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moved. ウェブ引っ越し'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5325526048156063814</id><published>2011-06-09T18:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-09T18:37:00.100-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Prada and White Sneaker</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wYLGBPO_3Kw/TfF1CsbnoaI/AAAAAAAAV9Y/VCNVPsnSTHI/s1600/prada.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wYLGBPO_3Kw/TfF1CsbnoaI/AAAAAAAAV9Y/VCNVPsnSTHI/s320/prada.JPG" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dSDwJ_CsAeY/Te4CHE1QciI/AAAAAAAAV0k/NpJZykFne5c/s1600/suunset.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dSDwJ_CsAeY/Te4CHE1QciI/AAAAAAAAV0k/NpJZykFne5c/s320/suunset.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;These days sun rise around 5:30am and sun set around 8:30pm! I love long day. When I go home from work, it feels like 5pm! Above is my office lobby (well winter garden where events always happens)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;日が長い夏が始まった。５時半から８時半まで明るい！幸せ〜。会社終わっても（上の写真は夜８時＠オフィスのロビー）まだまだ明るい！アウトドアパーティーのシーズンです。今週中は記録的暑さらしい。早いな。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CcrSAdA-jjE/Te4CIAt0hWI/AAAAAAAAV0o/3tpxnF4mm9E/s1600/ATC.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CcrSAdA-jjE/Te4CIAt0hWI/AAAAAAAAV0o/3tpxnF4mm9E/s320/ATC.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;They have been building the liberty tower very fast.. now I look up it is taller than my office building! amazing. They also started building hub station part as well. Trees are replanted and getting green.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;リバティータワー、急ピッチで建築中。すでに私のオフィスより高くなってる！（マンハッタンで一番高くなる予定）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4510632782629619672?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4510632782629619672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4510632782629619672' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4510632782629619672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4510632782629619672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/06/sunset-830pm.html' title='Sunset 8:30pm'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dSDwJ_CsAeY/Te4CHE1QciI/AAAAAAAAV0k/NpJZykFne5c/s72-c/suunset.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4503400030891281842</id><published>2011-06-05T19:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-05T19:44:35.385-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Shopping Spree</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WBV_qH388Mw/Tew7gO2GywI/AAAAAAAAV0Q/FhLVIf8O44g/s1600/soho.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WBV_qH388Mw/Tew7gO2GywI/AAAAAAAAV0Q/FhLVIf8O44g/s320/soho.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Ok, sometime photos should not be Nico right? :P on Sunday we did a lot... We went to central park, hang out with dogs and afterwards I went to a Yoga class (felt unhealthy from all the&amp;nbsp;drinking&amp;nbsp;in Japan) and went to manicure since I had a credit left at the salon. And, it was still a noon. We had to get some gifts for relatives and friends, so went to SOHO to shop in the afternoon. &amp;nbsp;I usually don't go there especially on weekends but it was ok today. Above was a new street art. One thing I really like about New York is you don't get bored just walking down the streets!... and my love for peony below the photo. It was at Kate Spade in SOHO.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0wPWCQJDJ-0/Tew7jCGUotI/AAAAAAAAV0U/LsyK0dxDY8U/s1600/peony.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0wPWCQJDJ-0/Tew7jCGUotI/AAAAAAAAV0U/LsyK0dxDY8U/s320/peony.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;たまには、ニコじゃない写真も載せましょう。日曜日はなんだか２日分を生きたぐらい活動してしまいました。いつもやってから後悔するんだけど。朝はセントラルパークいって。出張の不健康さを（精神的に）取り除くためにヨガ。いててて。そんで、マニキュアしにいって、まだ昼だっつうねん。その後、結婚祝い頂いた親戚の皆様にお返しを買いにSOHOに繰り出し。普段は特に週末はあんなに混んでるところいかないけど、久しぶりに行きましたわよ。人のものとあって、大人買い。なんかたぶん気が狂った日本人観光客だと思われたと思うよ。ブライアンのおかげで、Kate Spadeディスカウント、ありがたや〜。でっかい緑のKate Spade紙袋を下げて女性の熱い視線を感じながら、白熱に買い物してきました。久しぶりのSOHOはストリートアートも新しくできてたりして（写真最初）歩いていて飽きないわNY。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jbR6-8Me730/Tew8MM3xgyI/AAAAAAAAV0c/3QtsRUiIP1o/s1600/apple.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jbR6-8Me730/Tew8MM3xgyI/AAAAAAAAV0c/3QtsRUiIP1o/s320/apple.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I finally got a 1TB (!) HD disk and magic mouse. I am surprised how HD disk got smaller and cheaper... my last one is a substantial box and it also needs a plug in to get power! This 1TB portable HD is like a light iphone size box and just has a short wire.... aw, why didn't I buy this earlier! I am going to back up my mac and also photos. yay! Also... I was so bothered by my mouse since it didn't work well on my white glossy desk. I thought I'd give a try for a magic mouse and it is, wonderful!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;念願の、1TBハードディスクと。マジックマウスをゲット。どちらも、素晴らしく、感動。1TBあったら、一生分の写真保存できるかな〜？HDがかなり小さく安くなっていて驚きました、、。そのうち、カードとかになっちゃうんだろうなぁ。マジックマウスも、使いにくいっていう人もいたけど、私は１日目にしてイタクお気に入りの様子。前のレーザーマウスは、白くてピカピカ反射する私の机じゃ使い物にならなかったのよ。アップル、最高。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4503400030891281842?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4503400030891281842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4503400030891281842' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4503400030891281842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4503400030891281842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/06/shopping-spree.html' title='Shopping Spree'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WBV_qH388Mw/Tew7gO2GywI/AAAAAAAAV0Q/FhLVIf8O44g/s72-c/soho.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6195294042006259579</id><published>2011-06-02T18:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-02T18:29:42.441-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>レイヤー</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WDXGip2bJWM/Teg3uoTBhnI/AAAAAAAAV0I/WmmCinpbNiM/s1600/bee.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WDXGip2bJWM/Teg3uoTBhnI/AAAAAAAAV0I/WmmCinpbNiM/s320/bee.JPG" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;今日も、はれっ！晴れるだけで上機嫌でございます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRowmzKopbk/Teg3wqWRUJI/AAAAAAAAV0M/5tzn6zFV3QA/s1600/sky.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRowmzKopbk/Teg3wqWRUJI/AAAAAAAAV0M/5tzn6zFV3QA/s320/sky.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;人って、レイヤーがあって。何年も経つと、最初は見えなかったことが見えてきたりするんだなーって思う今日このごろ。見えなかったことっていう言い方もあるし、長年を経て新しいものができあがるとも言えるし、自分の見方が変わるっていうのもあると思うんですが。予想していなかった方向に、人間関係は動く可能性を、良い意味でも悪い意味でも秘めているなと感じております。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6195294042006259579?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6195294042006259579/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6195294042006259579' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6195294042006259579'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6195294042006259579'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post_02.html' title='レイヤー'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WDXGip2bJWM/Teg3uoTBhnI/AAAAAAAAV0I/WmmCinpbNiM/s72-c/bee.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5901090970741629078</id><published>2011-06-01T19:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-06-01T19:22:33.222-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>残飯フレンチ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kthwMOvancM/TebyedB1vVI/AAAAAAAAVlY/iYdEUUJuC7E/s1600/rose.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kthwMOvancM/TebyedB1vVI/AAAAAAAAVlY/iYdEUUJuC7E/s320/rose.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;毎週２回ぐらいは、夜の７時ぐらいから東京とビデオカンファレンスするんですが、帰ってくると大体９時。そこから料理する気にはならないので、大概残り物か、簡単な料理か、デリバリーでしのぐのですが。今日は予想外に冷蔵庫にしまわなかったご飯が（案の定なのかこれは！？）腐っていて、、ガーン。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;人間クリエイティブ（というかクリエイティブじゃないのか？）昨日の残りステーキ、とうもろこし、そしてタンパク質は食パン（ええ、みなさんご存知の日本の食パン、量が足りなかったので、目玉焼き、ブライアンの撮影ランチ残りのチョコレートケーキというすんごい組み合わせ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;でも意外に食べながら「これってもしかしてフレンチ！？」と思ったんですけど、根本的に、違います？え？そうですよね？そんな具合？フランスのブランチ、そんなんじゃなかったっけ、、&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FIxloMBZrzE/Tebyf76MYDI/AAAAAAAAVlc/ragICkgkbDU/s1600/nico.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FIxloMBZrzE/Tebyf76MYDI/AAAAAAAAVlc/ragICkgkbDU/s320/nico.JPG" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;写真は、毎朝ひたすら最近棒を拾ってくわえて歩くのが趣味の彼女。巣作りでもすんのか！？信号を待っている、の図。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;かならず月初め１日にはブログしなきゃというなんだか勝手に自分自身にかけているプレッシャーというか、あれに似ています。新しいノートを使い始める時に、丁寧に字を書こうとする時の心境に！！６月も、よろしく。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5901090970741629078?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5901090970741629078/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5901090970741629078' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5901090970741629078'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5901090970741629078'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/06/blog-post.html' title='残飯フレンチ'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kthwMOvancM/TebyedB1vVI/AAAAAAAAVlY/iYdEUUJuC7E/s72-c/rose.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1205235893141351903</id><published>2011-05-30T14:42:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T14:42:58.996-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>まったり</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_pLDysf4xg/TeQNkjiyEII/AAAAAAAAVlM/Zj_jmZ5XLqQ/s1600/P1060901.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_pLDysf4xg/TeQNkjiyEII/AAAAAAAAVlM/Zj_jmZ5XLqQ/s320/P1060901.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Ah, very excited that I have my Lumix camera back. iphone does a great job but I just love Lumix. Don't you!? by the way, how do you organize digital photos..? I have so many pictures as you can imagine... and I store some albums on Picasa and all the photos in iPhotos, but thinking to back up in mini-hard drive. Any recommendation?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;さて、日本でLumixを修理し、（落としてバッテリー蓋を壊した。）ハッピー。iphoneもいい写真とるけど、やっぱりLumixにはかないません〜。この夏、外出にカメラなしでどうする！！ところで最近写真がマックにたまりすぎてどうしようか悩んでる。プリントするのは大量すぎるし、昔の写真もプリントしたのあるけどあんまり見ないし。Picasaに大分アルバムになってて、容量もアップグレードして使ってます。これはかなり気に入ってる。一生これでいい？一応ハードドライブにアップしようかと思ってるけど、どうですかねぇ。それぐらいならPicasaに月額払った方がいいかな？ハードドライブにいれてもあんまり見る機会ないしね！Picasaのアルバムは良く見るよ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PoSEVKFRDDM/TeQNXR9E7kI/AAAAAAAAVlE/H3AAW0eXluU/s1600/P1060882.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PoSEVKFRDDM/TeQNXR9E7kI/AAAAAAAAVlE/H3AAW0eXluU/s320/P1060882.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Brian's niece. Isn't she adorable?? Only 7 months. Started not liking to be held by others but her mom. Cannot wait till she starts talking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ブライアンの姪。かわい。７ヶ月で人見知りが激しく、まだ喋らないので泣くばかり。たまにこんな感じでご機嫌。早く喋るようになれー。私も将来は女の子が欲しいです。（とか言ってると男の子が生まれるよって言われる）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cVQKeLNLm4o/TeQNczvjlHI/AAAAAAAAVlI/CQYG0Kgf57Q/s1600/P1060890.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cVQKeLNLm4o/TeQNczvjlHI/AAAAAAAAVlI/CQYG0Kgf57Q/s320/P1060890.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My LOVE, peonies. why are they so lovely!? I picked some at Brian's parents garden. They are so fresh and beautiful. Now they are in my kitchen, every time I look at it, I sigh for its beauty. haha.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;私の大好きな花ペオニーを、ブライアン宅よりぱちってきました。美しいわ〜。見る度にため息〜。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1205235893141351903?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1205235893141351903/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1205235893141351903' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1205235893141351903'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1205235893141351903'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_30.html' title='まったり'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M_pLDysf4xg/TeQNkjiyEII/AAAAAAAAVlM/Zj_jmZ5XLqQ/s72-c/P1060901.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7048612811931564619</id><published>2011-05-30T14:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-30T14:31:24.525-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Memorial Day Weekend</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lwVVYHhd18c/TeQJrIPExtI/AAAAAAAAVkw/kCrbVzxCi50/s1600/P1060859.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lwVVYHhd18c/TeQJrIPExtI/AAAAAAAAVkw/kCrbVzxCi50/s320/P1060859.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;3 days weekend! Beautiful sunny weekend... since I was away for so long and Brian has been working so hard, our apartment was a bit messy, and we decided to clean the apartment. I framed the cloth that I bought in Kyoto in the bathroom, aren't they beautiful? They are crafted by hand and I Like motif are Japanese. some essence of Japan in our bathroom! I wish I had more wall space to hang more stuff.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;３連休は掃除から始まりました。出張で５月は殆ど家にいませんでしたし、ブライアンは忙しく毎日働いてたので家が放ったらかし気味、天気もいいし掃除。京都で買って来た手ぬぐいをようやく額にいれました。きれいでしょ！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YZNPRLxsUCk/TeQKPHQFcxI/AAAAAAAAVlA/IR3p_l6pL7k/s1600/dog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YZNPRLxsUCk/TeQKPHQFcxI/AAAAAAAAVlA/IR3p_l6pL7k/s320/dog.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Nico got cleaned as well. She met this tiniest dog at the pet shop. I cannot believe they are the same kind of animal. This tiny dog was trembling and smaller than Nico's head as you can see. The owner was kind of crazy over the dog... very typical over protecting parent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ニコという巨大犬に遭遇した、おままごと世界から来てしまったヨーキー。豆だ。豆。同じ犬とは思えないって。いや飼い主、犬は共食いしないから心配するな。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-plNgOkFYlTQ/TeQJ2Qm5YrI/AAAAAAAAVk0/rZW6LcpF8Yk/s1600/P1060866.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-plNgOkFYlTQ/TeQJ2Qm5YrI/AAAAAAAAVk0/rZW6LcpF8Yk/s320/P1060866.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We had a good breakfast at cafe while we dry Nico under the sun. I missed this New York brunch. Volume, Eggs, Fruits, Vegetables! food in Japan is awesome but they don't serve this kind of breakfast.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ニコ乾燥中の朝ご飯。日本にいたときは、NYの朝ご飯が恋しかったです。日本にいると、出張中はホテルのコンビニ、ていうのもあるけど朝ご飯が質素というかつまらんというか。こういう具合に卵とか野菜とかフルーツとかないと物足りない。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4iI1rdX3b8c/TeQKBQn4WWI/AAAAAAAAVk8/3In6CnZ-uL8/s1600/P1060867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4iI1rdX3b8c/TeQKBQn4WWI/AAAAAAAAVk8/3In6CnZ-uL8/s320/P1060867.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Saw Bridesmaids. Highly recommended! good laugh. It was not a chic movie but really awesome comedy. I was afraid of falling sleep during the movie because of jet lag but it kept me awake and laughing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;夜は、&lt;a href="http://www.bridesmaidsmovie.com/"&gt;Bridesmaids&lt;/a&gt;。コメディ。最高。みてっ！　日本のテレビのバラエティも、下らなすぎて面白いのもあったけど、やっぱ笑いは違うよねー、、でもこの映画は日本人でも面白いと思うけど？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7048612811931564619?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7048612811931564619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7048612811931564619' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7048612811931564619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7048612811931564619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/memorial-day-weekend.html' title='Memorial Day Weekend'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lwVVYHhd18c/TeQJrIPExtI/AAAAAAAAVkw/kCrbVzxCi50/s72-c/P1060859.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8855112618110251570</id><published>2011-05-28T05:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-28T05:34:23.355-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Summer in New York!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1CvLsXhs4-c/TeDqM9OsgSI/AAAAAAAAVj0/UUWJScjutS0/s1600/IMG_1930.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1CvLsXhs4-c/TeDqM9OsgSI/AAAAAAAAVj0/UUWJScjutS0/s320/IMG_1930.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;帰ってきました。早速夏〜〜！暑い。先週は雨だったらしいですが、今週は３０度近くの毎日、やっぱりアメリカは日差しが強いです。帰りの飛行機も良く寝ましたが、やっぱり帰りの方が時差ぼけつらいです。５月は気がつけば殆ど日本に居ました。１週間ぐらいしかNYに合計でいなかったのでは、、！？６月は健康にNYで過ごそうと思います。日本にいると、おいしいものとお酒で明らかに不健康です。（笑）変な話ですね〜。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C7fyfXtPaIo/TeDqTlsChdI/AAAAAAAAVj4/B6V-Q92vVNQ/s1600/IMG_1933.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C7fyfXtPaIo/TeDqTlsChdI/AAAAAAAAVj4/B6V-Q92vVNQ/s320/IMG_1933.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;近くにジェラート屋さんができて、クーポンをゲットしたのでさっそく昨晩いってきました。アイスクリーム大好き。これは結構おいしかった！チョコと、いちじくテキーラ、です。少し酔っぱらったのは気のせい！？ニコもひーひーしてて、早速冷房入っています。今日はお風呂にいれにいくだよー！天気いいから気持ちよいね。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KqVqWTzk6tA/TeDqa2EIxMI/AAAAAAAAVkA/8-tJ7dhRYus/s1600/IMG_1935.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KqVqWTzk6tA/TeDqa2EIxMI/AAAAAAAAVkA/8-tJ7dhRYus/s320/IMG_1935.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Came back from Japan! Nice to be home... Everyone asks me how Japan is, but Tokyo is back to pretty normal, besides everywhere is saving energy and office is really dark.&amp;nbsp;Escalator&amp;nbsp;and elevator at station are not moving etc. but regular life is back to normal. Good food, good sake... as usual. It is so hard to resist good food there and I feel healthier being in NYC. more cooking and less good sake :) The weather is so nice and toasty, makes me a lot happier than gloomy May we had. Already using AC this year, Nico is so hot in the house. Have a good long weekend everybody!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8855112618110251570?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8855112618110251570/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8855112618110251570' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8855112618110251570'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8855112618110251570'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/summer-in-new-york.html' title='Summer in New York!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1CvLsXhs4-c/TeDqM9OsgSI/AAAAAAAAVj0/UUWJScjutS0/s72-c/IMG_1930.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4126664964029298351</id><published>2011-05-22T05:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T06:04:45.387-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tokyo'/><title type='text'>ぶらぶら日曜日</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZMF9_2KHG4/TdkHyKo6MhI/AAAAAAAAVhs/DhoeoudVUts/s1600/IMG_1921.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZMF9_2KHG4/TdkHyKo6MhI/AAAAAAAAVhs/DhoeoudVUts/s320/IMG_1921.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;平日の飲みすぎを反省して、週末は休肝日としました。ちょっと新宿に出かけて、ユザワヤを見たかったので、ユザワヤへ。やっぱり日本は、LOFT、東急ハンズ、無印、ユザワヤなどいいよね。雑貨系はどこの国も勝てないんじゃないかと思います。豊富な品ぞろえ、高くないし。ただ、、どこの駅にいってもデパートというのは便利ですが圧倒されると同時に、買い物以外にみんななにやってんのかな～と不思議に思っちょります。買い物はもちろん楽しいですが。。　今日は帰りに友人宅により、ほっとしました。ずっとホテル暮らしだと、ちょっと落ち着かないというか。人の家でも「自宅」に行くと、なんか日本に帰ってきた気がちゃんとします。笑&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EFQXaE-4KDA/TdkHyc9xfEI/AAAAAAAAVh0/zkIRlIeQiRM/s1600/IMG_1923.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EFQXaE-4KDA/TdkHyc9xfEI/AAAAAAAAVh0/zkIRlIeQiRM/s320/IMG_1923.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;帰りに、六本木乗り換えだったので、思い立ったように六本木在住の親友に電話。ちょうどいたので夕飯へ出かけました。初めてミッドタウンで（暇つぶしに）行きました。高いなここ～。雰囲気は良いですが。赤字でしょうねえ。大江戸線に乗って、汐留に帰ったのですが、地下の深さに驚きました。何階エスカレーターのるのよ！ていうくらい、あんなにどうやって掘ったんですかねぇ。感心です。昼間は30℃近くあったのに、夜はいきなり15℃の大雨でちょっと～。寒いです～。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;先日ドンキホーテで癒しグッズ（入浴剤や顔パックなど）買い、ホテルで一人スパできるようにしました。又サラリーマン生活始まる前に癒されるぞ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4126664964029298351?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4126664964029298351/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4126664964029298351' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4126664964029298351'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4126664964029298351'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_22.html' title='ぶらぶら日曜日'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jZMF9_2KHG4/TdkHyKo6MhI/AAAAAAAAVhs/DhoeoudVUts/s72-c/IMG_1921.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4529728605008459556</id><published>2011-05-21T05:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-21T05:02:03.061-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>Chat with Nico</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8KBF5EXtQeU/Tdeo46OtaEI/AAAAAAAAVhk/2Dhk971zdc0/s1600/IMG_1917.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8KBF5EXtQeU/Tdeo46OtaEI/AAAAAAAAVhk/2Dhk971zdc0/s320/IMG_1917.PNG" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Face time with Nico. I think she sees me and hear me and recognize me..but cannot speak. (of course.) It is really funny. I love face time and ip phone...! it is free and works great.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ニコとビデオチャット。しゃべれたらなぁ。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4529728605008459556?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4529728605008459556/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4529728605008459556' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4529728605008459556'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4529728605008459556'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/chat-with-nico.html' title='Chat with Nico'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8KBF5EXtQeU/Tdeo46OtaEI/AAAAAAAAVhk/2Dhk971zdc0/s72-c/IMG_1917.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1349709336626207574</id><published>2011-05-21T04:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-21T04:57:05.463-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Baby is born!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vyKbO-lFKV4/TdenTbGDQqI/AAAAAAAAVhc/bOfmqU83BTg/s1600/IMG_1881.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vyKbO-lFKV4/TdenTbGDQqI/AAAAAAAAVhc/bOfmqU83BTg/s320/IMG_1881.JPG" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My best friend had a baby! We visited when he was 3 days old. SO adorable... and small!! We have been friends for.. more than 10 years now and it is great to see her becoming a mother. Feels unreal and makes me feel old but.. looking at happy friend makes me want to have a baby someday. not...now...!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEPm5DtLvIs/TdenUB0_gTI/AAAAAAAAVhg/mFzgZHV27sE/s1600/IMG_1887.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-OEPm5DtLvIs/TdenUB0_gTI/AAAAAAAAVhg/mFzgZHV27sE/s320/IMG_1887.JPG" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;親友が出産！3日目の赤ちゃんをこわごわ抱きました。今回の出張のハイライトです。（仕事じゃないのかよ。）東京へ来る飛行機に乗っている最中に生まれました。飛行機に乗る直前に、「破水！」というメールが来ていたので、成田についたときには、ストーリーの先を知りたくてうずうずしましたが、無事にお昼にベイビーは誕生していました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;3日目なのにこのハッキリとした顔立ち、これは将来美男子ですね。親友が母に変わっていく瞬間、一緒に過ごせてうれしかった。まだあまり実感が湧かないけど、早く彼が大きくなって、一緒に遊べるのが待ち遠しいです。まるちゃんおめでとう！！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1349709336626207574?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1349709336626207574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1349709336626207574' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1349709336626207574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1349709336626207574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/baby-is-born.html' title='Baby is born!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vyKbO-lFKV4/TdenTbGDQqI/AAAAAAAAVhc/bOfmqU83BTg/s72-c/IMG_1881.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8180790107272704132</id><published>2011-05-21T04:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-21T04:45:11.260-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tokyo'/><title type='text'>Still in Tokyo!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u4KPnPmUJoQ/Tdek4k9keUI/AAAAAAAAVhA/Lq0EcBVfPyU/s1600/P1060829.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u4KPnPmUJoQ/Tdek4k9keUI/AAAAAAAAVhA/Lq0EcBVfPyU/s320/P1060829.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am still in Tokyo. It was a long week somehow, I am just chilling this weekend. Finally moved out from scary Shinjuku neighbourhood and moved to near Ginza. I feel so much better now :) The weather is getting more summery and it was really beautiful on Saturday. Everyone is still talking about eathquake and nuclear plants... Many people mention about how dark cities are, but I don't really feel it's dark. (well, at the office it is quite dark without a lot of lights) I think it's ok that they are saving lights. I am more worried about summer that's coming soon. It gets really humid and hot, especially in trains and restaurants... I hope people won't suffer too much this summer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ycoTmJvqZSk/Tdek49FrZlI/AAAAAAAAVhI/MWHTRBgobGQ/s1600/P1060830.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ycoTmJvqZSk/Tdek49FrZlI/AAAAAAAAVhI/MWHTRBgobGQ/s320/P1060830.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;なんだか長い1週間でした。なので、今回は落ち着いた週末を過ごしています。（ってねまくってるだけだけど。笑）　平日は、仕事→飲む→寝る、で終わっていきます。東京で働くって、体力仕事です。ははは。おじさんみんなどうやってるの！東京は金曜日は会社で余震が２，３回あったけど、結構長くてゆーらゆらしてて「めまいみたい」というのがよくわかりました。実家では普通に「ぐらぐら」揺れたけど、高いたてものだと、気持ち悪い感じで揺れる！街が暗いと話す人がたくさんいますが、あんまりそういう印象は受けない。会社は、結構暗い。夏がとにかく心配。朝の電車は既に暑くて窓を開けてるのに、これからどうなるんだろうという感じです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zMTC1ARkQGs/Tdek50WGYjI/AAAAAAAAVhQ/ewn1oMkgX_Y/s1600/P1060832.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zMTC1ARkQGs/Tdek50WGYjI/AAAAAAAAVhQ/ewn1oMkgX_Y/s320/P1060832.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: CENTER;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;（Ginza Above!) 用事があって、土曜日は友達に会いに銀座に行きました。午後なのに、ホコテン　ガーラガラでびっくり。銀座駅よりはもう少し混んでいましたが。連日テレビは地震のその後と、できない管首相や東電の話ばかり。東電は完ぺきスケープゴートにされているというか、普段みんなあんなに当たり前のように電気をつかってて、問題があったらここまで人のせいにするわけ？とちょっと疑問に思います。もちろん東電の危機管理プランがなってないところもあると思いますが。。国を、東電をせめても、結局これってみんな自分のことなんじゃないかって、人のことをせめてどうなるんだ、と日本のメディアを見ていると思います。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8180790107272704132?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8180790107272704132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8180790107272704132' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8180790107272704132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8180790107272704132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/still-in-tokyo.html' title='Still in Tokyo!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-u4KPnPmUJoQ/Tdek4k9keUI/AAAAAAAAVhA/Lq0EcBVfPyU/s72-c/P1060829.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1016221157745385426</id><published>2011-05-15T06:07:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T06:07:57.829-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Hello, Shinjuku</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3F31Wog0S8k/Tc_NGI2K2dI/AAAAAAAAVU4/OTc-1sqC9bY/s1600/IMG_1874.