Wako Chocolate Saloon
I finally visited the Wako Chocolate Saloon. It is the shop & cafe managed by the high rank department, Wako.
This saloon is in a back street of Ginza Central Avenue. The entrance is sophistivated and fashionable. Stepping into the Saloon once, you must feel as if you were in the world of chocolate. The stairs and the walls inside are made as chocolate bars.
At the cafe, I had the Marron Chocolate Parfait. Now it's the season of marron! The marron glaces, vanilla icecream, chocolate bar, and the craft of candy are on the top of the chocolate mousse. As you can imagin, it was very very good. Great work!
Sightly and good taste...this is certainly works of art.
Grape fever !!
I got 3 types of grapes!!
My university mate whom I mentioned in previous article sent Pione, which is a kind of purple grape, a few weeks ago. I had those with my family, and we became a big fun of that grape.
We ordered Otsuka farm to send grapes as a gift to our relatives and the precious person.
Then they gave us 3 types of grapes that they grow as a present!
My friend said those were picked yesterday morning and really fresh.
A small note was in the box, and it said...
Black:Pione (their main breed)
Red:Golby (high sugar content)
Green:Seto- Giants (possible to eat with peal)
Thank you again!
I will enjoy those with my family!!
Season of Grapes
One of my University mates is the successor as a farmhouse. They treat fruit, vegetables, green tea and so on. I guess it's a quite big farm.
In this season, they provide the picking up grapes tour in their farm.
Here is the HP:http://www17.ocn.ne.jp/~budouya/ (Japanese)
Doesn't it look sweet?
Doesn't it look so delicious?
Don't you wanna pick up and taste some?
But what I really wanna say is that I like not only the picture of grapes, but also the smiles of the staffs in that farm. Everyone (especially that old man!) looks so happy.
I know the breeds of grapes raised there are high-class.
However the most important thing to make the best ones is to raise them with hearts.
From this picture, I can feel genuine affection.
Those grapes all must be supureme ones!
If the World Were a Village of 100 People
To all my friends and loved ones
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following:
There would be:
57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both north and south 8 Africans
52 would be female 48 would be male
70 would be non-white 30 would be white
70 would be non-Christian 30 would be Christian
89 would be heterosexual11 would be homosexual
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth
and all 6 would be from the United States.
80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition1 would be near birth
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education 1 would own a computer
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder ...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ...
you are more blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ...
you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or death ...
you are fortunate, more than three billion people in the world can't.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep ...
you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in dish someplace ...
you are among the top 8% of the world's wealth.
If your parents are still alive and still married ...
you are very rare, even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
So ...
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
At the cafe, I had the Marron Chocolate Parfait. Now it's the season of marron! The marron glaces, vanilla icecream, chocolate bar, and the craft of candy are on the top of the chocolate mousse. As you can imagin, it was very very good. Great work!
