Spring!

I haven't written the blog for a while. The last article was about snow. But it is already very warm these days. 18 degrees C today!!

I found sakura (cherry blossom) today.

Snowing hard!

It is snowing hard in Tokyo all day today and the snow accumulated much!

The snow accumulation in Tokyo was 3cm. Very few? No, no. We can say it is the heavy snow, at least for Tokyo people.

I'm worried about commute tomorrow morning.

The induction program for new mid-career employees

3 days induction program for new mid-career employees is held at the beginning of every month in my new company, and I attended the first day of that today.

Attendees were 20 and HR said it was more than usual. There were both young and old.

Today's items of agenda were almost overview. From Monday, it will get onto details of each department's business and technology which the company provides. I expect those to be useful.

I was almost losing my wallet!

I was in a family restaurant to do my work. When I go to a bathroom, I always leave my bags at my table but bring just my wallet just in case.

I found that I didn't have my wallet! Oops! I went to the bathroom in a hurry but I couldn't find it. So I asked a staff. Fortunately, my wallet was turned in safely. Money, credit cards, a drivers license card etc... everything is in.
Thank you, someone who turned in it!

Japanese are really good people about a kind of this matter. Such a safety country is only Japan?

Refer to another my lost wallet story.
http://sandfriend.blogspot.com/2005/09/shock-my-wallet-is-missing.html
http://sandfriend.blogspot.com/2005/09/my-wallet-was-found.html
http://sandfriend.blogspot.com/2005/09/skimming.html

Telepathy?

I was thinking about my friend yesterday. I wondered if how he was and guessed I sent an email. I didn't send though.

Then I received an email from him today. What a coincidence! Hmm... it is a kind of telepathy? Human beings might not lose such ability.

Snowing

It is snowing!
It's the coldest day today in Tokyo in this winter so far. Brrr...

I hope it stops before the ground is covered with snow. Otherwise small panics happen because it seldom snows in Tokyo.

Oops! I almost became a work-oriented person again.

The first week at my new jog has finished. Whew... It was very busy week. I had many meeting and worked till late every day. I'm tired. So I couldn't do anything except for job, such as English studying.

No. I am giving top priority to job again. No. I was supposed to decide to place a higher priority on my personal life. Dang.

Finally my new job started.

Yesterday, my new job finally started.
It was really good that my fever had been down, I am still coughing though.

I didn't go Hatsumode (=new year's visit to shrine) on New Year's Day so I went to Meiji shrine to hope my success.

From day one, I had some ENGLISH meeting. I think it is why I was very tired. Hmm... I know, it is my biggest challenge.

Today, I have a lot of meeting. I have meeting all day today.

A busy sick person

This morning, I still had a fever. But I have a lot of things to do. My new job will start tomorrow.

After I got up, I studied English as usual, did the laundry, polished my shoes and went to shopping. I had to buy some things.

I ate sushi for lunch! and came back home.
Now I am bleaching my clothes. I still have more things to do.

I hope I will be fine tomorrow.

Almost dying

38.6 degrees C.
I'm almost dying...

The worst condition now

My temperature is up again. Coughing is getting worse and I have a headache instead of a stmachache. Terrible.

My fever was gone.

I ended up staying home all day yesterday.

I went to a nearby drug store at 10am. I consulted a pharmacist and I bought Chinese medicine he recommended, throat washing and propolis candy.

In the morning, I read an English book tamely. After lunch, I decided to take a nap a little. (It's not a lazy nap I always do. It's an intended nap.) I planed to wake up around 1:30 or 2:00pm, and if I had recovered when I woke up, I had intended to go out.

But, I woke up 9pm! Oops! It became a usual lazy nap... After that, I ate supper and I could sleep again soon.

This morning, my fever and stomachache were gone. Hmm... The medicine the pharmacist recommened and a lot of sleep worked. But I still cough. I knew. It is another problem.

Getting worse

Uh... it seems that I can't go out. I start feeling sick. I will go to a nearby drug store to buy medicine when it opens.

Going shopping or staying home?

Good morning,

I still have a fever. Hmm. I intended to go shopping. I have to do. Should I stay home today? But it will rain tomorrow, or it may snow. Brr... So I may as well finish shopping by today.
I have not only a fever but also stomachache a bit.
I guess I finish shopping in the morning and take it easy in the afternoon.

I have a fever!

Now, I checked my temperature because I feel a bit feverish.

Oops, I have a fever.

Shoot!

I'm going to bed. I hope I will recover by tomorrow morning.

Good night.

I have mycoplasma pneumonia??

My bad cough still continues. It got better a little once, but it got worse again.

It reminded me a mail from a friend of mine at the beginning of the last month.
In the mail, she said that mycoplasma pneumonia was spreading in a kindergarten of his daughter and she herself was coughing.

I checked about mycoplasma pneumonia in the Internet.
It is a kind of slight pneumonia. Hmm... my symptoms apply for it, except for fever. I didn't have a fever, I think, maybe... I'm not sure. I haven't checked my temperature...
According to the article, the symptoms continue for about a month.

I usually don't take any medicine because they don't work on me at all. But I was thinking about buying any medicine for a cough because I want to be cured before starting work for a new company next week.
But if I had mycoplasma pneumonia, it would be no use...

Cute and incredible!

My friend who lives in Australia was kind enough to send me a newspaper clipping. It is the photo that a polar bear and a dog play together. Yes, polar bear is my most favorite animal.

According to the article, a sled dog handler said that polar bears would seek out his Canadian Eskimo working dogs for play.
A person who took this picture couldn't believe that at first, then he went to stay with him to see if he could capture it on film.
One evening, a bear made his way towards the 60 dogs' pack. The dogs were barking, except for one. The bear approached this dog, lay down in front of him and put out his paws, as if asking him to play.
The article also says that polar bear experts can't explain this behavior.

I took a photo of this newspaper clipping to put it on my blog. I'm sorry that it is not clear.
But, look! It is very cute. Especially take notice of the bear's cute left front paw and the dog's placid face!

Mild weather won't continue.

Following yesterday, it was also mild today, it was less warm than yesterday though.
Surprisingly, New York was warmer than Tokyo. Hmm... Abnormal climate...

Unfortunately, this warm weather in Tokyo won't continue. It will be cold again from tomorrow and be getting colder and colder. Brr...

Mild weather and refreshed my machine

It's mild today. Good weather. According to the news, high temperature in Tokyo today is 15 degrees C and it is the weather in March.
I turned off an air-conditioner and opened the window, but it's not cold at all. It is almost spring!


I left my bicycle for a while. I haven't ridden it recently because of cold and haven't maintained it at all. So it was dirty and the air in its tires was very low.I went to a bicycle shop to pump into the tires, then I cleaned it up.Sorry for neglecting you for a long time, my machine. I should have maintained you by the end of the last year.

I bicycled in my neighborhood a little in the fine climate. Oh, it's a good buzz!!

What is decafe?

I have sometimes seen "decafe", in pantries (cafe bars?) of foreign companies, or in cafes overseas. I wondered if it was a kind of coffee, such as Mocha and Blue Mountain, but it seemed to be different from them...


Then, I finally knew it today. It is coffee without caffeine. It doesn't penetrate Japan.


Coffee without caffeine, Diet Coke... I always feel those are strange. Or more like that I feel people who drink them strange. If you are worried about your health, you should not drink coffee. If you are worried about your calories or your weight, you should quit drinking coke.