Wednesday, December 29, 2010
hmmmm......2011.....
Thursday, May 13, 2010
hilarious yet hated it....no....hate it.....
Friday, April 30, 2010
ayu....from wikipedia...hehehehhehe
found this interesting....:p
Ayu
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ayu, Sweetfish | |
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Conservation status | |
Not evaluated (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Superclass: | Osteichthyes |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Subclass: | Neopterygii |
Infraclass: | Teleostei |
Superorder: | Protacanthopterygii |
Order: | Osmeriformes |
Suborder: | Osmeroidei |
Superfamily: | Osmeroidea |
Family: | Plecoglossidae |
Genus: | Plecoglossus Temminck & Schlegel, 1846[verification needed] |
Species: | P. altivelis |
Binomial name | |
Plecoglossus altivelis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1846)[verification needed] |
The ayu (アユ, 鮎, 香魚) or sweetfish, Plecoglossus altivelis, is an amphidromous fish, the only species in the genus Plecoglossus and in family Plecoglossidae. It is a relative of the smelts and is placed in the order Osmeriformes. Native to the Palearctic ecozone, it occurs in rivers, lakes, and coastal waters of western Hokkaidō in Japan southward to the Korean Peninsula, China, and Taiwan. The name "sweetfish" is due to the sweetness of its flesh. In reference to its typical one-year life span, it is also known as nen-gyo ("year-fish"). The ayu is Gunma Prefecture's prefectural fish.
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An omnivore, the ayu feeds on algae, crustaceans, insects, sponges, and worms. They are also very territorial animals. The adults ascend from coastal waters into the lower reaches of rivers to spawn in the spring. The larvae descend to the sea immediately on hatching and winter there before returning to fresh water again in the spring. Most but not all individuals die after their first spawning. Ayu is an edible fish, mostly consumed in East Asia. Its flesh has a distinctive, sweet flavour with "melon and cucumber aromas".[1] It is consequently highly prized as a food fish. The main methods for obtaining ayu are by means of fly fishing, by using a trap, and by fishing with a decoy which is known as ayu-no-tomozuri in Japan. The decoy is a living ayu placed on a hook, which swims when immersed into water. It provokes the territorial behavior of other ayu, which assault the "intruder" and get caught. Japanese anglers also catch it using a traditional method, cormorant fishing (鵜飼 ukai). On the Nagara River where Japanese Cormorants (Phalacrocorax capillatus) are used by the fishermen, the fishing season draws visitors from all over the world. The Japanese Cormorants, known in Japanese as umi-u (ウミウ, "sea-cormorant"), are domesticated birds trained for this purpose. The birds catch the ayu, store it in their crop, and deliver it to the fishermen.[2]
Ayu is also fished commercially in large numbers, and captive juveniles are raised in aquaculture before being released into rivers for sport fishing. A common method of preparing ayu and other small fish in Japan is skewering the fish in such a way as to form a wave, as if they are swimming upriver, and then roasting them over a fire or charcoal.[3]
hehehehe.....
come to think of it....i do wanted to start reading again....but then there's been lots of obstacle...well not really...i knew that most of it comes from myself...heheheehheh....but i was thinking having the idea to analyze the book i've read...but....so much but....insyaAllah i post my previous work on comparative literature...i reallylike the subject though.....we can have most of it from our opinion.....and we do have to have freely thinking so we can have an open mind.......there's a movie where the line did say about having and open mind....i forgot what was the line like...but it was from the movie 'Bridge to terrabathiya'...hmmmm...did i get the spelling right?hehehehheh..i googled it..and actually it's 'Bridge to terabithia'...hehehheheh...and ooo my.....there's a sequel.....i need to see the movie...i need to see the 'Bridge to terabithia 2'hehehhheheh.....
well....that's all for today i guess...hehehhehehehehh
Thursday, April 22, 2010
starting fresh?
Supposedly i should have a feeling slightly buttery (feeling hungry now...hehehheheh) not butterfly (not that i'm nervous or anything) just the thought that this might be wrong, but how can sharing be a wrong thing....hehehehhehee
Terefore, there's always reason or actual reasons for blogging this..... you and me..... you know who you are....i'll always love u no matter what.....
Hopefully i'll be blogging every now and then (hopefully) insyaAllah if i'm in the mood to blog, i'll keep everyone reading this.....i've always dreamed to be a writer sometimes...but something seemed to hold me back....don't know what....hope to figure it out someday....
I don't know what i'll be doing here...so as for starter....i'll be telling what i feel and felt for the day or not just the day any other day would do fine....
Actually i'm not really good in english in fact i'm not that good as any friends of mine would have thought of me as i've been in the states for 3 years in the past years....hehehheheh...really....i'm serious about it...poeple might not believe...or maybe i been looking down on myself... hehehhehe....seriously....seriously....i can't really say what's on my mind and out through my mouth....can't really speak it out...afraid that it would turned out chaotic...hahahahahah.... suprisingly i'm an english teacher....hahahhahahah....how bout that...got you thinking sometimes right....?i mean.....why would an english teacher not feel secure about the english? i mean why would even the thought crosses my puny mind...hheheheheh....well let's see what happens next....hopefully not to jinx anything....c u until next time....