Japanese restaurant 'Oto-Oto'

How was lunch of Japanese restaurant 'Oto-Oto'? Yes, It was wonderful.I could see a fine view while eating lunch because there are trees in front of this restaurant. I ordered 'To-fu yuba-zen'. Yuba is made from soy milk. Do you know how to make Yuba? You can make Yuba at home and eat it! If you want to know , look at this.I like yuba with wasabi! I could eat Yuba with wasabi,Fried tofu 'Age-dashi-tofu' and fish,rice,miso-soup,Japanese pickles 'Tsukemono'. And coffee too! The price was 1,350 yen! There were many dishes in this restaurant. For example, - Japanese noodle 'Inaniwa Udon' - Grilled fish etc I hope that I will have dinner in this restaurant someday. I know other nice Japanese tofu restaurant 'SORA-no-niwa' of Shibuya. I went to there some times. Url is http://r.gnavi.co.jp/fl/en/g775401/

nishi-shinjyuku

I went out to meet my friend. The place we met was Nishi-shinjyku. It is one of the place I like because there are many shops and parks in there. When I arrived at 'Shinjyuku center building', it was 11:50 am. So I took pictures around there. This is Tokyo Metropolitan government's building. If you go to there, you can go to the observation room for free and see a view at the observation room of 202 meters above the ground. I took photos while waiting for my friend. I found nice restaurants. - Indian restaurant 'Tarlly'. Curry is one of the dish I love. My ex co-workers are Indian and we often went to the Indian restaurant to have lunch. When I took pictures, there were many people who were eating curry at there. If I didn't need to wait for my friend, I surely would eat curry at this restaurant. - Intailian restaurant 'Aruden tei' I didn't know that this restaurant is well known to Italian who live in Tokyo. There were many photos in front of this restaurant. - cafe 'HAITI' I want to drink coffee at cafe 'HAITI'. Because Ba told me that coffee is good for our health! Of course I like coffee! After 10 mins, my friend arrived and we went to Japanese food restaurant 'Oto-oto'. I remembered that I had lunch with my ex boss at this restaurant once when I looked at this restaurant. This restaurant's food was very delicious! Sorry, I need to sleep more. Because I couldn't sleep last night. I will post again.

Traffic jam 'Jyutai'

Japanese famous traffic jam 'jyutai' of 'Gloden week' started! This morning,I woke up at 9:30 am because today is a holiday. Then I turn on the TV and watched a news about traffic. If you watch the crowded cars of highways, you don't want to go out by cars. According to the news,today is the peak of traffic jam!! The drivers have to wait for hours in order to arrived at the places. Anyway,I hope that I will have lunch with my friend today without a traffic jam.

Beadwork

I used to make accessories by beads. I was making these until last night!! It is 4 am now. Of course I don't want to sleep at all because I can't stop making accessary. It is fun to make accessories.

Goal!

I recently watch movies at home. I think that some people know why I watch movies at home. Anyway, I found a tikect of the movie 'Goal!' last week. I got tickets but I couldn't go to watch movies because of my work. Fortunately,the place where 'Goal' will be played is close to my office. I can arrive at there after walking for 3 mins. I could manage to watch 'Goal!!' next week.

I am in Tahiti.

I found a new website 'Kabelink'. If you can look at it, you may feel like going abroad. Indeed, I want to go abroad! I am in Tahiti. Then I am swimming in the beautiful ocean. Because I downloaded this.

animal

Lazy dog! Is this me? Jyu dou！ Dog!!

Farewell party

When I got up at this morning,I wanted to take a day off because I felt be tired. But I gave up to do it because I had to attend a farewell party tonight. I am working with some engineers whom my company have been contracted with. Although I haven't talked with them yet. When I had joined the current company at first, I was surprised because my department's engineers had never developed programs and our company's development had been contracted out to subcontractors. But I don't want to contract out all my work because nobody can deal with our system if they are not in my office. Actually,It is sometimes good to depend on them because I don't need to work overtime. But I think it is a problem to contract out all of our systems. I am managing to deal with my work without them. Although they are subcontractor's employee,they go to our company everyday and work at our office without going to their companies everyday. Include they stand for about ten minutes while our morning's boring meeting. Even if they can start their working at their offices since 10 am, they have to arrive at our office until 9 am. Even if they can leave their office at 5 pm, they have to pretend to work until 6 pm during contract. I went to Japanese food restaurant "ichinoya". We had dinner for 2 hours. I ate dishes - salad with Japanese radish and fried fish - Raw fish "sashimi" and grilled fish "yaki-zakana" I especially like "wasabi". I can eat rice with only "wasabi". I think Japanese cold noodle "soba" with "wasabi" is a wonderful dish. During Japanese summer, I can't eat dishes because of suffering from the summer heat. But I can eat only Japanese cold soba when I can't eat anymore. - tempura of Japanese wild vegetables "sansai" and shrimps - rice of vegetables and shrimps - ice cream - drinks (beer,wine,syo-cyu etc) I had to pay 5,500 yen to attend a farewell party. I think the price was a little expensive. The restaurant's menu is here.But sorry. It is only Japanese.

Rafting on Tone river

Tone River of Gunma Prefecture is a famous river as water sports. I especially like water sports. When I had been to Australia, I had done rafting in The Tully River of Cairns and enjoyed it for a day. Today,I looked at the website of Japanese SNS "mixi" and found a event of doing rafting. I will apply for it. In Japan, Nagara river of Gifu prefecure and Tone River are famous as water sports. Once, I had gone to Nagara river for busineess. When I had been to there, it was impossible to do rafthing because of winter and my work. My co-worker and I had worked for 2 days in Gifu.We could went around Gifu city after our work. Then we had seen a castle of Gifu,Nagaragawa river and Nagara River Ukai together. It was first time to visit Gifu for us. We never seen Nagara River Ukai and we wanted to see it. After sightseeing ,We went to a ticket center to see Nagara River Ukai and we bought a ticket. Finally we could get on a ship "Yakata bune" after about 1 hours. We could see a night view during getting on "Yakata bune" and eating dinner. I want to go to Nagara River again. If I go to there, I want to do rafting and watching Nagara River Ukai again!

Be carefull!!

He is a boxing player and famous. But it isn't true he is famous because he is a strong boxing player. He is famous because of his head!! If you watch it,you can understand why he is famous in Japan.

