I am at the top of the Mountain Austin, which is surrounded by an area of super rich residential where HongKong tycoons live.
Hong Kong’s skyscrapers are not so high from this Angle.
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Today, Anthony and I encountered something unusual on a rainy cold evening in Ebisu.
When we walked down to the Ebisu station from Ebisu garden place after dinner. We heard some meowing! – It was a kitten in the bushes along the road. She was starving, exhausted, trembling and terrified. But she is so adorable and lovely.
“Someone must have abandoned her. We can’t leave her like this~” – we spoke in unison.
We decided to take her home and to give her a new life.
Now, she found it quite comfortable at her new home. I named her å°æµ after Ebisu(æµæ¯”寿)
She is also an avid reader
Her favorite yearning when she is sufficiently drowsy.
Ukai Toriyama
Since the treat from my boss to celebrate the initial release of our company’s product in this amazing traditional Japanese restaurant not far away from Tokyo (approximatley 1.5 hours), I have been taken several friends traveling to Japan to this place called “Ukai toriyama”（ã†ã‹ã„鳥山）
This is the place almost every foreigner visiting Japan would love, for its magical and wonderful decoration representing traditional Japanese garden. Thus, I highly recommended it to anyone who wants to experience some unique Japanese restaurants with great food.
As you can see from the below picture, rush ruffled private dining houses are scattered within the lushly mature and immaculately manicured Japanese gardens. When you walk into these gardens, you will feel like being dropping into history.
They have different courses covering all kinds of traditional Japanese food. Each course is presented as the art whilst you behold the koi swimming in the pond right outside your dining house. The food tastes divine.
The photos below are ones with my Chinese friends visiting it second time in 2014, where we celebrate two couples having their first baby.
The Japanese Saki should be a must-to-order in your drink menu.
Happy birthday to myselfÂ
Nobu,
Thank you very much for organizing the birthday party for me.
Shinichi, Peggy, Anthony, Zhibin, Mary and Akihiro ! Thank you for your kind words and messages. I am so grateful for having all of you celebrating my last birthday of my 20s and cheering me up when I am let down.
Valentine Present
I am a lucky guy for having these presents from you! Thank you Sayaka. You made my day. This is the best Valentine’s day in my life.
Hokkaido Trip
We visited Hokkaido in Feburary, where there was a snow festival in Sapporo. It was my first time to Hokkaido, as well as first time doing snowboarding there. The snow was indeed as most people say, fluffy, and you don’t have to worry about too much if you fall down.
You can’t miss the Sashimi there as my friends insisted. Well, it does look really fresh but also “RAW” and “FISHY”. If you are not used to raw fish. I would only recommend try small amount of these seafood first to see whether your stomach could handle it.
And the Sapporo Clock Tower , which is and landmark for Sapporo and must-visit spot for Japanese people, although I didn’t find it so interesting. I guess the reason that Japanese people are so attracted to it is the european style of the building where the clock is.
My first car
Thanks to Takanobu for taking professional-level photos for my first car. It was also great fun to drive along the Izu Skyline highway, on top of which you can see a view of the whole Kanto area.
It was a second hand BMW Z4. Although I am not the first owner of the car, it was carefully taken care of by the previous owner, who was in a rush to sell the car and return to his home country. Â The model is a relatively old one compared the latest one with a hard top.
Gotemba Outlet Shopping
One of the shopping outlets in Japan I really like and often go is the GOTEMBA PREMIUM OUTLETS. It is located in Shizuoka prefecture, but just around 1 hour drive from Tokyo. If the weather is good, you can see stunning views of the Moutain Fuji while enjoying cheap prices of famous brands.
New Year vocation – Indonesia
I would like to really thank you Takanobu and his friend in Bali – Suzie, who had made this Indonesia trip so fun and great! Had not you guided us in Bali, we would have not found these nice spots so easily. I landed the famous tourist island – Bali,  a place where you can see both well-developed western standard restaurants and bars and poor local house. Thanks to its unique geographic position and , it is a popular holiday destination for Australian and its Asian neighbour, as well as tropical beach lovers from Europe and North America.
These western standard bars can be found every nook and cranny on the island, where the same price tag is expected when back to your home country and where local people are rarely seen in these bars.
This beach is heaven for surfers. Suzie and I in this photo was taken by Takanobu.
Then, we forayed into the inner part of the island, finding ourselves emerge into some tropical forest, where you can find these old Hindu temples, which are preserved well. According to Suzie, Ninety per cent of Balinese are Hindu. Wild animals are also well protected by the local law. As you can see, the monkey below in the pictures are not in a zoo, by the way.
Electric car is the future
fishing in
Fishing in Okutama
How to Delete up to Non-Whitespace Characters in Emacs
I often want to delete a lot whitespaces between one word and another and had to hit the “Delete” buttons many times. Now I just discovered this command M-^ (delete-indentation &optional arg) works perfectly for my need.