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3F31Wog0S8k/Tc_NGI2K2dI/AAAAAAAAVU4/OTc-1sqC9bY/s320/IMG_1874.JPG" width="239px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Hello, Tokyo. I am back again! It got warmer than the last week. You don't need a jacket. Since last night, my best friend in Tokyo was in labor and I was so anxious and couldn't sleep much, which made me fall sleep all the way from NYC to Tokyo. It was like when I woke up, I was at Narita! direct flight is so much better. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mOXpkQu7rqo/Tc_NHpYOJtI/AAAAAAAAVU8/B-WnisUdRQ8/s1600/IMG_1876.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mOXpkQu7rqo/Tc_NHpYOJtI/AAAAAAAAVU8/B-WnisUdRQ8/s320/IMG_1876.JPG" width="239px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;昨晩は、親友が破水ということで、興奮して２時ごろまで眠りにつけず、そのせいか飛行機の中は爆睡で、１本映画を見て、少し仕事の本を読んだぐらいで、１３時間中の８時間は寝たようです。起きたら東京、といった具合でした。（笑）やっぱり直行便は早く感じる。（体が慣れてきた？）飛行機に乗る前に、親友の「陣痛が始まった！」のメール。もう、、気になって気になって。成田に到着したら、無事に誕生していました。（おめでとう！まるちゃん）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;それにしても、東京は海外からきてwifiが使えるところがなさすぎる、、（お金払えばあるけど）今回は、NTTのHotSpotか、ソフトバンクのBBモバイルのプリペイドを試してみようと思います。使ったことある人、いる？電話使うより、WifiでIP経由で話したほうがいいし、、。携帯でメールチェックできないと気持ち悪いのだ。（現代病）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GuLZ_FWyPpQ/Tc_NI2O17uI/AAAAAAAAVVA/x8-P7GQJ2u4/s1600/IMG_1877.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239px" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GuLZ_FWyPpQ/Tc_NI2O17uI/AAAAAAAAVVA/x8-P7GQJ2u4/s320/IMG_1877.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I am not too familier with Shinjuku but I don't think I like it... so many people but somehow this big city has a sense of lonliness to it. (or maybe it's only me that think so!) I was walking around to find a good spot to eat but ended up going to a (Japanese) diner nearby the hotel and ordered hamburgu and a glass of wine. It cost me 1600 yen, hmmm, not sure if it was cheap or what.&amp;nbsp; It was first time for me to go to diner alone. I really don't like eating by myself :( but no choice today. Shinjuku makes me feel lonelier....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X8ylyXw0Uyc/Tc_NKbZk00I/AAAAAAAAVVE/1Mjqko0ULho/s1600/IMG_1878.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239px" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X8ylyXw0Uyc/Tc_NKbZk00I/AAAAAAAAVVE/1Mjqko0ULho/s320/IMG_1878.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ちょっとファミマの「ファミポート」という機械で、wifiのプリペイドが買えるというので、探していたら、無人オフィスビルに迷い込んだっつーねん。なんでドアあいてんだよ！！こわいよっ！！！新宿やだ～。もう次回は泊まりません、、。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I was looking for some machine at convenience store and ended up visiting this empty scary looking office building!! why do they leave the door open ???????? I am sure it was a safe place but its so creepy to be alone there and I ran out as fast as possible. I miss NY.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1016221157745385426?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1016221157745385426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1016221157745385426' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1016221157745385426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1016221157745385426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/hello-shinjuku.html' title='Hello, Shinjuku'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3F31Wog0S8k/Tc_NGI2K2dI/AAAAAAAAVU4/OTc-1sqC9bY/s72-c/IMG_1874.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2776863458746684375</id><published>2011-05-15T05:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-15T05:53:43.125-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>Central Park Fun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nFiruTBm3Wg/Tc_LtG4GaII/AAAAAAAAVUs/A7MyO3WukxQ/s1600/IMG_1850.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239px" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nFiruTBm3Wg/Tc_LtG4GaII/AAAAAAAAVUs/A7MyO3WukxQ/s320/IMG_1850.JPG" width="320px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Before I left for Japan, we decided to take her to central park in morning! since we were away for a while and we wanted her to hang out at the big park. Nico met this rottweiler puppy! (on the right is Nico, she is looking at the puppy like WTF?) Rott is so adorable.... anyway. We bumped into Nico's best friend maddie (below) too, what a coincidence! we had a good hour hanging out there. I will miss her while I will be in Japan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Moq9-rp7vQE/Tc_LvN91l-I/AAAAAAAAVUw/m4ot9aBpfvQ/s1600/IMG_1858.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Moq9-rp7vQE/Tc_LvN91l-I/AAAAAAAAVUw/m4ot9aBpfvQ/s320/IMG_1858.JPG" width="239px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今日は、空港へ行く前にセントラルパークへお出かけしました。ニコに大きい公園で遊んでほしく。初夏は気持ちいですが、NYのほうがまだ寒めです。（今東京にいます）朝は、ロットワイラーの子犬に会いました。（写真上、左が子犬！）下の写真は、なんとばったり大の友達のマディーに会う。２人とも大興奮でした。やっぱり芝生だと、遊び方のダイナミックが違うんだよね。セントラルパークがもっと近いといいんだけど、タクシーか、車借りないと、無理。充実した朝の１時間をわんこたちは過ごしたのでした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YmT7uBzSlVY/Tc_LwyH56JI/AAAAAAAAVU0/t9DPdk4HjCA/s1600/IMG_1867.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320px" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YmT7uBzSlVY/Tc_LwyH56JI/AAAAAAAAVU0/t9DPdk4HjCA/s320/IMG_1867.JPG" width="239px" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;フリック美術館の庭。美しい。　The Frick museum's garden. What a pretty garden. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2776863458746684375?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2776863458746684375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2776863458746684375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2776863458746684375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2776863458746684375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/central-park-fun.html' title='Central Park Fun'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nFiruTBm3Wg/Tc_LtG4GaII/AAAAAAAAVUs/A7MyO3WukxQ/s72-c/IMG_1850.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6026036405027216701</id><published>2011-05-13T15:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-13T15:41:53.879-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Beer and Pizza.. and Japan again.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OXRtNnTjwg8/Tc2yCHo6N4I/AAAAAAAAVQE/1MIhG6TSeo8/s1600/pizza.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OXRtNnTjwg8/Tc2yCHo6N4I/AAAAAAAAVQE/1MIhG6TSeo8/s320/pizza.JPG" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I am not a foodie, and you realized that I don't post very many photos of food. Being in Japan for a while, I kind of missed food in NYC. Not only American but also ethnic food like Indian, Turkish, Vietnamees.. in that way, New Yorkers are spoiled. I just had this pizza above, it was actually with Ramp (spell?) It is garliccy scallion vegetable pizza. Also &amp;nbsp;Brian had this NY beer portslap. aren't they cute? Tastes good too.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I am leaving for Tokyo, yes, again on a business trip. It seems that I am flying every month since last year! Hopefully this trip goes well again. Most of May I was in Japan! what a month.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RSsDHhIFRSA/Tc2yGrZ2T3I/AAAAAAAAVQI/_36Jjc4_jRo/s1600/beer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RSsDHhIFRSA/Tc2yGrZ2T3I/AAAAAAAAVQI/_36Jjc4_jRo/s320/beer.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;しばらく日本にいたため、NYごはんが恋しくなりました。アメリカンに限らず、インド、イタリアン、トルコ、ベトナム、タイ、、NYにいるとどこの国のご飯もすぐ食べられるのはやっぱり贅沢！私は食べ物にはあまり人ほど興味がないので（あんまりブログにも出てこないでしょ）あまり普段こだわりはないんですけどね。（だからアメリカに住めるのかも？）先日はおいしいピザやさんで、「ニラピザ」なるものがあったので食べたけど、まぁまぁだったかな。笑　普通のピザにすればよかった。下の写真は、NYのビールで、「ポークスラップ」かわいいでしょう。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;明日から再度東京です。。！今度は仕事です、えぇ。５月はほとんど日本でしたね〜。笑　それでは次は空港からかな。アディオス。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6026036405027216701?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6026036405027216701/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6026036405027216701' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6026036405027216701'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6026036405027216701'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/beer-and-pizza-and-japan-again.html' title='Beer and Pizza.. and Japan again.'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OXRtNnTjwg8/Tc2yCHo6N4I/AAAAAAAAVQE/1MIhG6TSeo8/s72-c/pizza.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2477054246977549771</id><published>2011-05-10T18:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T18:46:30.767-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>Nico debut in cartoon</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRD3nfk7dxo/Tcnpw0-OUbI/AAAAAAAAVHE/LYRLsPgW6Zk/s1600/Picture+5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="257" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRD3nfk7dxo/Tcnpw0-OUbI/AAAAAAAAVHE/LYRLsPgW6Zk/s320/Picture+5.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My friend is producing this&lt;a href="http://www.vimeo.com/curbs/curbs"&gt; cartoon&lt;/a&gt; and Nico was invited to be part of it! I am a proud mother. lol. She appears at the end of the segment around 6'00. Nice run girl!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ニコのアニメデビュー作。友人のアニメに出演。&lt;a href="http://www.vimeo.com/curbs/curbs"&gt;見事な走り&lt;/a&gt;を見せました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2477054246977549771?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2477054246977549771/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2477054246977549771' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2477054246977549771'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2477054246977549771'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/nico-debut-in-cartoon.html' title='Nico debut in cartoon'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZRD3nfk7dxo/Tcnpw0-OUbI/AAAAAAAAVHE/LYRLsPgW6Zk/s72-c/Picture+5.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-553200758106719162</id><published>2011-05-10T18:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T18:29:56.379-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>渋谷の街から変態をつなごう</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--fVKxxo_jSI/TcnkCll2XNI/AAAAAAAAVHA/fzP68y6qa6g/s1600/sibuya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--fVKxxo_jSI/TcnkCll2XNI/AAAAAAAAVHA/fzP68y6qa6g/s400/sibuya.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;起きたら、すごい鼻水だし、くしゃみが連続して5回ぐらいでるし、目はかゆいし、、おととしぐらいから怪しいなと思ってたけど、やられたようです、花粉大魔王。ブライアンも同じ。NYではなんともなかったのに、日本にきてやられた。京都にいる間に、日本の鼻炎薬を飲んで、二人とも眠くて不機嫌に、、笑　普段アレルギーの薬なんて飲まないからあんなに眠くなると思わなかった。NYに帰ってきて、治るかなとおもったら、やっぱだめだわ！異常に鼻水でるし、目はかゆいし、、発症してしまいました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;日本に滞在中、いろいろと気になることがありましたが、（やっぱ毎回トレンド周期早いよね。）いくつか。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;◎ガールズバンド&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;上の写真もそうですが、、ガールズバンド人気？AKBとかさ、しかも異様に若い。渋谷はたまたま通ったら、インディーズっぽい、中学生ぐらいの子がへたくそに歌と踊りを全開。一番前の列だっつうのに、ズームがかなりきくレンズで構えるおじさんたち。これを気持ち悪いと言わず、なんと言う！！なんて不健康なんだ〜。これって犯罪ギリギリだと思うんですけど、、。「渋谷の街から変態をつなごう」のまちがえじゃないの。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;◎トイレ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;どこに行ってもトイレがあるっていうのは、非常にありがたい。NYはなぜか、トイレない。しかも汚い。東京は、どこでも大概、きれい。しかーし。なんなんだろうねあの女子トイレになす列は。どこへ行っても、列。男性用は混んでないのに。なんかトイレがよく出来すぎていて、長居しているのか、でもトイレの外に化粧台とかあるんだからさ。日本人女性がトイレで何をしているのか、かなり不明。ちなみに私は男性並みに早いです。（って自慢することじゃないか）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;◎ショーツにレギンス、だてメガネ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;そこらじゅうで見かけた今回のファッショォンは、ショーツにレギンスを履いている彼女、レンズの入っていないダテ眼鏡をかけている彼女。どっちも痛いのは、似合っていない人がほとんど、ということですね。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;◎店員さんの心配り&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今回は、飛行機からして、UAだったので、対応はひどかったのですが。外資系エアラインは、本当みんな後ろでくっちゃべって働かないような人多いよね。サービスを売っているとは思えんくらいであります。今回は、帰りの飛行機でテレビ全席使えなかったし、予定時刻より早くついたかと思えば（ってそういう風に最初から時刻表くんでいることぐらい分かっているのだ）気の利かない男性白人アテンダントが、「今回はこんなに早くついちゃいました、すごいでしょ、なので次回遅れても怒らないでね」ですって、、プロフェッショナルがそんなこというか！！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;日本はサービスは行き過ぎている一面がありますが、やっぱり特に外国人に優しいようで、ブライアンといると、おまけとか、サービスとかやたらされる傾向あり。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-553200758106719162?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/553200758106719162/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=553200758106719162' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/553200758106719162'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/553200758106719162'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_10.html' title='渋谷の街から変態をつなごう'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--fVKxxo_jSI/TcnkCll2XNI/AAAAAAAAVHA/fzP68y6qa6g/s72-c/sibuya.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7254235000681504525</id><published>2011-05-09T17:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-09T17:40:22.221-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Food in Kyoto</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ep3DhmBvBec/TcflR_NKukI/AAAAAAAAUlM/Lhgiy3Nw-5Y/s1600/P1010478.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ep3DhmBvBec/TcflR_NKukI/AAAAAAAAUlM/Lhgiy3Nw-5Y/s320/P1010478.JPG" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;上司に教えてもらった天下一品。有名だそうで、スープの濃さにびっくり、、Almost味噌だね。ラーメンは私は普通のスープで、いいです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ott76rsJQZY/TcflSmmIgfI/AAAAAAAAUlQ/mqmRnE2zGy8/s1600/P1010479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ott76rsJQZY/TcflSmmIgfI/AAAAAAAAUlQ/mqmRnE2zGy8/s320/P1010479.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;When you are in Japan one of the things to eat is Ramen of course. My boss told me "Tenka Ippin" is a famous ramen shop in Kyoto, so we tried. As yo can see, their broth is really thick! It was good but personally I prefer regular light soup.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6fIvdtjcBGs/TcflpLiTvmI/AAAAAAAAUmM/Yj6tMm9vdCM/s1600/P1010497.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6fIvdtjcBGs/TcflpLiTvmI/AAAAAAAAUmM/Yj6tMm9vdCM/s320/P1010497.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;抹茶シリーズは全て基本的においしかった。苦みがやっぱ違うのよ日本の抹茶は。こっちの抹茶はうそものばかり。写真には写さなかったんだけど（忘れた〜）抹茶ココナッツミルクを新鮮なの売ってる人がいて、それはたまらなかったですね。日本人で良かったと思う瞬間です。このソフトクリーム食べると、歯が緑になるでよ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lk6_Xuvkgmc/TcflqlzLzVI/AAAAAAAAUmQ/fVBEHJ-624A/s1600/P1010498.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lk6_Xuvkgmc/TcflqlzLzVI/AAAAAAAAUmQ/fVBEHJ-624A/s320/P1010498.JPG" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;You know how much Japan loves green tea and Matcha. Kyoto is known for that and you can imagine almost all the sweets and drinks comes in Matcha flavour. I didn't have &amp;nbsp;a photo but some store sold fresh matcha coconut tea and it was absolutely amazing...! I like Matcha in Japan has bitterness to it. It is hard to find a real Matcha treats in U.S. Also recently Oreo came out with Matcha flavour, which is delicious. (Of course kitkat comes in Matcha too in Japan)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h7IKqmC7RW4/Tcfl4RJxd_I/AAAAAAAAUnU/-ta1hQ3KJt8/s1600/P1010517.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-h7IKqmC7RW4/Tcfl4RJxd_I/AAAAAAAAUnU/-ta1hQ3KJt8/s320/P1010517.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;朝から泊まっていた旅館で、湯豆腐豪華日本定食。たまごはしなやかに巻かれており、鮭は脂肪分少なく、豆腐はおいしく、漬け物は最高で、まさに日本を極める朝食と言えましょう。味付けのりも、久しぶりに食べました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TFqb3Jup_v4/TcfmQqLCfeI/AAAAAAAAUow/CgyMkPQ1J-g/s1600/P1010542.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TFqb3Jup_v4/TcfmQqLCfeI/AAAAAAAAUow/CgyMkPQ1J-g/s320/P1010542.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Citrus season. It was at someone's yard. Wanted to grab one...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nqk3Xt98QGc/TcfnEBjGwOI/AAAAAAAAUrs/yHW9cw_ujmo/s1600/P1010594.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nqk3Xt98QGc/TcfnEBjGwOI/AAAAAAAAUrs/yHW9cw_ujmo/s320/P1010594.JPG" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Bamboo shoot!! I miss eating it. It is a vegetable (right?) and we eat them in beginning of summer.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;タケノコ、いいねええ！！食べたかったけど食べ損ねたうちの一つ。日本の市場は季節があって良いです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ieIjpk99ZGQ/TcfnKtUwgWI/AAAAAAAAUsA/10ZuW_ytLNg/s1600/P1010603.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ieIjpk99ZGQ/TcfnKtUwgWI/AAAAAAAAUsA/10ZuW_ytLNg/s320/P1010603.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ハモを売る派手なおばちゃんに目がいきました、、まるで演歌女優か、夜は別のお仕事！？ハモ、おいしかったけど、英語でブライアンになにか説明できませんでした。キッチンで生きているはもをブライアンがじーっと見つめていると、魚屋のおじちゃんが一匹生きたままさばいてくれました。結構大きくて、ぐろかったな〜。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;This was at the street market in Kyoto. This store sold Hamo, it is like eel. Brian got to see a fresh Hamo getting chopped!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BbxJeP7eC8M/TcfnffR5SCI/AAAAAAAAUtQ/gc9dkrMbcrU/s1600/P1010630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BbxJeP7eC8M/TcfnffR5SCI/AAAAAAAAUtQ/gc9dkrMbcrU/s320/P1010630.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Tea time, more green tea stuff. Green tea mochi and cake. This day I ate too much mochi from morning till eveing and I regreted after my stomach got bloated!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7254235000681504525?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7254235000681504525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7254235000681504525' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7254235000681504525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7254235000681504525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/food-in-kyoto.html' title='Food in Kyoto'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ep3DhmBvBec/TcflR_NKukI/AAAAAAAAUlM/Lhgiy3Nw-5Y/s72-c/P1010478.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3044083309377662964</id><published>2011-05-09T17:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-09T17:28:01.249-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Temples and Shrines in Kyoto</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We went to Japan for about a week and just came back to NYC! this time we visited old capital Kyoto, south western part of Japan. This is the place that you would go to on a school trip at least once if you are Japanese. Unlike your imagination, Kyoto is not all about old town, the city part is as developed as Tokyo and big malls and stations everywhere. This time, since the earth quake happened there were almost no foreigners. Usualy it is packed with tourist!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I booked a traditional Japanese style hotel "Ryokan"and enjoyed good Japanese food and hospitality. Experienced temporal living in the middle of Kyoto city "Gion" where geisha used to walk around (and I believe they still are here, we just don't see them often) It was almost like a Disneyland to me how buildings are old and beautiful, makes me curious why we don't have more cities like this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are many shrines and temples in the city and it is impossible to visit everywhere withing short period of time. We only had 3 days, so we walked around where we were staying. Some temples did night time light up and it was really beautiful. 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--qLgqk9gMms/TcflCA1vNFI/AAAAAAAAUkY/N6JSSkArgg8/s1600/P1010460.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--qLgqk9gMms/TcflCA1vNFI/AAAAAAAAUkY/N6JSSkArgg8/s320/P1010460.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;NY初のドーナッツプラント、こっちの方が甘め控えめ、値段も高め。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NBP-R3euwsw/TcflNBZx-xI/AAAAAAAAUk8/8NsBZeWGTQE/s1600/P1010473.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NBP-R3euwsw/TcflNBZx-xI/AAAAAAAAUk8/8NsBZeWGTQE/s320/P1010473.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gPXPxMw5q5k/TcflN2iPe6I/AAAAAAAAUlA/kj2pjyMej9s/s1600/P1010474.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;"&gt;NYへ帰ってきました、約１週間の日本への旅へ行ってきました。今回はプライベート、でまたすぐ出張いくんですが。こう何回も行っていると、実際あまり離れている気がしない！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今回の旅行は、ブライアンのリクエストで京都へ行ってきました。修学旅行以来の京都は、また違うだろうなと私も楽しみにしながら、２泊３日のGW中京都へ！今年は、地震のせいで、成田もガラガラ、新幹線もガラガラでした。外国人もさっぱりみかけなかったヨ。グリーン車のチケットを父が買ってくれて（ありがとう）満喫しましたよ〜。電車の中では、パーティーで配るサンキューカードのおりがみを一生懸命おった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;新幹線、思ったより早くて、外を見てると早すぎるし、なんだか静かで浮いている感じで少し気持ち悪かった。。お弁当を売るお姉さんが、まるでフライトアテンダントのように格好をつけていて、びっくり。前の席には、不倫旅行か？のような金持ちちょいわるおやじが、きれいなお姉さんをつれて座っていました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;京都まであっというまの２時間で。新幹線ってすごい、と改めて思ったのでした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5330448095292564336?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5330448095292564336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5330448095292564336' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5330448095292564336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5330448095292564336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post.html' title='新幹線'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--qLgqk9gMms/TcflCA1vNFI/AAAAAAAAUkY/N6JSSkArgg8/s72-c/P1010460.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7102690049807825548</id><published>2011-04-29T11:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T11:27:08.124-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>At LA</title><content type='html'>We flew from JFK to LA to make a connection to Tokyo.both JFK and LAX sucks. Airports only have junk food, no ramen or onigiri!! We got to fly over grand canyon south rim. It was nice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now killing time to the flight and drinking too much coffee. I wonder which movies will be on the airplane. See you all soon peeps in Japan.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7102690049807825548?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7102690049807825548/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7102690049807825548' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7102690049807825548'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7102690049807825548'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/at-la.html' title='At LA'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1843408147845796143</id><published>2011-04-28T20:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-28T20:47:57.343-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>To Japan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-icMk6In8fqM/Tboz1eTlxRI/AAAAAAAAUjw/dEZR5eZ8mfA/s1600/P1060814.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-icMk6In8fqM/Tboz1eTlxRI/AAAAAAAAUjw/dEZR5eZ8mfA/s400/P1060814.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;どわーっと、４月も終わっちゃって、本当今年何したんだろうっていう具合ですが、明日から日本です！今回は、プライベートで休暇で行きます。パーティーしに行きます。京都へも行きます。楽しみだな。珍しく乗り換えで、LAによります。ちょうどROYAL WEDDINGが空港で見れる感じかな〜？ウィリアム王子、同い年だし。同じ年に結婚だけど、大分、違うなー。あたりまえだけどさ。（笑）こんな自分の年で世界中の視線と期待をおっての結婚式って、すごく面倒くさいし大変そう。その分ゴージャスなこともあるだろうけど、すごいいろんな人の意見で全てが決まって行くんだろうな。。アメリカはこの１週間、Royal weddingと、オバマが本当にアメリカ人なのかっていうおばか２大ニュースで終わって行きました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Vacation time for me. Visiting Japan to party and celebrate, also stopping by Kyoto to travel. Some people are worried about going there but I am not worried at all, after all it is my home. Although I haven't felt earth quakes for a long time, I must be freaking out when we get one while I am there.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1843408147845796143?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1843408147845796143/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1843408147845796143' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1843408147845796143'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1843408147845796143'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/to-japan.html' title='To Japan'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-icMk6In8fqM/Tboz1eTlxRI/AAAAAAAAUjw/dEZR5eZ8mfA/s72-c/P1060814.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8248995807980314109</id><published>2011-04-26T19:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T19:47:55.346-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Batting、豪快に野球じゃなくてソフトボールだった</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ciMyuqJUHP0/TbeCWtoN_hI/AAAAAAAAUjI/-wxU9wjrll0/s1600/P1060736.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ciMyuqJUHP0/TbeCWtoN_hI/AAAAAAAAUjI/-wxU9wjrll0/s320/P1060736.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PJMKWxDBC8E/TbeCtltyl9I/AAAAAAAAUjU/grMFtU4EFEU/s1600/P1060741.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PJMKWxDBC8E/TbeCtltyl9I/AAAAAAAAUjU/grMFtU4EFEU/s320/P1060741.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2OCU8tjn4Q/TbeC5UKMj5I/AAAAAAAAUjY/lTYQyOeh_tk/s1600/P1060744.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-U2OCU8tjn4Q/TbeC5UKMj5I/AAAAAAAAUjY/lTYQyOeh_tk/s320/P1060744.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;友達のお別れ会の前に、時間があったため、バッティングケージへ。野球が混んでいたので、ソフトボール。バットの持ち方が悪く、手首に痣をつくるものの、小学校やっていた手打ち野球のおかげか？結構あたった。私は球技はテニスをやってたからか？一応棒やラケットに球はあてられます〜。（笑）それにしてもこの必死な素振り。すっきりした〜。でも、15分間だけ、３人交代でやったんだけど、それでも結構大変だった。年だ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8248995807980314109?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8248995807980314109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8248995807980314109' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8248995807980314109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8248995807980314109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/batting.html' title='Batting、豪快に野球じゃなくてソフトボールだった'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ciMyuqJUHP0/TbeCWtoN_hI/AAAAAAAAUjI/-wxU9wjrll0/s72-c/P1060736.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2205640579123343663</id><published>2011-04-26T19:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-26T19:34:34.951-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>ニコ泳ぐの巻。First swimming in the... dirty pond</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yjp05RBPhdM/Tbd9B2sLO-I/AAAAAAAAUiM/CmsGL84IDic/s1600/P1060754.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yjp05RBPhdM/Tbd9B2sLO-I/AAAAAAAAUiM/CmsGL84IDic/s320/P1060754.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b8OzOoHlTWI/Tbd9PbQ6ZLI/AAAAAAAAUiY/9hSTfOg1KGo/s1600/P1060774.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b8OzOoHlTWI/Tbd9PbQ6ZLI/AAAAAAAAUiY/9hSTfOg1KGo/s320/P1060774.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Finally it is getting hot! We took Nico to central park last Sat. and she had such a fun. Whenever we take her to camping or near water, she never go in. She sometimes goes into the still water like a lake, but never swim. So! we were so surprised when she went in the water and swam in the (dirty) central park pond!!!! so amazing... I should have took a video.　I think before she went in the water voluntarily, she slipped walking on the ledge of the pond and I think she&amp;nbsp;accidentally&amp;nbsp;fell. we are not sure. but anyway, I am so happy I captured the moment! she looks serious swimming, doesn't she??&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4LAJALNMFmI/Tbd9aneWtHI/AAAAAAAAUic/OtrDvGR_RTc/s1600/P1060797.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4LAJALNMFmI/Tbd9aneWtHI/AAAAAAAAUic/OtrDvGR_RTc/s640/P1060797.