"Kung Fu Hustle","Kung fu"

I watched movies because there weren't interesting programs on TV. - "Kung Fu Hustle","Kung fu" These movies were recommended by my ex co-worker who is Chinese last year. I like Stephen Chow's movies and sometimes watch his movies when I want to change my mind. I usually watch "Shaolin Soccer". I think it was very nice and was not only action. I think it was a comedy , action, and drama movie! After watching "Kung Fu Hustle","Kung fu",I was very satisfied with them. How nice!! If you want to laugh and know what is important to us, I will recommend you Stephen Chow's movies. By the way,when I was a childhood,I love Asian movies. I and my brother had watched Jackie Chan's movies. When I was a child, he was a star among Japanese children. I can't forget that I and my brother had gone to watch "Project A" But now,I don't watch his movies at all. I especially like "HERO","Kung Fu Hustle","Kung fu",""Shaolin Soccer".

Earthwatch

Yesterday,I went out from my office to change my mind at noon. Then I found a store that sells environmental things and entered it after I drank a cup of tea and took a rest for an hour. There are many enviromental pamphlets,catalogs and CDs in there. The customer said to me,"Some of them were for free! You can take them if you want." Then I found an English catalog of Earthwatch. I had not known about Earthwatch before I found it. To tell the truth, I thought that it was nice to study English at first. I asked him whether I could get an English catalog of Earthwatch. He with smile said , "Sure!!". Then I put it on my bag. After leaving my office, I got on the train and read an English catalog. I was very interested in Earthwatch projects. According to an catalog, Earthwacth had been stood at Boston of America in 1974. They have been investigating about the world environment since 1974 . Many scientists and volunteers of all the world have helped about investigating environment. In Japan, it started investigating the environmental projects since 1993. If you want to apply for projects, you have to be a member of Earhwatch. The price of entrance fee is 5,000 yen and the annual fee is 5,000 yen. After being a member of Earthwatch,you can receive some catalogs ,monthly emails,infomations of events. I don't decide whether I will apply for a member yet. I have to think it over. Please tell me about Earthwatch if you are member. The project that I am interested in are - Thailand's Colorful Coral Reefs Investigate about wonderful Thailand's coral reefs by snorkeling or scuba diving - Restoring Vietnam's Forests Investigate and collect data of Vietnam's forests.

Dust ???

Dust ??? We have a regular meeting every Fridays. Today too! It started in our meeting room at 9:30 am. After he of another department talked about a new system, he looked at his cloths. Then he said ,"What is it? My shirt is dirty because there are some dusts on my shirt". Everybody who were in a meeting room ,include me looked at his shirt. Then I noticed white dust of his shirt because I was aside of him. It was true that there were a lot of white dusts on his shirt. Then he understood. It were not dusts!! It were powders of laundry soap! When I listened to his words, I couldn't stop laughing. Why were there powders of laundry soap on his shirt despite washing his shirt? I know he married and he has a son. So I tought - His wife might only put his shirts into a washing machine. - His wife might not turn on a button of starting a washing machine after putting his shirt into there. - His wife might think doing washing something was only putting powders of laundry soap on. I hope that she didn't turn on a button of starting a washing machine because she forgot it.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

To tell the truth, I didn't understand that person love a movie "Star wars". My generation didn't watch them in real time. So some of people who were older than me had said to me ,"Star wars was a wonderful movie! I don't believe you!! " Although I had a chance to find them on the stores, I never wanted to watch them. Because they were old movies. So I finally watched it! Yes. I can say that I was wrong!! The first movie of series that I watched is "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith". I skipped!! I know an almost story because many people had told me about it. After watching "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith", I have some questions. - Why did they fight on the galaxy? - What is the dark site? (Sorry,I have to watch it again...) I know my questions are stupid. Because I watched a final movie of Star wars series. So I will watch all series soon! Anyway, The story,characters and the computer graphics of the movie were excellent!

keep standing for 2 hours?

I had received a email by my cell phone. It was from My dad who is in Nagoya of Aichi pref for business. He asked me whether I would come to Nagoya on holidays of May. I have no plan to do on hoildays yet. Before I had received a email, I didn't plan that I would go to Nagoya at all because it is hard to get on the train while "Golden weeks" of Japanese holidays. In Japan, it is common to go back to their hometown or enjoy domestic trips during Golden week. So there are big crowds of people in the trains or airplanes during Golden weeks,highways. Many people who live in Tokyo leave Tokyo . So Everything is crowded in Japan. Except Tokyo. If you get on the trains during morning rush hour of Golden weeks, you may be surprised. I always wonder why everyone take holidays during Golden weeks. Because there is not many people in Tokyo and it is comfortable to get on the trains during morning rush hour of Golden weeks. If I go to another place of Japan, I have to get on a crowded trains or airplanes. A few years ago,I had gone to Nagoya during Golden weeks. I can't forget it. Because I couldn't sit down a seat on the train and I had to keep standing for 2 hours on the trains. Despite I had paid money of the train. Can you believe? I heard that the boarding percentage of trains during Golden weeks was 200 %!! It is strange!! Although the max percentage is 100 %. If you have to drive your cars on highways during Golden weeks in order to leave Tokyo, you will have to wait getting your cars for many hours. If you make reservations of hotels to enjoy your trips in Japan, you will pay more money during Golden weeks. Because it is true that Golden week price of tourist industry become really highest. And in addition, you might not be able to make reservations of hotels. There are not more people in Tokyo during Golden weeks. So it is comfortable to stay in Tokyo. Some people who live in Tokyo said that it is nice to stay in Tokyo on Golden weeks. Because you must not wait for your turn crowded people if you go to play spots in Tokyo. Because you don't need to keep waiting for your turn for hours if you go to sightseeing spots of Tokyo. So now,I can't decide that I will go to Nagoya during Golden weeks. Because I may have to stand up for 2 hours if I get on the train to go to Nagoya despite paying some money of trains.

"The Man with the 7 second Memory"

When I chatted with Ba, I remembered one TV programs. It was CBC's documentary TV program "The Man with the 7 second Memory". I ofen watch documetary programs. It was made in 2005. I had never known about him before I watched a TV program. While watching a proram, I was very shocked. How important our memory is! In 1985, his brain was hurt by a high fever. Then he lost a memorise function of his brain. He can memorize for only 7 seconds. After 7 seconds, he doesn't remember anything. His fight was awesome.He wrote them down not to forget things that he did. For example, when he met his wife, he wrote it on a notebook. After 10 seconds, he forget that he met her. Anyway,I respect his family, his effort.

