Random thoughts

Believe it or not, I started going to the gym. It's not as bad as I had imagined, probably because my trainer,Corei, is really nice. After the initial interview, she realized I am really new to the gym, its vocabs, machines and everything about it. Since, the gym I use is at the American Navy base in Negishi, (her husband is with the Navy), there were procedures to follow so that the gym won't be liable for anything happened in there. Use at your own risk I suppose. So I signed so many pages of contracts, disclaimers, more contracts and something like a vow (my expectations of myself, of the trainer etc.) I don't know how many trees were used for making those papers because I decided to exercise. Anyway, Corei came up with exercises (tube exercise or something along those words) that were not difficult for me to give up the next time. So I went back to the gym without her. The first time, I did that, I didn't remember most of what I did with her. So I walked for 13 min ...

I started cooking Udon noodle soup at home. We could buy ready made udon noodle from a store that freshly make various kinds of noodle and other ingredients for noodle. I added pork, sauce, and some vegetable, voila there's Udon noodle soup. Zey loved it and so did everyone. And here is a photo of Rob eating the noodle. Before my dad and brother arrived, Rob had to go to Nagano for overnight school trip. That night was the first time, we (my mom and I), felt the earthquake at home. It was not a big one but still scary for us. My dad and brother arrived from Burma a few days before Zey's birthday. I went to pick them up at the airport, which is about one and half hours from Yokohama by airport bus. It was quite cold for them, especially for my dad. On 21st November, we celebrated Zey's birthday. We had friends, colleagues and neighbors and it was a lot of fun (a lot of work too. Athae (my brother) and I cooked many Burmese dishes. We baked cake, cookies and test baked cake a...