Monday, December 28, 2009

Merry Christmas!!

~Christmas~

It was a nice Christmas with my family...


I made most of the meal... except sushi and cake.
My mum bought some sushi and baked cake on Christmas Eve and decorate after came back from the work on Christmas.


I put on my dish... You can see what I made.
Tomato soup, Vegetable gnocchi and roast beef and vegetables with gravy.


My mum broght back a bottle of red wine after work..

Shiraz Cabernet vintage 2006
From Australia (Jacob's creek)

Taste: Slightly dry and spicy
Aroma: Fruity, bit woody and depth
Colour: Deep red

Monday, December 21, 2009

Lunch...

Lunch at the hotel...

I went to have lunch with my mum and mum's friend at the Tokyu hotel.
It was a buffet style lunch, so I could eat as much as I want.
The food was really nice. I also had dessert too.


Some food on the plate. I liked prawn one.. I love prawn.
And fish also yummy.


Dessert plate...
Lots of tasty cake and mousse.

I had really good time.. Eat too much, but I noticed I couldn't eat alot after came back to Japan...
I guess food style is still Australia. Australian dish is one dish each meal. Sometimes huge, but normally not really big. Japan is usually several dish and pick from the dish on to own plate, so sometimes eat to much..

New thing...

Finally I got one...

Since I came back to Australia I really want to buy hair straightener. I was looking at some advertisement and website. At first I was looking cheap one, but there weren't many good comement which someone put on internet...
Finally I decided to buy expensive one. This is better than the other which I was thinking of.. My straightener is comes out steams and have comb. Also high temperature is 200 degree which is almost same as professional straightener. You can see bottom photos..



Special bag for straightener and my new straightener...
You can see comb on the plate.


It comes out also ion.. Good for hair. Less damage.


It was in this box..

Actually it's bit heavy than I expected, but it's really works, so I like it.
Also very quick. 60 sec to heat up and few mins to finish straight my hair.

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Morning snow...

Good morning!!

When I woke up and walk to living room, I saw something from the window.

... ... ...

Wow, it's snowing...


From the balcony part 1..


From the balcony part 2

Snowing, snowing. Long time no see...
I usually don't like winter, becasue it's too cold, but except snow.. I like in winter time with snow.

Wednesday, December 02, 2009

Beauty...

-Eye colour-

I do some make up, but just it's simple. Recently I feel like I need to more. I want to makeover... so I read few fashion magazines and articles. I found out (?) one thing. I should put colour on around eye.
I bought this for change myself..


Eye colour/Eye shadow..

I reckon this one is very nice.
It can do two type of eye shadow. One is brownish which is you can be more cool and gorgeous lady. The other one is pinkish which is you can be cute and sweet girl.
Also it depends on how much you put. You can put alot if you want to show off...

For me I can't put alot right now... because I've never worn a lot of makeup. A bit is enough for now... and little bit scare to put more. Maybe later I might put more. Who knows? Need practice, researching and learn from friends's advice...

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Day trip...

~See some Ichou (Ginkgo trees)~

I went to Sobue-cho to see some Ichou (Ginkgo trees) with my parents.
It was nice weather. Blue sky with yellow Ichou.


Some flowers with Ichou. It's so colouful..


This is Yuzu (Citrus) tree


We saw teow kittens. They were so cute..
Walking aroung the fallen leaves of Ichou.


We could entre the someones house. They show many people to see old tree and front garden.


I found big Ichou. It was got lots of sunshine. Shining golden colour.


Today's best shot!!
Ichou, train and rice field. Feel countryside...

After that we went to temple and river...


-Temple-
There wasn't not many people. Peace and quiet..


Great art of carving..


Different from normal Ojizousama (Guardian deity).


It's really big flowers which are called 'Dahlia'.

We went to the big river.
I found something interesting, but finally comes here..


It is talked about spiders from Australia... Redback.
I heard some news about redback long time ago. Recently I read on Australian news. It was said about redback spider in Japan.
This sign is said 'Don't touch when you find!!'.