Thai restaurant "Tinun"

On last Frinday, I had met my friend and and had gone to Thai restaurant. I had never met her for 1 year. The restaurant where we had gone is "Tinun". When we had arrived at there at 8 pm, there already had been many people at there. I had been at my home this weekend because I had a cold last Saturday. So I had watched movies. I was afraid that we couldn't have dinner at there because we didn't make a reservations. But we managed to have dinner at there. At first, we ordered two glasses of beer and a ramen of Tom Yam that was a popular dish in this restaurant. Tom Yam ramen had very a hot flavor but I love it. Then we ordered a salad of papaya "Som Yam Tai",sauteed vegetables "Rau Muong Xao Toi" They were also hot! I always order "Rau Muong Xao Toi" when I eat dishes at Thai restaurants. It is said that Rau Muong is a Water Spinach. - "Som Yam Tai" 1,030 yen - "Phat Pak Bung" 950 yen - "Tom Yam ramen" 770 yen I want to eat all dishes of "Tinun" someday because it is close to my office. Next time I have dinner at "Tinun",I want to eat "PhadThai" at first.

Umaibou

Do you know Japanese snack "Umaibou"? When I feel hungry at my office, I ofen go to a convenience store to buy a snack "Umaibou". The price of Umaibou is only 10 yen!! Japanese company "Yaokin" makes Umaibou. I like Nattou flavor of Umaibou. But I can't buy it because there is not convenience stores where I go. So I buy Mentai flavor of Umaibou when I can't buy Natto flavor of Umaibou. Mentai flavor of Umaibou is best popular in Japan. There is a website of Umaibou's fans "Umaibou doumei". If you can read Japanese,you will be surprised because there are many informations about Umaibou. The facts that I was surprised at are here. - When the company "Yaokin" had released Umaibou, there was able to be the thing that 50 kinds of imitations were released other companies. Now, only Yaokin. - The secret of length of Umaibou. The current version of Umaibou is bigger than old version of Umaibou. - The employees of Osaka's company "Head Japan" can eat Umaibou as much as you.It is a welfare program because a CEO of it loves Umaibou. I really want to enter "Head Japan". - Which Umaibou is best popular in abroad? It is a Corn Portage flavor of Umaibou. I like it too.

Alarm!!

Finally,I did this morning. It was my alarm. I can't forget my panic. It was 9:35 when I woke up this morning. The starting time of my office is 9 am. I usually leave my house at 8 am and arrive at my office at 8:40. But today was different. We have to send my boss a email until 9 am if we have a day off or we are late for my company. So I panicked after I woke up. Then I looked for my cellphone in order to send my boss a email. But I didn't know where my cellphone was.Although I looked at my bag for a few minutes,there was not my cellphone in my bag. Then I called to my cellphone by my phone and then I found my cellphone . How stupid! Of course I sent my boss a email at once. I don't know what he thought when he looked at my email and I don't want to know it. After all, I understood why I couldn't get up at 7 am this morning when I looked at my cellphone. It was vibrating alert!! I usually enable a vibrator of my cellphone when I leave my house on weekdays. Then I turn a vibration of my cellphone off when I arrive at my house after my work. But last night,I forgot to do turning a vibration of my cellphone off because I use my cellphone as a alarm in order to get up in the mornings. Anyway,this morning,I left my house at 10 am and could arrive at my office at 10:30 am. I had a new habit. My new habit is that checking my cellphone before I go to bed every nights.

Good or bad?

Although I had watched movies, I didn't post yet. At first,I thought I will post on my blog if I watch all of movies that I want to watch. But I am posting now because I will might forget their stories. I had watched 3 movies at my house while drinking wine. The movies were "Memoirs of a Geisha","Mr&Mrs.Smith" and "Crash". - Memoirs of a Geisha I like Ken Watanabe,Kaori Momoi and they had played a role on this movie. I especially like Ken Watanabe. He is a wonderful actor. I had watched his movies. For example,"The last samurai","Tanpopo","Setouchi syounen yakyu dan". I like his TV drama "Masamune". But I am sad because I couldn't think this movie was nice. - Mr&Mrs.Smith My family usually go to watch a movie together on new year day.In this year, we didn't go to watch a movie because of my cold. I wanted to watch "Mr&Mrs.Smith" if I didn't have a cold. Although My mom complained because she wanted to watch another movie. To be honest,I was boring while watching this movie. I was sorry. I was waiting for finishing this movie while watching it. It was a long time for me. - Crash "Crash" is one of the movies I really want to watch. Finally,I could watch it. It was true that I was tired because I was watching movies for 4 hours. But this movie didn't disappoint my expectation! I was very impressed and i want to watch this movie again.

new bottle cap figure !!

Again. Yes,I am a collector of figures. My current targets are these. If I get all of bottle cap figures,I will have to drink 24 bottles of coca cola!

Nocturnal view of cherry blossoms

Yesterday was not my day . So I asked my friend to go to see cherry blossoms. We met at Yurakucyo station at 8 pm. Then we went to Hibiya park to see cherry blossoms. We arrived at there at 8 pm and look for cherry blossoms. When We stand around three ,we could smell cherry blossoms. We had been looking at cherry blossoms for 30 mins. After 30 mins,we went to a restaurant "Tinun". We enjoyed talking while eating Thai dishes at the restaurant. This dish is a Tom Yam ramen! My frined's favorite. Of course I love!!

My postcard

I forgot not posting the important article about my post card. At first,Ba sent me a nice postcard. I really thanked him when I found it in a mail box. Then I had gone to shops to get a nice postcard . I bought some postcards at a shop because I waver over choosing a postcard. But I managed to decide a postcard I would send him because of my personal reason. And I had sent him a post card about 3 week ago. I had been worried whether my post card would be arrived at him. Finally,it managed to arrive at him! I am really glad! And Congratulations,Ba! I will send you a postcard again! Of course I will do that if I will go to Langkawi in this year.

Is it possible to take a day off?

