Monthly Archives: July 2011

There’s a Lion in my Mac

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During the last weekend I backed up Chie’s MacBook and my MacBook Pro as a preparation for the coming Mac OS X upgrade. It was a somewhat time consuming exercise but well worth it. Yesterday when I woke up the new OS version had downloaded to my MacBook Pro and I could start the installing the upgrade. Before I left for the office there was a Lion living and roaring in my MacBook. And it was an awesome Lion 😀

Once back home after a day at the office (where I most of the time just wanted to be back home with my new Lion) I started to download the OS upgrade for Chie as well. It had finished downloading some time during the night and when Chie was out of the shower the same roaring Lion was living in here MacBook too.



Now when I have had time to use it for a little bit more than just installing it and checking emails I can just say that my initial impression remains. It is awesome. Of course with the big conceptual changes that have taken place transforming a Snow Leopard into a Lion comes some difficulties for users. I, for instance, tend to scroll the wrong way using multi-touch on the track-pad. In Snow Leopard you moved two fingers downwards on the track-pad to scroll the content in the window upwards but in Lion two fingers downwards on the track-pad means scroll things down. Just as on the iOS devices, and just as if you would have done it if the screen on the MacBook (Pro/Air) would have been touch screens (how long will we have to wait for that?).

I am really looking forward to learn more about the Lion to improve my productivity. And I am pretty sure I will have a fun time doing it 😀

Wrong

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This is not a post for Depeche Mode fans, though the title is the same as a recent single 🙂 No, it’s about a correction from yesterday’s post. Apparently I was right about the eggplant and cucumber being a cow and a horse though I was probably dead wrong regarding it being done by kids.

The eggplant cow and cucumber horse are part of the obon celebration in Japan. They are prepared so that lost ancestors can travel between the afterworld and this world. You can find some more explanation at the Haiku Girl blog.

Though I still think they look like they are made by kids 😉

Tea Ceremony

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Another tea ceremony class. It is always relaxing though quite painful for my knees to have a tea ceremony class. I have advanced to making thick tea and so I did today again. I also helped my sensei… By correcting my fellow students when they made mistakes… I love doing that 😉

On my way back from the class (at 6 pm) it was no longer fiercely hot as it was at 1 pm when I arrived. I also found an interesting little monument, probably made by some kids (see the picture).



Once I got tired of looking and an eggplant cow and a cucumber horse… Or maybe the vice versa… I continued to the train station, and went back to meet Chie in Naka-Meguro. Once again we were too tired and too hot for cooking dinner at home. So today we went to Tatsuharu, a Chinese restaurant less than 500 meters from home.

The food is good and they always play Beatles songs in the background. We had too much to eat and decided that next time we need to bring some friends so we can try more food but become less full 🙂 Anyone care to join us?

KotoKoto

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One of our favorite restaurants is KotoKoto. Not only is the food great, but the owner (Sato-san) is a very nice person as well. So what better way is there than to spend the Friday night having dinner at KotoKoto?



As usual we had a lot to eat, but the food at KotoKoto is not heavy so you don’t feel like you have a stone in your stomach afterwards even though you eat a lot 🙂

Back in Tokyo

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Left Taipei in the morning to arrive back in Tokyo around 3 pm. First thing to do was to meet Chie at the Naka-Meguro station and then go straight to the Meguro City Ward to update my Alien Registration card. This was the last of activities I needed in order to renew my work visa for another 3 years 😀

Afterwards Chie and I went to Yasaka for dinner. It was the only place that was open for dinner at 5 pm, and we were both starving. At Yasaka we had a great time as always.