Tomorrow comes and Tomorrow goes.

SAIGON

2007-05-29T09:56:00.000-07:00

Splashy bike ride with sudden bucket down.

Locals waiting for the traffic signal. Some follow, some don't.

Devoured Pho Bo for the night meal that was fabulous on taste and price, but ended up catching up a sufficient diarrhea next morning.

Good morning Binh Doung in a beautiful sunrise.

Owner of the factory instructing one of employees how to check the defective part of the product. This worker looks have no attention and interest.

Millions of outside markets start at night in Saigon. This is one of the streets they get pop at night.

2007-03-01T08:58:00.000-08:00

Condition : カチカチのアイスバーン。
Situation : キッカーへカットイン。
Cause : リップにヒールエッジが引っかかった。
No regrets : が、そのまま空中へテイクオフ。
Result : 体勢を崩し着地と同時に頭を強打。
Aftermath : ゴーグルとニット帽が吹き飛んだ。
Symptom : 意識朦朧で立ち上がれない。
Conclusion : ボードは危険なスポーツです。
Instruction : 状況に応じてパークに入る。

Hippo Happo

2007-02-07T07:52:00.000-08:00

One of the largest ski hills - Happo

Joined our company mates' ski tour at Happo in Nagano.Was incredibly great to ride with sunny sunshine during both 2 days.I was the only boarder out of 5 dudes but totally got into boarding by myself basically free run and the snow was pretty packed and solid almost icy one.I had no terrain park stuffs there though because Happo thinks highly of (family) skiers and appreciates their visitings mainly. I was able to check out huge pipe and kickers in 47 from the crest of Happo and wished I could have stood there so badly.. Spent loads of money as I was a tourist and stayed at the inn beside the hill. Just half day pass cost me 4300JPY that was, witout saying that, extravagant.STILL no winter chilliness, but already have had spring warm winds.Crazy weather anyway...

Here finally starts the snow session.

2006-12-30T17:40:00.000-08:00

With little and almost no snow on the mountains until late Dec this season that was far from last year what we had, I had been so disappointed with no snow-falling and myself not going to a skihill. Who cares? Most people are happy with no snow on the road or wherever they drive in.They don't have to be a killer car. I've seen a few days ago the day we had first time snow falling however, some car got slipped down to outside the bank road or some jumped onto the brink at the intersection. I supposed they maybe skidded. I gave them my a little sympathy. I had a similar one before and how embarrasing it was..

Anyway, the day after we had certain amount of snow I headed up to the Gokuraku by myself and was so excited and was expecting powderly snow there. When I got there I was putting on my gears, and I jsut ran into my friend-Yacchi(Mr).

After I had a stepup run for one time, we did an amazing snow ride. We got on a chairlift to the top and move toward the sideway, but we saw the red poles which always described no-more-enter. So we killed our existence and went it through and plod toward the area where we knew.

It was the way too hard though to walk onto the deep snow. Every single step I had, my feet got buried so deeply into the bottom and my energy was being lost for sure. In 15 minutes, we finally got the destination and had a break with ragged cigarette and pissed, we started doing it with full blast. It was just fun for ride.

Terrain park, jibbing,halfpipe is one thing, one of the exciting stuffs, but powder run is something else. It's both a lot fun but different fun. I like them both. We did that routine 4 or 5 times and got totally exhausted. After a long break, I did some runs and went home. Now the muscle pains are all around my body.

Now can't wait til Seaside opens the halfpipe. They need more substantial snow to build it up. Fortunately I didn't eat it so much on the powder run but always make me feel scared to get messed with a terrain stuff since it always really hurts. Concussion wouldn't be appreciated, let alone damn fracture. Gotta be careful..

