Games Club - Maiden Meeting

最近外人ポットにも相談したけど、あまり興味が受けてないのゲーム倶楽部が始めました。一時ぐらいカオリさんは電話をされた、マクドに着いたっていわれ た。僕とさやかも早く出て向かいに行った。マクドでお互いに紹介した後で、二回の階段の傍に座って、ゲームを取り出して、遊び方を説明しました。皆ルール が覚えた後で、SCRABBLEを始めた。その後で他のゲームはアメリカインディアンのジャンボウジャックをやって見ました。漢字博士３とジャブルもやっ てみましたよかった。その後で、写真そちょっと撮って、お互いにさよならして各家に帰りました。
SCRABBLEをやっています。


マクドのマスコットと写真をとった。


私たちのSCRABBLEボード


三川

At Nanzan University

A couple of weeks ago we visited Nanzan university after the mass we had at Nanzan church. I had the chance to see what an open campus is. We also visit the anthropology museum in Nanzan University where we can see a lot of unique objects from history from all over the world.

Enjoy the food on the table and さやかの笑み。

After browsing in the museum, we went to the university cafetaria and enjoyed lunch at cheaper price than usually out there. We had a wonderful lunch there, and then we walked back to the station to find our way home.

At the gate of Nanzan University. I wish I have the opportunity to go to school again.
Aihhh... I am too old for school ka na...

ax

From last weekend to this weekend

Last weekend was さやか's turn to come to 名古屋, we went to visit Museum of Ceramics Art in the station next to where 愛知万博 is held. We got a ticket to do our mould in the workshop, so we started thinking of what we are going to make. I made a little statue of 早香, a 家紋, and a big spoon. When we finished we had a bowl of そば in the the museum restaurant.


This is 早香の家紋.



This is the little statue of 早 embracing 香。

On our way home we stopped at 藤が丘駅 where we listened to 卒業 on our way to the ceramics, but now the mood changed to Rock n Roll. A young Elvis was on the stage with a guitar, another guy playing guitar at his left and at his right, the big bass.
It was cool though I didn't get a word from what he sang. Only Blue suede shoes seems familiar perhaps. And there were these young school girls dancing right under the stage releasing their stressful day having to go to school and do extracurriculer on Sunday. And there were grop of cowgirls also joined the dance. I couldn't help myself and asked for さやか to join the crowd with me. I was too excited with the rock n roll not realizing that I am 親父 already and my knee hurted the day after.


Me in rock n roll euphoria


the hoechtschultz girls



The cowgirls.

The next morning, we went to 瑞穂運動場 swimming pool. People were lining up due to hot summmer wave. The temporary closing of their outdoor pool might contribute the reason as well. We stayed waited for 30 minutes, and female were allowed in first. I had a cold milk from the vending machine and wait while talking to a Japanese guy who claimed to be graduated from USC and working in a bank somewhere in Nagoya. Well hope he can help me with my credit card. As a foreigner, I don't seem to have any credibility here. We chatted until they call my number and let me in. I don't really know how to swim, so I just played in water while さやか enjoy her sport. She was very happy to be able to enjoy sport again. When we get out of the pool, we walked back to our place, have a nap, and went out again for dinner at 三本木。We played Japanese squabble at 三本木、which was ripe time for me to learn new rude words from 千恵美さん, trust me, you don't want to use this words in public. 乳でかい、乳偉い、乳尊敬 was all of them. From さやか　I learn about こてんぽんをされます。

This weekend was my turn to go to 船橋、I went out with さやか and her friend ミミ to ちひろ museum, ちひろ is a famous children book painter in Japan. Her artwork touches many hearts and there reason why she is so famous. We toured the two storey museum at the price of 円800 and watch a documentary of her work from a DVD display on second floor while I fell asleep for the umpteenth times. We had a great earthquake while having our snack in the patio. Soon we left the museum and found the 駅 was all jampacked and we cannot go anywhere as JR investigated the impact of the quake. We killed time around the デパト and finally found out that we can take a train. We stopped in Shinjuku, and have a dinner at La Pausa. Johan joined us at around 8:50, we were supposed to meet earlier, but he had to come home for his cat due to the quake. A man and his cat, he is really caring ne. We had a talk and drink there at la pausa until it was late enough to go home. We bid good bye and parted our ways. The next day we planned to go to お風呂 together, Johan brought his wife りえこ and we gathered at 北千住駅, I was late for almost one hour and couldn't stopped apologizing. We walked for about 5 minutes from the station until we saw an old woodened お風呂 named 大黒屋。We got in the 風呂 and enjoyed our bath and massage. When we finished, Johan and I drinked a milk like Japanese 親父。When we got out we were seated at the living room where we enjoyed the beauty of Japanese garden and a can of kirin beer. When it was about time. We walked our way home and parted halfway as Johan and his wife took another way home.

