カウチブログ。 https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/ ブログの説明を入力します。2025.6、gooブログから引越しました。音楽と猫とその他。基本Facebookに書いてるのでこちらは気が向いた時用かも。 ja Love in Vain (むなしき愛) クロマメーズでカバーしてるこの曲。
やはり名曲、名訳やと思います。

「むなしき愛」
ロバート・ジョンソン作詞作曲
西村　明氏（近江八幡酒游舘　舘長）日本語訳

1.I followed her to the station,
あの娘にふられた
with a suitcase in my hand
むなしき愛さ
I followed her to the station,
あの娘にすがりたくて
with a suitcase in my hand
振り分け荷物
Well it's hard to tell,it's hard to tell,
言わぬが花の
when all my love's in vain
お笑いさ
All my love's in vain
そら無いで

2.When the train rolled up the station,
列車が着いた
I looked her in the eyes
あの娘を見つけた
When the train rolled up the station,
列車が着いた駅で
I looked in the eyes
あの娘を見つめた
Well I was lonesome, I feel so lonesome
寂しくて悲しくて
and I couldn't help but cry
泣きわめく
All my love's in vain
そら無いで

3.When the train,it's left the station,
夜汽車が出て行く
with two lights on behind
悔し涙残し
When the train,it's left the station,
夜汽車が煙を吐く
with two lights behind
暗い夜空に
Well,the blue light was my blues,
揺れる青い灯
red light was my mind
煙る赤い灯
All my love's in vain
そら無いで 
]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12921374152.html Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:04:37 +0900 関口宏的なポーズで。


我が家の猫「みっけ」。

このような関口宏的ポーズで居る事が多い。

]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12909942639.html Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:22:37 +0900 ブログ引越しました！ 引越し完了！！

これで，娘出産前後含めの貴重な記録が

残りました。

ありがとうgooブログ。

よろしくAmebaブログ。


今は娘も大学一回。

私はクロマメーズ、わごむ、

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よろしくお願いします照れ

]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12909316281.html Mon, 09 Jun 2025 10:07:38 +0900 小豆島再び。
久々の更新。

というのも、「オリーブと佃煮の島」を9年振りに訪れたのだ。

前回はこの記事を参照。



前回は夫婦2人だったが、今回はプラス娘の3人での再訪が実現した。

2014年8月13日（水）

①姫路


6時32分栗東発。
もともと日生発のフェリーに乗る予定だったが、特別ダイヤになっていたため時刻を読み違え、
急きょ姫路から乗船することに。
駅を出た途端、目に飛び込んできたのが、メインストリートの向こうにそびえる姫路城。
改修直後で真白く美しい。
港までのバスを待つ数十分、ここで思わぬ一観光が叶う。

②フェリー


姫路港で待つこと小一時間、11時15分発、姫路からフェリーで100分。
日生発と違い、姫路発フェリーは賑やか。　そしてほぼ全員が、うどんを食べている。
もちろん私達家族も。

③小豆島着～海水浴。


福田港から、バスで50分揺られて、島を半周し、土庄港へ。
最初は雨模様だったが、不思議とみるみる晴れてきた。

「二十四の瞳」の銅像が久しぶりに迎えてくれた。

宿は前回と同じ「ホテル松風」。
鹿島海水浴場まで徒歩10秒であることと、その料理の味とボリュームにおいて、当時は隠れた名宿と思っていたが
この9年の間に口コミが広がり「楽天アワード」で選ばれるほどに。　
屋内も改装されて、お風呂やお食事の部屋はモダンな雰囲気になっていた。
そしてなお、相変わらずの素晴らしい接客に感激。

海水浴の後、ホテル内の温泉にさっと浸かり、お食事を頂く。
ふぐのミニ鍋、煮魚、ステーキ、天ぷら、そうめん・・・
相変わらずのボリュームだったが、前回同様、ほぼ完食！