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;挑発されている。Getting excited by looking at other dogs?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QgPl-nqflDQ/Tbd9mb3cCYI/AAAAAAAAUig/i2IF8Y8rHlY/s1600/P1060798.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QgPl-nqflDQ/Tbd9mb3cCYI/AAAAAAAAUig/i2IF8Y8rHlY/s640/P1060798.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wDqjszW8ASI/Tbd9yGvGzgI/AAAAAAAAUis/FJbksuWpPT0/s1600/P1060801.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wDqjszW8ASI/Tbd9yGvGzgI/AAAAAAAAUis/FJbksuWpPT0/s640/P1060801.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;必死。Trying her best to reach the shore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jgEcsDSJcK0/Tbd98zuOrQI/AAAAAAAAUiw/2pQRptuuR6c/s1600/P1060802.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jgEcsDSJcK0/Tbd98zuOrQI/AAAAAAAAUiw/2pQRptuuR6c/s640/P1060802.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k_IghAWKT8s/Tbd-IsZCGtI/AAAAAAAAUi0/TGUnpw7ZttU/s1600/P1060803.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-k_IghAWKT8s/Tbd-IsZCGtI/AAAAAAAAUi0/TGUnpw7ZttU/s640/P1060803.JPG" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;つ、ついた〜〜〜！！！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;泳いだ！！！セントラルパークの（汚い）池で。普段泳いだ事のない彼女が、他の犬を見てか、なんだか水にはいって泳いで来た。キャンプ何回かいったけど、水の動かない湖とかは、足ぐらいまでつかりにいくけど、今回見たいに泳いだのは初めて！！見えにくいけど、泳いでる彼女の目はかなり真剣です。（笑）ご想像の通り、あがったら、くっさ〜〜。しかも洗おうと思ったら、お店がイースターで閉まっていて、家に帰って来て一生懸命洗ったのでした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z1IgAExM9sc/Tbd-VwpbZxI/AAAAAAAAUjA/kyz5IL44bz0/s1600/P1060804.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-z1IgAExM9sc/Tbd-VwpbZxI/AAAAAAAAUjA/kyz5IL44bz0/s320/P1060804.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Stinky dog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VrG1v3nGpT4/Tbd-uybMCII/AAAAAAAAUjE/av7TMSiPpbg/s1600/P1060812.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VrG1v3nGpT4/Tbd-uybMCII/AAAAAAAAUjE/av7TMSiPpbg/s320/P1060812.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Happy as a hell dog.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2205640579123343663?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2205640579123343663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2205640579123343663' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2205640579123343663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2205640579123343663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-swimming-in-dirty-pond.html' title='ニコ泳ぐの巻。First swimming in the... dirty pond'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Yjp05RBPhdM/Tbd9B2sLO-I/AAAAAAAAUiM/CmsGL84IDic/s72-c/P1060754.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3580656984624731763</id><published>2011-04-18T19:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T19:49:21.755-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>missing boxers, 消えたパンツ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-OGenxyMlg/Taz1waRvxNI/AAAAAAAAUhM/nWI9iT8D9-U/s1600/IMG_1715.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-OGenxyMlg/Taz1waRvxNI/AAAAAAAAUhM/nWI9iT8D9-U/s320/IMG_1715.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Baby leaves coming out&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SQFHmuXgXms/Taz1_2slboI/AAAAAAAAUhQ/j2kOJVdI_gI/s1600/IMG_1718.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SQFHmuXgXms/Taz1_2slboI/AAAAAAAAUhQ/j2kOJVdI_gI/s320/IMG_1718.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;People trying to make the garden look like Spring. All the boxes are full of tulips.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;必死で庭を春模様に変えようと働く人たち。箱は、生チューリップでございます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;事件は先週。うちでは、ブライアンが洗濯担当、私が畳む担当です。マンハッタンでは、アパートに洗濯機がついている事は珍しく、大概地下に、共有ランドリーがあるか、近所のランドリーに行ったりします。うちは、地下にランドリーがあるタイプなので、いちいち洗濯の時間や乾燥機を見計らって、準備しなくてはいけません。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;先々週ぐらいからでしたでしょうか。洗濯は、大体週に１回ですから、結構な量でございます。畳んでいると、ブライアンが「僕のボクサーは？」というのです。数枚あるので、あるよ、って渡したものの、なんか違和感。いつもより少ない。洗濯かごに紛れてるのかなと思ってたんですが、今週になってもまだ２枚。以前は洗濯すると、10枚ぐらいは出て来た訳ですから、かなりの量が紛失されたようです。一体どこへ、、、ボクサーだけ洗っている訳ではないので、それだけ間違えてとられた、なんていうことはないのですが。女性の下着ならまだしも、ボクサー盗むか！？しかし、１０枚一気になくなると、とても不思議に思えますが、これ私おかしくて、先週から腹かかえて笑っております。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We have recently noticed that MANY of Brian's boxers have gone missing... we don't&amp;nbsp;separately&amp;nbsp;wash them, so it is very odd that they disappeared. We have noticed a few weeks ago and now pretty sure that at least.... 10 of them have disappeared. Personally it is funny to me (sorry sweetie!) but it is a serious problem for Brian. I mean, imagine that you suddenly lose your staple underwear! what a tragic event. If anyone knows where they are, please let me know. Thank you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-3580656984624731763?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/3580656984624731763/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=3580656984624731763' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3580656984624731763'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3580656984624731763'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/missing-boxers.html' title='missing boxers, 消えたパンツ'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q-OGenxyMlg/Taz1waRvxNI/AAAAAAAAUhM/nWI9iT8D9-U/s72-c/IMG_1715.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8926210608076981995</id><published>2011-04-18T19:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T19:36:55.855-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>Nico's habit these days. 最近のニコの動向</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-MOjZDvgw4/TazzqHuBQ-I/AAAAAAAAUhE/eNLSlk_2AWA/s1600/IMG_1714.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-MOjZDvgw4/TazzqHuBQ-I/AAAAAAAAUhE/eNLSlk_2AWA/s320/IMG_1714.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We have a routine work to do in morning. I usually walk her before the work, and usually to the river. She likes to go to this bench and sit down there and meditate for a while. She does insist to stay there! so, I do the same. Just for a few minutes of peace in morning is really amazing. It will calm you down and I think she feels the same!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Also she likes to find a stick on the way home and bring it back home. I am taking a picture of her with every stick... She seems to like good fat stick. She never pick up a skinny stick. As soon as she gets to elevator, she drops it and I know she considers the elevator part of her home. Isn't that funny. She doesn't bring it in the apartment usually so I have to toss the stick in the garbage can, which is kind of odd....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGGK1K1wJ6o/TazzzIh9e1I/AAAAAAAAUhI/SiaTUTap1xw/s1600/IMG_1717.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nGGK1K1wJ6o/TazzzIh9e1I/AAAAAAAAUhI/SiaTUTap1xw/s320/IMG_1717.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;最近のニコの日課は、川沿いへ行って、朝メディテーションすることです。ここに寄らないと、帰りたくないという。メディテーションしてるのか知らないが、私はしている！朝の３分だけですが、太陽を浴びて何も考えないのは、かなり気持ちが良い！すべてから解放されるその３分が１日をスタートさせるのでした。そして、彼女は最近帰り道に、お気に入りの枝を見つけて家まで運びます。うちはアパートですから、どこまでが家なのかなと思っていると、エレベーターにのると、その中で枝を落として、硬直したアゴをストレッチさせます。エレベーターは彼女にとっての安全地域なようです。家にもって入る事は余ないので、枝をゴミ箱に捨てるのですが、それが都会っぽい行為で、会社の前に、ゴミ箱に枝を捨てる私は、（しかもリサイクルじゃない方）いつも不思議な感じがしてなりません。外にいっても、アスファルトだから、枝を投げる、っていうわけにはいかないんだよねこれ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8926210608076981995?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8926210608076981995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8926210608076981995' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8926210608076981995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8926210608076981995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/nicos-habit-these-days.html' title='Nico&apos;s habit these days. 最近のニコの動向'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G-MOjZDvgw4/TazzqHuBQ-I/AAAAAAAAUhE/eNLSlk_2AWA/s72-c/IMG_1714.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4441618108471047930</id><published>2011-04-17T12:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-17T12:37:09.745-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Sunny Day!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UlormrKnEyY/TasuJGa-fNI/AAAAAAAAUgo/4EV1QK1x1_I/s1600/P1060708.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UlormrKnEyY/TasuJGa-fNI/AAAAAAAAUgo/4EV1QK1x1_I/s320/P1060708.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dI63JRchLzs/TasuXBIFUzI/AAAAAAAAUgs/XE9eieJBwHg/s1600/P1060709.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dI63JRchLzs/TasuXBIFUzI/AAAAAAAAUgs/XE9eieJBwHg/s320/P1060709.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Finally some sunshine! We went to dog park. Pretty windy and chilly still... Ah, it's almost end of April and I have a feeling that NYC will skip Spring again! (I think that's always the case) A lot of dogs were out as you can see and nice to feel the sunshine although it was still cold. I seriously the weather affects my mental state&amp;nbsp;greatly.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I slept a lot these past 2 days, got back my energy so cleaned the apartment, worked on some wedding stuff, (have to get invitations out soon!) and planning a trip to Japan the end of this month. We are holding a mini lunch party to celebrate and it will be fun. We are thinking to rent Kimono for the party. I mean, we don't get to wear Kimono many times after all, this is a great excuse. Also we decided to visit Kyoto during the trip, very exciting! I have only been there on school trips so it will be a different experience for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tsiNE8k8UvI/TasuknyB7iI/AAAAAAAAUg0/inxErAQCcPA/s1600/P1060716.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tsiNE8k8UvI/TasuknyB7iI/AAAAAAAAUg0/inxErAQCcPA/s320/P1060716.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Look at me~! I am the cutest French Bulldog!&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y4bTqxlORgU/Tasu7dvudfI/AAAAAAAAUg8/GnZdTdupo80/s1600/P1060725.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y4bTqxlORgU/Tasu7dvudfI/AAAAAAAAUg8/GnZdTdupo80/s320/P1060725.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;とうとう晴れた、という感じで、うれし〜〜！でも外に出てみると、強風だし、まだダウンジャケットでいいぐらい。。お日様の下は暖かかったですが。植物達は春めいてきてるけど、これは春をすっとばして夏になるのでしょう。晴れてるだけでも、気分は良いもので、ようやく先週の疲れもとれて、家の掃除に励みました。（拍手）後はウェディングや今月末の日本旅行の準備をしたりと。今月末の日本の旅行は、京都へ行く予定です。修学旅行や学校の旅行で何回か行った事がありますが、大人になってからないので、楽しみです。ブライアンも初めての京都、おすすめスポットある人は教えて下さい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dpWtHDvRvwc/Tasuw2fivyI/AAAAAAAAUg4/K-mByWAdBgU/s1600/P1060723.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dpWtHDvRvwc/Tasuw2fivyI/AAAAAAAAUg4/K-mByWAdBgU/s320/P1060723.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;うちは、米の消費量がすごいですが、今日も米買ってきました。（ブライアンが赤ちゃんのように抱いているのは米です）歩いて運ばないと行けないから、大変なのよね。都会って。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4441618108471047930?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4441618108471047930/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4441618108471047930' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4441618108471047930'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4441618108471047930'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/sunny-day.html' title='Sunny Day!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UlormrKnEyY/TasuJGa-fNI/AAAAAAAAUgo/4EV1QK1x1_I/s72-c/P1060708.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-794609186255833524</id><published>2011-04-16T14:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T14:35:51.745-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Green Tea Oreo</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMen7FBUQUg/TaoJaI_qHtI/AAAAAAAAUgY/XibpWqACyEg/s1600/IMG_1703.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMen7FBUQUg/TaoJaI_qHtI/AAAAAAAAUgY/XibpWqACyEg/s320/IMG_1703.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifXCZ8lEvYE/TaoJgugxSjI/AAAAAAAAUgc/HyxYgyT85dw/s1600/IMG_1701.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ifXCZ8lEvYE/TaoJgugxSjI/AAAAAAAAUgc/HyxYgyT85dw/s320/IMG_1701.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Above is Nico being happy at Brian's studio. This week was so busy, it was like, get up, go to work, many meetings a day, dinner with work people, and sleep. It is amazing how your apt. can get dirty even though you are not at home most of the time...! This weekend I am taking care of myself and also the apartment. Getting cold again... :( enough cold and ready for Spring!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L324Tb-jpjo/TaoJowzIwuI/AAAAAAAAUgk/oSFpBhWoVJs/s1600/IMG_1686.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L324Tb-jpjo/TaoJowzIwuI/AAAAAAAAUgk/oSFpBhWoVJs/s320/IMG_1686.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Oreo Green Tea!! of course from Japan, thanks my friend for bringing it! You can probably imagine what it is like and as you imagine, they are delicious....!! U.S. should totally produce this here as well. Great twist to the original oreo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;オレオ抹茶味のニュースを聞いて、ずっと食べたかったんだけど、友人が持って来てくれた。ありがとう。予想通りだったけど予想通りにおいしい。これはアメリカでも売れるんでないかな。後はヨーロッパの方が受けるかな。　天気が悪くてやる気のない感じの土曜日です。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-794609186255833524?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/794609186255833524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=794609186255833524' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/794609186255833524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/794609186255833524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/above-is-nico-being-happy-at-brians.html' title='Green Tea Oreo'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yMen7FBUQUg/TaoJaI_qHtI/AAAAAAAAUgY/XibpWqACyEg/s72-c/IMG_1703.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5504616407358764209</id><published>2011-04-12T17:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T17:44:41.840-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='work'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Cherry Blossoms, お花見 in MD</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CHrjLQNRQdE/TaTwaNegMjI/AAAAAAAAUfo/tkLgGUP02eo/s1600/P1060511.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CHrjLQNRQdE/TaTwaNegMjI/AAAAAAAAUfo/tkLgGUP02eo/s320/P1060511.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j9z7ASrVtF4/TaTwlJli7VI/AAAAAAAAUf0/oq3Pf0xLjiU/s1600/P1060534.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j9z7ASrVtF4/TaTwlJli7VI/AAAAAAAAUf0/oq3Pf0xLjiU/s320/P1060534.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0kGXmq99G9w/TaTwtllkl0I/AAAAAAAAUf4/gK6RfIVCcY4/s1600/P1060543.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0kGXmq99G9w/TaTwtllkl0I/AAAAAAAAUf4/gK6RfIVCcY4/s320/P1060543.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VojjVA-5894/TaTw0nE0xoI/AAAAAAAAUf8/WPrkkOzJrz0/s1600/P1060574.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VojjVA-5894/TaTw0nE0xoI/AAAAAAAAUf8/WPrkkOzJrz0/s320/P1060574.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;非常に先週から忙しくしています。週末は、メリーランド（といってもDCのすぐ外）に住んでいる友人を訪ね、お花見してきました。たまたまシーズンが重なっただけですが。今年はもう遅いかなと思っていたのですが、友人家の周辺はまだ咲いていて、きれいに見れました。DC周辺はすでに散ってしまっていて、雨なども降ったからね。観光客でめっちゃ混んでいましたが。やっぱり４時間車で離れただけですが、NYとワシントンD.C.は雰囲気が全く異なります。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;桜の木、観光客で溢れているのを見ると、もっと至る所に植えればいいのに、と思いましたが、お手入れが大変だそうですね。弱いので。メリーランドで見た上の桜は、不思議なところで、そこのコミュニティだけどの家にも桜の木があるのです！昔なんか者好きな市長がルールにでもしたのか？朝からたくさんお花見をしているアメリカ人が居ました。といってもアメリカは外で飲めないので、みんな散歩しているだけですが。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今週は１日3-4件ずつ人と会う日々、楽しいけど、人と会うってやっぱ体力使う！！天気も変化が激しく、週末はあったかくなったと思ったら、いきなり嵐に寒さなど、風邪ひきそ〜。明日はボストン日帰りです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5504616407358764209?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5504616407358764209/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5504616407358764209' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5504616407358764209'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5504616407358764209'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/cherry-blossoms-in-md.html' title='Cherry Blossoms, お花見 in MD'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CHrjLQNRQdE/TaTwaNegMjI/AAAAAAAAUfo/tkLgGUP02eo/s72-c/P1060511.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3787602934473313606</id><published>2011-04-06T19:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T19:37:07.568-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Shampoo Hat、お風呂でこれを思い出した</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ulaZ18JC1o8/TZ0ilWe-x_I/AAAAAAAAUe0/0Ibu8rbLhfc/s1600/Picture+2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ulaZ18JC1o8/TZ0ilWe-x_I/AAAAAAAAUe0/0Ibu8rbLhfc/s1600/Picture+2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;(Photo borrowed from some blog) but... This is what came to my mind while I took shower tonight. Shampoo got in my eyes, it has been a while. Is it only Japan that people use this hat to avoid shampoo gets in your eyes? I wanted that when I was a kid... This looks really silly now I look at it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;久しぶりにシャンプーが目に染みて、思い出したのはシャンプーハット、でした。これってかなり変だよね。アメリカで見た事ないけど、日本だけなのかな〜。日本でもまだ売ってるんですか？買って帰ってくるかな。笑　ハロウィーンとかにいいかも。子供のとき欲しかったのを覚えている。お写真はウェブから拝借致しました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-3787602934473313606?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/3787602934473313606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=3787602934473313606' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3787602934473313606'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3787602934473313606'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/shampoo-hat.html' title='Shampoo Hat、お風呂でこれを思い出した'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ulaZ18JC1o8/TZ0ilWe-x_I/AAAAAAAAUe0/0Ibu8rbLhfc/s72-c/Picture+2.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4516003997375499448</id><published>2011-04-06T04:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T04:29:42.456-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Mr. Watson at IBM</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tg7NmfsjbCU/TZp7k-h1ODI/AAAAAAAAUeo/o3sI0oxBCaU/s1600/IMG_1648.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tg7NmfsjbCU/TZp7k-h1ODI/AAAAAAAAUeo/o3sI0oxBCaU/s320/IMG_1648.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PJHD_qBY9K4/TZp-DYOiJKI/AAAAAAAAUes/BoxKkzGQmF8/s1600/IMG_1652.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PJHD_qBY9K4/TZp-DYOiJKI/AAAAAAAAUes/BoxKkzGQmF8/s320/IMG_1652.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6rNaWscoalU/TZp_NHQqzsI/AAAAAAAAUew/Hq2mg5JE5Kk/s1600/IMG_1654.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6rNaWscoalU/TZp_NHQqzsI/AAAAAAAAUew/Hq2mg5JE5Kk/s320/IMG_1654.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今週は忙しくてひぃひぃしています。月曜日は、NYは１時間半ぐらい北上したところにある、IBMのリサーチセンターのHQに行きました。NYにいる日本のコンサルやリサーチャーが集まって勉強会、みたいなのだったのですが、そのうちの一部で、最近有名になった&lt;a href="http://www-06.ibm.com/ibm/jp/lead/ideasfromibm/watson/"&gt;Watson君&lt;/a&gt;に会うことができました。日本人ビジターでは初めて見せてもらうということでみんな大興奮。Jeopardy（長寿クイズ番組）を撮影した会場も実際に訪れ、ゲームをやらせてもらったのですが、Watoson頭よさ過ぎ。ワトソン君のすごいところは、人間の自然な会話を解析し、答えを数秒で出すという仕組みです。番組では、いろいろなジャンルの質問が出ますが、Watoson君はなんのその、と答えていき、ビジターぼろ負けでした。笑　会場にいたテクニシャンの人が、スピードを下げてくれたぐらいでした。。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Watsonは、４年間２５人のチームで600億ドルを投資して作られました。チェスゲームのようではない、人間の自然な会話を読み取って、解答を出すという機能は今後いろいろな分野で活用されていくとされており（もちろんクイズをやるために作られた訳ではない）今後が楽しみです。ちなみに、クイズ番組に出た時は、作った技術者たちは会場でハラハラしながら後ろで見守っていたそうです。クイズの時は、Watson君もオフラインだったそうですから、機械にためた分の情報しかないため、本当に勝てるかどうか分からなかったそうです。解答に自信がないと、スクリーンの色が青くなったり、間違えると赤くなったり、ただの機械なのに愛着を感じてしまいました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsvBvqxa0Gw/TZkCMdmUfNI/AAAAAAAAUec/_-WmbMfHDJU/s1600/inco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsvBvqxa0Gw/TZkCMdmUfNI/AAAAAAAAUec/_-WmbMfHDJU/s320/inco.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ktAop1eRquM/TZkCNbPXx5I/AAAAAAAAUeg/gna74iQVEbY/s1600/grocery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ktAop1eRquM/TZkCNbPXx5I/AAAAAAAAUeg/gna74iQVEbY/s320/grocery.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;NYC is getting colorful...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;５月のGWへ日本へ帰ります。友達と小さいパーティーをしようと思っていて、親友が場所を探してくれたのですが。日本安すぎて驚愕。ケーキに、場所に、機材に、受付に、おみやげに、ご飯にオープンバーに、そのほか色々込みで、１人6000円~ですって。もう信じられない。NYだったら、ドリンク４杯飲んだだけですぐ6000円いってしまうでしょう。残念な事に私は円を持っていませんので、この円高、、厳しいです。リラックスなパーティーで考えているんだけど、会場の人があれこれ質問表を送って来てびっくり。こんなに手取り足取り、根掘り葉ほり聞いてくるのは、さすがおもてなし！？新郎新婦の血液型とかまで、、細かい。。日本に居る人でパーティー来たい人は声かけてね。５月７日（土）にやります。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4733033691016850882?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4733033691016850882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4733033691016850882' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4733033691016850882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4733033691016850882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/colorful.html' title='Colorful'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SsvBvqxa0Gw/TZkCMdmUfNI/AAAAAAAAUec/_-WmbMfHDJU/s72-c/inco.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1715100392784993973</id><published>2011-04-02T20:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T20:59:55.419-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Fashion Girls for Japan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ePSwfY30qjE/TZfsoWCvZgI/AAAAAAAAUeA/vSnHFAnu-_Q/s1600/IMG_1634.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ePSwfY30qjE/TZfsoWCvZgI/AAAAAAAAUeA/vSnHFAnu-_Q/s320/IMG_1634.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;After the hearty breakfast...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VuCdUo2FGJw/TZfs10LYInI/AAAAAAAAUeE/vrtHgeRUl-Q/s1600/IMG_1635.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VuCdUo2FGJw/TZfs10LYInI/AAAAAAAAUeE/vrtHgeRUl-Q/s320/IMG_1635.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We went to this event called "&lt;a href="http://www.fashiongirlsforjapan.com/"&gt;Fashion Girls for Japan&lt;/a&gt;"Japanese people in Fashion industry in NYC started this event and they did a big sample sale of big designers. I had a few friends involved in the event so I went to check it out! Also the all sales goes to Japan relief fund, so I thought it is a good cause. (and excuse to shop) I knew it would be so crowded but look! the line wrapped around the corner and so many people showed up. Which I guess was good for the event. We eneded up being in the line for an hour.　Inside was packed! Women going mad and they were trying on stuff full naked.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzd_BOF8aiM/TZftBvgl7nI/AAAAAAAAUeI/HKMtnvAeMSA/s1600/IMG_1636.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fzd_BOF8aiM/TZftBvgl7nI/AAAAAAAAUeI/HKMtnvAeMSA/s320/IMG_1636.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&amp;nbsp;たくさんチャリティイベントが日本に向けて行われていますけど、今日は友人も手伝っていた、デザイナーのサンプルセールへ。売り上げは全て日本への義援金、ということで買い物する良い口実。予想以上の列。NYCでも並ぶのです、、１時間並んだあげく、中に入ると、混んでた〜！でもかわいいお洋服たくさん。もっと小さいサイズがあれば良かったけど。素晴らしいNYならではのイベントです。女の人は、恥を捨て、会場内で普通に裸になって試着していました。取材に来ていたNHKやTV Tokyoや、カメラのおじさん困った顔していましたけど、女性陣はそんなの気にしている場合ではない。買い物です。売り上げも１日で&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"&gt;$192,000ということ。良かった。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lL13Z8EvM8Q/TZftQbU1trI/AAAAAAAAUeQ/VFoPqUwC_5Y/s1600/IMG_1640.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lL13Z8EvM8Q/TZftQbU1trI/AAAAAAAAUeQ/VFoPqUwC_5Y/s320/IMG_1640.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;中、混みすぎていてあんまりとれなかった。裸の人いっぱいだったし。笑　&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3GKSXfyTgQA/TZftYdAdvxI/AAAAAAAAUeY/K-o-dypOdOY/s1600/IMG_1642.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3GKSXfyTgQA/TZftYdAdvxI/AAAAAAAAUeY/K-o-dypOdOY/s320/IMG_1642.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;終わってからビールを飲みに行きました。ほっ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1715100392784993973?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1715100392784993973/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1715100392784993973' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1715100392784993973'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1715100392784993973'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/fashion-girls-for-japan.html' title='Fashion Girls for Japan'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ePSwfY30qjE/TZfsoWCvZgI/AAAAAAAAUeA/vSnHFAnu-_Q/s72-c/IMG_1634.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7318627285189941141</id><published>2011-04-02T20:33:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-02T20:33:54.207-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>春はどこかな〜, looking for Spring!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5dlJvak4gGw/TZfpq1lYwAI/AAAAAAAAUd0/lk3fF2vkTJo/s320/P1060470.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oELtmQCxquI/TZfp1_Vj9cI/AAAAAAAAUd8/FVjZl1_9Hyg/s1600/P1060479.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oELtmQCxquI/TZfp1_Vj9cI/AAAAAAAAUd8/FVjZl1_9Hyg/s320/P1060479.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Where is Spring! I am looking for it but it seems like... we maybe skipping Spring this year. Today was nice and sunny, we rented a zip car and drove to Central Park in morning for dog off leash fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今年は、春なし？本日は土曜日なのに、７時起きでセントラルパークへ行って来た。まだスケートリンクもばりばり。空気も冷たい、春よ。。その後はお買い物へ。次のエントリーに続く。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7318627285189941141?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7318627285189941141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7318627285189941141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7318627285189941141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7318627285189941141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/looking-for-spring.html' title='春はどこかな〜, looking for Spring!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0_xq70vWUS0/TZfpT5yEq8I/AAAAAAAAUds/NcFMIO17JUQ/s72-c/P1060464.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6425700402784198580</id><published>2011-04-01T17:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T17:29:23.164-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>The best french toast so far.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QPKzGLsg95I/TZZrhz0_6II/AAAAAAAAUdY/jZDqwUIS12M/s1600/frenchtoast.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QPKzGLsg95I/TZZrhz0_6II/AAAAAAAAUdY/jZDqwUIS12M/s320/frenchtoast.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Ah, I have to share my secret french toast place. Well... actually it's not really a secret but they are so good, I don't want to tell anyone and keep all of their french toasts mine!! haha. so there is a diner near my office called "&lt;a href="http://www.izzyandnats.com/"&gt;Izzy &amp;amp; Nats&lt;/a&gt;", It's a regular diner with good sandwich and chicken noodle soup. One day I just tried their french toast for lunch and aw. they are so soft! I think they fry them quickly and inside is magically soft. If you are around there, go have some food...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;会社の近くには食べるところが余ないのですが、最近よく行くダイナーがあって。