My new blog on eBay. I have been thinking to start my blog of eBay Store and thinking on platform27, but hey eBay seems to have it's own blog! Excellent! on my eBay blogging, it will not have much sexy talk as I do on here, but I will write about things Japanese and stuff like that so please do come visit there too!! But please bahave on the comment Daxy-baby, not get too sexy on the blog please !

11.9.06 04:19 Permalink / 16 Comments / comment

Children's day Tomorrow May 5th is children's day here in Japan. We put up Koinobori (things like that on the pic) and celebrate. Well this day is mainly to celebrate boy since we have girl's day on March 3rd. Anyways, I wonder if other country like China have this sort of custom?!?! We also display Kabuto for boy kids. For more about this Children's day (Kodomo no hi in Japanese) please see here!! Oh man! I have became so lazy!!! lol!

4.5.06 01:05 Permalink / 13 Comments / comment

Hi y'all!! Hi friends!! How have you been? Sorry that I have not written back the comment to those who visited last couple weeks! Gome----n ne!!! I will write when I upload this one! I have been sort of busy doing eBaying and other stuffs. My eBay Store have buch of stuffs now yay!! Come and look please, you don't have to buy haha !! Well you can, if you find something you like though hehhe! On April 8th I went to O-hanami (literally translated as seeing flower, go see cherry blossom, simple 'flower' means cherry blossom sometimes in Japan) with my family, Mom, Dad and my brother to Miyajima! As you can see on wikipedia here, oh not, erm... Miyajima is known as one of the three most beautiful views in Japan. This one at bottom is the map of Miyajima island. I think we went through the Miyajima Port (the lower left on the map) to somewhere around Daishoin Temple (upper right on the map). The island is so small and the distance we moved around was not far at all. It was very nice walking around the island . There were lots of foreign visiters on the island and I talked to two group of people from abroad . I talked to a family looked like American with two little children. The father was taking picture of the kids and the wife so I offered that if he wants me to take all the member in a picture, and he said yes, so I took one . The other one was two boys appearantly 20 or something, trying to buy a can beer from vending machine (yes we have vending machine for alcohol, that people from other countried find it different), the money kept coming back so I talked to them in Japanese 'doushitano? (is something wrong)'  The one guy was pretty fluent in Japanese by chance and we talked in Japanese . The picture at top is the picture I took by my cell phone camera. The red pagoda is the five-storied Pagoda on the map I reckon.

12.4.06 07:04 Permalink / 16 Comments / comment

Osechi Ryori - foods we eat on New Year Ok, I feel a bit lazy right now to write lots on this, so I will go brief. gomen-ne (sorry)! Maybe I will write more on this topic next New Year 2007 *giggle*! So Osechi Ryori is something we eat on New Year's day. There are many ingredients put in Osechi, which has certain meaning of celebration or wishes. Briefly go over the ingredients that pointed in the above picture. * satoimo --- taro, since many taros would grow in one stalk, so taros put in Osechi for wish for famliy thrive (that the family would have many children and grandchildren and so on) * kuromame --- black( = kuro) soybeans( = mame), mame also means healthy in Japanese so, people put it in for wish of health for heading year * gomame --- small dried sardines cooked in sweetened soy sauce, in Edo period (1603 - 1867), anchovies (sardines) were used as high-quality manure. Put in for good harvest.  * kamaboko --- boiled fish paste, as you can see in the picture  we put red and white kamaboko(can you see it? it actually pink and white), in Osechi. The combination of red and white is considered as a happy color. * ebi --- lobster, prawn or shrimp, put for wish of longlife, since ebi has long antenna = mustache, and bended back, it resembled an old person. * kazunoko --- herring roe, wish for family thrive * konbu-maki --- kelp roll, wish for joy, since joy is pronouced yorokobu in Japanese. Came from the similarity of the sound. * kurikinton (kachiguri) --- mashed sweet potatoes containing sweetened chestnuts. kuri (guri) is a chestnut in Japanese, and we call a dried chestnut kachiguri. kachi also means to win in Japanese. So it is considered auspicious also it is put for its beautiful golden color (dark yellow?). Sorry I was going to do it briefly though it became long and I got quite tired lol! Sorry for the unkind explanation at the end! Wait for the next year falks. Thank you !! P.S. I found a picture about how taros grow. Oh, yes a lot of taros in one stalk?! I really cannot tell where is the stalk though hehe .

