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  • Changed a Garage

    I found an open-air car park near my flat and signed a contract for it at the real estate agency. I use a lift parking within my flat so far, but my car is supposed to be stowed underground, so it’s too much trouble to lift my car to the ground, bring my car out of the gondola and lift it down again every time I drive out. Besides, the monthly fee for the new garage is lower than the annoying automated garage!

    As the contract took effect on 1 March, I moved my car to the new garage. Now I can open the bonnet to check the engine oil level and brake fluid level before driving. I couldn’t do it at the old automated garage.

  • Korean Embassy with an Indian Friend

    I got acquainted with Mrinalini Ghosh at Badoo. She is an English teacher from India, living near Shinjuku. She invited me to the Korean Embassy in Japan, where there was a small exhibition on Korean Lunar New Year celebrations.

    A girl in chima jeogori and Mrinalini Ghosh

    Mrinalini is on the right, and on the left is a girl in a chima jeogori (Korean traditional dress).

    Dduk gook

    This is dduk gook (rice cake soup), eaten in Korea during the New Year.

  • Setsubun

    Today falls on setsubun. On this day, we grill sardines, which means to drive out devils by their smoke. We eat an eho-maki roll as well. It has been our custom since the old days, biting into a big sushi roll looking at the annual lucky direction without speaking any words until the finish. Besides, we eat parched soybeans. We eat one more bean than our age counting in the old Japanese way according to our hometown’s rule.

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  • iPhone5

    I got an iPhone 5. I kept Sony’s Xperia Android phone, but the iPhone is easier for me to use, and it offers a wider variety of accessories sold worldwide than Sony’s.
    I haven’t got a Softbank nano-SIM card, so I went to the nearest DoCoMo shop to get a DoCoMo nano-SIM card for it, but they didn’t have any in stock. I visited other DoCoMo shops to ask for one, but none had it. Without a nano-SIM card, it couldn’t be activated, and it was just a small plate.

    A DoCoMo shop in Tochigi-shi thankfully said they had a nano-SIM card for iPhone 5, although most DoCoMo shops in Tokyo said they didn’t have any. When I drove to the shop, there were dozens of people waiting in the queue. A shop clerk said I should wait 1.5 hours to be served, but I actually waited about 30 minutes before being served. I managed to get one, put it into my iPhone I had bought before, and had it successfully activated.

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  • ITILv3 Foundation

    I’ve got a certificate that I’ve passed the ITILv3 Foundation exam, which I took last December!

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  • Heavy Snow Here in Tokyo

    Street in snow

    Poor people who are going to a coming-of-age ceremony.