One Hand Trick

Picture from hiking at mount Tsukuba...
I was trying to take picture of the whole members of the group, but since it was hard to find a place where I can put my camera for automatic shutter, finally I had to hold it myself... thus my face dominating the scene... :-)

Big Ice Cream

I was staying at Saito family house when I visited Hamamatsu, and I quickly got along with their children (as always, because of the charm... :-) - if you don't know what charm that I meant, read this entry). Particularly I get along well with Minami, because she's a little bit weird, just like me... :-)

She really likes to take strange pictures, that's why when I see a big ice cream model and an idea for a picture, I asked her to pose for me... and the picture is above...

I'll ask her to pose for me again next time when I visit hamamatsu... :-)

Embraced by Kindness

(This is the closing song of "Kiki Delivery Service"... a really good song with a touching verses...)

やさしさに包まれたなら

小さい頃は　神様がいて
不思議に夢を　かなえてくれた
やさしい気持ちで　目覚めた朝は
大人になっても　奇蹟は起こるよ

カーテンを開いて　静かな木漏れ陽の
やさしさに包まれたなら　きっと
目に写る全てのことは　メッセージ

小さい頃は　神様がいて
毎日愛を　届けてくれた
心の奥に　しまい忘れた
大切な箱　開くときは今

雨上がりの庭で　くちなしの香りの
やさしさに包まれたなら　きっと
目に写る全てのことは　メッセージ

カーテンを開いて　静かな木漏れ陽の
やさしさに包まれたなら　きっと
目に写る全てのことは　メッセージ

Cat in The Toilet

Picture in the toilet of Taka-chan's place...

If you don't know it, the cat in the toilet cover and tissue cover is Gigi, a character from "Kiki Delivery Service" - an animation from Ghibli Studio. It's a good movie, you better see it if you have not...

Sakura Again...

Every year, I always taking sakura's picture during spring, and I don't know why I'm not get tired of it (even tough it's pink... :-) ). May be it is for the same reason why Japanese always have 花見 (hanami - cherry blossom viewing) every year... It's really charming...

Beat The Fear

I've been to Tokyo Tower several times, but I never going inside before. That's why I went when Dito said that she wanted to go.

The view was cool (specially at night), and there was a live show on the tower (never heard about it before). There's a glass windows on the floor of the main observatory where you can peek what's below...

Actually I'm a little bit acrophobic, but my curiosity beat my fear :-), so I tried to look down while standing on the glass... well, it's not as scary as I thought before... :-)

Rush Hour Train

It was one game that I had during my trip to Nagano. The name of the game was 満員電車(full loaded train).

The objective is to put as many person as possible on top of one sheet of newspaper. Well, it should be easy you have lots of kids in your team... :-)