Reba-sashi

I went to isakaya to drink and eat with one of my co-workers. I ordered this meal that is the plate with raw liber(reba-sashi) and raw heart and raw tongue. The raw liber is very famous foods, but I had never eaten raw heart and raw tougue.
It was very tasty for him and me, but I suggest the one for only the person who like something of raw :)

Today's lunch

chukadon with miso soup

Vaio type p

This is not mine, for our boss. But it looks pretty nice.

my shirts

There are my shirts in front of the window in my house. There are before ironing.

I got this poken

I got this one finally.This is 2980yen but I could buy one 2000yen.
Do you know this gadet?

Ramen tabetayo.

I found the famous company building at shimbashi.

We arrived at Haneda Airport.

This is the last place to visit during this short trip.

There are mountains still covered with snow

Tsukushi-tori

This is raw caramel. It's so in now. I got them at Asahikawa station.

There is first shop of very famous ra-men restaurant in japan

At Asahikawa airport in Hokkaido

at haneda

Sakura

I went to attend at my son's enrollment ceremony of elementary school. It was great cherry-blossom, There are flower patals on wind. Maybe this week is the best week to see sakura.

Cake

coffee maker

My company has coffee maker for employees. We can always use it charge free.
It makes coffee and some kinds of tea one by one. It seem good but its taste is not so good. So my boss is saying "I want to change more tasty machine".

This post is by iphone, this is also for testing

cat comes

I bought one kiloglams beef to cook beef stew. I cut beef , celery, onion, carrot and cabbage, and flyed them on frying pan, put them and water into a saucepan, and I stewed.

Then, my cat came around me, so she sit on sink, I thought she wanted to eat that, but she slept. I was wondering that why she come beside me, I know now the place was warm, so it was comfortable for her to take a nap :)




Gyunuku wo 1 kiro katte sityu wo tsukurimashita. niku to serori to tamanegi to ninjin to kyabetsu wo kitte, hurai-pan de itamete, mizu to issyoni shityu-nabe ni ire, nikomimasita.


Suruto, neko ga yatte kite, sinku no ueni suwarimasita. Tabetai nokana? to omottanodesuga, nete shimaimashita. Nande sobani kitanoka to hushigidatta nodesuga, tabun anobasyo ga atatakakatta kara desu. ohiruneni choudo yokattan desyou :)

Kejan

I like Korian food. Last weekend, I went to a Liblary near here, then I found new Korian food shop on the way. and I found Kejan. It's law crab dish, little sweet and spicy. When I just began going out with my wife, I wanted to eat Kejan at any cost, I and my wife went to eat Kejan by Taxi in snow.

My wife said, "I cannot forget the snow day".

Kankoku ryouri ga sukidesu. Sennsyumatsu, sobano toshokan ni ikimashita. sono totyu atarashii Kankoku syokuzai ten wo mitsukemashita. soshite Kejan wo mitsukemashita. Kejyan ha nama no kani ryouri desu. chotto amakute karai desu. Tsuma to tsukiai hajimete sugu, doushitemo kejyan ga tabetakunatte, hutaride yukino naka takushi de kejyan wo tabeni ikimashita.

Tuma ha iimasu, "Ano yukinohi ha wasure rarenaine".

Hisashiburi

This week was bad weather, and it was snow before noon today, maybe it's first snow this year.
Maybe my sons had many pleasures at their pre-school, but snow

didN7t lie thick on the ground.



First half of this week, I was token with my colleagues to my welcome party.
The restaurant is a kind of French, it's so tasty that all of us drunk much,
We ware 10 people, wines and champagnes opened.
I think it's too much for general Japanese.


oh, I changed my cell-phone to iphone. That camera's quality is very bad than camera of Japanese cellphone . It's really pity.

See you!

gyoza

I like gyoza, sometimes I cook the dish.
But yesterday, I cooked gyoza and gyoza's skin(I don't know skin is good words).
It was the first time to cook gyoza's skin.
The gyoza's skin is only made from bread flour and water.

Gyoza is Chinese dishes, but it's so famous and familiar in Japan.

Did you eat it?

New Job found

I decided to quit current job few monthes ago.
Yesterday, I recieved a offer letter from a company and got new job.
It's hard to change job in these economic circumstances, but I am very lucky.
New job starts next month, so I may be off on skype lots of time from next month.

Super Mario Brothers on Browser

Do you know the game named "Super Mario Brothers"? It may be that the name change some in other country. It's a geme of Nitendo Family Computer (maybe you call it NES),
I liked it when I was at elementary school.
Now, I can play it on Web Browser, for no charge.
Push S button to jump, push A button to dush, and you can use left and right button to control mario.

