Google Voice

Google produced new service "Google Voice" in the US couple weeks ago,
Here is more info

Tried to call friend's mobile phone in Japan from my computer,
First you should buy credit start from $10 but still very cheap to call even mobile, to Japan It's only $0.11/per minutes, Here is more info,

The voice quality isn't yet excellent but still very clear!

Just one thing, it seems a bug to fix in the future, The call didn't reach to the other phone sometimes, When I called, I heard it's ringing but no answering, and asked my friend later,then there is no missed call history... :( hmm..

What I like most in this service is that if you missed call from someone, the notification email is sent to your Gmail account so that you can hear voice message too, and if you register your local phone, all incoming calls are automatically forwarded to your phone so that you don't need to sit and wait in front of your computer or home phone :D
Also you can register person to contact list group to set which phone to forward for each contact group. if bf calls you, you don't want to miss it, so set forwarding it to all types of phone calls, your friend, maybe you just want to receive only on mobile.. something like that-- :P

Only phone number in the USA is acceptable so far, It will be implemented for Japanese customers soon for sure.

Today is my dad birthday, Love dad and mom!! Thanks always xx.

BBQ party on 29th/August

I had a great party yesterday! Here are some pics from the party. We visited A's sister's house. It's a beautiful AZ style design, 2stories, I lost counting how many bed rooms do they have! Sad to admit but my apartment in Tokyo was as same as their one single closet...lol

I really liked frozen margaritas and nice foods, Thank you A!

Napa Valley Wineries

After passed Golden Gate Bridge, we headed for up north to Napa Valley Wineries.

It took 2-3 hours drive from SF, not that far, It's a amazing drive that you can see California's farming area, the view reminds me of my hometown, especially when there is no houses.

There are so many wineries in Napa Valley, what you should do is that stop by the visitor center to get the map and pick up which wineries you would like to go, also ladies at visitor center tell you lots of histories about each wineries. We enjoyed talking with the old lady there.

We picked up one of the oldest wineries "BERINGER"and most popluar one "V.SATTUI", Both are beautiful places, You pay $5-10 first and you can keep tasting any kind of wine until you get drunk.

Most of wines are you can only buy in each wineries, they don't even transport to Arizona, cz of the climate.

He got 16 bottles of wine and many cheeses.

We left around 4-5pm Friday to go home finally, stopped at Bakersfield and went to HOOTERS bar to check CA hooters girl and stayed hotel to rest, and arrived home around 6pm on Saturday.

It was amazing SF and Napa Valley trip! Thanks A!!

San Francisco Trip on 17th to 21th/August

This time was the longest road trip that we drove up to San Francisco, CA from Phoenix, AZ. It took almost 2days. On the way we stopped by the small town to refrain from all night driving, stayed in cheap motel type of hotel, I said "as long as there is shower I can use, I am fine!" It's just for sleeping for couple of hours, it doesn't need to be fancy! But it was actually shitty than we expected... It wasn't that cheap either. He just moved the chair to shut the front door so that no one can break in..LOL... America, you can't even imagine how dangerous the life here is, It would be much worse than I think? or Japan might be too peaceful sometimes? If you were born and raised in JP, most of countries in the world would be dangerous for you,,, but in meantime it's more passionate and exciting too! so I like both.

In second day, we finally got to SF after 4 more hours drive and checked in hotel at 3pm.

We start walking around Union Square to china town , Fisherman's Wharf.

To be honest I wasn't so impressed about those typical tourist spots, It's still ok but so crowded cz of so many tourists, and the place is trashy sometimes.

I liked the business district near the Oakland Bay Bridge much more! It's a wonderful energetic area where professional people are hanging out. I have a friend from SF, He and his wife are my best friends in Tokyo , very stylish and cool people, I was imaging they used to hang out around this area. Thanks M!!

After stayed 2nights in SF, we head for Napa Valley to try wine tasting! Second day will be in next post! ;) Continuing... :)

Hope you are not bored yet...

Farm Grill Restaurant in Gilbert, AZ

Just got back from outside, I went out with his dad to eat lunch together at Gilbert, AZ.