Now, I am thinking about when I will take a day off. On Saturday,I got up at 10 am to attend the company's meeting .Then I went to Kokusai tenji jyo. It took 1 hours by trains and I arrived at 12 pm. Kokusai tenji jyo is a big hall that events are ofen held in. I found the dog show in a different hall when I looked for the place where the meeting would be held .I really wanted to see a dog show but I went to the place of the meeting. Already,there were some people who sit on the sofa. I found my co-worker and I chatted with her while waiting for the time because the meeting would start 12:30 pm. I heard about the meeting for the first time because my boss had entered our company on last year and he didn't know about the detail of meeting. All of employees gathered to attend the meeting. My company has branches in major cities. From Hokkaidou to Okinawa. Everyone had to attend the meeting. I heard that some of them had got airplanes or trains to attend it. I really thanked because I didn't need to get up early. I heard that the meeting costs were at least 5 millions yen. How crazy!! After chatting with them,the meeting had started. We sat on nice chairs like a theater while the meeting. Unfortunately,to tell the truth,it was boring for me. Only me? I could say "No!". Because some of employees slept while the meeting. The meeting was over at 5 pm. Today,I had a question. Can I take a day off instead of attending the meeting? So I send my co-worker and I asked him that we could take a day off. But he didn't know. I hope that I will take a day off because I couldn't go to Ohanami on Saturday.

Is Waiting a job ?

I am waiting now. It is a list of programs. My boss told me about my task after Friday's regular meeting. He is not a professional of web system. Yes,I know it very well because we are working together. On next monday,new servers will set up and the domains of URL will change. We knew about it since 2 months ago. I was wondering when he would prepare . I had done when I had been working in ex-company. If the domains of URL will change,I will start preparing at least before 1 month date of release. - I will send a email to an operation team that is charge in servers in order to prepare new systems soon. If it will be possible to have new systems, we will be able to allow enough time for do testing,before the date of release. We don't change static HTML files.It is a desinger's task. So we ask them to change domains of URL of many static HTML pages. If we ask it before 1 month of the relese, the desingers don't need to worry about the time of release. They will not sleep in thier office to do their task. - find the target of files! Our portal site has many static HTML files and web srcipt language's files. So we have to understand which files we have to change domains of URL. Of couse to do testing again before the release day. - set batch programs on new servers Before the release date, we have to set batch programs and check those. For example ,Log files. - finish all things until at least 5 days before the release day. But this time is different. Because I thought that he already done it. But I mistook. He done nothing to do. Except looking at my monitor of PC and saying to me ,"Do it"! Now,I am waiting for a list of batch programs. Today He remind setting batch programs. He said that he would have to work on Sunday while laughing to me. I thought that's for sure. Anyway,I have to be waiting now to set batch programs.

Ginko!!

I didn't know about "Mushishi" at all of Japanese anime before X told me it. He had asked me what Mushishi meant. It was the first time I had looked at the website of "Mushishi". Finally,I could watch Mushishi last night. To be honest,midnight. It was 2 am that I could watch Mushishi. Then I started watching from chapter 1 to chapter 3 while fighting off the urge to sleep. I became a fan of Ginko and Mushishi after I watched them. I could understand why Mushishi won the prize in this year because all of Mushishi wass perfect for me. Although I watched only 3 chapters of Mushishi,I like 3 chapter "Tender Horns" best at this time.It was so wonderful that I watched it again!! Anyway,I will finish watching all of Mushishi series. I can say that Mushishi became one of the Japanese anime I like. Thanks X!

Helmet

After work,I went back home. Then I looked at the website because X told me about nice amine "mushishi". When it was 10 pm,there is a earthquake in Tokyo. It was not big but long. As always,I turned on the TV news and looked at the news of website. After a few mins, the news said that earthquake magnitude of Tokyo was 2. There are some earthquakes in Tokyo. The earthquake of last night reminded me of funny happening. The woman who had lived in Toyama had started to live in Tokyo because of the college. She looked for the important thing as soon as there had been a earthquake in her apartment. What did she look for? Imagine! It was a yellow helmet. Of course it is important to survive an earthquake. For example, to hide under a table. I wanted to know if she put on a yellow helmet when I looked at the news of last night's earthquake.

me growing

Without breakfast. Today I couldn't eat breakfast at all because of the medical check.　Employee can get a checkup once a year in Japan. It is established by Japanese labor law. The company have to bear all amount of the payment of employee's checkups. Yesterday I wrote a interview sheet about my condition before getting a medical checkup. I went out at 11 am to get a medical check up. On my way to the hospital,I looked at cherry blossoms of "Hibiya park" for a while. I waited for my turn after I arrived at the hospital.The nurse called my name and so I stood up.Then I said my name to her and the medical checkup started. At first,I had a X-ray. It was a jab of medical checkup. If the nurse gave me a shot at first to do a blood test, I would be rather frightened. It was lucky for me. Then my vision and my blood pressure was checked. The next target was my blood. I never felt pain of injections when I had done a blood test many times. After all tests,I met the doctor. She asked me about my condition. I said her about my headache. Of course I am very health. Except having the headache. Finally,she said that I would had to check my headache again. Then she called the nurse and I had to make a reservation. It was 12 pm when I was liberated after all medical checkup. Then I looked for food as my lunch! I bought fries because I was so hungry. Then I dropped into the Hibiya park to eat lunch.My lunch was so delicious because the weather was nice. The most pleasure of this medical checkup is that I grew taller than last year although I am not a child.

April Fools' Day?

Today I had received a disappointing email from personnel development of my company. It was said that we will have to attend the meeting on April 1st although April 1st is weekend. When I looked at the email,I couldn't believe that because it is a day of April Fools. The detail of about meeting of April 1st was not written. For example,will we be able to take a holiday on weekday instead of attending the meeting. The content of the disappointing email was only the time where the meeting will be started and the name of hole where the meeting will be held. At first,I didn't believe it at all but I thought over again. Then I send a email to my boss to ask him. He was sitting beside me. After he noticed my email and then he said to me. "Yes!". But He didn't know the detail of the meeting. Why will we have to attend the meeting on weekend? The reason is simple. Because they couldn't reserve a place where we will attend the meeting on April 1st. I can't understand the worth of the meeting that will be held on day of our holiday. Before I received it,I planned to go to see cherry blossomes in the Shiba park. It is called "Ohanami" in Japan.And I looked forward to Ohanami since last month.Give me back my holiday! I hope that I will be able to take a holiday on weekend. Of course I hope that the company will return the money that I will pay the ticket of trains to attend the meeting on April 1st.

