just a joke

My neighbor displays interesting object on his/her window. Is this express he is a gay and looking for someone? or Is this a kind of art? or just a joke.

Creating a E-shop

Creating a E-shop

I am making an E-shop. Then, I decided to use some company proving an E-shop infrastracture.
I consult friends who have his own E-shop and he recommed me one company called “ground site”.
http://www.siteground.com/

When I saw this company website, they were offering a month trial for USD$1. So I started to make an E-shop. I think it was not that easy as I thought. Probably for the person who have done once might find not that hard thought.
I think I can do what I have done so far in one minutes which I have developed in several day.
I am still working on it.

What I am going to sell here.
I think it does not matter as far as I do not invest big money and lose. At the beginning, it is enough if I can get used to E-shop.
However I still have to sell something.
I am thinking to sell Japanese vintage fabric. Japanese vintage fabric is quite popular as a craft material. People want to have a small cut for small money. I have a lot of Japanese Vintage Clothes which nobody wear anymore in my family house. I can cut into a small piece and sell for a while.
I think small piece would be 30cmx30cm.

Japanese fabric is a bit strange comodidty. If you want to buy a brand new one, it would be really expensive. My Japanese clothes for my 20 years celebration was 5.000 pounds. However if I sell to it to a seccond hand shop, they will sell think really cheap. I suppose 500pounds or less. That means I have to sell it almost for nothing. This is one reason many people keep their Japanese Kimono and do not sell even if they do not wear anymore and they actually want to get rid of it.
Japanese clothes is really troublesome to wear. So people often reluctant to wear.
I would go to hair-dresser to make me wear if I decided to wear Japanese clothes for a party such as friends' wedding. Hair dresser would charge me at least 200 pounds including hair.
It is expensive however it is important to wear Japanese Kimono at the wedding. It is said that the number of girl who wear Japanese kimono represent the status of the party.
So if you want to contribute to upgrade the status of the wedding, it is the best way. Especially if the bride asked you to wear, it is hard to say No.
Not only troublesome but also expensive to wear!
I think Kimono is such a beautiful material. The fabric is really amazing and breath taking sometimes. I think these material should deserve second like. If someone remake Japanese kimono into modern clothes, I think it will be really popular.
I really want Japanese Fabric second life.
Because it is just such a pity.
However I also know that remaking can not be mass-production since each Japanese kimono would have different shape and material. So it would not be a good business.
Wait!
How about for the party dress?
I think many people make order-maid dress. If they use Japanese fabric instead of brand new plain fabric.

I do not think I will do dress-making business though.

Flash-able Napkin

I found Flash-able Napkin in a Japanese shop today.
(Am I late to find this product?)
Napkin is the product girls use for their period. They can not be flashed since this material contain some plastic parts and can not be dissolved. It is quite necessary things otherwise the bloods will be leaked.
I think Flash-able Napkin is a great products if they really work. We do not need to put sanitary box in bathroom and do not need to take care of them.
This topic might be a bit gross to make readers.
So I purchased and need to examine them: if they really work well as napkins and if they are really flash-able.

Japanese Lesson

I started to provide a Japanese lesson.
I put an advertisement on Gumtree. My idea is that I can provide lesson over Skype and receive the payment by paypal.
My lesson is around 4 pounds for one hour.
Definitely I can not earn for my living and I have not intention for that .
However it give me a lot of enjoyment.
Currently, I have one student.
She is quite advanced and even has passed the Second class Japanese exam, which is quite difficult. Our lesson is mainly conversation.
I try to provide a worthy lesson rather than just chatting otherwise it is not really lesson.
I consult my friends who are much experienced in teaching Japanese for advanced students.
My friends said that we can decided a topic and have a conversation. Maybe we can even read a small article from a newspaper. That might give us some new grammar and new vocabulary.

I think internet teaching is a great way to provide lesson because we can be free from the physical distance. If you are a lady, it also give you some safety.
I still love to meet people in real thought.

Providing Japanese lesson is such a joy. Until I tried, I never thought it would be this fun.
Their Japanese is really cute and the questions are so innocent.
Currently my lesson is one to one however I think group lesson would be more fun and profitable for both students and teachers since the conversation would have more width and depth with more people.

If you are looking for someone who you can swap language, the site below might be really useful. Good luck!
http://www.sharedtalk.com/index.aspx?SRC=GAds.SN.en.Language.Swap&gclid=CKPCnM2ymJwCFQEupAodLlQZeg

MacBook

My current computer is MacBook.
When I was a student. I was studying in architect course in Engineering department.
I was kind of forced to use Mac since there most of us use Mac.
I did not like Mac that time. It freezes often and expensive.

After Mac OS X, Mac is really different however my most of my Mac experience was before X and I moved to windows and Linux. Now I return to Mac! “Welcome Back, Tomoko”.
Mac has many cute applications. They might not give me radical change in my life however much pleasure.
In that sense, they might be just a toy.
My favourite is “photo booth”. This application is basically just camera and vide using camera embedded on computer. They have a cool effects.
However it seems not to last long.

