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Posted at Mon Mar 23 13:46:02 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/110391 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/110391 yukiusagi0408 Mon Mar 23 13:46:02 UTC 2009 The room should have been allowed to have a cat.
At least, a real estate agency and a room owner agreed that.
The room was small, but my husband and I decided to rent it because of being able to having a cat.
We paid application fee and we've been waiting for the result of examination.
Yesterday, our broker called me and said "I'm sorry that it seems that you can't be allowed to have a cat at that room. The room owner himself admit the agreement but it seems that the condo association board will reject it at the meeting which will be held on next Monday..."
What!?
I can't belive that...
Now we don't have a cat, but we want.
We thought we'll be able to have a cat in our new room...we dreamed of it...
We had to find a room again...so I'm busy again...

Posted at Sun Mar 22 14:57:44 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/109842 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/109842 yukiusagi0408 Sun Mar 22 14:57:44 UTC 2009 I'm in Tokyo now. I came here from Kyoto by local trains as I wrote yesterday. I used seishun 18 kippu(青春18切符). This is sold at the price of 11,500yen during spring, summer and winter vacation seasons. This is five-ticket set of one day travelcard. You can get on and off the local train all day long, but you can't use an express train or shinkansen. You're allowed to get on local trains. However, if you're in Japan and you don't have much money and you have enough time, it's worth using.
However, I have an advice. Please don't use it under last-minutes travel plan. Because, sometimes trouble may happen and then train may delay...

Posted at Mon Mar 16 17:37:17 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/106290 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/106290 yukiusagi0408 Mon Mar 16 17:37:17 UTC 2009 I'm planning to go there by local train.
I live in Kyoto so it takes about 9 hours.
It'll be a very long way and I must be tired.
But I can go there approximately 2,300yen because there's a special local train ticket at this time.

Posted at Mon Mar 16 02:04:01 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/105811 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/105811 yukiusagi0408 Mon Mar 16 02:04:01 UTC 2009 However, he finally got a new job a few days ago. His wage offer was lower than we expected but it was better than his current salary. He decided to change his jobs and we're going to move to Tokyo. I'm going to leave here for Tokyo to find our new flat within a few days.

Posted at Sat Mar 14 15:15:55 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/105125 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/105125 yukiusagi0408 Sat Mar 14 15:15:55 UTC 2009 Spring is congenial climate and there're a lot of flowers outside.
Walking become more fun than winter and genial climate makes people happy.
I love this season!
And there's another reason I like it.
We use a gas heater during winter and gas fee goes sky-high...
In winter season, our gas fee becomes three times as expensive as usual.
Every time I'm afraid to look at the gas bill in winter.
It'll end!

Posted at Fri Mar 13 16:13:29 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/104548 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/104548 yukiusagi0408 Fri Mar 13 16:13:29 UTC 2009 I had to saute them in the deep pot but crab shells were too much. I had to stir them up and down and this work was not easy because of the amount of shells. I should have separeted them in two part and I should have made it twice...
Finally I finished to make it and it tasted good. I iced it up in cube and I use it little by little. I add it for tomato sauce or curry sause as a hidden flavor. It makes cooking good! I think it's worth cooking.

Posted at Fri Mar 13 06:32:56 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/104208 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/104208 yukiusagi0408 Fri Mar 13 06:32:56 UTC 2009 My friend herself runs a cafe. She often goes to tour of cafes for her job and I went along with her. She's five years younger than I and she has been a successful. I feel respect for her. She has excellent taste in furniture. And of course, she's good at cooking, making sweets. She selected the location near a famous department in the center of Kyoto city. The building was really old at first. However, her cafe is thriving and the owner of the building reformed the building and now it became clean.

Posted at Thu Mar 12 10:54:12 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/103689 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/103689 yukiusagi0408 Thu Mar 12 10:54:12 UTC 2009 What I saw yesterday were childish fake koinobori. I don't like them. Why are famous animation character depicted in them? Why are they sold at the candy section?
Some children may want them, but I think it isn't good for them. To buy these odd goods may destroy their sense of beauty. I hate such a commercial goods.