3 days or 6 days?

I went to the travel agency on Sunday in order to reserve the tour of Golden week of Japanese holidays. Golden week of this year is from April 29 to May 7. It is true that I had gone to Penang on January but I want to go to Malaysia again. Because I could stay for only a few days in Penang when I had gone to Penang on January. I would like to stay in Malaysia for 1 month if it is possible. So I had planed to go to Malaysia on Golden week. I went to the travel agency with high expectations that my holidays of Golden week will become wonderful. When I arrived at the travel agency of Shinjyuku,there were already many people who planned trips in there. Then I looked at the holiday brochures of Malaysia and waited for my turn. After 30 mins,I managed to start discussing my plans with a travel agency. But I eventually couldn't reserve the tour of Langkawi. If I would stay in Langkawi for only 3 days,it was possible to go to Langkawi on Golden week. Now,I am thinking about the time when I will go to Langkawi. I hope that I will stay in Langkawi for at least 6 days. By the way,I have no plan of Golden week now. So I have to think about it because Golden week will come soon.

Which pictures do you like?

Now,I am feeling comforted because I am watching the one website in my office. It was Baby Animals. It has many pictures of animal's babies. Which pictures do you like? My favorite pictures are - cat and dog - cat yawning - hamuhamu - The cat which sets up a gun

Another appeared!

You might say to me ,"Again?". Another service will appear in Japan on March 27. Again!! It is new social networking service. "rakuten hiroba links" will start in Japan on March 27. The Japanese company "rakuten" looks like Japanese "Amazon". "rakuten" bought many companies,the portal websites "infoseek" and "lycos","linkshare", the website of travel,finance company,baseball team "rakuten eagles" etc. Many people look at the website "rakuten" and they buy things on the net. There are clothes,books,food,drinks,tours,tickets,DVD,etc on rakuten. "rakuten" provide many things on the virtual and in the real life. Of course,Nintendo DS lite! By the way,what can we do on new service "rakuten hiroba links"? There is a different thing than another Social Networking Services. It has an Affiliate system! If they buy things on "rakuten", they can review things they bought. Then if another persons look at their comments and buy same thing, You can get the point like money and you can use points when you buy things on "rakuten". Social Networking Service became a boom in Japan. Why? It is widely thought that starting social networking service is a good opportunity for internet business in Japan. For 3 years,new services appeared on the net. Some of those disappear from us. If you want to become a member of Japanese SNS services, you have to ask your friends to send you a email of invitation. Do I want to have an account of "rakuten hiroba links"? To tell the truth,I don't know. Because I already have some accounts of Social networking service. I don't want to have accounts more! I heard funny story about social networking services. Some of members are crazy for social networking services. Then they look at those all day without their bedtimes. I respect their endurance! Because now, I can't put up with sleepiness although I went to sleep at 4 am last night.

Do you know joga.com?

I looked at the news about internet and found new Socail Networking service "joga.com". The news said that "joga.com" is an social networking service in the world for soccer's fans. Google Japan and Japanese news paper company Nikkei started providing this service. I had posted the article of Japanese SNS services once. Although I don't post on my blos,Yahoo Japan started Yahoo360 this month. According to the news of "jago.com", we can have accounts if we will receive the invitations from members. The site "jaga.com" supports 14 languages. What can members do ? - They can have our blogs. For fee? Sorry.I don't know. - They can post photos,video. - They can send another members messages. - They can create the community on the net. - They can talk about soccer. - They can look at the informations of Soccer players etc. - They can look at the information of world event "Joga3 futsal". I wait to the invitation from someone.

Go away!

Recently,I have bad headaches while I work in my office. Sometimes I can't have lunch because of my headache. I used to suffer from bad headaches 2 years ago. So I had gone to the hospital. And now, I have bad headaches again since 3 weeks. Why? If I will go to the hospital, The doctor will say "you are old!" or "You have poor posture when you look at your PC!" . I hope that my headache leave me soon!

Changing personnel assessment system & payroll system.

When I done testing of the program,my boss talked to me. He said that parsonnel assesment system and payroll system will be changed on April. Then he said that we have to attend a interview of personnel development. Although I don't know about the detail of my current company's system, I know about personnel assesment system very well. Before I joined the current company,I used to set up the goals. Then after 6 months,I interviewed with my bosses. To reflect back on the accomplishment of my work. But I think that Japanese pay-per-performance system is strange. In the true sense of the term,Some of Japanese pay-per-performances don't work at all. Three years ago, one book about the pay-per-performance system of Japanese company had became popular. The title is "Fujitsu from the inside". The book said that the pay-per-performance system of Fujitsu didn't work and many employees left Fujitsu. Anyway,I have to know about the detail of my current company's new system.

Planning the trip abroad

I checked the websites of travel agency today because the holidays called "Golden week" in Japanese are coming up. My conditions of the trip are here. - The places that there are beautiful oceans because I try to do scuba diving. - The places where it is close to Japan because I can't have long vacations. At first,I thought that visiting to Okinawa was perfect. After watching the price of tours to Okinawa,I was shocked. It was higher than trip abroad. Then I checked the tours of Langkawi and Thailand. Those prices were half of Okinawa's price. In addition,including the 3 times meals. I know that domestic trips are very expensive. But I think it is funny. Many Japanese people go to abroad on their vacations because domestic trips are expensive. In consequence,some of Japanese sightseeing spots are suffering from a slump in travel business. Anyway,I am planning my trip now. I have to decide the place where I will go to travel.

Lunch despite a trouble

I am sad. Once, I might have posted a article of my boss. I know it is true that he is a good person. Except a ability of a leader. After I arrived at my office this morning, I checked my email box. Then I looked at many emails and found one email. It was a email that we received when our system were in trouble! It was an alarm!! So we checked our systems and kept watching them. We managed to deal with our systems without problems. When it was 12 am, we received a email of the alarm again!! What did you do at that time if you were me? If I were my boss, I kept watching our systems to deal with our systems when troubles may happen. When I had been working at ex company, I had met same situations. I had never left our office when systems had been in troubles. It was common! But my boss was different. He had left our office to have lunch although we had to keep watching our systems. I can't belive it. Am I wrong?

