I know I should. I will… I can’t believe June is passing away in half hour…

It is easy to work out at your place for people like us, gymnasts. We use our own weight instead of dumbbells or something. Gymnasts must be better at doing self-weight training. My main list for upper body of recent days is like:

• straddle handstanding 5*3
• hands stand push up 10*3
• chinning exercise with backpack filled with books 10*4(concentrate on triceps*2, on broadest muscle of back *2)
• dips with the same backpack

I think it is more natural to train using your weight than using weights like dumbbells, you’ll get more useful muscles, don’t you think? Muscles trained by weight, machines or something like that tend to be showy but worthless. maybe… maybe. Additionally, some times you find people working out with dumbbells and machines look unnaturally built, don’t you?

I said that it’s easy to do self-weight training for gymnasts, but I didn’t say that it’s too difficult for not-gymnasts people really. Anybody can try that also. I wish everybody who wants to be in good shape will get natural healthy body. Summer is almost there! 

You can easily find how to do self-weight training. google it!

最近の日本の大学はどうなんだろう。自分が京教にいた頃はネットで成績確認とか出来なかったと思うんですが、もう出来たりするのかな？今通っているLos Angeles City Collegeでは授業の登録も支払いも成績の確認もネットでできて大変便利。さて、春セメスターのFinalが終わって10日ほど経過した今日、ようやく全てのクラスの成績が出揃いました。予想通りではありますが、オールAです。ｱﾋｬ。自慢ですみませんね

留学最初のセメスター、色々ありました。生まれて初めて舞台でのピアノ演奏やら、ソルフェージュの授業やら。ちゃんと音楽の基本的な訓練してこなかったので、とても有意義でした。あとは、初年度の学生のみが対象で一度しかチャンスの無いAlpert Scholarshipを一位で獲得したのは本当に嬉しい出来事でした。LACC Music Departmentで由緒ある奨学金です。1年間掲示板に貼られます（笑

まだ写真はありませんが、でかでかと写真が貼られるっぽい。

夏休みは2ヶ月半。日本には帰りません。有意義に過ごしたいものです。

Apple says that Mac OS doesn’t need defragmentation unlike Windows machine. Partially, it is true, but not always, some articles say. According to the articles I found, OS X’s file system does take care of fragmentation, but it covers limitedly and fragmentation progresses eventually, then it makes your OS X loads go up. So I tried iDefrag 2. The bottom line is that I tired but I couldn’t use it and keep trying.

A week ago, we finished 2010 spring semester at LACC. Music Department Office had been closed for a week from that. They resumed from today, and offer practice rooms. I went to school with gusto and practiced till noon. I’m planning to go to school everyday as possible and practice till noon, during summer.

I found this tumblr account “Safari extensions” just after the release of Safari 5. You can see that a lot of new extensions for safari 5 are being released. Some issue I had have been already resolved by them. What I needed the most was a function to restore the last session when Safari runs, and you can find a extension for that function. Still safari 5 + its extensions are missing very important function for me, which chrome + its extensions have, but it’s just a matter of time. It is somewhat easy to develop extensions for safari 5. and it seems to be similar to chrome extensions, so once Apple opens official gallery, it would be get up steam and much more number of extensions would be released.

Just started using Safari 5. There were so many reasons I want to use safari, or I don’t want to use safari. I used to use Opera, Safari, Firefox, Safari again, Chrome…. but I just decided that I’m gonna use Safari 5 as primary browser. It is really fast. Recently, chrome’s kept getting slow and use much more RAM. Somehow, load gets so high when I play flash video. Sometime, a process of a tab opening Gmail gets high load weirdly. Using safari 5, much much less load while playing youtube(what makes difference?) or anything, run quickly, no wait, much much less RAM use, benefit of Cocoa like “look up in Dictionary”. I know there are less extension for Safari, but you can find enough. you can use most Greasemonkey script, using GreaseKit. Good thing was you can use LastPass. so I don’t need to care about password thing because I was using it on Chrome also. Anyway, you should try Safari 5. You’ll be impressed about its speed. I hope a lot of good extensions for Safari will be released.

Most of SIMBL plugin works with Safari 4 seem to be compatible with safari 5, but some SIMBL plugin sometimes make safari 5 crash. I stopped using SafariTabConfig, SafariTabMemento. Also Glims behaves suspiciously, so cut. I want browser to re-open the last session when it runs, do you know the way to do that without Glims? I want a pin function like Chrome on Safari also…