Xmas Decoration

Merry Xmas!

And there are only 6 days until 2010. 

The streets are illuminated. I found the vending machine that illuminated. You can check the photo of that vending machine. How do you feel?


When I first saw this vending machine, I felt "it's too decorated".


Anyway, enjoy your holidays!


Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

Giant postbox

The giant postbox appeared at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo. I forgot when they started this campaign, but they decorate this building every December these years. I heard this is the largest postbox in the world. It is 15 meters high. Between 5 p.m. and 11 p.m., we can watch the projected image. In the projected image, there are people who are posting their post in front of this giant postbox.


This is the campaign of new year's greeting card. We call it "年賀状(Nengajo)". I think, we should send new year's greeting cards so they'll arrive on 1st January. There are many many new year's greeting cards that Japan Post will deliver on 1st January. So, they are announcing that post new year's greeting cards until 25th December. Yeah, it's tomorrow!


Of course, they will deliver your new year's greeting cards but they cannot deliver it on 1st January... I didn't post it as usual, but I will send new year's greeting cards if someone send me new year's greeting cards.


Anyway, you can check the largest postbox at Roppongi hills.


Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

Short short day time

Today is the winter solstice in Japan. We call it "冬至(Toji)". Of course, it means midwinter, and day time of today is the shortest in year. Also today's daily minimum temperature marked the lowest in this season. Yeah, it's really cold today...


In Japan, there are some customs that we do on the winter solstice. I know two customs that we do on the winter solstice. One of them is the custom when we use bathroom. On the winter solstice day, we enjoy our bath time with "ゆず(Yuzu)". We take Yuzu bath in an effort to stay healthy during cold winter. We call it "ゆず湯(Yuzu yu)".


Another one is delicious and easy. Just eat squash on the winter solstice day. Of course, I did both of them today... lol
If you can, you should try it... lol


Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

New comedian star

Yesterday I watched the comedy program named "M-1 Grand Prix" on TV. "M-1 Grand Prix" is the annual Manzai competition that the Japanese comedian Shinsuke Shimada planned. This had been the 9th competition since it start in 2001.


Comedian who won "M-1 Grand Prix" became popular and they would appear frequently on TV shows. I watched whole program yesterday... lol


The winner of this year was "パンクブーブー(Punk boo boo)". Anyway, the comedian pairs who set up within 10 years have chance to try this competition. So, veterans can't try for this...


I think, many Japanese watched this program so, there are a lot of videos on YouTube... lol You may be able to watch their story on YouTube...


Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

Illumination

There were decorated buildings, lights, trees... Today I saw the
luxury illumination at 六本木(Roppongi). There are some areas
that we can see these luxury illumination and 六本木(Roppongi)
is one of these areas. This year the illumination at 表参道
(Omotesando) restarted, that illumination didn't hold in past few
years. (I forgot exactly how long it is)


Japanese spend romantic time with partner in Chiristmas season. Some
native English speaking teacher told me that is not 'real' Christmas.
I didn't know that but according to her, we should spend with family
in Christmas. Maybe most of Japanese are misunderstanding about
Christmas. And maybe this is the reason that why there are many
illumination spots in Japan.


I wish I was able to show you some pictures of these illuminations.
But I cannot do this right now...


Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!