Hi there! How are you doing? I am doing pretty good, pretty much busy for me .
When I was talking with Minoru the other day on the phone, he said that he felt despondent that the situation now is so different from how he imagined when he was younger like when he was 15 or 16. He was hikikomori (locked himself up in the house) while he was 15 to 20 for almost good six years, and when he was around 19, he saw Ryuichi Sakamoto on TV and adored him.

He started piano after that, practiced like eight hours a day for a while, but did not think that the image of him becoming a pianist fit. Anyways, he is running a internet book store (used only) right now. He reads lots of mail magazines (it is popular in Japan, that indivisuals provide a free (sometimes subscription fee) email magazine to people and tell what he/she thinks and that stuffs) many kinds and incluses some business ones. He thought what if he becomes famous in some day, then in what areas? He thought not in business, maybe in cultural areas. Two people told him that he would write a book someday, and that what I thought like after two months we met. I thought he would probably write a book on his life someday, about the rough time he had through his teen to early twenty.

Anyways, I don't know what I was writing so I will quit here haha. Does not make much sense in this blog does it? lol Well, would you like to become famous?? Me.... I guess I do. That is not a goal of course as it tends to be in early age like when we were on teen and early 20s but I would like to do something what I am interested in and being aware with that while I am alive . Let's our ass up and do all the things we want to do while we are a live! Shall we?!

Hi everyone! How are you doing in where you live??
I am doing pretty good . The eBay shop that I opened last month is going pretty well!! I became a bit close to some of the customers and feel very happy !!

I have a benefit selling things on eBay since a lot of people are not Japanese. I realised that if I become close to them, they might come back to me when they want something from Japan. I did not have that idea when I started, but I realised that when someone asked me to buy things for him in a future!! YAY. The person had a request on so called Want It Now on eBay. He wanted a zaisu (floor chair, look something like this). He had a link to a Japanese page, and claimed that he want something like that with reclining. He said something about he does not read Japanese, so I told him that that is the kind of zaisu that he was looking for and pasted the English page link that he probably can find the similar products. Then, he gave me an email that he already asked somebody for the zaisu but he wants to ask me for the future purchase. HEEHAA! So cool ne!! I was so glad!!!

So my eBay shop is going pretty nicely :D. Thanks to Linesy! The idea that I thought about selling things on eBay was that Linesy asked me to send him Japanese band's CDs that he likes very much!! (The CDs were all sold out in London) So, I really appreciate about you asked me about that! xoxo

OK. Different story.
UDMJA wrote about a face recognition site on his blog the other day. You can upload your pictures and find some celebrities that has similar look with you. I got these three people. What do you think?? I bet you think I am prettier  ?! *giggle*

Heya !
Yesterday, my house had an electric construction to install a new electric stove!! Yay!
I could not access to the computer since the construction but the new stove looks really niiiice .

Oh, about Minoru, he seems very tired these days. I think he works too hard. He is doing Japanese internet auction though, he tends to push himself too hard. He said he is going to take it easy for a week and get rest. I am thinking about buying him a cute calendar. This is the calendar I am thinking about. What is neat about this calendar is that the surface is like a white board. You can write with ink pen and erase them numerous times. I am thinking that if he writes the off day on the calendar it might help (he does not have off right now ). I am not sure if I will buy this or not yet. I want to buy him an alarm o'clock too to record my voice saying maybe 'Time to rest, time to rest!' for break and 'Good morning Minoru. Waaaaaaake up!' for morning etc. He wants to have a fountain pen, so.... let see what I can buy. His birthday is coming up next month!

My parents are being very nice to each other these days. I feel like this is the best time ever I have spending time in this house. I acknowledge myself as an adult children. I have just realised that my house have had a tense for a long time.
At my Grandpa's funeral, my Dad seemed to be being very mean by his brothers and sisters. My Mom had been being very mean by his mother (Grandma) and an evil sister (my evil aunt) for a long time. My Dad just seemed not want to listen to her for a long time, that some member of his family were mean to my mom. For the first time, my Dad listened to my mom. And that made her feel very safe in her mind. I am glad.

