Retail shop or Large-scale Store?

In my mind I have one rule about my buying products.

It is that I intend to buy products
in a retail shop as many times as possible
if the price at a retail shop is as same as one at a large-scale shop.

I don't like the idea that
people or groups with lots of money are winners.

More than 25 years ago,
there were lots of retail shops or shopping streets.
These were very prosperous and very active.
They had deep humanity there.

However, those small retail shops or streets were getting bankrupt
because of too strong power of large-scale groups.

They can give us very big discount,
and this is very thankful for us and our current economic situation,
but self-employed workers are decreasing,
thus everyone is losing its own motivation or energy.

This is very sad.
So if the price in a retail shop is almost similar,
I intend to buy there.

For example convenience stores sell a beverage for 120 yen.
Small retail shops also sell it for 120 yen.
If so, I buy in a retail shop,
because 120 yen in a convenience shop isn't very big for itself,
but 120 yen in a small shop can not be small.

This is one of my recent rules.
I have the more other rules, too.

Attentive or Selfish?

Do you think Japanese people are attentive?

Lots of my non-Japanese friends image (or say, think) that
Japanese people are really attentive to others, kind, and tender.

However, I really wonder if
recently Japanese people are attentive to others.

Certainly, in the past Japanese people were really attentive.
Parents strongly told children not to bother others.
Children were educated so.

Then, Japanese people at that time were really attentive,
sometimes they were too attentive so didn't insist about themselves.
So Japanese people were told to insist thier own opinions more.

Maybe with its rebound,
recent Japanese people get to insist their opinions,
but I think they insist in a bad way.

They insist only their rights,
but they don't fulfill thier obligations
or don't care about others at that time.
This means that they are only selfish.

They insist their thoughts,
but don't think of others and don't care how others feel or think.
Despite this, they make a strong complaint
if others do the same things to them.

They wield only their thoughts, points of view, rights and so on
without others' situations, thoughts, points of view, rights and so on.

This month I had such incidents several times.

Do you think that really Japanese people are attentive?
Is the non-Japanese people's image about Japanese people right?

Milk Tea

I like milk tea very much.
Probably I have like that since I was a high school student.

There was(is) a kiosk in my high school,
and during the break between 2nd and 3rd periods,
I often went to this kiosk with some friends of mine
to buy beverage. Almost every time I used to buy milk tea.

Several friends of mine imaged that I always buy milk tea.
At that time 'Santory Pekoh' was my favorite one
although I don't think it is sold recently.

I prefer Royal Milk Tea wich is milk-rich to normal one.
One of my current friends also like milk tea very much,
and my favorite taste is similar to his.

The picture above is the milk tea which he recommends.
Today at the supermarket this was sold reasonablly,
so I tried buying it. It is in the fridge now for chilling it.
I intend to drink this tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to this.

Autumn

Autumn will come soon, although it hasn't come yet...

In the past I didn't like autumn,
because autumn felt sad or so on...

However, recently I like it little by little.
It is not hot/humid but cool,
so I feel very comfortable to do anything.

This autumn I have lots of things that I want to try.
So I am looking forward to autumn very much.

Calorie ZERO

I often go to the supermarket before I go to my office.
Also today I went to the supermarket to buy a beverage.

Recently Calorie Zero beverage is very popular,
however, I really don't like that and I can't like that taste.

Today there were only Zero beverages in that supermarket.
I was really disappointed and a little irritated/angry.

Why don't they sell normal beverage?
Why don't they prepare two choices (normal one and Zero one)?
Am I a minority person?

I am really disappointed at the shops with only Calorie Zero.

Broadcast Library

I visited Broadcast Library in Yokohama.
http://www.bpcj.or.jp/
This is the reason why I went to Yokohama the day before yesterday.

I got to know this library at Wikipedia
when I was searching something on the inter-net.
I had wanted to go there for almost one year,
and could go there the day before yesterday.

In thie library you can watch old TV programs or commercials.
There are a lot of booses to watch them.
Of course we can watch at no charge.
Old programs or commercial remind me of my old days.

Why don't you go there to remember your old days?

Yokohama

I like Yokohama very much.
Yesterday I visited Yokohama.

I have longed for living in Yokohama
since I was a high school student,
however, this dream hasn't come ture yet.

I like the atmosphere of the town Yokohama.
It has a lot of aspects, such as
exotic, fashionable, classy, sea-side, or hill-side mood.

Once, I had a chance to live in Yokohama,
but at that time, I didn't decide it with some reasons.
However, I regret it a little even now.

Yesterday I strongly felt
why I hadn't chosen Yokohama as my place for living
when I came to Japan...

In my future, I definitely will choose Yokohama
if I have a chance to move.