at Lexington Market

I just wanted to introduce one of my favorite sandwiches today.
We had the "overstuffed" sandwich from The Barron's Delicatessen in Lexington Market.
I ordered the salami sandwich and please take a look at the pictures!
The amount of salami was insane.
Amazingly this sandwich doesn't cost more than 5 bucks.

Guess how much this cupcake is?
40 cents.
I swear to god I've got the EXACT same muffin at a different shop and it cost me 4 times more.
It's a great discovery since I like muffins.

Peach was curious while I was taking pictures of this muffin at the windowsill. Photo below is him checking out my muffin. So adorable.

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By the way, Lexington Market has been in Baltimore since 1782.

There are many vendors and people come to get lunch.
They also sell veggies, meat, seafood and various other products.

鮭汁！！

salmon

今日は月に２，３回行く韓国のスーパーに行った。
豆腐を買ってマーボーにするぞと、今晩の献立も決めていた。
H-Martは野菜やら果物が何といっても断然安い。
他店よりも新鮮であるのがまた絶好。

いつものお決まりコースでグレープフルーツ（３個で９９セント）、イカを２杯（２ドル５０セントくらい）購入。
ほぼ必要な物、全てカートに乗せ魚売り場の目の前へ。

鮭だ。
鮮やかなオレンジ色が私の足を運ばせる。

よく見ると今まで気がつかなかったけれど、
切り落とし？！切り身・・・というのか骨が付いた身が大量に入ってパックされていた。

鮭汁・・・。
鮭汁が食べたい・・・。

そんな事が頭をヨギル。
３ドル５０セントで大量の鮭が入ったパックを１つ手にとる。
鮭汁・・。

今晩の献立は見事、鮭汁に変更された。
H-Martで奇妙なキャベツも購入。
形はキャベツなのだが、葉っぱ全体が白菜の緑の部分の様にシワクチャ。
アメリカのキャベツって炒めても煮ても何か余り柔らかくならないのだが、
今回買ったこの不思議なキャベツは鮭汁の中で柔らかく煮立ってた。

朝の残りの玉ねぎの味噌汁に鮭、キノコ、そしてキャベツを入れて
とても満足のいく鮭汁を食べた。

幸福のひと時。（笑）

P.S.　小４の時か！？押入れの中で、学校から預かった・・・鮭の子を育てた事をふと思い出した。
卵から孵化させて何週間育てたか覚えてないけど・・・。
いや～懐かしい。：）

VISIT H-MART

The First Day of Spring '08

Rita's Water Ice

March 20, 2008

Wind blew up my face coldly,
but today was officially the first day of spring.
Despite the cold weather,
we went to get the "free" Rita's water ice to mark the day.
It was too cold to eat the Rita's,
still the sweetness of "Island Fusion" brought us some spring spirit.
I can't wait to feel the warm weather.

A+

While I was browsing some pictures related to "the first day of spring," I found this drawing. I believe the artist let the wind draw it. People often say that the first day of spring is windy. It is a neat creation of spring wind.

Lunch with Elephants

Elephants walking on the street of downtown Baltimore

Shame on me.
At one point or another, everyone learned to get to their destination early.
We have this phrase, "5 fun mae koudou" (get there 5 minute before) in Japanese. For sure, it is today's lesson.

I worked at companies where the time was deadly important. Even throughout my school years, I was told to get to places way before events start and of course, leave after everyone has left.

I SO wanted to see this event, Lunch with Elephants, at Lexington Market. It was sort of a promotional event for Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey. They brought their elephants to the market parking lot and fed them. We thought it won't be a long walk to get to the market. When we got there, everything was almost done. I guess the elephants were hungry and ate their lunch fairly quick. I TOTALLY MISSED THE LUNCH WITH ELEPHANTS. It made me sad. (haha)

After the elephants had their lunch, they started walking down the streets of downtown Baltimore to get back to 1st Mariner Arena where they held the circus. They walk faster than you would expect. I had to run down to find a good spot to snap some pictures. They are also very cute. They hold the tail of the one ahead like kindergarten students would hold each other's hands. No worries, none of elephants got lost.

