NACOS Nagaya

萌えなサンドイッチ

MiyukiOtsuka — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:05:02 +0000

サンドイッチです。かわいすぎる！なんかぷにゅぷにゅしてそうなパンだ。
左からタマゴサンド、ポテトサラダサンド、ハムトマトチーズサンド。
ちなみに、ポテトサラダサンドはレタスで、それ以外がサラダ菜らしい。なんてこの本の作者は芸が細かいんだ。
次は、和菓子です。クオリティの高さを感じる作品になっています。

Tsunami Hawaii

KarenWhite — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:47:43 +0000

It was an exciting and a little scary event! I couldn’t sleep and woke up at 4:30 am so I put on TV and was surprised to see News broadcast on Saturday. Then I found out that there was a tsunami heading our way by 11:30 am. They showed on TV how the islanders were reacting. The stores were packed with people buying water, batteries, butane canisters for portable stoves, rice & other necessities, wagon loads of supplies, for in case we lose our electricity and power. People were even filling up their cars cause with no electricity the pumps won’t work, no gas. They showed long lines for gas about 10 -15 cars waiting to get into the gas station area. Some gas stations even ran out of gas!

I went to Don Quijote at 7:00 am, to buy water in case they ran out latter, sure enough, by 8:00 am they were sold out of every size bottle water. You could not find any, the shelves were empty. My mother went around 9:00 am to Safeway, Walmart, Times and it was the same, all sold out! We thought we’d better get a good meal in before the Tsunami so we went to the Pancake House on Kapiolani but it was closed because it was in the evacuation area. Luckily LikeLike up the street on Keeaumoku was still opened. Checking the phone book for the evacuation areas showed that Kapiolani towards the ocean side had to be evacuated, Kalakaua near Ala Wai into Waikiki also was closed, no cars were allowed in. Hawaii Kai Drive was closed too. And everyone prepared for the Waves.

By 11:30 am, we were at my mother’s house near Leahi, (back side of Diamond Head), anxiously watching the wave movement on TV. They were showing Hilo Bay on the Big Island where the Tsunami would hit first. We watched the water slowly drain out of the pond in front of Hilo Hawaiian Hotel, like a river flowing out to the ocean. It kept flowing out for about 5 min. and then there was just mud left then it reversed and water started to flow inward like a river flowing in from the ocean. The water came up to the little bridge and then went all the way down exposing the foundation of the walkway bridge.

We were lucky this time. Thanks to our reefs Oahu has a little more protection. Although the all clear was declared by 3:00pm in the afternoon, the waters didn’t quite seem normal. Two days later while walking on Magic Island at Ala Moana Park, we noticed waves going sideways instead of breaking towards the shore. There would be a few normal ones and then one that went sideways. Even the surf didn’t look quite normal and nice breaking, the ocean looked confused. It took about a couple more days for it to go back to normal.

2010年は霧の年

YokoKelley — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:18:00 +0000

ハワイでは大風、日本では3月の雪と、春眠をむさぼるどころではないようですね。

ここネブラスカでは霧、霧です。

霧の都ロンドン、などと、霧といえばロマンの香り。初日は確かになぞめいた雰囲気でいいのですが、一週間も続くとロマンチックどころかもううんざり。雪解けも始まっていますので、水分過多の状態です。

昨夜は

NahoMouri — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:08:18 +0000

雪が 10センチも積もってしまい今朝は雪かきをしましたぁ！
もっともっと大変な所もあるんでしょうね～

ヨガを始めて変わったこと

MiyukiOtsuka — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:05:02 +0000

私がヨガを本格的に初めて２年半。何がプラスされて、何がマイナスになったか。
プラスされたもの・ポジティブな言葉・信じる気持ち・心身の柔軟性・流れに身をゆだねること
マイナスになったもの・頭痛・鼻炎・ジャンクフードへの依存・他人と比べること
などなど。最近、やっとヨガに集中できるようになったので、特に恩恵を感じる。
まだ、たくさんのことを学んでいくプロセスの途中だけど、少しだけ、自分を客観的に見られるようになってきた。泣いたり、笑ったりして感情に取り込まれているときは、たまに忘れるけど。でも、フラットな立ち位置に戻れるスピードは早くなっていると思う。
何が大切か、シンプルな答えが見えやすくなってきた。余計なものはいらないな。
これもヨガとその先生に出会えたおかげかも。
ご縁とは不思議なもので。ナコスとの出会いもご縁ですねぇ。
あ、なんかおばあちゃんみたいになってきた。
とりあえず、ヨガに出会ってから、ありのままの自分を受け入れられるようになった気がする！

アップルパイ

MiyukiOtsuka — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:05:02 +0000

アップルパイです。これが作りたくて、本を買ったようなもの。
ホールとピース。ピースの方の断面がすてき。パイ部分にボンドを塗ったのでテカテカしてます。
これは作りごたえがあったなぁ。葉っぱもりんごもたくさん作った。
さてさて、お次は何かしら。

きょうのホノルル〜　冗談ではなくて

Dolce — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:24:16 +0000

本当に風が強いのです。
ちょっとそこまで、おやつを買いに行くところです。

Kurage Revenge

SeanMurphy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:30:24 +0000

My first time eating kurage or jelly fish was the day before the first time I got stung by them. It was the night before I was going to a concert on the beach in Fukuoka, Japan and I was having dinner in an Izakaya with some friends. Someone ordered kuraage and I had some for the first time and really liked it. The next morning I got up early and made the 1 hour drive north to Keya Beach in Fukuoka for the reggae concert “Sunset Live”. I had planned to swim for hours under the hot sun and enjoy the beach. I noticed everyone swimming in a circular net that was set up in the ocean. With a nice wide open beach I wanted to have some space to swim around and not bump into people. So I ran toward the right side of the net where it was completely empty with beautiful white sand and clean blue water. Excited, I took off my shirt and jumped into the ocean and into a school of jelly fish. Instantly I felt my whole body being stung, it felt like electricity. It took me a second to realize what was happening then I saw these huge round jelly fish all around me. I jumped out of the ocean and was covered with red swollen welts. I didn’t really know what to do so I just soaked under the cold shower for a minute. I had just gotten there so I wasn’t about to leave. I spend the rest of the day in the hot sun, enjoying some good music, eating and drinking. I had welts covering most of my body for weeks. Now, everytime I eat kurage I make sure Im not going to the beach the next day.

懐かしーッPIDGIN TO DA MAX

YokoKelley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:12:30 +0000

引越しはまぁ九割がたは疲れる仕事ですが、楽しいこともあります。

PIDGIN TO DA MAX　が2冊、荷物の中からでてきました。懐かしーッ。

1981年発行ですから、まもなく30歳！

PIDGINでしか表現できないいいまわしがあります。例えば、she went already.　ヌービーはhuhu.　He is akamai ya.　などですが、うちでしゃべるPIDGINはお気付きのように日本語もまざっていて、暗号みたいになっています。

ケーキたち

MiyukiOtsuka — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:05:02 +0000

ケーキたちを作ってみました。抹茶ケーキとイチゴクリームのチョコケーキ。
私としては、抹茶ケーキの小豆がリアルで好き。
最近、ヨガ雑誌「Yogini」の編集者の人と、ブログでやり取りをしているのだけど、すごくおもしろい。ヨガの考え方とか瞑想のこととか、話がしやすい〜。昨日も、見ている自分と見られている自分を区別するのが大切というのを思い出させてくれた。
客観的に自分を見てたら、楽なほう、楽しいほうにコントロールできるもんねぇ。
たくさん笑って、楽なほうへ行こ！