From Hirakata-city, Osaka-prefecture, Japan

For about one and half year, we didn't watch TV because my wife prohibited swiching on TV since our baby was born on May 2009. (She think that it is not good for children to watch TV.) At first, I didn't acustomed to the life without TV, but soon became acustomed to that. Last week when winter holiday season(from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3) began, I watched TV but all of them were boring to me. The quality of TV program is very low and worthless. Indeed, I always watch internet streaming BBC, France 24, Aljazeera and get news from Google news, etc and that's enough if I waste time seeing worthless TV Programs. And I remembered the same thing I thought when I was university student that many of our college students seemed to be very fool because they read manga all the time and the level of their talk was very low level and I was very disapointed. Our college (Tokyo Institute of Technology) was not low level and indeed they were good at solving problems but there were few people...

We went to Asahi-beer Ooyamazaki moutain villa museum at 12,Octorber.( Map ) Ooyamazaki is a town of Kyoto-pref. located at the border of Kyoto and Osaka, and it is a small but beautiful town surrounded by the nature. This museum is on the side of a mountain and this is a place where hideyoshi was battled to conquest japan about 500 years ago, but now it is very calm place. There is a slope to the museum. This museum is surrounded by nature and very beautiful. Over there, we can see the museum and it was the mountain villa of a industrialist. This side is a architecture of Tadao Ando made of concrete. At first sight, ando's architecture is normal concrete building but there is a beautiful forum existed and I imagine many things from his architecture, maybe his architecture stimulate our creativity. That's why I like his architecture.

Mika Nakajima; unseen star BONNIE PINK; water me

We went to the Myoushinji temple.( MAP ) There were no special meaning to go there, but we often go to the north-east erea of kyoto because we took keihan-train and we seldom go around myoushinji erea (north-west of Kyoto) so I decided to go there. From our home to the myoushinji temple, it took about 1.5 hour by car, and there are parkinglot so we didn't need to pay a parking charge. Myoushinji temple is very large and unique temple because it consist of many tacyuu(塔頭) which is small temple gathering around the tomb of founder. And it is Zen Buddhism temple. It was not crowded and scenary is beautiful so we liked the temple.