4 clubs

I've been sort of working on 4 club fountain for nearly a year. Still stuck around 40-50 catches. Since I only practice clubs once a month, I don't have any problems with this slooow progress.

Chocolate for 158USD !?

After a press meeting, I stopped at this chocolate shop near my office. Thought it would be a good present for my wife. Even though she has a persistent cold, she cannot take medicine since she feeds the baby from her breast. There may be some medicine breast-feeding mothers can take, but for some reasons, almost every commercial medicine is forbidden here in Japan.

Anyway, the chocolate shop, ``Maison de Chocola Paris'', turns out to be way classy. I couldn't believe my eyes when I found that the tiny box was 18900yen(158USD). 100g(about a quater pound) costs 3800yen(31USD). 2-3USD each piece. Just crazy.

The plate chocolate I bought in my office was 100yen(0.8USD) for 50g. Didn't buy that for my wife, though.

Yoyogi park

Went to the Yoyogi park to practice juggling. There were about 10 jugglers and 5 idaki players as usual. Since a strong wind warning had been issued in Tokyo, we could hardly practice. It's not the best season to juggle anyways.

With Shigaru-san, we moved to Nagareyama juggling club after the sunset. I can't juggle full-day these days because I'm supposed to take care of my little baby on weekends, so today's an exception. Here's some records I set today. I haven't juggled clubs for a couple of months, but mortor skills seem to persist.

• 5 ball hi-lo shower (b171) 20->22 rounds
  
• (6x,4)* 46->58 catches
  
• 3 ball 2up double pirouette 1->3 times in a cascade
  
• 4 club fountain 46->48 catches
  

chairs

Went to this furniture shop in Jiyuga-oka. Although I wasn't very much intrigued when my wife told me about the chairs we finally decided to purchase, by the time this truely enthusiastic furniture guy explained the detail about the art of Japanese furniture maestro, I was pretty much convinced that they are of the best kind and are worth the price, which is about USD500 each.

baby

My baby, Lisa, has been getting mobile day by day. When given a toy on the floor, she makes a tiny cute leap using her arms, supporting her upper body with some trembles. I can tell the progress she makes each day. Babies really grow.

So, I will start this new blog

So, I will start a new blog in English. This is actually my 3rd blog. I have a juggling blog in Japanese, which I lately proclaimed to slow down, and the normal blog also in Japanese.

My blogs are read by more people than I assume, including not only my close friends but also my families, relatives and collegues. When I started blogging in 1996, I never thought that my 50 year old ant would ever read what I scribbled online. There was no such a word like blog, either. The more, the merrier? Umm, it's not the case.

Most topics will be about my daily life, juggling, books, camera and my family. I will probably write a lot about Japanese topics, which I would very much like to talk about with foreign friends.