その後、近くの温泉施設「オリーブ温泉」で海を見ながらの露天風呂を慌ただしく楽しみ
浜辺で花火。　月明かりの海を楽しみ、宿に帰ってぐっすり寝た。

④醤油のまち


朝食後、チェックアウト。
バスに揺られ、醤油造のまちへ。　マルキン醤油にて、念願の醤油ソフトクリームを3人で食べた。
さらにタケサン醤油では、細うどんと卵かけご飯（もちろん当社製醤油がけ）をおいしく頂く。

それからバスに恵まれず更に歩きに歩いて、坂手港へ。　

⑤二十四の瞳映画村


港からは運よく、港と二十四の瞳映画村を往復している「銀バス」に乗ることができた。
天井には扇風機、昔なつかし昭和のバス。　



前と同じアングル＋娘　で写真を撮ったりして・・・



⑥坂手港～神戸

坂手港からは神戸まで3時間の船旅。
危うく席が取れないところだったが、ありがたく椅子を確保。
こちらは姫路発とは比べ物にならないほどの乗客数で、船内の廊下に無数のゴザが敷かれ、寝そべる沢山の客。
小豆島にはこれほどの人達が訪れているのか・・・。

まずは何せ、うどんを食べる。

一番の時間の過ごし方は、甲板に出て海を見ていることだった。
中でも、船が明石大橋の下をくぐるときは圧巻。　（カメラが電池切れだったのが残念！）

神戸では「別館牡丹園」で美味な中華を頂き、JR元町から帰路についた。

二度目も思い出ギッシリの旅となった。　ビバ小豆島。


]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12908243802.html Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:54:05 +0900 英検1級

獲ったどー！　

というわけで、40歳のよい記念となりました。

感謝！
]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12908243783.html Fri, 22 Nov 2013 22:52:12 +0900 試験準備。
1.Do the rich have a responsibility to help the poor in society?

-Causes of the gap(in Japan)
Increasing of non-regular employee due to deregulation. And difficulty to become regular employee due to that
- Increasing the divorce and difficulty for single mother to have sufficient income
- East Japan great earthquake evacuee
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Yes, I think the rich have a responsibility to help the poor in society.
The gap between the rich and poor has been increasing recent days. It has been a serious problem which is one of the reasons for low-birthrate issue.
I think there are two ways the rich would help the poor.
Firstly, the government should take measures for redistribution of wealth more positively. The government should impose higher tax to the rich person and companies with high profit.
Secondly, the rich people and high profit companies should donate to the poor to help the poor in the developing countries, or help the poor people such as evacuees of great earthquakes. Some people are poor just because they are lazy, but in most cases, the poor people are in the vicious circle and cannot get out of the situation even though they are working hard, thus they are eligible to be helped.
In conclusion, it is the responsibility of the rich to help the poor by giving their wealth so that all the people will be equally happy eventually.












2.How should we deal with the “Breakdown of the class room”?

Cause Decrease of authority of teachers and parents
Due to Overflow of information


Breakdown of the class room has been a serious problem in Japan. It has been often reported that many children cannot listen to their teacher, walking around and chatting. Even though such issue did exist in the past, but it has been much more serious than before. I would like to tell you the cause and how to solve it as follows.
First, the main cause of breakdown of the classroom could be that teachers and parents are losing authority. Recently, in many cases, parents are too busy to discipline their children. Also, the overflow of information has made children savvy and partly this may be the cause of lack of adult’s authority.
Second, how to solve the situation? It is good question. I haven’t found the right answer yet to solve the situation due to the cause I said. At least, parents could pay more attention to their children. It is said that feeling of being cared for is important for children because it eases and motivates them. It is said children would be motivated if they are raised up with praising. Taking what parents can do step by step, our wish and affection must be conveyed to the children, then eventually the breakdown in the classroom will be stopped.


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3 Should moral values be taught in school?