そこに本当においしいフレンチトーストがあるんです！！普通のダイナーなんだけど、ふわふわのフレンチトーストで、たぶん一回さくっと揚げてるんだと思うよ。揚げドーナッツだ！と、友達と興奮しながら食べてたんですが、本当おいしい。so far, 一番おいしいなマンハッタンで。この量すごいでしょう。お昼にこんなん食べてるんだから。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UGWuTckNE-k/TZZrbG5jMfI/AAAAAAAAUdU/xAgtyaCmuaU/s1600/plants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UGWuTckNE-k/TZZrbG5jMfI/AAAAAAAAUdU/xAgtyaCmuaU/s320/plants.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My friend gave me these plants in a cute cups!! One of them is going to live at Brian's office and another is at our apt. Trying to grow them and make it big!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;友人に、植物を頂く！かわいいカップにまで入れてもらって（いや、植物とってコップとして使おうかなと思っちゃうよね）１つはブライアンのオフィスに、１つはおうちに持って帰ってきました。大きくしたいんだけど。うちの日光で足りるかな。春を感じます。ちなみに、藻（Moss)を育てたいんですけど。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6425700402784198580?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6425700402784198580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6425700402784198580' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6425700402784198580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6425700402784198580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/04/best-french-toast-so-far.html' title='The best french toast so far.'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QPKzGLsg95I/TZZrhz0_6II/AAAAAAAAUdY/jZDqwUIS12M/s72-c/frenchtoast.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-12401196177293384</id><published>2011-03-30T19:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T19:48:39.208-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>iPad2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XYVFatUzRcs/TZPqY8uHh7I/AAAAAAAAUdI/2OfyrKEZUSI/s1600/ipad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XYVFatUzRcs/TZPqY8uHh7I/AAAAAAAAUdI/2OfyrKEZUSI/s320/ipad.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Appleは好きですけど。iPadも使ってみたいと思ってたけど、ここまでいいとは思わなかった。最高に必要のない、最高の遊び道具だわ。見てるだけで欲しくなって来たよ！ブライアンは、とうとうiPad2をゲットし、我が家にもやってきたよ、このポータブルマシーン。文明の進化を直に感じる感じ。なにこのゲームのクオリティ（って普段ゲームしないから余計驚く）、Netflixだってストリーミングしてベッドで見れちゃうし、かろやかな目覚ましの音に、素敵なバックグラウンド動画、ジェンガまでできちゃう。。。。。。文字も大きいし、お年寄りにもいいと思うんですけど。なんかわくわくするはー、これ世代を超え、ジェンダーを越え、愛される理由が分かります。未来を感じますよ、未来を。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Finally iPad came to our house! I have never touched before, of course I was interested but it is way more cool than I thought. It's like... you don't really need it but you reallly want one. It's like, you can do everything. Weather news, games, watching movies, communication.... you can be in front of screen most of the day and get things done. I played Othelo with Brian today, but since it's digital, they will flip everything for you, if you want, the machine can tell you where to play next, this device could spoil human's brain.... but very sweeeeet. I want one now. Can I register one for the wedding gift? :P&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-12401196177293384?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/12401196177293384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=12401196177293384' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/12401196177293384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/12401196177293384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/ipad2.html' title='iPad2'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XYVFatUzRcs/TZPqY8uHh7I/AAAAAAAAUdI/2OfyrKEZUSI/s72-c/ipad.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8626061664863283052</id><published>2011-03-30T19:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T19:43:04.457-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Wedding DJ and Prep</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbTSMR9vxDk/TZPoL0uvxSI/AAAAAAAAUcw/fwZ9RP0YALY/s1600/dinner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbTSMR9vxDk/TZPoL0uvxSI/AAAAAAAAUcw/fwZ9RP0YALY/s320/dinner.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今日は、ウェディングのDJとミーティングした。みんな準備大変っていうけど、そんなことない。殆どもう色々決まって、ドレスも買ったし、（あ、写真載せてなかった↓もちろん中身はお楽しみに。）楽勝だぜ。ドレスは買ったの！？って日本の人は驚くけど、こっちは買った方が、というか買うオプションしか殆どない。それでも大分日本で借りるよりは安いと思うよ話を聞いていると。上は今日の夜ご飯でした〜。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;めっちゃ偏見ですが、今日会ったDJはすごく真面目な人たちで、ビジネスやってるからもちろんそうなんだろうけど、本当に律儀で、オーガナイズされていて、こんなDJもいるんだ、、ってなんとうなくカルチャーショックでしたね。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VYAaW3oUP80/TZPonBwcdOI/AAAAAAAAUc8/bkg1vOZ45JY/s1600/P1030096.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VYAaW3oUP80/TZPonBwcdOI/AAAAAAAAUc8/bkg1vOZ45JY/s400/P1030096.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We had a meeting with wedding DJ today! It was easy. Everyone asks us how the prep is going but I think we got majority of things down already. Cannot wait for September!! I already got a dress, and it is of course a surprise what it looks like until the day. I have to get tailored. I heard it could cost almost half of the dress price sometimes...!! Ouch. Need to look for wedding bands soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8626061664863283052?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8626061664863283052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8626061664863283052' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8626061664863283052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8626061664863283052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/wedding-dj-and-prep.html' title='Wedding DJ and Prep'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbTSMR9vxDk/TZPoL0uvxSI/AAAAAAAAUcw/fwZ9RP0YALY/s72-c/dinner.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1784087503947836046</id><published>2011-03-29T18:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T18:00:14.103-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>ベイビーシャワーとは。</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UAXY28ggBmE/TZJ8N-QcI_I/AAAAAAAAUck/l2VHlSvXNWY/s1600/baby2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UAXY28ggBmE/TZJ8N-QcI_I/AAAAAAAAUck/l2VHlSvXNWY/s320/baby2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;高校の同級生のベイビーシャワーにいってきました。ベイビーシャワーは何、と聞かれたので、写真を載せようと思い。赤ちゃん生まれる前に、祝うんだな。昔は女の人だけ集まるのが主流みたいでしたけど、最近はco-edのようです。なんか赤ちゃんにまつわるゲームしたり。食べもん食べて、プレゼント持ち寄って、大体生まれる１ヶ月前にやります。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6ihYe8K-y9k/TZJ8NB3RgFI/AAAAAAAAUcg/422sHLASsGc/s1600/baby1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6ihYe8K-y9k/TZJ8NB3RgFI/AAAAAAAAUcg/422sHLASsGc/s320/baby1.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;かわいいぜ熊。食べるの忘れた。。同級生がだんだんお母さんになっていって、まるでなんだか私だけ成長していないような気分になります。パーティーで、長めの服を着ていたため「妊娠してるんですか〜？」と言われ、びっくりしましたよ。私は犬の世話で精一杯です。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WbNnRwk_gvI/TZJ8OkwoYoI/AAAAAAAAUco/1IuVlg4KyQQ/s1600/baby3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WbNnRwk_gvI/TZJ8OkwoYoI/AAAAAAAAUco/1IuVlg4KyQQ/s320/baby3.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;３月は、なんだか暗いニュースが続きあまり、ブログもアップせず終わってしまいました。又４月から気を取り直して、通常運営（？）に戻りたいと思います。よろしく。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yJlBYnV-vdE/TZJ8O2UkDGI/AAAAAAAAUcs/y0qzV1AGWnA/s1600/baby4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yJlBYnV-vdE/TZJ8O2UkDGI/AAAAAAAAUcs/y0qzV1AGWnA/s320/baby4.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;個人的には誰も老けてないと思うんだけど、高校の同級生。すっぴんでパーティーに行ける自分の度胸に最近感心しています。まぁ、すっぴんじゃなくても濃い化粧はしないけどさ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1784087503947836046?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1784087503947836046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1784087503947836046' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1784087503947836046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1784087503947836046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post_29.html' title='ベイビーシャワーとは。'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UAXY28ggBmE/TZJ8N-QcI_I/AAAAAAAAUck/l2VHlSvXNWY/s72-c/baby2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4460158731138377801</id><published>2011-03-22T16:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T16:44:29.917-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>March is ending!?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Im3wcgjVK9Y/TYkyuedBfKI/AAAAAAAAUcE/UQoBRmeFmiI/s1600/spring.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Im3wcgjVK9Y/TYkyuedBfKI/AAAAAAAAUcE/UQoBRmeFmiI/s320/spring.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;March is slipping away from the calender!! I don't remember what I have done this month. Especially the earth quake news really made me check every news available online and TV, I was so exhausted from just watching the depressing news for a week. NYC It got warmer for a day, (the above photo) but now it's back to winter mode. I cannot wait for Spring. The air is chilly but I def. smell Spring. I strongly hope that the situation in Japan will be stabilized and people can start only thinking about rebuilding. It is going to take many years...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gBoRBcVhngk/TYkyuItJ0xI/AAAAAAAAUb8/X1muvUuDnXM/s1600/nico.JPG" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gBoRBcVhngk/TYkyuItJ0xI/AAAAAAAAUb8/X1muvUuDnXM/s320/nico.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;3月はあっというまに飛んでいってしまいました。これを読んでる多くの人もそうかと思いますが、地震のニュースに釘付けで、ニュースを見ているだけなのに、心配と不安で疲れる２週間を過ごしました。一刻も早く日本の状況特に原発が落ち着いて、みんな復興に専念できるような状況がくること、生活に平和が戻る事を願ってやみません。せめて、春が早く来て、東北の人たちが寒さを気にしなくていいような気候になりますように。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ニューヨークは、一瞬あたたかくなったりしたのですが（写真１枚目）又冬に戻り明日は雪かもとかいってる。そろそろもう冬はいいや、、でもチューリップの芽や、木にも芽が生え、朝は鳥の声が聞こえるようになったり、少し春が近づいているのが分かる。朝は（きれいではないけど）East Riverでニコと５分ぐらいぼーっとするだけで、エネルギーがチャージされるという、ルーティーンです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4460158731138377801?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4460158731138377801/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4460158731138377801' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4460158731138377801'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4460158731138377801'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/march-is-ending.html' title='March is ending!?'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Im3wcgjVK9Y/TYkyuedBfKI/AAAAAAAAUcE/UQoBRmeFmiI/s72-c/spring.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5848025892779638270</id><published>2011-03-18T19:52:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T19:52:21.377-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>アメリカの人</title><content type='html'>アメリカの友人や知人が、心配や励ましのメッセージをたくさんくれて、心温まると同時に、日本にいる人を思うと心が痛くなります、、、大変な時が続くと思うけど、本当に頑張って欲しい。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5848025892779638270?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5848025892779638270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5848025892779638270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5848025892779638270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5848025892779638270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html' title='アメリカの人'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7461188206882264039</id><published>2011-03-17T16:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-03-17T16:28:01.425-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>3/17 海外メディア</title><content type='html'>できることはないかと。ファンドレイジングイベントやりたいなと考えている。&lt;br /&gt;そのほか、友人が英語のニュース知りたいと言うので、日本で言ってなさそうなことを集めている。日本のニュース見れている訳ではないので、分かんないけど、専門家の意見とか少ないと思うので。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;・Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman “アメリカはいつだってもっと情報が欲しい” 状況に圧倒されて、日本の政府は事態ハンドルできていないと間接的に批判。アメリカもアイディアやツールを提供する準備をしている（Reuters）&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;・Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gunderson “原子力発電所の危機を終らす努力は、少なくとも数ヶ月、長くて数年続く” (CNN)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;・”Fukushima 50”原子炉を安定させようとボランティアした日本人技師。英語多数メディアでFukushima50と呼ばれ、Suicide Fightersや、日本のラストチャンスなど書かれている。将来病気になることを覚悟で、暗い中命をかけて作業をしているヒーローと呼ばれ、至るメディアで記事に。&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;・Jonathan Links, director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University “原子力発電所は、日本の殆どの人に健康を及ぼすようなレベルで放射物(radiation)を発していない。米国にも影響ないだろう。一番心配なのは、現場で働いている人たちだ” (NPR)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;・放射性降下物は、くっつきやすいので、建物の壁や、茂みなどにくっつく。原子力発電所が安定したら、汚染された土地は1年ぐらい放置すれば、管理できるほどの放射線レベルまで落ちるだろう。(Oregon state health physicist Kathryn Higley, National Geographic)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7461188206882264039?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7461188206882264039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7461188206882264039' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7461188206882264039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7461188206882264039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/317.html' title='3/17 海外メディア'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5038564020676539015</id><published>2011-03-12T14:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-12T15:03:31.075-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>The worst Tsunami Footage, Kamaishi Iwate</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/7dZHKbRrqq8?fs=1" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the worst Tsunami footage I have seen so far. Very horrifying and sad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My thoughts are with people in Northern Japan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/-xOzYRdEPBE" title="YouTube video player" width="480"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another footage in Miyako city Iwate. You can tell how bad the Tsunami is. It is moving all the houses around.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5038564020676539015?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5038564020676539015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5038564020676539015' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5038564020676539015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5038564020676539015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/worst-tsunami-footage-kamaishi-iwate.html' title='The worst Tsunami Footage, Kamaishi Iwate'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://img.youtube.com/vi/7dZHKbRrqq8/default.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4249419299733332702</id><published>2011-03-11T17:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T18:02:50.988-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>NYC も日本が心配です。がんばって！！</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ffI3h1o0BXA/TXrUQz1HfEI/AAAAAAAAUbY/7zay4AWZzwA/s1600/NHK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ffI3h1o0BXA/TXrUQz1HfEI/AAAAAAAAUbY/7zay4AWZzwA/s320/NHK.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;今日の地震は、友人のメールで知りました。携帯で寝ぼけながら、「大量にメールきてるなー」と思ったら「大丈夫？」「死ぬかと思った」といったようなメールが飛び交っているので、何事！？と思いテレビをつけると、日本で大地震。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;両親とはGmailで連絡がとれ、友達の様子もfacebookやメールで分かり、NHKもオンラインで見れたので本当にテクノロジーに感謝した１日でした。日本では皆さん徒歩で帰宅したり、停電など不便なことが続くかと思いますが、気をつけて安全に過ごしてください。NYから何もできないのがもどかしいですが。。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;本当に朝は心配で、一日仕事が手につきませんでした。余震も続いているようで、本当に日本列島はどうなっているんでしょうか。こちらでもケーブルでNHKが無料放送してくれているので助かります。一刻も早く事態が落ち着くことを祈っています。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;今日は、私はNYにいるにも関わらず、私の家族や友人のことを気遣って、アメリカ中の友達や、仕事でお世話になっている方からたくさんの励ましのメールをいただきました。私がもらっても、という感じですが、みんなの支えがとても暖かく、嬉しかった。NYのみんなも日本人に関わらず、日本のことを心配しています。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;しばらく気をつけて、生活してください。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4249419299733332702?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4249419299733332702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4249419299733332702' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4249419299733332702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4249419299733332702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/nyc.html' title='NYC も日本が心配です。がんばって！！'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ffI3h1o0BXA/TXrUQz1HfEI/AAAAAAAAUbY/7zay4AWZzwA/s72-c/NHK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1846910465686803299</id><published>2011-03-10T16:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T16:33:43.891-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>牛ちちクリーム　Bag Balm</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XxQAB8iSuZA/TXlrPdsH5II/AAAAAAAAUbQ/HWFWK-b0SIE/s1600/P1060315.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XxQAB8iSuZA/TXlrPdsH5II/AAAAAAAAUbQ/HWFWK-b0SIE/s320/P1060315.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;NY、乾燥するんですよ〜。本当に。乾燥の極み。だって、ヒアルロン酸ぬってもぬっても、べたべたしないくらい。お風呂あがりには、オイルをぬり、髪にもオイル、それぐらいしないと、大変な事になるのです。それで、今回はかかとがすごい乾燥して、しょうがないのでグーグルして探したのがこれ。なんか、もともと寒いところにいる牛が、乳搾りされた後にお肌があれるので、それを治すように作られたバームらしいんだけど、これがすごい評判がよく。「動物用」ということで売ってるんだけど、ようは柔らかいバセリンのようなもんです。これが、きく〜〜！！３日でかかと直りました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1846910465686803299?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1846910465686803299/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1846910465686803299' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1846910465686803299'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1846910465686803299'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/bag-balm.html' title='牛ちちクリーム　Bag Balm'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-XxQAB8iSuZA/TXlrPdsH5II/AAAAAAAAUbQ/HWFWK-b0SIE/s72-c/P1060315.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3475766182989355755</id><published>2011-03-07T17:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-07T17:35:24.219-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>Nico's Weekend with a rabbit</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d3xohQ6SGKU/TXWEZnQvTwI/AAAAAAAAUaw/46KXRi0dTjg/s1600/P1060334.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d3xohQ6SGKU/TXWEZnQvTwI/AAAAAAAAUaw/46KXRi0dTjg/s320/P1060334.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Nico meets Eagon again! our friend's rabbit. He is older than Nico. She was very very curious. Couldn't leave him alone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r6SOW41oX3U/TXWGabaXyLI/AAAAAAAAUbI/uys98oVpJZY/s1600/rabbit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-r6SOW41oX3U/TXWGabaXyLI/AAAAAAAAUbI/uys98oVpJZY/s320/rabbit.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Recently we got her a rabbit toy... so I was a bit worried, but she totally understand Eagon was not a toy. very good...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ニコ、友人、じゃなくて友兎のイーゴンに再会。最近うさぎのぬいぐるみを買い与えたばかりだったので、少々心配でしたが、やはりペットの兎、と分かるようで、興味津々にしていました。ほっ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CwWnaodgAqU/TXWEmRN1KFI/AAAAAAAAUa0/G6uJL3TU1Yk/s1600/P1060338.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CwWnaodgAqU/TXWEmRN1KFI/AAAAAAAAUa0/G6uJL3TU1Yk/s320/P1060338.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;"Hey~ do you want to be friends with Rottweiler?"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tGKNm0WjfeA/TXWFBqv5LiI/AAAAAAAAUa8/dt9iN2KUbjc/s1600/P1060345.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tGKNm0WjfeA/TXWFBqv5LiI/AAAAAAAAUa8/dt9iN2KUbjc/s320/P1060345.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Becoming one of the statues at the central park.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;銅像の真似をするニコ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vFMQSDoN1y4/TXWFbf3l50I/AAAAAAAAUbA/tPokcEerOjs/s1600/P1060346.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-vFMQSDoN1y4/TXWFbf3l50I/AAAAAAAAUbA/tPokcEerOjs/s320/P1060346.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;It was really rainy on Sunday... but she enjoyed hiking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;雨の中たそがれ&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WU4TNOCB45Y/TXWFmtPxIpI/AAAAAAAAUbE/nz0Ni5Er3H8/s1600/akimichi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-WU4TNOCB45Y/TXWFmtPxIpI/AAAAAAAAUbE/nz0Ni5Er3H8/s320/akimichi.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;そして、、、出会ったのは！ニコではなく、「あきみち」くん。白人のおばちゃん連れてるのに名前がド日本で驚くわたし。テンカンを７分以上前に察知できるように訓練された、かしこーーーい犬です。ニコとは格が違う。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We met this dog looks like Nico, but far... trained. very smart! His name is so Japanese, "Akimichi" (but owner is a very American lady) and he can&amp;nbsp;alert&amp;nbsp;epilepsy&amp;nbsp;happens before 7 minutes. He must go through hard training to do that. Amazing... dogs are very smart and I love them...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-3475766182989355755?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/3475766182989355755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=3475766182989355755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3475766182989355755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3475766182989355755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/nicos-weekend-with-rabbit.html' title='Nico&apos;s Weekend with a rabbit'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d3xohQ6SGKU/TXWEZnQvTwI/AAAAAAAAUaw/46KXRi0dTjg/s72-c/P1060334.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2439838356984532618</id><published>2011-03-01T15:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T15:21:45.568-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Roast Chicken、アメリカだわローストチキン。</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U-wSzhorhek/TW19IWq7ONI/AAAAAAAAUaU/DH7fHSDu4ks/s1600/P1060272.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U-wSzhorhek/TW19IWq7ONI/AAAAAAAAUaU/DH7fHSDu4ks/s320/P1060272.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Brian has been wanting to make roasted chicken, so he finally did!! It is very American dish and somehow it didn't motivate me to cook it. I believe he put some lemon, onions inside and put some herbs on the chicken. Look how great it turned out! and it tasted.... great. Of course we couldn't finish the entire chicken, so some meat went to Nico, (lucky dog!) and we made chicken soup with left over. Chicken was under $ 10, pretty reasonable and really festive dish I thought. Anyone want to come over try his speciality now?? The skin is crispy and inside is so juicy....! yum.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sEFrI0ajaEo/TW19SqyDGQI/AAAAAAAAUaY/Jx-cM7Sh0p0/s1600/P1060278.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-sEFrI0ajaEo/TW19SqyDGQI/AAAAAAAAUaY/Jx-cM7Sh0p0/s320/P1060278.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ブライアンが最近ずっと、「ローストチキン作る」といって。ローストと、ベークドは何が違うんだ！？とかしばらく言ってたんだけど、このあいだグローサリーに行った時に、思いたったようにチキンを買い、作っていた。私はなぜか、ローストチキンは作る気にならず。シンプルだけど、とてもおいしい！写真のように見事に仕上がり、皮はパリパリで、ハーブが効いている。中もジュ〜シ〜。小さめのチキンだったけど、２人だとやっぱり余るので、一部はニコ、後はスープへ。１日目はチキンスープ、２日目は洋風チキンおじや、と３日間のチキンは覚悟せねばならぬが、１匹のチキン$10以下なのでお得です。是非お試し下さい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mHg37R7C5EA/TW19cizbCXI/AAAAAAAAUag/W_efaKGK0qY/s1600/P1060279.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mHg37R7C5EA/TW19cizbCXI/AAAAAAAAUag/W_efaKGK0qY/s320/P1060279.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ケールにはまっていて。和えはケールでした。ごま油、ガーリック、塩とシンプルにいためるだけで美味しい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;We cooked kale to go with it. Sesame oil, garlic, and salt. Simple but delicious. A bit of bitterness and a lots if vitamin C!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2439838356984532618?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2439838356984532618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2439838356984532618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2439838356984532618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2439838356984532618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/03/roast-chicken.html' title='Roast Chicken、アメリカだわローストチキン。'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-U-wSzhorhek/TW19IWq7ONI/AAAAAAAAUaU/DH7fHSDu4ks/s72-c/P1060272.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6545060694055239138</id><published>2011-02-27T15:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T15:39:21.494-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>I know Spring is near</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iNHo0HAw2L4/TWrfGq6pcmI/AAAAAAAAUaI/BtpyteQhmHs/s1600/P1060269.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iNHo0HAw2L4/TWrfGq6pcmI/AAAAAAAAUaI/BtpyteQhmHs/s320/P1060269.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Tacos at Tacos Truck in West Village 2am. Delicious. I hear that now there is Korean Tacos in the city, I must find out about it!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;飲んだ後は、ラーメンではなく、タコスとか、ピザ。これはウエストビレッジのタコス。朝２時まで久しぶりに飲んでいました。タコスを買っていると、"Will you give me 25 cents for Homeless people?"とNYでよくあるうさんくさいおっさんが近づいてくる。親切な友人は、小銭をあげてたけど、私は" sorry"っていったら、顔を覗き込まれて" Have you had sex in your life?"とかいって去ってた。なんて失礼なやつなんだ！！だからウエストビレッジ嫌い。。柄が悪い。（笑）酔っぱらいの大学生ばっかだしさ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_3SlpFKZZ4o/TWrfRgTIbYI/AAAAAAAAUaM/XIPh4cLDh34/s1600/P1060275.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_3SlpFKZZ4o/TWrfRgTIbYI/AAAAAAAAUaM/XIPh4cLDh34/s320/P1060275.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Sunday was a bit warmer. Blue sky all day. I think Spring is near but not exactly here yet!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;日曜日はあったかく、春が近いかなと感じさせる一日でした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6545060694055239138?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6545060694055239138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6545060694055239138' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6545060694055239138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6545060694055239138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-know-spring-is-near.html' title='I know Spring is near'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-iNHo0HAw2L4/TWrfGq6pcmI/AAAAAAAAUaI/BtpyteQhmHs/s72-c/P1060269.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-304012769930756998</id><published>2011-02-26T11:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T11:32:20.506-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Still doing smoothie</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6qip6m4n8e0/TWlULmzZrpI/AAAAAAAAUaE/LMuhzz2BwqM/s1600/smoothie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6qip6m4n8e0/TWlULmzZrpI/AAAAAAAAUaE/LMuhzz2BwqM/s320/smoothie.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Still drinking smoothies in morning! Brian is in charge of making it and we discuss what to put in a day after we get up. Today, we had a discussion about wheather we should put Tofu or not. I insisted that Tofu wouldn't taste like anything but that though might have been scary for people who didn't grow up with Tofu. It turned out very good, didn't taste tofu at all, success! the green stuff you see in the photo is spinach.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;まだスムージーを朝に飲み続けています。結構なに入れてもおいしいし、何よりも、同じ分量を「食べる」のは大変だけど、飲むのは簡単、、不思議なものです。今日は豆腐をいれるかどうかで争いました。バナナがなかったので、代わりにプロテインなるものを入れたかった訳です。日本人としては抵抗がないと思いますが、飲み物に豆腐を入れるのはちょっと抵抗があったようで、５分間に及ぶ説得のうえ、入れました。やっぱなんも味しなかったよ！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ちなみに今朝はあるもの全部いれたけど。。ミックスベリー、豆腐、マンゴー、パイナップル、ほうれん草、ヨーグルト、にんじんジュース、オレンジジュース。入れ過ぎ！？って感じだけど、普通においしく仕上がります。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-304012769930756998?