As @takano_hiroshi's recent follow-ups have been increased, he introduced the once popurarlity-accepted animation.This is amazing.

Of courese,@takano_hiroshi is musician.

Since animation can not be taken into blog, please see this page.The couple, playing a single guitar amazingly nice,gives you a pleasure.

You know, there is also a so-called "Duo Siqueira Lima", an official page set up by CECILIA SIQUEIRA（Uruguay）and FERNANDO LIMA（Brasil）.

They started playing performances in 2002. They make Europe tours. Their playing scenes are spotted in an number of animation on pages.

Without a doubt, this page looks more fun.

（via Twitter / yanase hiroichi）

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Feb 7

When I talked on twitter, I found many avocados' fans and they told "avocafe" followed by "madosh!cafe"

avocafe is at Kanda Jimbocho. You can have lunch and dinner.

I just can not know details about menues because of the website under renovation. The photos from the site"Tabelog" make my mouth water a lot.

It's avocado-don, indeed. Pasta,too. I hope to visit there if I have a chance!

Address：West Building 3F, 1-2-9, Kanda Jimbocho, Chiyoda Ku, Tokyo.

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The avocado restaurant"madosh!cafe"in Shibuya

（via Twitter / Hironobu Igarashi）

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Feb 4

Avocado restaurant has a nice ring to it. I knew that the avocado restaurant was"madosh!cafe" in Shibuya！

I like an avocado very much. I can not stand its mild taste. We can have an avocado salada at restaurant but I've never thought there were an avocado restaurant.

Why is it specialized in an avocado ?

Now, thinking about affinity to various kinds of ingredients and recipes, recipes of avocados are full of possibilities. On the other hand, its methodologieshave not yet made systematically.

I want to go and eat it! They say we can have both lunch and dinner. The Avocado-don is nice for lunch. There are some takeouts. I envy the neighbors.

I may feel happy if I go to the restaurant. The restaurant locates in Shibuya so I hope to visit there someday in the near future.

It has twitter account, too. Wonderful!

▼satoh.shunsuke (avomaster) on Twitter

What I recommend for my favorite avocado recipe is dragon steak!

Address：5-28-7-205 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku

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There is an intimate cafe serving avocado dishes"avocafe"at Jinbocho.

（via Twitter / Takanobu Kobayashi）

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Feb 4

It's a project named,"Pants for kids and parents"Yes, yes like this !

The idea is to make pants that the parents wear and the kids can use. A pocket for the child to put things in, a tugging handle maybe.

Yes, children love gathering vairous kinds of small things, such as nuts and leaves. After gatherig them, they come close to their parents to put them into their parent's hand each time.

It must be fun to have pants with pockets like this. Once he(she) folds his(her) legs, nuts and leaves may be fallen down all at once.

（via swissmiss）

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Feb 2

Professor Suzuki discovered the slight crooked brains at the shaped crossing point of optic nerve which connects the right eye to the left brain, and the left eye to the right brain.From there, the crook of the whole brain goes on and the position of eyesis to be shifted to the other side, he confirmed.

Wow! They say that the distance of eyes; "left-eyed flounder to the left and right-eyed flounder to the right"was caused from the crook of the eyes.

It is said that DNA which controls the directions of crook is specified. left-eyed flounder and right-eyed flounder; when they are born, their shapes are symmetry, but after 20 to 40 days, their eyes tend to more toward the left or the right and the color of their bodies becomes darkish only on the eye side.

It's an astonishing story that eyes have gaps because of their crooked brains. The difference of DNA also makes another crooking direction.

Moreover, it was found that "pitx2", which decides a position of internal organs. It is known as it works when human hearts are formed to the left side of the bodies. And it works again not only before left-eyed flounder and right-eyed flounder are born but also at the time of their fry controlling crook of brains.

Oh, I understand ! From that point of view, internal organs of human beings are not symmetry, are they ?

When they are artificially raised, there are some whose position of eyes become opposite. A researcher comments, "The difference about growing environment of fries restrains the pitx2 working.

Among the sushi menu of sushi-go-round restaurant, I like "Engawa(dorsal fin of flounder)" best.

▼ 500 Questions about left-eyed flounder (SAKURA・MOOK 42) (Large-size book)

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 19

New white products of cup noodles,"Cream Stewed Noodles" have been sold. I tried them immediately.

"White"is a theme of these series of new products.

The cup noodle has less calories than I thought.

Ham or Corns are in it and it has a taste like "Cream Stew" literally. The taste is not like that of soy sauce, miso or sault. I'm sure I like it.