Don't watch this if you don't want to cry.

After I wake up this morning, I saw the news websites and I found the news about the book "Tokyo Tower". Once,I had posted the article about "Tokyo Tower". I couldn't stop shedding my tears while reading "Tokyo Tower".It was for first time to me. I don't know the more impressed books than "Tokyo Tower". Anyway,the news said that the television version of "Tokyo Tower" will be shown on TV in this summer! According to the news,Japanese actress Yuuko Tanaka will play a role of Lily Frankey's mother. The news said

 "Don't read This book on the subways 
if you don't hope that anyone watch your crying."

It was correct because I fell many tears on my face when I got on not only the airplane,but also the train. If I had known the right advice,I would stop reading "Tokyo Tower" in front of people. In addition,the news said that the sales number of "Tokyo Tower" became 1200 thousand.Under the Japanese present conditions that do not sell of a recent book Under the present situation that many books I look forward to the television version of "Tokyo Tower". Of course, If you don't want to cry, Don't watch the television version of "Tokyo Tower"!

"Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven"

I bought 2 books on Amazon to study English today. Although I can't finish reading one book that is a self-help book, I would like to read another books. In addition,I can't receive books from delivery service on weekdays. So I made a decision to buy books on Amazon at once. Why did I buy new 2 books? Because I would like to learn how to say things in English. Self-help book is written by hard expression. In addition,I think the story of those are very nice. I bought "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". I like the touching books. I didn't know Mitch Albom that is an author of those. After some reviews of Amazon, I could know his book "Tuesdays with Morrie" had been greatly admired by New York Times. I will enjoy reading those books and self-help book for the next few weeks. But I wonder if I will be able to read those books without the dictionary. Because I am reading self-help book with usig the dictionary. If I couldn't see the dictionary,I think I couldn't finish reading half of it. Anyway, I am looking forward to reading "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Five People you Meet in Heaven". I will be able to receive those as early as tomorrow or early.

Can we live on 10,000 yen for a month?

I like Japanese TV program "Ougon Densetsu" that means "The Godlen Regend". This program is very funny. Because people compete in living on 10,000 yen for a month. Additionally,they are famous are famous TV performers,comedians. There are some rules on this program. - Living in the apartment where this program prepared for a month. - Don't eat any food given by someone. - Pay the water charge and electric bill every day. Many people showed us the way of living on 10,000 yen for a month. They tried to how to save food costs or how to save the water charge, how to save electric bill. Especially,I like Hamaguch because he was very funny. Hamaguchi who is a comedian in Japan showed us funny interesting ways to save money. He had many ways to save money in order to live on 10,000 yen for a month. He lived in outdoor place and he got into the cold winter ocean. Then he done snorkeling in order to get seafoods of winter oceans. On another occasion,he had been living with the chicken together. He was able to eat the eggs that the chicken sometimes had laid. So he managed to save money without eating the chicken he have. After watching this program, I can realize that we can try to save money more with some efforts. For example,when we take a shower,we can save gas bill or water charge if we sometimes stop turning on the hot water stop while we are taking a shower hour by hour. If we clean my room,we can save money when we sometimes sweep the floor with a broom instead of cleaner. After I watched this TV program,I sometimes clean by broom. At first,I put some papers such as newspaper into water,those run water over. After a few mins,I wring the water out of those and I shred those into little pieces. I sweep the floor with a broom after I spill those on the floor. Finishing gathering wet papers by a broom, we can see the dusts of floor adhere to wet papers. I like sweeping the floor with a broom because I can more enjoy cleaning by the broom than the cleaner. And we can save electric bill if we use some candles instead of the lights at night. I like aromatherapy.so I sometimes select essential oils and put those into the pot. After that,I enjoy the light of candle while the fire of candle is burning. I can not only relax by aromatherapy but also save electric bill. But I think it is impossible that I will live on 10,000 yen for a month. I must post how I can live on 10.000 yen for a month if I will be able to live on 10,000 yen for a month.

sign up!

Yesterday,I signed up for a SNS group that people enjoy doing scuba diving. Because I recently would like to do diving. My dad used to do diving and enjoyed doing diving for years. He used to take my family to Okinawa in order to do diving. While my dad done diving in Okinawa,we were waiting for him on the boat. He said to me that Okinawa's ocean was very beautiful. I understand him. Indeed,people who did scuba diving in Okinawa said to me same words. When I was a child,I couldn't do diving. So I enjoyed swimming or snorkeling in the ocean. Although I couldn't do diving at all, I could understand that Okinawa's ocean were fantastic. Because I could see the white sand beaches and clarity of the water when I went to Okinawa. If we can do scuba diving,we can see valuable corals and beautiful tropical fishes into Okinawa's ocean. When I went to Hawaii,I done snorkeling in Hanauma Bay. I heard that the many corals had died in there because of disruption of ecosystem. But while I did snorkeling in there,I could find many beautiful tropical fishes. After going to Hawaii,I hoped that I will do diving someday. So I signed up for the group "Enjoy do scuba diving". I look forward to doing scuba diving in Okinawa.

The peace after release

I am in the peace after release. I finally managed to release the programs that I had done testing for weeks. By the way,I am reading same book for weeks.I read about "self-interest" and "Boredom" of it. It was written that we must investigate how much variety there is in the tasks we perform.I agree this thought very much. Certainly,I sometimes feel boredom when I am working.But I try to find tasks that I can feel exciting. If I can't do that,I must quit my work at once.I think the job as engineer seems absolutely perfect for me.My job is like finding the answers by myself. I like thinking about tasks and finding the answers by myself when I am working. Of course if it is necessary that I must discuss with co-workers,I can do. I deeply hope that I would like to find out things more. Next,it was written that we must not think only about salary and workload.I understand it very much. All this time,when I could get jobs,I didn't select jobs for only salary and workload. I selected jobs for what the job involves. In the past,I heard that we selected the difficult way and so we were able to find many things.I agree this thought. Of course we need money to live. But if I have some money to live and nice job,I am very satisfied very much. What I mean is that it is very important that we keep finding things by myself with excessive thinking and trying to change.