Posted at Wed Mar 11 11:57:10 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/103057 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/103057 yukiusagi0408 Wed Mar 11 11:57:10 UTC 2009 Yesterday, he received the sad news of his death. He died during his work. He's bringing a black necktie for his friend. (In Japan, men attend a funeral with black suit and tie.)
He must be tired when he come home...

Posted at Tue Mar 10 03:48:59 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/102199 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/102199 yukiusagi0408 Tue Mar 10 03:48:59 UTC 2009
I recall that President Obama blamed bank managers on their big reward.Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke accused AIG recently.It seems that bankers behavior is unacceptable for American with good sense.I'm relief to hear that.However, this is a difficult problem I think...I doubt top bankers goings-on, but they might just act according to the rule of capitalism.

Posted at Mon Mar 09 05:04:09 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/101566 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/101566 yukiusagi0408 Mon Mar 09 05:04:09 UTC 2009 This is Japanese apricot(plum).
Now is the best time to see it.
The flower has five petals, sometimes double flower.
Its color is red, white or pink..
I like it because its flower is pretty and smells nice.
Birds come to suck nectar from its flower.
It's a touching sight.
Here's another flower; jinchouge(沈丁花　金边瑞香/Daphne odora).
The flower is quiet but its perfume is strong.
Both flowers announce the end of winter.

Posted at Sun Mar 08 05:24:45 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/100935 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/100935 yukiusagi0408 Sun Mar 08 05:24:45 UTC 2009 I went to Indian curry restaurant just now.
There's a delicious one near my flat.
Unfortunately, I have a canker sore and got scalded a little in the mouth.
Now I'm not confortable with hot and spicy meal...
My husband and his brother wanted to eat it.
I couldn't refuse it because I love their curry very much.
Their food was fabulous as usual, but I couldn't eat them to my content.
I ate nan dipping slightly with curry.
When I recover fully, I'd like to eat it again...

Posted at Sat Mar 07 12:15:21 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/100534 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/100534 yukiusagi0408 Sat Mar 07 12:15:21 UTC 2009 I don't have to go out when it rain, because I'm a homemaker.
Many people have to work even if it rain.
I'm lucky.
Instead, I have a problem while I'm at home.
I usually teach myself English at my free time.
I often feel the urge to have coffee and snack.
Therefore, I drink several cup of coffee and have a lot of snack a day.
It's not good for my health and addition to that it takes money.
Fortunately, I'm thin at the moment, but I don't know what'll happen to me in the future if this goes on.
I think I have better get a job as soon as possible.

Posted at Fri Mar 06 04:41:47 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/99768 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/99768 yukiusagi0408 Fri Mar 06 04:41:47 UTC 2009 I think it's bad for my health, but I can't stay away from it.
The price of poteto chips has increased little by little.
That's why I buy a big size bag of potato chips these days.
Its amount is twice as much as regular one, and the price is less than twice.
I buy it because of price, so I have to eat it in twice.
However, I can't stop eating it sometimes.
I think I had better buy a bit expensive regular pack...

Posted at Thu Mar 05 09:38:21 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/99302 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/99302 yukiusagi0408 Thu Mar 05 09:38:21 UTC 2009 Hinamatsuri is the Japanese doll festival for girls.
It is held on March 3rd
The festival hopes healthy growth of girls.
Each family with girls sets up special dolls; hinaningyou(雛人形).
Dolls wear Heian period costume.
Full scale hinaningyou is gorgeous doll set.
It includes 15 dolls and luxurious accessories.
The set is very expensive and its size is large.
Therefore, few family have a full scale set, many family have a plain set.
However, I didn't have even a plain version, I envied my friend who had the full scale hinaningyou.
On the other hand, I didn't want to have it.
It was delicate and fragile.
My friend's set was occasional-breaking.

Posted at Wed Mar 04 09:20:08 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/98672 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/98672 yukiusagi0408 Wed Mar 04 09:20:08 UTC 2009 After my husband went to work, I decided to lie on my futon(Japanese-style bedding) for a while.
Of course, I fell asleep.
I knew it might be happening...
When I got up again, It passed 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
However, I'm still tired.
I guess slept too much this time...
It's difficult to get the right amount of sleep.

