月別アーカイブ: 2010年12月

참 일본이 좋다

고 말하는 사람들이 많다 모두들 조금이라도 더 있고 싶어서 워킹이 끝나고도 관광비자로 다시들어와 3개월간은 더 보내고 돌아가는 사람들을 많이 봤다 . 그들의 이유는 1년이 웬지 짧게 빨리 지나갔다는것이며 그 아쉬움을 곧장 3개월더 체류가 가능할수있는 관광비자를 이용해 1년이 끝날 무렵 한국에 귀국했다가 다시들어오는것이다 확률은 반반 특별한 이유없이 들어오는것은 어쩌면 위험성을 가진 불법으로 비비춰질수있기 때문이다
어떻게해 ㅡㅡ

여기서 한마디 지금 내 남자친구가 돌아갔다가 돌아오지 않고 있따

現在、帰省中。

昨日、飛行機でとびたって明日までただいま、帰省中です。

昨日は、高校時代の後輩の結婚式のあとバイト時代の友達の二次会にハシゴ。
めでたい一日、結婚ラッシュを身にしみて感じた一日でした。

今日は、高校時代の友達とまったりランチ。
また一人結婚が決まったとか。さらに加速する結婚ラッシュ。笑
周りがパタパタ結婚しだして、子供までいたりして、置いてかれる感ちょっと大で
地元がさらに遠く感じます。

きっと次帰るのは、春かなー夏かなー。
知らない間に新しい道とかできてて、これから運転したら、迷子になるね。
いつまでも地元に帰ってこないことを母と姉は不満に思ってるみたいだけど。

さー明日、東京に戻ります。
昨日は寒すぎて、トイレに行きたいのも我慢するくらいだったので、
今日は電気毛布を足します。
ぐっすり寝れますように。

yes yes, i am still talking about march 2009, sorry

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Yes guys, this is KERORO.

I love Pikachu. But in Spring, Pikachu does not want to show up in the movie theatre, and I really want to see an ANIME movie in Japan because my time is up, …

… Keroro is the only one there that I actually “know” the name of the character.

But crying out loud, I had never even seen ONE single TV episode of Keroro before this.

Fortunately, Keroro is great.

At least good enough to make me have the urge to watch 3-5 TV episodes of him after this movie.

And later during Autumn, I finally was able to see Pikachu.

Pokemon are serious matter. The movie, it is never meant to be funny, but I think PIKACHU is beautiful and one of the most adorable creations on earth out of human brain. His every angle, every move.

And the best of all, is still the friendship of him and the main boy character … the very 1st episode, I watched the English version in America, and … oh goodness, I have to admit the translation was SO good that the 感情 was very much well conveyed. 感動する。

Of course now, they tried to make Pokemon going forever and ever, and if you just go watch any episode nowadays, you probably will not see any friendship thing going on at all. But that is not the fault of the person that created Pikachu.

Anyway, now back to the main point, what I was trying to tell you is, after the Pikachu movie  (gosh so many of them I lost count of what the number and the title is.  um … 10?) …

Pikachu と握手した。

超超超超超嬉しかった!

日本に来て良かったよ!!!!! (感動しつづき)  (•_•)

P.S. Sorry Keroro, I just cannot feel the same way about you. Even though I 勝手に use your photo here …

… still talking about the beginning

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Guys, you are not dreaming.

Please do not look down upon this … Yes, this is a pudding.

I love the dessert in Japan. Many people from the Southeast Asia probably do not understand what so special about this.

But if you have been trapped in a place that everyday life, all the common dessert you can see, is a bunch of ARTIFICIAL colored sugar-filled “cake”/”cupcakes”,  and the locals around you kept telling you, “Oh gosh, this tastes GREAT!!!!”
(Well, to be exact, I am implying you are basically eating sugar if you would like to have one of those “cupcakes”, it is suicidal.  You might as well buy a bag of sugar and just swallow it, that is how it tastes.) … THIS pudding is heaven, man!

(Don’t take me wrong, I am not trying to be rude. I just cannot communicate with the locals on the other side of the world over this area that is all.)

Especially this is the “time-limited” 抹茶 flavor! OH GEEZ! How can you resist this!? aaaaaaah …

When I first came to Japan, in the dorm, it might sounds crazy to you, but I was SOOOOO busy with the 自動販売機 every single day.

Why?

Because it has the 杏仁豆腐 flavor of this pudding, OH my GOD, it was SOOOOOOO good. Plus many other very interesting items, shoot!

I was also very busy with the convenience stores every night, I just could not spend a day without trying at least ONE new dessert every day.  How CAN you?

Those days.  懐かしい、そんな気持ち。

Full of adventures. Full of excitements.

人間はやっぱりずっーと満足している気持ちを持ち難いだ。

いつも何でも飽きるの日々がある。

ずっとそんなことを探すのは疲れてしまうものだ。

特にこんな歳、興味がある事も少なくなってしまうな。。

A few months after the beginning …

These photos were taken in Mar 30, 2009, at that time I thought I was pretty sort of sad, I thought, I had passed the chance to be with someone I thought I like, and had to bear the possibility of seeing him with someone else on the street again,

… the chill went down through my backbone …, (even though the chill he gave me was only 10% of what I had to go through in 2006 when someone left me) … those days, I tried so hard to like someone else, to like something else …

but turns out, now looking back, at that time, I was … pretty good. (Except at that time my Japanese was even poorer and had shit load of unsettled finance issues.)

