days go by.

last year, 2009, i bought a diary book.

since i moved to this little town, i have been feeling that days go by almost too fast. so, at the beginning of last year, i thought that keeping schedule would help me to slow it down, and i wanted to try.

i used to love making notes of what to do, what i did, and writing down all the deadlines.
however, what i found out with this little diary was that i was not even capable of knowing what to do...

i chose pink since that is the color that i never choose, and i thought it would bring me a change.
such a fallacy.

i did not like pink.
i did not like this little thing.
i did not like looking at it.

this year, i am wiser; i bought a green diary book.
i hope i will do better with one of my favorite colors.

bye bye 2009! it was such a messy year!!

smiling faces

my father gave me these.
these are some pieces of designed cloth that his project team ordered to use for some advertisement projects in japan.
smily ebisu-sama (ebisu-sama is one of many japanese gods, a third child of izanagi).

my father founded a small advertisement design company by himself when he was 40, and he has been leading and working for it more than 20 years.

whenever i feel hopeless for my life, he always says that i could jump into a new thing at any time; that's what he did at the age of 40.
he is going into a new thing at 64 now: re-establishing and re-evaluating his life to fight against cancer.

he is actually very difficult person to deal with, although/because he is amazingly aggressive and positive soul, fought for what he valued and achieved many. and i appreciate who he is for me so much.

i never really used these pieces of cloth, so i thought somebody could have it. when mike, my friend, stopped by my apt, he saw these and he wanted these, so now these are in his collection of cloth pieces (i know he collects a lot).