出張　シカゴ編

2006-12-06T06:34:00.000-08:00

シカゴへ出張。

成田から10時間半、シカゴのオヘア空港に到着。時差ぼけにも程よくかかり、タバコを吸うが、瞬時に酸欠状態に。。頭がふらふら。。
気温は予想に反しかなり暖かい。18度の温度標識を確認。ジャンパーは必要ないと思われた。

が、しかし翌日夕暮れ時にかけて急激に冷え込みついには雪がちらつく有様。翌日はご覧の通り一面マイナスの銀世界。その日は飛行機のフライトすべてがキャンセルに。うちらの帰国日に重ならなかったのでまだ良かった。

スケジュールは終止、ホテルと工場の行き来のみで楽しみにしていた町並み散策はできなかった。お金もほとんど使ってない。何も見てない。シカゴ郊外の田舎街に4日間滞在しただけ。でも、食事はおいしいものも鱈腹食べれたし満足満足。ロブスター、ステーキ、寿司、中華、イタリアン。。ご満悦です。

仕事時は専門用語を頻繁に話されたので訳すのにかなりの労力を使った。あと、feetとcmの計算もややこしくて計算機と格闘。間違いは許されないので何度も確認。余計な神経を使った。

ダウンタウンを見れなかったのは残念だったが、自分なりに同行者の役には立てたと思うし、仕事上大いに勉強にもなった。

仕事を通じて海外に行けるのは非常にありがたいこと。流暢に通訳できるのに越したことはないが、専門分野における知識が必須なので流暢さよりも機能的に受け答えできる能力が必要だと思った。要は通じれば良いってこと。もともとネイティブの用には喋れないんだから自分流の英語をしっかり身につけてスムーズに事が進行するよう努める。これが大事。

レイクルイーズ

2006-11-14T05:10:00.000-08:00

Even though we can still smell the Autumn atmosphere here in toyama, Lake louise has already opened for the public. Envy.. Powder is always nice to get started with as seen in the pics since it saves the damage of my bum when I eat it otherwise it splits.

Having been to Murodo Tateyama several times but it was only after the season when I have got there. Wodner how it looks like before the season. They said that the snow depth at Murodo is currently 100cm. Good enough..must be powder there
but also the risk of avalanche might be there. After the season I thought it was this May, one skier was killed by snowslide. It could have been hard to track him down unless the skier had put on a beacon or something with him. mm will sleep on it if I go.

Still I am not sure if I am able to hit the slope as much as I want this year because of my damn job schedule. It has yet to cleared up and something in the way. So I am rushing to snowboard. But there's no snow down here so far.. no point to rush up anyway..

早く雪が舞い落ちてほしい今日この頃です。明日は久々に会社の仲間と体育館でバスケ。
前回は5分でくたばったから明日はせめて10分持たそう。その後はうちっぱに行って真吾と折り合おう。

Booster

2006-10-16T05:25:00.000-07:00

ニューブーツを購入。

５年間共にしたブーツとお別れ。
よくがんばった。よく耐えた。
オレの足をよく守ってくれた。
最後は防水加工も効かず中まで
ビショビショになってくれた。

多分、履きすぎた。。

今冬からこのブーツで滑ります。
ケガしませんように。。

Dia sedang tidak ada di tempat.

2006-09-10T07:38:00.000-07:00

東南アジア諸国第二弾－ベトナムに引き続きマレーシアへ視察に行って来た。

中国のインフレに伴うOEM代替国としてマレーシアというわけだが東南アジア諸国においてマレーシアはシンガポールに次ぐGDPの高い国。ベトナムやタイのような発展途上国ではなく先進国並みに都市や経済が発展しているはず。出張に行くまでもなく容易に推測はできたが会社の命令だから行くだけ行って確かめて来た。ちなみにマレーシアのGDPは9,000USDぐらい、ベトナムは800USD程度。雲泥の差である。

国家はマレー系、中国系、インド系、その他いろんな混血民で成り立っていて、争いを起こすことなく生活を共にしている。基本的にはイスラム教の国だがサウジやイラクにおける過激派集団はいなくいたって平和な国らしい。中東イスラム諸国からの観光客もしばしば見かけた。