Background

-Environment changes: nuclear family, Decrease of time with parents
-TV news and computer games full of violation and murder
-Overflow of information

Yes, I think moral value should be taught in school. There are two reasons I think so as follows.
Firstly, due to increase of nuclear families, recently there are not so many adults to teach children about moral value. In past, their grandmother and grandfather living together would taught it. Instead of them, school should take the role to teach the moral value.
Secondly, the environment around children has been deteriorated. TV news always tells murder , war and bullying. Computer games often show violation and war. Through the internet, they can access indecent images or extreme thoughts words. In the flood of such information, they tend to be lost in their ways. So, to guide them to right direction should be essential all the more.
In conclusion, the role for school has been more important than past. School should teach moral value into children as well as parents and adults around them should do so. The important thing is that we, adults must be always good model for them.














４ How to solve the “cyber bullying” issue

Background
-Overflowed information due to IT and media
-Decreasing the authority of adults for children
-Lack of moral value
Measure
-Education
-Mutual monitoring system on the internet
-第１のステップとしては、大人は子どもと親密なコミュニケーションのつながりを築くべきであり、そうすることで、青少年はコンピューターいじめを含めた出来事を進んで大人に知らせるであろう。
-第２に、生徒はパスワードなどの個人的な情報を親戚以外には知らせてはいけないということを教えられるべきである。
-第３に、コンピューターいじめには絶対応答してはならず、また、書かれていることが全て真実であると信じてはならない。チャットルームを利用する人々が、想像通りの人とは限らないし、本人が言っている通りの人とも限らない。実際は50歳の男が14歳の女の子だと主張して、若い子を食い物にしようと探しているかもしれない。
-第４に、未成年者はチャットで知り合った人と、公共の場で親が立ち会わない限り、会う約束をしてはいけない。
-第５に、怒っている時に衝動的なメッセージを送るのは避けるべきである。自制心が戻り、冷静になってからメッセージを書くことで、敵意は排除され、分別ある文章となる。怒りにまかせて書いたメッセージは、送ってから後悔するものである。そのようなメッセージは、相手に復讐心を抱かせ、新たなネットいじめを生むのである（Joinson, 2003）。
-ネットの世界が絶対ではないことを教える。
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Recently, netbullying has been a serious problem in Japan. Bullying among children has existed since long ago, but once they leave the school, they used to be able to forget it. But now, they can access the internet wherever they are, so they cannot escape from mean words on the internet. Sometimes, such mean and heartless words drive the target into suicide. To solve the situation, I want to suggest the two points as follows.
Firstly, the measure should be taken in the field of education. The advance of IT has made overflow of information for children. So teachers and parents should control the information around children so that they are not influenced by the extreme expression and violence on the internet. Also, teaching moral value to children is essential.
Secondly, on the internet, there should be mutual monitoring system. For example, in a classroom, one of the students in turn may watch the internet and report to parents and teachers if there is inadequate expression or posting. I have heard that such method has been already introduced in some schools in the US.
In conclusion, it is not the matter of merely on the internet. Cyberbullying issue is the bullying issue which has been more obvious and rapidly infectious, and more underhand anonymousness because of the internet. Basically, it is the responsibility for the adults around children to protect them from bullying including cyber-one.

5 Changes needed in Japanese education system

・学校教育と実社会との乖離。　社会に出れば正解のないことのほうが多いのに学校では一つの解を求めることを中心に教えられる。実社会での不適応を招き、多様性を受け入れ難くなる。　欧米のように問題解決、ディスカッションの授業を設けるべき
・先生も業績を求められるようになり、以前より余裕がなくなっている。人を育てる職業として広い世の中を経験する機会が必要。もっと視野が広がるし、たとえば共働き家庭への理解なども進むであろう。