ax
no picture this weekend, 忘れた。

Weekend in Asakusa

浅草に週末を起こした。
Asakusa Kannon Temple

While staying in 船橋 at さやか place last week, we decided to take participate in 鬼灯祭 in 浅草, she had prepared herself well that day. She even took the trouble to put on the 浴衣 she bought a week before in 金山。We took the train from 東海神 and made a transfer in 日本橋駅 and stopped at 浅草駅。We tour the foreigners flocked Asakusa street market and made our way to the Sensoji temple. We saw stalls vendors shouting out hoozukki in cannon to get them sold so they can get home earlier.


This is the photo of さやか taken at home. She make that cute face with the たこ焼きちゃん doll I bought her from 大阪。


This is さやか in her 浴衣 with her generous 満面の笑み。 I like this 写真 very much so I have it here on my blog too.


This is probably the bell on the front door, I don't really know what it is except it is big and full of Kanji written on it. It looks cool and that's why I took a pic of it.


I took this one of さやか in front of the Pagoda next to the Sensoji temple. They put light on the Pagoda and at night it is really beautiful sight from its 周り。


This candymaker was servicing my order. He was molding an abstraction of 早香 into the picture of a flower and a cherry blossom.


And he had the yellow petal ready.


Here's the complete presentation of his artwork.


Ax and さやか near the exit.

三川安敦

Betapa Kucinta Padamu
by siti nurhaliza

andainya engkau kumiliki
sejak dulu sebelumnya
andai kucurah rasa hati
mungkin kini ku kan tenang di sampingmu

kau membuatku menikmati
kesan kasih sayang kau terpaksa pergi
ingin kuterus dicintai
walau bisikanmu azimat berduri

cintaku yang berbunga
jadi air mata di jariku

betapa kucinta padamu
katakanlah kau cinta padaku
sematkanlah aku di hatimu
walau di mana berada
ingatku dalam doamu

hiasilah hati
dengan cinta suci
selamanya

betapa kucinta padamu
katakanlah kau cinta padaku
sematkanlah aku di hatimu
walau di mana berada
ingatku dalam doamu

gemerlapkan jiwa
semikanlah cinta
semoga kau dan aku
akhirnya bersama
aku kan menunggu

walaupun seribu tahun lagi

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あんなに愛してる
曲：シチー　ヌルハリザ


もしあなたを守れたら
昔から、前々に、
もし心の感じを出したら
今穏やかにあなたのそばに
いるかな

私に愛の感じを楽しんでもらったが
別れられないといけません
愛されて続けたい
あなたの囁きはトゲ付きのお守り

私の満開の花ような愛
指の上にの涙になりました


あんなに愛してる
愛してると言ってくださいませんか
私を心に掛けてください
どこでもいる時に
祈りに忘れないでください

真の愛で
永遠に
心を美しくして

あんなに愛してる
愛してると言ってくださいませんか
私を心に掛けてください
どこでもいる時に
祈りに忘れないでください

魂を明るくて
愛の春になって
あなたの私
やっと永遠一生のことを
ずっと期待してる

千年後でも

花札を遊んだ

花札を遊んだ。
Hanafuda Flash
Hanafuda Nintendo

After the small birthday party we continued by having a hanafuda game with Ken and Chiemi. Sayaka and I were trying hard to understand the game. This game is really Japanese. The cultural tough is just too thickly inherited in the game. You have to remember season and flowers and when it rains :)

I am going to share a bit of my hanafuda knowledge now. No bluffing. Here we go.
The three red cards is called 赤たん and the three purple card is called 青たん


This is callee 犬鹿蝶 which is made of a swine, a deer and a butterfly.


This one is called 雨. Be careful, it washed away your points.


And this one is called ケン and 千恵美 :)


三川安敦

誕生日おめでとう・Happy Birthday Ax.

