24.5 points → White Dish

I could collect over 24 points of Yamazaki Haru no Panmatsuri at last!!

Then I exchaged that mount for a white dish.

Yamazaki Baking Co. started this campaign before 3.11.


Panic buying of food and other basic supplies had left supermarkets and convenience stores' shelves empty, so that there were no Yamazaki products at that time.


After about one month absence, Yamazaki Baking Co. resumed the campaign.





I'll always cherish this dish!! (^o^)

Iris Bath

Yesterday was the Children's Day.


We did nothing special but put Japanese iris in our bath as a traditional event.

It is said that iris bath, or Shobu-yu in Japanese, is a miraculous prophylactic against all kinds of sickness.



Boys, be ambitious!! (^o^)/

Meat Goodbye

The death toll in a string of food poisoning cases at a Japanese barbecue restaurant chain Ebisu has risen to four after a 70-year-old woman died today.


The restaurant chain has admitted that it had failed for the last two years to conduct hygiene inspections of raw meat supplied for the dish by a Tokyo-based wholesaler.


Around 30 people have been hospitalized in the food poisoning outbreak, with about 20 in a serious condition.


Enterohemorrhagic E. coli bacteria includig O-111 and O-157 strains have been detected in many of the cases.






Nobody cannot distinguish the difference between raw fish and raw meat, but unskeptically we might see them in the same category.


Anyway, we have to say goodbye to raw meat.

Justice has been done?

You may be relieved or even ecstatic about the end of a symbol of terror, or maybe it seems like the pain is just beginning all over again.



One of the FBI's most wanted criminals Osama bin Laden, who is the mastermind behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, has been shot dead after a gun battle.



A U.S. military operation involving Navy SEALs assaulted the compound, where Osama bin Laden was hiding out in Pakistan.



The following pictures are helpful to know what happened as a raid.

"Justice has been done."

That's what President Obama said when he announced bin Laden's death.



There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden was the most dangerous terrorist in the world.

But......it's hard for me to understand that the people in the U.S. are celebrating his death.



Bin Laden is dead, but al Qaeda is not.

They may be seeking vengeance on his murderer.



Can hard power bring us peace?



Rightly or wrongly, his death has a significant meaning.





I've already asked you a simple question on my former article http://eh-take.blogspot.com/2010/09/god-knows.html, but I really wanted to ask you again that,


What is "justice"?

Youngest Football Player

Dutch football club VVV Venlo recently offered 18-month-old Baerke van der Meij a 10 year professional football contract, which makes him to set the new world record for the youngest professional soccer player.

So cute, isn't he?




And he is too young to write any letters.

This is his sign.

It's so dynamic!! (^▽^) haha





The team spotted the toddler on YouTube kicking three soccer balls into a toy box and were very impressed with his skills.

Wonderful that he has a very good right-footed shooting skill!!

Bancho has gone

One of my respectable former bosses Mr.Okamoto has been transferred from Urawa to Kanagawa.


My friend and I presented the plastic model of a famous ship to him as to show our many thanks.

※ A finished product is like this.

Anyway, our Principality of Zeon was completely annihilated at that time...



Perhaps I'll never go to Eikoh ever after. (^□^;)

First of May

Time flies!!


Only then did I realize that it was May.




It's May 1st today so that I'd like you to know the Bee Gees' nostalgic song "First of May".

This song was used in the film "Melody"(1971), which used to be a great hit only in Japan.



※ Bee Gees is known for "Stayin' Alive" or "Night Fever".

If you're interested in them, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ihs-vT9T3Q.




Then here is the "First of May". (Sorry it's not the official music video)

[lyrics]

When I was small and Christmas trees were tall
we used to love while others used to play

Don't ask me why, but time has passed us by
someone else moved in from far away


Now we are tall
and Christmas trees are small
and you don't ask the time of day

But you and I
our love will never die
but guess who'll cry
come fisrt of May


The apple tree that grew for you and me
I watched the apples falling one by one

And I recall the moment of them all
the day I kissed your cheek
and you were gone


Now we are tall
and Christmas trees are small
and you don't ask the time of day

But you and I
our love will never die
but guess who'll cry
come first of May


When I was small
and Christmas trees were tall
do do do do do do do do do

Don't ask me why
but time has passed us by
someone else moved in from far away