Last dinner for 2010

White wine from Austria that I had tonight.

"Sashimi", a plate of raw fish.

"Toshikoshi Soba", a Soba dish specially cooked for the New Year's Eve.

I'm now quietly spending the last few hours of 2010 in my room. I can easily recall what I've been through this year. How much valuable it was!

I'm now wondering what the year 2011 and I are gonna be like....

Life in a Quiet storm

A cozy bar near my flat.

"Quiet Storm Amagasaki"

I don't need to go out to the Centre of Osaka for drinks.

Beauty below zero temparature

Harsh weather in central Europe always covers the lands with snow.

But the beauty in winter time seems to be somehow different from ours.

Anyway, the beauty is just the beauty.

Stolen brassiere!?

Look at this guy!

Can you see what he is selling?

Bras!!!!

At a former republic platz in Zagreb, Croatia.

It must be for gays!?

Sometime ago, I saw a TV program introducing a toilet for guys who transformed their sexuality as ladies in Thailand.

I happened to find this funny sign at a restaurant in Croatia.

I wondered why one of his legs had to lean on the other....

Any guess?

Christmas atomspher in Paris

A huge Christmas tree at Galeries lafayette in Paris. Everyone looked excited taking a photo of the tree. Ooops, a bald-headed guy!!!

A hot carrot soupe plate at a cozy cafe in Paris.

Beautiful Christmas illumination at L'Avenue des Champs-Élysées.

Christmas gift from a F-ing coach driver

A surprise gift from Patrick, a French bus driver.

It's so cute!

Lucky color!?

I chose a blue jacket one day by chance, and the christmas tree at the airport is also blue.

What a nice coincidence!

37th anniversary

Spending a quiet night with various cozy music from a radio program,

I'm wishing my life a further progress accompanied with wonderful experience and smiles.

I'm glad to notice that I myself am smiling at my life so far...

A day in Kobe 2

A day in Kobe 1

The next with my new passport

I renewed my passport which will be valid for the next 5 years.

I don't want to think about the future, but can't stopping hoping that it (my new passport) will lead me to the steps to a great life.

"Be hungry! Be foolish!"

Yeah, I'm foolish enough to take this path, but no regrets even if I've lost someone, something special.

I'm sure that all will come back to me again when it is ready.

Such is life....

You taught it to me, eh!?

It becomes a masochistic toy for pleasure

Do you ever know that "masochistic"(the opposite is "sadistic") just is defined like "Self-defeating personal disorder" in Wikipedia? Funny!!!

"SELF-DEFEATING"

I bought an Acupuncture pointer today, a traditional Japanese one.

Yeah, it is really "SELF-DEFEATING", nothing but painful.... ,

but I feel now addicted to those pains.

"OMG, I am a masochistic guy."

Legends never die...

I wish I could complete my life feeling like this song, though it is too early to reach the state of mind.

Anyway, she is Ms.Misora/Hibari, a great legendary Japanese singer. Unfortunately, we can't not listen to her voice any more live, but she is singing in our hearts.

There are many craps in music, but she is a real.

No music is no life, but always with real ones.

"The spirit of Australia" is burning down...

The sequence emergecy landings of Quantas' A380 and B747-400 reminded me of what I had experienced several months ago on a A380 flight between Paris-Dubai.

Our flight was cursing at over 10000m about an hour after we took off. The crews were preparing for meal service, but I suddenly heard a huge bang sound somewhere from under the aircraft. I just thought that it wasn't the sound we should not hear at this over sea level....

A few seconds later we heard the sound, the captain called a service manager on the phone, and then he entered the cockpit. Right after he got out, he took a phone, called all the crew menbers, and told something emergency.... I felt....

It was a moment that the atomspher inside the aircraft changed into a sort of tence. The crew started preparing something with the seatbelt singns turned on. It was very easy to notice it for me because I was sitting at one of front lows.

"Oh no... We are going back to Paris....!"

That's what I tought. I'm a very optimistic person, and never thought of crush or something emergency landing stuff. My intuition just told me that it was not going to be serious.

The captain officially made an announcement about an engine trouble of the aircraft, and gave us an appology for the return to Paris.

We were lucky enough to return to Paris safely, but had to que for the accomodations offered by Emirates. Some of the passengers were very angry about the situations, but they should've felt lucky that they were still alive.

Even if no matter how much fast I rushed into the que, the situation was the same. I just didn't want to get into the tence, so I politely asked my clients to wait untile I came back, and I started quing almost at the end.

Can you imagine what we got?

The over-night accomodation at Hilton airport for my group!!! Most of the passenger were sent to standard hotels at the airport, but only my group got a superior one!!!

In Japanese proverbs, "The left-over draws always come with a luck."

See, it is right!

5 Year's memories

Not all of them, but very precious ones.

All smiles by chance healed my heart.

As long as a way is ahead of me,

I'll walk in the future on my way....