Good sleep

I read the book about sleep. It was written that good sleep is important to work or do everything. I couldn't sleep deeply in the past.So I felt tired all day because of sleep deprivation. Now, I can sleep every day.I reminded me of the one movie after reading the chapter about sleep. It was "The Machinist".I watched it last year. The story was about sleepless man Christian Bale played. He was not able to sleep at all and went to the cafe every nights.And strange accidents were happening around him. We can find the reason that he couldn't sleep as we keep watching movie.I was very scared after I finished watching this movies. Anyway,good sleeping is very important.The brains are able to take a rest while we are sleeping. But now,I am feeling sleepy because I sat up late this weekend. I know it is a bad habit and stop sitting up late while weekends. Anyway, good seep is very important to us.So I decided to sleep early tonight.

Nintendo DS lite sold out

Today is a day of starting sale of Nintendo DS lite.I had been checking the web sites of shops in order to get it since last week. But it was difficult that we reserved it on the web sites because the sale number of Nintendo DS lite was limited by Nintendo. There is a huge electronic store near my office. when I arrived at my office and checked the emails in the morning,one of co-worker said that there are many people that are waiting for sale of Nintendo DS lite in front of the store. I would like to wait for it like them but I can't. Then I saw the news about Nintendo DS lite and was very surprised because 600 people had waited for the sale of Nintendo DS lite before opening time. According to the news,Some of people had been standing in front of the stores since last night and waiting for it. Of course I would like to get Nintendo DS lite soon but I can't stand in front of stores for many hours. Indeed,it is very difficult to get even Nintendo DS.I said to my friend that I would get Nintendo DS lite next month. But he said to me,"It is very impossible!" So I wonder when I will get Nintendo DS lite.

Writing down about my life

I am reading new book about what I must do in order to get a good life.Recently,I didn't read books such as this book. But I like those type of books and often read those in the past.The book I am reading contains 100 chapters and was written based on scientific and survey data. The chapter I am reading now is about that it is very important to write down what I want and what I need.I agree this thought.In the past,I had read the similar book. At firt,it is very important that figure out what I want to do or get.And so we can get close our ideals as we write down about our ideals.I agree and I think the process is very important. After reading the book,I wrote down my goal and my task every day.Before I started my work,I checked this note and thought about my task again. After I finished my work,I checked it again.If I found the thing I forgot to do,I wrote down it on the note. Of course,if it was not necessary for me at once,I sometimes hang up to do it. Recently I didn't write down about my goal,s etc. As I am reading new book,I think it is very nice chance to think about my life. - What do I want? - What do I need? So I will start writing down my ideal since today.

Tokyo Tower

I think the best book that I had read in last year is "Tokyo Tower". Before I went to Penang,I bought it because I had to get on the plane for hours.When I got on the train or plane,I can't stop reading it because the story was very good.While I was reading it,I shed tears. This book is a true story.The author "Lily Franky" wrote his family.He was born in Kyusyu of Japan and grew up in there.At first,he had living with his parent and grandmother together for 3 years since he was born.But when he was a child,he live with his mother. They had been living together for years.His mother was very cute and kind mother and she loved her son deeply. After years,He left his hometown in order to study in the college. But his mother had a ill and he lived with her in Tokyo.Althought she had been in Kyusyu,she enjoyed the Tokyo's life.Many people loved her because she was a very kind woman. But her ill was worst and she died for cancer. I couldn't stop shedding tears while reading the last of story.After finish reading this book,I deeply feel my parent are very important.And I would like to do something for my parent. I hope that many people read this books "Tokyo Tower". The reason of the title "Tokyo Tower" is that they saw it in her room of the the hospital.

Lovely cat!

I went to the favorite Japanese pub "Orench" at night! And then I ate a lot of foods and dranks a little with my friends. My friends live in the place near "Orench".I envy them! I have some reasons that I love there. The first reason is that there are delicious foods and drinks. Especially,I think seafoods and vegetables foods are very nice! In fact,there is an aquarium in front of "Orench". The owner buys special seafoods every day from the market. And he puts those into the aquarium. The second reason is that the owners of "Orench" are very friendly and their service are very fantastic. The last reason is that I can meet their cat.I think that last reason is very important to me.I rent my house and so I can't have any animals in my house.But I love cats! So when I visit "Orench",I can't stop hugging the cat.Unfortunately,I couldn't take phots of the cat.If I live in the place near "Orench",I think I would go to "Orench" every day.

The job interview

Yesterday,when I just testing another programs,my friend was online on the net.I heard she looked for the new job and so I asked her about the job.She said that she had the job interviews.And now she was waiting for the answer. And she proposed drinking tea together at 6 pm.I would like to do that as I didn't meet her for 1 month.But I had to finish testing and so I said her . Anyway,I hope she will receive the answer and join the new company soon!If she join the new company,we will plan to go to travel. Wow!

going on a diet with eating Miso soup

I recently wrote the article about breakfast on this blog.I wrote that I have a breakfast.But now,I try to have a breakfast since on Monday.I have a reason that I decided to have a breakfast since I watched the program on TV. The name of the program is "Aru Aru daijiten".This program is about health. According to the program,When American people eat Miso soup as breakfast,They could lose their weight! They eat only macrobiotics foods and they can lose their weight with eating macrobiotics foods.It is said that macrobiotics foods are brown rice,vegetable,soy beans,Miso etc. Those were Japanese food and old Japanese people have eaten those in the past. I knew macrobiotics foods and I usually try to eat those.In the fact,people ate Miso soup as breakfast and so they could their weight!They could lose at least 1 Kg for a week. It is said that Miso and Soy milk are fat-burning food.In adittion,They are said that they burn more calories. And so people eating those can lose their weight simply. Many of Japanese recently don't drink Miso soup ,because Miso soup contains many salt and it is bad to take many salt. Although I didn't drink Miso soup, I am drinking Miso soup as breakfast since the day I watched this program.There are many type of Miso in Japan. According to the program, red type of Miso is nice in the morning and white type of Miso is nice in the night. When I cook Miso soup,I boil water with frozen Tofu "Kouya Dofu" and some seaweed "Wakame". After 3 mins,I put red type of Miso into the pan. It is very easy to cook Miso soup. Will I be able to lose my weight? About miso is here

"Zenikin" - The man living in the mountain

"Zenikin" is one of the TV programs I love. This program is very funny! Because funny people appear on this program. They are very poor and save money to live.But it isn't serious because they enjoying saving money. Sometimes,I was surprised that I could not to do if I were him or her. In the past,I watched that the man living in the mountain appeared on this program.I envied his life because there are beautiful mountains and rivers around his house. When the sun rises up,he get up and have a breakfast. And he goes out to do rafting or swimming in the river. When he get tired,he goes home and take a rest. After taking a rest,he go out to get food. There are many vegetables that we can eat. Neighbours sometimes give eggs or meats etc to him. In stead of taking foods,he helps neighbour to repair their furniture and houses etc. After having a lunch or dinner,He does what he wants to do. At night,He goes out to prepair the hotspring and takes a bath. He can take a bath seeing beautiful night view! I think he can his time and decide what to do.Well,I have to leave my office. Of course,I will watch "Zenikin" tonight.

