New year holiday

Today is the last day before in new year holiday!! But, I am very busy in office today, too... I feel that the speed at which e-mail write and read in English became early recently. But, I cannot understand neither Japanese, English nor Chinese at the same time. I need enough time to train my brain.

So, my working time becomes long. I am very sad...

Outside is always so cold, when I came back my house.

This picture is my worming item. I bought this item last week. This is a "Yutanpo" of the name "Co-tanpo".

"Yutanpo" is a hot water bottle. This is made of tin. This yutanpo have a lot of color variation. Very cute!!This is very warm. I use this item everyday. So,"co-tanpo" is my best friend now.

Happy Merry Christmas!!

Today is Christmas!!
But, I am working in my office...
Many overseas relating company have already taken a holidays. I am envious of them.
So, my office is a Christmas mode, today.
But, Christmas holidays are not related to colleague in charge of Asian counties.
Of course, I am included in it.
I am in charge of China...

My Mother's Hobby

My mother has a lot of hobbies.
One of the hobb is knitting. My mother knit the muffler for me this year. This muffler is very warm.
The second hobby is to make accessories from the bead. My mother is making a lot of rings and necklaces. But, a lot of beads have dropped in living room of my house. This bead annoys my family.

Alliance Training

I took training in Yokohama yesterday.
The content of this training is " working with Chinese partners".
I had 14 classmates.
Many of classmates were the people in the purchasing department.
They are taking charge of the procurement from China.
We discussed how to advance work in China.

English minutes

I explained a lot of agendas to English speakers in English yesterday.
But, I am busy today, too.....
Because I should write meeting minutes.
I did not understand all content.
Maybe, this minutes might be convenient for me.
And, I got a lot of homeworks.

English Presentation

I am very busy this week.
Because I should do presentation to English speaker in English tomorrow.
I work overtime every day. And, I work in my house every day, too.
I have already felt nervous...

English DVD

I borrowed DVD from my speaking teacher last Sunday. She came from America. Her husband is working at the U.S.Army camp. She lives in this U.S.Army camp. Her house is near my house. From my house to gate of camp is just 30 seconds!! There are a lot of DVD in her house. So, I borrowed two DVD after the speaking lesson. One is "the simple life". Another is "CHARLIE'S ANGELS". These DVD has only an English caption.
Because she might have bought these DVD in USA or this camp. I do not understand all content.
But, I think that these two DVD is very interesting. I will borrow another DVD again, when her house will be visited next week.
(It is uncertain whether these two DVD finishes watching...)

Sukiyaki Party

I held the year-end party with my colleague last Saturday.
This year-end party was very international.
Because participating people have four nationality.
( India, China, Thailand, and Japan.)
Firstly, we played boring.
There was no waiting time, because we had reserved the bowling alley the day before.
I am not good player.
But, I enjoyed boring very much.
After playing boring, we ate the sukiyaki.
This Sukiyaki shop was "all-we-can-eat" and "all-we-can-drink".
We ate a lot of beef!!

POLO

My colleague gave me "POLO" today.
She went to on business trip in South Korea last week.
I like "POLO" very much!!!!!!!
Do you know "POLO" ?
"POLO" is a peppermint tablet.
I bought "POLO" every week and I ate "POLO" every day, when I am a school child.
"POLO" came never to see in the shop with notice. I was sad....
But, I found "POLO" in check-in counter of Beijing airport last year, when I went to on business trip in China!!!!!!!!
(This is service of the airline for the passenger. it is free!!)
I was very surprised!!!!!!! And, I was made very haaaaaaaappy.
I got a lot of "POLO". My boss said to me that I got "POLO" too much.
I wish I were able to buy "POLO" again in Japan.

CHICAGO PIZZA

Yesterday, I walked in front of the pizza delivery shop near my house.
I sometimes ordered this pizza delivery shop.
I was very shoooooooooooooooooock!!
Because the name of this pizza delivery shop was Domino's Pizza.... It was not a Chicago pizza.

