1/26/2012

Dentist, Movie, English class

Well,,, not many people try taking a picture of their dental floss like me,,, I guess. lol
My 2 days off has just started.  Good morning :-)
I'll go to the dentist this morning.  Taking care of my teeth is very important but it's true that checking and fixing all bad teeth sometimes require a long term treatment...  so, I deffered seeing my dentist for a while.  But I know I gotta do this before going to the states.
If I finish dentist early and smoothly (the dentist is popular and his clinic is always busy...) I want to go to a movie.  I'm thinking about watching an Italian movie called "Mine Vaganti"
Then I will join some English classes later in the evening.  
It is very cold but looks nice outside.  I hope I will enjoy the 1st day today♪  

1/25/2012

What I write today has nothing to do with Indian pudding but,,,

Indian rice pudding for dessert♪ 

Last night, I went to an Indian restaurant.  ...I know I've been writing about food and drinking recently!  lol  I don't know why, but I have a lot of chance to go out with my friends this month.  Maybe my busy Christmas season is one of the reasons.  I didn't really feel like going out or seeing people in my free time last month because I was having busy days through a month.  So... finally I'm enjoying my party time, I guess. :-)  My winter vacation is coming up in February♪  I'll be on a trip, yeah!

What I often felt recently is... that I'm really lucky and happy to have a lot of cool friends!  I'm always with nice people.  My friends are very caring and supportive.  Even if we don't see each other for a long time, we keep caring and we enjoy reunion whenever we can.
Sometimes I feel... not really good because I'm too stressed or becoming less confident,,, or something.  But I think I'm lucky.  I'll be given, if I keep asking and trying :-)  People support me a lot.
Human relationship is complecated and very confusing sometimes.  But I can learn a lot from it at the same time.  I'm not smart enough to be good at everything, I'm often too pure to blieve anything lol! and sometimes I'm really easy to get hurt,,, but I can be strong enough to get over the tough situation!  For better or worse, this is a part of ME ;-)  I love it!  haha!
My personality, ability, friends, nice people I know and all the chance to get better,,, I appreciate everything I got♪ 
   




1/23/2012

bagel for lunch

This wrap-wrap-wrap stuff is lunch! lol  Again, I don't like cooking♪  So, this is the best I can!
I made a bagel sandwich with ham, lettuce, paprika, pickles and double cheese ;-)  I just put everything I like♪  And... I cut an apple and packed in a container.  That's it!  Lunch is ready.
I've been trying to bring lunch to work recently.  We usually have a 1 hour lunch break at work.  Bringing lunch saves time!  I can finish eating quickly and spend more free time during the rest of my break.
Alright, it's time to get dressed :-)  I gotta go♪  Have a good day!

1/22/2012

I'm in Nagoya

Good morning!  I'm in Nagoya this morning.  I took shinkansen train after work last night and came to Nagoya city to have dinner with my friends♪


My friends took me to a nice restaurant with relaxing atmosphere. ...Sorry, I forgot the name of the place...  After dinner, we moved to another night time area Sakae to have some more drink.  Because it was Sunday night,,, I know it was my bad time, my work schedule didn't match well,,, it took us for a while to find a good place in the middle of Sunday night.  But we finally got into a bar,,, an underground cigar bar.  One of my friends knew this place.  It was small but a very interesting place with the interesting owner and a friendly black cat... It was a place I haven't seen in Hiroshima.

These guys were people I spent time with in NYC 12 years ago.  Since we came back to Japan everybody started each work and got busier in each places, so I haven't seen them for more than 10 years...  10 years seems long, but actually we ourselves haven't changed at all. lol   We are still really cool friends! :-)  It was really great to see them again!  I appreciate the chance I got this time ;-)

    I woke up in a hotel room, turned on a TV and Oprah was on.  I'm gonna relax a little and get dressed later♪  I'm wondering what to do in Nagoya today.  I have a few hours before my train.  I'm thinking about walking and seeing around the center of the city.  I'll enjoy my Nagoya time :-)

1/21/2012

I got a new pencase♪


WORLD VISION JAPAN

It's been 5 years since I joined World Vision.  A child I write to was only 5 years old and now he became a 10 year-old boy :-)  I didn't notice 5 years have already passed until I received this hand made pencase from an area which World Vision supports in Laos.
Actually, I was thinking about buying a new pencase for me :-)  This pencase is very nice with simple material and natural color.  I like this♪  I'm gonne use this :-)

It's been almost a year since I had that day

One of my close friends' birthday is same as mine.  We went out together last night and our friends celebrated our b-day... 10days ahead :-)  It was really fun and sweet to blow out candles together♪

Surprise!  Birthday gift from them.  Pretty flowers, a bottle of healthy liqour :-) and very elegant leather gloves.  Receiving flowers always make me happy♪  (Why not!)  I'm sure I'll bring these gloves to my winter vacation trip♪  They do match my new coat well ;-) 

I'm very happy and lucky.  I'm getting older and older surounded by nice people and beautiful friends!

