30 September 2010
Tax hike on cigarettes
From 1st October, tax on cigarettes will be increased. Now they are selling a pack of cigarettes at about 300 JPY (about 3.6 USD), but after the tax hike, it will be raised to about 440 JPY (about 5.3 USD). I heard this is the highest tax hike on cigarettes ever.
Because of tax hike on cigarettes, 58% of smokers decided to quit smoking according to the survey. On the other hand, many people are buying more cigarettes to stock at cheaper prices. My friend found the person who bought 10 cartons of cigarettes at cigar shop. So, he spent 30,000 JPY (about 360 USD) for cigarettes!!
Well, I'm not smoker, so this tax hike will not effect to my usual life. Some of my friends are smoker then some of them decided to quit it, but mostly they will not quit it...
I'm not anti-smoking activist, then I'm not going to force to quit it but I think they should quit it for their health.
Thank you.
29 September 2010
new year's mail
Well, it's end of September that means we have 3 months until the end of 2010. And I think, it's too fast to get ready for new year's mail.But I've got the flyer that Japan post started to accept orders for new year's mail.
I think, many Japanese people will send new year's mail (not email), and most of them want Japan post to deliver mails on 1st January. According to the flyer, we should post new year's mails until 25th December if we want Japan post to delivery mails on 1st January.
I heard many young Japanese people tend to send new year's mails via emails. (like me)
These 7 years, I've never posted new year's mail before the beginning of new year. (Of course, I posted them after I've got them from my friends.) But I'm planning to send new year's mails (not emails) to some of my friends. So, I'm going to buy them after 1st November. (I could know that they will start to selling new year's mails from 1st November, because I found the date that they will start to selling it on the flyer! Wow, we have a month more to get it...)
Thank you.
28 September 2010
Waiting for weather recovery
I want to ride my bicycle so I hope weather will recover soon.
Thank you.
27 September 2010
My final semester
Well, I felt it's not perfect weather as the beginning day of new semester. It's raining here... But I will go from today.
Thank you.
24 September 2010
A life without the internet
I think, I'm using too many things that related to the internet. Twitter, Facebook, RSS, MMS, email, flickr, Foresquare, Skype, Evernote, Instapaper, iTunes store, YouTube, mixi, and my blog. Of course, these services that I raised are just example, so there are other services that I'm using, I think.
I think, these services are quite useful if there are the internet connection. But I realised that I'm spending much time with these things. And I believed that I must re-think about them. For instance, I was following 138 users on Twitter (maximum) and I tried to read all of their tweets, but it's waste of time I felt. Then I decided to unfollow some of them. Now I'm following 67 users, and I'm planning to unfollow more.
I used to search or watching some site while I'm writing an article, then I took much time to post an article. In this week, I decided to write an article without the internet. Of course, I'm not connecting to the internet right now. I will connect to the internet after I wrote all of this article and post it. I think, it's better to disconnect to the internet while I'm writing an article because I can concentrate on it more and also I can think about it more. That means I can post article in short time and the article would be better one.
I should shorten the time of using the internet like I wrote. But it's tough to not to use them for a long time. For instance, there are many important emails. Not only that if I want to know about something, the internet is the fastest and most useful tool to know them. (especially about coding)
I felt a life without TV is easy for me, but a life without the internet seems to be difficult. But I should shorten the time of using the internet, I felt.
Thank you
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