Birthday present

I became twenty during the winter holiday. As I have written on my last blog, my birthday was on the last day of the year. I did enjoy my birthday, but it was totally different from what I have written on my last blog.

On my birthday, I went to part-time job. I was not planning to work on my birthday, but in fact, I did go because there is something secret under it. Well, I just wanted to earn more money, sure.

To my joy, I got a present from co-worker (♂). I was surprised at because I was not expecting to have such present. I did say a joke like, "I want to have a pocky, which is limited edition," but I just thought that he will give me simply a box of pocky. However, my idea was wrong. He gave me twelve boxes of pocky! I was astonished at.

This is the photo of pocky:



How lucky I am!

My birthday is coming

Well, as the title says, my birthday is coming soon. It is the day which is the busiest day of the year, the last day of the year. Everyone gets surprised when asks me my birthday and hears the date. In addition, everybody says, "You were born in a busy day," and some people say, "You were born in a rare day," or "How happy you are!" I have never thought of like that. I hope I was born in a New Year's Day.

Of course, there is no school on my birthday, so I have no memory that my classmates had celebrated me on my birthday. How sad! When I was small, I felt sad about that and envious of having celebrated by classmates by saying, "Happy Birthday!" However, not so much now. My friends give me e-mail on my birthday. That is enough now.

Still, this year is different from the past. Someone will celebrate my birthday with me. I will not say who, but my important person. This time, my birthday will be happy and enjoyable.

Flurry -strawberry shortcake-

Do you know a new flurry favor, "strawberry shortcake," which is sold in McDonald's?
Have you already eaten it?

I will show you the picture of it:





I recommend you to try it once. However, I actually have not tried it yet, so I will in the near future, but I do not feel like eating it because I work at McDonald's and always making it, so I become full just looking at it all the time.

Anyway, please try it once and give me your impression.

Thank you.

Hoshino Japan

Last night, I have watched the baseball game, which was Japan versus Taiwan, on television. It was an important game that the Japan representatives were at the risk of a ticket to Beijing. Therefore, the atmosphere of the domed baseball stadium seemed strained.

Hoshino Japan played two games before the yesterday's game, which were against Philippine and Korea. I did not watch the Philippine game, but I did watch the Korea game.

The game with Korea was held on the day before yesterday. I remember that the game was really exciting. Hoshino Japan came from behind and won the game. However, there were some troubles during the game; the starting lineup of Korea has changed several times and because of that, Japan was disordered. I will not say anything about that because Japan won the game so.

Hoshino Japan won the yesterday's game too. I was so glad about that. It means Japan got a ticket to Beijing. I will support Hoshino Japan later on and hope that they will win all games.

Congratulations!

Utter confusion

On Saturday afternoon, I went for my part-time job at McDonald. I had no intention of working on that day, but my shop manager asked me for help, so I reluctantly decided to assist the shop which is in Heiwado.

Why I did not like to work on holidays is because simply busy and disorder. A large number of customers come and the shop becomes strained, and I feel the strain, so I do not want to work in that kind of atmosphere.

On that day, I worked about two and a half hours from eleven to one-thirty. It is the time when the shop becomes a peak hour and a shortage of workers. As I do, everyone avoids that peak hour, so the manager always looking for workers who are free and asking for help.

My work is to wait on customers, take the order, the accounts, and get a complete set of the goods. I have been working for two or three months now, so I become used to, but when it comes to holidays, it confuses me and makes me hasty. I always feel as though it has taken years off my life.

It is fun working at McDonald, but it needs perseverance and stamina.

Please try these once:





Let's make a contribution to McDonald!

Alone at a time of danger

The author, Peter Sidell, of the letter, "Alone at a time of danger," to begin with, he states two affairs; a murder case which was occurred in Saitama Prefecture, and a rape that was happened in Osaka Prefecture.

A young woman was killed in Kawaguchi city, Saitama. Her neighbors did not seem to be concerned about the matter. When the woman asked for help, and one of her neighbors, a man, did hear her banging and screaming, but he, after all, did nothing. Her body was left alone for two days until her colleague has found her dead.

In Osaka, a man got closer to a woman on the train and assaulted her, dragged her into the toilet, and raped her. Although, there were passengers on the train, the crime was occurred, and again no one did anything.

The author adopts these two facts as his authorities and tries to persuade the readers, but its reliability is doubtful because he did not mention the source of information. He also uses emotional appeal that he is nonplussed by these affairs happened in spite of people around the victims. To protect oneself from danger, the author declares that defend oneself by oneself.

Fingerprinting foreigners

A new bill shall come into force on November 20. This new scheme is applicable to the foreigners to take a fingerprint and photograph whenever they immigrate into Japan.

Regarding to the letter, "Not so welcome to Japan any longer," written by Kevin Rafferty, the project was criticized for infringing on human rights, but it will take effect promoting by the Ministry of Justice.

The country, which carries out the policy, is only Japan next to the United States. Somehow, Japan tags along behind the U.S. However, all permanent residents are out of the target in the U.S, but in a case of Japan, only specific permanent residents are to exempt.

The foreigners insist that the fingerprinting analysis is a discriminatory. Besides, the Japanese are also revolt to this line that it should be originally demanded to only a criminal or suspect. The argument that backers of fingerprinting assert is to save the world from terrorists. However, it is simply to identify, not to establish the terrorist, so it is nothing, but useless.