The book by fans for fans

The book titled [The Plot Thickens... Harry Potter investigated by Fans for Fans.] is the compilation of essays written by fans,that is an array of people with different backgrounds.
You might ponder deeply while you read this.

Hi Hi Puffy

Do you like Japanese cartoon ?
Here's latest one from U.S.A !

You can see LIVE scene they are singing and dancing on that website.

The title ? [ Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi ]

Crap Jobs

According to the book titled [Crap Jobs], followings are in the top 3.
Have you noticed that ?

1: Phone Sex Line Operator
2: North Sea Ferry Cabin Cleaner
3: IT manager

IT manager is the 3rd in the position !
Hmm, interesting ?

What is a ‘barrier-free’ vehicle?

One of my colleagues asked this question, which is ”What is a ‘barrier-free’ vehicle?”

Here's my answer and I hope I should be correct.

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This "barrier-free" means "no blockers or no obstacles”, especially in using vehicles in this case.

Recently in Japan, the percentage of senior persons occupied in population has been getting bigger and bigger.
Every manufacturer of any vehicles takes account of this fact.
Seniors can be dominant customers to those vehicle manufactures in very near future.

So eliminating any obstacles for a senior to use a car must be essential.

For example, any gauge in front of you must have larger letters.
The sensors to sense a wall, car, children playing behind the car when you drive backward might be help for seniors.

"barrier-free" is a Japanese coined word, I guess.

Tokyo Motor Show

The 38th Tokyo Motor Show opened to the public on Wednesday.
This time, it's featuring commercial and barrier-free vehicles.

The earthquake

The quite heavy earthquake hit the north west area of Japan ( Niigata Prefecture ) on the 23rd October.
What's going on in Japan ? Typhoon and the earthquake ! Too much !
I have put the info on my website as well as the map of Japan. But I believe many residents there thought that one is enough !

UK weather ? It is heaven !

Halloween

This season, toward the end of the month, I think many people here are alerted.
In addition to an umbrella, you might need to wear water-proof coat as well !

Asda, the big superstore here, allegedly, will ban the teenager to buy eggs this season with the concern of abusing them.

I hope this will not come up in other countries or otherwise bring the egg-proof coat together !

Following to the previous day

Mega-typhoon heading for Honshu

A large and powerful typhoon that has brought strong winds and heavy rains to Kyushu and part of Shikoku Wednesday may directly hit Shikoku and Honshu later in the day, the Meteorological Agency said. As of 10 a.m., Typhoon No. 23 was located about 100 kilometers east-southeast of Miyazaki and moving north-northeast at 45 kilometers per hour, according to the agency. The atmospheric pressure at its center was 950 hectopascals, and it packed winds up to 40 meters per second.

The typhoon is expected to approach Shikoku and central Japan to the Kanto district that includes Tokyo Wednesday night, and may directly hit one of these areas.

Over a 24-hour period until Thursday noon, the typhoon is expected to bring 350 millimeters of rain to the Tokai district comprising Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures, 250 to 300 millimeters to Kanto, Koshin, Kinki that includes Osaka and Kobe, Shikoku and Sanin, and 100 to 150 millimeters to the Sea of Japan coast of Tohoku region and Sanyo in western Honshu.
(from Mainichi Daily News)

The 23rd !

According to Mainich Daily News in Japan, the season's 23rd typhoon is set to approach the Kansai area after hitting Kyushu on Wednesday, the officials said.

How awful it is to have 23 typhoons in one season !
Worse than this, it is not the end of season, having another one is likely.

Don't forget you can experience an earthquake as well there ;)

A pint over your head

This is a typical campaign photo used by CAMRA.
I got this at CAMRA beer festival.
You can put your pint on your head because the English warm beer ;)
Japanese beer pubs would serve very cold beer poured into very cold glass even if the season is winter. People want to enjoy its coldness as well as its taste when the brown liquid goes through your throat.

WNC

WNC stands for "Wednesday Night Club".
The other day, one of my colleagues invited me to join this club with him. In another word, it simply was that let's go to a pub or pubs with him or them.

Around a decade ago, in my company, "Wednesday" had the special meaning. At that time many employees, wether you liked or not, tended to work longer. It was because you earned more money according to the hours you worked overtime.

Then the company decided to force any employees to go home after 17:00 every Wednesdays allegedly due to the consideration of employees health.
Reality was the company wanted to reduce the cost.

Another reality was that many employees went to Japanese pubs just for chatting and getting rid of day's stress. Thus every Fridays became the day for the purpose of it.

When I heard "WNC", suddenly it reminded me of that going-to-Japanese pub day.

Now "WNC" in UK ended up with a dancing club after drinking after drinking British warm beers. I have to confess that my body can NOT put up with this "WNC".
Next time, I am sure that they will go somewhere WITHOUT me, please.

Don't hog the middle lane

When I was driving on my way to a office, I notiched one sign on the motor way saying that Don't hog the middle lane.
What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?

Koromo Kae

I have almost forgot about this special day in Japan.
So I wrote the article about this day on my web site.
This is due to good weather in Britain ? Who knows !

Beer Festival

I need to write this so as not to forget that I went to "Beer Festival" last Friday.

Here's my drunk beers - Real ale
-1st drink was UPTONs medium dry Cider 7.1%
-2nd was Williams of Eglinton in alloa Gold 3.9%
-3rd Hampshire of Romsey in Hampshire Ironside 4.2%

Spain was shining

From 2nd Oct for 3 nights I had been in Spain to see my old friend.
The weather was hot, dry and gorgeous.

Bad weather ?

Typhoon No 21 hit Japan and killed at least 5 people. So far 21 typhoons were born around Japan while 19.2 is average number (1951-2003).
Bad weather in UK is no longer bad enough.

Started

My diary started from today.