Posted at Tue Mar 03 09:43:30 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/97995 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/97995 yukiusagi0408 Tue Mar 03 09:43:30 UTC 2009 I wonder if this is a local disease in Japan.
It is said that cedar pollen afflict 20 percent of Japanese.
Kafunshou causes people to decrease their productivity.
Fortunately, I don't come down with this symptom at the moment, but I can't feel secure.
Everybody has possibilities to get kafunshou.
Rest of Japanese are afraid of developing of kafunshou.

Posted at Mon Mar 02 03:07:56 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/97128 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/97128 yukiusagi0408 Mon Mar 02 03:07:56 UTC 2009 I can use it at some level, but I'd like to improve my skill.
I'm thinking of taking an exam of MS office specialist, but the examination fee is expensive...
Anyway, do you know the summary text function for MS office Word?
This function summarizes texts automatically.
Do you think it's wizardly?
Why can the softwafe summarizes texts?
It's difficult for human beings sometimes.
It's kind of odd.

Posted at Sun Mar 01 07:40:34 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/96626 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/96626 yukiusagi0408 Sun Mar 01 07:40:34 UTC 2009 Do you know the girl's comic: Glass Mask(Garasu no kamen/ガラスの仮面)?
This is a success story of a poor girl.
She's becoming a talented stage actress while overcoming difficulties.
This comic is very popular because of the excitement of its story.
On the other hand, the author is notorious for not writing continuation for years.
Last summer, she finally restart the series, and then I started to browse a magazine when it is published.
Volume 43 comic book was published for the first time in 5 years last month.
Of course, I bought it.
Well, when do you think it started?
It started in 1976!!!
Addition to that, she often rewrites the story.
When she publishes a comic book, the story has changed from the story which had published in magazine.
Sometimes, the change is drastically!!!
Fan are worried about whether or not the ending comes before we die...

Posted at Sat Feb 28 09:05:02 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/96106 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/96106 yukiusagi0408 Sat Feb 28 09:05:02 UTC 2009 It seems like rainy season.
I don't like rainy days.
I don't feel up to going out when it rains.
It's worse than rainy season, because it's still winter and temperature is low.
Cold rain might cause cold.
It seems like a contradiction, but I like snow.
Snow make me happy.
Of course, sleet is unpleaseant...

Posted at Fri Feb 27 03:49:05 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/95433 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/95433 yukiusagi0408 Fri Feb 27 03:49:05 UTC 2009 Do you know that?
Lasik is surgical procedure for correcting nearsightedness.
I'm extremely shortsighted, I can do nothing but using glasses or contact lens.
This surgery is like a dream for me.

Yesterday I saw the news about lasik.
67 people who had lasik surgery at one eye clinic acquired a infection and two of them are hospitalized.
It is said that it was caused by the eye clinic's poor sanitary condition.
Surprisingly, the eye doctor knew that some people contacted an infection in October last year.
I thought it was terrible.

Posted at Thu Feb 26 05:44:36 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/94868 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/94868 yukiusagi0408 Thu Feb 26 05:44:36 UTC 2009 They throw off strong light from their building to stand out at night.
I hate it!

It seems that their business is so successful.
It is said that a recession makes them busy.
Some people dream of making money at a stroke at times like this.
Of course, most of them lose money.

Posted at Wed Feb 25 10:07:01 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/94352 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/94352 yukiusagi0408 Wed Feb 25 10:07:01 UTC 2009 We have recently been acquainted with each other.
At that time, we walked around near a fancy Japanese-style restaurant where my wedding reception was held.
I said that my wedding place was near here.
Naturally, they asked me what's the name of the Japanese restaurant.
Well...
Let me see...

Oh, no!!!!!
Did I forget the name of our wedding reception place???
I can't believe this!!!
I only remember that the name uses three letter.
After a little, I remembered their name uses kanji '彌' as a last word.
But I was not sure...
I couldn't remember after 30 minutes.

And, several nameboard appeared.
One of them was the answer...
Hey, everybody! I found the nameboard at last....It was saami(左阿彌).

I never talk about it to my husband.