My parents have been very nice to each other past couple of days and I like watching it. I enjoy it. When my Grandma passed away seven years ago, I had mixture feeling, since most of my cousins are crying and sending her off, I was not very sad and just felt 'my Mom's hell with Grandma will be ended at last'. I wanted to feel sad like rest of my cousins, so I felt bad about my mother, made me listen to her story and hate my Grandma.... After Grandma passed away, my Mom's anger toward Grandma did not end and I felt so miserable. I thought it was going to be over!!! I told about that to my Mom the other day, and she admitted that it was odd that it did not end, cos she thought it was going to be an end. Anyways, I don't know what my Grandpa did though, my Mom is feeling very well and understood by my Dad and Grandpa. She was very uncomfortable being at the funeral being yelled by evil sisters in law and everything, but she felt like she heard Grandpa's voice that he thanked her for being there inspite of his daughters being mean to her. My mother is far from superstitious, but she felt like she heard a lot of nice things from Grandpa. So, she feels peace in her mind. I am happy. I know my Grandpa is happy up there now, doing nice things to my family and reunit my family.

I love you and thank you Grandpa.

My Grandpa passed away this morning (or last night, not sure). He was 93 years old.
We used to visit his house every summer and new year. When I think of him, an insident come up to my mind at first. Maybe that was when I was 5 or 6, I went to his house and went out the park near his house with my two big brothers. I got bored at the park and decided to go back alone. I took the wrong path, a street right up the Grandpa's house, and lost my way. I have decided to go back to the park, but there was a dog. He was chained, but I was too afraid to pass in front of him (he was even behind the fence of that house, however I was still frightened and could not pass, since he was barking so loud!). I started crying helplessly..... Then Grandpa appeared as a knight! and took my hand, I believe, and took me back to his house.

The last time I saw him was two years ago or three, when I lived in Nara. I had not seen him for a long time, I just wanted to see him and visited his house. I thought he was alone since it was weekday but there was my evil aunt (she was not evil... when I was, well when she was younger), giving me a look and told me 'Who are you? (obviously she knew who I was of course. That's why she gave me that evil look)' and 'what are you doing all the sudden not visiting here for a long time' etc etc told me all the bad things about my Dad (her brother) and Mom. She eventually told me it was ok for me but not my parents to visit Grandpa (why does my Dad need her permission to see his Dad?? Anyways...). However I was sort of tired to go visit again after that. I hope Grandpa's life was a happy one and hope he will be happy up in somewhere now on.
I loved you very much and hope that I visited you more often.

Love and kisses,

Sorry for who left a message on my guestbook yesterday! That person had some indian kind name (at least to me ;p) blog on 20six, and was new to leave a message on my blog. Sorry I mistakenly erased your message this morning, since there were some evil spam messages with yours and I erased yours instead of erasing the spammer's. If you come again here, please do leave a message again, will you? So sorry to erase your message! I do want to go visit your site so, please leave a message or comment on my blog again. Sorry and thank you in beforehand!!

Hi, I have not written much so far this year. So as on my Japanese blog, and realised why...
I started selling things on eBay a couple days ago, my booth name is japaneedz! I felt a bit busy with those so, hehe. (Oh guess what?! Somebody put some of my items on their watching lists yay! Buy them----!! lol) I am selling things Japanese. I did some researches in 'Want it Now!' section on the eBay with keyword 'Japanese', and came across the word 'yaoi'. It seems like a love between man and man. I did not know there are special category like that in manga(?).

I bought some calenders on the way to band practice yesterday. They were on sale and there were some Japanese calender with Utamaro pictures, and other pictures like Kyoto, Mt. Fuji, cute kitten pictures by Akio Watanabe whom I like quite much. I have sent his cat's postcard to my brother before . I am thinking about selling yaoi manga and figure of manga characters, maybe CDs of Japanese singer or other coutries's singer with bonus tracks of Japanese release version. Do you have any ideas selling on eBay?? If you do, please let me know!! I will appreciate it ! I will not sell you my e-Daddy Xingxing, so you don't have to be worried!! lol (When I was talking to him on MSN, I told him started selling things on eBay, he got worried lol! Such a sweet e-Daddy!)

Tomorrow, I am heading to Nara to Minoru yay! So I might be lazy blogging again ;p!