Ball Game!

DOME
Originally uploaded by shoko.

For the first time in my life, I watched a real ball game at domed stadium. It was quarter finals of industrial league, which our company's team won the second place of it last year. The supporters covered half of the seats, and there was filled with blooming excitement. The game started with the score locked at nil-nil, but top of the 4th inning, a huge home run triggered a series of hits, that gave them huge point spread. Victory head us up to high, and delighted us so much. I hope they'll get first title for this year!!

beach and sunshine

beach and sunshine
Originally uploaded by shoko.

Even almost one year passed since I've left, I still miss Californian bright sunshine and dry weather. Compare to it, day by day, Tokyo's muggy humid air bear down on us that makes me reluctant to get outside. I miss blue empty sky once I hated at most which let me feel endless loneliness, I miss red-dried ground once I eagered to run away from inhospitable desert. Well, this is the moment I realize a fact that any moment of life is invaluable, though people (of course including me) tend to look over the preciousness.

Summer Vacation

Miyajima
Originally uploaded by shoko.

Despite I've had no plan to spend summer vacation, I was longing to avoid to throw treasurable day off away just keeping in house. Luckily, car companies have relatively longer vacation - even though only a ten days long a year - compare to other industry in Japan, so I made off-the-cuff trip plan to Hiroshima with friends.
Hiroshima, the city struck by A-bomb, has not only its memorials and museums, but is famous of foods (okonomiyaki, maple leaf cake, oyster), trams, and one of the most scenic spots in Japan "Miyajima" where shrine is built in the ocean. Though the buildings was under reconstruction (some structure collapsed due to typhoon last year) as usual, the neat beauty of appearance and structure was beyond description. We went a little further to Yamaguchi, westernmost of Japanese main land, to see famous bridge called Brocade Sash Bridge over the Brocade River. At night, we took boat and enjoy watching cormorant fishing, ancient method of sweetfish fishing.
Hot, hot, hot, humid. A little further go down to south, the hotter it become. I love Japanese scenery, but sometimes I miss dry sunshine in California. Hope to have flesh summer around southern ocean next summer.