日本からは約５時間半。着いた先はクアラルンプールで空港から外に出るなりかけてたメガネが一瞬で真っ白に曇った。湿度が高い。気温はそれほど苦にならなかったが四季がなく１年を通して常に日中は３０℃ぐらいの気候らしい。

シンガポールやベトナム、東南アジア諸国全体に言えるのはみんな一様に英語を喋る。訛はともかく英語を喋れる割合は日本のそれに比べればかなり高い。英語が喋れるというと特別視される日本とは違い東南アジア諸国では文法や読み書きは知らなくてもみんな普通に喋る。

まぁ～それはさておき今回の出張－滞在３日間で７社を回りスケジュールが混んでてかなりタフな出張だったがやはりマレーシアは物価や人件費が高いから代替国としては相応しくないと言う事だけは分かった。コストがかかる→価格が全く合わない→利益が出ない→マレーシアで作る意味がない。明日の出張報告会でそう伝えよう。

マレー＆スコア結果

2006-08-23T07:27:00.000-07:00

Malay..
出張が決まった。
9月4日、朝4時55分の富山発サンダーバードで関空へ。
12時発のマレーシア航空でクアラルンプールへ。
17時30分到着予定。

翌9月5日、工場視察　3件。
9月6日、工場視察　2件。
9月6日夜23時45分の飛行機で日本へ。
9月7日朝7時半関空到着予定。

富山着はおそらく昼過ぎ。この日は仕事に来いといわれるのだろうか。。
どうせ疲れてぐだぐだだろうから家に帰ってゆっくり休もう！

できれば成田から行きたかった。

飛行機で富山帰れるし。帰り関空から5時間は辛いぜよ。

まぁ～しゃ～ない。がんばろ。

先月受けたTOEICの結果が来た。
↑885 pts
→L 455
↑R 430

Readingのスコアがはじめて400を超えた。
とりあえずあがってよかった。
次回受験予定：　未定。

お盆は「。。

2006-08-18T08:09:00.000-07:00

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　日時： 8月15日（火）、16日（水）

場所：諏訪湖＆霧が峰キャンプ場

メンバー：ボン＆ひろみ、真吾＆ゆりplus オレ

天候：終止晴天。キャンプ場夜は極端に寒い。

BBQ用に食料を大量に買い込みいざ長野へ。R ４１から神岡そして松本へ。中央道に乗り込み諏訪湖最寄のインターで降り、キャンプ場へ急ぐ。テントを設営し花火を見るためにビューポイント探し。

夜7時花火打ち上げ開始。諏訪湖の花火は今回が初めて。序盤はまぁまぁの盛り上がり、中盤からクライマックスにかけては富山の線香花火とはスケールが違い終止打ちあがる花火群に圧倒された。いいものみれてよかった。花火が終わりキャンプ場へ戻りBBQの準備。他のキャンパーたちはすでに就寝に近い状態。多少の気まずさとともに肉を焼き始める。低温のせいかやたら体が冷える。寒さより空腹感が勝り、かなりの肉を口にほおばる。何時に寝たかは覚えてないが疲れとともにテントへなだれ込む。明朝太陽の日差しでテント内が蒸し風呂状態。我慢して寝ていたが我慢できずテントから脱出。時間6時am。誰も起きてこないので火をおこし朝食の準備。昨日あれだけ食べたのに不思議と朝には腹が減る。早々にテントをかたし岐路へ。温泉入って、信州そば食べて、ハーブアイスクリーム食べて、思い出つくって無事富山到着。花火はもういいけど、キャンプはまたしたい。今秋は雪が降る前に山に登りたい。取り合えず目先の予定。　　以上　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Arlington and Fort Worth TX, Jul 30 til Aug 10

2006-08-16T04:50:00.000-07:00

As is apparently seen on a map, Texas is one of the largest states in US. I have no idea how big it is, even comparison to Japan, I don't know which is bigger. So anyway I was in Texas for 10 days on business that was quite tough but fun days that I could have spent. It should have been more than 40℃ in the plant where I visited, but workers there were really industrious and working really hard. I was impressed to see them working enthusiastically. People in the factory were approximately 50% from Middle and South America. They got a work-visa and were able to legally work in the States. They're really friendly and open minded ANd speaking Spanish. No English at all. Really wished I could have spoken any basics.

