I got a mail asking about Valentine Day from my co-worker again, but this year I said "no thank you". I hate the stupid Japanese Valentine Day custom to give GIRI choco. But of course I love to send any gift to people who I like and love. Don't you think this looks great?!?! If I have time enough, I will go to Mont St Clair at Jiyugaoka or Quil fait bon at Aoyama to get nice cakes, it will be nice to get various type of cake bars at Stick Sweet Factory.
It was fun to cook pound cakes with my mom when I was kid. When we divided the yolk and white, we did it just by hand. But there are Egg Separators as kitchen tools like this or this is cute. I found this duck egg separator separator and also this Hillary Clinton (?) one....orz I can never eat rice with raw egg after using this.
I really agree with this "Japan debates lowering adult age to 18" . I think this country is getting infantile. It won't be a simple issue and lowering the adult age won't solve it, but we need change! By that I mean, I am watching and I am envious the U.S seems to choose "change" now.
Ha ha ha, he is funny. All my foreign friends hate him. Do you know his younger brother Yujiro Ishihara was a very popular actor, he became fat a little later but when he was young,he was very cute.
Hi Mari :)
been a long time I didn't put a comment hehe
(but I read almost all your post :p)
Ishihara sure sound funny but the part that said "French was disqualified as an international language as it was impossible to count in it" sound more stupid than anything else :(
sorry but it just sound as a lame excuse
now for my other rant, the french patisserie in japan, sure the taste is good but the size is just so small, nothing to do with a real big french cake...
anyway that was mostly to say
that I hate valentine's day too :D
Posted by: zwetan | Friday, February 15, 2008 at 10:04 AM
I think Ishihara loves Japan and wants Japan to be stronger, too. And that's great! BUT, Ishihara seems to be Xenophobic and that's why most foreigners in Japan dislike him.
I think the Japanese should more patriotic about their own country. Japan is an amazing country especially Aomori-ken and Towadako the most beautiful places in the world.
ではご機嫌よう
Posted by: Brian K. Mitchell | Friday, February 15, 2008 at 12:03 AM
I think Ishihara loves Japan and wants Japan to be stronger, too. And that's great! BUT, Ishihara seems to be Xenophobic and that's why most foreigners in Japan dislike him.
I think the Japanese should more patriotic about their own country. Japan is an amazing country especially Aomori-ken and Towadako the most beautiful places in the world.
ではご機嫌よう
Posted by: Brian K. Mitchell | Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 11:56 PM