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We all have the same problem, how to manage the time. The world is getting busier and busier especially after IT revolution,  it's expanding day by day and year by year. Now people are going to live in Mars? It sounds crazy, but think about it as option. Life would be fun if you have more options. When we pay attention to many things, our mind getting busy as well. Some people might stop thinking because they can not handle it. But I can't stop it now,  we should watch carefully the world. It would be better world if it was watched by people who are caring. Recently I started to make a list for weekend. At work, I have been doing it for long time and it works. So I make a to do list for weekend too. When we have too many things to do, we tend to spend time on unnecessary things, don't we? So making list is something as making a frame. Frame that decorates our dream. A little progress with skin color from the last week

Fortunately had a long weekend again. I took three paid-offs in September, since we have every weekend off,  I worked less than two of third in a month and left were my holidays,   which allowed me to post more blogs. This is very nice, thank to a holiday god. Lunch hour @ curry shop in Nakameguro Many Japanese people love curry. There is clearly distinct between Japanese and Indian curry. But not worry, we love both. Both are popular. This is Japanese curry, however not usual one. It a vegetarian with avocado topping and rice is type of mixture of 16 different kinds of cereals, which is popular by health conscious person. Call it 16 Kokumai I tried to draw Daenerys Targaryen from Game of thrones with coloring pencils @ art class. My teacher says not start with a skin color on white paper. It is same as drawing, we have to start with shadow first. This is my teacher colored It sounds crazy. Looks like aline. Give it a try. My wo

Creativity is for everyone. You don't have to be extreme. Creativity is everywhere. If you watch the world carefully, you notice somewhere, something missing a little bit. You would think what can be fit there, and try to put things and do the arrangement. That is creativity. It is simple those who carries on living diligently. I often see rep digits when I finished writing. Angels are encouraging you by showing this kind of sings. When you see such numbers, 111, 222, etc, you can count that is an angel message. Night scene at Nakameguro

The front of the Shinjuku station had changed a bit. It's been quite sometime since I came here last time. It had been under construction for long time. We went to a popular pizzeria, 800 degrees pizza on Friday night.  They came from L.A. Friday night + Pizza = Perfect Fromage Pizza A Big Pear from Atsugi city It's a holiday in Japan today. Had lunch @ Yui Ann in Meouro Gajo en The food was good We went to cafe after lunch and I read tarot for one of my friends. That was thrilling. And then, I finished drawing of the plaster figure of cupid Things are going smoothly when I don't mean it. Construction @ Shibuya Tokyo is changing. I'd love you after that, maybe.

There is one thing I forgot to upload in the post of "Togakushi Shraine" A picture of Soba, please enjoy Togakushi Soba when you visit there. It's 100% vegetarian, and they are local prodcution. A new cafe is open in my neighborhood. The name is 'Kamino-Coffee', in English, it is 'God's Coffee'. It looks gorgeous doesn't it. But I haven't been there yet. I just passed by, will try next time.

Take a Shinkansen from Tokyo to Nagano, and rent a car to drive to Togakushi Shrine which is about 45 minutes by car from Nagano Station. If you want to drive from Tokyo, it takes about 2 to 3 hours additional.  It's not much distance if I use Shinkansen and Nagano is country so it would be easy drive, I thought, but I broke into into a cold sweat because there were many hairpin curves.   It was all right after all. I thought I should more drive often. There are so many nice places in the suburbs, and my driving skill never gets better if I don't use it. Well, it is all experience. Gate of Hou-Kou-Sha The entire mountain is filled with powerful energy. It is a place of mythology of opening the rock(Amano-Iwato-legend) in the ancient Japan. When Amaterasu, the sun goddess, hided in the rock cave upsetting with her brother Susanoo's bad behaviors, some gods and goddesses worked together to open the rock. Hou-Kou-Sha Togakushi, means 'hiding ins

I renewed passport. There are 5 or 10 years periods with Japanese passport. Red is 10 and blue is 5 years. The right one got 'Void' holes, it had worked for me since 2006. The left one is new passport, it will be traveling with me for another 10 years. Looking at those inbound and out bound stamps on the old passport, Somehow I feel secure with Japanese return stamps,  though I always think this is not where I should belong forever. Anyway, thank you for bringing me many places, and I hope I could visit to lots of beautiful places in next 10 years, too. Sakura View from my neighborhood

It is very chilly in Tokyo that we still need winter jackets though, the spring goddess has been arrived beautifully.  I would plant Mimosa if I have a garden 　 Lanterns are provided along the river to l ight up cherry blossoms at night Why wine bottles are so attrative?

The time required for someone,  to listen to Jazz, to appreciate paintings, and to write something not die without it but life will be no meaning without them. Time is getting shorter and shorter. Do you realize that? It's not because you are getting older, it is actually accelerated. There are more young looking person these days? I'd rather to say that they are younger than their ages. I'm kidding, but it might be true. What do you believe then? You can trust even a clock. (I don't trust TV or papers for 100%) Hear is a solution. Care for your body, clean up your space and clear your mind. Why? If you keep doing so, you will be able to distinguish between truth and false, necessary and unnecessary, correct and incorrect. Moomin cake Working on drawing a cafe more shaded A picture from Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood exhibition

Story and pictures are wonderful.