09 June 2011
Super cool biz
We the Japanese, love to wear suits even in hot day, I felt. I think, it's really crazy look at the train in summer days in Tokyo. You can see the trains crowded with workers who are wearing suits... Well, it seems so stifling.
Suits is not from Japan, I think. But Japanese people seems to love these suits. Anyway, I don't like it so much.
Some years ago, the government started the campaign "cool biz" to spread business casuals to many companies. They are promoting wears which are better wears than suits and tie during summer. I felt it's really nice campaign, because if these promotion going well, we don't have to wear the suits in hot summer days.
In my opinion, most of these workers are now not wearing their ties. But they are still wearing suits. So the government's campaign seems to be failed.
"Super cool biz" is not so cool
Japanese government started their new summer clothes campaign "Super cool biz". I think, it's not so cool because these wears are just wears for summer. But it looks a little comfortable.
Why they started such a campaign in this year?
Well, the energy shortage to be expected in this summer in Japan. This is due to the major earthquake in March. We still have trouble in Fukushima-daiichi nuclear power plants, and the government ridiculously ordered to stop Hamaoka nuclear power plants in Shizuoka prefecture due to future Tsunami concern. Also, some of Japanese people believe nuclear power plants must stop immediately, and they are now trying to stop all of the nuclear power plants in Japan. (I don't agree with their opinion.)
Because we are in energy shortage, we should reduce our energy spend in this summer. For these reasons, the government started their new campaign "super cool biz". I hope they will promote to wear T-shirts and half pants with sandal. (Of course, I'm joking.)
Starts on cold day
The day one of super cool biz was 1st June. It was really cold day and many people are wearing long-sleeved shirts. Yes, it was totally not suitable day for super cool biz. Day 2 was also cold day and most of people were not trying super cool biz.
In this week, the weather got well and the temperature increased so much. So there might be some people who are trying super cool biz. I've never seen such a people yet.
Well, if I have a chance, I might try super cool biz...
Thank you.
01 June 2011
Pepsi Dry
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| Pepsi's funny flavours |
I think, PEPSI is really interesting company. They are providing many funny products in these years such as Pepsi Azuki and Pepsi Mont Blanc. I tried these "unusual" pepsi cola these years, but I prefer the usual one. (Not diet coke.) Anyway, Suntory which franchisee of Pepsi in Japan, announced their new "strategy(!?)". They are planning to defy the common wisdom that cola is sweet drink.
Non-sweet cola
They released their new flavour of Pepsi cola on 24th May. Yes, it's about a week ago. Their new flavour is called "Pepsi dry". Well, they said "non-sweet cola".
I think, it's not cola if it's not sweet. It's just sparkling mineral water.
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| Pepsi dry |
But they are advertising that it's cola. They are advertising "nine times out of ten would say 'it's not sweet'".
Anyway, I bought this one because I was trying such crazy pepsi drinks these years. And I wanted to try this one too.
I drunk it. Well, it's exactly not sweet. It's smells like cola, but it's not cola anymore. And I don't like it...
I also found that it's not zero-calorie cola. It's not sweet, but it has calorie. I think, you should buy diet coke!
Perrier
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| My favourite Perrier |
Well, it's a little like Perrier, but it's totally different from Perrier. I sometimes drink Perrier which is France's natural sparkling water, and I like it... But I don't like Pepsi dry.
I don't understand that they started to release such a drink, but I found some funny articles that about Pepsi dry. According to these articles, they believe it's better to use Pepsi dry as seasoning, not as cola.
If you have, and if you want to try this one... You can try it in Japan.
But I don't recommend it.
Thank you.
15 May 2011
London trip: Day 5
In the morning, we went to Emirates stadium which is the Arsenal FC's home stadium. One of my friends who went to London with is the big fun of Arsenal FC. And he wanted to visit the stadium, buy some goods at official shop... Then we went there. Unfortunately, the weather was not good at all on this day. But we could know how big it is! I visited some stadiums in Japan such as Ajinomoto stadium in Tokyo, but the Emirates stadium was much larger than stadiums in Japan, I felt.
If we could, we would like to watch the match there. But we couldn't do so as I wrote before.
After we visited the stadium, we went to Buckingham palace. We've already checked the schedule of changing of the guard. Fortunately, we could arrived there on time, and saw that.
In front of the palace, we saw rainbow colored cab. We saw many cabs during our stay, but we didn't ride it at all. So if I have a chance, I would like to ride it.
After we saw changing of the guard, we went to Fortnum & Mason. I didn't know this shop, but my friend told me. According to my friend, Fortnum's is famous tea shop in London. When we arrived at Fortnum's, there were many Japanese tourists. They were buying so many teas and tea goods there, but I didn't have much money to buy such a many stuff there. So I bought one tea for my family.
I also didn't know the name Camden Market. At Camden market, there were many shops and I felt it's a little like Takeshita-dori where Tokyo's shopping district for young people.
But I felt it's much stylish, because I found two cool paintings near there. Of course, there are many graffiti also in Tokyo, but I felt most of them are looks so ugly, and I don't like most of graffiti in Tokyo.
We used Baker street station again and again during our trip, but we've never been 221B until the final day. So as our memorial, we get off the tube and went to 221B on this day.
Also, as our memorial we went to abbey road.
Well, we were not big fun of the Beatles, but there were fun of the Beatles who were taking pictures. Some of them were standing on zebra crossing to behave like cover picture of the Beatles' album "Abbey road".
But it's not look like cover picture, because the line on the road changed...
