Since my main audio device is Xperia D2105,
I seldom use My ipod touch 4th (iOS 5.1).

You may think iPod touch 4th is obsolete,
but I’m a type of person who use old device until it breaks.

I heard iOS6 was too heavy for this device,
I kept iOS5.1 for a long time.
I use it as audio device, so there is no need to update iOS6.

But these days many apps requires iOS6,
So I finally decided to update my ipod touch 4th.

But After updating it,
Every operation takes much time than before!
How terrible it is!

I changed Language to English.
I have disabled almost all notifications.
It became better.

Using Japanese cell phone overseas is expensive!

It cost 155 yen to receive call per minute,
It cost much when you call outside the Philippines.

If you have a plan to stay over a month, I recommend that you get local cell phone because it’s much cheaper.

Though I brought my sim free phone (Xperia D2105) from Japan,
I did not try to buy prepaid sim, because My school gave us a pocket wifi.

It is interesting to see our daily things from the other point of view.

tofugu.com is one of these sites.

There are many articles about Japanese cultures, Travel, Shops, and Japanese learning guide.

These contents are useful Not only for foreigners, but also Japanese.
Through them, we can learn how they feel about Japanese things.

Some of them are written by Japanese,
It may be easy to understand.

I read the article about egg vending machine.

Egg vending machine is very rare!
It is located Hyogo prefecture.
I wanted to visit there!

I’ve been studying English for more than 20 years.

Sometimes
I could not feel the growth,
because my English level reached high!

So I want to escape occasionally other languages.

“Asa-katsu Eikaiwa” means English conversation performed in the morning.

Before going to the Philippines, I was thinking of joining it.
However I could not, Since I had an emphasis on pronunciation practice,

Yesterday I could join this event Finally!

It was held at the cafe near Kawagoe Station.
I was a little bit nervous because I didn’t know all participants.

Unlike Eikaiwa Club, This event has many regular participants.

But after starting conversation,
the atmosphere turned to be friendly.

My topic was studying English in the Philippines,
I also advertised it!

It was a good opportunity to speak your thought in English.

This event is free.
(But you must order some drinks because we use cafe space!)

Some railway companies provide reasonable ticket which usage is limited to day time or weekend.

I usually use Tokyo Metro’s tickets, You can buy tickets 30 % lower price.

Today, I bought Tobu railway tickets, but this ticket is only limited for limited route.

In tokyo metro’s case,You can choose any route as long as the fare is same.

After returning to Japan,
Continuing to study English is very important issue.

As for listening and reading,you can get good source on the Internet.
(I’ll provide my recommendation in near future)

However, speaking and writing is difficult to continue in daily life.
So I resume to go “Tokyo Eikaiwa Club” for the first time in two months.

It is held almost every day around Tokyo metropolitan area.
You can choose wherever it is convenient for you.

In Japan, We can not buy a Jasmine rice easily at ordinary store.

It is suitable for fried rice or Thai green curry.
because it is less sticky than Japonica rice.
What’s more,
It is easy to cook,just boil 10 minutes in hot water .

Sometimes I want to eat it.

Of course we can buy it from the Internet,but shipping cost is a little bit high!
So I found good store named “Asia Super store ” in Shin-Ohkubo.
The Asia Super store provides variety of ingredients for Thai cuisine.
You can get 1Kg jasmine rice at 650 yen.
It is reasonable price, isn’t it?

When I bought it, the store staff asked me if my wife is a Thai.
No way!
I just said “I love a jasmine rice, so I often come here to buy it.”

Since I had eaten a lot during my stay in the philippines,
I was afraid of rapid increase of body weight.
My prediction was 5 kg up.

However,
When I measure body weight after returning to Japan, It was exactly the same as one month ago!
I was relieved.

The reasons I came up with are:
one is walking almost everyday to Robinson Supermarket and strolling around the hotel every morning.

Second is to carry heavy item, especially for girls!

Everytime they bought heavy item such as 4 liters water,I offer help to carry them to the hotel.
because I wanted to be seen as a gentle man!
Anyway,
It is good exercise!

I usually watch NBC-today podcast for learning.

The most of this program is news, but sometimes there is an interesting program.

in today program, they did an experiment to test a psychic.
A psychic is a person who claims to use extrasensory perception (ESP) to identify information hidden from the normal senses.

They prepared new house, then invited four psychics,
Each psychic said something about house such as this house was cursed, did some ritual things.

Then after that, TV staff revealed the truth.
This house is new! they were telling a lie!
but it cost them over $1000!

It was like an sting operation.
The fact that news program did such a thing made me surprised!