Takashi got very beautiful wife... good for you!!!
And... congratulations! So happy for you, my friend!

It was my firm’s all staff meeting tonight. At hotel in Daiba.
During the party after the conference, there were two door prizes.

Spa ticket and free night. Just 2 prizes... I won the free night!!!





The odd was about 2 out of more than 200... means 1% or less!!!
Oh my god!

Somehow I am not productive today... the first day of new week.
Yes, I do admit it... my brain isn't that functioning well (please do not ask me if that has even ever worked well!)
All information around myself should be sorted out for my project manager (of client).
She should expect me to come with very clean and organized chart for the project scope and tasks.
Don't you think? I bet she does.

Thus, time is limited and output should be as much (in order for me to secure my job here!).
I tried... outcome is much... but not as much quality as it should be or I want it to be.
Not only the vocabrary is the issue here... I have to be creative and generate some "eye-catching" phrase.
You know what I mean...

I didn't waste time today... I strongly believe that this is necessary (yet ordinary) step to take.
In other words, something extraordinary result is ahead!!! Hahaha, I am too optimistic.

Good thing is that MLK  is today in US... Federal holiday. This means office close on Monday?
Wait... back to the time I was in US... MLK was for banks and federal agencies, not private businesses.
Though, American project manager in the West Coast declared that she wouldn't be working then to me.
Oh must be nice...

So I will bomber her lots of deliverables that I am working until then!!! Hahaha.

“Batten” is part of dialect and expression used in Nagasaki region.
This small restaurant is named after.



Nagasaki “Champon” Noodle Shop



Nagasaki “Champon” - very good!

Domino gives away free pizza today from 3pm.
I didn’t see that AD... but MoonFlower did.

Domino’s branch is located just 2 corners away from where I live.

So MoonFlower and I “dropped by” that brand around 2:30pm.
Already giving a ticket and we got one, #34.
AD says 50 free pizzas for today’s giveaway.



When we got this ticket, people were waiting outside... holding their tickets.
With ticket, how come people need to wait? I bet they wanted “fresh” ones...





Domino asks customer who got free pizza to tell more about it via SNS or Twitter.



Very thing pizza... very good, though.

At night, MoonFlower and I went out for movie. Picked “Social Network.” Yeah, it is about the founder and CEO of Facebook (no “the.&rdquo.



Was very interesting movie to me... though it was rather boring to her.
She doesn’t do much SNS... Facebook is something she didn’t know until today.
(Sure, Facebook is getting more and more popular in Japan.)

Printing and scanning are needed to my computing world... for a long time.



So I bought a portable scanner...
Printer is not that much needed for my kind of use. Rather, scanning is more vital.
I use Evernote like you and need to hold many hand-written docs or memo... into hard memory.

With this, I can fully enjoy the feature of Evernote and use more given capacity.



Now the only concern is that I have to carry many things... total weight can be exceeding to the one of ordinary laptop computer??? Hahaha.

Addition to my iPad... here is the portable keyboard that I can carry along with iPad!



I think this is still Japan made... you can hold this board into half.



Like this...
Very light and small... perfect company to iPad.

We made our first visit to IKEA this year... our minimum mission was that we return Christmas tree for full refund. Yeah, IKEA Japan practically gives a way Christmas trees for their customers. We surely took advantage of that program.

So the holiday season is now officially over!

After that visit, we moved to Omotesando for some appointment.
MoonFlower previously arranged some appointment at a cafe.
She wanted to come to dine the waffle... some special waffles.



1st dish... salad waffles with ham and salmon.



2nd dish... dessert waffles.



Made by the famous cook...

Dinner took place home with bottle of sparkling wine tonight.
1st small home party between MoonFlower and me.

MoonFlower bought this book in the cafe...







Baron de Breban - very tasty dry sparkling wine...
This can be our standard for home party from now on.
I should keep this name / brand in the record.















Eating and drinking at slower pace than usual...
Yeah, we usually made the dinner very quick and we took it slow this time...
However, the end of party was the same... the alcohol really knocked me down! Hahaha.

Shibamata Taishakuten - the temple is for our 1st prayer in the year!



Not big place... but surely packed with lots of elders.





Famous movie character “Tora-san.” Stories of all movie series are originated to this area.

Japanese movie, “Partners” is our pick for 1st movie to see in this year.
This is policemen’s story...



2nd movie was well done... much better than last one.
If you like this TV series, it’s worth to see this movie version!

No more Alain Mikli for me???
This is Christmas present from MoonFlower for 2010... and 2 frames in a row... non-Mikli frame.

Remember the last one??? It was “ic-Berlin” --- German brand.
This time, Japan made... YES, DOMESTIC!!!

Called “spec espace.” I have never heard about it... Hahaha.





This is still titanium base. Very flexible frame like you see in these pictures. Very cool.

1st shopping day for both MoonFlower and me... same day every year because of the New Year sale on tsumori chisato brand.

Result is out... I ended up buying two items from 2-hour shopping period.



This purple sweater is 40% off.
Other colors like black, navy, and grey were also available. Though, MoonFlower chose this for me.
Yeah, she made it the final answer. Hahaha.



This T-shirt was not sale... though, I wanted it... I had seen it before and I couldn’t pass today.
Gold shirt... very cute.