Having been able to get the weekend offs, me and a engineer guy whom I came to US with hung around the town with a rented car, did some shoppings at a mega mall and thirift shops, eat meals at hooters, confused with right-lane-driving and hard-to-tell traffic rules, but it was worthy for hanging out. We were surrounded with heat all the time though, one day we've got 110F which I figured it out afterward 43C. That temperature has never been experienced by me. It was just heat and scorching sun beam, which didn't make my skin leak but burn off and left just pain instead.

I found it bit hard to get used to Texas accents. Not as hard as the one by Indian. I was there as an interpreter and really knew I should have been a functional speaker and listener, quick understanding and response, but I couldn't do so well. Especially in those specific category like a molding machine, I am just a layman. Will try to study bit more in order to make the conversation go smoothly next time. Seems so hard...

It was only short 10 days trip and needed more time to know the things there, but enough for the heat.

2006-08-06T20:20:00.000-07:00

What the hell is this temperature here in Texas, Arlington! 42.7C as if I was in Mid East.

Now that I ve got -40C in Canada,Lake Louise and +40 in the US, Arlington. But I hate heat, much preferable to get the ice anyway...

3 days left until I get out of this heat. Will try to update some photos of Texas scene when I get back home.

2006-07-24T11:06:00.000-07:00

7月23日（日）　TOEIC試験会場：サンシップとやま

なんのきなしに申し込んだが勉強する気分にもなれずあれよあれよ
という間に試験日がやってきた。前日に模擬問題を1セットやって試験
に挑んだ。前回から試験内容が変更され、今回初めて変更後のもの
を受けた。それほど難解な問題はなかったが読解問題の文章量は
確かに多い。テンポ良くこなしていかないと確実に全問解けない。次受ける時はちゃんと勉強しよ。

お盆すぎ　結果通知予定。

仕事メモ
7/30~8/10　Texas Arlington, QFC and RUSA (Check)
盆明け～9月初旬　Malaysia and Indonesia (Check)

2006-06-29T05:25:00.000-07:00

祖父米寿記念日。
氷見にて。

これだけの人数が一度に
揃ったのは何年ぶりだろ？

久しぶりに会う従兄弟は
なんとなく自分の顔にも似てる
ような気がした。

2006-06-01T02:04:00.000-07:00

Trip to Vietnam, Indonesia and China. From May 23th to May 29th.

2006-05-29T07:23:00.000-07:00

Canada,
United States,
Guam,
India,
Singapore,
Vietnam,
Indonesia,
China

2006-05-21T09:41:00.000-07:00

May 21 (Sun)

Woke up so late and as was usual for me to feel kind of guilty for this, especially weather was so nice and warm today that made me feel worse than ever . I couldn't help feeling that I had to do something excited in such a beautiful day, so I rode on a motor bike and went up to a greeny mountain at noon. Pictures taken on the way to the mountain down below.

After motorbike touring, I went to a driving range with my friend and spent almost 3 hours there. My palm skin got peeled off since I smashed more than 200 balls. But it was a lot of fun for me to practice golfing, so it doesn't matter. Dipped at Onsen for an hour and came back to my place. My room looked so messy and I hadn't packed my stuffs yet, so I did the dishes , laundry and packed up so quickly. Now I am ready to sleep and go to Vietnam. Hope that I won't be sitting on a toilet seat for aobut half an hour as I did last time. I wish I wouldn't...

2006-05-21T08:28:00.000-07:00

カナダ、アメリカ、グアム、インド、シンガポール　5カ国　（2%)

インドネシア、ベトナム、中国、近日訪問。

体を壊さなければいいが...
とりあえず生水や氷、火の通ってないもの
は避けよう。

2006-05-14T06:20:00.000-07:00

India trip via Singapore April 22 through 28.

