I think Mr.Yohei is there in Spain, right now…
I envy him a lot!!!!!!!
Please enjoy and let’s talk on skype soon!
Trip to Mie
Last month, I went to Mie prefecture.
There is Ise Shrine which is really famous shrine in Japan.
I love that kind of things like, shrines, temples…
I saw Yohei’s blog and the picture of Kiyomizu-temple, it was awesome!!!!
Thank you Yohei!!!
At the day, there were so many tourists and the weather was great!!
cook-a-doodle-doo:)
I don’t know what it is…but I like it!!
The person who were with me knows about it and expreined to me,
even thought, I don’t remember what he said…hahaha
I don’t know why but he knows a lot of things!!
I was always impressed by his knowledge.
I think I should study about Japanese history more and more.
We walked around the Ise Shrine for 2 hours and it made us hungry.
In Ise Shrine, there is the street for food and souvenir.
This street named Okage yokocho.
We enjoyed many good food there.
One of my favorite places is here!!
It was kind of Cafe.
We were guided to Japanese stlye tatami room and enjoyed Japanese sweet with powdered green tea.
The sweet named Kuri-kinton, it made by chestnut, and it is soooooooo GOOD!!
I want to eat it one more time in my life:)
We were satisfid…
BUT we were still hungry so we went to grilled meat restaurant.
The restaurant was kind of expensive one, of course it was great!!
The restaurant buys a cattle each day, so they can get the part which has scarcity value.
The part is amazingly delicious!!
We ate good food more and more,
I can’t explain all of them.
The most easy way to know them is going to there and eat them!!
If you get a chance to go Mie, please try these great food.
Bye-bye:)
SAYONARA baby
I don’t know why but I can’t stop listening to this song.
This song is about a LOVE.
The girl in the song doubts her boyfriend,and wants to say goodbye to him.
but she can’t .
Maybe she loves him but it’s so hard loving someone with doubt.
I’m not in this kind of situation,
but can you say goodbye if you find something that your boyfried or girlfried hides from you
(like,cheating or cheating or…cheating),
even you really love him or her?
The Sky Crawlers
I watched the movie titled “The Sky Crawlers”,yesterday.
It is a animation film directed by Mamoru Oshii.
It was so difficult to understand all of the meaning of this story,
for me,too deep…I want to tell you the story.
There is a man named Yuichi Kannami who is one of “Kirudore”.
Oops!! I have to tell you about “Kirudore” first.ww
Kirudore is kid who never be adult.
So they do not die by aging,only the way they die is death in the battle in the sky.
Yuichi has been transferred to the front line in Europe.
He then meets the base commander Suito Kusanagi for the first time,
but he has a strange feeling that they have met before.
As the war intensifies,and many comrades fall,the two deepen their understanding and reliance,
and as they gradually realize the sad and tragic destiny of the Kirudore,they face their destiny together.
The battle in the sky is not real “War”.
People need to feel “peace” everyday,so the battle is making people feel peace.
When someone died in the war,people think”War is sad thing,we shouldn’t do that”,
but If “peace” becomes usual,they will forget the importance and frailness of it.
They need something to compere with peace.
That is “the war in the sky”.
Yuichi and the other Kirudore fight for that and die for that.
I felt like the movie asked me ” what is the meaning of life?”
I can’t answer the question yet.
I am moved by the music in this movie.
specially, the song with the end-all.
『wrapped in the stars tonight』by Ayaka
this song matches the movie so much.
Her voice is like the wind at night.
I felt this movie is really sad,but you will get something from it.
I don’t know it’s positive thought or not,
but deep inside of your heart.
Snakes and Earrings
Recently,I read a book titled“Snakes and Earrings”
written by a Japanese young woman named Hitomi Kanehara.
She wrote the novel when she was 21.
In 2003, the novel won her the Akutagawa Prize,
one of the most prestigious literary awards in Japan.
It is really difficult to explain the story in English…
But let me try.
The 17-years-old heroine in this story is called Lui-“for Louis Vitton”,She says.
One day, she met a guy named Ama who has so many piercing holes on his face and red strange hair,
also he has split tongue like snakes.
Lui is fascinated it and she longs to split her tongue.
And she also wants to tattoo in her back.
She met the other guy named Shiba who is a tattooist,also has a lot of piercings on his face.
She has sex on the side with him,in exchange for design he’s working on her back.
Lui can feel “living”,only when she feels pain.
The guy named Shiba is a sadist and he wants to kill the parson who he loves.
The other guy named Ama loves Lui so much,
Even she doesn’t know she loves him or just his tongue.
One day,when she was going out with Ama and friend,
bad guys tried to touch her and do some stupied thing to her,
Ama got so angry and hit the guy again and again.
At the last,Ama put his hand in the guys mouth and got 2 teeth of him.
Lui got angry at Ama and asked “Why did you do that?” because somebody called a police
and siren of police car was almost there but he was continuing hitting the guy.
Ama said 2 teeth is proof of love to Lui and he couldn’t control himself at the time.
Lui can’t blame him anymore because she knows Ama’s love to her is so honest.
The days passed so peaceful,but one day when she read a new paper,she found the article
about the case of murder which happened at the place Ama hit the guy.
She noticed that the guy that Ama hit was dead so Ama became a murder and police are searching him,
even she doesn’t want to believe it.
Unfortunately,the guy’s party remembered Ama’s red hair and piercing face.
She didn’t tell Ama about the article and tried to change his hair color as soon as passable.
The story’s progress is marked by the in creasing girth of stud the Lui uses to stretch her pierced tongue.
When it reaches 9.5mm,the remaining strip of flesh will be tied with dental floss
then sliced with a razor blade.
Ama wasn’t caught so long time,so Lui thought Ama’ll never be caught and the case is over.
