The two-weeks holiday in NY

I had a two-week holiday in NY from 13 July to 28 July. I'll wirte the things here which stay in my head before I forget everything.
　　
*The Japanese-run hostel "Space 46" which we stayed was quite reasonable for the price
*I realised that NYC is dirtier than Tokyo. A pile of stinky rubbish everywhere on the streets, cockroachs and rats.
*I saw all my favourite painters works such as Vincent Van Gogh, Marc Chagall and Salvador Dali all at once at MOMA.
*Free fire works followed by sudden torential rain in Central Park
*The fireflies in the park in East Village. I saw them for the first time in my life, maybe.
*The colourful candy shop!
*I saw a musical "Hairspray" by myself. It was amazing.
*We spotted the moment that a lizard was casting off it's skin and eating it!! at the American Museum of Natural History.
*Did my assignment for Japanese-teaching course during the holiday for the first time in my life.
*New Yorkers working at tourists places were often unfriendly. Aren't they happy with their job?
*A cheap and delicious Korean cafe in Korean town.
*Rode on a segway for the first time in my life.

Come back Kiyoshiro

I heard the news that my fouvorite Japanese singer Kiyoshiro Imawano was found a larynx cancer and is going to have an operation. He cancelled all his scheduled events and concerts for this year... I didn't listened to so many of his songs but his voice attracted me for some reason when I first saw him at Fuji Rock festival in 2002. I've been wanting to see his own stage since then but it will be too late. No one knows if he can come back to sing.
The news made me think that it's important to get things I really want to do into action quickly before it become being too late.
He's not dead yet though:)

The film-day of July

Every first day of the month is a film-day in Tokyo which you can watch a film for 1,000yen (1,800yen is the normal price but who pay that much!!). I and my friends go to Ebisu Garden Cinema every month. We watched "Stay" today. It was stylishly filmed but the story finishes with many riddles. The story was like someone's dream but I liked it.
I bought a simple MP3 player only for 1,000yen from internet shop at 2am this morning.
I got an email at 1pm which told me it had been dispatched and would be deliverd tomorrow. Japanese service is really great. It's weekend but customers never be suspended.

Mixi

It seems that Mixi is talked about a lot among people now in Japan. My friend at school mentioned about it the other day and just on the way back home after that I picked up a conversation about mixi between two girls standing in front of me on the train. Then I got an invitation email to mixi from my friend in Kyoto. What a coincidence.
Mixi is a social networking service (but only in Japanese). You can only be a member when you got an invitation email from a mixi member. You can choose if you limit publication only to the friend or to friend's friends or everyone. You can also find a friends with same interests and make comunities with them.
I haven't made a full use of it yet and only reading my friends blog on it. So I'm not sure why it became so popular but now the users are counted over 400,000.