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Earthquake happend in Japan

On Friday afternoon, big earthquake had occured. I worked at office at Osaka. At first, next branch's team used TV conference to Tokyo office and tokyo team said earthquake had occured, and a few seconds later, we felt earthquake. Our office is at 11th floor and swing was very big so we felt very awful if our building was collapsed. It was about 2:30 PM. Afterthat, we switched our TV on and saw what happend in Japan, so our work had almost stopped afterthat. (safely, my house in Osaka and my parents and brother and sister's house in Shizuoka-pref. was safe) Magnitude 8.8 was very huge. Newspapers said it is the biggest magnitude earthquke in japan since authority had a record. Our hometown shizuoka was said to be occurd big earthquake since I was a child 30-40 years ago, so we had many training since i was a junior school, so at first I thought that earthquake at shizuoka had finally happend ! This eqrthquke had happend at touhoku-region so maybe many japanese thinked

Amazon kindle !

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I bought amazon kindle. ( I happend to pass the exam " network specialist " and if I passed this exam, my wife promised that I  could bought amazon kindle ..) I orderd it 26 Dec. and arrived at 20 Jan 15. It took a little time to get it and extra money due to shipping and handling($20) and import fees deposit($8), but cheaper compared to other readers. ( amazon total: $168 = 14thousant yen and sony reader 20 thousant yen and furthermore kindle handle internet browser). Amazon japan don't handle kindle so I ordered amazon usa and bought it.  #when I orderd it, there are selection "shipping speed" and when we choose fast shipping, it took extra money. I choice fast shipping because I wanted to use fast! (about $10 extra money) -> ref1 , ref2 We bought netbook last year and it was light (about 1 kg) and was very useful in my house because we can access wirelessly by wi-fi access. But when we used it outside, it was a little heavy and wasn't useful. But kindl

New Year's trip to shizuoka

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We went back to my hometown shizuoka-prefecture to spend new year's vacation.(from 31 Dec. to 2 Jan.) It is about 370 km from hirakata-city to shizuoka-city by highway and during 0-4 o'clock, highway fee is half of regular fee so we left our home at 3:10 am midnight passing highway entrance gate about 3:30 o'clock and reached my hometown about 8 am. at highway station of hamana-ko, shizuoka, 7 am. arrived at my hometown. with his nieces, saki & sana. osechi

Otani museum, etc

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We got some tickets so went to the nishinomiya-city otani museum and saw "2010 Original picture exhibition of Bologna International picture book festival" (Bologna Fiera del Libro per Ragazzi). It was first time to go to Otani museum and it was a very good museum because it has a beautiful garden in it and atmosphire was very good so we liked it. Furthermore, its" exhibition was very good and pictures were very intersting and cool. We always read picture books for our son so we are accustomed to picture books, that's one reason we liked this exhibition. Afterthat, we went to motomachi-station at kobe-city and went to daimaru-dep. museum to see the " RIMPA, JAKUCHU and the world of elegance -selection for the hosomi collection, kyoto ". It was also good but impression of otani museum was so strong that we finished watching them about 20 min. After such things, it was evening time and around there was very beautiful in color an light.

New netbook has arrived !

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Our new netbook has arrived yesterday ! I bought netbook 2 month ago (ASUS Aspire One), but recently it was suddenly broken when my wife connected a mouse and power supply suddenly down ! ASUS Aspire One was good because it was cheap (30 thousant yen) and display is 1240 * 720 and 11.6inch wide, but weight is a liitle heavy and CPU Power is also a little weak so I asked the shop to change another netbook when it was broken, and shop said they paid back 30 thousant yen. So I searched at shop and web then ordered the new netbook at amazon.com. This one is by mouse computer which is an BTO(Built To the Order) company in japan. This company isn't so popular in Japan but its spec and price is very good because it is the same price as Aspire One(30 thousant yen), same display resolution and CPU is latest one (Atom N450 and graphic chipset is MN3500) and weight is lighter(1 kg) so I orderd it (it is the last one amazon listed). We used it some days and I liked because it is easy to carry

The possibility of internet, blog, twitters, etc.

Reading some twitters and blogs, I think about what is blog and twitter mean.Of course, it is interesting to read someone's article and also intersted in writing something, but that's all. I mean that web's tool (blog, twitter, etc) might have much power. For example, when I was graduate student 20 years ago, there aren't such internet circumstances but there are news group in some internet providers and some people use such newsgroup (they call it "Forum") and my friends use them and get specific information and argue about some kind of things and it is very powerful tool for some kind of interst area. I did not use internet in such a way, but if I can use blog or some internet tool in such a way, I might utilize internet more powerful besides expressing daily life (for example, I ate something now expressing by twitter, etc etc).

Ooji zoo (kobe-city)

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Ooji-zoo ( MAP ) is a famous and very popular zoo at Kansai. Today was fine day and it is in the "golden-week" vacation time, so we left home at 9:30 and took train about 1.5 hour. Arriving at Nada station where japanese sake is famous. From station to the zoo, it took about 5 min to walk.This erea is calm and nice place. When we arrived there, there were so many people because it was the best season to go around. Elephant! I didn't see elephant for a long time so it was fresh to me, but my son was tired so he didn't show attention. This zoo have many places to be watched and it took about one day to go around, so we(me and he) are a little tired to walk (my wife took the picture). After sleep about 10 min, we went to aquarium and it is very nice because we could watch penguin through the water and the color of water was very wonderful! And this zoo's most popular animal is Panda. After leaving zoo about 3:40 pm, we walked to the south to go to "Nagisa park&