my foot

I have a hallux valgus. I don't remember when I felt a pain of the balls of my feet, but the history is very long. When I went shopping to buy the equipments of the deliver system I found a interesting device at the shoes floor. The device like a bath scale connected with the monitor, displaying the foot print that was gotton by a kind of thermography. I was interested in the device, so I asked the clerk waht it was. He told me the device is the measurement equipment which I can get my weight distribution of the bottom of my foot. As I expected, the distribution had a bias. The part where the device showed the weight most was the part of my ball. Also I was surprised at the fact that I didn't use my toe to stand. He told me this is the cause of the cold-natured. I need the special shoes to repair my foot weight distribution.

allergy to cedar pollen

I have had an allergy to cedar pollen since I was a junior highschool student. This season of the year I feel blue due to allergy rhinitis. This winter it was extremely cold, so it is said that few cedar pollen will fly off in the air. Every year, the rhinitis start to bother me from the end of January. However, this year is the same year as usual. I believe the savior is not only the severe winter but also KW lactic acid bacteria. I started to have KW lactic acid bacteria last December. According to recent study, KW lactic acid bacteria is good to boost the immune system's ability. It is said that the weakening of the immune system's ability cause an allegy to cedar pollen. I have had many trials over long periods of time, but all of them didn't satisfy me. I believe KW lactic acid bacteria is the savior for the people suffered from allergy to cedar pollen. I want to go to see the cherry blossoms without a mask, glasses, a hat and some medicine for allergy in April.

miracle!

Miracles happened! My grandmother came down with hemorrhaging of the brain around 5 years ago. It is said that the brain doesn't recover if it damages once. But the accepted notion was reversed by my grandmother. I went to the hospital where my grandmother was hospitalized today. For several years, she haven't spoken, moved, eaten, sometimes she opened her eyes. She was unconsious. However, when I went to the hospital to see her she replied to my voice and watched my face. When my father came to her bed she spoke to him "kacchan" which she had called my father before. Futhermore, she tried to speak something to us. She couldn't speak but she difinitely tried to speak something. I thought she will speak again in the near future. I felt her vitality and was encouraged by her energy of life.

Osaka institution

I have taken 2 picures in Osaka, the images of my cell-phone reminded me that. Both of the two are promotion of the store. I don't know why but I saw many eye-catching decorations as a lucky charm to highlight their own shops or restaurants in Osaka. I thought people in Osaka have made many efforts to increase his business.

come back home

I came back home tonight from Osaka. In Osaka, I had three pravate demos and joined one seminar. I ate kushiage and takoyaki and okonomiyaki in Osaka. All of them are the typical food that people in Osaka eat as usual. I don't hate a bussiness trip but it is exhausting to go a bussiness trip without fail. I suppose it is because long journey is to get us tired. I will go to bed after I take a bath from now.

business trip to Osaka

I am going to Osaka tomorrow to give some demonstrations of our system and attend a seminar. Last year, I also went to Osaka on business. I have gone to Osaka twice in my life. Since I work for this company, I have gone verious place both domestic and overseas. Spain, Los Ageles, San Diego were the place I went to overseas after I started this work. In Japan, I went to Hokkaido, Fukushima, Kanazawa, Nagoya, Tochigi, Osaka, Fukuoka. The places except Osaka were the place where I went for the first time after I work for this company. I knew that there were few place in Japan I have been to. I'd like to go around all over the world before I die. I want to go some World Heritage Sites.

severe winter

This season, the coldness is too hard to do something outdoor. In contrast to this hot summer, the winter is severe. Today was extremely cold. After I came to my office, I couldn't get off my coat. I wish spring has come tomorrow.

The drama of this term

I have liked TV drama since childhood. Typical children watch TV animation program but I prefered human drama to anime. It is difficult to watch drama series continuously because I couln't go home at the same time sach day. The dramas of this term are very nice. There are one or two dramas that I want to watch continually every term. But in this term, I want to watch over 3 dramas. One of the dramas was broadcasted today, and I watched. The drama is the 50th aniversary of the TV station drama, so it was made to spend a lot of money. It was worth seeing. I will continue to see the drama till the last story.

Gerhard Richter exhibition in the heavy snow

I went Gehard Richter exhibition at kawamura musium in Chiba. One of his representative painting method is to redraw on photoes. They were like photoes at the same time like paintings. I was interested in some mirrors and glass boards in the exhibition. The mirror was just a mirror, and glass board was just a glass board. My figure was reflected in the mirror or glass board. Did he want to express the figure reflected in the mirror or glass board? That is those who sees his work. It was interesting. In the separate issue, but it was heavy snow today. A lot of visitors had come to the exhibition in spite of the heavy snow.

travel to Izu

I traveled to Izu to relax in the hot spring bath. The hotel has only 8 rooms, which are all separate annex rooms and deferent from each other. Each room has a personal outdoor hot spring bath and big balcony from where we can look over the glorious view of the Pacific Ocean. The hotel just opened March last year. All rooms was made from the material of the old Japanese houses. Big black columns and beams were awesome. The dinner was very nice! The beautiful dish was good visually, too. When I was younger than now, I wanted to go abroad because the air ticket became cheaper than before and it cost much to travel abroad than domestic. But I thought it might be nice to go a little expensive domestic travel. Especially it is very cold this year, so I thought the hot spring was comfortable. In fact, I could relax and had a nice time!

