Date-Megane

I bought "Date-Megane" the other day. "Date-Megane" means... Megane means glasses. Date-Megane is kind of glasses for fashion or fake glasses?

I wanted that for a long time. I wear it when no make-up. Haha.

Aleppo Soap

One of olive soaps, "Aleppo Soap" has been popular among Japanese women now.
It is handmade soap from Aleppo in Syria.

I was looking for a good face-wash. I have just run out of my face-wash so I tried to buy Aleppo Soap yesterday. Because I used it just one time last night, I don't know if it is good yet. I'll continue to use it and see how it works.

I intend to use it not only as face-wash but also as body-wash. Actually I have heard that it is also good for hair. Using soap as shampoo? Hmm... I have never washed my hair with soap though. I'll try to do tonight.

Movie: Ratatouille

I went to a movie theater to watch the movie "Ratatouille".
It was very fun movie. I laughed some times during the movie.

I also watched Monsters Inc. before. It was the second time I watched the animation movies in a movie theater. Actually I don't like animation movie so much. I don't know why but I thought I tried to go to see this movie when I saw its advertisement, just like Monsters Inc.

When I watched Monsters Inc., I was impressed with not only its story but also its graphics. And I realized that graphics technology improved very much in this time. Sometimes rats looked like real ones. Before watching the movie, I thought only one rat would appear. But contrary to my expectations, there were many many rats. Too many. "Too many" is one of my hate things. So when many rats, which looked like real, appeared in the screen, I felt unpleasant. And I remembered big rats in the New York subway.

The story was very good.

My pronunciation of "TION"

One of my English teacher point out my pronunciation of "TION", such as station and condition. According to him, I say, kind of "shone". I practice this pronunciation repeatedly, but once I start conversation, I say "shone" unconsciously. In addition, I say con of condition "cone". So my pronunciation of condition is "CONEDISHONE".

I need to repeat these right pronunciations over and over again.

Changing my mind a little

I decided to change my mind a little.
I lower the priority of job in my life. I value my personal life more. One of things I want to do is doing activities to help poor children in the world. But I couldn't do anything because almost all of my time was occupied by working. It was difficult even to spend decent life.

Go back to my original thinking that job is just one way to get money.

Just for a change, I had my hair cut. I had worn my hair long for a long time. I tried to wear my hair short. It's been about a month since I had my hair cut though.

It has been already over one month since I had my hair cut. So my hair has gotten long.

Meeting my friend

I met my friend the other day. He lives in Kyoto and came to Tokyo to attend a conference. The last time I met him was about a year and a half in Osaka. (He lived in Osaka at that time.)

He is a researcher. He develops new ideas and makes presentation about those at conferences worldwide. That's great!

I hope I can visit him in Kyoto next time. I wonder if the season for autumn leaves is good for visiting Kyoto. I must be very beautiful. He said he would go to Portugal to attend a conference in November though.

Long time not see.

It's been a long time since I updated blog last. Almost 3 months past.
There are many things during that. I was too busy to death.

I wrote my last article before I left for New York. So, first of all, I write about my business trip to New York.

Terrible. It was really terrible. I was busy even in New York. I intended to do some sightseeing when I had time, but I couldn't do anything. I just came and went between my hotel and a company every day. Times Square, Fifth Avenue, Central Park... it was possible to go to those sightseeing spot on foot from my hotel. In spite of such a good location of my hotel, I couldn't go to those spots.

I mentioned before, I couldn't prepare for the conference and especially my presentation in Tokyo because of too busy. So I did those things in my hotel but of course there was enough time to do that. Most of the time other than being in the company, I worked in my hotel. Terrible.

The company located in Wall Street. Real Wall Street is much different from my image of it. It was just narrow and short street. Haha.

Wall Street
My impression of New York is... Hmm... As I said, I didn't see New York so much, but at least I don't want to live in New York. I often hear many people say that New York is very nice and they want to live. Town is dirty and dark compared with Tokyo. I found BIG rats in the subway. I can't believe!! And why is there no air conditionar in the subway stations? Too hot. I realized again that Tokyo is nice!

But there is one good thing. Airplane. It was business-class trip. Business-class environment has MUCH improved since I traveled in business-class last. Airlines concentrate on improving business and first class environment. But I think those are enough, more like too much. I always think they should improve couch-class. That is terrible. Sometimes people died from economy-class syndrome.

The following photo was taken on the observation deck of Rockefeller Center on the day I arrived at New York. Rockefeller Center is very close to my hotel. Till I could check in the hotel, I stopped by there. It was almost only sightseeing?