Back from holidays in Japan!

I has been in Japan for a quite while. It was really nice time! There were two guests visiting me, and in other days there were full of meeting (and drinking) with friends, relatives etc. etc, even though I was exhausted and caught colds twice....

Photos from there will be uploaded soon!

How have you spent your holidays??

Photo: Japanese sweets wrapped with nice packages @ the house of granma & aunt (left: Daruma, right: Shishi-mai. Both are Japanese traditional characters)

A Happy New Year 2009

Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu! (= A Happy New Year, in English)

Even though it's a bit late, I upload a message here.

This year (2009) is a year of a cow according to Japanese tradition.
It appears that not every body knows about this custom in East Asia, so I will just a describe about a little bit. We have a 12 animals for year (mouse, cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster and dog), and it rotate every year.

As I was born in 1982, my 'eto' (year of animal) is dog!