誕生日おめでとう

Birthday Fried Rice - Courtesy 三本木


This is the right zoom


Pork Rib and of course 大好きのTABASCO


部屋に何もなかったけどバルーンがいっぱいあったよ。ワインとどら焼きは私大好きです。


これは僕の早香の記念写真。日本に初めての誕生日、初めての花札です。


三川安敦

St. Michael Beach? (No, It's shin-maiko beach)

新舞子海岸-海での一日

That day we woke up real early caused we've been draining from 寝不足 lately. We decided to go to Shinmaiko because it's nearer. We took the 地下鉄 from 新瑞橋 to 金山 then we transferred to 名鉄線 which is going to 中部国際空港. Then we got off at 新舞子駅. The beach is just about 10 minutes walk form the 駅, There we saw 新舞子橋 beautifully connecting both banks which looks like a gulf to me. We took some pictures on the bridge and walked down to the cafeteria and had our おにぎり for lunch and Hagen Daaz for dessert. We laid down on the grass field and basked under the sun for about 30 minutes as we fall asleep from our weariness.

When we woke up we walked down barefooted discovering the touch and sensation of the sand and peebles between our toes. I made a love sandcastle with a mark of 早香 on top of it.


And here is a closer look to the sandcastle ;)


We asked a stranger to take our picture for memory. 写真を撮ってもらえませんか。


Another stranger were victimized again to take our picture in front of the wind power generator.


Oh, I took this one. さやか looks great on this.


I took this one too, this is 白詰草 and that little ladybug is called 天道虫.
Well here goes my Japanese lesson again.


This three leaves plants is called 三つ葉, Japanese believes that if you happened to see a 四つ葉, that will be your lucky day. I didn't see 四つ葉、only 六つ葉（3＋3）.


And this plant is called 蒲公英, there is a famous Japanese movie titled this flower. It pictures the life of commmon Japanese, the story was about a Japanese girl left by her hubby with a kid, met a John Wayne like truck driver and had a crush on eachother. The woman owned a small らーめん shop and they struggle to make her shop famous and train her to be a good cook.


Oh this is justa the nameplate for 新舞子 bridge.


And of course the solo picture of this wind power generator.


三川安敦

Ran-no-Kan/Orchid's House in Nagoya

Ran no Kan is an orchid's exhibition opened in Nagoya featuring a lot of species from Central America, Singapore, and other countries. You would be amazed by the beauty of God's work in these flowers. Their beauties and their unique features enshrined in colorful gifts of our mother nature. Aside from floral exibition you can also sooth your culinary palate with curry flavors and drinks galore at the bar. There is also pottery and inexpensive flower sprout for sale.

We enjoy walking barefoot on the grass and the pebbles path. Here is a picture of Sayaka stretching leg on a green grass spot beside the petit lake.


At one o 'clock they are also preparing various Asian dances and performance on a makeshift stage right in the middle of the garden.
There we about a hundred seats laid in the row. We sat for a while but later prefer tbe basking under heat of springtime sun.


As you can see below is the picture of a Thai dancer. She also recount about her origin in Sumatera and how their family escaped the recent Tsunami.


Another show of Thai dance emphasizing on the movement of the fingers. Big smiles never escape their faces.


The third show is fan dance. I don't know why I can appreciate it now while I couldn't when I was kid.


Sayaka at the end of the tunnel. This is a kind of tree from Indonesia that wrapped the host tree and render it dead, therefore dubbed as the "strangler".


I enjoyed this show the most. The original Japanese Taiko with a lot of improv made by these junior hischool girls. I forgot the name of their group. Shall provide detail later.


And the last show was the play of Goto, a string intrument from Japan. I was moved when they played "Subaru", the only song that I can connect and feel its melody and rythme thru the blast and trill of the stringed goto.


ax

Peater Pan (Bread smells like heaven)

No no spelling mistake. It's spelled as P-e-a-t-e-r P-a-n. Given the fact that there's a lot of spelling mistakes of commercial billboards in Japan you may not even give it a benefit of the doubt. But hell, perhaps it's a mistake or perhaps the owner want it to mean it's a softer bread. Peat - Peater as in peat land. But whaever it is. I love the the bread there.

This is the photo of the billboard I took near Chiba prefecture. Shin-Funabashi area, Kaijin-machi to be exact.


And this is the beautiful wooden house which hosts the Peater Pan as we know it. They have a nice garden just outside the door.
Where you can enjoy the swinging bulanko and wooden seatee made from block of real tree log. Enjoy la brise de printemps over a cup of coffee which is served endlessly for free. This is called Nomihodai in Japan, what's more it's Tada (Free).


Sayaka enjoying her bread. Mmmh yummy.


This is me with messy hair and my turtleneck, the wind is still a bit cold for me.


We bought a lot of bread from Peater Pan. The sign says "See you tomorrow" and indeed we came back to the shop three days in a row. I especially enjoy their cinnamon pan, the cheese pan, and the cold served cheese cake and of course the free coffee.

ax