Gilbert is such a beautiful town that lots of nice houses there, it's very safe and clean, nice neighbors. We had a hamburger , garlic potato and ice tea at Joe's Farm Grill Restaurant .

The restaurant exist right next to the farm , seems like the same owner owns all farm , restaurant and cafe there. Gilbert is modern beautiful town nowadays but it used to be farming town with no houses,malls and stuff.

It would be good to sit outside terrace, when it's cooler, maybe in November :)

I suddenly thought like 'Oh this is what my dad should do for his wasted lands in my hometown.

Growling vegetables and serves them right next to his farm, shouldn't stay with too much organic restaurant taste, otherwise it would be only known for niche market who cares about their health... I will try to talk to him. :)

Thanks A to take me out! :))

27 STUNNING Apple Concept Products From The Future

What would we do with an Apple car? A transparent iMac? Or even an "iPottie"?

I will save up money to buy all amazing apple products in the future!! yeey!

Access from here

Which one do you like most? :)

Just got back from SF, it was wonderful road trip! I love SF energetic vibe and people!!

Droid VS iPhone

Let's take a look at amazing Droid 2 spec!
The 3.7-inch screen,1 GHz processor,512MB of RAM,total cargo capacity of 40GB, and cool body design by Motorola and interface isn't that bad anymore.
Here more details

Incredible!! I am about to change Droid 2 from my iPhone(3G,8GB ...lol)

But there are some topics that make you feel iPhone is still better to have?!

10 Incredible iPhone Photographs - want to know how they can take pics like that, much better than my pics of DSLR...

iPhone Owners Have the Most Sex Partners... LOL - wondering why girls chose iPhone owners as xx friends?? I personally don't really care...

10 Free iPhone Apps To Learn A New Skill In 10 Minutes - "How to save a life"app looks useful. ;D

hmmm.. tough call but I still choose Droid 2 with high spec like a computer!
How about you? :D

One of my favorite town in Arizona

Scottsdale! There are nice shopping mall, many lounge bar out there!
We walked around Fashion Square last night and 5th avenue :) It's a perfect sunset to sit outside and drink and chat ;) Though the temperature is still hot to sit outside sometimes, most of place have shower mist to cool you down, sometimes I feel even cold with it, when you sit for long.

5th and Wine is the beautiful lounge bar, we just found it last night. The place was so packed with lots of people who seem to finish work and came into the bar and having a nice evening there, even if the Tuesday night.We will definitely check it out soon!

Road trip on 7th/Aug to Tucson and Tombstone

We left Phoenix around 10am in morning to head for Tucson to visit Kartchner caverns state park this weekend. It's another awesome trip to see great nature of Arizona.

The camera wasn't allowed in the cave so please look at the video in link above.
It's about 30mins time travel tour in the cave!!

After we drove to another city called Tombstone, The city is known for one of the oldest town in Arizona, I saw many cowboy/cowgirl style people on the street. :)
There are many historical museum , bank, bar remain as it was from long time ago, you can see in the pics!

As soon as we got Tombstone, huge storm hit the town,
It was heavy raining and lighting again, I felt like we were in my favorite drama "Supernatural" :D cool!

We head back to Phoenix around 10:30pm and went clubbing afterward!

Thanks again my bf for another wonderful trip!


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Road trip on 31th July - day2

Road trip day 2, We started from small town PAGE to head for another town called WINSLOW! If you are The Eagles fan, you probably already knew this town ;)
Yes!! The city is known for one of the song of The Eagles "Take It Easy".

I always wanted to visit WINSLOW ARIZONA and standing on the corner to meet the girl in a flatbed ford. Let's see "if your sweet love is gonna save me" :D haha

We also visited Meteor Crater too,It's just amazing spectacular view!!
Those who don't know about Meteor Crater like me, visit here!

ARIZONA is so cool!!

Nice song from radio


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My Birthday!

I am still 28 years old in AZ, but I am already 29 in JP today! Happy Birthday me! :D
I will try to keep improving myself to become good person to get respect from people around me. :))

Thanks mom!

