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Spring has come at last!
I took this Sakura flower photo at my neighborhood in this morning. And we're gonna have a Hanami party in the Osakajo park this weekend. Here comes the Hanami season!! I really love this atmosphere of spring in Japan. Beginning of April is completely the best time to visit to Japan. Let's get drunk in public together!! Haha

On 11th July, I and my friends went to watch the baseball game at Hanshin Koshien Stadium. Of course I'm a Giants fan, cuz I was born in Tokyo.
And guess what, this is a common sense in Japan but the Tigers fans and the Giants fans are hating each other very much! :P
I couldn't relax at all at the middle of Tigers fans... Haha
Anyway, it was a very nice experience though! For me, it was the first visiting there, actually. But unfortunately, I couldn't see this stadium before the last year's reconstruction.
Well, I'm gonna be back here to watch "Kokoyakyu" again this summer!

I guess you noticed something about my blog. Don't you? ...Yeah, the old one'd gone away. You know, I just wanted to change the version of MySQL4 to 5! I totally did only what I was supposed to do. I can't understand where was the fault, the server? MT? MySQL? ...or me? Yeah, I didn't backup. This is my fault... :S
Whatever, I'm doing my blog for two reasons, actually. One is for practicing English, and the other reason is for researching recent web technologies. So, I don't care so much about the old entries or something like that. But I just was frustrated myself so much!
Then, I'm gonna start to build another design again. I think the next one will be very simple. I think there are too many meaningless functions in usual blogs. Aren't they? For example, I don't use so many archives like monthly, daily, yearly, category...
I think I will be designing and checking the new blog, on the same URL here. I might not build local server or something.
If you wanna observe my process of work, why don't you keep coming here. And gimmi some advices please!

2 February, 2008 | 12.45AM * Written by: Yuko Asanuma
Another shocking and extremely sad news hit Tokyo on Friday, February 1.
Space Lab Yellow, the city's one of the longest running dance clubs and the world's top DJs' most favoured spot, has officially announced it's closing in June 2008.
The place, widely called as 'Club Yellow' or just 'Yellow,' opened in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo in '91, and they just had huge parties last December, one with David Morales and Frankie Knuckles, to celebrate the 16th anniversary of the club and also the 20th anniversary of Def Mix together, and another one with Moodymann.
Regardless of its rather small capacity of approx. 800, Yellow has been hosting the nights with the world's A-List DJs and artists. From Francois K to DJ Premier, Laurent Garnier to Mad Professor, Chicks On Speed to Joe Claussell, Lee Perry to Carl Cox... and it has been the most established, quality club in town throughout its history. Read More...

This was a very shocking news for everyone who loves dance music in Tokyo... ;-(
Via Tokyo's Club Yellow ends its 16 year history in June | Beatportal

This kind of happening is very uncommon in Japan.
2,200 polices had been chasing the guy (27 year old) for two hours around noon at the center of Osaka city.
One helicopter and 460 police cars were dispatched for only him, and he stealed 3 cars on the way to escape.
At last, his car had a collision with a bridge girder and stopped.
During the car chasing, he was getting a handcuff with his right arm. To my surprise, after he had been caught, still was attacking on the policies with head-butting. lol
via asahi.com

This happening reminds me the website called Varaces The Car Chase Movie Database.

You got a fast car / I want a ticket to anywhere / Maybe we make a deal / Maybe together we can get somewhere
Anyplace is better / Starting from zero got nothing to lose / Maybe we'll make something / But me myself I got nothing to prove

This song was running around my brain, whole the time of writing this!!
Whatever, there are a lot of "SPEED" freaks in Japan, basically.
This driver called Smoky Nagata is kinda famous in Japanese speeding scene. Here we go!!

"Smoky vs U. K. police"!