The picture for this entry is kinda lame :<

a book of a day

woah.

Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

01- Never Open a Book with Weather
02- Avoid Prologues
03- Never Use a Verb Other Than "SAID" to Carry Dialogue
as·sev·er·ate (\ə-ˈse-və-ˌrāt\) : to affirm or declare positively or earnestly asseverated that he did not know — G. K. Chesterton>
04- Never Use an Adverb to Modify the Verb "SAID"...
05- Keep Your Exclamation Points Under Control
06- Never Use the Words "SUDDENLY" or "ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE"
07- Use Regional Dialect, Patois, Sparingly
08- Avoid Detailed Descriptions of Characters
09- Don't Go into Great Detail Describing Places and Things
10- Try to Leave Out the Part That Readers Tend to Skip

"It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing."

Hooptedoodle: inflammation of the story, caused by infectious or toxic writing and characterized by severe anacoluthon, embolalian engorgement, uncontrollable circumlocution, and runaway annomination.

Leonard is a popular American novelist and screenwriter. >more

PIEs

Cloudy

Night Watch

[taken on March 16, 2008]

I'm extremely depressed today.
Being happy about things isn't an easy thing to do :\

DAMMIT!!!

♪

Accidentally, I rented two musical movies.
This is great.
I have nothing against musicals... but prefer non-musical ones.
Oh well.

The last musical I saw was Hairspray.
I guess it was alright.
Can't hate Travolta.

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I'm going to watch and take pictures of the Charm City Roller Girls (roller derby) tonight.
Excited :)

Trying To................................................................................

develop:
1- artistic eyes
2- unique point of views out of ordinary scenes

Sometime being different helps
To make you stand out from big crowds
Not that I want to stand out.. but want to have my own unique way/style of things
Especially when it comes to Photography...

Being different and unique = requires creativity

This is sort of my ultimate goal for now
I want to be more confident about things
I do believe having these things will help me become a better photographer

I don't know. I get down after shooting..
The feeling of, what if they didn't like my work.. kinda haunts me a while until I can forget.

emo much!? :0
cute pic

music 001

my newest interest.

Ra Ra Riot!
hot music for my taste :)

visit HERE

大黒さんスマイル

SHONI　2008.03.07

感じた。

どんな環境におかれていても幸せで居られる人。
その正反対の状況にのめり込んで悲しみに耽り込んでしまう人。

やっぱり全ては自分の気持ちの持ちようによって違ってくるという事。

SHONIの大黒さんスマイルくを見ていたら
クヨクヨしてる自分がちっぽけに思えてきた。

今の状況を楽しめって訳ではないが、ある意味
何かに追われて多忙な日々よりも
たっぷりあるこの時間を何か有意義に過ごすのも悪くない気がしてきた。

あせっても事が順調に進む訳じゃないから、
心にもっとゆとりを持ち何かやってみよう。

ありがとね、SHONI :)

P.S.　PEACHの写真も。

和風

『浮世絵・歌麿　ポッピン女・黒２（大）』

今日イーサンと焼き肉をした。

BLOGに『本日シタコト』のような日記をつける事は私のスタイルではないのだが、
出だしが思いっきりそうだ。

焼けていく牛肉、海老、野菜を目の前にしていたら
ふと、父母の事を考えていた。

３人で行く焼き肉屋さんの日は結構自分にとっては楽しみだったヒトツ。
勿論、『美味！』　というのは理由の中のヒトツではあったのだが、
何よりジュウジュウ焼けるのを３人で眺めて待つという時間がスキだった。

（さてさて、内容には無関係の『和』を中心とした２００６ー７年に福岡で撮った写真を載せてみよう。）

御節料理といったらやっぱり黒豆でしょう。好物のヒトツです。

日本って本当に小さな心がけが何処を見渡しても施されてるなぁ、と思う瞬間の一枚。
駅近くの商店街の中にあるお料理屋さんにて。

違う国に居ると、他国の良さを一杯知る事が出来る毎日。
もっともっとアメリカのいい所探しが出来たらいいなぁと思う。