Nini

A photo i took back in May.....
今年の5月に撮った写真。。。

More Moriya pics

Lola

Billy

And to think s/he used to be so small.......
何カ月前にそんなに小さかったなのに。。。今はでっかい。


This photo was taken at the end of June.... so s/he's a bit bigger now. Although as it has started to get cold s/he didn't eat for almost a month so has maybe shrunk a bit.
この写真は6月末。。。今はこれよりちょっと大きい。しかし、寒くなったせいで一か月近く何も食べず、ちょっと小さくなったと思う。昨日、やっと餌を食べてくれて、安心。

Tokyo Motor Show 2011

The Tokyo Motor Show was on last week at Tokyo Big Sight. I had initially planned to make a day of it but that didn't work out so only managed 3 hours. So forgive the average photos.......
先週、今年の東京モーターショーは東京ビッグサイトで行いました。最初に11日にゆっくり見るつもりでしたが、木曜日に3時間のみ。という事で、写真はまあまあですみません。

Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package

Subaru BRZ

The Gt300 version to debut next year...
来シーズン、GT300でBRZもでる！

Which also looks great from the rear....
後ろからもかっこいい。。。

Crumble!!

Finally got round to making something with the new oven.......
Had some apples lying around so whipped up an apple crumble in between making dinner and doing the dishes.
やっと新しいオーベンで何か作りました！何個のリンゴがありましたから、アップルクランブルにしました。



And of course, some ice cream on top.
もちろん、アイスと一緒。。。美味しかった！

Well, where does the time go.....

Unfortunately in this instance I know the answer to that question...... but, hey. That's they way it goes I guess.
そうですね、時間が。。。。あっという間。。。。　色々あったけど。仕方がないかな？
Anyway, here's some tunes I've been listening to (sort of) recently
じゃ、最近（？）に聞いてるの三つの曲。。。

Hang on a second....

Was watching a fishing program on telly and thought I recognised the music in the background......
テレビで釣り番組に見ながら。。。。。
あれ！？まさか！？
はい、釣り番組のBGMは。。。。。。パンテラ。
ちょっと懐かしい。高校時代を思い出す。

Colours of time and weather

Went to the beach on Tuesday for a change of scenery and a fresh sea breeze.
Will start to put photos up as I get to them.......

Swim or fly?

Hopes and dreams

If the hopes and dreams of hundreds of people are put around a tree in the forest and no one is there to read them will they still mean anything?

Finally....

The camellia in the garden seems to be getting it's groove back. Taken a long time though.....

しばらく元気は無かったけど。。。。。庭にある椿がやっと咲いた！今年は色々送れってるみたい。。。

気分的に

今日、どうしても彼女の声聞きたかった。。。。

Golden Hawks@Kashiwa Station

This past Sunday the girls from the Golden Hawks had a demonstration performance near Kashiwa station. They are off to the world champs in Florida at the end of this month so were drumming up some support before they go.
I've known the girls for a while now but this was the first time I've seen them dance!
They were pretty damn good.
日曜日にゴルデンホーックスが柏駅前商店街でパフォーマンスしました。
今月末、３つのチームが世界大会に行きます！
しばらくの知り合いけど、日曜日は初めて踊ってる姿を見ました！本当に上手でかっこよかった！！

Pic for today.....

Dancing Salarymen

A cool new pv from World Order.....

Billy Jean is not my lover

She's just a frog who thinks that I am the one........ who feeds her......
This is Kanako's birthday present. In keeping with our 'girls names from songs' theme, meet 'Billy Jean'.
This is to go with 'Lola' the Japanese Tree frog, and Black 'Betty' and 'Roxanne' the goldfish.
これは香奈子の誕生日のプレゼントです。可愛いでしょ！？有名な曲からの女の名前のテーマで；ビリージーンです。
ローラとベッティとロックサーンの新しい友達。

More TAS 2011

Time for a few more pics.....

This M3 was awesome. The red Advan wheels had fantastic fitment and the Ericsson kit just looked so good . Not quite sure about some of the red accents though...

The Amuse R35 on the Option stand, looking good as always.

It's nice to see companies start to produce some wide body kits for the new GT-R. Although, I'm not quite sure about the front of this effort from Axell.

The rear however, I quite fancy.

New kit from the Mazda Master, RE Amimeya. Will be good to see it with some performance upgrades too.

The new time attack RX-7 sporting some nice heat shielding under the hood.

I'm guessing this is one of their GT300 kits......

The Kazama wide body kit is a great design and flows with the lines of the car so well. Can't wait to see it thrown around a track.

Lovely.

TE37V's? Check. Carbon bonnet and front fenders? Check. What more could you want?

More soon......

Now time for some music....

Always liked Brooke Fraser but didn't realise she had some new(ish) stuff out...





Don't think she'll be coming to perform in Japan anytime soon though, no matter how nice I asked!

TAS 2011

Well, were does the time go? It's been weeks since Auto Salon and I've only just started to sort through photos......it all seems so long ago......

The day started with the first (and what looks to be the only) snow fall of winter. To maintain the David/weather/Makkuhari messe synergy, mother nature came to the fore and didn't disappoint.
But hey, at least it wasn't rain!

The snow did delay the train a bit, but that was actually a good thing as I'd slept in! So, despite my tardiness I still managed to get to the Messe on time.
First port of call, as Top Secret were at the show again after a 1 year absence, was to go and see Shibuki san. After giving him a couple of cans of hot coffee (Rainbow Boss FTW, if it's good enough for Tommy Lee Jones.....) we had a bit of a catch up and then it was time to see what this years show had in store.


Nice to see a car back in the Top Secret gold again. There has been a lot of focus on the R35 and the new parts are looking very nice.
Speaking of R35's, I quite liked this one....


There were more exotics than previous years but, when they look like this I don't think anyone's complaining.

How do you follow up a white Murcielago Superveloce? With another white car of course!
The Super Made S15 was super cool.

I was really liking this S15 too.....


I want!!
As I can hear my wife's voice telling me how unpractical this would be............
I'll finish off this first installment with something 'practical'. Well, it has space to carry stuff......