Japanese Jikatabi!

WTHI :-) What's the correct way to use it?

Ah, this is cute: "Life Calendar: How was your day." You can mark and record your feelings on the calender. Is this a good holiday gift?

These are not Martin Margiela designer boots. These are Japanese carpenter shoes, "Jikatabi." Jika means "directly," and tabi are Japanese kimono socks. SInce they're light and easy to move in, Japanese carpenters wear them. This is typical carpenter's fashion. The too big pants are called "knickerbockers" too. But since they're professional work clothes, they're hard to find in regular clothing shops, though we can buy them at specialty shops like "Work Man." Work Man's clothes are professionals' clothes, so they are very reasonably priced and functional, for example their jackets are pretty good and warm. Anyways, today, some guy in his 30s was arrested cuz he stole some jikatabi from construction offices because he has a fetish for guy's Jikatabi smell. I can't imagine it and I don't want to imagine it.

 

Ahh, I don't have enough time to blog, I am super busy this December and also, we Japanese people have to do Oosouji - cleaning out for the year's end. I started with the entrance and a part of the bathroom. My American friend asked why do you have to do cleaning during the coldest season? I agree with that, after cleaning my body is chilled, but we love misogi, we love to start something new in a clean place with a clean feeling. I hope I can finish everything in 2010!!

A new movie it out: The Incite Mill. It's a Japanese horror film directed by Hideo Nakata. Ten people are promised a dream job, with an hourly pay rate of $1,200. They are taken to a remote underground complex and are locked up, forced to play a murderous game that will last for seven days. We called this kind of story a "closed circle,"  like the story "And Then There Were None." Actually, it seems very similar.

 

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[ray ban sale]

I don't have enough time to blog, I am super busy this December and also, we Japanese people have to do Oosouji - cleaning out for the year's end. I started with the entrance and a part of the bathroom. My American friend asked why do you have to do cleaning during the coldest season? I agree with that, after cleaning my body is chilled, but we love misogi, we love to start something new in a clean place with a clean feeling. I hope I can finish everything in 2010!!

[louboutin]

Recent hot news in Japan: Kabuki actor Ebizo Ichikawa is famous for being a bad drinker. A few days ago, he got beaten up in Roppongi and injured his nose, cheekbones, etc. At first, the news reported that he was a victim, but a witness said that he made some guys drink tequila from an ashtray and that's what caused the fight. I read that he is very arrogant, and that he often says "I am a human national treasure" when he's drunk, how stupid. Divine justice was served.

[burberry uk]

Do you know about Dorodango? They are mud balls. Actually, they're just handmade balls of mud. But since they're very simple to make and they look nice, like a big marble object. some people have gotten hooked on making them. Nifty Portal Z has a post on how to make dorodango today. And I found a "How to make Dorodango" guide in English, try it?

[Coach Outlet Factory]

Isn't it funny that after a lifetime as brunettes, constantly shoved into red and pink from girlhood on, that we should find these colors are no longer always our friends once our hair is no longer black or brown?

I, too, am a recovering brunette, currently about 50% gray. I only feel good in red if it's a very clear shade or pink if it's very icy.

I don't wear any version of these shades nearly half so much as I once was urged to do and can finally indulge my love of white, turquoise, and black without apology.

[Martin F]

I like cleaning when it is cold!

Happy New Year Mari ;)

[bob]

Is this a copy of Saw? story seems the same, and the doll at 1:01 looks like jigsaw