… at that time, March 2009, right before I moved in to the first guesthouse, I think, I can still call myself “fortunate”, if someone said this to me at that time, I would probably slap them!

but now ちょっと見返して、… 間違えない。

because, there is another one that I like WAY even more, someone that gives me the feeling of “和やか”, such a warm and 細かい feeling for the first time, almost makes me understand, why there are actually people on earth wants a family, and why some people can have such a 幸せな顔 on their face when a kid is with them.

but once again, I also missed him, ALMOST the same way as how I failed the previous time, … how sarcastic.

I guess I did not learn my lesson well enough, … かな …

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Mar 30, I went to see sakura with my friend and her 2 sons. Beautiful Sakura …

Things were never the same after this.

The beginning …

It is almost the end of the year, pretty unbelievable. 2010 …

A lot have happened, just about every day, cannot even remember all sometimes. Good memories, bad memories …

Before I start living here, I really had no intention of making any more new friends, reason is, I have already stayed in Japan for almost 2 years, have seen too many people come and go, 心が疲れてしまう。

At first I only came with a travel visa trying to get away from the routine life of US, then, I registered for some language school so I can have some normal social life, i did meet a lot of interesting people from hong kong and other countries. It was pretty exciting at first since these are the types of people that I could not meet when I was in Houston, a place that seriously lack hong kong natives.

So different, やっぱりAsia, the food, the design, so much more eye-pleasing to me. The hong kong people that came here, also, of course, came here because they, for the least, do not NOT like Japan, right? So we kind of can share something in common. Full of curiosity of this place.

They all from many different backgrounds, but they came with almost the same intention — to study Japanese … I guess that is the only main difference between us.

They were so fun, one of them told me “People did not study well (in Hong Kong) usually because they know how to have fun … ~”

My long-time Japanese friend told me, I only meet them by “coincidence” … but, I somehow cannot agree to a certain extent.

And my first SOFTBANK phone in Japan, and might be also the last.

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The star-liked strap was given by a good friend at that time.

UENO RYOTEI FUKUI !!

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上野RYOTEI福井 http://bit.ly/gmNWru

やっと『異人さん』だけではなく、和人にも開放してくれましたね。

場所も台東区根岸...「根岸の里の侘び住い」。なんて粋だね!

加えて『料亭』を趣を残して上手く改装できたんじゃないですか。

ならば、「池之端から根岸へお引越し!」と考えてもいいかな...!?

と、と、とッ、とんでもない条件がついていた。

な、な、な、なーんと、『女性専用禁煙ハウス』と...!!!

最近のNew Open House は、その立地条件のよろしいところは、みなこの条件がくっ付いてくる。

ここ上野西は、ハウス内環境にチョッと気になること、ところがないわけではないのだが...

それを遥かに超える立地、周辺環境の良さは、掛け値なく良質なものである。

池之端。なんといっても、この地を超えるところはそう滅多にあるものではない。と、思っている。

浅草橋駅から秋葉原情報館へ

秋葉原情報館へは

秋葉原駅から歩くとわかりやすいかもしれませんが

実は浅草橋から歩くほうが近くて問屋さんが駅前にあって楽しいです

浅草橋西口駅前にある靴屋さん

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問屋さんですが個人でも買えます

ブーツでもパンプスでもレインシューズでも1000円とは!目を疑います

もうデパートでは買えなくなります

マフラーやバッグも売っていますよ

土日は休みで平日は18:30に閉まります

 

お次は皮製品のハギレのお店

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白いのやら黒いのやらヘビヘビ柄やら

みんな何に使うのかなぁと思いながら見るのが楽しいです

 

続きまして

ビーズのお店IMG_0319

 

 

 

 

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きらきらするのって何歳になっても見るだけで嬉しくなります

高価なジュエリーでなくたってオリジナルな色の組み合わせで

ビーズ雑貨が作れます

 

そんなこんなしているうちに秋葉原情報館に到着しますので

情報館に来るついでに浅草橋をぷらぷらしてもよし

浅草橋をぷらぷらするついでに情報館へ来てもよし

12月18日

気がつけば今年もあと2週間。

ずっと仕事だとかなんだかんだで色々忙しかったけど、最近やっと落ち着いてきた気がします。

家の人たちはクリスマス、年末を過ごすために今日あたりからちらほらと旅立ってます。

少しずつ家から人がいなくなるのを見送っていくにつれ、あー年末なんだなと実感。

僕の今年の仕事納めは大晦日。去年は職場で年越しだったなー

一年通してずっと日本にいたのは本当に久しぶり。

暑いだの寒いだの花粉が飛んでるだの季節が変わる度に文句を言っていたけど

季節の違いをはっきり感じられる日本はやっぱいい。

井の頭公園にはすでに落ち葉の絨毯が出来ています。

最近は寒いけど空気が澄んでいて空の色がキレイ。

今日は公園を散歩すると気持ちが良さそう。

これから会社の忘年会。そしてそのまま別の忘年会へ。

一年を振り返ろうと思ったけどまだ少し早いみたいですね