2006-01-10T02:52:00.000-08:00

It takes me for an hour to commute every morning.
And now I've got used to drive on a icy road even though I sometimes come across a bloody cold sweat situation by that skid.

On Sunday I came across a beautiful sunset on my way to home. I pulled over and I was just gazing at the Mt. Tateyama for a while. It was just simply beautiful.

I had a nice weekend. Went to Ushitake with Matt that was a first time to go with. We enjoyed a terrain park a lot. It was great to see his jib trick on a 20-meter-rainbow rail with his belly slided on it. He looked like also rainbow shape. Anyway, time flied so fast. Had a lot of fun.

Hope that the sun come out at least during the weekend...

2006-01-05T02:54:00.000-08:00

2006 Jan 4th Gokuraku ski hill
Approximately 400cms snow by
the weather report, this is

extremely

a lot. Hence, we can easily guess
these kinds of situations shown in the pictures.

I didn't want to get stuck in it, but I did it a lot. So I should be good enough to ride through the deep powder
without eating it.

I was bit afraid of coming across the
avalanche that will give me little oxygen and choke me soon. It could happen though...we never know when it will happen. But it will happen when it happens.

2006-01-01T05:41:00.000-08:00

Yacchi's dripping honey on
a 30cm-long-parfait.

Yacchi's attempting to
make a shifty indy grab.

The fisrt day of 2006,Woke up late in the morning with shining sunbeam. That was a fantastic weather and beautiful day ever plus, no clouds in the blue sky. Perrrfect day. But last night I had 10 hours sleep that was too much for me. Too much... that gave me some dizziness. As was usual in the new year day, I ate Zouni for brunch and soon after I headed up to skihill to hit the snow. We were into terrain park that was made up of variety kinds of jibs, table tops. Especially, 20 meters long rainbow rail was incredible!

At night we visited a shrine on New year's day with yacchi, his girlfriend Minako and her friend Kazumi. I tried an Omikuji after praying and got a Daikichi. I might have good fortune this year. We ate out for the meal at Cocos. Yacchi was tasting 30cm's long strawberry parfait for dessert.
Good quantity and good price but tasted yum.

Have 3 days off left. Keep having fun for the rest of the days. But I know I have to hit the book that is a pain in the neck anyway...

2005-12-30T23:57:00.000-08:00

The final day of 2005, it's turning aound to be 2006 in a few hours. I wonder what was my feeling like this time last year. Maybe not so much exited about it...

Got 6 days off in the new year started from 30th until 4th Jan. But my feeling is like I need to study about my job. I purchased a couple of text books of trading, international materials procurement, and etc.. They are just piled up and abandoned on my desk. I will do that later on anyway, just go with the flow.

Today I went to Ushitake ski hill in Toyama by myself but soon after I started riding, I ran into my freind Rotta(picture above) there. During the time I was there, weather was fantastic. I've got tanned on my face and my lip is burning now. So sore..

My mom is cooking Toshikosi Soba for the supper now. I'm so starving. I can't wait.

2005-12-29T06:16:00.000-08:00

　

【仕事】貿易取引に使用される主な書類一覧
Invoice ....................送り状　I/V
Bill of lading 　　　　　　船荷証券 B/L
Insurance policy　　　保険証券 I/P
Letter of credit　　　　信用状 L/C
Bill of Exchange　　　　為替手形 B/E
Purchase Note　　　　　買約書　P/N
Packing List　　　　　　梱包明細書 P/L
Export Declaration　　輸出申告書 E/D
Import Declaration　　輸入申告書 I/D
Air Waybill　　　　　　　航空貨物運送状 AWB
Letter of Guarantee 　保証状 L/G
Dock Receipt　　　　　　貨物受取書 D/R
Delivery Order　　　　荷渡し指図書 D/O
Shipping Order　　　　船積み指図書 S/O
Arrival Notice　　　　　貨物到着案内 A/N
Shipping Advice　　　船積み通知 S/A
Certificate of Origin 　　原産地証明 C/O
Container Load Plan　　コンテナ明細書 CLP
Export License　　　　輸出（許可・認証)証 E/L
Import License　　　　輸入（許可・認証）証 I/L
Letter of Indemnity　補償状 L/I
Shipping Instructioｎ　船積み依頼書 S/I
Mate's Receipt　　　　本船受取書 M/R