We had a lot of places where we visited on this day, and sky was getting dark. Yes, we needed to think about our final dinner during our stay.
Well, we were planning to take dinner at British pub during our stay at least one night. So, here it is. We went to pub near Hyde park. And this is the fish & chips. I felt it's so big!!
We ate this with British beer.
We mostly used undergrounds (or I should say tube?) during our stay. We bought Oyster card on first day, because it seems to be easy to pay our fares. In Japan, there are some similar prepaid card such as Suica. These prepaid cards are really useful because we don't have to buy tickets. The card automatically calculate the correct fee when we touched the gates.
I think, it's really useful, but I felt a little inconvenience. I felt a little inconvenience, because the gates sometimes didn't work right. And we needed to touch the card strongly to gates. Suica works so rapidly and we don't have to touch to the gates so strongly. Then I felt a little inconvenience. Anyway, it helped me to travel with undergrounds.
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I won't write about day 6 and day 7 as stand-alone article, because I don't have anything to write about that. Day 6, the day which our airplane leave London. So, we spend our time mostly at Heathrow Airport. Just waiting for the departure.
On day 7, we came back to Tokyo before noon. The airplane arrived at Narita Airport. And that is really far away from my house. I hope all of them will depart and arrive at Haneda Airport.
You can check previous articles that about my trip to London from:
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10 May 2011
London trip: Day 4
We reserved tickets before we left Tokyo. I felt the price of tickets were cheaper than I expected. The airplane ticket for domestic line in Japan would be about 10,000 JPY (about 125 USD), it's not round-trip plane ticket. Of course, it's economy-class seat. But we could reserved the seat of round-trip plane London Heathrow Airport to Edinburgh Airport for less than 10,000 JPY!! And it's include tax! I felt it's really cheap. I don't know much about other countries' domestic line tickets, but in Japan airplane ticket would be expensive one even for domestic lines...
Unfortunately, the weather in London was not so good on this day. But we were not worrying about that because we would leave for Edinburgh on this day. So, how about weather in Edinburgh?
The weather in Edinburgh on this day was really wonderful!!
And it was not so hot, and not so cold for me. Well, we needed to ride the bus to get to centre area of Edinburgh. We rode the bus for a while, and arrived at Edinburgh station. We walked to Edinburgh castle.
I think, it's under construction, but I felt it's really nice.
Also, the view from Edinburgh castle was really nice!
Inside the Edinburgh castle, we could learn a little about Edinburgh castle and history of Edinburgh. And I could meet him. lol
After we enjoyed Edinburgh castle, we went to the Scotch whiskey experience. It's near from Edinburgh castle, and we could enjoy Scotch whiskey there. Look at the photo below, there were so many Scotch whiskeys!
At the Scotch Whiskey Experience, we could learn about Scotch Whiskey and its history. Also, we could taste the whiskey. There was a shop of Scotch Whiskey, and I wanted to send some to my house. But I couldn't do so...
We decided to walk around the city of Edinburgh. The urban area of Edinburgh was really beautiful, and took many photos. If you interest, please visit my facebook account. I upload some of them.
We could stay long at Edinburgh, because we chose night flight to come back to London. So, we came back to hotel at night. Anyway, we could enjoy the one-day trip to Edinburgh. If I have a chance, I would like to go there again!
So, this is the end of my story on day 4.
You can check previous stories from London trip: day 1, London trip: day 2, and London trip: day 3.
Thank you.
02 May 2011
London trip: Day 3
Today is about my London trip: Day 3. You can check London trip: Day 1 and London trip: Day 2.
In the morning, we went to Baker Street station. We passed that station again and again on Day 1 and Day 2, but it was the first time to got off at this station. When we got off, we found Sherlock Holmes's statue in front of the station.
There were many people who were taking picture of the statue including us. We took some pictures with this statue, but it was not our purpose to got off at this station.
Our first destination of Day 3 was Madame Tussauds. I didn't know this place, but my friend told me on Facebook then we decided to go there first. Inside the Madame Tussauds, there were many wax figures such as Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, Justin Bieber and so on. We took many pictures there. That was really fun. Not only the wax figures, but we could enjoy "4D movie" at there! It's worth to go there!
After the Madame Tussauds, we went to Westminster.
When we were crossing the Westminster bridge, the weather was wonderful.
After we crossed the Westminster bridge, we went to McDonald's to take lunch there. We chose McDonald's because we want to know the difference of menu, prices, taste and so on at there.
The photo on above is my lunch that I bought at McDonald's. Well, I felt it's bit expensive than Japanese price. But taste was not so different, and I felt the size was a little bigger than Japanese one.
While we were eating lunch at McDonald's, the weather changed so rapidly. The weather got bad like photo below.
Anyway, we walked to London Eye. While we were riding the London Eye, it was raining a little...
Unfortunately, the weather was not so good. But we could enjoy the London Eye.
After the London Eye, we went to Science Museum at Kensington. I went London with my 2 friends who are studying together at the college. We were all studying electronics engineering at the college. Which means we are really interested in Science and Technology. Then we were planning to visit such place. The Science Museum was exactly such place where we wanted to visit. It was really interesting place for me, and we enjoyed the whole afternoon of this day at there. We stayed there by closing time.
We took supper around there and came back to Wembley park.
On this day, there was the match Arsenal FC vs. Birmingham city FC. (We wanted to watch the match, but we couldn't get the ticket...) So, the stadium was lighted up and looks so beautiful.
We took some photos around there, then came back to hotel.
So here's the end of my trip on day 3. I will update my Day 4 story as soon as possible.
Thank you.
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