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/304012769930756998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=304012769930756998' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/304012769930756998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/304012769930756998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/still-doing-smoothie.html' title='Still doing smoothie'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6qip6m4n8e0/TWlULmzZrpI/AAAAAAAAUaE/LMuhzz2BwqM/s72-c/smoothie.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7958850581854396672</id><published>2011-02-24T20:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T20:15:27.295-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>A Moment of Oasis on the Street and TV</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__TmqQgq1Ss/TWcrvIlvDuI/AAAAAAAAUZ8/I6iq1ACpSAw/s1600/wall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__TmqQgq1Ss/TWcrvIlvDuI/AAAAAAAAUZ8/I6iq1ACpSAw/s400/wall.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;This wall, I like. It's a construction near by my work. They have such a cute illustrations don't you think? I wish every construction site is decorated this fun.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I am now addicted to Fringe, the drama series... it's like 24 and heroes together! By watching those kind of FBI drama, and living my life recently, I identified 3 different type of colleagues who I do NOT like. I am sure these guys are everywhere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1. A person/boss who tries to erase bad things. Pretends nothing happened.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;2. Colleagues or often bosses who don't listen to others and use their authorities wrong ways.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;3. People, especially guys who are like cats to their superior.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;They disgust me. I don't want be ever like them, being adult is hard.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7958850581854396672?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7958850581854396672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7958850581854396672' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7958850581854396672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7958850581854396672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/moment-of-oasis-on-street-and-tv.html' title='A Moment of Oasis on the Street and TV'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-__TmqQgq1Ss/TWcrvIlvDuI/AAAAAAAAUZ8/I6iq1ACpSAw/s72-c/wall.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-9029598233459111924</id><published>2011-02-23T20:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T20:29:39.800-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AxOymR1oyu4/TWXbt98MQNI/AAAAAAAAUZ4/sKyvZgVb3mU/s1600/sun.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AxOymR1oyu4/TWXbt98MQNI/AAAAAAAAUZ4/sKyvZgVb3mU/s320/sun.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;また、寒い日が続いています。−８℃とか。この川の近くによく朝散歩で来るのですが、どんなに寒くても水辺にくると、「外に来てよかった」となぜか思えます。川に、貨物船や船のタクシーが通ると、時差をおいて波が岸に来るのですが、ニコは押し寄せる、ざっぷーんと来る波に、驚いてみたり、しっぽをふってみたり、いろいろな反応を見せます。「なんかこういうのっていいなー」とそんなニコを見るたびに思います。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;大人になると。（って未だに自分のことを大人と自覚したくないと、この歳になるとこの状態をあがいているって客観的にはいうのかな？笑）いろいろな感情にも慣れて。いろいろ諦めもつきやすくなって。自分の嫌なところとかにも慣れたり。新しい感動にも薄れたり、自分の変化や苦しみに見てみぬふりをして平穏ぶってみたり。忙しいとか言ってみたり。いろいろ人間スキルがついてくるなって、生活をしていて思います。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;久しぶりに高校の同窓会めいたパーティーとかしちゃって、高校の頃を思い出したりしてたんですけど、青春というのはやっぱり突っ張ってても、まじめでも、みんな共通するのは、大人に比べて割と素直に自分自身に向き合ってる時期なんじゃないかと思います。だから、大人になって「くっさ〜」「青い〜」と思えるようなことにも真剣に向き合ったり、考えたり、感じたり、その分思い出の色も濃かったりして。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;なんかわくわくすることしたいなぁという心が芽生えている今日この頃です。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-9029598233459111924?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/9029598233459111924/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=9029598233459111924' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/9029598233459111924'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/9029598233459111924'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post_23.html' title=''/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AxOymR1oyu4/TWXbt98MQNI/AAAAAAAAUZ4/sKyvZgVb3mU/s72-c/sun.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-704174463053552399</id><published>2011-02-20T16:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T16:24:11.182-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='value'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>This is how it goes in NYC Sunday</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--LbUwBd63io/TWGrwqVjw-I/AAAAAAAAUXw/Z4pW1cajHfk/s1600/P1060183.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--LbUwBd63io/TWGrwqVjw-I/AAAAAAAAUXw/Z4pW1cajHfk/s320/P1060183.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Brunch with friends, @&lt;a href="http://www.barbutonyc.com/index.html"&gt; Barbuto&lt;/a&gt; in West Village. Nice Italian brunch.. with a bottle of white wine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pENAqzEKxtY/TWGr9OvYnOI/AAAAAAAAUX4/IuiVt4b5svs/s1600/P1060190.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pENAqzEKxtY/TWGr9OvYnOI/AAAAAAAAUX4/IuiVt4b5svs/s320/P1060190.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Walked over the high line, we haven't been there but it was really nice walk.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-isxPyanZi2Y/TWGsEM70tdI/AAAAAAAAUX8/lhyvJkClRxA/s1600/P1060198.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-isxPyanZi2Y/TWGsEM70tdI/AAAAAAAAUX8/lhyvJkClRxA/s320/P1060198.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;New York looks as good as Barcelona, doesn't it?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0r7UUL0S6Ms/TWGsJ3UGuUI/AAAAAAAAUYA/1fYEixgPu5A/s1600/P1060231.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0r7UUL0S6Ms/TWGsJ3UGuUI/AAAAAAAAUYA/1fYEixgPu5A/s320/P1060231.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Old and New buildings mix.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1auKcI8zlZ4/TWGsgoeMWdI/AAAAAAAAUYE/QjcGUcOU_xY/s1600/P1060234.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1auKcI8zlZ4/TWGsgoeMWdI/AAAAAAAAUYE/QjcGUcOU_xY/s320/P1060234.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Part of chelsea area. The building looks like iceberg.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NRZwPpPL4KE/TWGsrqcswmI/AAAAAAAAUYM/sNsCrXzGnEQ/s1600/P1060235.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NRZwPpPL4KE/TWGsrqcswmI/AAAAAAAAUYM/sNsCrXzGnEQ/s320/P1060235.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;This&amp;nbsp;scenery&amp;nbsp;is very New York to me. brick buildings, yellow cabs and big Ads.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2RmreuPonhk/TWGtLpO2W5I/AAAAAAAAUYU/ZUJtpNkV6vQ/s1600/P1060249.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2RmreuPonhk/TWGtLpO2W5I/AAAAAAAAUYU/ZUJtpNkV6vQ/s320/P1060249.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Went to driving range with friends. hit about 100 balls, made me tired by just hitting 50 balls. I wish I could play more, and I should!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;NYCの典型的日曜日の過ごし方。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;友人とブランチ。ぶらぶら。この日は特別ドライビングレンジへ！半分うまくうてたけど、半分どうしようもないスイング。後半は「婚約指輪が邪魔だ！」ということを理由にして、だんだん打てなくなってくる情けない感じで。もっと練習しないとね。９０ボール、$25。都会は高い。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;又、リリーフランキーの「東京タワー　オカンとボクと、時々、オトン」読んでいる。再読することなんて余しないが、読みたくなったので読んでいる。殆ど覚えていないこの記憶の悪さ。私は最近非常に自分の記憶力のなさに驚いている。この本を読んでいても、自分に殆どディテールな記憶が残っていない事に気がつかされる。この本には家族との思い出が細かく、人のくせとか、出来事だったとか、友達がどんなやつだったとか、そのときどんな気持ちだったとか、鮮明に書いてあるけど。そんなの殆ど覚えてないよね！！なんて能天気なんだろう。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;（引用）”ポケットの中に納められた百円は貧しくはないが、ローンで買ったルイ・ヴィトンの札入れにある千円の全財産は悲しい程に貧しい。都市開発のファッションビルに入った中途半端なレストランに行列してまで行き、中途半端な食事と中途半端なワインを飲む。搾取する側とされる側、気味の悪い勝ち負けが明確に色分けされた場所で、自分の個性や判断力を埋没させている姿に貧しさは漂うのである。必要以上になろうとして、必要以下に映ってしまう、そこにある東京の多くの姿が貧しく悲しいのである。”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-704174463053552399?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/704174463053552399/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=704174463053552399' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/704174463053552399'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/704174463053552399'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/this-is-how-it-goes-in-nyc-sunday.html' title='This is how it goes in NYC Sunday'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--LbUwBd63io/TWGrwqVjw-I/AAAAAAAAUXw/Z4pW1cajHfk/s72-c/P1060183.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2254179866784981662</id><published>2011-02-20T08:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T08:26:34.956-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='people'/><title type='text'>Talented people in NYC, Acoustic Guitar</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="300" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20155549" width="400"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;昨晩は、友人に誘われて久しぶりにパフォーマンスを見に行きました。&lt;span id="goog_1594966760"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.localproject.org/"&gt;Local Project&lt;/a&gt;というアートスペースで、色々なアーティストをノンプロフィットで紹介するフォーラム。今回はアコースティックがテーマで、その中にビデオのFrankie Fisherというアーティストが居たのですが、とても素敵。&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;彼は、レコーダーを使って、自分で作り出すビート（ギター、自分のビート、拍手、タンバリンとかシンプルなリズムを重ねて行く）の上に自分で歌ったりして、クリエイティブ。彼が出しているエネルギーが本当にきらきらしていて、「今を生きる」ってこういう感じだった、みたいな感覚を思い出しました。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, we went to see artist performing at Local Project in Long Island City. We saw this amazing talented guy Frankie Fisher, and I had to video it! He create his own beats from recording simple beats by his voice, guitar, clapping hands etc. It is like a one man orchestra.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2254179866784981662?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2254179866784981662/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2254179866784981662' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2254179866784981662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2254179866784981662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/talented-people-in-nyc-acoustic-guitar.html' title='Talented people in NYC, Acoustic Guitar'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5112207989755888349</id><published>2011-02-19T08:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-19T08:53:00.409-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>High School Reunion</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4KeOWHAmlXw/TV_02cac4uI/AAAAAAAAUXk/PC8rl0DTmKw/s1600/P1060171.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4KeOWHAmlXw/TV_02cac4uI/AAAAAAAAUXk/PC8rl0DTmKw/s320/P1060171.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1_XElPUxcX4/TV_09IhS5DI/AAAAAAAAUXo/WjhfZa-vhQw/s1600/P1060176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1_XElPUxcX4/TV_09IhS5DI/AAAAAAAAUXo/WjhfZa-vhQw/s320/P1060176.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;国際高校また集まって、援団のビデオを見てしまった、、恥ずかしい。面白かった。１０年経ってNYで集まれるなんて幸せな事です。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5112207989755888349?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5112207989755888349/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5112207989755888349' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5112207989755888349'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5112207989755888349'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/high-school-reunion.html' title='High School Reunion'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4KeOWHAmlXw/TV_02cac4uI/AAAAAAAAUXk/PC8rl0DTmKw/s72-c/P1060171.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3397783651886534896</id><published>2011-02-19T08:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-19T08:49:30.070-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>A week of smoothies</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EGUEa-cisfk/TV_u2jJl6RI/AAAAAAAAUXQ/Ado3dUh-CWs/s1600/P1060161.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EGUEa-cisfk/TV_u2jJl6RI/AAAAAAAAUXQ/Ado3dUh-CWs/s320/P1060161.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hg0gHi3S970/TV_zB7s6XrI/AAAAAAAAUXg/CV6IpFIVRBc/s1600/P1060166.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Hg0gHi3S970/TV_zB7s6XrI/AAAAAAAAUXg/CV6IpFIVRBc/s320/P1060166.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XoVYU4ql8dw/TV_vL51D_6I/AAAAAAAAUXY/uMsQKQbsPOM/s1600/P1060170.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XoVYU4ql8dw/TV_vL51D_6I/AAAAAAAAUXY/uMsQKQbsPOM/s320/P1060170.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1週間スムージー週間でした。朝ね。おいしい！！フルーツ高いけど。。ベリー、バナナ、アボカド、ピーチ、マンゴー、などから適当にミックス。いつまで続くかな？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Have been making smoothies for a week. it's pretty good besides frozen berries are bit pricey. Want to continue at least a month and see if we feel healthier!?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-3397783651886534896?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/3397783651886534896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=3397783651886534896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3397783651886534896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3397783651886534896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-of-smoothies.html' title='A week of smoothies'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EGUEa-cisfk/TV_u2jJl6RI/AAAAAAAAUXQ/Ado3dUh-CWs/s72-c/P1060161.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7717158442482374820</id><published>2011-02-15T17:41:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-15T17:41:13.372-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>スムージータイム！</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0E07mEh9TRc/TVsqs9RV_5I/AAAAAAAAUXA/mjmpn7cz01E/s1600/Picture+21.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0E07mEh9TRc/TVsqs9RV_5I/AAAAAAAAUXA/mjmpn7cz01E/s1600/Picture+21.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;思い立ったが吉日。朝ご飯にスムージーを作ることにしました。（っていってもお腹いっぱいにならないからたぶんまだパン食べてるだろうけど笑）早速ハンドブレンダー買ってきて、ブライアンが実験スムージー作ったけど、簡単だしおいしい。フルーツの値段が高いのが懸念事項。バルセロナだったら安いのになぁ、、、。というわけでいつまで続くことか、乞うご期待！次回はスムージーの写真のせるか。いいレシピ知ってる人教えて。ちなみにハンドブレンダー、洗いやすいし、結構いいです。大きなブレンダーより使いやすいと思う。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7717158442482374820?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7717158442482374820/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7717158442482374820' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7717158442482374820'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7717158442482374820'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post_15.html' title='スムージータイム！'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0E07mEh9TRc/TVsqs9RV_5I/AAAAAAAAUXA/mjmpn7cz01E/s72-c/Picture+21.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3450510252065376797</id><published>2011-02-13T08:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-13T08:56:03.482-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Barcelona -Gaudi-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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I especially liked Sagrada Familia. They are still building the church to finish it. It is amazing in person as you can imagine and it takes your breath away! you can go on the top of the building and can come down narrow long stair cases. It is kind of scary. Details are amazing and I cannot believe human built this! Everything starts from zero at some point....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ガウディの建築は予想以上にすごかったです。でも一番好きだったのはやっぱりサグラダファミリアかな。ディテールもすごいし、なんかどうやってあんな大きな石でできた建物つくれるのか純粋に不思議でした。ものすごいディテール、一生かけてつくりあげてきた、それ以上のものを感じました。中は光の差し込み方がまた素敵で、こんな建物に礼拝にこれるならクリスチャンになってもいいかなと思っちゃうぐらいです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-3450510252065376797?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/3450510252065376797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=3450510252065376797' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3450510252065376797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3450510252065376797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/barcelona-gaudi.html' title='Barcelona -Gaudi-'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4XvzFHuMuCM/TVXSD7fnkVI/AAAAAAAAT48/s6ABzhLMLjo/s72-c/P1050828.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1929383970344419243</id><published>2011-02-12T18:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T18:13:41.716-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Barcelona -Buildings-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xNnhO1bq_NA/TVXVVBzRqeI/AAAAAAAAUEY/wqAHwtOcVgM/s1600/P1060139.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xNnhO1bq_NA/TVXVVBzRqeI/AAAAAAAAUEY/wqAHwtOcVgM/s320/P1060139.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Ah! Just those spaces and old buildings... actually new buildings too. They are just beautiful to look at. I am not an architect but it's just made me surprised how much buildings design, age could transform the city's look. Now NYC looks nothing like this when I walk out! I would miss the views of the small city. It was enjoyable to walk around and just looking around at all those buildings.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;古いビルも、新しいビルも。なんて素敵なの！（♪ぱんだこぱんだこパンダ〜）建築家じゃないので、何時代の何スタイルとかぜんぜんわかんないけど、歩いてきょろきょろしてるだけで、ウットリですよ。建物が違うだけで、街の雰囲気ってこんなにも違うのかー！と。観光客マジックでもあると思うが。素敵だ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1929383970344419243?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1929383970344419243/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1929383970344419243' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1929383970344419243'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1929383970344419243'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/barcelona-buildings.html' title='Barcelona -Buildings-'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kLNq8XrDYOQ/TVXRTQLkNLI/AAAAAAAAT2E/0b58eiTwaGE/s72-c/P1050749.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7270475565888699413</id><published>2011-02-12T17:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T17:59:52.448-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Barcelona -Food&amp;Friends-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bYiwWvFrTfw/TVXR01elnsI/AAAAAAAAT4Q/IVSOqwqeyQg/s1600/P1050812.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bYiwWvFrTfw/TVXR01elnsI/AAAAAAAAT4Q/IVSOqwqeyQg/s320/P1050812.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Barcelona...Jamon!!! I ended up eating a lots of Jamon in Barcelona, I don't think it's good for you, is it? Personally I felt their restaurant food is a bit salty, maybe cause people drink with meals often?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;生ハム、食べまくったけど、すごいしょっぱいし体に悪そう。おいしかった。。でも全般的にご飯はしょっぱかったな。お酒飲むから？みんなお昼から普通にワインをたしなんでいました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wvYxeo6LdIQ/TVXR6-gzV2I/AAAAAAAAT4g/PmH315NXvL0/s1600/P1050820.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wvYxeo6LdIQ/TVXR6-gzV2I/AAAAAAAAT4g/PmH315NXvL0/s320/P1050820.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My friends told me that vegetables and fruits are cheap, like 1kg apple for less than a Euro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;果物と野菜は安い。失業率高いし、それぐらい安くないと困るよね。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BZPCPTL5660/TVXTDvOlhhI/AAAAAAAAT8o/Th-7e1Ed5tk/s1600/P1050938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BZPCPTL5660/TVXTDvOlhhI/AAAAAAAAT8o/Th-7e1Ed5tk/s320/P1050938.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I didn't know &lt;a href="http://www.papabubble.com/"&gt;PAPABUBBLE&lt;/a&gt; is from Spain. They also have a store in Tokyo and NY........duh. Globalization is sometimes boring. Their candy is great though. &amp;nbsp;A bit pricey..&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;お店もシエスタで午後の開店は４時まで空かなかった。日本の金太郎飴職人もがんばってくれ！！彼らよりスキルは高いはずだ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QJSRPjKFchI/TVXTKsAXU1I/AAAAAAAAT88/0bXOFZ-D4SM/s1600/P1050943.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QJSRPjKFchI/TVXTKsAXU1I/AAAAAAAAT88/0bXOFZ-D4SM/s320/P1050943.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dEIQ-YKu2_A/TVXTLygDybI/AAAAAAAAT9E/AwENOw8Rzus/s1600/P1050945.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dEIQ-YKu2_A/TVXTLygDybI/AAAAAAAAT9E/AwENOw8Rzus/s320/P1050945.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Barcelona... Tapas!! another thing I was very much looking forward to. A friend of us introduced this nice Tapas place. Full of Japanese. It must be a good restaurant. The second photo looks like a Japanese food! but it's actually fried cheese etc. Everything was excellent and I thought I was going to blow up from eating too much.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;串揚げ！？ではなく、タパスです。おいしかった。おしゃれな居酒屋よね。品が違うよ品が、ヨーロッパは！結構バゲットがついてくるのでおなかいっぱいになる。白いご飯が食べたかったのはアジア人の性。フライドポテトをガーリック系ソースと目玉焼きを混ぜて食べるのは体に悪そうだけど、とてもおいしかった。バルセロナはどこでも日本人がいるけど、日本人のいるレストランは大体おいしいということが分かった。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6GxcvI-LjE/TVXTTenntsI/AAAAAAAAT9o/n6vyOGuzCuk/s1600/P1050959.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6GxcvI-LjE/TVXTTenntsI/AAAAAAAAT9o/n6vyOGuzCuk/s320/P1050959.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We found this crazy looking bar in Born area.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;友達とのご飯が一番楽しい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cySWlykuwHU/TVXUlZWwHxI/AAAAAAAAUTk/dZ8vmYkZa7k/s1600/P1060074.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cySWlykuwHU/TVXUlZWwHxI/AAAAAAAAUTk/dZ8vmYkZa7k/s320/P1060074.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-347tVq0-D7s/TVXUhyE2wSI/AAAAAAAAUTc/RR2GD5RBD0E/s1600/P1060071.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-347tVq0-D7s/TVXUhyE2wSI/AAAAAAAAUTc/RR2GD5RBD0E/s320/P1060071.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;友達夜ご飯パート２。実はバルセロナに行くまで、誰がいるのか把握してなかったんだけど！高校の後輩に、大学時代の友人。やっぱり旅行先に友人がいると楽しい。この日は、色々新鮮魚を調理してくれるレストランへ。日本人にはたまらないね〜。また、kg売りだけど、安い！！なんでこんなに安いんだ。NYCでシーフード買ったら4倍以上の値段はするでしょう。だって魚１切れ買うだけで、下手すると$8とかするからねえ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7dXV7KHpLgY/TVXUqIF69HI/AAAAAAAAUCE/veuWWiGaxVI/s1600/P1060079.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7dXV7KHpLgY/TVXUqIF69HI/AAAAAAAAUCE/veuWWiGaxVI/s320/P1060079.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Nabajas?だっけ？ナバハス？見かけは不思議だけど、あさりみたいでおいしい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XPvDdGY8ed8/TVXUq6ftxOI/AAAAAAAAUCI/SXprkbQhrGc/s1600/P1060080.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XPvDdGY8ed8/TVXUq6ftxOI/AAAAAAAAUCI/SXprkbQhrGc/s320/P1060080.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;The best part of visiting places is going out with local friends. My friends took us to seafood restaurant where they cook fresh seafood right there by kg! so cheap and delicious. Some unknown seafood to Japanese but very very good. Above was my first shell fish. I think it's called Nabajas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T4Eniojv_jk/TVXUuxSVZQI/AAAAAAAAUCY/x7U3eV0QqAg/s1600/P1060087.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-T4Eniojv_jk/TVXUuxSVZQI/AAAAAAAAUCY/x7U3eV0QqAg/s320/P1060087.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Another drink at the bar... this night we drank one too many. This atmosphere is so Europe, isn't it?? They have this drink called "Clara" and it's half beer and half lemon juice. I guess it's popular there but never heard of it in NYC.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QuKR2_kkC-E/TVXU2usaRtI/AAAAAAAAUCs/uQymhS-vr4o/s1600/P1060095.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QuKR2_kkC-E/TVXU2usaRtI/AAAAAAAAUCs/uQymhS-vr4o/s320/P1060095.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ヨーロッパのこの文化系雰囲気はなかなか他国かもしだせませんよね。日本のバーもこれは難しい。なんでだろうね。でもやっぱり建物が古いのは大きいな。既製品じゃない感じっていうか。&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kJiLzyg1POk/TVXU7zxkk7I/AAAAAAAAUC8/y2K8hFu8utk/s1600/P1060100.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kJiLzyg1POk/TVXU7zxkk7I/AAAAAAAAUC8/y2K8hFu8utk/s320/P1060100.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My friends from University! This day we heard that these famous Japanese actor maybe at this place but unfortunately they didn't show up! damn it. It's ok, their Japanese food was so great and most of all, to see friends last time with good food was priceless!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;この日は、とある有名人がここに来るという噂でミーハーに駆けつけましたが、残念ながら計画失敗。しかし！！友人と食べるイベリコ生姜焼き（！！）は最高でした。やっぱ豚は豚でもイベリコは階級が違うのか？普段アメリカで作る生姜焼きよりもおいしかった。（私の技術の問題か？）イベリコトンカツも食べてみたいなっ。というわけで食べ三昧の５日間でした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7270475565888699413?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7270475565888699413/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7270475565888699413' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7270475565888699413'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7270475565888699413'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/barcelona-food.html' title='Barcelona -Food&amp;Friends-'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bYiwWvFrTfw/TVXR01elnsI/AAAAAAAAT4Q/IVSOqwqeyQg/s72-c/P1050812.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2001474911768549674</id><published>2011-02-12T05:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T05:18:06.479-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>Barcelona -City-</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mOipKnV9Dxg/TVXTCkWl4II/AAAAAAAAT8k/WjiIQ_mVgLs/s320/P1050937.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Came back from vacation. It was a good 5 days spent in Barcelona. The city was beautiful, very photogenic... couldn't stop taking photos as usual. Mostly walked around and used metro to get by, smaller city than I expected. I loved small alleys and squares, also local shops that are there for a long time. New York City is beautiful too but not many this old buildings kept! The weather was nice all the time, colder than we thought but def. warmer than NYC.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;バルセロナの旅から帰ってきました。５日間満喫。とても写真写りの良い街で、いつもながら大量に写真撮影。（別途大量アルバム見たい人は言って下さい。リンク送ります）街の小道と、古いビルと、至る所にある「広場」がとても素敵でした。本当にスリが多いらしく、NYより安全に感じなかったけど、歩き回るには最適の大きさで、色々なところに歩いて行けるし、電車も便利だし、動きやすかったです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ユーロが高かった。。最近は円もユーロも高くて困ります。がんばれUSD!　スペインも景気悪いかなと思ったけど、やっぱ失業率２０％、平均給料が1100ユーロぐらいなのに、家賃とかは街はNYより少し安いぐらいで、どうやってくらしているんだろうと。野菜や果物は安いみたいで、トマトや果物など、１キロ１ユーロ以下で買える。それは非常に羨ましい。。天気は、NYより少し暖かいくらいで（８℃〜１４℃ぐらい）思っていたより寒かった！それにも関わらず果敢にホテルの屋上にあったアウトドアプール（温水）に入りましたけど、上がった時に寒くて死ぬかと思いました。びちょびちょのままホテルの廊下をかけぬけたよ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2001474911768549674?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2001474911768549674/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2001474911768549674' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2001474911768549674'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2001474911768549674'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/barcelona-city.html' title='Barcelona -City-'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kkJT0XK3n3o/TVXRDhdpsvI/AAAAAAAAT1E/2Mr2BDCd5tg/s72-c/P1050726.