I don't know what I'm doing now.

Finally,I could finish doing testing of one program. When did I start doing testing of this program? I would not like to remember that. But when I finish doing testing of programs,I think that there are not QA engineers in my office. Because they don't know about development of web program. So I have to do testing about security. It is very hard to do testing all by myself. I think it is only in my case. It is very important to find security holes ,recently. Luckily,I had not to do testing like now at all before I joined the current company. Because there are many QA engineer who had high skills and some tools in ex company. But now,I wonder if I am a web engineer while I do testing programs. If I had to do testing all of cases,I would like to use some tools when I will do testing. At least,Bugzilla. It is for free!

she or he?

In japan,there is a star called "KABA chan". "KABA chan" is one of the TV performers who I love. He is famous as not only TV performers but also dancer in Japan. In addition,he showed his dance as dancer on TV in the past. Recently,he played a role on TV programs.He composes the choreography and teache dance to many famous Japanese singers. The Japanese song "The only flower in the world" was composed by "KABA chan". Japanese famous singers "SMAP" song this song and this song was very sold in Japan in 2003. This song is one of the songs I love. I think this song is very excellent because lyrics to this song is very good. When I listen to this song,I can feel cheer.

Okinawa's culture -The famous dancing tour bus guide of Okinawa

According to the news,there is a famous dancing tour guide in Okinawa. Tourist can learn the culture of Okinawa and watch her dancing. Her name Marie Teruya. Her dance is called 'Ryu bu' and 'Ryu bu' is a dance of Okinawa. 'Ryu' means the old name of Okinawa in Japanese. 'bu' means the word of 'dance' in Japanese.Okinawa was called 'Ryukyu' in the past. The culture of Okinawa 'Ryukyu Kingdom' is very different to other japanese culture. She learned how to dance of Ryukyu since she was a child. And She is very good at dance and won the prize in 1995. Many people said that Okinawa's people is very kind. And when I went to Okinawa ,I felt that. Okinawa is similar to Hawaii. There are beautiful oceans ,beaches,and some islands in okinawa. And when we go to Okinawa,we can feel that okinawa is an exotic city. These days,Okinawa is watched by urban people. Recently,Some of people leave from their hometown and move to Okinawa. In deed there are Okinawa's food restaurants and bars and shop in Tokyo. Okinawa's language is different to standard Japanese language too. But I like Okinawa's language because I can feel peace of my mind when I hear Okinawa's language.It is very warm! When I go to Okinawa,I would like to watch dance.

"live door shock' be continued

Although I wrote about the japanese company "livedoor" in the past, The shock of this case is continued in Japan yet. Finally,the new suspect thing was appeared in last week. Accoring to the news, Horie had gave money to Mr.Takebe who is a member of Liberal Demoncratic party. When Horie paid 30 million yen for Mr.Takabe,it was said that Horie used Mr.Takebe son's bank accout. But of course,Mr.Takebe denied that he recieved money from Horie. But Mr.takebe helped with Horie when Horie tried to buy the japanese base ball team. Some of people are doubting Mr.Takebe.

Do you know that Yahoo Japan is more popular than Google?

I sometimes check the rate of the internet of Japan.this According to this data,Yahoo have been No 1.It is the common in Japan.

1 yahoo.co.jp 16859 80.8 7.7 205.8 1:11:10 
2 rakuten.co.jp 6485 31.1 3.1 49.6 0:17:27 
3 nifty.com 6308 30.2 3.5 21.2 0:10:24 
4 infoseek.co.jp 6133 29.4 3.7 34.5 0:13:22 
5 amazon.co.jp 5259 25.2 2.5 15.5 0:06:22 
6 msn.co.jp 5156 24.7 3.8 17 0:06:32 
7 jword.jp 5101 24.4 2.9 9.7 0:03:19 
8 biglobe.ne.jp 5019 24.1 3.3 21.7 0:08:38 
9 goo.ne.jp 4965 23.8 3.7 35.3 0:16:16 
10 geocities.jp 4726 22.6 3 19.8 0:08:05 
11 msn.com 4517 21.6 3.9 26.5 0:12:24 
12 fc2.com 4483 21.5 3.2 15.9 0:08:13 
13 livedoor.jp 4281 20.5 3.5 13.1 0:07:43 
14 google.co.jp 4271 20.5 4.9 74.2 0:21:45 
15 ocn.ne.jp 4210 20.2 2.8 13.5 0:06:05 
16 microsoft.com 3964 19 1.5 5.7 0:04:01 
17 google.com 3533 16.9 3.3 22.6 0:10:17 
18 dion.ne.jp 3219 15.4 2.6 10.2 0:05:30 
19 dtiserv.com 3212 15.4 3 12.3 0:04:32 
20 2ch.net 3191 15.3 3.3 28.9 0:25:08 
21 excite.co.jp 2904 13.9 3 21.3 0:08:25 
22 so-net.ne.jp 2723 13 2.7 14 0:06:20 
23 ziyu.net 2590 12.4 2.4 8.6 0:04:10 
24 seesaa.net 2546 12.2 2 4.4 0:02:53 
25 blogclick.jp 2532 12.1 2.8 8.3 0:06:16 
26 geocities.co.jp 2457 11.8 2.2 8.7 0:03:51 
27 plala.or.jp 2409 11.5 2.2 14.9 0:05:29 
28 sakura.ne.jp 2402 11.5 3.2 31.4 0:09:40 
29 fc2web.com 2371 11.4 2.9 26.5 0:11:32 
30 iij4u.or.jp 2303 11 3.1 10.9 0:02:52 

I can't write the detail because I have to leave my office to have a dinner. I will write it when it is weekend.