Silver week?

Starting from Sep 19th yesterday to Sep 23rd we are having a holiday named "Silver week".

This holiday has just started this year (^^;. We have a holiday called Golden week in April to May. Starting sometime around 29th April (Green day, former emperor Showa's birthday. It became "Green day" to dedicate his work in planting etc) and end on 5th May (children day in Japan).

I think "Silver week" coupling with "Golden week" seems pretty easy naming though... what do you think?!?!?



This is what character "Silver week" is looked like in Japanese lol. Different from English eh XD?!

Berryz Kobo CDs and Sumo goods

Today is the post for my store items.
I have uploaded some of Berryz Kobo, Perfume, Gackt and limited edition CDs of V6 (Johnny's entertainment) today.

Please come and check out my eBay store!!

For Berryz and Hello! Project items go to the category Hello! Project.
For Johnny's, go to the category Johnnys. J-rock here and Tableware here!!
Thank you~~~~ =D!

Politics and a party!

Last Sunday August 30th was a general election day in Japan.
I went to the election hall around 4 pm to vote and come home to sleep :p (I was really sleepy on Sunday).

The vote started to count after 8 closing of the palling places. Minshu tou (Democratic Party), the opposition party overwhelmed the ruling party, Jimin tou aka Jiyu-minshu tou (Liberal Democratic Party) (@_@)!!!
Probably pretty different from some other countries, Jimin tou has been ruled Japanese politics for more than 50 years since November 1955 except during 1993 to 1994. That was the only time Jimin tou became opposition party. So it looks like a big change.
I mean I was pretty tired of seeing Jimin changing its leader for many times and seems to become the prime minister was the most important consideration for some of the politicians so I guess it is good :). I cannot say I know much about politics, and I do not feel like change of the leading party will do much different however, I think it is good to have leading party changed then who would be the leader in the leading party would be less consideration..... hopefully.

So the man at the top will be our new leader. His name is Yukio Hatoyama. Yoroshikune (hello :p)!

OK, now about a party! Not about the political one but usual fun party yay~~~~!!!!!
So the reason I was tired on Sunday was because I went to a river with 8 of my friends on Saturday to swim and do a BBQ =D!
We met up at Hiroshima station at 11:00 and started out a bit past 11:00 for Jagui river. My friends and I have been going to that river park called "Play park Jagui" past 3 years.
We are really fond of that palce. There are grill that we can do BBQ, the river with different depth. Some place really shallow that small kids can play (even though we do not bring any kids lol). We can catch fish at the sallow part. Also at the deep parts, we can swim, we can jump in from the rocks side of the river. It is really nice.

The ordinary driving course from Hiroshima station is to get on a high way to Otake inter change (I think... I mean I forgot :p) and get off there and stop by at a super market named "YumeTown" to get some rice, snacks and drinks =D.

The main event this year was JUMPING OFF FROM A BRIDGE!!!



The bridge, you can see it in the picture of the right. It was about 7 m high!
I usually afraid of height but not on the Saturday haha! On the left picture at the red arrow you can see the splash I made. I was just got into the river from the bridge and was in the water =D. One of my friends took it with her cell phone camera (thank you Eri-chan (^3^))!!
On the right was my second trial with my friend Miki, I am the one in the red and Miki is in the yellow =D. We were standing out of the bridge guardrail kind of thing, about to jump.
This year, there were a lot of people at the bridge trying to jump and jump actually. Last year, we were just watching some people doing that and called them fool...... but this year, we became one of them and it was lot of fun lol lol lol.

Even after 2 days, my butt hearts probably from jumping into the water from the bridge :p. Other girls were saying that their butt heart from the impact of getting into the water.... haha. But we were pretty happy also with the pain :D :D :D :D!!

We will go there next year!!

First band meeting

Since my former band "chao" was ended due to Say-kun's business, Yossy the bass and vocal girl and I thought we could do something new. Yossy invited her co-worker Aki-chan and I invited Naoki, my first band guiterist ("chao" was my second band). 4 of us got together for the first time.

We just jamed for an hour. Since Aki-chan (she will be the vocalist) liked the song "I can do better" by Avril Lavigne. We tried to play that one. After an hour jamed, we went to an icecream shop "Häagen-Dazs" and ate icecream and chat what we would like to do.

