I came back from a business trip to Barcelona a few days ago. I spent a week there most of the time eating sandwiches (Bocadillo) with Spanish cured ham (Jamón Serrano), visiting Antoni Gaudi's constructions including Sagrada Familia, Park Güell and Casa Milá. Sounds like a sight seeing tour? Actually, I had meetings every day for a few hours but I had had worked out most of materials in Japan and I needed to just keep thinking in the remaining time. Eating and seeing stimulates thinking and they often bring better results than just being "serious" like most of my country men. (Women are more liberated.) Walking around these places, I saw surprisingly few Japanese tourists in this time. In practice, more than 90 % of asian tourists I had met were Chinese or Koreans. Rapidly weekend Yen against Euro may be an immediate reason. As a background, there is a long term shrinkage of Japanese economics and a tendency of young people who are reluctant to going out of the country. I had been thinking the later background was a result of the former. However, I am shocked by my own impressions that, surrounded by and chatting with non-Japanese asians, we are not welcomed to be among them. I had never gotten this feeling before around 5 years ago.
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5/28/2013
4/09/2013
How did a japanese guy purchase a rice cooker on internet?
0. I made my wife a little nervous and she broke a rice cooker in our home.
1. I started to search for a new one, I mean a rice cooker, of course, on internet referring to prices and people's votes. Then chose the Zojirushi NP-RH05-TC, which has the volume of 3 rice cups (3*180 ml), just adequate for a couple of people.
2. I surveyed the cheapest offer (includeing tax and sending cost) among shops in kakaku.com and rakuten shopping mall, most popular internet shops in Japan. I chose D-Price.
3. I looked for so called point sites where one may purchase goods from registered shops and earn points (typically 1 to 5 % of purchasing prices). I didn't find the shop chosen in any of them.
4. Then I went to the shop directly and ordered the rice cooker. They will send me a mail of confirming my order tomorrow.
5. Finally I've reported all these steps to my wife. I don't know why she was getting nervous again?
1. I started to search for a new one, I mean a rice cooker, of course, on internet referring to prices and people's votes. Then chose the Zojirushi NP-RH05-TC, which has the volume of 3 rice cups (3*180 ml), just adequate for a couple of people.
2. I surveyed the cheapest offer (includeing tax and sending cost) among shops in kakaku.com and rakuten shopping mall, most popular internet shops in Japan. I chose D-Price.
3. I looked for so called point sites where one may purchase goods from registered shops and earn points (typically 1 to 5 % of purchasing prices). I didn't find the shop chosen in any of them.
4. Then I went to the shop directly and ordered the rice cooker. They will send me a mail of confirming my order tomorrow.
5. Finally I've reported all these steps to my wife. I don't know why she was getting nervous again?
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