English Diary Futile Daydream

• 2008/05/30 Winning a free trip
• 2008/05/28 On a flower bed
• 2008/05/26 Lotus root in a sesame sauce with vinegar
• 2008/05/24 Shanhai botanical garden
• 2008/05/22 Mowing
• 2008/05/21 Shu-sou
• 2008/05/20 Shanghai Cruise
• 2008/05/18 At a restaurant in Shanhai
• 2008/05/16 In Shanhai
• 2008/05/15 A suite room at a five-star hotel
• 2008/05/11 Adventures in Babysitting
• 2008/05/09 YU YUAN
• 2008/05/08 Dressed up and eating-out
• 2008/05/06 Took off for Shanhai

I visited the Lake Mikata Goko with my family the other day. I was a invitee to a free trip of a restaurant which I went with my husband.

The bus went to a fur shop after having dropped in at a chopsticks shop and a kombu shop.  I have participated in a similar tour several years ago. The bus stopped at the fur shop then.

I went up to the observation floor of a building seen in the right back. Though Shanhai TV tower is higher than the building, there is the higher sightly floor in the building.

It was hard to put it in the photograph because of tall. My husband let me get on a flower bed.......Thus my navel appeared.

But I didn't care about that. I was in foreign country. Even if I dressed in funny clothes or little funny-looking, nobody knew me.

2008/5/27 Tuesday
My weight : 57.75 kg
Body fat percentage : 25.6 %
The distance I ran : 6.4 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

Recently, I dressed lotus root in a sesame sauce with vinegar. I like vinegared food. So I add sesame into vinegared food, and it will be rich in flavor.  

Cooking is fun. Because I have not learned cooking, I do I want to do. The taste of Mom's cooking, the taste of my mother-in-law's cooking, the taste of the restaurant's. I remember the tastes.

2008/5/26 Monday
My weight : 57.85 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.0 %
The distance I ran : 4.4 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

By the way, it is very hot today. I went to the gym by car. On Monday, my body feels heavy. After I got my business over, I walk toward the gym. Time seems to pass by fast. Soon I have to get home to work. Now I will do quite a chore.

It was a hot day. I went to Shanhai botanical garden with my husband by taxi. It being a holyday, a great number of people were there.

2008/5/23 Friday
My weight : 57.90 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.7 %
The distance I ran : 5.6 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

In China, there are few signs. We lost our way in the large botanical garden. For one thing, the upper part of a map may not always point north. I cannot count how many times I lost my way.

Last weekend, I cleand up a park in front of my house for about 1 hour. After took a rest, I started cleaning my gaeden with powered lawn mower.

I have to pull out tall weeds by the roots. And also I can let a machine cut turf, but must gather them by myself. I did cleaning of my garden for 3 hours 30 minutes.

It was good that I was able to sweat without going to the gym, but the weight does not decrease.

2008/5/21 Wednesday
My weight : 57.70 kg
Body fat percentage : 25.8 %
The distance I ran : 6.3 km / 20 min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

One day, we hired a guide who can speak Japanese, and got a chauffer-driven car. And we visited Shusou, it took for over an hour from Shanhai.

It's true there are too many people in China. When I walk into an alley, I'm sick of being crowded together with all these people. 

Lunch was included in the price. I was excited what came out and waited. 

This is the starter of course menu, I have never seen it. I thought the white is rice or something.......

It was bean-curd soup seasoned with red pepper that I thought the most delicious.

It was about time I got tired of Chinese foods.

It was dry day with temperatures of up to 30 degrees C..  Moderately, I am untanned, because I  stay home almost everyday. So I wore long sleeves to prevent sunburn, but got a suntan.　

There is the location of a Drama "Karei Naru Iti Zoku".　I entered one building of WAITAN to make a pit stop.　After that, I took the elevator to the top floor of the building to have lunch.

And after lunch my hubby got 2 tickets for Shanghai Cruise. Shanghai is a very expensive place. He paid 50 yuan for each person for Cruise. But we could enjoy the beautiful view from the ship.