BTW, Isn't it funny? :D

I found this question board at the Grand Canyon, you don't need to worry about if you might fall over the edge? hahaha :D

JP translation☆
Question : どれくらいの頻度で、人が崖のエッジから落ちる事故が起こるのか？
Answer : 驚く事に、滅多に事故は起きません。そして落っこちた人々は、グランドキャニオンの300-footの切り立つ急斜面から助かる事も滅多にありません。(笑)気をつけて、エッジから一定の距離を保って歩いて下さい。

Road trip to the Grand Canyon on 31th July - day1

This weekend he took me to the Grand Canyon, which exists in northern Arizona, close to Utah state. It took about 4hours drive from where we live.
On the way, we passed through huge storm that cause heavy rain and lighting,it's really scary!! I don't think I can drive like him.. :(

When we reached to the Grand Canyon National Park, the storm is already gone and we were able to see the spectacular view from the top of the mountain!! It was awesome view I've ever seen!!

We kept driving towards to Utah state, and when we got there, suddenly figured there was no gas station for next 40miles away,,, :( so ended up to turn around and go back to south to go to small town "PAGE". We stopped by some bars there, It was fun to talk with local people. :))

I've been a bit stressed out since I got here Arizona, because of maybe the big life change all of sudden, I was a bit missing things I used to have in Tokyo,,, but this time trip totally blow up my mind to say "I LOVE ARIZONA!!!" now! yey!

Thanks for my bf and wonderful Arizona nature☆


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Las Vegas Trip on July 2nd

Too late to update some pics from Las Vegas Trip on 2nd/July?! Been lazy again to update blog for long time.

We drove from Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada state, It took only 4hours to reach there.
There are huge desert with no green plants and very dry weather on the way to Nevada state, I felt even hotter than Arizona. :P
Once reached to Hoover Dam, we had to wait for long cue to check points, they check if you are not the terrorist that intend to attack the dam lol...feel like I am a suspicious person..cz the guys look so scary!!
they checked ID and if you had some stuff in your car, they are going to ask you to pull off the car and check everything... USA... I've never seen this in Japan. XD

We stayed Luxor hotel, It's one of the symbol building in Vegas, big gold pyramid one! In second day, we walked all the way down and ran into so many interesting things!! We even saved one drunk girl walking on the street with white skinny dress...

In Las Vegas, anything is possible, what is illegal? nothing is illegal!!
I finally understood why people call "Sin City". Stereo type is very correct most of the time!

We had a great time to watch the musical shows and girl's nude show too, ehe-ehe

OK, thanks!

Some interesting survey

World's Most Admired Companies
And the Winner is!!

How many JP company are ranked in top 50?!

Here are different survey, admired for quality,
10 most admired for quality

Around the globe, you may select your country from drop-down list,
Ranking in each country

Here are BEST/WORST innovation, you may select "least admired" below, hope your company isn't ranked there. :((
Best & worst in: Innovation

It's 6:55am in the morning in AZ, It was heavy raining last night, still clowdy, very cool! so open up the window and doing net surfing and chatting :D

Great deal at Costco

I went to Costco at Chandler and saw there are so many high spec computer are sold by really good price! Maybe it's time to throw my crappy Gateway away and get new one :P

Toshiba L675 17.3" Laptop Computer Intel® Core™ i3-350M 2.26GHz $599.99 Delivered After $100 OFF

HP dv5t 14.5" Laptop and Printer Bundle, 4GB Memory and 320GB Hard Drive $599.99 After $70 OFF

Iphone jailbreak is now legal?

What does the Copyright Office's ruling mean?
The short answer is that jailbreaking your iPhone or other mobile device will no longer violate a controversial federal copyright law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA. Bypassing a manufacturer's protection mechanisms to allow "handsets to execute software applications" is now permitted.

OK, then is user able to get support from apple if we failed on jailbreak??

What does Apple say?
Apple's goal has always been to insure that our customers have a great experience with their iPhone and we know that jailbreaking can severely degrade the experience.

hmmm..I am not sure about that...then why don't they support Adobe application on iphone?! :D

So does Apple have to support jailbreaking?
Nope. Apple iPhone Software License Agreement (PDF) bans any attempt to "modify" the iPhone software or to reverse-engineer it.

