びっくり寿司！

Surprise (It’s ?) Sushi!

Spotted at Jiyugaoka.

My initial reaction was, "びっくり寿司だよ！" ^^. What do you suppose the surprise is?

Spotted this at Uniqlo recently. They have a new line of women undergarments that also provides support and enhances one’s body lines. There’s currently only 1 type of camisole, but there are 2 versions for their shorts.

I suppose they serve different purposes? ^^.

（２５／１）最近iPhoneを使ってる人が増えたね。電車に乗ると本当にびっくりする。周りを見るとiPhoneで音楽を聞きながら、メールを書いたり、読んだりしている人が多くなった。僕は最近iPhoneで映画を見るのにはまってる。あの小さい画面で映画をどこでも見えるようになった。映画をiPhoneに入れるのは難しくないです。ウィンドウズでどうやってするか知らないけど、Macを使えば簡単にできる。映画（音楽も）をもっと楽しむため、新しいヘッドホンを手に入れた。ヘッドホンをつけて電車やバスで（歩きながらも？）映画を楽しめるのはすごいな！

（２６／１）今日はいい友達と一緒に恵比寿で食事をした。最近よく恵比寿に食べに行く。今日はシンガポールチキンライスを食べに行った。値段はちょっと高いけど、味的にはシンガポールで食べるのと近い。僕はおいしいと思う。あそこで食べるのはもう三回目です。いつも同じ大チキンライスセットを頼んでる。他のメニューを試したことがない。今日はせっかく友達と一緒に食事するから、机の真ん中に分けて皆で試せるfried carrot cakeも頼んだ。まぁまぁおいしかった。友達と一緒に話しながら食べるのは幸せですね。

（２７／１）「ALWAYS 3丁目の夕日」と「ALWAYS（続）・3丁目の夕日」をiPhoneで見た。バスに乗って時ちょこちょこ見た。「ALWAYS 3丁目の夕日」の話しおもしろい！僕は感動した。すごいなつかしい気持ちになった。もちろんいい日本語の勉強になった。日本人にも、日本語を勉強している外国人にも、このブログポストを読んでいる人にも大オススメです。最近日本映画を見た？僕は日本映画見るのは好きです。うまく説明できないけど、日本の映画って、外国の映画の「味」と比べたら、全然違う！TSUTAYAでいろんな日本映画を借りて、iPhoneに入れて、もっと見たい。僕におすすめある？次見る映画はちょっと古いけど、「幸福の黄色いハンカチ」って、聞いたことある？

（２８／１）PS3とWiiを持ってるけど、最近全然やってない。時間がないわけじゃないけど、なぜだろう？いつもゲームをやろうと思った時、他のやりたい事が頭にポンと出てくる。やりたい事とゲームをやるという事を比べたら、やっぱりやりたい事をやりたいね。ずっとそういう感じたったから、ゲームコントローラーにあまり触ってない。Wiiコントローラーを触る時はいつも「出前チャンネル」でKFCを頼む。PS3のコントローラーだと、Blurayを見るため。来週友達からFF13を借りると思うので、ちょっとやりたい事を全部早く終わらせて、FF13をやるかな！日本語の勉強にもなるし。

（２９／１）今日はイディオムの事をちょっと書く。「Around the corner」と言うイディオムを使って例文を作る。「My house is just around the corner」、僕の家は近くにある。「My exams are just around the corner」、試験は角の近くにあるではなくて、もうすぐ試験の日だと言う意味がある。日本語だと、イディオムは慣用句と言う。僕はイディオム、慣用句には興味がある。なぜなら、言葉に感情やユーモアなどを込めて、言いたいことに味を添えるのは好きだ。だからずっとむかしに、慣用句の本を買った。日本語が上達するように、その本で勉強する。本を買った時はそんな気持ちだった。ちょっと勉強したんだけど、使うチャンスがなかなかなかったので、ほとんど忘れた。また井戸端会議から勉強するわ！

（３０／１）朝は家から出なかった。ゆっくりした。起きた時はちょっと遅かったから、朝ご飯を食べなかった。お昼はちゃんと食べたけど。うちの７－１１で焼きそば、おでんと唐揚げを買って、家でごちそうだった。近くにコンビニがあったら、そういうもんだ。夕方に友達とあう約束が入って、ちょっと出かけた。慶應大学日吉キャンパスの協生館のHUBで喋りながら、お酒を飲んだ。大学のキャンパスでお酒を飲める場所があるのは便利だね。Happy Hourでお酒を安く飲める。けっこう学生に人気があるみたい。土曜日の夕方はすごくにぎやかだった。帰る時、もつ鍋スープを買って、またごちそうだった。よい土曜日だった。

（３１／１）今日は新しいiPhone Appを作った。朝シャワーを浴びている時このアイデアが頭に「ポン」と出て来た。やばい！これいけそう！お昼食べるまでにもっとよく考えて、食べた後に開発を始めた。iPhone App作る時間は楽しいよ。研究みたい。どんな問題がおこっても、問題を分析して、解ける方法を探す。全部の問題が解けたら、iPhone Appの完成だ。自分自身で考えたアイデアを実現させた、満足感満々。完成させた３０分後、またアイデアがうかんだ。今日はもう疲れるから、「v2.0に入れる」と決心した。本当に生産的な日曜だった。あしたAppleに出そう！もちろんv1.0だね。

Jiyugaoka is along the Tokyu Toyoko Line which runs from Shibuya to Yokohama. It’s a pretty terrific line. Lots of interesting stops. Jiyugaoka is where the “osyare” go shopping. ^^.

