Take a bath with ...

Yesterday it was winter solstice.
Then people say "We should take a bath with Yuzu citron.
Did you take Yuzu bath last night?

In our house we would go to a super-spa to enjoy a big Yuzu bath.
However, I came back home around 10:30 because of my job,
then we had supper so we couldn't go there
although some of the spas are open until 1:00 or 2:00 am.
Instead of going to a spa, we enjoyed it at a bath in our house.

To enjoy seasonal events is interesting recently.
Now Christmas is coming, and soon year-end will come,
then, a new year 2011 will come with a lot of luck!

A small but big mistake

Now it is 18:00. I made a small but big mistake.
I watch one TV drama every Tuesday,
and today it will have the final episode.

Usually this drama finishes at 22:00,
but tonight it will finish at 22:20.
However, my DVD recorder will record only until 22:00 as usual.

I don't want to miss the final episode......
Especially the ending is the most important!

Oh, what should I do?

To keep in touch with ...

Now I am writing a mail to friends of mine in foreign countries.
It is the year-end, so it is the season of Christmas cards.

Most of them live apart, not in Japan but abroad.
So it is a little difficult to keep in touch with them.
They are also very busy and I am also busy,
so we often forget to reply to each mail,
and the relation often finishes unfortunately.

Then, not to finish the relation,
At least I intend to write a mail every year.

They live abroad, so it isn't easy to come to or visit Japan.
I also can't go abroad easily to visit them.
The distance in the relationship is big.

However, I want to keep in touch with friends of mine
in foreign countries, because they are my treasure.

How do you keep in touch with your friends in far places?

Three objectives for 2011 of mine

We have only 13 days except today this year.
How was your 2010? My year 2010 was very normal.
One of the biggest events is that I bought a new car.
It was very exciting, and still I enjoy going for a drive in my car.

By the way, what is your objective for 2011?
Now I have three objectives for 2011.

One of them is that I want to watch more movies next year.
These three or four years, I haven't watched a lot of movies.
I watch my favorite movies very repeatedly (more than 20 times)
but I want to look for my new favotite movies.

This year I was very interested in
looking for my favorite picture books and reading them.
Like this, I want to be interested in finding my favorite movies.
Stories give a power to us. Stories can motivate us.

Do you have your favorite stories?

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Christmas will come two weeks later.
In my car, I often listen to Christmas songs.
They make me very happy.

Of course I have lots of favorite christmas songs,
but one of them is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
You must know this song, too.

I like the lyrics of this song.
Usually the Rudolph is made fun of by everyone
because his nose is red. However, on Christmas night
the Rudolph is needed by Santa Claus
and he became very glad even though he was always sad and cried.

Everyone must be glad if someone needs him or her.
On the other hand, everyone must be very sad
if nobody needs him or her.

However, everybody can have a feeling to try anything
if a person finds that somebody needs him or her.

The Rudolph must have been very glad
because Santa Claus needed him very much.

I also want to say to people whom I need,
"I need you", and they must be glad and be able to try something!!

NHK's period drama

Last Sunday NHK's period drama of this year finished.
This is Ryoma Den.
I had watched it for one year.

To tell the truth,
I watched NHK's period drama for the first time.
Until Ryoma Den, I wasn't interested in any period dramas at all,
because they are too long for me.
(This is why I don't watch Korean dramas, either.)

However, my wife said she wanted to watch Ryomaden this January,
so I also watched next to her at first.
At that time, I wasn't very interested in it.
Then I became interested in it little by little,
because people want to know the next episode/story
once they watch the first episode.

This is why I started to watch it
and had watched it until the final episode.

I prefer an actor M.Fukuyama to a singer M.Fukuyama.

Probably I will not see NHK's period drama of next year,
because it isn't very attractive to me.
However, if my wife says "I want to watch it," .......

Christmas in 2010 is coming!!

How are you going to spend this Christmas?

Today I was listening to some Christmas songs
while I was on the way to one of my offices.
I was very happy to listen to the Christmas songs.

They make me happy every winter.
Which christmas songs do you like?
Do you have any episodes about christmas? Let me listen to them.

Last Christmas how did you spend? Do you remember it?
I spent it with my family last year.

Christmas makes people warm and tender.
Today my boss started to decorete a christmas tree.
I am glad to see it and stay with it.
Have you decorated your Christmas tree yet?
Are you going to see any Christmas trees anywhere?

I wish your merry christmas this year, too.

Shinkansen has extended to Aomori

Tohoku Shinkansen went to Shin-Aomori station.
A lot of TV programs focused this incident last week.
It takes 3 hours and 20 minutes from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori.

This extention has a lot of pros and cons
for people in Aomori, Sendai, and Tokyo.

By the way, why couldn't Shinkansen go to Aomori station,
not Shin Aomori station? This is one of the problems.
Shin Aomori station is 4.2 km away from Aomori Station.

Shinkansens have many Shin-○○ stations,
and those stations aren't very developed, and aren't very convenient,
such as Shin-Shirakawa, Shin-Yamaguchi, Shin-Osaka, Shin-Yokohama.

If those stations could go to the central station of each city,
it would be more convienient and have less problems
although it might cost more, of course.

In 2015 they say this Shinkansen will extend to Hakodate,
and in 2020 it will go to Sapporo.
In addition, Linear motor car will take us in one hour
from Tokyo to Osaka in the nearest future.

How amazing those are!!
At least I want to be alive until that time.
It is amazing!!

Strange Weather

The weather yesterday was really strange.

In the morning, it was raining very hard
even though the sky was fine.
That rain also suddenly stopped, suddenly re-started,
and suddenly stopped again. I was very annoyed yesterday and
became very irritated in the morning, unfortunately.

From the afternoon, the temparature became almost 25 degree.
It is almost summer or so on. Now it is December!!

Because of a lot of reasons, the earth climate is strange recently!!
How will it be tomorrow?!

The reason why .....

I had been in a really bad condition,
then I couldn't write anything here
even though I hope to write something every day.
(I mean, I have to write every day, to tell the truth...)

However, today my condition became normal as usual
then from tomorrow on, probably
I will be able to write something new here every day.
I hope so.

I always write down the topics to write
in my mobile phone, not to forget them
as soon as I find each topic.

Anyway I'll be glad to write some of them here
this weekend and next week.