OK, user can do jailbreak legally but it's all on your risk! Nothing really changed from before, If the user wanted to try jailbreaking, they already did, whether it's legal or not. I just have weird feeling about statement from apple above, "to insure our customers have a great experience" , to realize it, they should fix the current problem and support all major application on iphone asap :)
I am disappointed of iphone 4G,,, so far new Motorola Droid X is much better than new iphone.. hmhmhm.. see, what's next? ;))

Article:CNN

something nice

Yesterday we had bf's grandma's farewell party, It's very sad that she is moving to Seattle soon though, I wish her all the best and look forward to see her there. :))

We had delicious BBQ meals and fancy fruits,

I would love to send this for my friend's wedding ;))

More info☆

It's 10:17am AZ, not too hot,cloudy　and a bit windy, Storm is coming soon. :D

Ohayo Japan from AZ

It's 12:22pm afternoon in AZ, It's 4:22am morning in Japan.
It's cloudy windy weather outside, very unusual for Arizona climate!! So, I've been opening up the window and turn on the fan, sitting couch now.

I've been reading book, each myth reminds me of my boss in VC and I am recognized how great my boss and my team mates were!!

book info!

My favorite twitter Katie Couric

New books

I went to book store yesterday and got new books!

1. The 360 LEADER , JOHN C.MAXWELL - sounded interesting cz the book suggest you to manage ppl from middle of the team, but not from the top..how come.. :D

2. Project Management in 24hours - No way! you can learn about PM in 24 hours?? hope the book isn't cheesy as I expect. :D

Start learning from today, It's 8:40am in the morning in AZ, beautiful sunshine.

Are you excited to watch final match NED vs ESP on Sunday? which team do you think is going to win? me... soo excited!!

Otsukare Samurai Blue

I was watching world cup Japan vs Paraguay at 6:30am in the morning , 30th/June in AZ.
I am so proud of japan team, they did best to fight 120mins extra time and PK.
Though we lost the game, I love japan's soul, no cheating , no greedy offense, but they play with pure soul to love soccer! That's why I love England team too, they are not good this time though,,hehe.

FIFA Japan vs Paraguay

Can't wait to watch quater final at 2nd/July!! My expectation for semi final is ,
Brazil,Argentina,Spain,Uruguay and final would be Brazil vs Argentina.

Sick Leave

Got slight cold from yesterday, try not to get worse... soon I have to take long flight so.. :D
Sleeping all day is so boring, lol Look forward to see my coworkers tomorrow ;))

My recent favorite model : Du Juan
Du Juan
Found she's been working as GAP model these days.

New Droid Incredible looks really cool
Droid Incredible HTC online

Rebooting my blog!!

As you can obviously see, my blog was hang too long..sorry!
I determined to reboot my blog since today, cz I was very inspired by one of my best friend,
She used to work with me very very hard but now she became great mom and updating blogs almost everyday, very impressive.

I will record my life with this blog as much as I can, also keep in touch with my best friends in whole world.

I've made big decision recently , it might be the biggest one in my life so far I guess..
I hope everything goes well, although I already decided to try this adventure, I am still feeling fear, anxious about it...but I think this is normal human's emotion, so I won't think about that too much.

Sunday evening, will work hard since tomorrow :) good night.

PS: Can't wait to see new apple 4G ,,,The leaked 'iPhone 4G': How did this happen?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20002834-260.html?tag=mncol;pm

Philippines flood

I got news that some of my coworker's house, cars were flooded..fortunately no one injured.
Here is the site for donation, I am sure they need our help right now.

（速報）フィリピン台風被害 ～赤十字の対応～

CNN 'People on roofs... missing'


I really hope my coworker can get back to work asap.

New Project

I haven't updated my blog so long because I got so many things to do in last 2weeks, organizing friends wedding party, take my high school mates to tokyo tour and so on.