I felt like having soup with some stew. There was little left in the cup after having it.

I've had sufficient !

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 22

According to an entry "there might be a festival" you could have potatoes and drinks as much as possible" at McDonald at Yoyogi.", there's going to be a service "you could have potatoes and drinks as much as possible at McDonald at Yoyogi in a limited period.

Actually it's confirmed by phone.

The period is from Jan20 through Feb14 2010 and the limited time is PM17-22. When you buy "Value Set LL" which costs 60 yen more than Value Set, you can have potatoes and drinks as much as possible.

You would be quite full when you eat just only "Value Set LL", and the service will be nice for McDonald's potatoes lovers.

But I wondered why they gave such serivices "you could have potatoes and drinks as much as possible." Probably the time of the service might be a good timing for McDonald to have less customers.

Will it happen that students of club activities drop in McDonald on their way home and know that potatoes were all sold out ? I wonder.

▼McDonald 7 rules for success (Book)（softcover）

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 19

When I wrote about "Car sharing service using convenience store parking",I was told "NICONICO RENTCAR", renting a car by 2,525 Yen for 12 hours.

I was wondering about the cost of "Car sharing service using convenience store parking", cost 800 Yen for 30 minutes. But it might be easy to use for us if the cost is 2,525 Yen.

Looking at the price list, it's true that for S class the cost is 2,525 Yen for 12 hours at a membership price. It's 2,100 Yen for 6 hours. The price will be reasonable thinking of just using a car half a day.

Having a look at a photo, I noticed that it had tie-up with a gas station. When I looked at the store in front of Urawa Station, I found a photo telling you go to the Saitama Stadium, rent a car and go !

It's no doubt that it takes 30 minutes to go to the Saitama Stadium by car. It costs less than 700 Yen per person when renting a car for 12 hours before and after matches. It might be convenient.

（via Twitter / Naohide Arai）

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 14

I found Sushi Etiquette...an illustration of a good manner when eating sushi.

Besides sushi manners as picking up sushi by chopsticks or fingers , not to dip rice into soy sauce, plain illustrations show bad manners when you eat sushi.

Bad manners are as follows; rub chopsticks, cut sushi into half, dip rice into soy sauce, put wasabi into soy sauce and so on.

It's not a good manner to hand some money to a such maker. This suppose you might give him a tip

You'd better tell about a good manner when you eat sushi with a guest from abroad. ？

（via swissmiss）

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 12

Tasting of "Big Amercia", a new hamburger made by MacDonald was held at a certain place in Tokyo, and I was lucky to attend via AMN(Agile Media Network). I will report it to you.

Very thick!！

The hamburgers going to be sold this time are series of "Big America" and they are motifs of four titles in America.。

I'll tell you about each characteristic from a page, "A secret taste of Big America".

Texas:

It has two kinds of sauce, spicy barbeque sauce and snappy grain mustard relish. It is juicy and 1/4 pound big enough beef putty(about two and half times as big as usual one). How about enjoying them with a kingly zest ?

New York:

This was made from a club sandwitch originated from New York into a formal style hamburger. It is juicy and 1/4 pound big enough beef putty(about twon and half times as big as usual one). Also it has harmony with MontereyJack cheese produced in America, rich taste of bacon, tomatoes and lettuce.

California:

The best point is special sauce using Californian red wine made in California. It is juicy and 1/4 pound big enough beef putty(about two and half times as big as usual one) and especialize it with mellow scent and rich taste.

Hawaiian:

Hawaiian hamburger deeply filled with delicious taste of Hawaiian dish "Loco Moco" loved by all over the world. It has rich taste of special gravy juicy sauce and is 1/4 pound beef putty(about two and half times as big as usual one). Also it is harmonized with flesh eggs, tasty enough of bacons, cheese and lettuce in it.

How about these? They have rich meat and plenty sauce in them as well.

By the way I hear that the same beef putty is used as the one in 1/4 pound. Each hamburgers is characteristic and everyone has his(her) taste.

I strongly recommend and it might be fun for you to try all kinds of hamburgers. Personally, "Texas' was my taste from the first bite, because I love food with barbeque taste! So, this hamburger was really delicious, I thought.

"New York" a motif of club sandwitch is good as the one we eat in every day lives. The taste is very light and easy to eat.

I thought, "Oh" when I had it in the first round, but in the second round after eating all the hamburgers, I chose "California" as the best ones. The red wine sauce remains in my mouth comfortably. I've never tried a hamburger with red wine sauce in it. I love its special taste.