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-299488307127201789</id><published>2011-02-07T15:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-07T15:18:47.069-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>@ Barcelona</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TVB9KVTHgeI/AAAAAAAAT0g/zbIoC50boCM/s1600/barcelona.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TVB9KVTHgeI/AAAAAAAAT0g/zbIoC50boCM/s320/barcelona.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Here I am in my first time Barcelona! It is chiller than expected, but great food and great buildings in the city. I have already taken so many photos, to be continued! I will be staying here until Friday then home. It is nice to just relax and enjoy the time you have. We see dogs everywhere (not as much as NYC) and miss Nico! The photo above is before landing, the land looks redder than Japan or NYC.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;バルセロナです。思ってたより、寒い。食べ物は聞いていた通りフレッシュでおいしいし、建物も古くてやはりヨーロッパは雰囲気ありますね。どうして私は欧州ではなくてオレゴン州にいったんだろう、、というのがきょうの会話でした。笑　写真もいっぱいとってるので、帰ってきたらアップロードするのでお楽しみに！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-299488307127201789?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/299488307127201789/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=299488307127201789' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/299488307127201789'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/299488307127201789'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/barcelona.html' title='@ Barcelona'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TVB9KVTHgeI/AAAAAAAAT0g/zbIoC50boCM/s72-c/barcelona.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4056941676118266537</id><published>2011-02-02T05:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T05:45:56.432-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><title type='text'>Worst weather... everything is iced!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUlffDutkQI/AAAAAAAAT0M/npmosIqELlQ/s1600/ice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUlffDutkQI/AAAAAAAAT0M/npmosIqELlQ/s320/ice.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;See the icicles underneath the bus sign? バスサインにできるつららをみて。。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUlffpmaaFI/AAAAAAAAT0Q/RYVCTe2CudU/s1600/ice2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUlffpmaaFI/AAAAAAAAT0Q/RYVCTe2CudU/s320/ice2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUlfgdY8SXI/AAAAAAAAT0U/497QSVVqBV8/s1600/ice3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUlfgdY8SXI/AAAAAAAAT0U/497QSVVqBV8/s320/ice3.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;After the snow, now it's raining and the city is sealed by ice! Trees are frozen! streets are frozen! Nico and I are so wet from the walk...Snow is so much better than ice....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;雪の後、雨です。最悪。みぞれアイス状態。木はこれって樹氷じゃないの！？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4056941676118266537?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4056941676118266537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4056941676118266537' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4056941676118266537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4056941676118266537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/worst-weather-everything-is-iced.html' title='Worst weather... everything is iced!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUlffDutkQI/AAAAAAAAT0M/npmosIqELlQ/s72-c/ice.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-78952579033412541</id><published>2011-02-01T04:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-01T04:03:18.334-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>毎日かあさん</title><content type='html'>せんでん。&lt;br /&gt;私の大好きな友人が毎日かあさんのプロデュースしているので、みんな見に行ってね！私も見たいな。飛行機の中でぐらいしか日本の映画見られないけど。このあいだは「海猿」はじめてみて、面白くて全部１−３まで飛行機で見たら、頭痛くなった。。合計４本も映画見ちゃったんだよね。日本の映画見れる機会がないのでつい調子にのってしまった。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUf2Mh3PvgI/AAAAAAAAT0E/IOLu4ZiUAJI/s1600/Picture+22.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="217" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUf2Mh3PvgI/AAAAAAAAT0E/IOLu4ZiUAJI/s400/Picture+22.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-78952579033412541?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/78952579033412541/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=78952579033412541' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/78952579033412541'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/78952579033412541'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post.html' title='毎日かあさん'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUf2Mh3PvgI/AAAAAAAAT0E/IOLu4ZiUAJI/s72-c/Picture+22.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1523333912922289910</id><published>2011-01-31T16:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-12T18:23:48.292-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>ブログをさぼって何してるかというと、、</title><content type='html'>投稿しっぱなしで、忘れていました。月曜日メールをチェックしたら、「読みました！」って何人かメールをくれて、「え。。？何を？」と思ったんですが、こんな記事を&lt;a href="http://trackback.blogsys.jp/livedoor/ikedanobuo/1218313"&gt;アゴラ&lt;/a&gt;に投稿していたのでした。ウェブサイトの力って、すごい。。人気記事にも３位、すでに6700人も見てくれてTweetも280件以上、こんな一人の人間のつぶやきが、あっという間に広がるの、テクノロジーの威力を感じて感動したのでした。以下、投稿文だよ。こういうソフトなネタの時にしか投稿できないという。笑&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「変わらない就職活動システムは変わらない日本企業を良く表している」&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro', 'ヒラギノ角ゴ Pro W3', 'ＭＳ Ｐゴシック', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"&gt;日本の就職活動が嫌で、米国に定住した身です。私は高校3年生から留学して、そのまま米国に残り、現在社会人6年目です。日本でいくつかインターンシップも経験し、日本の秋採用なども、「既卒枠」で興味本位に参加してみたり、留学生用就職フォーラムなどにも参加して、日本で働く機会もありました。しかし結局米国に残り就職することを決めたのは、日本のシュウカツが馬鹿みたいに思えたのと、終身雇用が主流の社会で働く決意ができなかったからです。&lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;amp;postID=1523333912922289910" name="more" style="word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="article-body-more" style="clear: both; margin-top: 1em; word-break: break-all; word-wrap: break-word;"&gt;一番最初に「日本のシュウカツにはついていけない」と思ったのは、大学の終わりごろ。急に学生は自己分析なるものをはじめ、面接の練習をしたり、エントリーシートの書き方を練習したりするのですが、結局は多くの学生が同じような大企業にたくさんのエントリーシートや履歴書を手書きで、修正テープも使わずに各企業ごとに志望動機を書き換えては提出していました。わざわざ格好の悪いリクルートスーツセットを買って、必死になって活動しながらうつ病になっていく友達を見て、「何のための自己研究だ？自分にはこんなバカみたいな制度に巻き込まれる必要とはない」と思い、日本の就職活動を辞退しました。米国にはもっと、エントリーシートや多くの筆記試験、新卒などという概念にとらわれず、自分のやりたい仕事に素直につきやすい環境があると思ったからです。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;「新卒」というシステムにもよく現れていますが、日本の企業は「異なるものを受け入れる」体制に非常に弱いと思います。当時私は留学生で卒業時期が日本とは異なったため、「中途採用」扱いでしか就職活動できない企業が殆どでした。現在はもう少し柔軟性が出てきているのかもしれませんが、日本の就職システムは、海外で勉強してきた学生にとっては非常に不利なシステムです。海外に長ければOB訪問も難しいですし、インターンの時期だって、お金もないし学業は忙しいし、日本に戻れません。企業説明もわざわざ戻れませんから、就職の機会は非常に限られています。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;最近はよく、日本企業は「グローバル人材を求めている」なんて聞きますが、その前に自分とは異なる文化を受け入れる準備が会社はできているのですか？と聞きたいです。世界を見回しても日本の就職活動制度や、終身雇用、年功序列というシステムはユニークなものです。グローバルスタンダードで戦いたい企業ならば、人材獲得や雇用条件もグローバルな基準で見直すべきなのではないでしょうか？&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;又、就職活動が生んでいる弊害として私が考えるのは、優秀な学生も「就職すること」がゴールになってしまうのか、大企業に入ると死んだ魚のような社員になるケースが多い事です。特に日本の企業では、一旦入社してしまえば終身雇用、年功序列でお給料や肩書きは自然についていき、首になることは滅多にないので、大抵の人は波風を立てずに得意の「いい子」お面を被っています。人事異動では、どこの部署に移動されるかも分かりません。営業のプロだったのに、経理のプロになれといわれることもあるでしょう。そんな環境ではなるべくリスクをとらずに仕事をこなそうと思うのは自然だと思います。又、雇用に流動性がない文化ですから、家族をもち、子供も中・高校生、管理職になるぐらいのおじさん（おばさん）は「会社を辞めるようなことがあってはいけない」と思うようになるのが普通でしょう。中々イノベーションも生まれにくい環境ができて当然と思います。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ここまで批判的なことを書いて来ましたが、日本の就職活動や終身雇用はもちろん良い所も悪いところもあると思います。ただ一つ、良し悪しを別にして思う事は、現状のシステムは日本の若者の活力を生かせない、イノベーションが生まれにくい社会を生み出しているきっかけなのではないかと考えます。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1523333912922289910?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1523333912922289910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1523333912922289910' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1523333912922289910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1523333912922289910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_31.html' title='ブログをさぼって何してるかというと、、'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2392843009688042599</id><published>2011-01-28T04:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-28T04:43:21.481-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Plenty of snow!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKyUHFFY5I/AAAAAAAATzM/xK5AfaB2pvw/s1600/P1050601.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKyUHFFY5I/AAAAAAAATzM/xK5AfaB2pvw/s320/P1050601.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;It snowed again, a lots this time!! It snowed while we slept so by the morning it was completely a different white world outside! how fun... I just wish my work was off but it wasn't. hahaha. I heard it has &amp;nbsp;been a historic snow fall in January after 86 years of the record.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKyeskwOEI/AAAAAAAATzQ/XtLGEt_1OM8/s1600/P1050624.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKyeskwOEI/AAAAAAAATzQ/XtLGEt_1OM8/s320/P1050624.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;This is fun in morning I take her to the park, uninvaded new snow!! Nico loves running through it, the snow height is almost as high as her height! Everything looks so different with white snow.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKyp0FiHHI/AAAAAAAATzU/pD-rnRbi4ug/s1600/P1050660.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKyp0FiHHI/AAAAAAAATzU/pD-rnRbi4ug/s320/P1050660.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;記録的な大雪、８６年ぶりに１月の積雪量更新。これは昨日の朝の写真。近所の公園はまーーーーっしろになっていて、全く違う世界になっていた。素敵！雪の初日はいつも楽しいけど、今回は特に降ったので、新雪歩きがいあるよ。ひざの上を裕に越える感じで、毎度のこと、ニコも大喜びでした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKy0j_mINI/AAAAAAAATzY/YFazlnePbqg/s1600/P1050661.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKy0j_mINI/AAAAAAAATzY/YFazlnePbqg/s320/P1050661.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;私もしっかりズボン２枚と、スノーブーツでニコと走り回ったら朝から汗かいてしまった、、。まだ今週雪が降るらしいので、どうなることやら！うちは大きなアパートなので、ドアマンが雪かきしてくれるけど、これ１軒やとかだったら大変だろうなぁ。車持ってる人も、かきだすのに苦労していました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2392843009688042599?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2392843009688042599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2392843009688042599' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2392843009688042599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2392843009688042599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/plenty-of-snow.html' title='Plenty of snow!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUKyUHFFY5I/AAAAAAAATzM/xK5AfaB2pvw/s72-c/P1050601.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5473605649793237746</id><published>2011-01-26T16:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T16:43:38.922-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='value'/><title type='text'>前進じゃなくてもいいさね</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;前進しなくても良い場。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;そういうのが人生必要なんじゃないかって最近思うんですが。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;別の言葉で言えば前に進まなくたっていいじゃん。&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;横に進んだって、下に戻ってみたって、いいじゃん。・・&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;っていっても意味わかんないか。笑&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;人って（というか私の周りだけかもしれないけど）不思議で、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;常に前進、拡大、成長、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;みたいなものをプラスのイメージとして取るから、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;どうしても普段は、横ばいとか停滞とか、変わらない、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;とかって余りいいイメージないよね。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;又、漠然とした話してるけど、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;これって色々なことに当てはまるわけで、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;例えば店舗を拡大しすぎてすたれていく企業。&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;スターバックスなんていい例だと思う。&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;最初はブティックコーヒーショップの「素敵な」&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;ブランドを持つコーヒー屋だったんだろうけど、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;今やチェーン店で有り難味がないというか、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;昔と同じようなバリューは今はないし、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;店舗もどんどん閉鎖されている。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;経済とかも、いつも「発展」を前提として人は話すけど、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;日本なんて、これ以上経済「発展」してどうするの？&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;っていう気もするし、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;誰がそういう風にならなきゃいけないって決めたのか、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;って言ったらバカみたいだけど、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;別に常に前に進もうとしなくたっていいんじゃないのっていうのが&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;最近の世の中に対して思うことです。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;毎年の個人の抱負だって別に更に上を目指す！&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;向上心は絶対人間にとって必要だけど、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;それが全てではないのではないかと思う。&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;仕事とかしててもいつも「前に、更に、成果」&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;っていうメンタリティで、それも大事だけど、、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;他にも大事な事って一杯あるんじゃないかなと最近思うのだ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;変わらなくたって大事な事とか、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;大きくならなくたって今のままで自分を満たしている事とか、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;昔を振り返ってみて、あっちの方が意味があったよなとか、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;価値観のディメンションは色々な方向に広がっているっていうんで&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;すか。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;そんなにいきまなくても、上昇志向じゃなくても、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;落ち着いて考えてみたら充分だったなんていうこと、&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;/wbr&gt;身の回りにたくさんあるんじゃないかなぁ。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;なんて考えていたら今日のNYTの記事の一角に「人生にはルールはない、人間の最大のリミットは自身のマインドセットだ」ですって。本当その通りだね！結構知らない間に自分のマインドってプリセットされてることが多いのかも。&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span lang="JA"&gt;（これ、1000件目のエントリーだって、すごくない？）&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5473605649793237746?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5473605649793237746/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5473605649793237746' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5473605649793237746'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5473605649793237746'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_672.html' title='前進じゃなくてもいいさね'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4035247217221103405</id><published>2011-01-26T04:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T04:23:28.399-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream'/><title type='text'>夢メモ</title><content type='html'>会社の中に、ガーデンがありまして、そこに「菜園部長」たるものがいて、大きなトマトの木や、なすの苗など育てているのです。丸の内のオフィスの机のどまんなかに畑があって、菜園部長は「野菜も育てられないやつが人を育てられるか！」とかどなりながらトマトをオフィスで配っていた。。癒し系？会社のご飯も自給自足で、いいよねそういうの。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4035247217221103405?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4035247217221103405/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4035247217221103405' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4035247217221103405'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4035247217221103405'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_1577.html' title='夢メモ'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1466086264191068250</id><published>2011-01-26T04:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T04:17:50.495-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>お気楽犬</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUAQnuBmQ8I/AAAAAAAATzA/yR3HA-LXSLI/s1600/nico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUAQnuBmQ8I/AAAAAAAATzA/yR3HA-LXSLI/s320/nico.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;朝起きて、部屋の電気をつけても、外が暗いのでなかなか起きない。いいねあなたの人生、、そしてあなたにご飯をつくってあげる私、、&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;She doesn't wake up even I turned the light on in the room since outside is still dark. What a great life she has on the leather couch. Now I am off to feed the princess.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1466086264191068250?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1466086264191068250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1466086264191068250' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1466086264191068250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1466086264191068250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_26.html' title='お気楽犬'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUAQnuBmQ8I/AAAAAAAATzA/yR3HA-LXSLI/s72-c/nico.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1071644007903217998</id><published>2011-01-26T04:10:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T04:10:58.626-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><title type='text'>Frozen!</title><content type='html'>&lt;object height="268" id="otvPlayer" width="400"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=7918382&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site=" &gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" src="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=7918382&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site="&gt; &lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Frozen Manhattan...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1071644007903217998?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1071644007903217998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1071644007903217998' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1071644007903217998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1071644007903217998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/frozen.html' title='Frozen!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7870586508076851012</id><published>2011-01-26T04:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-26T04:07:23.345-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Back to Bone Chill NYC. 氷点下14℃は痛い</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALnV5bOzI/AAAAAAAATy0/NpLafgcJ0Qc/s1600/sky1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALnV5bOzI/AAAAAAAATy0/NpLafgcJ0Qc/s320/sky1.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;NYCに戻ってきました。週末寝まくって、時差ぼけOK!と思ったけど昨日も夜の10時ぐらいにこてっ、と寝てしまいました。やっぱり時差ぼけはなかなかうまく直せない。行きは気合いも入ってるし、結構大丈夫なんだけどな〜。日本も寒いと思ってたけど、NYは早速−14℃という殺人的寒さ。（世界のこれ以上寒くなる国の人、どうやって生きてるのか本気で不思議）ちょっと空気を吸うと、肺が痛いような感じがするわけです！また雪も降ってるし。昨日は摂氏０℃で暖かく感じるんですから、今年の冬はまだまだ寒い日が続きそうです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALoA0AyNI/AAAAAAAATy4/uKGVKXw8XhY/s1600/sky2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALoA0AyNI/AAAAAAAATy4/uKGVKXw8XhY/s320/sky2.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ところで最近やってたプロジェクトがようやく第１段階終了。会社のウェブサイトですが、見に行ってみてください。www.えぬあーるあい（英文字にしてね）.comで出てきます。でもみんなみても別に面白いサイトじゃないと思うけどさ。笑　会社でまともな英語のサイトがないので、PRエージェントと作りました。やっぱ自分で作るのと違って、開発者とデザイナーがいるってすてき。でも自分のやりたいことをうまく作ってくれる人に伝えるのはいつも難しい！会社でもモダンなサイトに仕上がって自己満足しています。これからもっといろいろ機能強化などもしていく予定で、すっかりこんなことばっかやってマーケティング部一人でやってます。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALnV5bOzI/AAAAAAAATy0/NpLafgcJ0Qc/s1600/sky1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALoxR8FuI/AAAAAAAATy8/E9RAWT9Id7g/s1600/snow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALoxR8FuI/AAAAAAAATy8/E9RAWT9Id7g/s320/snow.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Came back to bone chilling NYC! I thought Japan was cold but I was VERY wrong. single digit fahrenheit is really painful and hard to stay outside. Although Nico seems happy but thats it! &amp;nbsp;It seems like it is going to continue snowing this week, I hope it doesn't get any colder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7870586508076851012?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7870586508076851012/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7870586508076851012' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7870586508076851012'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7870586508076851012'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/back-to-bone-chill-nyc-14.html' title='Back to Bone Chill NYC. 氷点下14℃は痛い'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TUALnV5bOzI/AAAAAAAATy0/NpLafgcJ0Qc/s72-c/sky1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8265062843906687376</id><published>2011-01-21T16:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-21T16:39:26.270-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>さようなら東京</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTokhtJJPeI/AAAAAAAATyk/vRx26qrXCdo/s1600/P1050578.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTokhtJJPeI/AAAAAAAATyk/vRx26qrXCdo/s400/P1050578.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;出張終了！2週間怒涛のごとく過ぎました、、。本当毎回やりたいことがありすぎて終わらない！！とにかく人に会える時間がいつも足りないのが残念です。大体お昼も夜も、会社の人と予定が入ってしまうので、そんな中今回は久しぶりにオレゴン時代の友達に会えて、良かった。現在空港ですが、ニューヨークに帰るのが待ちきれないです。昨日もNY時代の友人と話していたのですが、やっぱり東京もいいけど、NYもなんかあの不完全さというかワイルドさというか。雰囲気がやっぱリラックスしていて良いです。早くニコに会いたい。。！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今回は日本でおいしいものを色々食べましたが、一番良かったのはランチに食べた「&lt;a href="http://www.tsurutontan.co.jp/"&gt;つるとんたん&lt;/a&gt;」のうどんかな？色々な種類のうどんがあって、驚きました。麺の太さも選べたりして、日本は本当いいわよ、ご飯安い！！今回は円高で悲しかったです、$400下ろして、3万2000円ぐらいしかこないんだよ。このショック。私の給料円で払ってくれ～！！（ドルでもらっています）さて、またブログの書けるゆとりあるNYへ戻ります。（写真：いつも泊まるホテルから。今回の部屋は、朝は富士山がでっかーく見えて、最高。写真だと小さいけど。。）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTokmH85GeI/AAAAAAAATyo/eBAJJI7AJ-I/s1600/P1050576.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTokmH85GeI/AAAAAAAATyo/eBAJJI7AJ-I/s400/P1050576.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Coming back to NYC. My business trip is over, 2 weeks has gone so fast and I had so many lunch &amp;amp; dinner with my colleagues but not enough time with friends as always... hopefully I will come back again before May. There was a big sale going on in Japan and I bought a few things...but yen is now getting so expensive, it is kind of hard to controll spending. As a Japanese, (even though I don't own any yen now) I know how things are cheap and makes me want to buy stuff but when I calculate into dollars... I shouldn't be spending! I wish my company gives my salary in yen this year. anyway. I miss my home. Going back to NYC is good. cannot wait.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8265062843906687376?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8265062843906687376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8265062843906687376' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8265062843906687376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8265062843906687376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_21.html' title='さようなら東京'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTokhtJJPeI/AAAAAAAATyk/vRx26qrXCdo/s72-c/P1050578.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5656943771987884971</id><published>2011-01-17T07:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-17T07:04:37.062-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><title type='text'>My first visit to Hiroshima</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRXUdQ-NWI/AAAAAAAATxU/At9ox9wEKUs/s1600/Amsterdam+005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRXUdQ-NWI/AAAAAAAATxU/At9ox9wEKUs/s320/Amsterdam+005.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Past weekend, I visited my parents in Hiroshima. Sneak peek. Ah, food was amazing! It was far to go on the weekend during my business trip but it was worth a visit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRXd7zNVWI/AAAAAAAATxY/vGk_yjzdyT8/s1600/Amsterdam+051.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRXd7zNVWI/AAAAAAAATxY/vGk_yjzdyT8/s320/Amsterdam+051.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Miyajima, very beautiful, more than what I have imagined. I have seen so many photos but you have to be there to experience the gorgeousness of the place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;週末は、お父さんとお母さんを訪ね、広島へひとっ飛び～。強行宮島ツアー。写真で何度も見ていましたが、やっぱり自分で行くと、感動が違います。あたりまえだけど。空気、匂い、迫力！こんなところで夜、火を焚きながら、エンターテイメントなんて、まさにセレブだったんでしょうねぇ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRXrK3iBZI/AAAAAAAATxc/ju5niWgz2Y0/s1600/Amsterdam+054.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRXrK3iBZI/AAAAAAAATxc/ju5niWgz2Y0/s320/Amsterdam+054.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;両親初登場。（？）My parents. It was really cold.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRX39-3r5I/AAAAAAAATxg/l4qhz3NI4NQ/s1600/Amsterdam+066.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRX39-3r5I/AAAAAAAATxg/l4qhz3NI4NQ/s320/Amsterdam+066.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We did Omikuji. (Fortune thing)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;おみくじターイム。うちのお母さん、2度も引いてたけど。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYAmM_VoI/AAAAAAAATxk/xpRSpa8c5Zs/s1600/Amsterdam+073.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYAmM_VoI/AAAAAAAATxk/xpRSpa8c5Zs/s320/Amsterdam+073.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;絵馬。みんなのお願い事がぎっしり。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;People write down their wishes for the year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYKG-RGZI/AAAAAAAATxo/xkyUM4XwJaA/s1600/Amsterdam+088.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYKG-RGZI/AAAAAAAATxo/xkyUM4XwJaA/s320/Amsterdam+088.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Too friendly deer. kind of creepy but still adorable.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;ひとなつっこすぎる、鹿。ニコのためにとった。ニコの方がかわいい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYRlg7yPI/AAAAAAAATxs/jnXz-vzFuDQ/s1600/Amsterdam+092.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYRlg7yPI/AAAAAAAATxs/jnXz-vzFuDQ/s320/Amsterdam+092.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;原爆ドームへ初めて行きました。被害者の話はやっぱりドスンと来ます。一瞬にして街が吹き飛び、皮膚が吹き飛び、全員が死ぬなんて、想像もつかない壮絶さです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My first visit to Hiroshima peace memorial park. This is the historical dome where the atomic bomb was dropped. It was really painful to see all the victims photos and stories. Your skin melts right away, your face is blown off, people dive in the river from the heat, the town disappears in a second... unimaginable tragedy, and it should NEVER happen again, anywhere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYc_9OGNI/AAAAAAAATxw/Ou4hwaYXCLs/s1600/Amsterdam+095.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRYc_9OGNI/AAAAAAAATxw/Ou4hwaYXCLs/s320/Amsterdam+095.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;大雪警報が出て、東京に帰れなかったらどうしようかと思いましたが、無事戻ってきました。日本の色々なところにもっと旅してみたいなと思ったけど、日本の田舎もやっぱアメリカと一緒で、なんもないね！って、、田舎だから当たり前か。日本の田舎は食べ物がおいしくて、よろしいです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5656943771987884971?