Night flight

Cat on the bed

Today I'm comming back to my hometown. And there a cat was on my bed,
maybe the bed is not mime but his now.

Rainbow colored sky

I don't know why but the sky seems rainbow in this morning, so amazing.

New year

Christmas was over, and there you can see many decoration for new year.

This is the bamboo decoration in front of my office.

Echire butter

Today I had the Echire butter for my dinner. With the butter, I had
some bread bought at the Maison Keiser.
Of course the taste of the bread was nice, but the taste of the echire
butter was extremely delicious.

I had never thought like that I'd like to continue eating butter.

Echire butter is special one, and I'd like to have opportunities to eat it when I have some
special events.

Farewell party

Today I had a farewell party for whom I have played together in my
band for 3 years.

As he have many friends, some of my friends and I planned a farewell
party for him.

In the party, we gave him a cake a portrait of him is drawn imtje top
of the cake.

As fad as you can imagine, he was so pleased with the party,
especially the cake.

Lounge

The title doesn't mean the genre of the music, but the experience of
mine today. Today I'm staying at hotel new otani in Tokyo.

There's some services such as serving extra things with no charge.

How do you evaluate this service?

Sky

Sky, getting brighter.

Sunshine appeared behind the cloud.

It remindse something to be happen imtje future.

This could be the start of something.

One plate lunch

Today I made a luch on one plate.

You can see fried roots the above side of dish, it is the main dish of
today's lunch.

Actually I like to eat meat or something seems not good for my health,
but today I cooked a dish only with vegitables. Of course I'm not
vegan, but I like this kind of foods, someone said to me that it is
because I got used to that. How do you think?

Pressure

The end of this week, I'm going to have an exam of actuary.

I have studied for this almost whole year, but actually it is just some months ago since I could concentrated to one subject.

Some of my coleague encouraged me when they go home today, but it made me more and more nervous.

Ah, I wish I can pass one subject this time.

Evelest

Today I came to an Indian restaurant named Kumari, which is neighbor
to my house.

There I usually eat curry and nann, but today I ordered new apertif,
named "the evelest set". I don't know why it is called like that,
anyway it tasted nice!

Sunset

On sunset, it is faster to be dark than morning.

I like this time. The color changes time to time, and it is so
beautiful that things get red, then turn to blue, the opposite color.

At first, I feel a little melancholic feeling, but it turn to be cool
feeling.

Morning

I like morning.

In the morning, the air is clear and it makes me fine feeling from
inside.

I like to get up early.

Also, I like the morning sky. It is full of hope and endeavor.

I like morning.

Udon

Today's menu.

Bagle

Macrobiotic menu.

Party

Today, I played the bass with Big Wing Jazz Orchestra which is very famouse and has longer history than my life, and we played at a party.

It is so called business gig, like a BGM. We selected some tunes suit for this season, and the atmosphere of the party, acutually there are many elder people, also children, so we selected some tunes both which audience can dance and everyoneknows, such as christmas songs.

During the party, I was so surprised that so many people can dance, actually there are so many "hi society" people, so they are taught about that kind of things.

Anyway, almost all the audience seemed to be pleased with our play.

This is the first time for me to do this kind of play with big band at a party, so I'd like to do more and more times.

24 hours

There are 24 hours in a day. About quarter of the day, we are
sleeping. And the remain, we work, eat, chat, and many activities.

These days, I'm studying after working and also before working. But I
fond feel it is enough. And I'd like to do more and more things.

So first, I'm trying to get up early and do what I want to do in the
morning.

These days, the sunrise is not so early, about half past 6. So I can
see many faces of the sky, and changing the colors. Today I took the
darker one.

Skyscraper

I went to the office earlier than usual today.

Then, I look up the building that I work at. It reflects the sunshine
and looks so quiet.

It reminds me a start of something, something special, something
brilliant, and something hopeful.

Just ond thought of a morning.

Vegan pizza

Today I went to a restaurant where you can eat various dishes made
with vegitables.

I ate a pizza, which include just vegitables, instead of milk or meat.

The cheese like taste thing is made from tofu and vinegar, and many
other ingredients are from vegitables.

But the taste almost like cheese or meat, so interesting!

Dawn

Today, it was not fine in the morning, but the horizon seems to be
becoming brighter. And I feel something is getting bigger and bigger
in my mind.