I know it's matter of taste,so I'm going to write in honest. On the contrary, it was "Hawaiian" I was not feel like eating. Maybe, gravy sauce was not so good and an egg had little impact, because there's 'Tsukimi Burger" which are hamburgers with fried egg fillings.

The event was being relayed by Twitter, so I'll insert it here.

What is important is all these hamburgers have period limitations.

For the time being, an intial sales is going to be from Jan8 through Jan11. First, please chck if you can not wait it.

・Initial sales tips of Texas Burger
・Initial sales tips of New York Burger
・Initial sales tips of California Burger
・Initial sales tips of Hawaiian Burger

Wow! Around my area, I can have only "New York" burgers!

They are added into routine menu in the future, I hope.

I've had sufficient

Photos take from PowerShot G11

▼Canon Digital Camera Power Shot G11 PSG11

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 8

It is said that at last Son, the president of SoftBank, ordered all the staffs to use twitter.

It came out of the twitter of a younger sister working for SoftBank.

▼Twitter / Yuta ToKoRo: Followed by a younger sister working for SoftBank.At last,,,

Followed by a younger sister working for SoftBank. At last all the staffs were ordered to use twitter by the president. Wow!

▼Twitter / Yuta ToKoRo: Talking aoubt all the staffs of SoftBank using twitter,

Talking aoubt all the staffs of SoftBank using twitter, my idea is that a real target is to generalize iPhone and Andorid using Twitter, a catalyst, which is compatible with Smartphone rather than to spread Twitter itself.

The story to let all the staffs use twitter came out as news, too when the president Son himself began using Twitter.

As a result, it means that all of a sudden twenty thousand twitter users are increasing in number. I wonder what effect will bring to his office. I really would like to hear the president Son's twitter about that.

P.S. There was an article about all the twenty thousand staffs of SoftBank groups started twitter.

As 30 years have passed since the company was established, twitter will be used in order to discusss about visions after 30 years. The result of the discussion will be annouced at shareholders general meeting in June. The staffs have already started twitter little by little.

▼Masato Kogure (kogure) on Twitter
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▼ "Twitter-140 characters changes the world", (MYCOM NewBooks) (NewBooks)

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 7

Hideaki Ozawa(Age:35), a goal keeper of Kashima is to be transferred to Luqueño, a powerful team in Paraguay. He had had a renewal contract offer from Kashima. "I've come to an end by winning three consecutive championships. Life is once. I don't want to regret." He decided to transfer.

A goal keeper of Kashima Antlers, Hideaki Ozawa was to be transferred to a team, Luqueño in Paraguay.

To tell the truth, he was a junior of my acquitances and there was a delicate distance say, far or near, between us,too. There's why I have long been worried about him.

Since he was an attached high school student of Mito College, he entered Kashima in 1992. He was chosen as a member of the national under-18 and under-21 football team, but wasn't be able to be a main goalkeeper in Kashima because of suffering from his backache.

He transferred not only to Kashima Antlers but also to Yokohama Marionos and FC Tokyo. He had a long period as a bench warmer as well.

Besides, he returned to Kashima Antlers without breaking his motivation for soccer. I imagined his determination of burying his bone here. No! His strong will of tranferring abroad at the age of 35!

According to an article of A challenging Ozawa as a goal keeper in Paraguay. He strongly refused an offer to remaing in Kashima., he hasn't had an official offer right now, so joining in the training of Team Sportivo Luqueño, he hopes an agreement of a contract to be succeeded. I can't think of his choice waiting a head.

His wife and two children are strong supporters. They advise him to go to Paraguay as soon as possible. Hideaki Ozawa says, "I think I can still be an active soccer player and this challenge is just on my way to a travelling as well.

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Jan 8

I joined "Club Med Resort Experience Reporter"sponsered by LinkShare. I'll tell you about leisures at"Club Med" at Ishigaki Island.

As I told you before, basically we can enjoy ourselves without going out anywhere. Because many activities and events are prepared for us in the resort.

Table tennis.

Squash.

Petanque.

Tennis court.

Petanque.

And the sea.

This time, because of my children's age limit we couldn't try but can enjoy marine sports, such as snorkeling, windsurfing, sea kayaking and etc.

When winter comes, it is said that people enjoy windsurfing get together. I felt wind comfortable.

There's a gym, too.

And I think it's a best part of "Club Med". That is, a system called "Mini Club" for children to join all day is provided. Let me tell you more details about it. We can leave our children for free.

They are taught juggling, swimming in the pool, making something and also taking meals together. These are very fun and also adventures for children.

