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Swiming school for baby

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Every sunday is a day for swiming for baby class. We have been to a hirakata swiming school for about half a year. Baby class was done 3 days a week and on Sunday I swim with him.(on weekday, my wife swim with him) At first, I was not willing to the class, but recently I am accustomed to do it because it is good for health (my work is deskwork so I have little time to exercise). And after swiming time about 40 minutes, we have hot spa time and take a shower and take a lunch box at a seat. So always, we left home about 11:30 and swiming class began at 12:00 and finished eating about 14:00 and afterthat, we drive to shopping, etc. This swiming school is famous around here because Athens olympic medalist yuko nakanishi is a member of this school and I like this school.

About life

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Recently, I sometimes think about the happiness of my life. Maybe that is because I had a family and my house and our child and feel very happy. First time I had thought such a thing was maybe when I triped mainly to Europe 20 years ago, and I felt that the quality of life is better than that of Tokyo, I mean that compared with Japan, the philosopy of life seemed to be based upon the happiness of life. In japan, their life is based on company or society (student go to cram school to enter good university, etc) and I grow up in such circumstance so I was shocked to experience such things. For "good and model" salaried worker, the proportion of work must be bigger in proportion to the period of time of company's man, but I often think what is "happy". My sense of value might be changed compared to what I was student 20 years ago. The sense of value might be different to person to person, and recently such books (about the way of life, for example, the way of

The life without TV

For about one and half year, we didn't watch TV because my wife prohibited swiching on TV since our baby was born on May 2009. (She think that it is not good for children to watch TV.) At first, I didn't acustomed to the life without TV, but soon became acustomed to that. Last week when winter holiday season(from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3) began, I watched TV but all of them were boring to me. The quality of TV program is very low and worthless. Indeed, I always watch internet streaming BBC, France 24, Aljazeera and get news from Google news, etc and that's enough if I waste time seeing worthless TV Programs. And I remembered the same thing I thought when I was university student that many of our college students seemed to be very fool because they read manga all the time and the level of their talk was very low level and I was very disapointed. Our college (Tokyo Institute of Technology) was not low level and indeed they were good at solving problems but there were few people

Ooyamazaki-museum (Kyoto)

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We went to Asahi-beer Ooyamazaki moutain villa museum at 12,Octorber.( Map ) Ooyamazaki is a town of Kyoto-pref. located at the border of Kyoto and Osaka, and it is a small but beautiful town surrounded by the nature. This museum is on the side of a mountain and this is a place where hideyoshi was battled to conquest japan about 500 years ago, but now it is very calm place. There is a slope to the museum. This museum is surrounded by nature and very beautiful. Over there, we can see the museum and it was the mountain villa of a industrialist. This side is a architecture of Tadao Ando made of concrete. At first sight, ando's architecture is normal concrete building but there is a beautiful forum existed and I imagine many things from his architecture, maybe his architecture stimulate our creativity. That's why I like his architecture.

Japanese Song: Mika Nkajima, BONNIE PINK

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Mika Nakajima; unseen star BONNIE PINK; water me

Myoushinji temple (Kyoto)

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We went to the Myoushinji temple.( MAP ) There were no special meaning to go there, but we often go to the north-east erea of kyoto because we took keihan-train and we seldom go around myoushinji erea (north-west of Kyoto) so I decided to go there. From our home to the myoushinji temple, it took about 1.5 hour by car, and there are parkinglot so we didn't need to pay a parking charge. Myoushinji temple is very large and unique temple because it consist of many tacyuu(塔頭) which is small temple gathering around the tomb of founder. And it is Zen Buddhism temple. It was not crowded and scenary is beautiful so we liked the temple.

nagoya

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Our ordinary life

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Since we had a child about one year ago, we didn't watch TV due to my wife's principle. At first, I was against her, but some month had passed and we didn't feel unconvenient because I can catch the news from newspapers and FM radio we heard at morning time and furthermore recently internet is a part of our life so we can get many informations. And from experiencing the life without TV, I know that I wasted many time watching TV. And night time, we limited the room lights and opened the windows and heard the sound of trees and leaves touching each other and there are no sound without them so we feel living in the country side. And I can relaxly hearing music, playing with kid, reading books at home. I like that kind of style very much. Below was the picture of "bon odori", the traditional gathering at summer nights, dancing with traditional japanese songs. He liked bon-odori very much !

Swine influenza in Osaka

Two weeks has passed since swine influenza was discovered in Kansai-region (Kobe city). Osaka pref. and Hyougo pref. was designated as infected areas. And many workers included me was restrected to go out to another inafected prefectures so many co-workers had to cancel their schedules (ex. Tokyo, Kyusyu-area).In my company,we must wear musk (without saying that we must wear musk)and it was difficult to speak due to musk.(but this instraction was released 2 days before.) My wife canceled all schedules for our son to go to public area like children's meeting organized by hirakata-city. Also we bought many emergency foods for two weeks(because Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare recomended to prepare two-weeks-foods).And now, many people didn't wear musk even in the commuter-train. It feel terrible if it was bird influenza. If so, maybe I took holiday and didn't take train and the function of city might not work. Even for children, this might be terrible situation, s

From IKEA Osaka

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Cristmas Rose

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At last, christmas rose came into flower ! From my memo , we bought them 2 years before and didn't come into flower. This day was hot, so we walked around my house. There is two parks near my house and both is located at the top of small hill and both are small parks but I like both. Below is "kouri no mori park" Below is second park "souzou no mori park" ( #map ). And inside this park, there are japanese apricots so this is best season to celebrate the blossoms. This park is unique because there are ancient tomb in this park. (over there, there are glasses and under there, there are two small tombs existed). This tomb is named "中振丸山古墳(nakaburi maruyama tomb)" aged 5-6 A.D. and clay images and wooden coffin are discoverd. Clay images are also discoverd in the "kouri no mori park".