Then he said
‘let me give you my namecard but not having at the moment, so instead… ‘
He showed me a paper, that was a contract of parchase of newspaper.
It was too late to realise he came for newspaper sales. What did you suggest me 3 minutes ago? On the paper, there was no infomation of himself but blank to fill the address, phone number…. to make a contract.

He said…..
‘If you think I am a good guy so you wanna help me…’
‘I need to make ONE contact at least otherwise I’m gonna have to be kicked out of the house and fired….’
‘I have a kid to have to look after…’

None of those matters to me. I was so crossed. I gave back the stuff he gave to me and kept on turning down so polite but he was so persistant. After a while, his colleague came and took him away.

Who else wants to disappoint me on this hopeless planet?

Last Saturday, I went to McDonald’s in my local area. There’re full of customers taking seats and about 10 of them queueing up at the till in the noon, busy time but look normal for weekend afternoon. I ordered quarter pounder and ate in, the burger reminded me of the store on Piccadilly, where I used to drop by.

The other day I saw the news that McDonald held the ceremony for quater pounder at the store in Osaka. They made deal, limited offer 500yen for the regular meal. I was smashed there were 2000 of customers queueing up to buy. Too many, even though they do the deal. Last customer waited for 3 hours!! How come people queueing up for quarter pounders?? They announced they broke a record of 1day sales that day.

However, moreover… whatever!!, I was gobsmacked when I heard the news. The queue was made up. McDonald’s used the other company to get maximam 1000 people for the queue, they’re given 2 money, 1000yen per hour as wage plus stored-value card for purchase of the burger(value set). Now you see the trick of that. They look happy to exaggerate themselves.

They said they had maximam 1000 people for monitoring… very enough.

The other day I also saw the news that McDonald Japan has made a record-breaking sales this year in their history. On the other hand, it’s revealed that they didn’t pay for the store managers’ overwork(more than at least 3 hours a working day), They’re sued and lost.

This is for my last word… I still love junk food!!

Such a shame on myself, but I had no idea who to support. Everyday I saw about the election on the TV news, but I couldn’t find out through the TV what was the difference between Obama and Hilary, Obama and McCain, in their political policy. Was I the only person who didn’t know the difference? I’m not supposed to justfy myself but I don’t think so.

Obama was said he was lack of experience and knowledge of world politics. Then McCain was said he was a bit too old to take over America next 4 years, so he choose good-looking lady(in spite of her age, younger than him though) from Alaska. Even though she helped to make the public pay attention to the election, that’s the most stupid way to do, because eventually revealed she is not good enough to be vice president, lack of knowledge. Also, I’ve got to say negative campaign that both parties did is the worst thing to do. Mass media just made fuss as if the election was a kind of entertainment. They just wanted to show the public the candidates’ extreme comments and attitude. That’s absolutely empty imformation to choose who to be the president. Did you think Joe the plumber neened to be so popular?

Public is also stupid. Figures of Governor of Alaska were made and sold more than 10000. The glasses she wears become popular and US ordered loads of the same model. People wanted to know which brand of cloth she wears so bought tabloid to find out. What was she supposed to be? Post Twiggy?

There’s a city called Obama in Japan, just because of the same name as him, so mamy people in that city supported Barak Obama. More stupidly, even the mayor officially announced he supported Obama, without agreeing(even undestanding) with Obama’s manifesto. What an idiot.

No matter who was elected, this world needs CHANGE, everybody knows we need it, but nobody seriously reckons how it needs to be done.
You know I’m not saying bad about not only the candidates but also all the people who have the right to vote.
I learned I should pay more attention to the world.

Anyway, The person who needs change most importantly is myself.

I still remeber when I was asked that question, when I was ten.
I answered “definately Sunday, because I can do anything on my free time”.
But everybody else said “I prefer Saturday”.
Then I thought “Why?”

They said “On Saturday night in bed, thinking of what I’m gonna do tomorrow makes me more excited!!”

I was like being smashed, because that got to the point. Then I realised how deep this discussion was. In fact I agreed with them without knowing the truth inside of myself.

When your friend gives you a birthday gift, you must be feeling your heartbeat when you’re opening the box.

When you save money for something you want so much, what are you feeling and motivates you?

When your airplane is taking off or arriving at the airport, what kind of feeling do you have?

When you’re on the way to meet up someone your friends, your lover, how much are you excited?

Sometimes you might be disillusioned.

Also you must be feeling something sad in the end.
End of the party.
End of your holiday.
End of the trip.
End of summer.
After you bought something you ever wanted.
Before you say good bye.

