Lazy lady
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: Tango Maureen

Hey all.

You dun wanna hear my apology so many times but let me say sorry for not showing up here for long.

It's already summer!! I prefer heat to cold weather but I hate mosquitoes!!

What is worse is that mosquitoes love me...

Once I step out of my house, they rush toward me to eat my blood...I really hate them. Seems like they love me far more than other people. Weird...

I can't hide this too much charm.  I can't help it, u know. hehe

 About a week ago I went to Fushimi-Momoyama in Kyoto. I have my Honseki-chi there since my grandparents used to live there.

I went for the first time since I last visited there more than 20yrs ago.  It was a fantastic place. I never realized that as I was little.

 I visited Terada-ya that is famous for the battel of Shinsengumi.

It was a very nice inn, though I couldn't go inside since it was closed on that day.

Yesterday my family gathered at the restaurant in Ashiya, Bellini where we sometimes go for special occasions.

This time our grandma came and we all had tasty Italian and enjoyed talking.

It was cloudy with a little bit of rain, but a nice day. :)

 

 

spring
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: baseball
Hey all,

It's been almost 4 months since last diary.

I was kinda into mixi and kinda busy in my personal life.

Yesterday I received a new translation order, so I'm happy today. :) (applause!)

Today I went to Shukugawa to see sakura. It's one of the most famous hanami places in Kansai area.
There are lots and lots of sakura trees along Shukguawa river. As it was a weekday today, there were less people but still many ojisans and obasans.

There was a young man wearing sebiro who was standing by a big big blue sheet that he spread, maybe for his bosses and colleagues.
I asked him to take a picture of me and sakura trees. He kindly took a very nice pic. :)

In Kobe I had a very tasty sweet cake and earl grey tea in Fouquet. hmmm. What a happy spring day...

december
Mood:  rushed
Now Playing: silence
Hi. :)
It's already December...time flies. Hope everybody is well without catching a cold.

For these days, I've been...working at home, and...doing chores...traveling..etc. etc.
A few weeks ago, I went to the new park made beside the Itami airport. It was a nice park where we can see the big airplanes taking off and landing just in front of us! They were really huge and gorgeous. :) I love airports.

On Wed., my sister took me to the fortune teller in Kyoto. We both have ourselves told our fortunes.
He said I have a wonderful sense so I should develop my design skill, though I told nothing about myself but my name and birthday. He told me not to hide my thoughts or instincts coz they are good points of mine that ppl like about me, and told to take a better care of myself. Hmm.
He also told me to avoid the colors of yellow, brown, and orange until I become 58yrs old. haha...I'll keep that in mind.
After that, I met up with my senior worker of the company I used to work for. He's the only sempai at office for me. We once went to USA for business together. After a long walk because of me, we found the restaurant and had dinner there. It's a famous small restaurant Girogiro, which my sis introduced me. However, the taste was so-so...damn...

About a week ago, my parents and I went to HK for 4days. It was a nice trip. We had most of the meals with my dad's business ppl, therefore we had lots of local HK food. Some were very tasty but some were not suitable for Japanese tongues. Anyway, I did lots of shopping there. I bought a wallet of Loewe, calvin clein jeans, etc.

This year's gonna end in no time. Geez..

Long long neglectance?
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: rhianna
Welcome back, me!
Im deeply sorry about not showing up in my website...I was allured by the famous mixi stuff for a while...

I came back since I like here better anyway!

Well, after quitting the job, Ive been working at home as a translator.
Im happy that I can keep earning money and doing translation job. :)

About the next step, Im still thinking. Im thinking about studying abroad or start working again.
If I work, would I work in Kansai or Kanto? Id rather wanna go back to Kanto, but there are some problems...like family thing and etc. etc....
It's very frustrating and difficult to choose my way.

Anyways, Ill think about it a little more.

It's raining all day today, but since I had nothingspecial to do, I went to see the Imazu-toudai by Lupo. The lighthouse was very classis type but pretty! It's working still now to help the boats and yachts coming into the harbour of Nishinomiya.
We ate tasty osoba on the way home.

autumn
Mood:  mischievious
I'm spending the last several days in Atsugi...

Well, first I hated here, but now it's got better...still it's not the best place for me though. But Ive found many many nice aspects of Atsugi. :) and I made lots'n lots of great great friends...I couldn't have stayed here for 3.5 yrs without them, and of course I can't appreciate enough for the old friends in Tokyo area!

These days I hang out with 3 friends at office.
One is an American-Japanese girl, who is amazingly pretty! and used to sit next to me at office. The other two are funny gentlemen, who are my "douki".

We go out for dinner, lunch, sports, hanabi, etc. etc....it's a lot of fun to be with them. (pic: playing ping-pong)

The other day we went to have the famous ra-men of Atsugi, which is "Honmaru-tei". Maybe those who know a lot about ra-men know this shop.

