From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

In this new year vacation, we went back to my hometown Shizuoka-city. ( Maps ) For our baby, This is his first long trip by car, because we departed at midnight 2 o'clock, 31. Dec for cost saving ( we could save superhighway's fee by 50% off if we used it between 0-4 o'clock ) and arrived at shizuoka about 8 o'clock AM. It is about 370 km drive. Before going directly back to my parent's home, we drop to my grandfather and grandmother's grave (above pictures ), because my wife wanted to express her thanks to have our children. (she said we had a child after visiting my grandfather & grandmother's grave). ( in our car at morning ) So we arrived my parent's house about 10 o'clock AM. My parents met him once when he was born after 1 week, so my parents was so pleased with him. At lunch time, we went to " shoan " neay parent's home which my wife liked very much, because she liked "kakiage-don"( rice served in a bowl with fried

Here is Komeda's coffee. It is very popular cafe shop around nagoya-pref. and this is Komeda's first shop at kansai region and was opend recently so we went there. #Map

After goint to habikino-city, we drop to Suiko-tennou-ryou (推古天皇陵, MAP ). I was surprised when I saw some kind of shrine and found the name of Suiko, because Empress Suiko was famous name on textbook of history at junior highschool. Around there, it is countryside and very quiet. After goint to the pavement, we can see the entrance of tomb. Acording to the information of sightseeing in Taishi town, Empress Suiko was the first empress of Japan and celebrate the culture of Asuka (6, 7 century). Around there, we can see many cultural monument of Asuka-period. After that, we went to cafe of パティシェFLOUR ( MAP ). It tastes good !

At Nov. 2, we ate lunch at french restaurant  near my home for marriage anniversary (a little late due to my baby). We left our baby to our parent and went to the restaurant (but took one minute from our parent's home to the restaurant and also about 3 minutes from our home to our parent's home ! ) Good bye our baby for about two hours ! Before lunch. an hors d’oeuvre Main dishes dessert Bought cakes for wife's parents (thanks for baby-sitter ) and us In front of the restaurant.

Recently, there are many how-to books or business books published, like how to stock and use informations (using internet services or notebook, etc) or the knowhow-books of memorize something. For example, we can see many books like, Kazuyo katuma , leverage thinking by Naoyuki Honma , Stydy Hacks by Ryusuke koyama , use one notebook for memo by Nobuyuki Okuno , method of memorizing by student of The University of Tokyo by Wakiko Tokuda , etc. Of course, such books had been existed before, but recently I think the number of such books are increasing. Maybe there are some reasons exist. One reason is the development of internet access (plus gear) and internet services, so we can easily get and utilize informations using Information Technology. We can easily get and send informations anywhere anytime by using mobile phone or wireless access by Note-PC in a cheap charge. And with such circumstances, the amount of informations are also increasing because many people publish informat

Today, moon is very beautiful in the clouds, so I took pictures. If I fly up from earth, far away from earth and moon, I can see earth and moon close to each other in black space. A little dark setting up. Adjust sensitivity ( we can also see our home. )

Recently, I am curious about the author "kenichiro mogi"( japanese blog , english-blog ). I knew him but until recently, I am not interested about him and his book ( I know his thema "qualia" by title ). And recently we can see him on TV and he publish many book in a short interval, and his way of thinking and point of view was very interesting to me so I read his books and website. (recently I am stuck on his website) I wonder why I am curious about his book and website, and maybe I am starving for some intellectual things. I found "hideo kobayashi", "hideo noguchi" from his writing and I aloso read the book of " kang sang jung " and he was also influenced by " soseki natume ". Also I read his blog and it refered the website "edge" which I liked, that's strange feeling and also interesting to me.

Recently I often think about what is most important for me, especially when I was tired of working and lost my motivation (for ironing out the differences of opinions and failed). For me, maybe my starting point is the intention to know something new, to do something intersting, to acomplish something by my effort, to be excited! Maybe this is all. (The amount of wage and position is not so important for me if we can live carefully.) Sometimes I was at a loss what I am doing for, for what I want to do. And in such a case, I cooled down my head and ask for myself what I want to do for, then came back to the starting point and recoverd myself.

Okui zome is a japanese ceremony not to eat forever his life. It is usually done 100 days after baby's born, but in our case a little late. It is a ceremony so baby really don't eat (baby pretended to eat ) At first, I didn't know the ceremony but my wife's parents said to my wife that it must be done because my wife and my wife's brother also did it. finished settings. A sea bream. He sat on his grandfather's legs. When he eat, suddenly he cried ! Crying ! ! Crying ! ! ! His grandmother had a black stone and it is also ceremony. Finished ceremony. He might feel safe, maybe.

Maybe this is the first time to going by the baby-car. Before departure. He is relaxing. Trip around near our home. Sleeping ! This is a park near our home. It is a small hill.

This is summer vacation season, and I took 10 days vacation from August 8(Fri) to 17(Sun) (included Saturday and Sunday). This period was called " Obon " (around August 15). Usually we went to my hometown Shizuoka-pref. to meet my parents and sister&brother's family, but this time we spent Osaka due to our baby.  And August 13, I went to an exibition of painter Amedeo Modigliani at The National Museum of Art, Osaka which is located at nakano-shima (small island and located in a cenral of Osaka-city) . My wife couldn't go there because of nursing a baby(we are nursing a baby by turns.) (See the Map ). At first I took off at Yodoyabashi-sta. which is the starting station of Keihan-train. (Keihan-train is running from central of Osaka to Kyoto and I used this train for going to my office), then walked along the riverside of nakano-shima to the west (where musium is located). Around nakano-shima island, there are many beautiful scenary like this. This island is