Which do you like, Saturday or Sunday?

If you live in a big city, you can’t live in the great nature.

If you become popular, you can’t get private time.

If you can get fresh milk and meat on the mountain, you can’t get fresh fish at the seaside town.

If you are with Mary, you can’t be with Anne. You can’t be with Michael either.

When hot summer comes, You tend to think cold winter is better.

Sometimes life is so cruel that you have to make a big decision to choose only one from the choice.

So what can we get both?

You can get both chilli and garlic sauces on your doner. Hot chilli and mild garlic sauces can live together. If they’re together, they can create something new. They will take you to the stage you’ve never been.

Now I can hear somebody says “what about ketchup and mustard on the humburger?” I’d say…

Please don’t abuse, but taste what true happiness and freedom are.

P.S. Dixy R.I.P.

Riso Kagaku, the company that invented gocco, has stopped production of gocco kits(they still do the bulbs, inks and stuff), due to low sales of the kit. I guess you’ve already realised, evolution of computer, digital camera and printers for home-use has replaced gocco.

On recent greeting cards, it’s popular to show your family or your new family(baby, sons and daughters) by digital-photoprinted. Of course the quality of digital-print is much higher than the one of gocco. So You’d be happy to see your friends have had new family or see how their kids have grown up since you saw last time.
The number of sending greeting emails must be increasing every year, because it’s much easier and faster(and cheaper) to get done. You must have experiensed you can’t use the moble because of too busy line at just the beggining of new year. Some people would say it’s enough to do among informal and not-too-close relationship. Some people would say it’s more eco to do than cards.

This culture is mixed up between formal(business) and informal(private). If you don’t send cards, especially to your boss or elder colleagues, it can be impolite. I know many people do, just to be polite. This culture may have been just a custom.

On digital-printed cards, there tends to be no handwring messages but only printed formal ones as if it’s copied and pasted from examples. If you make(even not write) the cards on the computer, you don’t have to write down the address but only if click “ok”, you can print them, then get automatically done, no matter how many people you send, you can make cards with “some mouse clicks”.

When I used to use the gocco, it took so long time but enjoyed printing handmade cards and filling the free space with the messages. I used to be happy when I got handmade cards from who lived so far away that didn’t keep in touch that often.

Sending and receiving handmade cards warmed up my heart . It’s not anymore I suppose. Because I’ve got that old to not be impressed or have no emotions?

I’m disgusted with the TV advert of one of the biggest and world-famous automakers. I’d translate ‘Eco-swapping’.

Man says… ‘I can STILL use this light bulb, but swap with more efficient one’.
Woman says… ‘I can STILL drive this car, but swap with more fuel efficient one’.

With this advert, this automaker suggests to people buying more fuel efficient car of their brand. It’s true that fuel efficient cars can save your money and save the earth.

However, they don’t UTTERLY mention that they take(or buy) to recycle your used car after customers’ purchase of new cars. It’s obviously clear that they simply want to make money. Worst sales promotion I’ve ever seen. So disgusting. What a hypocrite.

The other day I saw eco capsule keyring, which is a tiny capsule that you can plant a seed. It’s a kind of mobile accessory. You also get some vegetable seeds such as mini tomatoes etc… Of course you have to change the pot when the plant grows too big for the capsule. I know plants can produce oxygen from CO2, but do you think people have the capsules to reduce CO2? I’d say that’s the item for silly fashion followers. I’d like to know how many people use the capsules this time next year. What a bomb.

Doing something for eco is definitely good. But we should be careful not to be mind-controled by ego of hypocrite.

He started the career from Sacramento, especially his first few seasons are so wicked. He was the entertainer and created lots of showtimes in NBA history. The origin of his playstyle looked coming from the street ball, like Tim Hardaway. Everyone was always expecting what was gonna happen when he handled the ball on the fastbreak.
He has inspired so many people including his former teammates Chris Webber and Vlade Divac. He made them passers.

What was funny about him was, he had a tatoo which means crazy(he was called crazy as his tricky play) in Japanese when he had the opening game in Japan, that tatoo was a taboo word to be on the TV so he had to cover that with the band.
I also remember when he wore nike, he did air forces. I couldn’t find which model. Air force is supposed to be worn by forward and center players, so it was quite rare to see that. When he made contract with and1, I saw he wore converse. Yes, he is crazy.

I won’t ever see such a pass on the court – behind the back with elbow.

I don’t know how often I post, how long I blog.
I’ll start this blog from copy and paste from another blog I do.

Thanks for taking a look.