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5656943771987884971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5656943771987884971' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5656943771987884971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5656943771987884971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-first-visit-to-hiroshima.html' title='My first visit to Hiroshima'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TTRXUdQ-NWI/AAAAAAAATxU/At9ox9wEKUs/s72-c/Amsterdam+005.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6655369779352328033</id><published>2011-01-12T05:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T05:09:22.499-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dream'/><title type='text'>夢メモ</title><content type='html'>本当私変な夢見るけどさ。。イラスト描けたら、といつも思う。&lt;br /&gt;今日は電車でうとうとしてたら、、電車に乗っている人がみんな水の入った風船を帽子のようにかぶっていて、みんなのヘアスタイルが水の中でわかめのように浮いているという夢だった！！なんなんだ！！でも結構スタイリッシュで、髪の毛がいきもののようでした。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6655369779352328033?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6655369779352328033/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6655369779352328033' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6655369779352328033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6655369779352328033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post_12.html' title='夢メモ'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8243219635577480325</id><published>2011-01-12T05:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-12T05:06:19.124-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Shopping Day. 買い物デイ</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TS2ksTlCqeI/AAAAAAAATxM/CelNG5zVIT8/s1600/P1050440.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TS2ksTlCqeI/AAAAAAAATxM/CelNG5zVIT8/s320/P1050440.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I don't know what it is but since I moved to the United States, every time I come back Japan I have to check Muji. I am addicted! I guess I appreciate their&amp;nbsp;simpleness&amp;nbsp;more...Also it is only available in Japan, which is the great part. (although we have Muji in NYC, not very many selection as Tokyo and more expensive!) Right now it is a big sale season in Tokyo and I ended up buying some kitchen stuff. Above is the NABE pot, (hot pot) and I felt compelled to own one as a Japanese living in the U.S.! It was around $20 on sale, great deal... Also I got these alphabet cookie cutter, I have some ideas about this... Also a big heart&amp;nbsp;marshmallow&amp;nbsp;bag for Brian :) No more shopping for me...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今日は買い物に少し。毎回無印が要チェック、昔はそんなに好きだったわけじゃないけど、アメリカに行ってから安さと、実用さと、シンプルさに余計感謝するようになったみたい。服とかも、アメリカで着やすいし。で、、今回はまったくもって予定外でしたが、鍋を買いました。アメリカでも買えないことはないけど高いしねえ。そこまでしょっちゅう鍋しないけど、やはり日本人として一つ持っていたほうがいいかな、と。。2－4人用なので、そこまで大きくないです。後はアルファベットのクッキーカッターと、マシュマロが可愛く、衝動買い。あぁ、無印。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TS2kkLsGtxI/AAAAAAAATxI/MX7_IK8ATvc/s1600/P1050441.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TS2kkLsGtxI/AAAAAAAATxI/MX7_IK8ATvc/s320/P1050441.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;昨晩飲んだ友人と、デパ地下の話をしていて、どうしてもデパ地下に行こうと。閉店間近の東急へ。えー。。これで440円だよ。日本まじデフレ。皮肉なことに、このお店はNYで良くお弁当を配達してくれるお店。どうやら東京でも有名らしい。もちろん東京の方が魚フレーッシュ、でした。それにしてもすごいわ、デパ地下。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Last night I was having a conversation with friends about this underground food court at department stores in Japan. Japanese food court at department store (Depa-chika) one of the most developed underground food courts in the world, I believe. I just had to go there to check out since i don't go there very often... It was almost closing but tons of people shopping for prepared food and bento-box. and most of them are deeply discounted! For example, sushi above was only about $5-6 with discount. I swear food in Japan in general are very cheap and good quality. That, was my dinner. Japanese people are blessed with their food.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8243219635577480325?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8243219635577480325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8243219635577480325' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8243219635577480325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8243219635577480325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/shopping-day.html' title='Shopping Day. 買い物デイ'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TS2ksTlCqeI/AAAAAAAATxM/CelNG5zVIT8/s72-c/P1050440.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6973374384154268964</id><published>2011-01-10T07:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-10T07:08:16.845-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Best Friends!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSsdCYRGN-I/AAAAAAAATvo/fBYAoRb261E/s1600/P1050426.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSsdCYRGN-I/AAAAAAAATvo/fBYAoRb261E/s320/P1050426.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I always see them as soon as I get to Japan. Probably by now everyone recognize their face...! yes they are my best friends from high school, and one of them got pregnant!! It was so exciting to actually see her with her big belly, and touching the big belly... so amazing. I thought we were just one of those "babies" but I guess not anymore. Life is magical. I hope our future children will meet good friends like we became.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Long flight but I ended up watching 4 movies and it went fast... made me tired and the movie was kind of like action and kept my brain awake. &amp;nbsp;Not very good! It's just so irresistible not to watch new movies on the airplane. Tokyo is almost as cold as New York, I am glad I brought a big coat with me and a hat!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSsdGC3pzUI/AAAAAAAATuo/FygLclQ2BTU/s1600/P1050432.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSsdGC3pzUI/AAAAAAAATuo/FygLclQ2BTU/s320/P1050432.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;東京で～す。毎回帰ってきてすぐに会うのは高校の親友です。もうこのブログ読者の方は見たことがあるのでは。毎回写真載せてるよね。（笑）いつ会っても、すぐに笑いの溢れるご飯になるのが素敵です。年をとってもみんな変わらない！今回は一人が妊娠して、会えて本当に良かった。大きいお腹も、触ると感動する。いつの間にか、高校生の私たちがお母さんになる時代が来たのですね～！私たちの将来の子供も、私たちのように素敵な友達に巡り合えるといいなと思ったのでした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSsdH9FD6GI/AAAAAAAATvA/R8ednOe2nJ0/s1600/P1050436.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSsdH9FD6GI/AAAAAAAATvA/R8ednOe2nJ0/s320/P1050436.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;もう一人の友達は、駐在でマレーシアへ。世界を舞台に活躍する同級生たち、頼もしいです。みんなうるさいので、一緒にいて自分がうるさくないのが本当良いです。どんなに疲れていても、みんなと会って笑うと疲れがふっとぶ～！くだらないことしかいつも話してないんだけどな。。I love you all!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6973374384154268964?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6973374384154268964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6973374384154268964' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6973374384154268964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6973374384154268964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/best-friends.html' title='Best Friends!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSsdCYRGN-I/AAAAAAAATvo/fBYAoRb261E/s72-c/P1050426.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3277070465970532656</id><published>2011-01-08T18:26:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-08T18:26:39.037-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>東京へ。</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSkbn7XQy8I/AAAAAAAATtU/MO-4koOKD70/s1600/P1050418.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSkbn7XQy8I/AAAAAAAATtU/MO-4koOKD70/s400/P1050418.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;うっすら雪の降るNYです。気温−８℃。寒い。又出張がはじまります。今年の一発目は東京です！２月は旅行でバルセロナ、５月は日本で休暇、９月は結婚式、出張でトロント、と既に忙しい１年になる予感。。風邪をひかないように気をつけよう。NY変な風邪が流行っています。あ、ところで昨日、イーストビレッジの隠れ家バー、ボヘミアンに連れて行ってもらいました。なんだっけ、、日本の有名な作家の人が昔のバスキアのスタジオだったスペースを買い取ってレストランバーにしたらしい。誰かの家のリビングルームのようなところで、心地の良いバーでした。　こういうの流行ってるんだよね、speak easyバー。西麻生にもあるらしい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-3277070465970532656?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/3277070465970532656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=3277070465970532656' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3277070465970532656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3277070465970532656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html' title='東京へ。'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSkbn7XQy8I/AAAAAAAATtU/MO-4koOKD70/s72-c/P1050418.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5446863644937762346</id><published>2011-01-02T17:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-01-02T17:28:36.206-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>A Happy 2011! 明けましておめでとうございます。</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSEe30xoAKI/AAAAAAAATs0/lIoD8qHHl_c/s1600/P1050402.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSEe30xoAKI/AAAAAAAATs0/lIoD8qHHl_c/s320/P1050402.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;A Happy New Year! I baked cake for new year's day. Didn't feel like doing much so I just stayed home and cooked some new year's food. &amp;nbsp;What is your resolutions this year...? I am still thinking about it but something like..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1. Save money, invest money. (since many events coming up that money is flying out! )&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;2. Learn to Let it go. (Sometimes important to let it go, don't worry about it, not to take personal! )&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;3. Act on Inspirations ( When you think of something, do it! )&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;4. Invest in shoes not clothes. (I think having good shoes are important these days.)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;Exercise. (Besides walking my dog...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;6. Do not rush and enjoy the moment. (feels like I am always in rush living in NYC)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I was looking back my blog and I know I started writing since 17 years old, too bad I only have entries from 2006 on this one. but anyway, I cannot believe I have been writing some stuff for 4 years now. Another new year, thanks for reading!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSEe4-Zcj8I/AAAAAAAATs4/DRxTLaCr-dQ/s1600/P1010991.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSEe4-Zcj8I/AAAAAAAATs4/DRxTLaCr-dQ/s320/P1010991.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;新年あけましておめでとうございます。今年も宜しくおねがいします。先週ようやく自分がアラサーと呼ばれる人たちの１部だと気づいたこのごろ、お元気ですか？正月になってから、（って正月な気分があまりないですが）NYは暖かくなり、-5Cぐらいだったのが、10C前後に。頭のおかしいNYカーは、Tシャツで歩いていたりして！単純。しかし、15℃違うと全く暖かく感じるものです。今年の抱負はまだちゃんと考えてないですが。こんな感じ？&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1.貯蓄、投資　（今年はイベント多く、出費だけはメドが立っているという！笑）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;2.手放すことを学ぶ。（押すと引くだったら、引くを学ぶ、というところでしょうか）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;3.インスピレーションに従う（昔から直感系ですが、行動を忘れずにという戒め）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;4.靴に投資する（洋服ではなくて、靴に投資した方がいいんじゃないかという最近の感慨）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;5.運動する（犬を歩く以外に、定期的な運動を〜〜！）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;6.急がないで、ゆとりを楽しむ。（NYにいると、いつも急いでる気がして！）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;高校の時から、こういうブログやってたけど、このブログも早４年分が蓄積され、、なんかこうたまに振り返って昔のエントリー見るけど、こうやって定期的に書いてると、自分と言う人間像がブログに投影されていくようで、恐い。みんなそこまで読んでないと思うけど。笑　今年も１年気ままブログにお付き合い下さい。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5446863644937762346?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5446863644937762346/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5446863644937762346' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5446863644937762346'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5446863644937762346'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-2011.html' title='A Happy 2011! 明けましておめでとうございます。'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TSEe30xoAKI/AAAAAAAATs0/lIoD8qHHl_c/s72-c/P1050402.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6562454469952018607</id><published>2010-12-31T11:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-31T11:31:23.888-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>大掃除、THE Cleaning day</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TR4tlGMcixI/AAAAAAAATsQ/TccpJKlz_w4/s1600/snow1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TR4tlGMcixI/AAAAAAAATsQ/TccpJKlz_w4/s320/snow1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今年も最後、朝から起きて雪の積もった広場にニコを連れて行き、ニコご満悦。その後、大晦日だし、掃除でもするかと、掃除してみた。クリスマスと違って、こっちはお正月は飾り付けとかないので、年末の気分に毎年全然ならない。。。おもちが食べたい！又１月東京出張なので、その時に色々美味しいものを食べるべし。ブライアンが１週間グアテマラ行ってしまうので、ご飯作っても余るし〜。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;2010年はとってもあっという間で、本当何してたか記憶ない。（笑）でも毎月のように出張へ行き、仕事の１年だったと思います。あっ、婚約もしたし、家族ができるということで現在結婚式の準備も初め、忙しい年末でした。そのためクリスマスカード制作はぽしゃりました。また来年お楽しみに〜。今年もみんなブログに遊びに来てくれてありがとう。私もよくやるわ。会社でもブログ、（会社名と私の名前でぐぐれば出てくる。と宣伝。）家でもブログ、、Facebookも便利だし、全く世の中便利になったものです。SNSの恩恵を感じた１年でした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TR4tn9mLqHI/AAAAAAAATsU/A51kz7l00II/s1600/snow2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TR4tn9mLqHI/AAAAAAAATsU/A51kz7l00II/s320/snow2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Today is the last day of 2010. It went by so quick this year. Japanese usually clean the hell out of the house on the 31st. I didn't go too far out but I did clean refrige etc... It is nice to welcome the new year with clean house. Also we eat Soba noodle on the 31st for longevity. Thinking to grab a soba lunch. Since there is no new year decorations in NYC unlike Japan, it doesn't feel like the year is ending at all... I must cook new year food so I recognize 2011 will be here!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Thanks for visiting my blog this year, I hope you felt like you are sharing days with me wherever you are. I love technologies, blogs, SNS, so convenient to keep in touch with friends and family now. It is also my hobby to write and upload bunch of photos. ( I am sure you know this by now)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6562454469952018607?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6562454469952018607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6562454469952018607' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6562454469952018607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6562454469952018607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/cleaning-day.html' title='大掃除、THE Cleaning day'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TR4tlGMcixI/AAAAAAAATsQ/TccpJKlz_w4/s72-c/snow1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2480726583055207339</id><published>2010-12-29T20:08:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T20:08:55.699-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='value'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>国際同窓会 in NYC!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRwDnOYUJzI/AAAAAAAATsI/y8PXPqK6Tnw/s1600/P1050377.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRwDnOYUJzI/AAAAAAAATsI/y8PXPqK6Tnw/s320/P1050377.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;都会山。行きどころのない雪達よ。山だ、山だ。ドロドロになってきていて、、早く溶けないかなって。思うよ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;So much snow left and nowhere to put it. we have many mountains around on the street!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRwDziWSnHI/AAAAAAAATsM/Lh3mefdihbI/s1600/P1050379.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRwDziWSnHI/AAAAAAAATsM/Lh3mefdihbI/s320/P1050379.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;待ちに待った、NY高校同窓会！いえーい。一人missingですが、NYCに同級生が５人も住んでいるなんて、too exciting. I am very very happy!!!!! 高校の時はそんなに近い訳ではなかったけど、すぐに会ってリコネクトできるのは、大人の良いところ。SNSに感謝。もっとこれからは頻繁に会わなきゃね！私たちの世代が社会を支えていると実感しました。みんな変わらず、嬉しい。昔話できるのも、嬉しい。やっぱり過去の熱い思いで（？）を共有できているっていうのは強い絆だと再認識しました。こんなに高校の友達がNYにいるのは、本当makes me feel home....!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Above are all my class mates from my high school in Japan. We all somehow ended up living in NYC. two of them just moved to NYC, which I am super excited about. What are the chances! It is so nice to share old memories with friends, &amp;nbsp;although we weren't that close friends back then, we got reconnected easily because of that. Those moments when we were young was somehow very special. It is like... &amp;nbsp;you share the same fire. awesome...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2480726583055207339?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2480726583055207339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2480726583055207339' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2480726583055207339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2480726583055207339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/in-nyc.html' title='国際同窓会 in NYC!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRwDnOYUJzI/AAAAAAAATsI/y8PXPqK6Tnw/s72-c/P1050377.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2031011346083298619</id><published>2010-12-28T03:59:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-28T03:59:00.473-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><title type='text'>After the storm</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRnO4rw96UI/AAAAAAAATr0/DfH8PxXzg-s/s1600/snow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRnO4rw96UI/AAAAAAAATr0/DfH8PxXzg-s/s320/snow.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;More snow photos. I haven't seen this much snow... It's going to take some time to melt. My boss let us work from home yesterday but today! I have to go to work. Gotta be super careful since everything will be frozen!! Most of the major streets are cleaned up but a lot of snow are left.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRnO52qrWGI/AAAAAAAATr4/FmUbRV6Txt8/s1600/snow2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRnO52qrWGI/AAAAAAAATr4/FmUbRV6Txt8/s320/snow2.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;大雪の跡。こんなに降ったのは久しぶりでは？1晩だけでよくこれだけ積もった！車とか見えなくなってるもんね。ここはいつもの散歩道だけど、スキー場状態です。昨日は家から働いたけど、今日は会社に行かなきゃなので、、気をつけないと滑りまくりそうです。下は駅の階段。。ありえん！！危険すぎる！！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRnQOQ7hwDI/AAAAAAAATr8/3-_EBgXs5NM/s1600/stair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRnQOQ7hwDI/AAAAAAAATr8/3-_EBgXs5NM/s320/stair.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Dangerous stair case at the station. Wish me luck that I won't slip today.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2031011346083298619?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2031011346083298619/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2031011346083298619' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2031011346083298619'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2031011346083298619'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/after-storm.html' title='After the storm'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRnO4rw96UI/AAAAAAAATr0/DfH8PxXzg-s/s72-c/snow.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7661608363289307008</id><published>2010-12-27T12:52:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-27T12:52:35.450-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRj71OHbX6I/AAAAAAAATro/sXfCG24L39s/s1600/P1050342.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRj71OHbX6I/AAAAAAAATro/sXfCG24L39s/s400/P1050342.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;snow!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRj76TBoqPI/AAAAAAAATrs/92biFswzJlE/s1600/P1050363.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRj76TBoqPI/AAAAAAAATrs/92biFswzJlE/s400/P1050363.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;snow!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRj8D9Fb7mI/AAAAAAAATrw/rlpzJ6gcqGU/s1600/P1050366.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRj8D9Fb7mI/AAAAAAAATrw/rlpzJ6gcqGU/s400/P1050366.JPG" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;snow!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;We've got a lot of snow over a night! Nico was excited as always...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;すごい雪が積もりました。膝上ぐらいまで。新雪の中を走り回り、私も疲れた〜。このままきれいな雪が残ればいいんだけど、これから汚れて行く一方です、、。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7661608363289307008?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7661608363289307008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7661608363289307008' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7661608363289307008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7661608363289307008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/snow-snow-snow-weve-got-lot-of-snow.html' title=''/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRj71OHbX6I/AAAAAAAATro/sXfCG24L39s/s72-c/P1050342.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1242480690539258577</id><published>2010-12-26T20:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-26T20:31:26.942-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><title type='text'>Blizzaaaard</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object width="320" height="266" class="BLOG_video_class" id="BLOG_video-98bf50645c295a2b" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/get_player"&gt;&lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="flashvars" value="flvurl=http://v16.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D98bf50645c295a2b%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329870286%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D5889346CA49FF0064C3AA5C4674F2B47B7E53036.5985F2D75768BB9E144645C505487A930B0D88E6%26key%3Dck1&amp;amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D98bf50645c295a2b%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DuNDdHiWfGdwyV9HO1m7mXjBpt2c&amp;amp;autoplay=0&amp;amp;ps=blogger"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/get_player" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"width="320" height="266" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"flashvars="flvurl=http://v16.nonxt1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id%3D98bf50645c295a2b%26itag%3D5%26app%3Dblogger%26ip%3D0.0.0.0%26ipbits%3D0%26expire%3D1329870286%26sparams%3Did,itag,ip,ipbits,expire%26signature%3D5889346CA49FF0064C3AA5C4674F2B47B7E53036.5985F2D75768BB9E144645C505487A930B0D88E6%26key%3Dck1&amp;iurl=http://video.google.com/ThumbnailServer2?app%3Dblogger%26contentid%3D98bf50645c295a2b%26offsetms%3D5000%26itag%3Dw160%26sigh%3DuNDdHiWfGdwyV9HO1m7mXjBpt2c&amp;autoplay=0&amp;ps=blogger"allowFullScreen="true" /&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;First Serious snow in NYC! but it is really serious... lightening with it. I have never seen lightening and snow storm together. It is a harsh weather but NYC is very picturesque with snow!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;大雪です。朝から降り始めてずーーーーっと。雷を伴う雪は初めて見ました。ずーっと降ってるは、風は強いはで、外は大変です。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRgVC9rJdeI/AAAAAAAATrk/4HO_EOsICLU/s1600/P1050307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRgVC9rJdeI/AAAAAAAATrk/4HO_EOsICLU/s320/P1050307.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My friends visited us! This was at 8pm-ish, still keep snowing, probably very snowy tomorrow morning. Cannot wait to play with my dog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1242480690539258577?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1242480690539258577/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1242480690539258577' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1242480690539258577'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1242480690539258577'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/blizzaaaard.html' title='Blizzaaaard'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRgVC9rJdeI/AAAAAAAATrk/4HO_EOsICLU/s72-c/P1050307.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-330972896096741609</id><published>2010-12-24T12:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-24T12:13:53.153-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>FISH!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT9t-zQD7I/AAAAAAAATrU/OfSUrRNat2Q/s1600/P1050178.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT9t-zQD7I/AAAAAAAATrU/OfSUrRNat2Q/s320/P1050178.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT9KtGWECI/AAAAAAAATrI/Q2uNWB1G9K4/s1600/P1050180.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT9KtGWECI/AAAAAAAATrI/Q2uNWB1G9K4/s320/P1050180.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;最近、魚釣り狂の友人ができて、この真冬に、NYの海に釣りへ行く度に、魚をもらいます。前回頂いたお魚、新鮮！ジップロックがないため、「証拠」袋に入れられてやってきました。ブラックフィッシュ、っていうんだけどなんの魚！？夏に、日本で魚グリルを買って来たので（日本のように魚オーブンはついていない）魚をグリルして食べています。部屋がくっさいこと〜。笑　ベッドルームのドアは閉めてお料理します。魚、マンハッタンは新鮮なのは買うと高いか、チャイナタウンまで行って、自分でさばかなきゃなので、本当有り難いです。持つべきものは友達〜。笑&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Red Velvet Cup Cakes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT6Q6pDojI/AAAAAAAATq8/_NNJ4BFBVpE/s1600/P1050173.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT6Q6pDojI/AAAAAAAATq8/_NNJ4BFBVpE/s320/P1050173.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT6c0UgxII/AAAAAAAATrA/VzswY3fhxKc/s1600/P1050176.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT6c0UgxII/AAAAAAAATrA/VzswY3fhxKc/s320/P1050176.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Happy Holidays! I hope everyone is having a great end of December...! We have baked some red velvet cup cakes for neighbours and friends parties. They turn out pretty good, the color is perfect for Christmas! I am loving this mini-cup cake moldings. They are perfect size for snack. This year we didn't make it to produce our annual holiday card... :( We are so busy with stuff these days... next year we will make sure to produce a card during summer. hahaha.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;レッドベルベット、なんて日本のケーキには種類がないでしょうが、、赤いケーキのことで、カップケーキも赤い。ただ単にフードカラーを入れるだけだけど。味は、少しココア。お酢を生地にいれるところが面白い。（別に酸っぱくはない。）ハッピーホリデー！ということで、今年は近所と友達のパーティーにカップケーキを持って行きました。最近この小さいカップケーキにはまっていて、食べやすいサイズだし、丁度良し。みなさんも楽しいホリデーシーズンをお過ごし下さい！&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7768524209437157607?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7768524209437157607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7768524209437157607' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7768524209437157607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7768524209437157607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-red-velvet-cup-cakes.html' title='Happy Holidays! Red Velvet Cup Cakes'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRT6Q6pDojI/AAAAAAAATq8/_NNJ4BFBVpE/s72-c/P1050173.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-2978439887682444499</id><published>2010-12-20T20:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-20T20:20:22.780-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='our dog Nico'/><title type='text'>美しい愛犬　My beautiful rott</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRAqgaM2vKI/AAAAAAAATqw/K98OYoaCxgQ/s1600/P1050105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRAqgaM2vKI/AAAAAAAATqw/K98OYoaCxgQ/s320/P1050105.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Our beautiful daughter Nico... she does creative face, doesn't she!?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;美しい愛犬。