明日から年末休暇。

2005-12-25T03:25:00.000-08:00

12月25日（日）,　極楽スキー場　メンバー　yacchi, shin-chan, and omi

朝6時半に目が覚める。ヤッチに電話確認。7時半集合とのこと。また少し寝る。
電話で起きる。時間は7時半...足早に向かうが15分遅刻。
今日は晴天にも恵まれかなり満喫できた一日になった。テンションも上がり調子、
パウダーも金山ゲレンデは未開でおそらくうちらを含め4~5人しか入ってなかったと思う。
ゲレンデ中腹には数箇所に渡ってクレパスのような裂け目が点在。調子こいて
滑ってて穴に落に落ちそうになった。ヤッチは落ち系ジャンプで着地際、膝で顎を強打。
かわいそうに...　ま～でもボードに怪我は付き物。気をつけましょう。
オレもなぜか脛から流血してた。なにはともあれ楽しい一日でした。

2005-12-24T02:27:00.000-08:00

Not being able to head up to Hakuba47 due to the crazy snow falling, I went to Ushitake ski hill with James yesterday instead. We tried some terrain park stuffs- table top, jib, ground tricks and bra bra... But unfortunately snow condition was getting screwed up and we had no choice but to stay at the ski lodge. After some rests at the ski lodge, I noticed my mobile phone was gone. Actually I totally gave up my phone' s coming out from that white out ski hill situation. Because my pocket where my phone should be was unzipped. Anyway we got down to the ski lodge at the bottom
to check if there was my phone somewhere there. With little hope I have, So luckily the lady who was cooking Takoyaki beside the chair we were sitting was keeping my phone. How nice to grab back a thing that was abandoned. I said ''thank you so much'' from bottom of my heart..

But we gave up snowboarding there. So blurry and I couldn't see the people on a slope. It might be too dangerous to go on in that condition. We had an another time so we decided to go to Aprecio and played pool there for 2hours and a half. It was quite a long time since I played pool last. It was so enjoyable and fun to play. I lost the game by 5-10 though..

I joined nabe party at Bon's place afterward. I tasted a fabulous gratin with some shrimps and lots of melty cheese . It was amazing. And main dish nabe- Japanesee traditional winter meal. We sat down around the table, once it was ready we bursted upon gulping and eating like a elephant. Chit chatted until 12 am and went home cos I needed go to work on Saturday.
Had a fun and spend nice time with them.

2005-12-20T04:57:00.000-08:00

今年の5月に受けたTOEIC　リスニング460, リーディング355
　
今年の7月に受けたTOEIC　リスニング440, リーディング375

そして11月に受けたTOEIC の結果が先日届いた。
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　リスニング430, リーディング385

結果。過去３回全て同じスコアに終わった。進歩なし。虚しさだけが残る...
高いお金払ってTOEIC受けて同じスコアシートが3枚。いらん。
　
最近はボード行き始めたせいでお金の消費が激しい。1回,5000円として
毎週行って月8回, なんだかんだ使って5万～6万は使うなこりゃ。

会社のスケジュールがそのままなら2月からは中国へ1～2ヶ月。1月にもインド
行きの可能性。カレンダーでボードに行ける日を数えてみる。maxに行ってあと
10回位かぁ。仕事だから割り切ろうと努めるが,何か煮え切らないものが...

さて今週は何処の山へ行こうか！？

2005-12-17T23:50:00.000-08:00

It has been snowing heavily through the night and all day long today as well. It is quite rare to have this tons of snow before the new year. That's kinda weird..It usually starts snowing at the begining of Jan. I could check out a few leaves falling onto the ski slope which meant we had quite a forward winter this year.