Please try it. I brought back memories :)

Seijin-no-hi

昨日は日本は休日でした。大人（２０歳）になることを祝う日で、成人の日と言います。昔は、１月の１５日でしたが、ハッピーマンデー制度が施行されたため、１月１５日の前の月曜に移動されました。成人式と呼ばれる祝賀会が各都市で開催され、着物を着た２０歳の人達が参加します。


Kinou ha nihon ha kyujitsu deshita. Otona(hatachi)ni narukotowo iwau hide, seijin no hi to iimasu. Mukashiha, 1gatu no 15nichi deshitaga, Happy Monday seidoga sekousareta tame, 1gatu 15nichino maeno getsuyouni idou saremashita. Seijinshiki to yobareru syukugakaiga kakutoshide kaisaisare, kimonowo kita 20sai no hitotatiga sanka shimasu.


Yesterday was holiday in Japan. It's a day to celebrate to be adults(20 years old), this day is named "Seijin no hi". In the past, it was on the 15th of January, but a regulation of Happy Monday was enforced, the day moved to Monday before 15th of Jan. The celebration ceremonies that called "seijin shiki" were token place at every cities, and 20-year-old people who get dressed up in kimono take part in it.

Sukikoso monono jyousu nare

I have talked with many foreign people, sometimes they remineded me of a Japanese ideom.
That is "好きこそものの上手なれ(Sukikoso monono jyouzu nare)". I cannot translate it well, so I found translated passage from web. Here is follow passage.



Your fondness helps improve your skill - who likes not his business, his business doesn't like him.



I think it's so suitable for people who learn languages.

Some of Japanese custom of new year

I often recieve mails that they enjoy to know about Japanese culture. So I explain some of Japanese culture about the new year.

Oomisoka means the day before 1st of Jan, and Ganjitu means 1st of January.
And Gantan mean between the night of Oomisoka and the morning of Ganjitu.
And we spend to be watching tv program that is called Kouhaku-Utagassen and Yukutoshi-Kurutoshi at night of Oomisoka. I had a work Kohaku, so I couldn't spend with my family at Oomisoka.
Hatsuhinode is the first sunrise of the year. It's happy thing that we can watch Hatsuhinode, so we go to watch Hatsuhinode. But I didn't go this year.
And Hatumoude is the first prayer of the year. So we went temple to pray something at Gantan or the next day of Gantan. I went near temple and I prayed and wished my children grow up well.
And Osechi is a name of dishes for new year. There is a custom not to cook for mother's rest between 1st and 3rd in January. So mothers prepare Osechi before the new year, and we eat only Osechi between 1st and 3rd in January. But acutually I hate to have same foods for 3 days , so we have some other foods :)
Koma and Tako are familiar with play of new year. Playing Tako need large space without electric wires, therefore it's a little difficule to play Tako around my house. My sons played that at my wife's parent house, and this morning my elder son was playing koma with his classmates at preschool.

Bus at Tokyo

長男と一緒にスイミングスクールにバスで行きました。バスは東京での移動手段として便利です。でも地下鉄の方が便利なので、主に地下鉄を利用します。東京の23区内の多くのバスの料金は定額です。なので、乗り込む時に支払い、降りるときには支払いません。現金とスイカ・パスモなどの電子マネーを使うことができます。スイカとパスモは東京ではすごく便利なので、東京に来たときは是非買ったほうがいいと思います。JRや地下鉄の券売機で買えます。

Chounanto Isshini swimming school ni bus de ikimashita. Bus ha tokyo deno idousyudanto shite benri desu. Demo chikatetsuno houga benrinanode, omoni chikatetsuwo riyoushimasu. Tokyono 23kunaino ookuno busno ryoukin ha teigakudesu. Nanode, norikomutokini shiharai, orirutokiniha shiharaimasen. Genkinto suika/pasumo nadono denshi money wo tsukaukotoga dekimasu. suika to pasumo ha tokyo deha sugoku benrinanode, tokyoni kitatokiha zehi kattahouga iito omoimasu. JR ya chikatetsu no kenbaiki de kaemasu.



I and my elder son took a bus to his school of swimming. The bus is a so useful way to transport to other place at Tokyo. But mainly we use to transport by subway because of it's very useful. Inside 23 wards at Tokyo, the cost of most bus is fixed amount. So we pay for our fare when we get on, don't pay it when we get off. And we can use cash and some of electronic money that called suica and pasmo. Suica and pasmo are very useful with life in Tokyo, so you had better you buy it when you visit to Tokyo. You can buy it by ticket-vending machine of JR or Subway