But one day,Ama didn’t come back from his part time job.
He always wants to come back as soon as passible and he calls her even he will be late only 30 min.
She is disturbed about him and asked to Shiba about him.
She want to apply to the police for him,but she find that she even doesn’t know Ama’s real name.
She is in blank dejection,she doesn’t know about him at all.
Few days later,Ama was found dead.
Somebody raped him and killed him.
First,she thought somebady who is in the party with the guy Ama killed did,
but she noticed,if they killed him thay would try to hide the body.
The way of killing Ama was not nomal morder.
Clearly,somebody who is deep sadist did.
She found a incense stick which was found the murder site in Shiba’s shop.
She doesn’t want to think that Shiba killed Ama,
but she vaguely thinks so.
There is no reasen to split her tongue anymore,Ama is not here,
so she gave up to make it.
She finally realized that maybe she loved Ama.
But she didn’t ask Shiba that he killed Ama or not,
because she knows that killing the person is the way to love the person for Shiba.
I’m so sorry about my bad explanation,
and also I wrote some of my readings in it.
If you interested in the story,it is translated in English.
Please read it.
I never think want to kill somebody who I love,
but I know that there is a lot of way to love.
And it is impassible to understand all of them
CELLPHONE
I bought a new cellphone few days ago.
So I have two cellphones now.ww
It is nice color,don’t you think?
Going to see my SWEETIE
HEY!!
How are you doing,guys.
Tokyo is so hot these days and I became like a cast-off skin of cicada.
About 2 weeks ago,I visited my sister who lives in the city named Sendai.
Sendai is not like Tokyo,smaller of course.
You can see a lot of natures when you drive in the city,
and people are nice,I feel like time in there passes so slowly.
In August,there is a big festival in Sendai,names Tanabata.
At the time I arrived at Sendai station,there was full of decoration for Tanabata,like that↑
Umm…is it too fancy??
This is special food in Sendai(^^)
These are cattle’s tongue.
I really wanted to eat it and this shop is so famous!!
It was so delicious!!
But I’m sorry to cattle.
This is also a special sweet in Sendai.
Rice cake with green soybeans paste.
It looks so JAPANESE…hahaha
Wait.
I think I always write about food,don’t I??
Anyway,the trip was so fun and my sister will come to my house this winter.
umm…I miss cattle’s tongue…ww
Going to KISARAZU,Nya——-
Last week,I went to see one of my best friend who is pregnant.
She is living the city named Kisarazu.
The city is a little bit famous,isn’t it Yohei-san?
At this time,I and 4 friends planed going to visit her,
but not just “visit”.
We want to make her surprise,
so at first one of my friend went to the restaurant where they were going to have a lunch,
I and other friends were waiting at a convenience store where is close to the restaurant.
When the friend sent me “COME!!” by a E-mail,we entered the restaurant.
She didn’t expect that all of us were there,of course.
So when we appeared,she cried in,
and the woman next to her was surprised more than her.hahaha
My friend was crying,like she couldn’t believe it,
and also all of us were crying because we missed her a lot.
We hadn’t seen each other for 6 months.
I still can’t believe that she in going to be a mother!!
But I’m sure that she is going to be a great mother.
We have a lunch together and talking and talking and talking.
Her wedding is in August,of course I’m going.
I’m so happy and looking forward to see her wearing a wedding dress!!
It must be beautiful!!
keep living
Last week,I bought a book titled “Shokudou Katatsumuri”.
It’s meaning,”Dining room snail”.
Hahaha…It’s cute name,isn’t it??
This is a story about woman who was left by her boyfriend.
Her boyfriend is Hindu and they lived together in a small apartment.
One day,when she came back from work,he was gone with everything in the room.
Money that they saved to open a restaurant together,furniture and every kitchen utensils.
She was surprised but not angry, even though,she lost her voice because of the shock.
She just left the room and took a bus to go back to her home town.
She loved the town but did’t like her mother so she left the town when she was 15.
She opened a dining room in the small town,it is” shokudou katatsumuri”
Only one person or group can eat the food each day.
She has a interview with the guest and then she makes a menu for them with a lot of ideas that her grandma taught until died.
She really loved her grandma.
The description in the book is tender and soft.
I can imagine the smell when she is cooking.
At the end,she realized that she had a misunderstanding about her mother,
but it was too late to realize.
Her mother got cancer and can live only few more months.
She decided to make food for mother’s wedding with her first love.
Few weeks later of the wedding, her mother died.
She became a mere shell of woman but when she found a letter from mother and read,
she decides that going to live and keep cooking.
After reading this book,I really wanted to cook!!
and I cooked this.
This is “Butanokakuni”.
I bought a chunk of pork,cubed the meat and cooked by rice cooker.
This makes me remember my grandma’s cooking.
I miss her and her cooking since I left my home.
Since my mom passed away,grandma has done every house-work.
When I came back from work in the morning,living room was full of good smell of breakfast.
Honestly,I didn’t want to leave my home.
I want to eat grandma’s food everyday and I was happy with my family.
But I knew that it would be not good for me.
If I stayed in my home so long time,I would depend on my family and never be able to leave,
I didn’t want to be like that.
So I decided to leave and live alone now,
and keep living and cooking like the woman in the book do.
I don’t know where my soul is.
I finished the induction and I’m not a trainee anymore!!
Yesterday was the first day I worked alone.
The hotel is quite small, so I have to manage the hotel whole day.
I was so tense!
I foreboded I would make something wrong…
but I didn’t!!!!!!!!
I was relieved when my co-worker came to take turn.
Oh my god…I was so tired…
I couldn’t think about anything and it’s like my soul was gone.
I don’t know I’ll be able to stand to be under this tension everytime I work.
I hope it will be better.
Life is... 