There are two points to be changed in Japanese education system.
Firstly, the gap between what is taught at school and the actual society they experience after graduation. At school , in any subjects, they are told to seek for a single answer. On the other hand, once they graduate, our world is full of issues with no answer or multiple answers. So current education system may make them difficult to adjust to the society after graduation, and many Japanese are not good at accept diversity still now because of such education system. So I think Japanese children should learn more problem-solving methods and debates like western countries.
Secondly, the environment around teachers should change. Recently, they are asked to output achievements, and to report anything to the upper organizations. So they have become more like businessman, rather than teacher who must teach children with affection and broad mind. And because they are in very narrow environment, school, so they do not know about real society very well. It is natural that it is difficult for them to teach students how they should cope with society after graduation. So teachers should take the intern programs in the companies so that they can experience real world, which lead more understanding of current society and families, including working mothers, then they can teach the children about real society more specifically.










7/29 - 8/2 2 Science and Technology

6 The pros and cons of human cloning
Recently, human genome project has been completed, which means the whole structure of human DNA is cleared. In future, cloning any part of human body, or cloning whole human body will be theoretically possible. However, I think cloning whole human body must be prohibited for the three reasons as follows.
Firstly, it is ethically wrong and desecration of nature. According to natural providence, all the creatures should be born by their mother.
Secondly, if artificial human is born by human cloning, he or she will be a person with feeling. If they exist, they would be in total agony about their existence. To justify their reason de etre would be difficult. To making clone human is already humiliating their dignity.
Thirdly, the existence of clone human must disturb society. For example, the census register, taxing, and social welfare for clone human would be complicated issue.
In conclusion, human cloning will be strictly prohibited. On the other hand, genetic engineering is very beneficial if we use it correctly. Creating part of organizations of human body give us plenty benefit for treatment of disease and injury. Creating the food should solve the poverty in the world, if such food is proved to be safe. So I expect genetic engineering should advance in the way it makes us healthy and happy without violating dignity of nature or god.















7 Should there be restrictions on Internet content?

Yes. I think there should be restriction on internet content. However, such restriction should be done by parents, not government. I would like to tell you three reasons for that as follows.
Firstly, the restriction should be for protecting children from harmful information.
As you know, the internet is full of extreme expressions, violations, and indecent descriptions. They must have bad influence for our children. So it is the responsibility for the parents to protect children from such harmful information.
Secondly, there are many tools available for parents. There are many software such as filter which are available and easy-to-operate.
Thirdly, the censor by government may deprive citizens of freedom. If the government censor the internet, it is to restrict the freedom of citizen to say and express. It may be against the constitution. As for adult, we are mature enough to tell what is good from what is bad. It is not necessary for government to intervene.
For above reasons, I think the internet should be restricted, but only by parents. The intenet has given us a lot of benefit. It practically made the border between countries meaningless. We should appreciate and take advantage of such great benefit as well as we should get protect children from harmful information as required.

















8　Did the internet make election campaign easier?

Recently the regulation has been released so that the election campaign using the internet has been available in Japan. My answer is yes and no. There are good points and bad points for that as follows .
Firstly, I will mention about good points. To the voters who have concern with politics usually, the net campaign makes it easier for them to check the various kind of information about candidates. In this way, net campaign can broad the options for such voters. to the candidates, it reduced the cost for election campaign. They could advertise their policy via the website instead of tons of brochures. It is eco-friendly too.
Secondly, I will mention bad points. It cannot raise voting rate. People without concern with politics do not access the candidate’s website because they remain with not concern with politics even if candidates started election campaign on the internet.
So, it did not raise the voting rate, which was rather less than that of last election.
And, they have to monitor a lot of postings when there are any extreme expressions or slander against the candidates. People who read such posting could not determine which is true and false.
So, it depends on our morale using the internet for election will be more effective or not. It does reduce the cost for campaign, it is true, however, it does not increase the voting rate. It is not the matter of the internet. The political parties and candidates should think more about how to solve this problem. In my opinion, when voting itself is available on the internet, the voting rate will be changed.
 