Naoki picked out a song of "Maiagaru" by Onmyoza (this is one of his fav bands). Since everybody will be busy for a while, the next practice will be on 19th Sep :).

Finally it arrived

Goodness! I finally got my substitute PC (>_<)! Waited to long!!!
My PC was nearly dead I think 2 days ago. I only successfully started it up twice that day and even that time it shut down a bit after it started up.....

Got my PC yesterday yay!! Will sending my old one to the person who will fix her for me tomorrow.

Cutting Onion Without Crying

Since I live with my parents, I get to cook just once a week (Monday supper and Tuesday lunch) which is very lucky since I do not like cooking very much.

Anyways, since my Mom seems to have less energy today, I fixed lunch today. Made Yakimeshi (fried rice).
I used 1) onion 2) carrot 3) green pepper 4) scallop. My mother told me to use scallop before it got old :).
So I cut onion, carrot and green pepper into small pieces and saute it and put scallop then rice.

By the way, I believe cutting onion makes you cry doesn't it?? Well, it does to me. I think this is global.....? Anyways assume it is and today, I did not cry when I was cutting the onions!!!
I watched a TV show a couple of weeks ago. It was a quiz show. In the question, there was a quiz that
which one is not correct to prevent you from crying when you are cutting onion. There is one that does not work.
1) Have piece of onion in your mouth when you are cutting onions
2) Plug your nose when you are cutting onions
3) Cover your eyes when you cut onions

Do you know which one is the right answer?? 3) Covering your eyes does not work. Did you know that?? I have narrowed my eyes when I cut it before and I thought it worked... but the thing (I forgot how it is called) permeate through nose mucous membrane (wow big word... (@_@) than eyes!!!!

So today, I tried not to breath from nose when I was cutting the onion and I DID NOT CRY!!!!! It does work!!! You should try it too!!



[Today's Japanese]
Above pictures. The left one is onion in English right? And the right is green onion.
I was wondering why these two have similar name even though it does not look a like. But maybe those 2 are some kind of family ne, I think. In Japanese, those 2 does have similar names.
Onion is "Tama-negi" and green onion is "Negi". You see? the "negi" part is the same just like the onion part is the same in English. "Tama" means ball sort of in Japanese. So.... ball shaped negi is onion......

In English Onion seemed to be the base and in Japanese Negi (green onion) seemed to be the base.... would it be something to do with which one is used more or something? or.... which one is harvested more.....?!?!? muttering........

PC troubles....

Awwww.... it's been only a couple days since I started this blog and 2 days ago my PC started to act weirdly again..... (;_:). I had pretty similar symptoms about a month ago. I took my PC to a "Pasokon Kobo" which is a PC repair and selling (original PC with relatively low price) chain in Japan.

They could not find any false. They even said that they could not see the symptoms. I had 2 fans renewed and get the PC back. Then after a couple of days later I had the same symptom again!!! So I gave it a try to bring my PC to one of my friends, a German friend who lives very close to my house, who were to be really good with PCs. THEN, he found what was wrong and repaired it for me =D!!! And a month passed, it started again (==;. Restarting again and again sort of (not that bad yet). Since my computer genius buddy is back to Germany to see his family.... (TOO BAD Stephan!), I called a person who made the PC for me 7 year ago :p! I know~ I know~ it is pretty old ne..... I was almost buying a new notebook though... he said he could save my PC girl, so I am going to send the PC back to him for repair. Oh please fix it right *cross my fingers*.

So, this blog might be a bit slow for a while. Not sure it all depends on my PC girl condition. Will see......

[One little Japanese lesson for today :). ]

When you do something for the last try, like you do it without expecting too much from it. We say it "Dame moto de" in Japanese. It is kind of slang form I think... comes from "Dame de moto moto". Which means give it a try without expecting too much.
"Dame" literally means "not good". "Moto" would mean.... hum maybe "equal to the start"?? Hope this makes sense........

In the above sentenses, I gave it a try to bring my PC to one of my friends (I am not so sure if this English sounds natural. Forgive me English is not my first language so :p) if I say that in Japanese, I would say "Dame moto de tomodachi no tokoro ni PC wo motte itta (I went to bring my PC to my friend's without much expectaion)".
Well that is it for today!!! Mata (see ya)!!