Monthly Archives: December 2009

New Year’s Eve

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Today is the day when 2009 becomes 2010 or maybe 2009++ would be be the correct way of expressing it in C++ (a programming language). Anyway, the weather was again great, though a bit chilly in the wind.

Coco and I spent part of the day in a long walk in the sunshine. And the rest of the day we spent resting together with the rest of the family. And preparing the New Year’s dinner. In order to prepare the dinner Chie and I also went to buy groceries. To get the kani (crab) and shells and some other fishy 😉 things we went to the fish market.

As always on a New Year’s eve the fish market was chaos. People are so afraid they will not get the things they want for dinner so the fight their way around. I walked around as normal, while Chie was fighting 😉

As you may have guessed, we had kani (crab), grilled scallops, and hand rolled sushi for New Year’s dinner.

After dinner Coco was tired and fell asleep at once. While the rest of us was able to stay up for the new year.



Taking Coco for a Walk on the Wild Side

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Went to Tokorozawa for the New Year today. Once we arrived in Tokorozawa I took Coco for a long walk (on the wild side). When I take Coco for a walk I let him do almost anything a dog wants to do, which I think he is a bit unused to since his mother is a bit protecting.



Back home again Coco and I had a rest before Coco helped Chie prepare dinner. Tonight was shabu-shabu, think sliced meat that is dipped in hot bouillon together with a lot of vegetables. Delicious 😛



After dinner we all relaxed some more before it was time to go to bed. The time to go to bed in Tokorozawa is much earlier than in Tokyo… For some unknown reason 😉

Yaki-Niku & ChakaChaka

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In the afternoon Chie and I went to Shinjuku for some New Year’s shopping. We bought some mame (Japanese snacks). It was almost impossible to move around for all the people.

Our main purpose was not to buy mame though. Today was the 29th or 2-9 which in Japanese is ni-ku. Niku also means meat in Japanese so what better food to eat on one of the last days of the year than yaki-niku (BBQ)? We though going to Korean BBQ had no better alternative anyway. And so did Mina-sensei, so she joined us.

After the dinner we rolled to ChakaChaka for another drink. We’ve been to ChakaChaka a few times before, for instance after the last Gamarjobat show. It is owned by Taro-san, a friend of Chie. He always seems happy when we come there and usually joins us at the table. He did so today as well… Until a girl turned up that was more interesting 😉

MacBook vs. MacBook Pro

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For Chie’s birthday I got her a white MacBook. Though many days I still find her behind my MacBook Pro 😉



Yasaka with Yin

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At 5:30 pm we were at the Naka-Meguro station to pick-up Yin, a work colleague of Chie (exchange worker from China) for dinner. Yin will soon leave Japan, going back to China.

We had dinner at Yasaka and Yin seemed to like it. Afterwards we went back to our place to talk, drink tea from China, and introduce Apple TV for Yin. Sorry Patrik, but I do my best to remove M$ from the throne 😉



Around 10 Yin had to leave to get back to her apartment or her husband (in China) would get very worried – he seemed to be the worrying kind.