Myself as a translator

First of all, I am a translator who translates documents, files and website contents. Some people call a translator as an interpreter (verbal translation), but I only translate in a written form. I originally started to translate in 2004 when I worked for an English school in Tokyo through the school. At that time, I also attended a college, Tokyo English Specialist College (major in business translation) in the morning to brush up my English skills and to study about translation.


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After that, I started to work for a bank as an English operator who talked to English speaking customers to explain its products, transactions and Internet banking, and to operate exchanging currencies and set time deposits and so on. While I was working at the bank, I also attended a translation course at SunFlare Academy, which is one of the famous translation schools in Tokyo.


Then, I came to New York to get married in Dec. 2006. Since then I've been helping my husband's motorcycle shop with two dogs and cats. I always wanted to be a translator, but I thought I needed more studying. So I committed to studying corresponding translation courses, business translation and medical translation, from Fellow Academy in Japan.





Finally, I decided to debut as a freelance translator in Nov.2009. It was little hard to find jobs for the first few months. However, I've been busy working on so many jobs since then. Now, I have more than 12 agencies to work for all over the world. I will keep working and have more experience so that I could build an excellent reputation. Perseverance wins in the end!  

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Christmas in New York

It is even before Halloween and talking about Christmas?! I know it is way too early but I need to write about it now for some reason so I hope everyone will enjoy this.

Christmas in New York is very festive, beautiful and fun to walk around. Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue and other department stores decorate their windows, and illuminations and Christmas trees are everywhere.

The most famous Christmas tree is the one at Rockefeller Center. Here is the photo that I took four years ago. Can you tell the Christmas tree is huge? It is so beautiful and worth looking especially at night time. I took this photo with my cell phone so I am sorry about the poor quality of the photo. A huge tree is chosen for this every year and after the holiday period is over, it will be transformed into lumber.

The other very famous event is Christmas Spectacular at
Radio City Music hall. It is a Christmas theme musical with perfectly lined up girls called Rockettes. My sister-in-law took me to the show once and, it was amazing! I love the wooden soldiers. The Rockettes looked like wooden soldiers and they moved simultaneously! If you visit New York around Christmas, you have to see it.

We usually have Christmas dinner at Rod's sister's house. Fortunately, Rod's brother-in-law is an excellent cook (not professional but very good) so we always have wonderful meals there. I will show you his delicious meals after I take some pictures.

I always make this dish for Christmas dinner. It is called Chirashi-zushi which is kind of sushi but seasoned with vinegar, Sake and sugar so you don't need soy sauce. I put many kinds of toppings on it. All the family members like it, and it looks little like Christmasy. So I am planning to make it again this year.


In this economy, it may be little tough to be in a cheerful mood, but Christmas is always a special event even for me (not Christian). I love the joyful atmosphere and the most lively time of the year. Yes, it is the most wonderful time of the year!

      

Happy Birthday, Milo and Murphy!

July 22nd was our lovely Jack Russell brother's birthday. On their birthday last year, I made doggie cakes for them. Here are the photos I took last year.

The cakes look good, right? However, they did not eat the cakes.... I guess they like a meaty taste more than cakes. I was kind of shocked that they did not eat the cakes so I did not make anything this year. In stead, I bought some Greenies for them because they love it. They are now 6 years old. I just hope they will live healthy and long long time! Happy birthday, Milo and Murphy!

 

Memorial Day weekend

Today is the last day of this Memorial Day weekend. On Saturday, we had some Rod's friends came to our shop so we did a BBQ with turkey legs and humbergers and corn. We had so much food left so we invited Rod's mother and had dinner together after that. On Sunday, we went to Rod's sister's house and had a wonderful dinner with relatives and friends. I am a lazy blogger lately and didn't take any photos but there were lots of delicious courses and desserts. If you are curious about my brother-in-law's cooking, please take a look at the "Joe's cooking" holder.

Rolling Thunder bikers made a long and big parade with their bikes in Washington DC on Sunday. It is an annual event and I would love to participate one day.

    
Today we went for a drive on Rod's little Triumph TR7 but at some point, Rod had noticed that the car had some problems..... The car had many backfires and almost stopped. When we have a problem like this, I always pray to my ancestors for returning safe. It always works! When the car was stalled once, I thought "This is it." But it started again and took us to our shop. We made it! That was a quite adventure. Now, Rod is fixing its carburetor. The TR7 is getting in a much better shape than before but it is still unreliable car to me. I guess Rod enjoys fixing and driving this tricky little car.

   

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Car show has been started

Since the weather gets warmer in May, a weekly local car show started on the first Thursday of this month. We missed the first one because we were too busy. Then we went to the second one but the weather was not so good so it turned out not so great.... Anyway, we took this Corvette and here is a photo of Matt's car.

 
Matt is a high school student who comes to our shop for an internship program. He owns and drives this car! Amazing!

Here is one of Rod's customers' bike. This is brand-new bike but the owner made it look like an old bike. It is hard to believe that it was a shiny brand-new bike. I think it is a new trend to make bikes look older and patinaed.

   

 
The last one was rained out. I hope we can go there and enjoy the car show as many as possible until they finish at the end of October.

Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival

I've been too busy and could not post this article. The annual Japanese Cherry Blosson Festival took place in White Planes, NY on May 2nd. I love this festival because I can feel Japan even I am in New York. Japanese people love cherry blossom festivals. Well, it does not have to be a festival in fact. There are lots of cherry blossom festivals across Japan in the season but people just go to a park with their friends or/and families and eat and drink under beautiful cherry trees in Japan. You can drink alcohol in public in Japan as you may notice. So if you go to any big parks that have cherry trees in the season, you will be a part of the party! In comparison to the festivals in Japan, this festival is more like introducing Japanese culture and enjoy many activities and performances together.

Taiko Drumming

Kimono : You can put on Kimono for free.

Tea Ceremonry

Picture-story show

Origami & Calligraphy Workshop

Booth for cute stuff

Goldfish scooping

Yo-yo fishing

Robot battle

 

Food booth

There were many other booths as well. Unfortunately, I could not see any cherry blossom there because it was little earlier this spring due to the warmer weather. However, I am sure many people enjoyed the festival under the beautiful weather. I hope this festival will go on forever. 

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Rod's birthday!

May 19th was my husband, Rod's birthday. Unfortunately, I had a cold and gave it to him.... I am so sorry! We are both almost recovering it now. So we did not go to a restaurant to celebrate his birthday. However, it was his 60th birthday so I really wanted to do something for him. The wonderful thing is that he's got many "Happy birthday" messages from his friends all over the world. He says it was the largest numbers of messages he's ever got on his birthday! I am very happy for him! I gave him a nice alarm clock radio and a card. Then, I made this sugar-free cheese cake for him.

      

    
The cake was good and he loved it but I can tell that he was sick from his face expression.... Sorry! Anyway, we are getting better so don't worry! I just hope Rod will live long and be happy with me forever! ;)