This is Kiso rive. Looks like lake... It's huge.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Day trip with mum...

~Went to Obara town~

I went to day trip to Obara town with mum.
It was cloudy, but not cold.
Obara town is famous place to see cherry blossoms in autumn. The cherry blossom is usually bloom in spring, but this trees are different kind of species. That's why bloom in autumn.


Can you see the seed? It looks like a wing.. When it is fallen, they turn like a propeller.


Yellow tree is calleed Ichou (Ginkgo biloba). On the back of the Ichou, there is cherry blossom.


Kaede (Acer) with Cherry blossom.

I found some funny Daikon (Japanese radish).
Someone drew face, hand and feet. They are so cute.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Abandoned railway...

Day trip to see abandoned railway...

It was a great day to take some photos and went out with my family.
There were some tunnels. And many people, because this place is normally prohibited area. Only this weekend was opened.


One of the tunnel and coloured leaves...


River, tunnel and gorgeous weather.


Near the river. Some part is really strong current...


From the abandoned railway and the other side of mountain with coloured leaves.


Kusagi (Clerodendrum trichotomum/Harlequin glory bower)
This flowers are look cute, but if you touch it, it's so stinky...
Actuallu my mum explained me, so I din't touch it. Lucky.


This is coloured kaede (Acer) leaves...
We had lunch at park and there were this tree here and there.

~Special video~



Long time ago there were railways, but no longer exist. There are only small rocks and tunnels..
I felt bit sad... only this time we could see. Other time, no one see tunnel or might be some people never known there were railways and train.

It's small BGM, sorry... if you ccouldn't listen, please up the volume.

Monday, November 16, 2009

Go for a walk...

-Walking around the temple-

I walked around Motoyama area with mum.
We know there is bid Dibutsu (Statue og Buddha), but we haven't seen until yesterday...


We walked to Toganji temple which located a big daibutsu.
This is the explanation of the temple...


There is a big green daibutsu in the city...
What a suprise!!


More close shot... It's massive.


I don't know the name of flower.. My mum said 'Tip of my tongue.'.
It's bigger than my height, but pretty flowers.


It's really nice Kouyou (changing coloured leaves).
It's still 80% of Kouyou. Some of them are already fallen, because of the rain few days ago.

It was a good for walk with mum..
The weather was nice. I found old thing in the city. That is great thing to keep old place in the city.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

New pencil case!!

My project had finished...

I have been using my pencil case for long time, so now is the time to buy new one.. but I thought I should make one. Few days ago I drew an image of pencil case and started making. Today finally finished.


Appearance...


Inside...

~Some features~


-Lace-
Tie like a Kimono...


-Button and thread-
Tie like a scarf...

I made thread. Just knitting by hand.
I could make simple, but nice one I guess... It was really fun to make.

Monday, November 09, 2009

What is it??

Finally...

The other day my mum bought a drink and brought back home.
Mum said 'I got interesting drink. You should taste it. Taste like Azuki.'.

I heard about the drink that taste is Azuki(Red beans)..
It was made by Pepsi.



Azuki Pepsi...

When I sipped it, it was tasted Azuki, but afterwards I wasn't sure what I was drinking. It wasn't bad taste than I thought.
I was drinking bubbly, sweet Pepsi, but taste is Azuki.
It was interesting to drink. If you saw this, you should try at least once.

Sunday, November 08, 2009

Nature walk

-Small forest-

I went to Kaisyo no mori (Forest of Kaisyo) with my mum and dad.
It was really nice weather. We saw lots of things.

~Strange and cute plants~


This is called 'Mamushi gusa' (Arisaema serratum).


Cute mushroom. I don't know the name.


~Fruits~


Kiwi fruits


Mikan (Mandarin)


Kaki (Persimmon)


Making dried persimmon.


We saw cute dog...



There was a dog. He/She was walking come and go.
Over there there is a gallarey, so this dog might be their dog. We didn't visit, so I don't the truth...

-Today's best shot-

This is rice field, persimmon tree and village house.