Category: Holidays

  • All I want for Christmas is~

    It’s December. It’s Shiwasu., which means A monk runs around because it’s so busy.  Are you busy? Christmas songs are ringing out these days. This season was fun when I was a kid and young, but now that I’m an adult,  not so fun. Why is it that I don’t have many memories of Christmas…

  • A New Year’s Eve Retrospective of the 18 Ticket Journey

    Youth 18 tickets – all you can ride a local train I don’t remember what year it was again, but a few years after I started working, a friend from junior college asked me if I wanted to go to Hokuriku using the Youth-18 Ticket. My friend became friends with two railroad enthusiasts (boys) at…

  • Reminiscing: New Year’s Eve

    I don’t remember what year, but I do remember one New Year’s Eve in my early twenties when I spent with my friends and seniors from my club activities at college. Worship at the temple around 12:00 AM We decided to spend New Year’s Eve at a friend’s house in a peaceful area of Tokyo…

  • Year of the Tiger Holiday Card – Make your own!

    Less than two months left for 2021. How was the year 2021? Did you achieve your goals? Do you remember them in the first place? Next year is the Year of the Tiger. New Year’s greetings, how about a holiday card? I hope you had a better chance to go out than in 2020 and take pictures.…

  • Kabocha Pumpkin for Halloween

    My favorite anime on Netflix, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. In episode 23, Kaido invited his friends to the Halloween party but they are not wearing any costumes. The scene when Hairo and Allen brought Japanese Kabocha pumpkins as a gift cracked me up. (The whole episode is just funny though) Japanese pumpkin is…