赤羽、川崎、吉祥寺

basically everyday work with one wonderful colleague, after work sometimes cook dinner, sometimes stay in shibuya for a bit, and since i received a bicycle from a friend i tried to practise everyday (but so lazy now...)

(my temporary bicycle)

Rie kindly asked me to have shabushabu at her home near Akabane on Friday so i went (hai yorokonde).

(Rie's dog, Shibaken, his name is Hills )

I'm surprised that her daughter is a very good 13-year old girl, maybe i'm assuming anyone who like chinese poems and bands are good people. she practise horse riding and basketball before, and she's learning violin now. As we both like Higashino Keiko, i would try to look for Onda Riku, which is another writer that she likes. the feeling of getting recommendations on books, from a girl who's so much younger than me, is kind of 不思議.

And needless to say Mr & Mrs Onuki are super duper nice people, they gave me Curry and instant soup this time (everyone gives me food here! thanks!)

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28 Nov Sat
I already knew Yoshiko-san for 3 years i believed. During work we dont chat much though - but i always imagined her to be a 穏やかな女性.

午後二時に川崎駅に待ち合わせ。Yoshiko-san and Mayumi-san came and they are in beautiful Kimono (!)(oh so sorry i was in jeans)

Yoshiko-san is an elegant and soothing lady. i think all guys would like her. Mayumi-san is a cute girl. I really like them ^^
they showed me a bit around town - we went to a temple called 川崎大師, drank amazake in a shop, and then chat a little bit in a cafe.






(cat in 川崎大師 temple, pls check out the cat on left hand side)







(the 2 ladies in Kimono )








then at night 7pm i went back to kichijyouji (due to my packed schedule, Dai Lo Chris Anderson will start calling me Paris Hilton now...) to meet another person that i worked with, Mr Richard Mort, his wife Kaori-san and their son Leo.











Leo is the cutest baby i've ever seen- sorry to other babies. he's as cute as mason moon on facebook. and he really looks bit like Maggie's girl Haley.

never cries, VERY cute, not hitomishiri, always smiling
he will grow up to be a cute samurai after 10 years

Inokashira Koen

when I walked out of home heading to the station on Sunday I passed the park
WOW coz I love parks this one is amazing! I'm sure Roy san has the same feeling too
Ducks swimming in the river, trees are super tall, many leaves turn into red already.

横浜、原宿、渋谷

今週は仕事忙しいから、夜に遊ぶ時間が作れなくて残念。

ただし、なんとなく木曜にイザベラとリエと食事してた、横浜にある和食レストランに。
話にほんとうに夢中になって、気が付くともう夜十二時。。。赤坂への終電に間に合わなかった（泣）。

イザベラがうちに泊まればっ？て言ってくれたけど、結局渋谷でタクシーを拾って無事にホテルまで戻りました。

そして今日はハッピーなホテルライフを終わり、井の頭公園のゲストハウスに移り。

朝引越手続きを済ませた後、ヤスは東京に遊びに来て、８年ぶりの原宿竹下通りへ行きたいから、ちょっとだけそこに遊んでた。それから渋谷に、わたしは無理やりヤスをパチンコにさせた（ゴメンな！）。でも自分でこう一やってもパチンコは何か面白いかわかんない。。。
そしてしゃぶしゃぶ食べ放題でした。

ロイさんは高尾山をすすめたから、明日行きたいけど無理かもしれない。さっき天気が崩れる予報が出たから。

それではまた、おやすみ＾＾

Italian dinner with Rie Onuki san

Seafood dish, in a pizza restaurant called Sabatini (in Aoyama? went there by a car not sure where it is...)

having "dolce"

Rie Onuki san is a funny, talkative and nice person. We talked about everything in general, from work to family, recipes and books (and people will look down on you if you hold a car number plate which shows a non tokyo district?!). I'm surprised that she likes classical music and recently is obsessed with Prokofiev ^^ She kindly asked me to go to a piano/violin duet in Dec.

it's also good to talk to people who are not japanese teacher, coz teachers are alert and tend to speak in an easy-to-understand way. although Sazaki sensei denied totally that she has chosen words/phrase when speaking to students.

saa... I'm not sure it will be that easy for me to travel without friends' help like what I am receiving here. In NZ I have 1 and the only kiwi friend -Caption Cook, who's physically in HK. So it will be harder for me. Anyway, it's hard so that's why it's fun !

office building

Chiba, Omotesando Hills

omodesanto hills

such a big house!

kirakira river in the park

and I got an email reply from my honorable "friend" from hokkaido.

follow and study japanese monkeys in snow mountain in Aomori sounds great, but I'm not sure if i have the time to join...

First entry

Saturday afternoon my friend Yasu picked me up at the airport and we went to Aeon to have crepe and coffee, it's been a while that we haven't seen each other.

And then I visited his family in Sammu, Chiba. The house is so big...so many rooms, with pine tree in round shape. They have a rice and vegetable field, garage, dog's home, store room for new rice for sale, and a small dark room, which if you did something wrong as a kid you will be put in there overnight (I called it the 反省room)

The family prepared yakiniku and beer to welcome me (-_- feel so 申し訳ない). After yakiniku we chat a little bit with legs in kotatsu, like about farming, New York, the cold lemon tea phenomena in hk. Also "interpret" on the phone JP<>Cantonese for Yasu about his work.

Next day after the breakfast I played with their pet – a big dog called Terry. He's a well behaved dog. We were giving him dog biscuit and played the 'matte-yoshi' game. It understands both 'matte' and 'yoshi' *amazing*

After that I strolled along the fields and the park nearby. The park is really big, ducks are sunbathing, kids are having soccer competition, basketball competition, elderly are playing 'old style' golf, there is a river running along, a large piece of grassland, kids were playing on the swing and samazama na facilities - ok the park itself is like the telford garden + amoy plaza.

I went back and the super kind family stuffed me lots of snacks and a letter before I went to the train station. Then I took the train to Tokyo and reached the hotel Rie booked for me.
Again it’s so orz and申し訳ない, the hotel is a big one, with a green and red Christmas tree light decoration on the wall. 5 mins walk to the office.

The office is a nice building, with small but well equipped service office.
And now I’m sitting in the same room with Isa, she’s selling jobs on the call.