Posted at Tue Feb 24 12:28:41 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/93787 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/93787 yukiusagi0408 Tue Feb 24 12:28:41 UTC 2009 One was the Garden Oriental Kyoto and the other was Chorakukan(長楽館).

First one is a restaurant and a party place.
They use well-known Japanese-style painter Seiho Takeuchi's mansion built 80 years ago.
The building gives the flavor of high life of that age in Japan.
Their garden is carefully maintained, food is delicious.
Lunch time lowest menu is 1,320yen.
You can also use it as a cafe.
The price for a cup of coffee is 440yen.

Second one is a restaurant/cafe and a hotel.
The building is Renaissance style, rococo and art nouveau.
It was built by Japanese tabacco milionaire 100 years ago.
A cup of coffee costs 700yen.
I think it's a little bit expensive, but it's worth while.
This is an extraordinary place, you'll feel elegant.
Needless to say, the hotel bill is quite expensive.

Both are located near Kiyomizu Temple(清水寺).
Why don't you use them as a cafe?

Posted at Mon Feb 23 14:22:55 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/93255 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/93255 yukiusagi0408 Mon Feb 23 14:22:55 UTC 2009 I intended to appreciate it.
I should have bought a ticket in advance, then I couldn't forget about it!!
There's one of the largest pipe organ in western Japan.
I didn't know that till recently, and I've never been there.
However, it seems that it is rarely performed.
What a waste!
Next concert involving a pipe organ is...in late April.

Almost every concert hall in Japan has a pipe organ.
If they use it rarely, a portable one is enough.
A deluxe pipe organ must be costly to maintain.

Posted at Sun Feb 22 05:35:35 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/92305 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/92305 yukiusagi0408 Sun Feb 22 05:35:35 UTC 2009 This was his first challenge for US golf tour.
However, he was very nervous and he missed the cut.
He's 17 year-old, there's no need to be worry.
He has already got two other chances before the Masters Golf Tournament.
Keep an eye on his future growth!

Posted at Sat Feb 21 09:13:16 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/91831 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/91831 yukiusagi0408 Sat Feb 21 09:13:16 UTC 2009 Jam sandwich cookies, kinako cookies and chocolate fondant.
The first was kind of strange in the way of baking.
It baked in the frying pan, not in the oven.
However, it was difficult than we thought.
We had to turn over them, but cookie dough was becoming very soft and it was hard to do so.
We destroyed some pieces of cookies...
Taste was good, but we were tired of baking in the frying-pan.
So, we baked the left of the cookie dough in the oven.

The second was easy to make recipe, then taste was so-so.
Do you know kinako? It's soybeans powder.

Then, third was chocolate dessert.
I had made the same dessert a few days ago, so I tried another recipe.
This time, I choosed more conplicated recipe, but the prior recipe was better...
Yumminess isn't always proportional to the difficulty.

Posted at Fri Feb 20 14:51:57 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/91461 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/91461 yukiusagi0408 Fri Feb 20 14:51:57 UTC 2009 He's a 17 year-old Japanese professional golfer.
Now he's very popular in Japan.
This year, he is invited to the Masters Golf Tournament and some other oversea golf tournaments.
It proves that his potential.
But this is not the only reason he has a high popularity.
He always speaks humbly in interviews.
He's sometimes asked same question from various interviewers.
But he always replies it politely.
He's a pleasant person.
I am not interesting in golf at all, but I'm behind him.
I think many Japanese dream that he'll win the Masters Golf Tournament in the future...
His name is worth to remember!

Posted at Thu Feb 19 09:18:10 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/90665 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/90665 yukiusagi0408 Thu Feb 19 09:18:10 UTC 2009 Especially, it become harder for me in winter.
Unfortunately, my husband has same trouble, too.
When my husband's holiday, we get up at noon.

Today is his holiday and we got up at noon...
When we got up later, we felt like we spoil a day...
We hope to get up early as just like everybody else.

Posted at Wed Feb 18 06:42:49 UTC 2009
]]> http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/90014 http://lang-8.com/14607/journals/90014 yukiusagi0408 Wed Feb 18 06:42:49 UTC 2009