really American

These are from a shop called Olive.

tasted really American!

home party --tea themed-

Fifteen people attended the party at my home.

The theme of this party is "Japanese tea"

I prepared 5 types of Japanese tea including Macha.

Everyone seemed to enjoy trying them.

We enjoyed "Fuku-warai", a traditional Japanese game", as well,

which made me actually laugh.

I'm not on any of the pictures here :)

-MENU-

--Snacks--

tortilla strips with salsa/cheese dip

various pretzels

ginger cookies

chocolate bonbons

--appetizers--

caramelled yums(daigaku-imo)

edamame beans

green beans marinated by sesami paste

cucumber cups(tomatoes, cheese and radishes)

gomoku soybeans

marinated mashrooms

--main--

soy sauce dipped drumsticks(tebasaki)

croquettes

quiche

Sticky rice(okowa) and Miso soup(akadashi)

cream cups with blackberries

tea

mugi-cha,

hoji-cha,

genmai-cha,

ryoku-cha and

maccha with wasannbon(HANESANUKI)

https://secure16.chicappa.jp/~chicappa.jp-kagawa/shop/hanesanuki.html

I hope everybody enjoyed it :)

home party

I had a homeparty. The photos above are parts of the dishes. I made more than 10 dishes but I've forgotten to take the pictures of most of them....

unforgettable ice dance

I do remember I was so impressed by this perfomance, though I was a child.
Their interpretation of bolero is so appropreate and extraordinary.
I've never thought I could see the performance again, but it's now possible.
great you tube!

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zbbN4OL98

Mevlana

I've got to realise how small my existance is in the world.
I should abandon any omnipotence which might have been having.
I've got to stop criticising whatever it is and just appreciate
everything associated with me.


Mevlana's seven advices.

1. In generosity and helping others be like a river.
2. In compassion and grace be like sun.
3. In concealing others' faults be like night.
4. In anger and fury be like dead.
5. In modesty and humility be like earth.
6. In tolerance be like a sea.
7. Either exist as you are or be as you look

squashes

i love squashes. Dumpling sweet, butter nuts, acon, spaghetti, pie etc....

sign

I don't know what this is... I found it in New hope.

Does anyone know?

By the way, I love finding a lot kinds of ''xing" signs!, which is fun to see.

university, another face

university

Nassau Hall

one of identical buildings called Clio Hall

dormitory

library

another library @p-univ.

what i think

• Keeping practicing gives you a good control yourself in what you are doing.
• good music has a sense of physics and mathematics.
  
  to be continued... maybe

Freddie

things would not stay at one position.
In what way do you read this?

The answer

The answer is "university library".
So aban-gard, isn't it?
I've never ever seen such an original one.
very nice contrast to the other medievalish buildings
which are also unique for univ buildings.

I heard this library had designed by an Italian architecture and built by Japanese construction companies.

guess what this is

home

season changes beautifully.
house is there all the time.
what about me?

nature around here

I can see black squirrels which might be a mutation.

Arts Marketing Insights

I have been impressed by how to advertise the artistic production here.
Even major group, they never let it leave and try to spend lots of time to
make their effort to sell their production. And I think it really works.

Found this site.
http://dorianjesus.cocolog-nifty.com/pyon/2008/11/post-4953.html

Figure Skate

The season of figure skating has just started, hasn't it?
I'm so psyched about it!
Where I'm from is the mecca of raising figure skaters,
such as Midori Ito, Mao Asada, Miki Ando, Yukari Nakano
and lots and lots of others used to practice there.
So I have been really familiar with it since when I was a child.

Japanese figure skaters became much stronger
these days. It's because of national ISU strategy which started
when Midori failed to the second place in Albertville olympic.

Do you know there has been the argument of judging edge?
After China cup, lots of controversies have been going on.
Mao seems to be successful to correct her using edge.
So I just can't wait for Trophee Bompard.

10 tips

http://harvardmedblog.blog90.fc2.com/blog-entry-284.html

NBA

NY nicks VS Milwaukee bucks.

Nicks lost.

helloween

cute aren't they?

shuttle

There are shuttles running between 42 Times square and

Grand central. It's more convenient than taking ⑦

portavellas

gigantic mashrooms. taste really nice. try them.

tofu & kinpira gobo

spaghetti squash

These are calld "錦糸南瓜, 素麺南瓜" in Japanese.
http://www2.odn.ne.jp/shokuzai/A2003/Kinshiuri.htm
These are hard to find in Japan. Every time I could find them,
I would enjoy cooking them.
On the other hand, I can see lots here.
The appearance look like melon's, but if you boile them, they will turn into threads
like spaghetti, which is fun!

milk

2%...

marshmallows

These are from wholefoods.

look delicious, don't they?

SNOW in october

it snowed on 28 Oct.

Day time saving

time changed the day before yesterday.

election day

かぜひきそうになって、ひかなかったけれども、なんとなく2週間ぐらい体調万全でなかった。
選挙かぁ。どっちもなあ。