After lunch at Ikabata

Naomi likes this photo taken at a restaurant on the road from Hiekawa to Amagikogen. We visited this restaurant with Eiichi Onodera and his wife several years ago to have inoshishi nabe. This time it was for the udon, but we had some cold inoshishi rib tidbits to knaw on and a plate of warm inoshishi "aburi" to chew too.

We were on our way back from the Marshall house at Iritahama - beach shot of me and Naomi - and had stopped at the inoshishi center on Rte. 414 earlier.

We got back to our place for an early evening - I slept through the new year and we didn't open the champagne until the next evening!

The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump

My favorite quote from this little book of Gumpisms is the last one, "Always be able to look back and say, 'At least I didn't lead no humdrum life.'"

I am working on that statement.

Ha!

Happy Birthday, Thor!

It was a late birthday dinner for father and son. Thor turned 14 on 10 December, but I was on my way to Kuala Lumpur so I could attend a meeting on Monday. We agreed to delay his birthday meal, so today we did it at La Jolla in Hiroo. He was pretty happy with his virgin margarita and tacos.

Thor is a T shirt guy. He has been wearing this Bali T shirt as much as he can for the past year. But he was complaining this evening that the new coat I bought him from Lands' End was not very warm. So I explained that if he wore a long sleeve T shirt, tucked it into his pants and zipped up the jacket all the way, he'd be warmer.

Hmmm........

Happy 22nd Anniversary, Naomi

We went over to our local sushi place for dinner on our 22nd wedding anniversary. Naomi promised not to cry, as she had for several years when we went back to Trader Vics regularly. I never found out why....

For Eldon

Eldon sent an email asking for my blog address. I thought it would be fun to put up a crazy shot of him and Bob in Baja during our trip there.

This is a great photo!

A few colored shots

These are made from digital shots I have taken.

Staff party in Hong Kong

I was on my last leg of my last business trip of 2006 and stopped in Hong Kong to have the staff dinner. We had the SW corner room of Aqua in Kowloon, so we could look out on the Hong Kong Island light show. At 8 pm they set in motion several buildings' lights, making quite a spectacle.

The young ladies enjoyed dinner, drinks, Christmas crackers, Silent Santa gifts and all the usual party chit chat.

I got up at 6 am the next day to head back to Tokyo.

Jothi enjoys the limelight

This week Yusli the president of Bursa Malaysia was given a Malaysian title, Dato. The flowers came in from all kinds of places. Jothi and I were waiting in his office to talk to him about CSR and I took this shot of her sitting with her favorite bouquet.