Arima Cider

Last night I drank with one of my ex-coworkers to celebrate her graduation from university and resignation from her part-time job for 4 years.



And there, you know I can't drink, I ordered "有馬サイダー (Arima Cider)".

Arima Cider, or Teppo Water, is a popular drink in Arima Onsen in Kobe (→http://www.arima-onsen.com/eng/index.html)

On the label it states that carbonated water gushing from the ground had been thought to be poisonous and been afraid of, but later served as the origin of Japanese cider.




I think it's a robust soda with less sugar.


Showa flavor and taste!! (^o^)

Nagatomo's 1st Goal in Italy

Inter Milan demolished Genoa 5-2 with a stunning second-half display at the San Siro to keep up the chase of AC Milan at the top of Serie A.


But on this time we have to put an eye on the fantastic play of Yuto Nagatomo.

He scored his first goal for Inter in the 84th minute!!


Beautiful goal, isn't it? ＼(≧▽≦)／




Nagatomo got his best evaluation 6.5 points from the bitter critical magazine "La Gazzetta dello Sport".

And it also showed us an unique performance with a Japanese word 先輩(sempai).

Inter teammates including Eto'o, Sneijder and the captain Javier Zanetti jokingly exchanged a Japanese-style bow with Nagatomo after the left back's close-range leftfoot effort hit the top of the net.



Congratulations, Yuto Nagatomo!! (^o^)

Latest Purikura

Yesterday my friends and I took some photos in the purikura machine.



Purikura is the photo sticker booth and it's quite popular among the girls in Japan.



I've never used that machine since I graduated from high school.





I was so surprised to see myself in the photos because my eyes got bigger and my face got smaller.


Hmm...much thinner cheek than actual.

......Yuck...creepy me! (´Д｀)



Anyway, cute girls in purikura photos must be treacherous!!

J-League 2011 Open

A new season of J-League 2011 opens this weekend.



The openers are like this.


[Saturday, March 5th]

○Kashiwa Reysol v.s. Shimizu S-Pulse
○Kawasaki Frontale v.s. Montedio Yamagata
○Ventforet Kofu v.s. Jubilo Iwata
○Nagoya Grampus v.s. Yokohama F・Marinos
○Gamba Osaka v.s. Cerezo Osaka
○Sanfrecce Hiroshima v.s. Vegalta Sendai
○Avispa Fukuoka v.s. Albirex Niigata



[Sunday, March 6th]

○Kashima Antlers v.s. Omiya Ardija
○Vissel Kobe v.s. Urawa Reds





I hope that Urawa Reds will win the opener.


But I also want to support Vissel Kobe's #26 forward player Kohei Mishima (→http://www.vissel-kobe.co.jp/first-team/mishima.html).


He and I were in the same class when we were 8th graders.

Also he was just next to me in the attendance book.




We used to play soccer during the lunch break, and I noticed that his play had already been quite well.


I love Urawa Reds, but I really want to see his play in the professional soccer game!!

Sakura Is Here

Drinking coffee now.

I ordered SAKURA latte.

It's a little difference between the picture outside and my actual one.

Hmm......but it smells fine.(´∀｀)

We'll be soon in Sakura season!

Hair Cut

I cut my hair by myself this morning.


I don't like to have my hair cut and washed at the beauty salon, so I've cut my hair for more than five years.




Actually it's still difficult to cut the back side of my hair.


But I think it's not so difficult to cut the other parts with the thinning shears.

Also I can save time and money.



Boys, how about cutting your hair by yourself? ＼(^o^)／

aicezuki

What an inexcusable behavior behind my birthday.




Some entrance examination questions at Kyoto University were uploaded to the Yahoo! Japan question-and-answer bulletin board called "知恵袋 (Chiebukuro)" from a mobile phone during the test time.


The alleged cheater, who used the online pseudonym "aicezuki", is also believed to have posted questions on the bulletin board while taking the entrance exams for Doshisha, Rikkyo, and Waseda universities.


It has been unclear how aicezuki posted them and got the answers.



Here is the aicezuki's record.
      ↓
http://my.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/my/myspace_quedetail.php?writer=aicezuki




I think that aicezuki must be clever and intelligent because he or she took those exams of such prestigious universities.


I wonder if academic background-oriented society produced by the latest difficulty of getting jobs could be a hotbed of not only the network crime but also contaminating people's innocence...