Kyoto
It's a Obon season. We all went to our family's grave in Otani-reien in Kyoto. After that we had lunch at Hanamikoji-dori, which was really tasty, and my sis and I had a Japanese dessert at Komori in Gion. We had Shiaratama-pafe both. Of course it was extremely good...mmm

After we came back to Takarazuka, we all went to our dog, Tom's little grave up in middle of the hill. He passed away in late April, only 2 days before my birthday. We all loved him so much that we prayed and cleaned his small place. While doing that, a brown cat suddenly came over and greeted us. He was cute...it was as if he was greeting on behalf of Tom.

I have to go back to Kanagawa soon...damn...

Kobe
Yesterday I went out to Kobe with my mother. It was a lot of fun! I got a pair of shoes, a bag, and a summer knit, all of them were on bargain of course. We had tasty cakes at Daniel in Daimaru. The fig cakes we ate was really good, not too sweet.
As we got tired, we headed home and I made pasta for dinner. It was good. :)

I'm enjoying the tv programs in Kansai...totally different in many ways.
getting hungry...wonder if there's something to eat...

back home!!
I got back home yesterday! yaay.
But the typhoon was terrible...I managed to reach the airport thanks to my friend, but the plane I was going to get wasn't arrived yet, so I waited and waited...eating osushi for lunch...then one and a half hours later, finally passesengers were allowed to get on board. and 30minutes later, it took off. It was already past 9pm when I got home by my mother's car. 2 hrs later than the expected time! Aaaanyways I am lucky to at least get home. There's surely no place better than home. mmm

These days I enjoy myself watching DVDs in my room, sometimes inviting a coupld of friends.
I got "Jack", "Edward Scissorhands", "Bagdad Cafe"...all my favorite. but the one I got just for trial was awfully boring...so boring that I almost cried. It's "The magnificient seven". I expected it to be a good movie..the guys in it were all "magnificient" looking though!:)
and the movie, "Pirate of Carribean" was..also kinda boring for me. I think it's for kids. but Johnny Depp was great.

I can't wait to see "HERO"! I gotta call Hana...

angels
Charlies Angels 2 I saw yesterday was a lot of fun. It didn't make me feel the time o 2hrs at all. I think it's even better than the first one.

and I got a small DVD player finally. I bought 5 DVDs from few choices a couple of days ago. But all I got are very nice, my fav movies.:)
The image is far more beautiful and clear than VHS.
I looove it.

hot hot
Okay, I played ping-pong again.
One of my closest colleagues loooves ping-pong and always asks me to play with her. and I enjoy it a lot.:)

Today I bought a nice pair of sneakers. I hope it won't rain tomorrow...

video
I saw "Green Fingers" last night, which I rented last weekend. It was kinda short British movie. It was okay.

Dentist tomorrow...sigh

fire works
I just got back home from Asakusa, where Akiko lives cuz there was a huge fireworks festival. Her apartment was located just beside the river, between the two fireworks.(there were two firework places) plus, her room was on the top floor, which was the 8th!
The fireworks were very unique, and of course so beautiful. I had a tasty dinner with lots of her friends and her family's friends, and left there for home in less than 3hrs. It took me 2hrs to get home...while I was sleeping. :p

Yesterday I played ping-pong again...know what? It means I played ping-pong every day last week!! Isn't it crazy? One of the leaders joined us late, and he was really good. When we finished it was already past 9pm, and it was raining cats'n dogs, so again I left my bicycle at office and my friend gave me a ride home by BMW. Lucky me.

Today I got up at like 10am and went to the dentist to fix the silver filling. It was a weird dentist...I can tell why I was the only patient...I gotta go there again, damn.

oh, this is the picture of the handsome model guy.



cool huh?

ping-pong
I played ping-pong tonite again! for like a few hours. My senior workers joined us and we sweated reeeeally a lot. I felt so uncomfy.:I
I didn't have enough energy left to ride my bicycle home, so I asked one of my colleagues who lives in the same apartment to give me a ride. A red BMW! fancy..!

greek
Yesterday I went to the movie "My big fat Greek wedding". It was good. The actors and actresses were fabulous. Joey from 'NSYNC was there too, but he wasn't that noticable.
Anyway it was such a fun movie. You won' regret paying money for it. It's worth 1700 yen, I guess.

I'm really interested in the upcoming movie "Confession" directed by George Crooney. I love the actor featuring in it, whose name is Sam...something. He was the bad guy in Charlie's Angels 1. Also the movie "Down with Love" featuring Lennie Selviger and Euan Mcleager? seems so nice. can't wait.

Tonite I played tabletennis after work again, like more than an hour. I sweated real a lot! Now it's become one of my routines. :)

On Friday my mom came to my place and stayed overnight here, cuz there was an open-house at my company. On Saturday we met my dad and we headed to our company. My parents looked around our company and saw lots of my colleagues. There were really a lot of ppl there, almost 600 I heard.
After that we went to Ohte-machi and stayed at Palace Hotel. We shopped at Maru-biru and had dinner at a German restaurant around there. On the next day we went to the furniture store where foreign ppl living in Tokyo come and buy the things for their houses. There were very nice pieces of furniture, which were kinda cheap! I bought a photoframe for 1200yen. I love it.
Then we went to see what Roppongi-hills is like. well....it was like a hell, not the hill. How could so many ppl gather there?! I don't wanna go there anymore...just got exhausted. We escaped from there by taxi to Ote-machi again. I love the Ohte-machi region a lot.
There was a "Dean and Deluka" coffee shop near the hotel. Its interior was quite good, and the pastry we had was incredibly tasty!!! it's one of the best pastry I ever ate. Coffee was just normal though. The food there, just unbelievable! I suppose Felicity is working part-time at Dean and Deluka, N.Y. in the drama "Felicity". I used to love the uniform and a cute cap there.
On Sunday morning, when we went to have breakfast there, there were beautiful models and camera men shooting photoes for the magazines or something. The model woman was too thin but cute, and the model men were really handsome! I couldn't help taking picture in secret. I will upload it in here some time soon. You will like him too!:)

Quotation from GRAPEFRUIT by Yoko Ono...my fav book
AIR TALK

It's sad that the air is the only
thing we share.
No matter how close we get to each other,
there is always air between us.

It's also nice that we share the air.
No matter how far apart we are,
the air links us.

from Lisson Gallery brochure '67