a walk in a neibourhood

The new year in Tokyo started with good weather and mild temperature. Why not taking advantage of walking around outside and discover more of Tokyo?


15 min walk from my house, there is a small hill called, "Hakoneyama," used to be a school for military, before that, it belonged to Tokugawa family. I didn't know there was this near my place. Sakura trees are planted around this hill, it must be very beautiful in spring.

Le concert - Tchaikovsky violin concerto

Another moment that you have to say, "CLASSICAL MUSIC IS BEAUTIFUL!!!"

Loved this funny movie. Movie is in French. (and Russian)




See this very clear You Tube video for movie's ending.
CLICK HERE

New Haneda

Took a plane from Haneda to Taipei the other day and it was a really clean and convenient airport.

I liked a cute coffee shop with french toast over there. We didn't have enough time to try french toast but next time!

Upstairs, you can go out and see the airport.






From Taipei 松山airport to the city is only 10-15 minutes. It is so convenient!!!

yummy...

These are two items that I really liked from Seven Eleven!

I hardly like any of the food I can buy from supermarkets and convenience stores (besides sweets from convenience stores such as chou a la creme...) but those were really good and I was impressed by the power of product development of SEJ.

Nicolas G Hayek centre in Ginza

Had a chance to go up to 14th floor of Swatch group building, "Nicolas G Hayek centre."





























What a view! And can you believe the economy is bad? So many people are shopping in Ginza!!!

beaujolais nouveau party

We invited an artist to decorate our store with his pictures and objets and held a casual beaujolais nouveau party on the 18th.

One of the staffs bought cheese and decorated with sticks with one of his pictures. He must love cats, cats are everywhere in the store.

Taipei trip

Finally back to internet life at home as today, optical fibre service is connected.

Then I realise, it's been already about a month since I visited Taipei.


The 1st night at a night market...





Hotel PC keyboard are written both in alphabets and Chinese characters.















Invited by my friend's Japanese friend who works there to a very chic restaurant in the middle of mountain. Beautiful place!















And of course, bought expensive and good tea from Taiwan.








I am coming back there in 2 weeks and am really excited to discover more for the 3rd time!!!