Nimo
I saw Finding Nimo today. It was very nice. The beautiful images and music are harmonized so well and the story was good too. It was "not" surprisingly good though.

I checked out lots of electronic devices at Sakuraya in Kawasaki today. The digital cameras of these days are just amazing!! amazingly small, high precision, low power consumption, and light in weight...!
Especially the Sony's ones are very well designed.

I need to buy an i-Pod and some time in the future, a new iMac or Mac computer!

cold
It's pretty cold these days. :( I can bear the heat better than cold..brrr
Aaanyway I have a good news, I passed Eiken 1st grade! It's really unbelievable, u know. I didn't prepare anythin at all and I had no idea what I was talking about. I think the key point of my success, if any, was that the conversation before starting the interview went quite well. They, the examiners, asked me if there's any difference between Kanto and Kansai, and I answered that the soup of Udon is quite different and I like the transparent Kansai style better. Then one of the examiners, who looked like a foreign ppl agreed with me. Isn't it funny? The interview itself was not so good, I thought. Aaanyways I passed. :) Congrats to myself!

home sweet home
Yes, I'm back in Hyogo! It's been a while since I came back in Sep. Some might say it's only 2months, but for me it's kinda long. Anyway I finally caught my breath...
As is always the case, this area is too nice. It was such a chilly day though!

On Sat. I went to Kyoto to see the turning leaves with my friend, but it wasn't really good, as I read in the newspaper. We had a very tasty lunch though.
Yesterday I went out with my sis to Osaka. We saw the play in which her friend is acting. It was really wonderful. I appreciate her for showing me such a moving play for a half price..:)
At night we met our parents and we all had fantastic Italian dinner at a restaurant around Umeda. Since it was kinda my sis's birthday party, we all prepared her presents. We don't get many chances to gather and eat and talk together these days so it was lots of fun. We had a lot to talk about and let others know.
And today, I went out with my mom to Kobe.. My best favorite city, I went everyday for univ. We walked around Sannomiya and Motomachi through Center street. It was fun. :D In the evening my father picked us up at Daimaru and we all went home together. The harbour view we saw from the car was spectacular.
I'm going back to Kanagawa tomorrow! Geez, I gotta work hard. One more month to the holidays!

a robot doggy
A new roommate came in last Wednesday. He is a dog, a robot dog, known as AIBO!
My company owns two of them (I guess) and I borrowed one for a while. U know, just being curious what it's like.
Well, it's ...a mechanical toy. lol Its movements look weird, its feelings, I cannot understand. Damn it's not cute! lol
I haven't turned on the switch since Friday...sorry AIBO!

I have one more roomy here in my room, which is a red fish. It's my friend's fish actually, but he was not fed well, not treated well, so I just borrowed him to take better care. He doesn't really show any feelings but it's okay. I never forget to feed him everyday. :)

Again,
the weekends flew!..it was just like a flash or even faster than that. Damn. Monday is coming again.

On Friday I left office earlier than usual as I could proceed my translating job faster than usual that day. On the way home I dropped by at Tstutaya to rent some DVDs or VCRs, then I chose American Pie 2, which I hadn't seen yet. Ive seen American Pie 1, and it was a crazy movie but very funny. Mina Suvali is cute! When I finished paying money, my colleague working in a different section called me for a drink, so I headed back to the direction of the office and I had lots of ...or some drinks until 4am!! I know, it's crazy...but it was fun. It's pretty good to have fun with ppl working in a different section. :) One of them is a fabulous DJ, and I listened to his play for the first time that night, he was totally cool. He really blew me away! Geez, I couldn't stop staring at him! lol His taste in music is kinda similar to mine, kinda hip-hop/rap thing, e.g. Eminem, Jay-Z, Ja-Rule... and he mixed those stuff with other songs and sometimes classic music, and the way he continued one music to the other, was really hilarious!! I'm gonna bring my camera next time, definitely.
I rode my bicycle home safely, and I slept until noon, then I woke up and went out for a little shopping to Hon-Atsugi. I got a new home for my friend's fish, which I'm kinda borroing it for the moment, and I got new shampoo and conditioner which are very nice.
In the evening my senior worker came to my place to drink wine with some of my colleagues. The wine he brought with him was truly tasty. mmm. :)
Four of us drank until this morning, like 6am and they went home...thank god. lol Well, it was really fun though!
I slept like 5 hours, and I went out with one of my favorite translators to the festival of NISSAN. There's a technical center of NISSAN in Atsugi, which is huge! Her boyfriend is working there, and I wanted to see some car design exhibition as well as him, so we went there and saw lots of nice cars! It was amazing. The old cars were so well designed too. We saw the car designer sketching a car totally out of his imagination. It was unbelievable!! You can't imagine how much I felt envious. I think I have to do something too, to be what I wanna be and to live the life I wanna live.