Yes this sky makes me feel like that. Not special, common thing, but
curtainly makes me happy is there. The dawn in my mind.

data

Today, I did some task for a project to quantify operational risks.

Actually, operational risk quantification is in developement, and many financial companies are trying to make their original method for that.

As you can imagine, the quantification is not popular in Japan, and it is in progress in many Japanese companies.

There are many barrier for that, but most typical one is that there are no standard, and the distribution of the operational risk's loss depends on each company's character.

I tried to evaluate some losses in our company which we already gathered, and made a distribution, but it was quite difficult to find a distribution which exactly fit our distribution.

I have to spend more and more time to make up it, but it seems to be so difficult, of course, this is because I'm trying to do this.

Golden bar

One of my coleagues gave me a chocolate bar looks like gold.

The manufacturer of this is Godiva, one of the most famous chocolate
producer in the world.

Not only the looks of this but As far as the name, this is a "golden"
bar.

Sandwich

Onion bagle with avocado, celery, and cream cheese.

Pickles home made.

So happy dinner.

Today's dinner

Avocado, tofu, and chicken bowl, with balsamic sauce.

So delicious!

Winter

Today is so cold that I wanted to stay in the bed when I got up in the morning.

Actually, now it is beginning of December, so it is obvious that it is so cold, but I think it is toooooooooo cold today, especially the wind.

Instead of being cold, I can enjoywinter sports like snow boarding. I look forward to that and stand for these cold winds.

Vanguard

Today I went to a concert performed by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

Their sound was absolutely fantastic and I really enjoyed the 2 stages.

As I wrote yesterday, the VJO is one of the most adimerable band in the world I think.

Not only their sound, but also the charts written by Thad Jones, Bob Brookmeyer, Jim McNeely and many other musicians are wonderful. I suppose they are the Art.

Unfortunately, I can see them just one day, but I wish they will come to Japan every year since this time, and I'd like to see them again and again.

Honesty is the key

Today I went to a talk show by the members of the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, John Mosca and Douglous Purviance.

There they talked about some episodes about the band, and there were some impressive phrases.

One is "keep growing" and the other is "honesty is the key". The first one is about looking for new members or substitutes for the members who can't participate some gigs. They are looking at not how good he plays but weather he is trying to grow.

The second one is about the stance to the band, how they keep motivation to the managing big band which is quite difficult to make it.

I was touched with these words, and decided to do like these words.

Orchestra

Today, I went to a rehearsal of a orchestra.

I have been thinking of joining to a orchestra. But I have never played in a orchestra, so I have been hesitated to join.
But today, I posted a mail to one orchestra having performances around my home, and went to join see the rehearsal.
Then I have told to play the tunes that they are going to play at the recital on January.
Fortunatelly, I'm good at playing at a glance, so I could play almost all the tunes.

And finally I was told to join the orchestra. I had no bad omage to the orchestra, so I told yes.

I don't know what happens next, but I think there should be some troubles toake me interesting with the orchestra. Ansolutely interesting!

New face

Today, I joined a rehearsal of a band, which one of my friends belong
to. The history of the band is so long, about 35 years, longer than
my life. So the repartries of this band is more than 200! I have two
chances to join the rehearsal, and today was one of them.

Almost all the members already know the tunes to play but I had to
play at a glance.

Actually, there were a little chance to play like this these days, so
I was very nervous to play. Finally I could finish all the tunes of
today's menu, but it was about a half of the tunes which we are going
to play at the stage.

I have to practice the tunes hard!

By the way the pocture is a dinner for today, glatin with bread. The
bread is a bagle which includes onion in the dough. So delicous one.

Banana

I like banana, also one of my favorite brand is named "banana republic"

Today, I ate a piece of banana. Actully there are many minerals, and
good for our health.

I like some snacks made with bananas, especially cakes.

Anyway it is the best way to eat banana to eat it in raw.

Early bird

Today I had something to do in the morning, so I got up an hour
earlier than usual.

When I got up, I realized that it was still dark, and the sunis
justrizing from horizon.

It is really amazing to see the color of the sky gradually changing
from dark color to light color, black to orange, and finally blue.

From the window in my house, I can see Shinjuku through it.

Today it was so beautiful that the color of the city is changing time
after time.