I started to talk, however the effect is disappearing. I was quite shocked.




I tried another effect. This time, it lasts longer, however it is also disappearing. I was quite upset toward the end.

Music

I am currently reading “Losing Virginity” by Richard Branon. Yes, it is the guy who founded virgin Record. I borrowed this book from a library.
Since his story is in Located in London and outside of London in UK, it reminded me of many things I have seen in UK, especially Suffolk.

Especially his parents in the story is quite nice to read. Whatever his choice he made, they just support with believe and faith for success. I think his life is such an adventure however if he has that stable love and support, he can be always stable in his mind.

I also enjoy the music in this book. Since his story with often some musicians in that time.
I do not know music much and what is more I do not know British music when I was an infant. So while I am reading this book, I found the music on Youtube and listen.
It is really enjoyable.
I sometimes think I have a problem to tell what I like such as which music what I like.
As Branson is saying in this book, music is really important for soul since music really define people's personality and character. I think I need to continue to listen many different music until I can tell what I like and what sort of sound I like.
So this book is really nice to introduce me music although I can find music here is a bit old.

Recently I find my faborit. Kate Miller-Heidke: the last day on earth
BTW, I am wondering why there is no “the” before “earth”?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj4Rc9bOxNI&feature=related
I heard her on TV and search her on Youtube.
This video is really cute and cleaver. It is some kind of chatting game, I guess. And the characters there are singing.

I also like Paul Dateh Celtic Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Xt-XeWnHM
I found his vide on Youtube by chance when I felt like listing violin sound and search for it on Youtube.

I also like Yoshida brothers. They looks cook and they sounds cool too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPOmo9f0-Pc

I think I like sound such as violins and piano however I am not really into classic music.
If you have any recommendation, let me know.

Hiking in Brisbane Ranges National Park

Hiking in Brisbane Ranges National Park

This is my first hiking in Melbourne. I attend at a hiking group from The meetup.
(Meetup is a social website. If you are intersted in, check it out. Wherever in are in the world, this website work well.)

Brisbane Ranges National Park is a place from one and half hour from Melbourne by car. This hiking is around 10km and around 25 people attended.

This hiking was not that heavy however I have not done excise for a while, therefore it was hard for me. Last summer, Melbourne suffered from a lot of fire in forest. Here is one of the place where fire was. So we would see black bits which was burn out some time ago.
While walking I did not talked with people a lot because simply I could not speak with walking.
However I was listing peoples' conversation. It was interesting. I really liked listening to them.

After the hiking, we drove to a small vineyard where we can have light meal or tea. I have a cup of coffee and scone. While walking I did not talked with people a lot however at this tea time, I talked with people a lot and I really enjoyed. The coffee I had was a really strange coffee. My new friend asked me “how is your coffee”. I said that I remembered my granma made coffee like this when I was a child. It had some nice burn out smell although it would never said to be a nice cup of coffee.

leggings

eggings
eggings are a type of clothes which is something between treasures and thick stocking.
Here in Melbourne, many girls wearing that.
It is soft and warm and cheap. It is almost perfect clothes.
What made me surprise is that girls sometimes wear this legins without covering their bat.
So we can see their pretty figure of bat. We Japanese are quite shy nation and could not wear like that. However I found out that showing bats figure is quite pretty.
So I decided to buy a legins and wear in the way of not covering bat figure.
Japanese girls care something small things. I have travel a lot of the world and stay there however I am still a Japanese girl.
For example we really care not to show nipple figures whenever we are clothes. So I was so surprised when I saw a swimming wear which does not have thick internal about the breast.
I am happy to show my bat figure in Melbourne however I think nipple figures are a bit advanced to me and I need to be used to open culture more to show their figure in public.

Ghost cat

Ghost cat
In my apartment, a cat is living. I am not sure it is he or she. I think it is she because male cats are often not that friendly. Female cats are often miss the close gesture with people and come to people more.
Our cat are really miss to be hold my people.
She is not a alive cat.
I have once seen her in my dream. That time, my body was freeze and I could not move and I was in half dream and half real world.
She come to my under arm and sleep happily. I thought this happened just by chance and did not take much serious. However it happened again next day again. Then I realised that I should not have a nap on the couch.
I am happy to have her because I believe she does not have any evil feeling and I feel she just misses to be hugged and patted.

Wicked

I went to see a musical, called “Wicked”.
I think I like this musical. It is a behind of the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ”. Why the wicked became like that and how she was before so on.
I like story itself especially. It is really describe the really world well especially Japanese society. The stage is all so quite powerful thought.
BTW, I do not really remember the story of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. Maybe I will read.



I went to see this musical with friend from work. She is working is a different department however me met at a training and start to chat. She is living with her husband and there house is close to my place by chance.
She looks so quiet and elegant however she travel with backpack and think more active way. I like her diversity.
After the musical, we had a Great chat and that made me really happy.
I think she is my new type of friends.
Wish me luck so that I can be good friend of her.