I'll recommend you to visit Hakone when you visit Japan

Almost 4 months passed since I posted here last time, forget it!
Now it is during the GW (Golden-Week, which are consecutive holidays from Apr 29-May 5 in Japan), and many people flocking to the sight-seeing spots across the country during this season, and Hakone is not exempted!

Imagine dozens of vehicles are getting bumper to bumper, which is 30 miles long or longer, even pedestrians are going faster than cars...lol

So I guess mass transit (I mean...train) is the wiser choice when you hang out elsewhere than using vehicles because of this fuckin' crazy traffic Jam!

Speaking of traffic Jam...I remember Bangkok is also dreadful...even worse than Tokyo!

Sorry...I went off on a tangent. Let's get back to the topic.

The reason why I brought up Hakone for this topic is just because I feel attached to this spots.

Maybe I've already visited Hakone more than 10 times in my life, when I was in teen-ager, my 20s, 30s and the current 40s.

The first time I visited here was as far back as 1979, which I was 14 (9th grader). I visited here with my family also my relatives (my uncles, aunts, cousins...Grandma and Grandpa).
There were actually many parties involved (maybe 20 people or more, since my Grandma and Grandpa were still alive at that time), and I remember we celebrated their Golden-wedding (50th anniversary) nearby when we were staying in Hakone...yes!!
My Grandma was 69, and Grandpa was 74, but they were still young.
But both passed away after years down the road (Grandpa passed away at the age of 88 in 1993, while grandma was 84 in 1994)...so nearly 2 decades has passed already.

The second time I visited Hakone was maybe in my age of 25 or something with my friends. I remember we visited nice spa (hot spring) nearby, being soaked in hot water together with full of joy! It's called “Hakone Kowakien”,
If you have visited Hakone already...guess that name rings a bell, you know.

Now I'm 45 year-old, and I seem getting senile...sorry I'm just joking...but even I get order, Hakone draws me a lot, nonetheless!
Why is that? I don't know for sure, but one reason that could explain is the bunch of sight-seeing spots here and there which attract people regardless of their age!
Take a look at the link;

http://www.hakonenavi.jp/english/index.html

This web must be helpful for new comers to Japan. Hope it helps.

Only the problem is its fuckin' outrageous price while staying in Japan, compared with other nations such as South East Asian countries...Once you have visited Japan you'll be flabbergasted at its fuckin' expensive price wherever you go...even me as locals feel the same…oh Jesus!

So make sure to carry more bucks with you when you come to Japan...they don't rip you off, but incredibly expensive here…I’m not joking at all!

But anyway, I'm sure it will make your day.
Why not visit Hakone first when you come to Japan?
I’ll show you around for sure, he he
Breathtakingly beautiful sky with beautiful Mt and lakes surely heal your heart, I suppose^^

Ok have a nice day, minasan!

A Happy New Year!

Hi fellows,
A Happy New Year!

So a decade had already passed since the dawn of 21st century.
Time flies like an arrow, and nobody can stop its speed...what we should do is just follow the flow. It's easy to say but hard to act.

So what is your best wish for 2010?
Enjoy your New-Years-Day!

Take

Wishing you a happy new year!

Hi fellows!
It's been for ages since we had last met here on blogger(・x・ ).
Yeah...pretty long time.

I don't know for sure what to write about...sorry, but it's almost year-end, and I was craving for updates...well I don't know.

Firstly, I put on weight about 20 kg or more over the past 6months, and was diagnosed fatty liver the other day from my doc.
So I have to go on a diet and lose weight as soon as possible. I have to work out and sweat it out.

Second problem is how to seek job...regardless of any circumstances.
I'm middle aged and I've been unemployed for a long due to some state surrounding me.
As you know, it is now recession worldwide and seems hard to find a job in no time...but I must.

Lastly, my mom's state isn't good at all. Seems her hospitalization requires another few months or more.

Hopefully, everything will be settled down next year.

May your wish come true and take care;

タケ

It might be amusing for a moment.

Lately, fluctuations in the value of stocks are too intense. It falls sharply for 1,000 yen or more today if it is thought that the Nikkei average rose for 1,100 yen the other day inadvertently. The market actually becomes sensitive, the high interest rate currency (Australian dollar and NZ dollar) is sold any more for the finance crisis where the edge is originated in the United States to extend all over the world, and to reach the real economy are to agree by reporting media of every day, and the investor is seen to sell cheap rushing it to secure at hand the capital, and to speed up the realization.