I am so sorry. I made mistake. I was a liar...

However, I searched the Chicago pizza by the Internet. And, I found the homepage of the Chicago pizza.

http://www.chicago-pizza.com/

Chicago pizza have 145 shops in Japan. (at the time of 2003)
Chicago pizza was opened in Osaka for the first time in 1990.
So, I think that this pizza delivery shop is famous.

I will try to order this pizza delivery shop next tiome.

Message from heaven

I like fortune-telling.
I always read the fortune-telling page in the magazine.
Today, I introduce the site that my friend informed me.
The site name is "Message from heaven".
You will receive the message from you in the heaven, if you will input your name and your birth year.
Let's try, if you are interested in this site.

↓↓Message from heaven↓↓

http://www.uremon.com/heaven/

My neighbors

There is my seat next to Indian colleague in the office.
Today, I introduces our two episodes.

episode 1

We work overtime every day. So we are putting some cakes and tea-bags in our office, because we are very hungry every night.

We are sharing the cabinet now, because our office is very narrow.

I always buy the rice cracker. I like rice crackers.

He always buys the import cake. He likes import cookies. This cookie is very sweet.

I always buy wulong tea-bags and green tea-bags. I drink only tea in the office.

He always buys mysterious tea-bags. He drinks only the mysterious tea.

Our taste is the opposite. So, our cabinet is always full.

At last the door of the cabinet was not able to be opened.

episode 2

When I was making word cards, he gave me his word card.

When he was a university student, he made this word card and studied Japanese.

This word cards is very funny.

My recommend word is "米百俵".

I think that this word is not speaking in the daily conversation.

"米百俵" is our password now.

Training for TOEIC ②

Today, I took the training for TOEIC at first time.
I had 15 classmates.
But my classmates were only older men without me.
It was very shock for me!!

Today's lesson were part 7, part 4 and part 5.
Teacher informed us about how to solve the these parts.
I came home with a lot of homework.

Afeter the class, I joined with my colleague in the good-bye party for South African people.
I enjoyed this party.

My recommend things

I have a few favorite things. Today, I introduce my favorite things.

Firstly, about my favorite tea.

I like tea. So I always drink some tea. Especially, I like tea with milk.
Secondly, about my favorite blog.

I sometimes read some blogs at the lunch time.

This blog might be very useful for the study of English.
This blog is written by Japanese girl who lives in Hawaii.

Do you know her? Her father and mother are famous actors in Japan.

And, she also is appearing to CM of Japan.

Her blog is written in English and Japanese. Because when she was a child, she moved to Hawaii with her mother.

↓↓LIFE IS GOOD↓↓

http://aloha-sumire.seesaa.net/

Business Trip by My Colleague

I sometimes go to on business trip in China. My colleague also sometimes goes to on business trip to overseas.

Our charge is logistics planing and support of logistics improvement. I have many friendly colleague. Their charging countries are Australia, New Zealand, and African countries.

Many pictuires that my colleague sent me update my blog today. You will think the travel around overseas countries.

Business trip to Australia

She is going to on businesstrip in Australia from October to December, 2007. She stays in Melbourne now.
She is visiting many nice points with local colleague on the weekend.

Business trip to Algeria and Egypt

He went to Algeria and Egypt by two week business trip at the begining of September, 2007.

He also visited many nice points with local colleague on the weekend.

In Algeria

In Egypt

Business trip to China

I like China very much.

When I going to on business trip, I visit nice points in China. But, I always visit nice points with my boss.

It is a very sad thing for me.

English textbook

I got 2 English textbok last week.

One is a textbook for the TOEIC training that starts this week.

I will go to the Yokohama training center of my company with this textbook every week.

This textbook is heavier than the textbook of our English school.

Another is a sample textbook of the hearing marathon of ALC.

I got this text book free of charge.
As for this textbook, CD to which the radio drama in Canada and Hollywood's actor interview were recorded was sent together.

