A Christmas wreath

My friend sent this picture by E-mail.

The shape is like a wreath for Christmas and it's really cute, isn't it?

My friend and I've gone to same cooking school for about two years but recently she graduated on ahead and it's last work she cooked at school.

Now I have no friend to go that school together, so
I feel little lonely,
but I like cooking and I continue to attend lessons.

Financial circles

Today I went to a bank to ask about investment trust and time deposit.
Of course I don't have big money, you know, just I was interested in.

I'm so exhausted because I tried to understand everything a cl ark said
but more than half information was new for me.

That's why no sooner had I gotten home than I fell asleep.

Anyway, it was good lesson for me to know about financial circles.

At the first floor of our building.

At the first floor of the building we work,
this object appeared just around a week ago.

It's not bad, but not marvelous, I think.^-^;;

Ｇｙｏｚａ, salad, soup and rice

Today I cooked dumplings and so on at cooking school.

I've already cooked dumplings countless times with my mother , but
I wanted to know how to make them better in the professional way.

Illumination for KIDS

My home town turned to be a city a couple of years ago and

soon after the address changed from Cho to Shi(City),

many apartments and homes have been built.

The picture's house is one of those and

they decorates outside of the house with illumination.

They are excited about Christmas.^^

Fir tree

Today my ex-coworker brought me to a cafe by car and we had beautiful cups of cappuccino with cookies.

The fir tree on the surface of cappuccino is cute, isn't it?

Mottainai

・What a waste.
・That's just wasted.（それは、もったいない）　→That's a waste of money.　　
・It's a shame to　～　（～するのは、もったいない）→It's a shame to throw things away.　

＜良すぎて身に余る＞
・Oh, I don't deserve all of that!　（私にはもったいないことです）

Rum-soaked raisins and white peaches cake

I baked this cake today for my ex-colleague's birthday present.

She used to be my senior at the office and she is still one of the best advises for me.

We have lunch once a couple of months on the weekend and we talk about job, love and anything.

She understands me very well and give me many words, so I always appreciate her.

Talk about Jogging

I jogged last weekend after 8 years blank and today, I jogged again.

It's shameful to say that, but I could run only several hundred meters both times.
But at least, when I ran today, I could run in a better condition than last tme.

I want to continue to run.
Even if it's short distance and at times, it's much better than nothing.

Originally I'm not good at any sports, but I've been doing excersise a little by myself since I graduated from the University because It's not only good for my health but mentality.

Ｓｈｏｕｍｉｋｉｇｅｎ in English

Best if used by / Best before： 味や質の面からみて、おいしく食べることのできる期限。賞味期限に近い言葉。
Use by：品質保証期限や使用期限にあたる。消費期限に近い言葉。
Sell by / Display until： 売り手にとって、売り物として並べておいてもよい期限。
買い手にとってはその日以降に購入してはいけない商品。

Ichiou in various cases

1. to some extent→I can paint to some extent, but I'm certainly not as good as you.（なんとか（一応）
2. tentative→We have reached a tentative agreement on this project.（仮の（一応の）
3. for the time being/for now→He will handle the matter for the time being/for now.（さし当たって（一応）
4. run through→I've run through the report.（ざっと（一応）
5. just in case→Could you ask Bob, just in case?（念のため（一応)
6. rough→I made a rough schedule for that project.（大体の（一応の）

TOEIC EXAM on Jan 13th,2008

I applied for TOEIC Exam on Jan 13th, 2008 at English school today.

I think TOEIC score doesn't show people's total ability of English properly,
but at least, it's true that higher score is better to do many things in this country.
For example, it makes easier to enter the class of higher revel at English school.

I hope I'll be able to get higher score than last time.

Good ex-colleague

Hello guys, how have you been?

Today I met an ex-coworker in the lunch break.
Both of us work at the same area, but the different buildings now.

So only the time we can afford to go out at the break time, we can meet.
We are usually busy for work, so we couldn't meet for a year.