Anyway, we went there on Sunday, and we waited in a line for....1.5hours!!! (TT)
BUT, the ra-men was superb! It's a very simple salt-ra-men, but it has a very very deep taste. Please try it when you come to Atsugi!

leaving
Mood:  special
I am quitting the company next week and will leave here at the end of this month. :)

Sorry to be late to let you all know.

Hope everything will go well with me, and everybody!

beautiful kanagawa
Mood:  lazy
Now Playing: now cooking dinner...
On Saturday, I drove to see the light houses of Kanagawa.
First, I went to Kannon-zaki toudai, Tsurugiga-saki toudai, and then Jogasaki toudai.
They were amazingly beautiful...!!!(Right: Tsurugiga-saki, Left: Kannon-zaki)
Kannon-zaki toudai is the first European light house build in Japan. So it has a long history. Tsurugiga-saki toudai is my favorite! The scenery around and up to the toudai is sooo beautiful with almost no people around. I was really healed...
Jogashima, where Jogasaki toudai stands was such a nice place with tasty fresh fish and really nice people.
I enjoyed a cruising with a small boat driven by a grandpa-like man. He explained every part of Joga-shima while on the sea. He was such a nice person.

Although I got tired, I had so much fun and refreshed! I LOVE light houses.

muggy
Mood:  not sure
On Saturday, I went to Omotesando to have may hair cut.
As the stylist who always takes care of my hair couldn't spare time for me, I chose a different one. He was funny, a bit chubby, and very skilled stylist. :) He said he lives in Azabu-juban with his bulldog. I like that.

After that, I went to a Chinese sweet restaurant, "Tou-cho". I had to wait in a line on a very hot day, but the desserts served there were very tasty! hmmm.
I had Tofu dessert with mango, and Senzo-jelly with fruits and syrup!

On friday after work, I went to see my friend dances belly dance!!
She was just....gorgeous!! She was very sexy and pretty. :)

Today, I scratched my feet with a concrete wall...my feet has a big bleeding scar...sob sob.

summer
Mood:  chillin'
Now Playing: tv
Hi guys.. it's getting really hot, izn't it?
Hope you are all doing fine.

I'm sorry again, for not updating the diary for like...two months?! I'm such a lazy woman....

Anyway, I've been kinda busy working, and...there've been some changes in my life, though I can't tell them right now.
I'll write down here when time comes.

I've seen some new movies recently.
I liked Pixar's "Cars" a lot. It was a really nice movie for me. I'm not sure how everybody else feels, but it's funny, cute, and heartwarming.
Now I'm collecting Mini-cars of the movie, which are now very rare and expensive!

About a few weeks ago, I drove to Izu and enjoyed beautiful ocean, very pretty lighthouse (Nishina Toudai), and such a gorgeous hotspiring(Sawada Kouen Rotenburo)near the lighthouse!! It was an amazing hotspring. You can enjoy the onsen on top of the cliff, where you can look down the sea about 20m below. It's usually very crowded, but there were nobody at that time...so the wide ocean and beautiful sky were all mine...you really should try it.

These days I enjoy driving up and around the mountain of Kanagawa-Shizuoka. It's so much fun to manipulate how to let the car curve faster. On the other hand, I hate driving in the city....plus, I'm still not good at parking...

About a week ago, I went to Minato Mirai and went to the ice cream store that I'd always wanted to go! It's "Cold Stone Creamery". You know, they mix ice cream, fruits, nuts, etc. on a very very cold stone. Know what? It's hillarious!!!!!!!
I finished the bowl of ice cream in a moment....damn, I really wanna go there again. Be aware that you have to wait in a long line to get one...

For lunch, I went to China Town and had a very tasty Okayu. It's a famous restaurant called "Shaten ki", which is always full of people. I was lucky to be seated on that day, and the okayu and other foods were just great.
I've visited China Town like...more than 50 times, and it's one of the best so far!

These days, I have a habit to run after work. I run about 3 times a week, for like 2 km. There's a public athlethic park with a very good running course, so I go there and just run, run, run....
After like 20mins, I sweat like waterfalls. lol
It's tough, but I feel very good after.

Okay, please stay healthy!

encoding the da vinci code...
It's raining really hard tonight, with huge thunders!
Though I had an unbrella with me, I got soaked when I got home...damn...
What's worse is that I cannot do the laundry again..

I'm running out of my underwears---! oops...sorry.

BTW, I went to see the famous movie "Da Vinci Code" last night. It was a very exciting, and also interesting movie! As the reputation says, it was kinda difficult, and complicated, but the TV program I saw last weekend helped me understand the movie very much.
The scenery and buildings of France were super beautiful. As I've never been to Europe, it's kinda world in the books for me.
If I have time, I wanna go there some time. :)

As for my job, as usual, I'm getting fed up with too much translations. (><)


I went home in Takarazuka last weekend to celebrate my mom's and my birthdays.
My sister gave me a pair of pierce earrings. :)

While I was there, my grandma's oldest sister passed away. :( She used to take care of me a lot when I was little...
I attended her funeral and thanked all she has done to me.
These days, people in my relatives die sequentially...very sad.