2008/5/19 Monday
My weight : 57.85kg
Body fat percentage : 25.4%
The distance I ran : 4.6km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20 min

One night, during my stay at the hotel, we went to a restaurant by taxi to eat Chinese food, though my husband wanted Japanese-style dish. Since I came all the way to another country, wanna try going to eat Chinese.

He asked me whether I wanted to eat turban shell. However, the shellfish served on table was obviously mud snail.

The shell and the crab are luxury foodstuffs for Chinese. This is the haute cuisine which rice cake and crab were in. Though it resembled the Korean rice cake, I liked it.

I wanted to eat the noodles, too. I became full because I ate a lot. Do you want to ask me if I ate all?  No, I couldn't eat all. Because it is courtesy in China to leave some food on my plate. I may leave it there.

2008/5/16 Friday
My weight : 57.85kg
Body fat percentage : 25.6%
The distance I ran : 6.4km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160times
Stretch training : 20 min

Before dinner, I took a break for my weary feet because it was a little early for supper.

Though we had just tea and my hubby coffee, some people there had had some dishes with chatting. I couldn't understand what they were talking, but was interested in the foods.

After tea, I walked around to see the foods. I really wanted to eat at the dining room if time was late.

Do you see a straw sticks in a steamed meat bun? But this is not a steamed meat bun, and it's loaded with crab miso soup.(In passing, I dislike the crab miso.)

By the way, I got hungry just to write an article. So I am going to fix my meal now!

My husband booked a suite room at a five-star hotel in Shanhai. It had a bed room, a living room, a bathroom, a kitchen and a small balcony.

We made the hotel our base to go to somewhere to see something. The menu of the breakfast was almost same, and we got tired to eat it.

2008/5/12 Monday
My weight : 57.55kg
Body fat percentage : 27.6%
The distance I ran : 4.4km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150times
Stretch training : 20 min

2008/5/13 Tuesday
My weight : 57.25kg
Body fat percentage : 26.6%
The distance I ran : 6.6km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150times
Stretch training : 20 min 

Last weekend, I was watching TV while I waited for my turn to take bath. It was a very interesting movie and the title was "Adventures in Babysitting", a baby-sitter, a high school student got into troubles wave after wave.

I couldn't stop watching it. Eventually, I didn't take a bath the night, but brushed my teeth regularly. 

The next morning, my hubby and I enjoyed taking a saunter in a garden named Yu Yuan. It was so extensive park that we could not walk around to see the all.

At lunchtime, we lucked out a famouse restaurant of paotzu. But we were not able to stand in line waiting for eating because we were so hungry.

So we walked into a restaurant across the street and ordered Chinese foods. I think the Chinese likes budget restaurants. the restaurant, we entered, didn't have line. I was happy to eat nice foods.

I took a short break for a while in the shade. It was a tranquil GW holiday.

2008/5/9 Friday
My weight : 57.80kg
Body fat percentage : 25.7%
The distance I ran : 5.4km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150times
Stretch training : 20 min

2008/5/7 Wednesday
My weight : 57.45kg
Body fat percentage : 25.5%
The distance I ran : 4.4km / 20min
Sit-ups : 130times
Stretch training : 20 min

On the night, I dressed up and ate out with my husband. He seemed to have become good at Chinese, but seemed to have some troubles with Shanghai accent.

By the way, it became troublesome to take pictures when I got drunk. So I will post some of them, only the pictures which I could take, on this web page.

During my stay, I ate like a horse and drank like a fish. I was ready to get chubby but kept up my weight. I wanna praise myself .

I visited Shanghai with my husband. We left Shanhai Pudong International Airport for Shanghai city by a maglev train. I do not know how much distance it is, the train travels in only about eight minutes ..... 

My husband said to me. "It is just an instant that speed exceeds 430km/h," then I stood there and waited.

We paid 80 yuan(Chinese Currency Unit) per person for the VIP seat. However, the seat was hard against my expectation, and I felt big vibration and noise. My body almost slid down forward when I let the chair make Lycra inning.

Though I have been to China for four times and have been to many countries, I think the Japanese technology is the best in the world. So I am proud of my hubby having a share of it as an engineer, but a peddler of the sweet broiled chestnuts now