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

summer breeze

Did you feel summer breeze today?
I was sitting near the river and wind was very strong! summer is really coming after rainy season.

The photo describes typical japanese summer scene.
Rice ear was flowing with wind :)

Btw, I've been reading the book (Power of LESS)
during I study programming course.

The book suggests us to choose LESS things , tasks, belongings to achieve more simple and meaningful life.

It's good to take time off sometimes and do something else :)

Monday is coming, It's going to be busy week again, good luck for all of us. :D

Very windy sunny day in Tokyo. 11 day to my BD! :D

今日、夏の風を感じた？今日もリバーサイドに座っていたのですが、梅雨の時期も終わり、
本当に夏が来ているんだなーって感じました。

写真、日本の夏って感じですよね～。稲穂が風で揺れていましたー。

最近、Power of LESSという本を読んでいます。
この本では、出来るだけ少ない事柄、タスク、持ち物を選択し、もっとシンプルで意味のある人生を送ることを学べます。
最近は、ずっと仕事関係の勉強をしているのですが、たまに時間を作って違うことをやってみるのもいいよねー☆

また月曜日から忙しい毎日だけれど、諸々うまくいきますように☆☆

バースデーまであと１１日！