Annoying changes

Since the consumption tax became 10%, I no longer used one yen coins at favorite hundred-yen stores, and other shops introduced cashless system, so three of one yen coin have been staying on in my wallet from the last month. It is my recent uneasy problem that make me annoyed.

Messy table in coffee shop

When I work in a coffee shop, I put my laptop, a smartphone, and many tools and gadgets besides a cup of coffee on my table. If I would go to a restroom, it is hard to put all of them back in my bag temporarily and bring them for crime prevention.

Pay with a smartwatch

I always use a cashless payment with my watch which has electronic payment function at the nearby supermarket, and it may be curious for the clerk so she remember me and call the name of it first. I want to spend small coins sometimes, but it is no longer possible.

Managing points

Recently I use some discount or free coupons almost every time I order in coffee shops. However, I think it might be heavy that I have to spend my own tension and time costs for managing them, for example keep presenting a bar code to the shops for earning points.

Smartphone letter too small

A foreign woman got on the bus, then showing something on her smartphone and asked the driver whether to go the place. However, the old driver complained in Japanese the smartphone letters were too small to read for him. She didn't understand what he said and repeated the same question.

Samurai Museum

In the neighborhood, A foreign man asked me where the “Samurai Museum” was. I didn't know such one, and I couldn't find it on my smartphone. So I said there was no such spot near there. However, I realized later it might be a treasure museum at nearby Honno-ji Temple.

QR code payment

I used QR code payment many times, but I couldn't read the QR code at that time. I asked the shopkeeper why, but she said everyone except you use it properly so didn't know why. So I couldn't help paying with cash. She laughed scornfully as if I were stupid.

Horoscope

People discovered that the seasonal change can be predicted at the constellation position before investing calendar. Because it was actually useful for hunting and farming life, I think that they came up Horoscope with easy induction logic that the movement of the constellation might indicate anything happing as the analogy.

Japanese Manner

Foreigners who wear shoes at home might not care of this, but Japanese have a unique manner during taking off shoes at entrance. We have to take off shoes facing to the house because of not showing our back to hosts, then crouch and turn the shoes to the entrance and align them neatly by hand.

Baked blowfish with Sansho

Many people might know "Tettiiri" and "Tessa" as blowfish cuisine. When I was a child, my father liked baked blowfish with Japanese pepper, Sansho. They burned Sansho with it, and it smelled bad for me. It was the first experience of Sansho for me, then I hated it. But now I love Sansho.

Hair cut

I cut my hair at a 1,000 yen barber shop in Kobe about two weeks ago. QB House is famous for 1,000 yen barber in Japan, but it was the other one. You can't request elaborate hairstyles in such cheaper shops, so I ordered to cut it very short on the sides and back and leave it bit longer on the top and front.

"How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens"

The book "How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens" introduces the experiences of those who have been kidnapped by aliens. However, the author doesn't believe their stories directory, but she just thinks there are proper reasons why they storied so. As this book said, we need the meaning of our life.

Halloween

I have no plan to celebrate Halloween, but I wish I had opportunities to do so. It must be definitely enjoyable to spend with friends together with funny costume. I don't care about its real meaning or history. I think just such kinds of interaction are worth for my life.

A laundry folding robot

A laundry folding robot will be on sale in Japan. However, Folding laundry strangely makes me calm down. There is something to give me opportunities for making me look back myself or become the innocent through such routine of chores, also for instance cleaning a toilet. In the sense, I'm afraid whether it is a good idea or not to make everything efficiently by high-techs.

The best souvenir

That is the age that there was no digital product in the world. Nintendo was just a toy maker in Kyoto. When my farther took part in the factory tour with his work union and bought a ray gan set on a whim. It was sophisticated toy that a ray hit made the target roulette turned by the electric motor. My brother and I were amazed crazily.

Mottainai

I can’t sometimes throw away delivering cardboard boxes from mail order shops because of “mottainai.” Actually I could have used some of them for other objectives, so I’ve became not to be able to throw them out more. I’d like them to stop using cardboard boxes and deliver with a container case, then take it home after delivery.

Lucky

When I was coming home from my high school and walking on the temple's boundary low stone steps facing the road, I stepped it off and fell to the road, and a truck car passed just by me, I saw big tires went through with high speed beside my eyes. However I had no injuries.

Home town

I was born in Kyoto which is as known as a tourist destination in Japan, but I had never been any Kyoto's sites while living there at my young age because I thought that I could visit there anytime. I eventually went there after a couple of decades from beginning l

Minaduki

There is a Japanese sweet called Minaduki in Kyoto. The confectionery is a base of a triangle-cut sweet rice jelly over which sweet red beans are spread. It had been eaten in June from old era in the meaning of beating the summer heat. It actually isn't cold and isn't resembled cold material, but it is interesting that somehow I can feel cool by it's looks.

Ghosts

I don't believe ghosts, but I think it is very interesting that there are people who have seen ghosts. In other words, we shouldn't declare that they are liars and we should respect them. Rather, we may understand human beings rather than ghosts by investigating what cause their such experiences.