1/20/2012

COOKIES


Do you like cooking?  Me... not really. lol
I can cook, but for me it's like something you are supposed to do... like brushing teeth every day.
So I never say "cooking is my hobby" and I don't really feel it's... fun.
Plus, I never try to be good at cooking!  haha!  If I cook something healthy and good enough to eat,
I'll give an A to myself♪  haha!

But there's one thing I like making and feel fun about.  That's making chocolate chip cookies :-)
Because... my cookies are really good! lol  My friends and coworkers who have had my cookies, everybody says they like my cookies and "good job" to me♪
Tip:adding my favorite flavor... cinnamon, rum, brown sugar... a little bit more than ordinary ones :-)

Mix all the ingredients together and put it on a plate with spoons... very easy ;-)
Yeah, I know it looks like Japanese TSUMIRE stuff or something. lol
But,,, just put it in a oven and wait for a transformation... 


ta-dah♪
You'll see round shaped cookies in 15 minutes with nice smell :-)
Get your milk ready♪

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1/12/2012

shh.............

I've been enjoying my day off in the city today.  I left home in the morning like when I go to work, have finished some personal stuff.

Then I came to a library in the Peace Memorial Park as I sometimes do.
What I have been doing here is... my homework.  I'm writing a very short essay about self-improvement.  I gotta finish this by the class in the eveninig!

This is a public library for both Japanese and Foreigners.  We can check out English books and  see information about the city which is written in English.
I'm at a table now.  The Japanese man opposite is reading Haruki Murakami, a woman with blonde hair at the same table is reading a English book... she was speaking in English... and her boyfriend next to her is... sleeping.
I can hear 2 people from behind the bookshelf.  They are speaking in Chinese and Japanese, which seems like a Chinese lesson.
Another group of Japanese ladies is studying English with a native English speaking man with British accent :-)
...interesting♪  I like bing here sometimes :-)

OK, I gotta go back to my homework now!

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1/10/2012

Can't wait!

Let me tell you about my happiness...
These are things that happened to me recently.


I received a very very very heartwarming letter from my friend.  She wrote to me a lot and shared her happiness with me.

One of my good friends is traveling all over the world.  She keeps telling us about her great experiences from a thousand miles away.  I really hope she keeps traveling safely!

Thanks to Facebook thing, I met my old friends there again and got plans to see them soon.  It's been more than 10 years since we had a great time in NYC♪

Miscommunication let me down, but I learned a lot from it.  I also learned good things will come up after being patient.

I feel my forever sweetheart, who really gave me the world, is always supporting me,,, no matter what.

I'm planning to my winter vacation trip to US in February,  yeah!

...and more♪


At the beginning of 2012,  I'm so excited about my future :-)

1/05/2012

B-day gift for my mom

Well, it was a few days late for this but...
Happy Birthday, mom!

I knew I was gonna send her a picture or a painting in a frame but I was not sure what to buy.  I went to some shops to find one which suits her style.  It didn't take me too long to pick one because... she is my mom! lol  I know what she likes :-)
At the third shop, I met a nice lithograph with a tender image and I took it♪  I hope she will like it.  It also matches her room, I think.
I sent her a B-day card, too.  Orange, pink, yellow flowers with many petals...  This small flower shaped card is exactly her image to me♪
  All I bought today was only this gift for my mom, but it was a very nice shopping day.  I could choose a pretty picture and I also enjoyed art a lot :-)  I want to do this more often♪

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start blogging again♪

Last year, exactly one year ago...

I was having a day off on January 5th.
According to my post, what I did on that day was...  having my stomach checked with a camera,
and shopping after coming out from under the anesthetic.  lol 

http://www.rockinwasabi.blogspot.com/2011/01/ikamera-shopping.html

Since then, I had to take the same stomach check once again at a bigger hospital to see more details.
The result was,,, "nothing's wrong"  lol
A bump the doctor noticed was just because of a big vein under the surface of my stomach...

Age,,, is just a number, but I'm definitely getting older and older!
I want to enjoy everyday as much as possible and try to be nice to people...
and I'll love myself more this year♪  haha!
This is not New Year's resolutions but... these are things I wanna try.

Oh, and writing more often here, too ;-)

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