I think this textbook to be a little difficult for me.

Chinese's visitor ②

8th, November.

I visited two suppliers with the Chinese visitor. After the first supplier visited, we ate lunch in "Daikoku pier".
It was very fine, and it was pleasant. After the second supplier visited, we went to Ginza and Shinjuku by train.

In Ginza, Firstly we saw GT-R in gallery. It was so cooooooool!!

And, we walked on the "Harumi street". The night view of Ginza was very beautiful. The Chinese visitor was surprised to see a very lively town.

Chinese's visitor

The visitor from China will come to our office from 5th to 9th Nov.
They will take a lot of training in Japan.
This time, visitors of the total are 11 people.
I should take care of them every day.
I will go to the "Yodobashi-camera" ,"Donkiho-te" and "100yen shop" with them.
They are looking forward to shopping in Japan very much.

Last year's visitor bought 7 DVD video cameras in "Yodobashi-camera".
I was very surprised.

Welcome Party In China-town

Yesterday, I went to the China-town with my colleague.

Because my colleague's girlfriend came to Japan in the end of September.

She is from Thailand.

she learns as an exchange student for one year at the university in Japan.

She is just 21 years old. Very young!!

(My colleague is 32 years old... )

My colleague is Japanese, Indian, and Chinese.

Indian and Chinese colleague have already passed the first class of a Japanese examination.

She will take the examination next February.

We spoke a lot in Japanese for her.

My colleague can speak a lot of languages. I envy them very much.

Little BRITAIN

I borrowed DVD with TSUTAYA yesterday.

The title of DVD is "Little BRITAIN".

This is comedy of England.

I can watch a lot of comedy short stories. It is so fun.

Autumn festival in our office

Hi everyone,

Our company has five factory, two technical center, head office, and one part centers in Japan.

Each office holds the festival for around community every year.

Our office held the autumn festival yesterday.

More than 10,000 people came to this autumn festival though it was cloudy.

The most popular program was "Kamen rider DENO". This is very popular among children now.

But, I did not know this.

It was a happy day for me.

Training for TOEIC

I decided that take a training for TOEIC from November.
I will take this training from November to January. And this training will open every Friday in Yokohama.（In training center of our company.）
There are two good point in this training.
Firstly, this training time is included in ordinary working time.
It is lucky for me!!
Secondly, this training is opened by our company. So training cost is very cheap.
It is lucky for me too!!!
But regrettably, I must take TOEIC when I finished this training.

I lost my contact lens.

Hi, everyone.
Thank you for the comment a lot. I'm very glad.


I was very busy with work yesterday. Because I was absent from the work the day before yesterday.
In the afternoon, when I calculated the distribution data with the PC at office, my change was absorbed in me.
I noticed the contact lens of the right eye lost.
I looked for the contact lens with the colleague around the my work space.
However, my contact lens was not found.
I was very sad day.

Catch a cold

I was absented from work because I caught a cold yesterday.

Update my bloge by mobile

I am trying the first update from my mobile.
I wish this update to reach everyone.

I went home

Hi, everyone.
I update the my blog after a long time.
Because I went to my family house on Saturday night.
In my family house, there is a PC for the family.

Now, I live a place left from the family house by about 30 minutes with the train.
So, when I return to the family house in the future, I will update the my blog.

Business trip in China

Today, a big happening occurred in me.

I missed the airplane. 　Because I was delayed to airport by the heavy traffic.

China is increasing the number of cars recently.

Therefore, the traffic jam in the morning and the evening is big problems.

I was very tired. However, it was happy also today.

Self introduction

Hi, everyone.

My name is Mariko.

I am Japanese. I am from Kanagawa.

My favourite color is pink. And my favourite sports are swimming and baseball.

At weekend, I like to go to shopping.

I am interested in China. China is very exciting country.

I am on a business trip in Shanghai.
The dinner of Shanghai was very delicious.

I will move to Nangjing tomrrow.

It was happy also today.