10.1.06 12:26 Permalink / 37 Comments / comment

porridge we eat on Jan 7th         These are herbs, seven in total as you can see, we put in porridge on Jan 7th and eat. From top left from right to down, Seri, Nazuna, Gogyo, Hakobera, Hotokenoza, Suzuna and Suzushiro. I have not written on Osechi ryori (dishes) yet, the special dishes we eat on New Year's day. Well, for Osechi ryori, I will write on it some other times. Ok, about this porridge. We call it 'Nanakusa-gayu'. 'nana' is seven in Japanese, 'kusa' is grass or herb and 'gayu (kayu)' is porridge or gruel in Japanese. So whole thing, 'Nanakusa-gayu' means a porridge with seven herbs in it . I ate this on 7th. The kayu itself would look like this below. Pretty isn't it? All herbs have its effect(s). * Seri --- help digestion and good for jaundice * Nazuna --- good for eyesight, get rid of cold and good for five viscera * Gogyo --- get rid of nausea, phlegm and fever * Hakobera --- good for urination * Hotokenoza --- heal toothache * Suzuna --- good for diarrhea * Suzushiro --- get rid of phlegm The Osechi ryori is rather strongly seasoned since its aim, to last long, to enable house keeper to rest while on the New Year day. So this porridge is good to ease the stomoch after eating strongly seasoned Osechi ryori, and it is also eaten to wish family's happiness and good health for the heading year.

8.1.06 19:08 Permalink / 7 Comments / comment

teaching mrs. tingle Saw this movie about 10 days ago. Katie Holmes was on the movie. Well, that's enough for this movie (so short !!). Well Mrs. Tingle was an evil lady in the movie, and my mother has been quite evil recently, maybe from couple days ago.  She went to sento last night. She came back around 11pm when I was playing game, 'zoo keeper' on the net, she was asking to open the door key, I did not want to go and open but I knew she went to sento (public bathing place) so I felt I should open the key for her so her body won't get too cold. Anyways, after I opened the door key and came back to the computer, the game was not over so I played the rest. I told her that I was playing the game and it was nice of me to go and open the door for her, she gave me an very evil look and sit there unhappily. I could not figure out why she acted that way but I could tell she was in a bad mood (I know the reason now. She went to see my grandpa (father in law for her) to the hospital on Sunday and saw her evil sister in law and being told bunch of unpleasant things so.... My aunt is such an unhappy person. She gives people bad feelings when people see her lol. Poor aunt). Today, I talked with Xingxing and his chopped chin-chin this afternoon around 13:30-14:00 and then talked with Minoru on the phone and took a nap. I woke up around 17:30 when my mom woke me up with a very evil voice. Since I took a nap, I did not do the dishes for today's lunch (washing dishes is sort of my tole in my house ). When I got up and went to the kitchen, she was being very puri-puri (the sound(?) of anger; you may not be able to view this site properly since it contains some Japanese characters) and started to yell at me 'Do what you got to do!!!' Since I was getting up I was thinking about her bad mood last night and imagining what would she reacts if I would yell at her when she was on that kind of mood. So I yelled her back at the kitchen 'Shut up!' she said 'What?!' so I said 'Stop being so kari-kari (nervous and bichy)!' and she stopped. I guess it worked. I usually do not yell at her. And her bad mood keeps going on. Today I tried (it was kind of experiment hehe) to yell her and saw what happens. I may try that sometimes from now on, but I will not do that too often since then it probably will not work as it did today . Such an evil and clever topo .

15.12.05 12:03 Permalink / 14 Comments / comment

MAKE OUT WITH JAPANESE --- Part 7 (part name of your body: FINAL!) Oh, I have been so lazy, I havn't up my Japanese lesson blog for a month!! Sorry students. Ok, let's go on to our lesson 'part names of our body', oh and do not forget to ask for comdom for the first thing everyone all right?! That's right Xingxing  'condohmu-wo-tsukeyou' (let's wear a condom) for boys and 'condohmu-wo-tsukete' (wear a condom) for girls . Ok, let's go friends! 1) (o)HEso --- bellybutton 2) koShi --- the small of the back 3) chin-chin --- penis, dick 4) (o)shiRI --- hip, bottom 5) Kohmon --- anus (oh... keep it clean everyone !) 6) futomomo --- thigh 7) hiZA --- knee 8) fukuRAhagi --- the calf of the leg 9) aSHIkubi --- ankle 10) ashi-no-ura --- sole 11) tsuma-saki --- tiptoe Are you guys getting tired of this part name of body lesson? I am... . Maybe have some other interesting things on topic. If you have any suggestions, let me know!!!

5.12.05 05:56 Permalink / 40 Comments / comment

 [next page]