This fan is interesting, via Think Geek..
For a blooma fetish, this will be such a nice gift. The Blooma cushion with vibration function. I don't know the meaning of vibration but we don't need to understand it... a fetish is always a mystery.
It is getting hotter and humid in Tokyo, so it's nice to go to the river side or beach. Genbei is the beach sandal shop in Shonan where you can choose a combination from 10 base colors and 10 sandal thong colors. They sell the "Father" mark beach sandal for a Fathers Day gift. Looks pretty and cool.
In summer time, I would love to eat some cold sweets on such days. My favorite one is Anmitsu, which is a healthy, low calories, low fat Japanese sweet. I can buy it in super markets or convenience stores, though I love to eat it in some nice Japanese cafe. Since Ginza Wakamatsu is near my job, I may go there after lunch. I would love to eat Mizu manjyu too, which is a kind of Jelly Ball with sweet bean Paste. Here is the recipe. Like the Toraya global web site writes, Japanese sweets are said to be "art." I found this video on YouTube: a foreign guy is challenged to make a wagashi with a Japanese wagashi cook. He did a very good job. That TV show is "Oh! Wanderful" (wa means Japanese) and he tried many Japanese things. Check it out.
I will walk the Yamanote line tomorrow. We will update where we are walking in real time by GPS. You can see it in this in this "yamanote" site (tomorrow open) and hopefuly you will drop me a line, "Go, Mari, go." Thanks!

Go, Mari, Go! Yamanote forever!
Posted by: Remi | Saturday, June 09, 2007 at 02:31 AM
The blooma cushion is very...strange. Already a blooma is puffy, they also need it to vibrate? Why? Funny! So now Arane can vibrate too.
Actually, it seems like Arane was wearing diapers, giant diapers, right? Not bloomers.
And thank you for sharing the recipe!
Posted by: Gloria | Friday, June 08, 2007 at 10:22 PM