The Princess and the Warrior

一昨日の晩、久しぶりにFranka Potenteが主演する映画を観ました。 (彼女の 「Run Lola Run」を見たことがありますか?)
日本語で物語の解説ができませんけど、独特の魅力的な作品 だと思います。 大いに薦めます。

映画公式サイト：http://www.sonypictures.com/

飢えは怒り

今週の面白い写真、 これです。



食器のそばにごはんを待っていた猫たちです。お腹すいた!
ちょっと不満な顔を出て来ました。 超おかしいー！

温泉まんじゅう

このシリーズのキャラクターは大好き！
デザインは簡単でしかも可愛いから。
色と表面もすっごく柔らかーーーーい！！
私は色白まんじゅうを持っているだけ。
前回池袋のゲームセンターで貰った賞品です。

どきどき

来週水曜日に日本で金融業のお客様と会議があります。
そのとき、まず日本語で簡単に自分の紹介をする必要があるでしょう。
今回は初めて仕事ために日本語で話すようにします。。。ちょっと不安な感じ。
でも、良い経験ができると思います。

Land line を取り除く

数か月前から毎日家で迷惑電話が多過ぎるので、PhoneLabs の Bluetooth Dock-N-Talk™ (携帯接続器)を買って使います。三週間ぐらいの試用後、この装置に慣れているし、つまりかなりOKです。じゃあ、決めました! 明日とりあえず固定電話を解約しましょう!

ケロロ & タママ

仕事で机の上に私物です。

Mediterranean Food

先日昼間にSan Francisco's Mission Districtの本場地中海中東料理を食べ行ってきました。 店舗内装は全然無しであったが、Deluxe Falafel、Kebab 、Shawerma などぷりぷりで美味しいのです。値段も安いね。ピクニックにおすすめお持ち帰りです。

周囲の風景:
Art Store
Abandoned Planet Bookstore
Phone booths
No Percentage Drug Co. (Coffee Shop)
Muddy Waters (Coffee Shop)
Street Art

発見

最近インターネットで芸能人整形前画像を見ました。
ちょっとびっくりした! 今の美容整形技術は不思議な感じです。

I guess being unattractive is now, truly, a matter of choice!?

コマーシャル

Someone sent me this link and it's quite funny. Check it out.

ペリーヌ物語

Oh my!! This was one of my favorite Japanese animations I used to watch religiously growing up. I still remember bits and pieces of the story. Those were the good old days of quality animation on TV!! And it's available on Amazon.co.jp! The book and picture book are available at some bookstores online, too. But definitely go for the DVD.

フランダースの犬 was also another one of my all-time favorites. I still remember the overall story and the ending which made all the girls in our house cried. :-)

子供の弁当

I read a few sites on Japanese moms sharing their menu along with tips and tricks on preparing the whole family's lunch boxes. Since these lunch boxes will be eaten without heating up with the microwave, they are prepared fresh every morning. (大変ですよね～) And dad's lunch box is made differently from the kids' lunch boxes. Dad's lunch box will be packed with more filling adult's food while kids'lunch box will be more colorful and fancy in appearance (often times with food cut and arranged in some cute character!) Some moms even go into the details of making a girly lunch box for their daughter and a more sporty lunch box for the older son. A lot of respectable work and creativity goes into each lunch box!!!

Here are some of the links useful to get yourself started on making these lunch boxes:
http://www.itoham.co.jp/cook/vienna/index.html
http://www.ajinomoto.co.jp/recipe/bentou/
http://www.kikkoman.co.jp/homecook/lunch/index.html

Here are more amazing lunch boxes!!

Interesting Picture

Interesting because there are so many things to look at:
1. It's the Uguisudani (鶯谷) station
2. Suica logo on the Vending Machine
3. The neon sign of the love hotel and its pricing
4. The girl alone on the right next to the neon sign
5. The reflection of a man using his HDV Camera inside the train
6. The display and handles inside the train
7. All the different colors: blue, pink, green, yellow, orange, light & shadow

TGIF!

TGIF was something I used to hear every Friday 10 years ago when I was working at Apple. All the email will have Calvin and Hobbes or Garfield or some other character echoing the same message. There would be afterwork parties or gathering at Peppermill. But here at this workplace now, nobody really expresses any sense of relief that it's Friday. Myself included... I guess it just seems inappropriate or unprofessional. Friday is actually my most productive day 80% of the time with fewer or no meetings at all. Anyway, I am actually always very excited that it's Friday even though we don't necessary go to any places close to the picture above. But that's ok because my house is just as relaxing and cozy!

持たない暮らし

I think most of us want to own as little as we can so we don't have to be bothered with storing and organizing things. But the truth of the matter is, we all like newer, better and cuter things! And we all get tired of things we see and use all the time. So the key is to maybe set a per season or per quarter purchase budget and get rid of things after a few years? But like for example, if you have a few picture frames you just love so much, how can you throw them away after a few years? You certainly can not give them away because first, it's used and second, you must have some slight emotional attachments to them... But then you see some new and more stylish ones in the store, what do you do?

So I guess maybe this book is for me!

Chinese Stock Markets

Wanted to talk to someone about the Chinese Stock Markets but I have read enough online so I am OK now. The key things to remember are:

1. If you started out early (like early 2005 or even earlier) in these markets, you can still come out alive now.
2. If you are late comers (like late 2006 or just this year), you are probably caught by the manic stock dump and hopefully you had your exit strategy in place.
3. If you are sideliners still, just wait and be patient. The keyword is WAIT.