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Livedoor Reader, the japanese leading RSS reader on web, is now available in English!it was available only in Japanese and you need "livedoor ID", a universal ID on livedoor service (it's like Yahoo! ID) to use the Livedoor Reader service. the English-nized service is named "fastladder. You can use it in English! even they don't look really fulent at English, it's still useful! ;-)Livedoor Reader

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SOBA BOKKOU Originally uploaded by kenic. i had soba today. do you know soba? soba is a kinda noodle, traditional japanse one. i like it. it's quite simple and tastes good, but it's not very easy to find a good one here in okayama. generally said, udon is common in west japan, soba is in east japan. but if you try you sometimes find one gives you satisfaction somehow. YUMMY!

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wireless mighty mouse Originally uploaded by kenic. i bought a new mouse. but this mouse has no tail. um. it's the new wireless mighty mouse, it works via bluetooth. the shape is almost same as the normal mighty mouse except the point of the "tail". it uses one or two AAA batteries, even it works with two of them, the weight is not too heavy, but just an acceptable weight. i like it, you

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とろろぶっかけ. well, i write all about foods everyday... :P this is udon called ぶっかけ, it has lesser soup than normal udon. it can be serve hot or cold. you know, ぶっかけ is not a X rated word, there is another word to mean "ぶっかけ" here in japan. i can't write it here you know, it's a public place...if you want to know what it is, just call me. anyway, i like ぶっかけうどん, it's always yummy. this kinda udon

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the meshiya Originally uploaded by kenic. i had a lunch today at "the meshiya" means "the food shop". it's like buffe you take foods you need by youserlf. the main customers looked like construction workers, probably they feel easy this kinda place. today's foods are: saba, tofu, okra, iwashi and sushi. about 900yen. tastes not bad.

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LUNCH 20060822 Originally uploaded by kenic. well, long time no see... ^^; it's busy on summer every year...i don't know why. well, it's the lunch today...konbini bentou. umebosi, gohan, daikon, potatoe salad, ganmo, koimo, egg, korokke, saba...

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LUNCH TODAY Originally uploaded by kenic. i had lunch today at the school cafe. again. well, perhaps it looks much, but it's not actually...each dish contains just small amount. i thought that things here in japan are high price, especially when i lived in tokyo. but you know it's just 535yen. the lunch is not very gogeous, but ok. and 535yen is also not very cheap, but it's also ok price.

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french sugar Originally uploaded by kenic. i drink coffee everyday to keep me wake up. usually, mainly for a financial reason, i use pre-packed coffee beans with paper filter to drip it. it's cheap and tastes not bad...i thought so lately. but on last sunday, i need coffee when i was home suddenly and you know, i didn't have the same beans as the office there. so i made an espresso coffee

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school cafe Originally uploaded by kenic. i'm back from long holidays that is a sequence of national holidays and weekend, called "golden week" here. it was from 29th to 7th. my brain doesn't work yet...i need time to be back to the real world ;P anyway i had a lunch at a school cafe today. in this season, the school cafe is more crowded at lunch time than normal. newvies still don't know

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kousa 黄砂 Originally uploaded by kenic. in this season, from march to may, we have kousa sometimes. kousa means "yellow dust", it comes from china (see wikipedia: asian dust). when it comes, the sky clouds even it's a fine day. do you see it in the pic? it's not very serious here in japan, because it's a bit far from chinese desert that is a source of the dust. it makes the sky clouds,

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today's meal Originally uploaded by kenic. today, when i woke up in morning, i felt something strange on my throat...i was afraid that i caught cold. i shouldn't go out in this kind of day...so i cooked it by myself. pasta and tako. i found penne, tomato can, aspargus, bacon and garlic in the stock, so i didn't have to go out to buy them (even there is a super market in front of my house, 2

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RHODIA, BIC et SAILOR Originally uploaded by kenic. I like RHODIA's memo pad. this one is No.11 size. RHODIA's paper is easy to tear off and nicely thick having block lines in purple color. I used to use writing cards to take memos but they are too thick and not easy to handle. after i found that RHODIA is better than it i'm using this. and pens, orange ones, they are cheap...BIC baller

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bentou Originally uploaded by kenic. On Monday, 17th Apr, I bought a lunch box at a small shop (convenience store) near by the office I work at. In this 10 years, I had eaten a lot of this kinda junk food, konbini bentou, so i's really bored to have this...but on monday, I have classes at a highschool so i don't have much time to go out for lunch...no choice.anyway, mame daifuku (the white

