My original recipe of fried rice

Ingredients

• a cup of cooked rice
• 1 egg
• 1 onion or 1 green onion
  
• pepper(as you like)
• 1 spoon of salt
• bacon or pork(as you like)
• 2 spoon of oyster sauce
• oil
  

Preparation

• slice onion or green onion
• chop up bacon or pork into small piece
• mix rice with egg in order to separate each pieces of rice (this is completely different from normal recipe and easy to cook, and needless so strong fire)

Equipment

• wok or frying pan

How to cook

1. heat wok or frying pan and put oil into pan
2. separate each pieces of rice while stir-fry rice for few minutes
3. put onion or green onion and bacon or pork into pan
4. stir-fry those for few minutes
5. add seasonings and oyster sauce into pan
6. serve fried rice on a dish
   

If you want other ingredients, you may cook them in advance

The origin of the name

Introduction
I sometimes think strange about the names of the places, so I researched them.

Here is London, but...
-Trafalgar Square
This is very simple. It goes without saying that this is named after the Battle of Trafalgar. It is obvious that there is the Nelson's Column.
-Scotland Yard
Probably, you have heard this name in the films. Scotland Yard is a headquarter of the police in London. But why is this Scotland? Here is England. There are two opinions of the reason. One is that there was a building owned by Scotland. The other is that there was a yard owned by a man called Scott.
-Canada Water
This is named after the lake which lies there. Well, why is the name of this lake Canada Water? I don't know. I can't find out that. I guess this lake was owned by Canadian.
-Oxford Circus
I can't find out this reason as well. Probably this place was owned by Oxford University.
-Liverpool Street
This street is named after British Prime Minister Lord Liverpool. He is the longest-term prime minister of the UK.

Named after England
Well, is there something named after England? There are a lot.
-Victoria Peak
Victoria Peak is a mountain in Hong Kong. You can see a beautiful night view. This is named after Queen Victoria.
-Great Victoria Desert
This is the biggest desert in Australia. This is also named after Queen Victoria.
-Victoria Falls
These are some of the largest falls and among Seven Natural Wonders of the World. This is between Zambia and Zimbabwe. This is also named after Queen Victoria.

I can guess how popular Queen Victoria is from above.

Otherwise we can also see an influence on America.
-New York
This is named after Duke of York which is the title of James II before becoming King.
-North/South Carolina
This is named after Carolus which is the Latin name of Charles I.
-Virginia
This is named after Virgin Queen which is the nickname of Elizabeth I.
-Georgia
This is named after George II.
-Maryland
This is named after Henrietta Maria who is the wife of Charles I.

The UK still has a powerful influence on the world.

My travel memories

I went to Iceland Last Christmas holidays. Iceland was the second country I visited in Europe. I think that was very rare case for foreign students except for European. Well, why did I went there? That is the reason why I wanted to watch the northern lights. In my honest opinion, they are not good. Because at first I can' t understand where the northern lights were in the night sky, then when I was looking around to look for them, a travel agent said to me 'Have a look that fuzzy light. You are very lucky!! There are sometimes people who can't watch the northern lights' with pointing. I was so disappointed with them, because I noticed them, but I was thinking they were just clouds. I thought I was cheated by a leaflet. However, the others except for it are very good memories. For examples, I could see the sun for shorter than three hours in a day. I couldn't believe it was dark at 11a.m. and it was dark before 2p.m. again. Especially, the best memory is the spa called 'Blue Lagoon'. I always had a bath in Japan, so I can't be satisfied with just a shower. I could be relaxed there after a long separation. I am very glad to go to Iceland before the volcanic eruption.

conditional forms homework

I always think if I had chosen another way at that time. For example, if I had studied English harder when I was a student, I could speak English fluently. If I had sold some shares at that time, I could have earned more...etc. It seems as if they were endless. Fortunately, I have studied conditional forms which are suitable expressions to show my negative minds like regret or greed. =_=

Never again (writing homework 30/4/2010)

When I was a university student, I travelled from Los Angeles to Seattle by train. When I'd confirmed the timetable, it was supposed to take me 26 hours. But unbelievably it took me 42 hours!! So I was completely exhausted. I decided never to travel by train in America again.

My City "Matsudo" (writing homework p42 14a)

I'll write about my city 'Matsudo'.

There is nothing special in its history, because 150 years ago it is a dominion of this country's ruler. There are just some farm villages in it.

However it has been a big city recently and the population of it is about a half million now, because it is on the commuter belt of Tokyo.

There is nothing special about positive features, because it depends on Tokyo completely for all. There are many cities like this.

So there is nothing special about any difficulties or problems. But if I say them, it is just no feature.

As a result, there is no tourist attraction. But we don't need it, because we can go to even the Tokyo Disney Land within half an hour. It's enough only to sleep in my city.

It will merge with other same cities, then there will be a just big city without features.

MY PROFILE

My name is Hironobu Yoshioka. My first name means nothing special. It was named to match with my family name in the number of strokes in the letters in Chinese character. It depends on families or indivisuals whether the importance is the meaning of the name or the number of strokes.

I live in Matsudo-city,Chiba prefecture,Japan. My city is one of the many satellite cities of Tokyo, which is next to Tokyo, and the population of this is about half a million.

I am thirty two years old, but I am still single, so I live with my parents, a grandmother and a little sister. I have two little sisters, and the first little sister has already got married, so we don't live together. She has a son who is very cute, so I miss him now.

When I was in University, I majored in Civil Engineering, but now I worked as a IT engineer in a telephone company named NTT(Nippon Telephone and Telegram), which is like AT&T in America. I set up servers and network systems and sometimes write programmes or scripts. Most workers except for little elite in my company are not diligent because it is a half private and a half state company, so my company has job security. I hate that. I think human beings should study all the life.

It's very important for my job to study English, because all of the computer technologies come from America, and needless to say, they are written in English. They will be translated into Japanese before long, but if I could understand them very well, I would be able to adopt new technologies immediately. So I study English now.

Now, why am I studying not American English but British English? I don't know why. Probably this reason is similar to that I prefer watching football to watching baseball, but if I choose to play one of them, I will choose baseball. I don't know why as well.

In the future I hope to work in the international company to utilize English which I study here. If I don't forget to work hard, this dream will come true!!