I got a nice ball-point pen of NISSAN design section. :) yaay.

Geez I'm kinda tired. need to take a nap...zzz

november
I was kinda busy last week. I was attending in FPD International 2003 in Yokohama as a translator for 3days in a row...standing all day long.
My back pain was really killing me!! I couldn't go out on Saturday besides to have a massage...

Anyway it's getting better.:)

Yesterday I went to COSCTO again with my friend, who drove his car to get us there. I got a big bottle of grapefruit juice of Australia, mint chocolate, tomato soup cans, big Doritos bag, papers for dryer...etc etc. On the way back home, we found a nice restaurant "Red Lobster", and we had great meal there. The dessert was tasty too. :) pie&ice cream with caramel sauce...mmm

It's gonna be very busy up until the end of the year. A lot of new documents to be translated have arrived...we gotta do it!

Im getting sleepy...

grrrrr
Tigers is not good...geez, the batters of Daiei are doing so good.
Moore and Riggan are both not well. Damn!
I hate it...please, hang in there...!

Last night I drank until 2am at my friend's room. It was a lot of fun, kinda weird night. lol

On Saturday I went to COSTCO again, this time I asked my friend to give me a ride. I bought lots of big boxes of food, such as soda, perrier, popcorn, brownie... it was fun.
On Sunday I saw the movie "S.W.A.T.". It was terriblly boring...gimme back my moneeeeey. hehe

V
Tigers won!!!!! Gosh..tonite the batters were not doing so good, but the pitchers...they did such a great job! My favorite player, Tray Moore was wonderful. :D
I hope they'll win tomorrow again...

I went to Ueno with Simon last Saturday and visited Tokyo National Museum. It was very very nice. Simon loved the Japanese katanas and medicine boxes with cool netsukes. I thought they were nice too.
I like that museum area of Ueno a lot. Lots of space to move freely...hehe

Anyway, Simon left for China on Sunday. I'm missing him. :I

My new sofa's gonna arrive tomorrow night! Can't wait!

had enough
Rainy holiday. It's not bad as long as you're chilling out in your cozy room. I like the sound of raindrops.:)

On Friday, my friend Simon came to Japan from California. Right after I finished having my hair dyed(in red), he gave me a call and we met up in Shinjuku, which neither of us knew anything about.
We managed to meet up at West Exit anyhow. Isn't it unbelievable that we could find each other without a cellphone with him!? At that time, I could praise myself. and him also.

We had some glasses of beer and light meal and had wonderful time talking about our jobs and lives. I was astonished to know how much I forgot English! I couldn't say exactly what I wanted to say! It eventually got better as time passed though.
and next day, which was yesterday, I picked him up at the hotel he was staying at and we both headed to Imperial Palace. As you know, I know NOTHING about Tokyo, but it was the only place I went recently and liked a lot. I mean, Imperial Palace is just a huge garden but I kinda like that Ote-machi area. Because, there are "less people", more trees, and nice shopping area. :)
We walked around the garden and..just talked and talked. At around 3pm we met my friend Akiko at Asakusa and we cruised around there, had some festival food. It was so crowded with people and I and he both got tired but it was lots of fun. He liked our direct translation of the Kaminari-mon as "Thunder Gate". He said it's the craziest name he'd ever heard. :)
After cruising Asakusa and Ginza, my boss joined us, and we all had dinner at a Japanese style bar. It was okay. I wished I had known much more about Tokyo, cuz I dragged him around and made him tired. :( Well, he was mostly tired of time difference though. But he said it's so much fun so that's making me feel better. :)

He headed to Kyoto this morning by bullet train. Too bad it's raining...I hope it isn't over there. He's coming up again next weekend, so it's gonna be fun again!

He brought me lots of presents. I asked him to bring me a bag of gummybears, then he brought me a big bin of them! It tastes so good as it reminds me of the states.

fraud
I saw the movie "Matchstickmen" yesterday at Virgin in Ebina. There were not many people who watched this movie, the theatre room had no more than 20 people despite that there were lots of people watching Tomb Raider and other popular stuff..
In fact, the movie was really good. I wouldn't say it was the best, but it was good!
Nicholas Cage was pretty good in it, Sam Rockwell was okay. The story was quite new, and I liked it a lot.:)

Another week started again!
TOKIO is on TV. "He" is cool! hehe