Today I went to Gokuraku ski hill. I started to ride at 9ish am and finished at 1ish pm since I was so and deadly tired that I couldn't keep going any more. I bought a one day ski pass with 1000yen discount which was 3000yen and sold it to the skier who was going to start skiing at 1000yen. So I've got 1000yen cashed back. It was good deal. .

Anyway a thing happned on the way to my place. I was really careful for driving and following the track. I didn't notice I was getting speed on the bloody frozen road at that moment. My car tire was just a bit veered and I got uncontrolled. I grabbed a steering wheel strongly and tried to keep control. One oncoming car was showed up in my eyes and I was like shit.. I don't know how long did this hassle thing last. I guessed it was 5 or 6 seconds.. However in the end my car was stopped on sideways. The oncoming car driver was smiling toward me and I smiled back and raised my hand. I looked back the road where my car went into a skid and there was a long spiral skid mark. I should have taken that picture. Huu anyway my life was saved...

2005-12-17T01:02:00.000-08:00

Hitting the snow and carving the vapor trail on the powdery ski slope that I could feel as if I would have
surf rided on the snow that always makes me feel great. I love snowboarding! I'd like to hang out at the ski hill as much as possible in this season. This is beacause I will have to take off to China for the job on Feb at least for a month and half and possibly to India after the new year also by business trip. So I am going to lose and miss the snow so much. It sucks though..

Anyway, today I went to nagareha ski hill in Gifu. Although most ski hills in Toyama has been opened for the seaon today and skiers could get free ski pass for celebrating the opening day. I don't know why we went there maybe for some reasons. We ran into another friends at the ski lodge and we were riding with four of us. The weather was not so bad, bit of hazy but snow condition was awesome. It was much easier for us to hit the powdery snow comparison to Toga we went last.

My new job is so so going well and I have been learning lots of stuffs. Not bad. The things is just I will miss the snowboarding when I am sent to China for the job. But I know I need to make progress, like getting a new job, pushing myself, experiencing new thing, doing business with foreigners and what??oh well I don't know but I wanna and am gonna try to enjoy what I do. Tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes. Time is flying so fast. So then I have a lots of things to do, life might not be long enough for me.

2005-12-10T04:59:00.000-08:00

Woke up around 5 am and got a ring from my friend ''Yacchi'' that I was supposed to hit the road to Hakuba for snowboarding with. But we needed enough sleep so then we decided to go to Toga snow valley in Toyama instead that it would take us to get there within an hour.

The condition at the ski hill was pretty blurry but it wasn't so cold as I expected that was good. Only 2 chair lifts were opened for the public. The one was fast speed quad chair lift but it was really slow, and the other one was just short distance also slow chair lift.

The time we arrived was already noon. So alomost all ski slopes were already downhilled by the skiers. Even we tried to find out the powdery snow area, it was pretty hard to do so. But finally in the end my friend Yacchi managed to find out the awesome non-levelled area (the pictures shown above), we were so into it. We could eat quite a good powder snow and jump from the cliff to the thick snow landing spot.

We had a nice time today also after snowboarding. We headed up to Santoshi and tasted nice and mild curry and nan and then went to Onsen.

But only one bad thing that I had today was when I ate it at the ski hill, I hit my head so badly and got a bit concussion and twisted my neck. I will be suffering from it for next a few days. That's fine. Where will be next place? Should be Raichou next weekend!

2005-12-08T05:06:00.000-08:00

''Tomorrow comes and tomorrow goes'' has just started right now. I am trying to keep my
blog as long as possible. Anyway nothing to write down for the time being, but I am planning
to hang out at ski hill on this weekend that I hope it will be toward Hakuba area as I know they have a good quantity of nice and thick snow even though Toyama doesn't. Hope that I can make it. Pictures shown above, middle May 2005 at Murodou, Tateyama mountain where we were above the sky. I was sooo stoked on snowboarding and the view I had.
I've always hung out and ride there for last a couple years and finished my snow season there on May. Have a crazy and easy ride in this season as well and eat it now and then.