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRAquhAKFMI/AAAAAAAATq0/xODQH2g_Nog/s1600/P1050136.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRAquhAKFMI/AAAAAAAATq0/xODQH2g_Nog/s320/P1050136.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;ブライアンがロットワイラーの鞄をくれました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My rottweiler bag!! thanks brian :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-2978439887682444499?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/2978439887682444499/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=2978439887682444499' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2978439887682444499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/2978439887682444499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-beautiful-rott.html' title='美しい愛犬　My beautiful rott'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TRAqgaM2vKI/AAAAAAAATqw/K98OYoaCxgQ/s72-c/P1050105.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-795552274373625936</id><published>2010-12-17T11:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-17T11:40:11.710-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Pop Up Shop and my new favorite jewelry designer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQu5glYm3LI/AAAAAAAATqM/cjebDxolXDA/s1600/popup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQu5glYm3LI/AAAAAAAATqM/cjebDxolXDA/s400/popup.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ha! December is so busy, it's already Friday!! I took a day off to relax and clean my house! By the way, there is this Japanese jewelry artist that I have been wanting to meet. She makes such a beautiful fragile&amp;nbsp;jewelries&amp;nbsp;and I love them all!!! Hoping maybe I can buy those for my wedding bands ;) I visited one of her pop- up shop last week. They look even better in person, all the jewerlies are very intricate and detailed designed. She is such a sweet artist too, and showed me that she has a lot of rings on her fingers...! so jealous lol. anyway. I was very excited to see a cool Japanese jewerly artist in NYC and hopefully I can wear her jeweries one day... Her name is &lt;a href="http://satomikawakita.com/"&gt;Satomi Kawakita&lt;/a&gt;, check out her website!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQu7IEkJ_aI/AAAAAAAATqQ/RcDmeCsLDaw/s1600/Picture+7.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="294" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQu7IEkJ_aI/AAAAAAAATqQ/RcDmeCsLDaw/s320/Picture+7.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;12月は師走といいますが、本当に時間があっという間に。。先日から気になっているジュエリーアーティストがいて、日本人女性の方で、NYCということを発見し、早速彼女のポップアップショップを訪ねてきました。（上の写真、ポップアップショップなのに内装凝ってる〜）こういうの大好き。彼女の指輪は全部繊細で素敵！！さとみさんは全部自分の作品を重ねづけしていて、なんて羨ましい！！！これを結婚指輪にしたいなんてたくらんでるんだけど。（笑）素敵でしょう。是非ウェブサイトに作品を見に行って下さい。&lt;a href="http://satomikawakita.com/"&gt;Satomi Kawakita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-795552274373625936?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/795552274373625936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=795552274373625936' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/795552274373625936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/795552274373625936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/pop-up-shop-and-my-new-favorite-jewelry.html' title='Pop Up Shop and my new favorite jewelry designer'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQu5glYm3LI/AAAAAAAATqM/cjebDxolXDA/s72-c/popup.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1844046558718831690</id><published>2010-12-13T19:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T19:32:29.615-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>More Christmas from NYC</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQbkcPKy1TI/AAAAAAAATp8/Dy5kDsNE2qk/s1600/nyse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQbkcPKy1TI/AAAAAAAATp8/Dy5kDsNE2qk/s400/nyse.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I passed by NYSE today, they had a giant christmas tree! very beautiful. I actually like this one better than the Rockerfeller one. It was really cold in NYC and we had flurry today. Maybe it will be white tomorrow. Last week I had a couple of guests from Japan (Yen is good right now~) and on the weekend we went to woodbury commons outlet mall. It wasn't that crowded but a lot of people were shopping for holidays.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQbkdyfuUgI/AAAAAAAATqA/8palTbweG_E/s1600/santa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQbkdyfuUgI/AAAAAAAATqA/8palTbweG_E/s400/santa.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;@ my office, Santa clause pays a visit every year, and kids get to whisper their &amp;nbsp;wishes. Jealous...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;NYのクリスマスシリーズ。上はNY証券取引所、巨大ツリーが結構きれいで、個人的にはロカフェラーのより好きです。昼間にみても、きれい！下の写真はオフィスのロビー、毎年さんたさんがきて、子供のお願いを聞いてくれます。いいなぁ〜〜！&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1844046558718831690?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1844046558718831690/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1844046558718831690' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1844046558718831690'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1844046558718831690'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/more-christmas-from-nyc.html' title='More Christmas from NYC'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQbkcPKy1TI/AAAAAAAATp8/Dy5kDsNE2qk/s72-c/nyse.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-3027888604684595222</id><published>2010-12-11T18:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-11T18:58:06.800-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>クリスマス間近</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQQ5RIy_o0I/AAAAAAAATpk/i1MklU3RUUQ/s1600/santaclause.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQQ5RIy_o0I/AAAAAAAATpk/i1MklU3RUUQ/s320/santaclause.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今年もやってきた。なんか毎年NYでは、みんなサンタクロースの格好をして、集まるイベントがあるんだよ。それが今日だったらしく、家の近くはサンタの格好をした集団だらけ。近くを通りかかった子供達は混乱した顔で見てたよ。（笑）こういう変なイベントがあるから面白いよねえ。。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQQ5SSgxoFI/AAAAAAAATpo/IImQjRTXzZY/s1600/nico.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQQ5SSgxoFI/AAAAAAAATpo/IImQjRTXzZY/s320/nico.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;今週は、円高だからか？日本からの友人が３組、やってきました。NYにいるとみんな遊びに来てくれていいよね。私の親友たちは、誰も遊びにこないけど。（読んでる〜？笑）今日は、クリスマスツリーをやっと買いました。といっても、高いので、小さいのにした。これでも$30だよ、どういうこと！？まあ、でも雰囲気がでていいよね。朝は、ニコのお風呂。いつもいくペットショップで、お姉さんが「バンダナあげる！」といって、ニコがもらったバンダナは、ヨークシャテリアの柄が入った微妙なバンダナでした〜。笑　でもせっかく頂いたので、今日は一日つけてみたけど、にあわねー。ちょっとちっちゃかったね。朝から抹茶最中アイスクリームを食べて、満足した土曜日でした。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-3027888604684595222?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/3027888604684595222/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=3027888604684595222' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3027888604684595222'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/3027888604684595222'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_11.html' title='クリスマス間近'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TQQ5RIy_o0I/AAAAAAAATpk/i1MklU3RUUQ/s72-c/santaclause.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-531459567015228132</id><published>2010-12-06T19:43:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T19:43:59.391-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Christmas Tree Season</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2sxuQNidI/AAAAAAAATpg/1zk7jhh73Mo/s1600/tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2sxuQNidI/AAAAAAAATpg/1zk7jhh73Mo/s400/tree.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Suddenly It got COLD!!!!! it was snowing this morning. It's still beginning of Dec. What am I gonna do when it's colder!?! I am staring at these trees everyday, debating if I should buy one or not. They are pretty expensive.... &amp;nbsp;Somehow, I have been having a lot of visitors from Japan this week! 3 different friends. Is that because Yen is expensive...?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;NYまじ寒いです、今朝雪、今週はずっと氷点下！まだ１２月なのにもうヒートテック着てるし、どうしよう。。この先どうするんだ！！がんばれ！！一方ニコは寒くて嬉しいようです。円高のせいか？今週は、日本から友人が３組。いいな〜。私円持ってません。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-531459567015228132?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/531459567015228132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=531459567015228132' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/531459567015228132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/531459567015228132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-tree-season.html' title='Christmas Tree Season'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2sxuQNidI/AAAAAAAATpg/1zk7jhh73Mo/s72-c/tree.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-5164745817612396900</id><published>2010-12-06T19:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-06T19:40:09.229-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Congrats my friends!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2r3W_LJmI/AAAAAAAATpU/AVh4J3klRmM/s1600/P1040831.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2r3W_LJmI/AAAAAAAATpU/AVh4J3klRmM/s320/P1040831.JPG" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;My girlfriend in NYC got married on Sat. YAY!!! I helped their wedding... it was such a homey wedding at the restaurant. Full of happiness....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2sD3fLCLI/AAAAAAAATpY/6fO4xoQrf-I/s1600/P1040957.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2sD3fLCLI/AAAAAAAATpY/6fO4xoQrf-I/s320/P1040957.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My girl friends, looking cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2sN9rsO6I/AAAAAAAATpc/nHQy6W6KaSo/s1600/P1040956.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2sN9rsO6I/AAAAAAAATpc/nHQy6W6KaSo/s320/P1040956.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Us, looking awesome.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-5164745817612396900?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/5164745817612396900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=5164745817612396900' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5164745817612396900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/5164745817612396900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/congrats-my-friends.html' title='Congrats my friends!!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TP2r3W_LJmI/AAAAAAAATpU/AVh4J3klRmM/s72-c/P1040831.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-4639971633648162533</id><published>2010-12-02T17:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T17:55:08.001-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>皮肉な人生</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPhMaG9wSMI/AAAAAAAATRw/hFdggg5VWEs/s1600/piano.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPhMaG9wSMI/AAAAAAAATRw/hFdggg5VWEs/s400/piano.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ブライアンが、誕生日＆クリスマスをかねて、デジタルピアノをくれました〜！どうもありがとう。NEWオモチャです。人生皮肉なもので。私はずっと３歳ぐらいからピアノを中学生までやっていましたが、いやでいやでしょうがなかった訳です。毎日練習させられるし、レッスン遠いし、ほめてもらえるわけでもないし、好きな曲も弾けないし、バッハすごいやだったし！！（笑）だけど恐怖の母親に「弾け〜〜！」と鬼ばばのように練習させられた甲斐あり、未だに弾けます。彼の実家には、グランドピアノがあって、お父さんが弾くのですが、DNAなのか、ブライアンも上手！結構すぐ弾けるようになる。すごい。耳がいいのかな？というわけで、ブライアンはギターも買ったし、ピアノはあるし、リビングが、、楽器に場所をとられていますが、そういうのもいいか。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;それにしても皮肉だ〜〜。ピアノじゃないですが。今の仕事も金融IT系ですが、私は数学がもってのほか嫌いで、確か中学生の時には泣きながら、前述の鬼母に、「小学生のドリルをやりなおせ〜〜〜」とかいって、部屋に閉じ込められ、泣きながら問題集を解いていました。そんなにバカだったとは思いませんが、数学的思考は全くなく、、「高校にいったら数学はやらない！！」と誓ったのにその時も結局高校２年生まで数学やり。アメリカの高校に来たら、みんな数学できないので、数学が（その時だけ）好きになり。そして今や、、金融ITなんていう場違いな職場で働いてます、はい。別に計算したりはそんなにないですが、、。億兆ドルは何円？とかいわれたってすぐ出てきません。（笑）&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-4639971633648162533?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/4639971633648162533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=4639971633648162533' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4639971633648162533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/4639971633648162533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html' title='皮肉な人生'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPhMaG9wSMI/AAAAAAAATRw/hFdggg5VWEs/s72-c/piano.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-6306036165560505957</id><published>2010-12-02T17:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-12-02T17:47:56.741-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Christmas Light at my Office Building</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPhL4JNWg0I/AAAAAAAATRs/sKzzpS98z9M/s1600/light.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="298" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPhL4JNWg0I/AAAAAAAATRs/sKzzpS98z9M/s400/light.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Christmas decoration at my office building lobby! They really go far out and I don't know how many trees they put out... I will take another photo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;うちのオフィスのロビー階。ド派で、きれいだけど。クリスマスツリーも至る所に置かれ、「これでもか！」というくらい置かれ。一応、ハヌカとクワンザという他の宗教の人たちの為にも飾りが出ています。インターナショナルNY。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-6306036165560505957?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/6306036165560505957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=6306036165560505957' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6306036165560505957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/6306036165560505957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/12/christmas-light-at-my-office-building.html' title='Christmas Light at my Office Building'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPhL4JNWg0I/AAAAAAAATRs/sKzzpS98z9M/s72-c/light.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8035863970764771875</id><published>2010-11-29T19:37:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-29T19:37:56.438-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><title type='text'>Christmas Decoration Time has started!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPRxW7jwGvI/AAAAAAAATRo/3aodEu2Fheg/s1600/christmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPRxW7jwGvI/AAAAAAAATRo/3aodEu2Fheg/s320/christmas.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;My building starts going crazy on Christmas decoration. It is outside of our building, pretty! We need a christmas tree soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8035863970764771875?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8035863970764771875/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8035863970764771875' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8035863970764771875'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8035863970764771875'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-decoration-time-has-started.html' title='Christmas Decoration Time has started!'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPRxW7jwGvI/AAAAAAAATRo/3aodEu2Fheg/s72-c/christmas.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-683468534859524426</id><published>2010-11-27T19:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-27T19:06:33.989-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='food'/><title type='text'>Happy Thanks Giving.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPHAzmEYysI/AAAAAAAATPw/seLNsEhRspI/s1600/P1040614.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPHAzmEYysI/AAAAAAAATPw/seLNsEhRspI/s320/P1040614.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Thanks giving!.... is over but above is the delicious dinner at our friends' house.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-683468534859524426?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/683468534859524426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=683468534859524426' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/683468534859524426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/683468534859524426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/11/happy-thanks-giving.html' title='Happy Thanks Giving.'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPHAzmEYysI/AAAAAAAATPw/seLNsEhRspI/s72-c/P1040614.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-8798459139608540614</id><published>2010-11-27T18:23:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-27T18:23:18.344-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>A Vintage Guitar Shop</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG7njh2RcI/AAAAAAAATLo/qtAjirCmv-8/s1600/IMG_1182.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG7njh2RcI/AAAAAAAATLo/qtAjirCmv-8/s320/IMG_1182.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I love 4 days weekend..... After having thanks giving day at Brian's place &amp;amp; Our friends place, we went to check out a vintage guitar shop in NJ. Brian was looking for a certain guitar and we rented a car and drove there. I didn't know what to expect but the shop had so many interesting guitars and I enjoyed it...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG7uQfArxI/AAAAAAAATLs/ooN8l3_lIGM/s1600/IMG_1184.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG7uQfArxI/AAAAAAAATLs/ooN8l3_lIGM/s320/IMG_1184.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Like this Amp, I have never seen inside of the Amp. I always wondered why they are so big. They had vintage amp too which looked very neat!! not ugly black ones but they look more like modern furniture. The owner of the store used to work at the recording studio in NYC and rented out guitars etc. Interesting...The one my fiance is playing in the photo is the guitar from Springsteen's bus driver's.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG7ve6yMYI/AAAAAAAATLw/-dx7TBAfems/s1600/IMG_1194.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG7ve6yMYI/AAAAAAAATLw/-dx7TBAfems/s320/IMG_1194.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ブライアンお目当てのギターを見に、NJまで行って来たの。遠かったけど、おじさんのお店は、たくさんのビンテージギターに囲まれ、素敵でした。ビンテージのアンプなんて初めて見た。昔は、NYCで、バンドのレコーディングなどに楽器を貸し出したりしていたらしい。ブライアンが上で弾いているギターは、スプリングスティーンのツアーバスドライバーが売ったギターらしい。ビンテージギターも色々あるらしく（全く無知識）$9000とかするのもあった！！高い、、。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-8798459139608540614?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/8798459139608540614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=8798459139608540614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8798459139608540614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/8798459139608540614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/11/vintage-guitar-shop.html' title='A Vintage Guitar Shop'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG7njh2RcI/AAAAAAAATLo/qtAjirCmv-8/s72-c/IMG_1182.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-1399737632069003068</id><published>2010-11-27T18:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-27T18:11:26.921-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='season'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Smells Like Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG40MtBvCI/AAAAAAAATLc/SzihW6Ky40I/s1600/IMG_1177.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG40MtBvCI/AAAAAAAATLc/SzihW6Ky40I/s320/IMG_1177.JPG" width="238" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Hello. Christmas is everywhere now in NYC! It has been getting really cold and it is the weather you need a hat and gloves! This year I see more animal hats like above... I love panda bear and love the hat above but I feel too old for it :( If I were in Oregon I would have worn them every day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG46sC-HJI/AAAAAAAATLg/eQHZj9xpEkU/s1600/IMG_1179.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG46sC-HJI/AAAAAAAATLg/eQHZj9xpEkU/s320/IMG_1179.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;At Union Square holiday shops are here~ there are many cute shops and it is just fun to walk around. This year it seems that they have more variety than last year, It was fun to just hang out there. Time to think about Christmas presents...!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG5B5h-vQI/AAAAAAAATLk/9dPUTkr8w1w/s1600/IMG_1199.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG5B5h-vQI/AAAAAAAATLk/9dPUTkr8w1w/s320/IMG_1199.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;クリスマスが近づいてきました。街中クリスマスの準備が始まった感じで。今年は小さいツリー買いたいな。去年の冬ぐらいから、アニマルハットが流行っているらしく。これは中学生までか、ヒップな若者しか着れないね。パンダ、好きだからかぶりたくてしょうがなくて試着しましたが、やはり年が、、、笑　ブライアンは、「日本人がかぶってても許されるよ」なんて優しい事を言ってくれましたが、どう考えても厳しいわ。まじで寒くて、帽子と手袋必需ウェザーに成って参りました。こたつ欲しい。。。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-1399737632069003068?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/1399737632069003068/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=1399737632069003068' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1399737632069003068'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/1399737632069003068'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/11/smells-like-christmas.html' title='Smells Like Christmas'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TPG40MtBvCI/AAAAAAAATLc/SzihW6Ky40I/s72-c/IMG_1177.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7105947094594982981</id><published>2010-11-22T20:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-22T20:29:18.847-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='value'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>５段階評価で自分に５を付けてはいけない？ふざけんな</title><content type='html'>しばらく前に書こうと思って忘れてた。&lt;br /&gt;うちの会社には、なんかChallenge &amp;amp; Actとかいって、半期に一回自分の仕事の成果や目標を、上司と話し合う会が最近出来ました。要は、自分の目標を書いて、設定して、その後にどれだけそれが達成されたか５段階で後で自己評価するんだけどさ。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;このあいだ初めてレビューがあって、いくつかの項目は、「達成した」と思ったので、５をつけたわけ。そんで、もちろんいくつかは、２とかも付けた訳。そしたら上司と面談したら「saknakさん、これ、５っていうのはいいんだけど、普通５は、目標以上の事が達成できた時に５って書くんだよ。別に間違ってる訳じゃないけどさ」って言われた。&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;そんだったら最初っから目標設定する意味なくね！？！&lt;br /&gt;そんで、面接終わった後に、ハーフの日本で職務経験のある同僚に愚痴をこぼしていたら、「バカだねsaknakは、日本は５段階評価で、５はつかっちゃいけないわけ、自分のことは４までしか評価しないんだよ」とアドバイスされた。なんだそれ！！&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;頑張って目標達成したのに、５を書いたらいけないって、、、ましてや自己評価なんて、、、別に実質サラリーに評価されるわけじゃないのに。。ケチだな日本人〜。&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7105947094594982981?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7105947094594982981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7105947094594982981' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7105947094594982981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7105947094594982981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post_22.html' title='５段階評価で自分に５を付けてはいけない？ふざけんな'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7603941321671543987</id><published>2010-11-21T19:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-21T19:38:02.299-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Lomo Shop</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOnkrm4NMLI/AAAAAAAATJk/2jdzadhF2-k/s1600/lomo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOnkrm4NMLI/AAAAAAAATJk/2jdzadhF2-k/s320/lomo.jpg" width="239" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;A New shop opened near our house, it is Lomography shop! They had all the lomo cameras in the store, fun fun fun!! We found this crazy &lt;a href="http://microsites.lomography.com/spinner-360/"&gt;360 spinning camera&lt;/a&gt;, supposed to take photos 360 degrees. We were tempted to buy it but didn't today. What do you think??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOnk4vdoH8I/AAAAAAAATJo/9DmhBW42GRY/s1600/Picture+5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="203" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOnk4vdoH8I/AAAAAAAATJo/9DmhBW42GRY/s320/Picture+5.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;今週末は、まったり〜。用事を済ませたり、家の掃除したり、雑用で終わりました。家の近くに、ロモのショップがいきなりできてた！！全てのロモカメラが売っている、危険なお店、、この360度撮れるカメラ、いいなぁ、と思って買いそうになったけど、買わなかった、、。写真ってデジカメに比べると、高い趣味よねえ、、。でもフィルムはやっぱりいいなあとお店に飾ってある写真を見て改めて思いました。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7603941321671543987?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7603941321671543987/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7603941321671543987' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7603941321671543987'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7603941321671543987'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/11/lomo-shop.html' title='Lomo Shop'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOnkrm4NMLI/AAAAAAAATJk/2jdzadhF2-k/s72-c/lomo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8061213736326193974.post-7279108069577628920</id><published>2010-11-20T14:49:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-11-20T14:49:33.687-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='daily life'/><title type='text'>Christmas Tree is there.</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPsTRG8BI/AAAAAAAATJQ/QalMhHVnon8/s1600/IMG_1136.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPsTRG8BI/AAAAAAAATJQ/QalMhHVnon8/s320/IMG_1136.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Rockerfeller Center was putting up the annual X'mas tree. It is giant as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPx3rbjYI/AAAAAAAATJU/kGmxYc2hZGc/s1600/IMG_1138.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPx3rbjYI/AAAAAAAATJU/kGmxYc2hZGc/s320/IMG_1138.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Skate rink is here too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPys0eSDI/AAAAAAAATJY/wNOwrieIdVA/s1600/IMG_1139.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPys0eSDI/AAAAAAAATJY/wNOwrieIdVA/s320/IMG_1139.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ロカフェラーセンターのスケートリンクがオープン。（こんなに空いているのを見るのは初めて〜）通りかかったのが平日だったからね、、、。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPzTsG-AI/AAAAAAAATJc/XRDBXo1yUXo/s1600/IMG_1140.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPzTsG-AI/AAAAAAAATJc/XRDBXo1yUXo/s320/IMG_1140.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ツリーが運ばれて、電球が付けられているところでした。やっぱりクリスマスは寒いけど、なんかロマンチックマジックがかかるニューヨークです。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhP0FZTD5I/AAAAAAAATJg/2-BNTBIbQto/s1600/IMG_1142.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhP0FZTD5I/AAAAAAAATJg/2-BNTBIbQto/s320/IMG_1142.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;切り刻まれたツリーの残骸。家の中に置いといたら良い匂いするだろうなぁ。と思いつつ。&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8061213736326193974-7279108069577628920?l=saknak.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/feeds/7279108069577628920/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8061213736326193974&amp;postID=7279108069577628920' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7279108069577628920'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8061213736326193974/posts/default/7279108069577628920'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://saknak.blogspot.com/2010/11/christmas-tree-is-there.html' title='Christmas Tree is there.'/><author><name>saknak</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05742850348532979698</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/ShIQ5wcmiQI/AAAAAAAAJWU/fuMRnAe_CME/S220/photo9.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3r1I1oyh5HY/TOhPsTRG8BI/AAAAAAAATJQ/QalMhHVnon8/s72-c/IMG_1136.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
