English Diary Futile Daydream

• 2008/06/30 Holiday shopping
• 2008/06/26 A fruiter
• 2008/06/24 Chinese lunch set
• 2008/06/19 Fried eggplants
• 2008/06/17 In a brown long dress
• 2008/06/13 Taking a photo
• 2008/06/12 Hubble-bubble
• 2008/06/10 The vegetables pickled in sake lees
• 2008/06/06 Chinese Green Tea
• 2008/06/04 A restaurant near the hotel
• 2008/06/02 In Suzhou
• 2008/06/01 Sumo wrestler's meal in Shanhai

2008/6/27 Friday
My weight : 56.95 kg
Body fat percentage : 25.5 %
The distance I ran : 6.3 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

I went shopping with a friend for cherry picking. Many stores have started summer sales on the day, and shops were thronged with customers. There were a lot of people in the shoes counter of a department store in particular.

Around noon, we had a lunch at a Yaki-niku restaurant named Shoku dou en. The lunch set was 990 yen. It was delicious unexpectedly. 

The trouble was that I forgot to buy some cakes for my family at a department store. Holiday shopping really makes me tired, but I was glad to get a red dress. 

2008/6/25 Wednesday
My weight : 57.40 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.0 %
The distance I ran : 5.0 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

The bayberry of my garden has begun to turn red. The ventilation of the branch improved than before because I asked the pruners to do summer pruning. When it grew close together, some hairy caterpillars stuck, but I don't see them now. How comfortable!

By the way, I went shopping and got a lots of things which I wanted, like fruits. But, darn it! I forgot to buy beer. Therefore I had only tea tonight. What a healthy way it was!

2008/6/20 Friday
My weight : 56.65 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.0 %
The distance I ran : 5.4 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

I should have already got tired of Chinese food, but had it again when I was out. It was a lunch set for women. I liked them very much before. But now I do not think Japanese Chinese foods to be delicious recently.

2008/6/23 Monday
My weight : 57.60 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.0%
The distance I ran : 6.4 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

Requested by my hubby, I fried eggplants and dipped them into the seasoned soy sauce and ate.

Though oily foods are bad effect on the health, the oil makes foods so delicious. Why?  The color sharpens our appetite.

2008/6/18 Wednesday
My weight : 56.40 kg
Body fat percentage : 27.1 %
The distance I ran : 5.5 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 160 times
Stretch training : 20 min

I dressed up in a brown dress with gold necklace and went to a seafood restaurant with my husband in Shanghai.

2008/6/16 Monday
My weight : 57.40 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.4 %
The distance I ran : 6.0 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

I often saw that my husband couldn't get across with his Chinese there. He was not able to order some dishes from a girl aged about 16 or 17 years old. We had waited water to wash our fingers, but it did not come out.

When my husband talked to her, she got a glimpse of me as if she demanded help. She talked to me at last. But I do not understand Chinese, and she understands neither English nor Japanese.

Though water for fingers was not served, all dishes which he ordered were served. We talked pleasantly, and drank Chinese aged liquor together. I was stuffed.

My husband and I took a walk through Shanghai without a guide. 

We left the hotel before noon and had a lunch in the town. After that, we went to see Consulate-General of Japan in Shanghai.

There were many multilateral consulates at a corner in the city and several Chinese military men, not police officers, protected Japanese Consulate, and nobody were there except us. I felt fear.

2008/6/13 Friday
My weight : 57.35 kg
Body fat percentage : 25.4 %
The distance I ran : 4.9 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

By the way, my husband wanted to take a photo of me with the consulate in the background, but it was refused by them. How do you think about my husband bargained for taking a photo with a officer, armed with a gun?

I went for an art exhibition with my friend. We sometimes make opportunities to talk by visiting the art exhibitions.

Knowledge, arts, having lunch, shopping, to have chat about them makes me fun.

I thanked my friend who consented willingly to came, and treated her to lunch on the day.

2008/6/11 Wednesday
My weight : 57.25 kg
Body fat percentage : 25.5 %
The distance I ran : 6.5 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 140 times
Stretch training : 20 min

Because homemade vegetables pickled in sake lees which my aunt brought were very delicious, I imitated it last time.

She told me that I could make it easily. So I checked how to make it on the NET and tried it. But sake lees becomes never black,　and the cucumbers are still green.

When I close my eyes and throw it into my mouth, I taste seem to be pickles seasoned with sake lees.

Now I decided to put it on a table at normal temperature till the color changed. When one month passes, a color becomes black or brown.....maybe.      It was written so on the net.

2008/6/10 Tuesday
My weight : 57.40 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.4 %
The distance I ran : 6.0 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 140 times
Stretch training : 20 min

The Chinese do not drink liquor during dinner. But my husband and I drink in dinner time. Therefore we are exposed as Japanese.

Apropos, drinking no liquor in the daytime, I ordered green tea on that day. Though I had been thinking that the Chinese always had oolong tea till I came to China, there were nice green tea.

A waiter poured boiling water into the glass which tea leaf was in. When it sank, I was able to drink it. When tea water level downed, the waiter came to add hot water. The tea water never come down.

Aa s tea leaf stuck to my lips, I acted like a Chinese and blew it out under the table. Then my hubby laughed out and said to me, "There is really different between Chinese and yours, and your manner is worse than the Chinese."  How come I cannot be like a Chinese?

2008/6/6 Friday
My weight : 57.65 kg
Body fat percentage : 25.9 %
The distance I ran : 6.4 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 140 times
Stretch training : 20 min

2008/6/2 Monday
My weight : 57.40 kg
Body fat percentage : 26.1 %
The distance I ran : 5.5 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

If I were in home country, I could order anything by myself. In any case, I was always a little excited when my hubby ordered dishes, and couldn't stop thinking about the dishes which other people ate.

2008/6/3 Tuesday
My weight : 57.50 kg
Body fat percentage : 25.4 %
The distance I ran : 6.1 km / 20min
Sit-ups : 150 times
Stretch training : 20 min

One night, I went to a restaurant near the hotel where I was staying. I walked past it many times, but had hesitated to come into the restaurant. There were always only Chinese and the tables did not have tablecloths.

There were neither the menu written in English nor Japanese. My husband and I took long time and decided what we ate. Contrary to my expectations, I could eat very good Chinese foods.

My husband and I employed a guide and went to Suzhou. Sightseeing spots were dotted in Suzhou. We visited some of them.

We ate Suzhou foods at noon. As expected it was country cooking.

Suzhou is a production center of the silk. We were taken to a big silk shop and were recommended silken futon but declined it because my load would get heavy.

Instead, I got silken summer pajamas with flower patterns, it was lightweight.

By the way, Chinese shout. If we take pictures, we are shouted, "Move out!". Of course I do not move. I can't understand Chinese.

One night, I ate out Chanko-nabe with my hubby in Shanghai.

Shanghai is the most cosmopolitan city in China. Therefore there are many foreigners and a lot of Japanese, and there seem to be many Japanese restaurants.

My hubby looked for a nice Japanese restaurant. The manager of the restaurant was a Japanese and the staffs were Chinese.

Twice I have been to the sumo wrestler's stew restaurant in Japan. A Chinese staff heaped my bowl high with the ingredients. Is Chanko put in this way at the Japanese restaurant?