Sunday, October 28, 2007

VS Halloween Night

My costume idea has already been out of stock. I couldn't escape from being blue before the party was coming. But, everytime the solution emerged on the day and I was helped. Also at the last night's Aeon Halloween Party, I could luckily get a good costume idea just two hours before the party started. I joined the party, costumed in the wear of the person providing a school lunch.

The party space was BASIL. Recently Aeon's party is always here. Maybe the restaurant size is good for the party size. The restaurnt owner lived in Australia before, so Aussie food is sometimes on the menu. It's nice.
In the party, students weared good costumes; Rice ball, Lupin, Chinese lady, Mushroom, Boxer, Pirate and so on. On the way to the restaurant, all passangers on the street looked at the funny group. Naturally our walking speed became fast.

As you know very well, our party schedule was as usual. After crazy drinking at 1st stage, Karaoke was waiting at 2nd stage. After crazy singing, some people still left and went to Sushi restaurant. It was 3rd stage as usual. Midnight Sushi was so cool. Once you experienced the taste, you wouldn't escape from it. But, we couldn't stay in the place allnight. We had to wait for the first train warking untill around 6 o'clock. In summer time, we can use Hatopoppo park, but now it is a little cold. So, we went to Jonathan, a family restaurant. With feeling sleepy, I waited for the 1st train, drinking beer.

Altough I have joined Halloween Party many times, I don't know the meaning of the party. I am worried that our style of spending of Halloween night could be utterly wrong?

Sunday, October 21, 2007

VS Old Mac

He is just seven years old. He had never been sick in his life. He was very well untill the day. But...
My Macintosh was broken suddenly.

On the day, I had listened to music by my Mac.
In my house, there is no TV, no CD player and no Video player. So, Mac is the only one electorical equipment for fun in my house.
The Mac had played J-POP music very well as usual. I enjoyed it with reading a book.

A strange thing happened after a few songs play. Suddenly, I couldn't listen to the music.
I stopped reading a book, and checked a moniter.
I thought he stopped playing, but he had been still playing. But, I couldn't listen to the music. I clicked a volume controller. Then, I could listen to the music again.
I didn't understand why such a starange phenomena had happened, but I was satisfied that the trouble was fixed up. So, I started to read the book again.

However, the trouble was not fixed up in fact.
My Mac stopped working suddenly, and shut down by himself!
I couldn't understand what happened, so I tried to boot it up again, but he didn't make it.
I kocked at him a several times, but nothing happened.
I had no idea what I should do then. So, I decided to go to bed. I hoped that everything would go well on the next morning.

The next morning, everything was unchanged unfortunately.
My Mac was completely dead.
I called Mac office a few days later, and asked the staff for the possibility to make him alive again. The answer was miserable. Because my Mac is very old, they can't fix it now.
He is just seven years old, though....

Now, I can't check my e-mail and use Internet. No sound and no movie in my house. My house is very silent. I sometimes push some keys on my Mac, but he doesn't give me any reaction.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

VS Octoberfest

What is Octoberfest? Although I didn't know anything about it but the name of a festival, I decided to go to watch it with Lance. I write my impresson of the festival at first. It was very interesting. I enjoyed it very much.

The event has been held in Akarenga-souko (Red Brick Warehouse) in Minatomirai area in Yokohama. It is German festival, and this year's one is 5th. We can enjoy great German beer, foods and music there.
I was very surprised that a lot of people was joining the event. When I and Lance arrived at the event area, all seats were occupied others. The air there had been filled with drunker's high. So, we had to drink beer as soon as we could after buying the ticket for the event.

If you have not drunk German beer yet, and want to try it, I can recommend you to drink Franziskaner (In Japanese, Furanchesukaana). It is a fruity white beer and very popular. Of course I enjoyed it at the night. Easy to drink. Fitted to any kind of food. I drunk it with a sausage and a salty bread.

A personally impressive thing in the event was that I could find out the wine for which I had serached for a long time. Pieroth blue is the name. A several years ago, a woman intimate to me told me that she met a German wine by chance in a local restaurant and the taste was great but she couldn't find it at any other bars and restaurants. Because she didn't memoraise the wine name exactly (She remenbered only that the name started with "Pi" and the bottle color was blue.), I couldn't find the wine then. That's why I was very happy when I met the wine in the event place. The intimacy of us had already gone, though.

The climax of the event was German music and Beer cheering. Lsitening to the powerful music by German band, someone danced, someone sang and everyone drunk beer, shouting "Cheers!". Almost over 500 people felt our unity there. I understood again that the power of beer can make our world peace. German is wise. Japanese also should give the people in the world the beer they made, not the oil they bought.