I encountered my elder son who was full of smile moving hand in hand with a boy just as tall as my son. I had been worried a little, but it was worrying over nothing.

"Having met my friends was the most enjoynable to me！" , my elder son replied to me before. What he meant was this "Mini Club" now, I understand.

On the other hand, we, adults, can enjoy marine sports and refresh ourselves leaving children without worring about them.

This time, as my younger son didn't take part in "Mini Club", my wife was doing nail arts.

At the same time, my younger son was nailing "Anpanman"(Nailing is not for free).

Now, pleasure of "Club Med" keeps on and on till we got to bed. There's a live show at night and a show by G.O from dinner through mid night.

On the first night, dancing and magic shows were prepared. "That man was there, wasn't he? "Like this style, G.O was on the stage.

Every night they show us a different program.

When I was leaving there, I happened to see their practice. It was about 12PM at mid night.

Their hard practice results in one of the shows - I think that's the circus show.

It is no doubt there are some who had experience of gymnastics, but not all of them did. Look at their play from this point of view, it was highlight, indeed.

Facilities of air swings were also in 'Club Med Sahoro".

In this facilities we see a boutique.

People can buy souvenirs, swimming suits and clothes.

So when we visited 'Club Med Sahoro" in Hokkaido, the most happy memory of my elder son was playing soccer with G.O. After all, to contact with others always remain in one's mind, I suppose.

I myself don't mind meeting with others while I travel. In other words, I rather like a style of 'Club Med" and its style suits me, too.

Of course, there are some who want to travel around here and there. I don't think 'Club Med" suits them after all but people who like enjoying full taste of resort are suitable for it.

By the way, "Club Med" was expressed as a village by G.O. It might be a proper expression as a distance between human relations. I like to go back to the village again by saving money.

I thought G.O made up of only young people, but in my surprise, their average age might be high.

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Dec 2

I joined"Club Med Resort experience reporter" supported by Linshare. I'am going to report a little bit unique at "Club Med"

This is a reprt continued from "Club Med Kabira"at Ishigaki Island with my children".

This is a place like a cafe and bar and we can always have drinks or light meals there. Of course, everything is free.

Free drinks are such as soft drinks, no alcohol cocktails Orion's draft beers, Okinawa's awamori and cocktails. There are some paid champagne. We can have light meals, too

We are able to drop in easily anytime, so we feel really comfortable.

This place turns into live performance in the evening and disco at night. There are musical staffs for each one and boost the site.

Such pleasant times take place every night. Thre is nothing like a paradise here.

Besides these, a very unique system is that of three meals a day. Basically it is a buffet style.

We are sometimes taken to stangely crowded talbes. We share the table!

At "Club Med Sapporo in Hokkaido", we had to share the table without our permissions, but we were asked by the staffs. "Is it all right to share the table?"At the entrance of "Club Med Kabira", some visitors who don't like to share a table are taken to a table of four.

But the longer they stay, the more enjoyable they feel to share tables. Who do you share with? Sometimes with visitors and their children or with staffs and their kids,too !

This is second time to see this after visiting "Club Med Sahoro". So my surprise isn't a big one but for the first time vistor, it will be different. We are thankful for G.O.(the nick name of the staff) paying attention to children.

Though we are in Okinawa, they serve not only original Okinawa's meals but different menues not to make visitors boring. When we were staying, we had Italian and seafood, I remember.

The elder son was old enough to choose meals by himself. I didn't have to worry about him.

This was breakfast.

For the visitors coming from all over the world, many kinds of food are prepared, indeed.

The younger son was quite satisfied, so that he could make hamburgers by himself.

Talking about bread, there are various kinds, aren't they?

On the second night, one birthday cale was put on a table by surprise!

It was a birthday of a girl sitting at next table. It was no doubt that she was very pleased with surprise. All staffs came together to her table and sang birthday songs. The dinning room became more excited.

On the second night I was so happy to have ice cream, noodless of Okinawa and Okinawa-ish meals.

Beer!

For example, as a proof of staying at "Club Med", everyone has a string around one's arm. Orange color of the string is offered for the first time visitor. Blue color of the string is offered for more than twice vistor.

This time during our stay, we saw many visitors with orange strings. There were quite a lot of vistorswith their children. Besides, vistors came from Kyushu and Kansai district. Perhaps it's closer for them to come than Kanto district.

And the second night passed like this.

G.O is on the stage unofficially!

▼"Club Med"

Translated by Toshi; orinal post on Dec 2