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I have wondered once where and how diamonds came to the market, not that I like them or anything but just out of curiosity. The kind low in quality, used for industrial purposes can be made from carbon, but the most pure diamonds for luxurious jewellry are mined by the laborers in the fields...

Street food vendors are great place to get local foods fast and cheap. One of my fond memories from Japan is that whenever I went to a festival, I just had to buy as much food as possible at the vendors that were lined up on both sides of the street. They also have vendors that are on the street...

I just read the article that said that Europeans don't want environmentally friendly cars due to their demands for safer and larger cars while the EU is trying to reduce average car emmissions to 120 grams carbon dioxide per killometer by 2012. This made me curious about what kind of cars...

I like both American and British accents when spoken elegantly. Many Americans say that they like the Birtish accent because it sounds proper, classic and old-fashioned in a very good way. What do Europens think of the American accent, standard but casual which can be usually heard in the...

Disturbingly, there have been one shcool shooting to another in the last few weeks here in the US; four in this year and three of them happened within a few days in September and October. The most recent shooting took place at a quiet one-room Amish schoolhouse, now demolished by workers...

I was flipping through my cooking book yesterday and found so many good recipes for soups. As I expected, most of them were originated in European countries; Minestrone from Italy, Cold Bulgarian cucumber soup, Gazpacho from Spain, lentil soup popular in Medditerranean, Bouillabaisse from...

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Le Dernier Combat (1983) Cast: Pierre Jolivet, Jean Bouise, Fritz Wepper, Jean Reno, Maurice Lamy, Jean-Michel Castanie, Christiane Kruger Director: Luc Besson Very interesting B&W movie; it has no spoken dialogue but is effectively edited, so you don't need to hear them speaking.

I found this test listening to NPR yesterday. It's just a fun test to find out how much of the Southern accent or phrases you use in your speech. I have been amazed how many different accents there are in English. My result was 20% Dixie, and I'm a Duke of Yankeedom!:D...

I thought this article might benefit some of us who love sushi. http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=2006-03-06T224237Z_01_N06298889_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUSHI.xml&rpc=22 I'm glad my favorite "sushi neta" is salmon.

This is one of the cultural differences I've seen between the US and Japan which makes me wonder about the rest of the world. It seems to me career change in the US is much more common and acceptable compared to Japan where age limit is often listed as a qualification. Most Japanese people I...

What are good things about being a man or a woman from your own point of view? Did you ever wish that you were opposite gender? I've wished I were a man lots of times in my life for more physical strength, authoritative appearance, decisiveness and logical thinking. Some of the things you...

Have you read this? I couldn't believe it when I first heard what happened to this old man. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/08/mouse.fire.ap/index.html

Besides ranting. ;-) Not that I'm under a lot of stress right now, but I just wonder how people cope with stress. Well, I was quite shocked when I watched TV a while ago by the fact that I saw commercials after commercials for pills that would make you feel good, functioned or not worry...

Those wacky scientists made me smile. Full story Cool pictures from NASA site. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepimpact/main/index.html

If so, what kind of instrument, and did you take lessons or teach yourself? Do you think taking lessons helps your skill, or will it limit your spontaneity? I really admire people with the musical talent, and I'm interested in how they got into music. In Japan, a lot of kids take music lessons...

I thought this was relevant since we care about freedom of speech, especially online. http://www.theworld.org/content/02176.wma And I have learned something new today. http://www.committeetoprotectbloggers.blogspot.com/

This is one of the great things that I have been experiencing since I moved to the states; I make mistakes in my speech almost everyday, which is embarrassing because I've lived here for over five years, but I have never met anyone who frowned or shook their head because of my mistakes...

In the article I read today about a rapist, who had been raping a 16 yrs old girl that supposedly lived with him since she was 11 yrs old and was repeatedly raped for 5 years by him, was arrested and faces a sentence of 10 ~ 20 yrs of life in a prison. He took plaroids, video taped intending...