Was out and about Jiyugaoka today. Part shopping, part experimenting with my new toy.

Can you guess what it is? Use your Byakugan and look closely. Sorry, no prizes to give away. Just bragging rights that you have good eyes.

Nice legs in my jeans. ^^.

Uniqlo opened a few flagship stores outside Japan. I used to prefer the mild colors of Muji, but lately, it has just been vibrant Uniqlo.

Do you wear Uniqlo?

I was asked very politely if I could take some group photos with my camera, so I ended up bring my Nikon to work today. ^^.

In between breaks, I managed to snap some shots of a shinkansen passing by my window. Just realized today, shinkansen’s are that long! Here’s a link to a larger image.

What’s the longest time you’ve spent on a shinkansen?

The weather girl was right when she said it’ll snow Monday night. I forgot to bring my sneakers in.

We don’t get alot of snow in Tokyo, usually just a day or two in February. For 2010, first snow in Tokyo fell on the first of February. 1’s and 2’s, 2’s and 1’s.

Seems like I can’t do laundry tomorrow morning. ^^. Laundry is a difficult chore during winter. You have more to wash because you wear more layers and laundry takes longer to dry. Envy those friends with dryers. You know I’m talking about you.

I wonder what happened here. What do you see? A gun?

I love looking over snow on a ledge.

This is a nice yellow house with a generous balcony. I haven’t seen them use it for anything yet though. I have a balcony too, there’s a BBQ pit… well, that’s about it. Would have loved to place a small table and 2 chairs out there, but it’s not that spacious a balcony.

Have only used the BBQ pit a handful of times. Looking forward to using it more this year!

You can tell from the empty spot that car number 12 left recently.

My first experience of snow was in Australia. We were on a ski trip to the Snowy Mountains. Coincidently, it was the first time I tried skiing too! ^^.

I still remember waking up on the bus, drawing the curtain and seeing the ground outside covered with snow. It was really exciting. Have you seen snow?

We’re only expecting a few centimeters of snow tonight. That usually means most of it will melt pretty soon.

Even my doorbell got the snow treatment. ^^.

At times like this, taking the elevator is probably safer.

Only had a split second to capture this photo when car number 12 returned. Quickly turned down exposure with a flick of my index finger. Quite happy at how it turned out.

Here’s a little trivia pursuit. Why are the car wipers lifted up?

Snow is pretty amazing isn’t it. I still get excited everything I see snow.

When the slope gets too slippery, one can only get off and push. We all have to get home somehow. ^^.

Panasonic. This came with my apartment. Haven’t used it at all and it still hangs outside without a care in the world.

Well, at least it hangs pretty tonight.

Slopes can be extremely tricky for cars without snow chains.

You know, I started keeping a diary in Japanese. In order to improve my Japanese, I made a commitment to write a page of Japanese everyday. It can be about anything as long as it’s a page long. Typing on the computer doesn’t help in the kanji department. Pen, paper and computer does.

This is what I do. You might find it useful for your Japanese study too. When I want to write a particular kanji but don’t remember the strokes, I look it up by typing it on the computer. When it comes to kanji, I tend to remember the general “shape”, but not the specific strokes. I can easily recognize kanji, but writing it is more of a challenge.

After a week of going through this process, I find myself looking up “everyday kanji” on the computer less often than when I started.

First week long entry can be found here. Of course it’s only in Japanese. Don’t think I’ll ever translate any of those posts into English… Maybe some of the more interesting ones. ^^.

Still have yet to type in the second entry.

Writing a page a day is easy. Typing out 7 pages at one sitting is not so fun. ^^. Maybe I should consider typing it in as I go along…

Is it snowing where you are this time of the year? If not, may you dream of snow tonight.

Sweet dreams.

I want to be a …

This post is going to be about food. Lots of food. Really. Lots of food. I was watching tv asahi’s Onegai! Ranking (お願い！ランキング) the other day when they were featuring “super-size” (デカ盛り, deka mori) meals. The 3 restaurants they ranked are in Saitama. So if you do live nearby, please give it a try and tell me how it went.

Oh. The picture above, that’s a mega 4kilos worth of solid yakisoba goodness. Think you can handle ¥5000 worth of yakisoba? ^^. Finish it within 20 minutes and you get a ¥10,000 cash prize. Girls get an additional 5 minutes.

Here’s 2kilos worth of katsu-don. Tickle your fancy? It will only set you back ¥1005. Cheap eh?

This is how it looks like when compared to a regular katsu-don.

It’s ENORMOUS!

A super-sized ten-don. Costs ¥1890, weights 2.5kg. Only 20 servings per day.

It simply just dwarfs the regular sized version.

Even the prawns are humongous! 25cm long!

Ten-don scored the most points with the judge ex-middleweight boxing champ Shiji Takehara. I don’t know if he actually finished everything.

I highly doubt so. ^^.

What would happen if I fell into a Black Hole in a nutshell by astrophysicist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Nope. I have no intention of getting myself spagettified. And yes, Spagettification is a real word.