9　The merits and demerits of using e-mail

Merit overcame the time gap: anytime anywhere: evidence: copy to many people
Demerit F2F meeting decreased: without expression, emotion: misunderstanding leads conflict: literacy

Now e-mail is indispensable communication tool for our work and private life. There are lots of merits and demerits. I would like to tell you about major ones as follows.
Firstly, I would like to mention the merits. Unlike phones, we can communicate with others without concerning if they are available or not. If they are not available, they can answer later. We can communicate with people in distant nations for the same fees as when communicating with near ones. Also, we don’t have to mind the time gap between us and them. We can spread one email to many people, and pictures and word documents can be sent at the same time.
Secondly, on the contrary, because of its usefulness, people tend to depend on email. Email deprive us of many chances to have face to face meeting, which is the most effective way for us in the true sense. And, it depends on the literacy and writing skill of the people that how we can communicate as we expected. Sometimes, misleading sentence of the email lead us to misunderstand each other, and without ensuring, such misunderstanding gives us negative thought toward the others. And, sometimes it gives us the impression that they are too lazy to say it on the phone or face to face meeting because emailing is quite easy.
In conclusion, I think email should be one of the greatest inventions we have made recently. The merits of email overweighs the demerits to a large extent. However, we should be careful when using emails not to trouble or hurt the others. For example, at work, when asking very important tasks to someone, we should follow up the email by phone or face to face meeting. And we should read our emails repeatedly to check if there is fatal error that would be misleading. We should not forgot hearty consideration all the more in this era of IT.
 
10　Is shale gas the ideal alternative power source?

I think shale gas is not the alternative power source. There are three reasons as follows.
Firstly, digging out shale gas could affect the environment. It is said digging out the shale gas could pollute underground water, and the shale gas was said to be origin of .crude oil and coal. So using shale gas is equal to use such source in advance. The CO2 emission for that is the same as the other power sources such as oil and coal. In this sense, it is never “alternative”.
Secondly, it could be the US’s strategy to promote the shale gas. If Japan imports the shale gas from the US, the cost would be much higher than other nations. We should not let the US whatever they want.
Thirdly, we have methane hydrate methane hydrate is power resource that is under the bottom of Japan sea. By improving the technology to dig out them, Japan could get power source by itself. Moreover, it is said to emit less CO2 than other power source. It could be a revolution in the true sense if we can succeed in digging out and make it in use.
 
８/4 - 10 Medicine
11What makes organ transplants so controversial?
Definition of death
Family’s denying

I think there are two main points to make organ transplants controversial.
Firstly, it depends on the definition of death. Due to the improvement of medical technology, people’s lives can be maintained for weeks or months even if their consciousness will not come back again. So the definition of death now depends on the law, which defined the death means brain death. However, defining the death by law it self could be the problem. For example, when a woman whose brain is dead is pregnant, should her life be maintained to let the fetus grow up?
Secondly, there are many cases that even if a person registered as a organ donor , his family often denies organ transplant against his will, and many patients are dying without organ transplant they long for.
In conclusion, artificial law system contradicts the death, which is ideal and relative, and case-by-case issue. Therefore, I think a person’s will should be prioritized. To prioritize the individual’s will, some regulation is necessary for that. Also, everyone should have the chance to think and decide if they want their organ to be transplanted in such case equally. Foe myself, it would be a pleasure if part of my organ can rescue somebody after my death.

 
1２．Should euthanasia be legalized in Japan?


Recently, the most popular cause of death is cancer. The terminal care of cancer patients always closely related to the issue of euthanasia. I think euthanasia should be legalized in Japan.
Euthanasia is divided into two types: positive euthanasia, to make patients die by giving medication. Legalization for euthanasia should differ depending on such type.
Firstly, Negative euthanasia, to let patients die by removing respirator or stopping further artificial care. In my opinion, I agree with negative euthanasia. It simply means to die in dignity. And it is important to make sure the patients’ intention while they are alive. As well as intention for organ transplant, it should be legalized for every people to declare their will when they become a certain age like 20.
Secondly, positive euthanasia,which is very controversial. It is necessary to make people declare like the case of negative one. Besides that, what should and should not be done for doctors should be strictly regulated to avoid abusing of medication to stop the prolonged terminal care.
In conclusion, people have right to death in dignity, or death the way they want. Recently, as the main cause of death should be concerned with this issue, each of us must think about it and have our own idea about the way to die we really want.
 