iPod again

I put a lot of songs in my iPod after such a long while. First, I initialized the iPod conecting Neko's PowerMacG4 which had sold out when I got the iPod. I supposed the iPod was formatted with MacOS. After Heko's Mac was sold out at Yahoo auction, I tried to connect iPod to Windows, but the iPod was not recognized with WindowsPC. If I formatted it with Windows at first, the iPod seemed to recognize with both Mac and Windows. I never thought iPod wouldn't connect with both Mac and Windows. I thought iPod was like an external hard-disk. But the fact is not that. Now that there are no Macintosh in my room and I didn't back-up the songs I downloaded from iTune Music Store in my iPod, it is the only way to use it again that I deleted all data in my iPod and formatted it with Windows. I decided it today and I did. I will use it with Windows basically. Also I will use it to train English listening from today.

boookshelf has come

I got up early and did the cleaning because the new bookshelf would come to my house. I and Neko made the space for the new bookshelf together. There was other shelf at the space, so we moved the shelf to another space. After we finished lunch, the carrier came to seliver our bookshelf. We started to build it. For a limited time, I called Neko Toryo(master builder in Japanese) and Neko called me Josyu(assistant). Neko like machine tool and have many, so he fitted the shelf plates to its side plates. After all, we finished to build it evening. We put many books in the new shelf, which corresponded aproximately to about 10 cardboard boxes. I want to say "Good job" to us.

DigitalTV

I can see DigitalTV at my home. In Japan, Analog TV will not be broadcasted by 2011. About 1 month ago, The display of the LCD TV in my home was broken. The spot appeared on the display. I called the maker of the TV and asked to repair it. After 1 week the serviceman came home, the maker called me about the repair. He said, "It will take much time to repair your TV because of the shortage of the parts. We will change your TV to a new one." I was glad to hear that! It was good luck. But I thought the model might have a bug. Anyway, I could see "BUG's Life" on Digital TV today. It was a clear and beautiful.

trouble happened!

Today, a trouble happed at our customer! I work as a technical support person at my company. We sell some computer graphic related systems at our division. The customer installed one of the systems we sell last December, and they are pretty new in the system. About 9, I arraved at the customer's office. I felt blue at the time because they might have much frustration of beeing stuck. So I said cheerfully, "Good night!" to blow out the bad atmosphere. However, the atmosphere was not so bad. We tried some issue, then I knew what was not good. After all, it was impossible to clear the problem without one more PC. Tommorow they will clear the problem by using by 2 pcs. I hopeed it would work properly tommorow.

material desire

I suppose I have less material desire than ordinary people. On the other hand, my co-worker has more material desire than ordinary people. He have gotten his own car and house ever. And, a wife and a son. It apparently seems almost perfect life. Also he said he is pleased with his present life. But now that he got much, he wanted other new one, he said. As I asked to him, "What more do you want?", he answered, "Much bigger my home." I don't know his thought but I thought I might understand such feeling when I got my home, car, husband or son.

Orthodontist in January

I went to see a orthodontist today. The doctor always says "It is getting well little by little. Keep it up!". But today, the words the doctor said was not the same as ever. The next words was added, "Let's take a x-ray.". That is ...? I was glad to hear that and had to give a grin. Because I thought my stage in the teeth-straitened treatment was close to the end. I had thought it took about two years to straighten my teeth arrangement. The time I started this treatment was around last November. I think it is too short to finish the treatment. Maybe it will take a long while to fine-arrange. Even so, I am looking forward to seeing the picture of the x-ray next time.

junk mail

I receive a lot of junk mails everyday. The number of junk mails increased these days. The e-mail address of senders are XXX@yahoo.com or XXX@hotmail.com. The charactor of XXX changes everyday, so it is too difficult to shut out. Though I barred receiving from those senders, as the e-mail address changes everyday, I finally get some junk mails everyday. It's troublesome problem.

Adults' Day

Today was Adults' Day in Japan. Every year the ceremonies for the fresh adults of 20 have held all over Japan. For example, the twenty-year-old singer has a live in his local ceremony. Over 10 years ago, I attend the ceremony wearing kimono called as Furisode which has long sleeve . Only unmarried young woman can wear Furisode in Japan. I can't stand wearing Furisode all day since almost people is quite unused to wearing kimono. As you know the reason when you wear Furisode, it is too tight. Also you can't walk with long stride, and it is too tight to stuff yourself on festive food. I used to think people in the olden days were hard to do everything.

bookshelf

I bought a bookshelf unit and they will be deliverd next Sunday. Since I moved to this room 2 years ago, I and Neko have dreamed the day when we don't see cardboard box will come someday. The day is upcoming! The contents of the cardboard boxes are mainly books or papers of Neko. So I decided to buy bookshelf which was almost as tall as the ceiling. The bookshelf will be enough storage to arrange our books. We opened all cardboard boxes which we never touched since we moved here, took all the contents out, got rid of the unwanted things and also made enough space to build up the new bookshelf on next Sunday. I like cleaning up my room because I feel good. According to feng shui, good luck and money pour in the clean and arranged room.

Petti New Years Party

I held the New years party with my friends from collage days. But the number of friends who come at the party were only 3 included me. All the three are still single. The topic of the party were the story someone married last year or someone gave birth to a bay etc. Also we talked about us. "Will you marry this year?" "No, I have no plan to marry." "Really?" "Unfortunately no." Strange to say, we feel easy to hear those. We think we have at least one more year untill we marry, and we recognize the moratorium is extended. Of cource, if someone of us will marry we all give our blessing to her. But this is separate issue.

Happy new year!

I will re-try to write this blog this year from today. Also I start to work from today. Last year after TOEIC test I had been neglected this blog for a wile. My appetite for learning Enlish had decreased since TOEIC test. I suppose the low store of TOEIC test might be one of the causes. But the less I learn English, that is to write this blog, the lower my English skill become. I have only one choice.