These days, we realized again that old companies are my treasure
because I'm really encouraged and healed by them.
I've got the power by sharing time and space with them.

To be honest, I wanted to spend time alone for a while.
It was because I had been too busy to work and I had no time to be alone or even doing housework.

But after the busiest time passed,
I started eagering to spent on the weekends alone and to do so for about a month,
I got back my original nature and
Now, I really think I need to cherish my companies.

It might owe to my experience of too much overtime work.
although I never wanna experience again!!

After all, even if we experienced bad things,
we could learn something new as long as we endeavor to do so.

I'm not sure it's a hundred percent true,
but I should be optimistic about the past or negative things.

Self-introduction

I'm practicing to introduce myself because
tomorrow, I'm going to attend an English speaking club for the first time.

Let me start.

My name is Azusa. My nick name is Okky, so you can call me either Okky or Azusa.

I'm working at the office in Japan.
I'm handling the exportation of car-parts to China and Portugal.
Sometimes I have to use English during the work hour,
but I don't need to use English everyday.

I'm interested in Languages. So wherever I travelled,
I was interested in these country's languages so far.

I attend the English conversation class once a week,
In addition, sometimes I join the drinking party where people speak English.

As for other hobbies, I like cooking.
I bake cakes at times. I'm happy if I can make people happy to give them these cakes.

----I'm closing self-introduction now,

but I may tell other stories of myself someday.^-^---

Have a good night☆彡

All Hallws Even

Halloween is the abbreviation of ALL HALLWS EVEN and it's the Eve of ALL SAINTS'DAY.

Autumn for what ?

I can't shake off this cold for a couple of weeks,
So I spent most of time in my house on this weekend.

Actually, this cold isn't so bad, just it's lasting for a long time.

So today I decided to study for the trading business exam
to take advantage of staying the house.

People say 'Autumn is suitable for eating many dalicious foods, exercising, reading, studying, love etc.
In my case of this autumn, it might be studying.

What do you do in this autumn?

I love heater.

I bought a heater last week because my room is located on the north side of my house and it's very cold in the winter time.

And the reason I chose the heater among many electricities is

I loved the moderate wormth of heater when I stayed in Canada.

even though It took longer time to worm the room enough than air conditioner.

I'm looking forward to staying this winter with him/her.

I got incredible discount to buy him/her. So I didn't spend much money.

But it's also true that I bought many household appliances within a few months and I have to save money..

Oh well...

The Labor union activity

Yesterday I attended the regular meeting of our labor union.

Besides, I got many small troubles concerning my job.

So, I overworked and I became the last person to leave the office.

Strangely enough, when I overwork with a couple of co-workers, I feel like leaving as soon as possible. But by contraries, once I become the last person in the office, I feel relaxed and I lose the pressure to leave the office sooner. I know it isn't good thing though...

Anyway, yesterday's evening in the office,

After finishing my work, I felt relaxed and looked down the night view.

My office is on the 19Th floor and we can see the beautiful scenery

though we usually have no time to see that.

I put a picture on this diary.

How do we say when we exchange business cards?

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まず初めは一般的に紹介などのお話をすればいいよ。

例えば、 "My name is ～. Please to meet you."「～と申します。お会いできて光栄です。」
"Nice to make your acquaintance."「お知り合いになれて嬉しいです。」

その時に握手をすると思うけど、しっかりと強すぎず弱すぎずに握ることと、スマイルを忘れないでね。そして少しだけ会話をして、その後に名刺交換をするといいよ。
名刺交換するときは、
"I would like to give you my business card."「私の名刺をお渡しさせて頂きます。」
相手が片手で名刺を受け取ったり、受け取った後すぐ財布やポケットに入れても驚かないでね。がんばってね！

My parents' 35th wedding anniversary

It's a cake I made in the cooking school today and I gaveit to my parents and uncle.
Because October 10th of this year is 35th wedding anniversary for my parents and
I wanted to cerebrate them somehow.

After we had a dinner, we ate this cake and we spent happy time together^^.