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abunai Originally uploaded by kenic. He/She says a word "dangerous" perhaps about getting in the fence. There is a tower for electricity. I wonder if it's just a normal sign like "DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE YOU KEEP OUT OR YOU DIE", the message would be more straight and stronger. Anyway, He's cute. Cuteness covers harshness of the real life... Is this the japanese way? Cuteness is spread over

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okonomiyaki tachibana Originally uploaded by kenic. okonomiyaki tachibana Originally uploaded by kenic. I had okonomiyaki at lunch today. It looks a mess rather than great but tastes nice. There are two main styles of okonomiyaki, one is Kansai, the other is hiroshima. This is Kansai-fuu. I like it kansai-fuu better than hiroshima, perhaps because i had been living in kansai area (

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GREENWICH Originally uploaded by kenic. I visited london last year for a week including the day of the underground terror attack. I was there for an international scientific conference in greenwich. They usually take place the conference at the london collage in the central london, but the last year was the only exception I've experienced. Did they know what was going to happen?On the Next

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iMac Originally uploaded by kenic. I bought a new macintosh, iMac with intel core duo two months ago. This works fine and faster than PowerBook G4. Here in Japan, somebody had guessed the intel cpu would mess macintosh, but it was not so.Current Mac's OS is Mac OS X, and this is almost the same thing as the old NeXT STEP, the OS works on NeXT computers. Mac OS X's developing toolkit is

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lunch today Originally uploaded by kenic. so i had lunch at school cafe again. from top left, nanohana, okara, ocha, gobou no kinpira, (bottom left) misosiru, gohan, oden. 500yen.

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SAKURA Originally uploaded by kenic. un stagno e sakura Originally uploaded by kenic. obento Originally uploaded by kenic. It's really nice day today...a bit windy but still nice. So, I went to a park with lunch boxes (jubako in japanese) to see sakura with my family. It is called HANAMI means watching flowers. We took a bus for 5 mins, it reached to a park. We walked around...

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mazda face Originally uploaded by kenic. I don't recall when He started being there. I noticed the existance of him, He was already there. He looked like the captain. He's silent, but He always gazes me watching my driving a car.domoarigato, mr. robotto....^^;

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sakura Originally uploaded by kenic. sakura is still in bloom. Last two days, it had rained, so i was afraid that sakura would be finished. (It happens often that raining makes ending it). But it's still ok. Sakura trees are really beautiful on this season. after blooming finished, new leafs come out, it's also beautiful. SPRING - G.M. HopkinsNothing is so beautiful as Spring --When weeds

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today's lunch Originally uploaded by kenic. I had a bit late lunch today at gakushoku (school cafeteria). Well, it was about on 13.30. I didn't check its price...I guess it was like 450yen or 500yen (approx. $3 or $4). The Dishes are: (from top left) okara, renkon, misosiru, (middle left) ocha ;P, komatsuna no ohitasi, oden, (bottom) rice. I'm afraid that it's lack of protain....especially

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TABU Originally uploaded by kenic. I like candies, well you might say that's the reason of 194LB ;P. I like licorice...this TABU candy from italy made from licorice. It's not widely seen here in japan selling candies contains licorice. So when I go abroad I always buy this kinda stuff. The name is also nice...TABU...what i like exactly...hehe.This must be the site of the maker of TABU. It

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handayama Originally uploaded by kenic. It's really fine day and warm today. I found that it was even too warm in a car when I drive for lunch. Lately, I'm studying in an university....on a doctoral course. When I say this, people often think I'm going to be a doctor...medical one....but it's not for MD but Ph.D. I like University...well it would be more true if I would say I like almost

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sakura Originally uploaded by kenic. it was a strange weather yesterday. in morning, when i woke up and looked outside though a window, i saw the road is wet. hm, it looks like it rained. then it started sun shining then suddenly it got dark and rains a bit. the sun shows her body betweeen clouds shortly then started raining hardly this time, then rumbled thunder once or twice. is it the

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raining Originally uploaded by kenic. it has just started raining now...spring raining is called "harusame", it sounds like not strongly raining...just silent. but it rains like beating somehow. i like raining anyway if it doesn't happen that often.

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i go to gym lately to fit. one year ago, on march 2005, my weight was 88kg (194LB). i thought it's too much for my height 173cm (5 feet 8 inches). the most famous and biggest gym brand is konami sports in japan. there is konami here in okayama also, near by the okayama station. i used there for a year til this march, and i decided to go to a local one from Apr. why? the price is almost same,

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i'm living here in japan, coz i'm a japanese. i've thought that it must be fun to describe what happens here on a small island in the far east....so let's start now.

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