On the other hand, it seems to have been had dealings over crude oil by one barrel/74 dollar level yesterday. Actual demand decreases, and it is clear how the consumer is refraining from consumption at the very sight of this figure.

Investor's psychology appears considerably dark, and however, isn't does not one uneasiness amplify new uneasiness will being to say from amateur eyes nor a market psychology that on the pretext of a remark of the important person of phlegm even if it becoming it is rumor, and false rumor in an abnormal change of stock prices and the exchange though cold is certainly true in business?

Our major civilian is made to associate moreover, if another view is done, it might be the one in some of property person or investors' money games how though the impression that there is not a done way either is held.
It made to only one night in this situation, and it disappeared. A lot of top men gathered from all parts of the world only in that, the discussion for a long time was done repeatedly, concrete correspondence announced by the statement, and in Washington.

Certainly, though it is thought that it is one of the sales materials that the closing of accounts of getting depressed and the enterprise of the consumption of the United States had fallen below the expectation . . . A market today that moves up and down like the roller coaster must be exactly abnormal.
Therefore, it is the one that it wants you to do the effort to try to the stabilization of the market by doing Concerted Intervention of the dollar to which Bank of Japan is not performed after 2004. The market thought that it was made to learn, whether it was delicate "Living thing" again like this.

How shrinking it is

Yesterday, G7 finance ministers meeting was held and the skeleton was announced as the form of a joint statement concerning the issue about public fund injection to the international financial institutions, but I hear no concrete measures and implementation were refer to, also NY Dow Jones continued declining. Seems respective government still can’t find the concrete path about how to tackle the issue. The stock market and the exchange rate are also likely to become a thunder storm this week. And nobody can stop the phenomenon, I guess.

If bank goes bankruptcy, victims are us depositors. In Japan’s case, the payoff system is well known. It is the system up to 10 million yen of bank deposit is protected if the banks went bankruptcy for a rainy day.

After the Irish government announced the depositor protection system, it is said that a series of deposit has shifted from the neighboring country, UK. In my case, the bulk of deposits are foreign currencies, some is outside the country. The other one is deposited in the foreign bank in Japan. I have a sort of anxiety, wondering my money will be refunded or not, if they went bankrupt.

You cannot say that any companies (banks) can surely guarantee you at this time. Even the current stock price are strong enough, you cannot say they’ll have a bright future.

G7’s decision is little more than a ploy that it was so-called "proposal". It could be said what the government's competence is how quickly they can carry it out. There may be various problems though, once the problem is procrastinated, that would be irreparable. What the nation’s responsibility is to make investors or consumers relieve first, I think.

In other words, market turbulence paraphrases the voice of dissatisfaction with the government's attitude by this figure. Decline in the stock market and the week dollar (strong yen) causes the negative chain as I mentioned before, which makes people feel uneasy, cannot live in peace.

Global warming, the fight against terrorism... they are a lot more issues piled up, but they are not completely a different dimension of the problem or at least I feel that way. The more economy gets shrink, the less employment is expected, and it can be a hotbed of crime.

Again, what we exceedingly expect toward the government might be the matter of course, because politicians are the professional who operate the country. As long as they are “the representatives chosen by citizens”, they have responsibility, and we hope that they’ll have keen insight to predict at least six months or a year ahead toward the world movement, not just for coping with the immediate needs.

If only disappointment and despair comes out when the current situation continues. At least you cannot drift through the world doing nothing each day, and we’ll have to keep looking constantly what we can do. But you cannot go against the "law (stream)" in this world.

Metaphorically saying, the world is compared to "the river", right in front of it (the world economy)" is a swift current. We are “the swimmers” who are about to cross the river toward the bank. How to safely swim-off and fall into the other side is our role, but we cannot cross it against the torrent. Once you’ve cross it unjustly, you are washed away into death. How to slow the flow of the river and swim safely is the state or the government task, I suppose.

For that reason, it is the mission of the representatives from the nations to relieve public fears, if the business is addressed in today’s world.