Toshikoshi-Soba

Enjoyed Japanese soba noodle with my family in Kobe, Japan. It is one
if the traditional meal for the year end.

Wish you a Happy New Year!

Winter solstice

The sunset was 15:54 today in London!
The shortest day, the longest night.

Selfridges Christmas Show Window 2009

After drinking so many grasses of Sake, I took several pictures of Selfridges show windows by iPhone.


Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Schneeweißchen Captain Cook? Sur Santa Claus...

Couldn't understand more than words... Sexy chef! The Eiffel Tower over the window? Just nightmare for me... Something sur (w Pierrots. Insiders!!

Spaghetti with sardines in tomato source

Simple and cheap dinner today.
Pasta and a canned oil sardine, just 74p... ; )



+++Super quick recipe+++
1. Chop garlic into fine peaces
2. Saute minced garlic in olive oil
3. Add oil sardine with its source
4. Mix with spaghetti boiled in 10 minutes
5. Dish up with asparagus boiled in 1 minutes (with pasta)

Summertime is gone

1:00 a.m. now, but 1 hour later, 1:00 again.
I wonder how the time on Big Ben is corrected?


I remember "Purple Heather" which Rod Stewart sang in 1995.  I knew this was originally one of traditional songs of Ireland known as "The Wild Mountain Thyme", when I got a dubious souvenir CD at Windsor during my first visit to England in 1996...

The summertime is gone,
and the leaves are sweetly turning
And the wild mountain thyme
Blooms across the purple heather
Will ya go, lassie, go....

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/PURPLE-HEATHER-lyrics-Rod-Stewart/28F3DAF6B204C81448256C530029DDFD

?What

Spider ox? I thought it was a Redbull first.

Chocolate Cake

I had a small small party today for our colleague to leave London to USA in a few days.  So I baked a chocolate cake for a party, referring Jean-Paul Hevins recipe.  It may strange to tell myself, but I could be proud of myself for this one!

I used more than 200g chocolate in 250g fresh cream, which is very thick between three layers of sponges.

New Brightkite?

In most of cases, modification of web services would be no more than expected.  If the strength of the site is a "simplicity", it will be lost.

So what will happen here?

Aroma diffuser

Sometimes use an aroma diffuser in my bed room. I bought this nice
designed electric one at Muji in Japan.
Today it seems to have invited a ghost! See top left....

48 hours in the house

Quite a slow weekend!
I didn't go out but stayed in the house to rest since I enjoyed almost
all the last 8 weekends. Cleaning and washing, many things were left!
Now I am having a cup of vanilla-flavoured tea. What a pieceful weekend!

Another blog here

I open another blog here.

Current "Hasu ni kamaete" (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/mickmori) has been written in Japanese for a long time and will stay same, which gives me less opportunity to share my ideas with more people actually surrounding me.

The concept of this blog will be different from the current one. I am looking for the most efficient way to upload what I felt in my life, so the style may change in the future.

To be honest, I do not know how I can manage both languages' blogs, but try to keep updated.

Mick