Also I've assigned to the new project which is planning to deploy in Dec.
and the PJ requires me to study all new features... This is the first time to learn keyword search technology , related backend architecture,etc. And all include, It seems we should struggle to implement smart search criteria, The study is very interesting, although I again have to read bunch of docs everyday. :D

My question is how we can verify if the system is smart enough to return appropriate result by user's input. I've been thinking this recently during I read docs and write test scenarios.
I hope I can think of many good test cases by myself. -))

It's been getting cold everyday in Tokyo. Beautiful autumn season is coming~~.
Sufjan Stevens - For the widows in paradise

I am heading for Ginza to help my aunt exhibition soon.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Weekend!

Last week was pretty hard for our project team, although there were some struggle, we could go
through it and the new functionality is implemented in the production. :)

Btw, Kitty has joined my family. her name is NALA... I wanted to put her name SHINBA , but realized it's boy's name.. so my mom change it to SHINBA's gf name in Lion King. -) The photo is from my dad, she is sleeping news paper box.. lol even though she has got cute little house. -)

Summer is end, getting cool and windy, sometimes heavily raining in Tokyo these days.

I am going to Zushi to play sports with friends today. :) today is going to be really hot! 30 degrees. wa--! Weather is really unbelievable recently, sometimes it's really hot like middle of summer but sometimes really cold like October.

We should be careful to not get cold--. :)

I met kitty!

I've been taking a walk in early morning since I am in hometown.
I heard miao miao in the morning from the bush ,,, and saw very little kitty was hiding in grasses.
She was trying to run away from me first but later she came closer with her big courage and was playing around together for a while.
I couldn't just leave her alone and took her home with me. XD

My parents say her mom will be looking for her so we should take her back asap!

So tonight I will go to the same place and leave her alone for a hour and if no one came to catch her up, my family will be kitty's parents.

she is biting my fingers now.. @ ____ @

15th @Oguni,Kumamoto

Finally arrived in my hometown, Kumamoto on 15th!!!
and as always the first mission is to visit my grandmother with family!

Here are some photos from Oguni, Kumamoto!
The water fall is the very famous place where was used in commercial of 生茶 long time ago,
People can walk to behind the waterfall--!! :D

Yesterday was drinking, today will be again... drinking.. tomorrow..hmmm really bad! XD

I am watching World Championships in athletics @Berlin~~.
Bolt rocks!

14th @Osaka

I am on holiday right now. I visited my brother @ Higashi-Mikuni , Osaka on 14th.
It's just 15mins from Umeda Station , Midousuji-line to my brother's apartment. Very close to the central Osaka :)

It was great to see him after long time no see each other~~!

I visited aquarium , park , sea side during he was working :D
Here are some photos from Cosmopolitan where is sea side area, you can take ship there to
Universal Studio Japan.

Fireworks@Odaiba!

This is the second fireworks for me in this summer.

I heard this fireworks event is the biggest one in Tokyo and if you want to see in the best place,
You have to reserve the seats at least 3days before...

So there were looots of tent around there...

Thankfully one of my friends was the kind of person to struggle to keep the seats in best location.

I normally really hate to go to see fireworks cz very crowded.. but this time was awesome!!

I looove fireworks event in summer~~ very romantic! hahaha

My B-day party@Midtown

Here are some photos from my B-day party last Thursday!
It was a bit raining in early morning and since organizer Jay reserved outside seats for us,
We were sooo worried about it. but thanks god!! rainy humid day was over until afternoon and
nice summer wind came out when we reached to the restaurant. :D

The party was blast with nice people,nice restaurant, nice foods and alooot of presents!
Thank you sooo much!

My 28 years age would be awesome!!

Happy Birthday Me!

I am 28 years old now, getting one year older so I should be wiser! XD

Life is like climbing the mountain step by step,
Sometimes it's a bit hard, but it can be always turned to full of happiness with best friends and great family.

My resolution for this year is pretty much same as before that spending everyday with a lot of happiness and always try to express my appreciation to the great people around me.

Tomorrow we are having B-day party@Midtown,Roppongi, Can't wait to talk with all.

Thank you all sooo much for the wonderful messages! I had a great B-day!!! :D