Talk:Suzumiya Haruhi:Volume3 Mystérique Sign

May Sickness

五月病 (GOGATSUBYO, May Sickness, May Disease, May Blues) is a "sickness" that a number Japanese experience every year. April is the beginning of the new school and fiscal years. People are even busier than normal doing taxes, getting kids ready for school (ceremonies, exams, placements and whatnot) and then there's spring, the cherry blossoms, then the week of national holidays; busy again. Come May, they start to slow down back to a normal routine and all of a sudden they feel very unmotivated, lost, hopeless etc. All the goals and dreams they thought of in April are squashed and they get depressed. Spring is ending, and people see that the trees are turning green and summer is already on its way.

Some blog... doesn't exist anymore, I think

Warabi-Mochi

Warabi-Mochi(ワラビ餅)is not true mochi, but a jelly-like confection made from bracken starch and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour). It is popular in the summertime, and often sold from trucks, not unlike ice cream trucks in Western countries.

Mochi Wiki Kyoto Cooking Circle

Insects of Japan

kamadouma (カマドウマ, Rhaphidophoriade) [1] Wikipedia:Rhaphidophoriade

uma-oi (ウマオイ) - katydid [2]

kutsuwamushi (クツワムシ) - giant katydid[3]

benjo ko-orogi (便所コオロギ) - "rest-room cricket"; another name for the kamadouma

more info to follow ^-^; (maybe)