Magnam 44 Exhibition

Last Tuesday, I went Tokyo Metoropolitan Photogragh Museum for seeing an exhibition of Magnam 44 with my kiwi friend. The exhibition was great, cos the phots were about Tokyo during 1940 to 2000. Some photos remided me my childhood and my younger days.

New PC

I finally got new PC which is installed Windows Vista! yey! Now I can surf on the Internet smoothly and I also can play latest PC games (I won't do them, I hope). But unfortunate things, there are. Firstly, I can't use my portable MP3 player any more, cos the company won't released the driver for Vista, because the player is little old. Secondly, I can't use my printer currently by same reason. But, it'll be OK, cos my husband still uses windows XP and I can use his PC for printing and sending music to the player.

It's Time To Move On?

Today, I had farewell lunch for my friend, S, with M and S's French boyfriend. we are friend since we met an English language school about 6 years ago.

S met her boyfriend, SY, at her friend's wedding in Poland 1 and a half year ago, and since then they have dated mainly on the Skype, because S lives in Japan and SY lives somewhere in France. SY has came to Japan to meet to her once in 6 month, finally (it was suddenly, actually), S decided to go France to live with him. Of course, I was glad to hear that, because I've thought SY was a right man to S since I met him at first. The other hand, I felt bit sad, because one of my small amount of boozed friends will gone!!! OK, I'll go France to booze with her in near future, she likes it or not :)

M is pregnant now, she will be a mother next month.

Two of us are moving on to something, somewhere. I'm just still same position, but, maybe it's not time to move on now to me or I'm just moving on little by little.

Walking in Tokyo with Nix

Nix and I went to Akihabara to Asakusa, today. At first, I meant to take her to Tokyo Tower (an old landmark!) and Asakusa by a boat, but she looked tired, so we decided to go Asakusa directly. But, when we were in a train, I suddenly wanted to show her a mecca for geeks, so we got off the train at Akihabara-station. we went through between electric, Anime and comics shops and reached Ameya-yokocho near Ueno.

In Ameya-Ykococho( common name is Ame-Yoko), there were a lot of discount shops for from food to clothes. When we were at a roe shop (it exists there), Nix asked me what a red food was and pointed. It was salted salmon roe, but I couldn't remember an appropriate word, so I said 'it's salmon's eggs". Shop owner laugh at me and said to her "It's Salmon roes" and said to me in Japanese "You should tell it her correctly, if you are an interpreter." I said back to him "No, I'm not!". But, OK, I know I should study English more hard!!!!!

We had Tempura for lunch in one of chain shops, I wasn't sure it was appropriate for her last lunch in Japan, cos it was bit too typical Japanese lunch, but at least it was one of ordinary Japanese food even though I'd never had it.

Next place to go was Kappabashi. There is a wholesaler street for kitchenware, mainly for professionals. But it also famous as shops for food samples made of wax and I heard they were very popular for people from foreign countries.

After Kappabashi, we finally went to Asakusa. When we went through in front of a theatre for traveling theatrical troupe, the actors greeted their fan and taken picture with them. Curiously, the actors worn Kimono with Elvis Presley's hair style. I have no idea why!

Asakusa wasn't last place to visit today, cos I heard Nix wanted to buy Hello Kitty's socks. I know a big Hello Kitty's shop in Ginza, so we went there, unfortunately she couldn't find them...I'm sorry for it, Nix!

Final destination was Shinjuku for buying some Sake, cos the city was my town and I knew there was a discount bottle shop.

Well......in the end, I think we walked 4 or 5 km totally in a part of Tokyo and I knocked down Nix. I hope she thought I didn't know how to use train system in Tokyo.... fortunately, according to her blog, she seemed to enjoy today's visiting.

My Travel Map

I found my ideal travel map on Nix blog. Here is a map which shows I've been there. Honestly, I just went Hong Kong and Macao in China, but it shows I've been wide area of China. And I also have to confess I just spend 1 day in Brussels from London by Euro star. I just wanted to get on it....In fact, about France, I had to spend a night accidentally, because I couldn't catch a flight....

Up and Down

1)Up thing.
Last Monday night, I had really fun time. I met some 4 bloggers. One of them was I become a friend in actual life, and she took me blooging world. Thank you, Jo!
I heard a lot of bad reputation of people in virtual or on Internet. But, they, who I have met, are so lovely and nice. Unfortunately, yesterday, I had a plan to have job interview the next day, so I only could allowed to have a glass of cocktail myself. I need some alcohol to speak, especially in English!!! Gaaarh.Anyway, I really apriciate them that they accept me.

2)Down thing.
I had job interview and some entrance exams to be hired as an assistant translator yesterday as scheduled. I couldn't finish to translate all articles and made mistake on Kanji exam. The worst thing was the interview. I couldn't understand what I was saying, because I was really nerves. Actually, I've been to study English in a couple years to join the company, because the company has good reputation as a translation company and they have good training system to translation. Gosh! I can't expect to be hired. I'll get the result in two weeks.