Ordinary days in Canada (English Ver)

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Driver's licence

Last week, I got my Ontario driver's licence .
Actually, I brought my international drivers licence from Japan,
although it's valid for only 3 month. It depends on the province
But you can get an Ontario driver's licence easily without taking an exam
I t costs about $70 to get dliver's licence.
This is what I did to get my Ontario driver's licence.
First, I went to Japanese consulate on king street.There I filled
out some forms to register with.
Next, I went to the Ontario ministry of transpotation.
where I filled out an application formand paid $70.
After that, my picture was taken.
Then Iwas given temporary driver's licence which I could
use until my real licence arrive in the mail.
I finally got my licence in the mail three weeks later.
I looked at expire date on the driver's licence.
It was written it's valid for five years.
I won't be here for that long....
Anyways I'll make good use of my new driver's licence.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Amazing composer

I found treasure.
My most favorite composer Yoko Kanno is amazing.
I 'm sure she not only knows but also can make all types
of music in the world.
She almost make Japanese animation sound trucks.
But their quarity is no less wonderful than any other movie
sound tracks.
Her masterpiece's live concert is below.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

My new ipod earphone

Last Wednesday my old ipod earphones finally broke.
I've been useing them with my third generation ipod for four years.
Fortunatery, the timing was perfect becauseApple
just came out with newly-designed ipod earphone.
So I went to the downtown Apple store at the Eaton center
and bought a new pair.
At first I thought that the new earphones sounded
the same as the old ones.
But...
But later I realized that the sound had obviously improved.
If you listen to jazz or classical music, you can tell
the difference between the order earphones and the new ones.
I was really impressed.
I started thinking about getting a new ipod.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Home bar

Lately I'm stadying about liqur that includes wine, beer, cocktail.
I'm into small bottle spirits. I can buy them at LCBO liqur store.
Almost them cost less than 10CA$.
Now I'm trying to memorize more than 100 of recipes and their taste.
Of couse I enjoy drinking everyday.
But It's difficult to associate cocktail name with recipe and taste.
Coktail names like "purple haze" "God father" "Kamikaze"
are very interesting.
To study spirits or cocktail name's roots is also profound.



Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Canadian Sushi?

I went to Japanese restaurant.
I ate unusual sushi named "Sushi pizza" and "Spyder roll".
Sushi pizza is made of deep flied rice(not sushi rice)
and row fish on top.
Spyder roll's inside is softshellculb and avocado and
seaweed sheet.
Their taste was really interesting !!
I realized that deepflied something and reverserolled
sushi make good combination.
I like reverserolled sushi gradually.


Friday, September 01, 2006

In Okinawa

These pictures are that I took in Okinawa in Japan.
About three years ago, I suddenly came up with the
plan to go to Okinawa.
That was only two days trip. I went to " Syuri castle" ,
downtown , and Okinawan music spot. All of them are
in Naha city.
I enjoyed Okinawan food too.
Okinawan food and music culture is very unique and totaly
different from other prefecture's in Japan.