Important notice:
I don’t mean to hurt people who like Jasmine tea.

Recently at the shop I used often, there is only jasmine tea 1 liter pack.
There is no green tea 1 liter pack!
But I do not like jasmine tea.
The reason is not taste but smell.

In Japan, A toilet deodorant has jasmine smell.
To me, drinking jasmine tea is like drinking tea in the toilet!

That’s why I do not like jasmine tea.
But I have no choice to but it,
I hope I will get used to it.

20 years has passed since Great Hanshin earthquake hit the kobe region.

At first I felt uncomfortable with this “Great” word,
Because in Japan, great is only used for good thing.
When I heard this term in NHK world, I was going to protest to NHK.

Later, I found out that other big earthquake has same “Great” prefix,
English “Great” has more meanings than what I think.
Great also means “intense” or “very strong”.

When I met schoolmate of MBA,
My friend spoke about taxi scam story in Manila.

When he wanted to go another terminal,
Taxi driver tried to cost him 2000 pesos at Manila International airport!
It is equal to 5400 yen!

He paid 100 peso (It was reasonable price!).
But the driver would not accept.
Then he added another 100 peso.

Since there is the rumor that Manila is very famous for taxi scam,it proves the rumor is true!

If I had experienced this situation, My image of this country would have been completely different!

by the way the cheapest way to move around between terminals is taking free shuttle bus.
(but it takes more take than taxi!)

Today I saw a woman keep shouting that “Don’t touch me!”
She kept on moving from one place to another place.
It was really annoying!

A week ago, a man was yelling and comming from the next car,
According to him, He warned that you should not use your mobile phone near the priority seats, but people around him ignore him, then a fight began.
He shouted that these three people attacked in conspiracy.

Why do I meet these strange people every week!

The other day, on my way home I noticed that my car was making strange noise.

At first I thought it was due to the icy road. it would recover soon.
But soon the noise got bigger and bigger,

I decided to investigate this at car shop.
The reason I think is calipers or wear indicator.
I’m wondering how much it will cost to fix it.
If it costs me too much,I have to cut my expense!

When I was organizing audio files during my stay in the Philippines, I listened to the recording of my own voice.

It was so different from what I expected that I wanted to kill myself!

Since I tend to speak too fast,
that habit also affects English speaking speed.

In most cases there is no time limitation in our talk,
So it doesn’t make much difference whether I speak fast or not.

It is more important to speak clearly!

I usually use MP320 as mobile mp3 player.
Its battery lasts longer than smartphone,
and compact.

Though MP320 is fairly old product,
I still use this because I love speed change function of this!

But today
It freezed suddenly,
All buttons stopped responding!

There is reset button but I could not use this without a sharp object such as sharp pencil.

There isn’t power off button in this player,
I have to wait until the battery will run out.

I hope all devices have a power off button which physically cuts electricity.

Bringing flammable items into the cabin is prohibited.
Everybody must know this rule.
Aerosol spray can is one of these.

But how about check-in luggage?

I searched a general rule on the Internet.
Some say it’s OK, the other say it’s not.

Whether it is OK or not,
Finding alternative is good for safety.

I brought jerry type deodorant and insect repellent
and shaving jerry when I went to the Philippines.

If you have a fight with your close friends or your partner,
You may want to get even with them.

Even in that case, it is desirable not to resort to violent way.
The good way is to change enemy’s smartphone language into difficult language to recognize such as Thai or Arabic.

I bought new laptop yesterday.

Since I hate “isolation keyboard” which is very dominant recently, I choose old model of Let’s note.

Let’s note has durable battery and very tough body.

I will use this laptop for ten years from now.