13 Should the mandatory retirement system be abolished?

I think mandatory retirement system should be abolished. There are three reasons as follows.
Firstly, recently in Japan, decrease in labor power is serious problem. Abolishing mandatory retirement and let the elder people keep working should be one solution for that.
Secondly, comparing to the past, the people around sixty have got much younger mentally and physically. This is due to advance in medical technology and nutrition. So it is not necessary to make them stop working when they are still young enough.
Thirdly, people’s lives have become longer than past. Now the average span of life in Japan is 82. So 20 years could be too long without working.
In conclusion, expanding working life could be win-win solution for the elder people and the society. Of course, if the mandatory retirement system is abolished, we should respect their will and consider about the elder people’s condition and it should be necessary not to force them work when they are not healthy. Also, as to young people, we should give them to work as a regular employee. So we should consider so that the increasing of elder workers will not deprive young people of the chance to work.








 ]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12908243775.html Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:05:46 +0900 Message to heaven My dearest uncle...

After funeral, you might be enjoying party with my grandmother, grandfather, and friends.
You might be smiling with a grass of whiskey or cigar in your hand
and talking about your great days to them.

You will live in our mind forever.
Thank you very much for a lot of good memories.

Respect you forever.

R.I.P. ]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12908243771.html Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:38:03 +0900 ストーンズ結成50周年。
結成当初生まれた赤ちゃんも50歳です。

で、キースはレーシック受けたそうな。　今更？？


ニュースはこちら。 ]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12908243770.html Sat, 14 Jul 2012 07:16:46 +0900 ライブ告知　「わごむ」　大津ジャズフェスティバル出場決定！ だいぶ先ですが、「わごむ」ライブ告知です。

2012．10.14　(日）

大津ジャズフェスティバル
なぎさ公園　アーカス前
１６：００－

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初出場、ジャズじゃないのに審査通ってしまいました！！


応援に来ていただければ大変嬉しいです☆

よろしくお願い致します！　 ]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12908243766.html Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:27:03 +0900 日食
昨日は日食。もうひと月ほど前から、
テレビでも新聞でもスーパーでも

「日食めがね」を買え！
「日食めがね」をかけろ！

というやんやのフィーバーに
うちはいささか醒め気味であり、
昔は黒い下敷きで見てたのに何も言われなかったぜ？
メガネを売るための体制側の策略には乗らないぜ？
とかなんとかで　結局買いませんでした。

当日朝！　やっぱり眼鏡あったらよかったかな・・いやまてよ。

幸いうちにはバンドマンが2名ほどいますから、
家の中には様々なサングラスが転がっており
サングラス2重がけ　等で見ることができました。

それに、　　ほら！　　携帯のカメラでみると、眩しくない！

たくさん写真を撮りました。　白黒反転するんですね


しかし　その日の夜・・・　　ん？　SDカードが読み込めない。
抜いてまた入れると　ケータイ　フリーズ。

まさか・・・　　ぐぐってみると
「カメラや携帯で太陽を撮らないでください　カメラが壊れます」
「専用のフィルターをつけないと・・・」

私の場合、カメラは無事だったが、マイクロSD（かドライブか）が逝ってしまわれたようです。
SDカードスロットはカメラレンズのすぐ近くにあったので、そうに違いない。
ま、大したもの入ってなかったからよかったですが。

というわけでケータイさんが身を呈して撮った写真をご覧あれ。 ]]> https://ameblo.jp/pekowattts/entry-12908243761.html Tue, 22 May 2012 06:49:07 +0900