One of my supervisors, who enjoys flower arrangements as a hobby, is going to retire soon. Today, she kindly gave me one of her beautiful works. It wa ...

The rainy season has ended, and the summer has finally arrived. It is the time to make salted plums called “Umeboshi” in Japanese. I took out plums th ...

One of my socks has been missing. I always hang my socks next to each other when I do a laundry, That’s why I noticed it right away. I looked around t ...

Today, I learned an interesting fact about my city. According to the article on website, it has the highest banana consumption in all of Japan. Indeed ...

After work, I went to a supermarket. I was lucky enough to find a loaf of pain de mie on sale. It had both a 250 yen sticker and a half price sticker

One of my friends told me about her visit to the Osaka-Kansai Expo during our lunch break. Among all the international pavilions, the Italy pavilion w ...

My father brought some vegetables again from one of his dance friends. There were tomatoes and potatoes in the paper bag. I noticed that several potat ...

During summer, I sweat a lot by the time I get to the office because I always pedal fast to avoid being late for work. Today, it was very humid and ho ...

Last night, when I was in the living room, my niece went to the kitchen to get an ice cream. However, she suddenly came to the living room and took a

The other day, my sister bought a s watermelon only for her and my niece. I thought that she would share some with my father and me, but she told me i ...

After work, I went to a Chinese restaurant to buy some dumplings for dinner. I was lucky that they were having a campaign where you get 250-yen discou ...

My favorite local supermarket is going to be rebuilt, so it will be closed until next summer. Until then, I decided to go to another branch of the sam ...

Since I am a shallow sleeper, I often dream while I am sleeping at night. It happened a lot that my dreams reflected my physical body composition. For ...

After work, my friends and I saw a dragonfly flying around at the bicycle parking area. It was black with yellow stripe around its body. Since I like

It hot and humid today. Even though I go through this hot and sticky summer every year, I just can’t to get used to it. After work, my friends and I w ...

Today is Father's Day. It was very nice that my elderly brother’s family came over to my house and gave our father a gift. Since it was a hot day, I d ...

Yesterday, I cooked some steamed rice using stockpiled rice. Since it was harvested a few years ago, I soaked it for over 30 minutes, added a little m ...

Recently, Japanese government released some of its stockpiled rice to stabilize soaring prices. However, prices of rice haven’t changed much. Also, I

I noticed that a black ink stain was on one of my co-workers’ shirt. I asked him if he had already known about it. It seemed that he didn’t know about ...

At lunchtime, one of my co-workers shared some cookies with us. She told us that her husband bought a whipped cream cake to celebrate their wedding an ...