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Hi Lang-8 friends,

I am joining the snowboard design contest now.
If you have a time, please vote my design:)
http://www.blankyouverymuch.com/burton/design/2414

★How to VOTE

Go to the page and click "join" at the right top.
Create your account name.
Sign up with Facebook or email.
*Install BYVM application for Facebook if you have Facebook account.
Decide your password and approve the site condition.
Get your account and go back to my design page.
You will find 3 gauges under the design.
If you like my design, please fill the gauges to 100% and click "critique".
That is all for voting.

Thank you for your time.

Voting is by Dec 17th.
I can go to the next stage into the top 20th/836designs.

Best regards,
taxi

Posted at Mon Dec 17 12:59:24 UTC 2012
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I got this massage on this site.
http://www.blankyouverymuch.com/burton/design/2414

Posted at Thu Dec 13 15:11:00 UTC 2012
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is my birthday.
It's very common that girls give chocolates to boys in Japan.
How many chocolates can I get today?
Please cross your fingers...

I love this chocolate shop.
http://www.letao.jp/item.shtml?id=817985379
And this one too.
http://www.lindt.jp/index.html

But I prefer あんこ to chocolate.

Do you have anything special for today??

Posted at Mon Feb 13 16:59:02 UTC 2012
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I went to Halloween party in SHIBUYA end of October.
My friend invited me it at the day before the night.（前日の夜に）
I hadn't dressed for Halloween before, so I had no costume then.
I went to ドンキホーテ to buy something in a hurry.
I bought a Halloween ガチャピン.

I met Darth Maul there!!
He was smoking and drinking...
It was a good party :)

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I want to change my above sentence, because most of mine are beginning "I"
It looks not very nice...


Posted at Tue Nov 08 15:14:41 UTC 2011
]]> http://www.lang-8.com/295759/journals/1175249 http://www.lang-8.com/295759/journals/1175249 taxi Tue Nov 08 15:14:41 UTC 2011 I got to the office early and work overtime everyday.
No tome to swim after work. It's so stressful.

Somebody help!!

But better than when I was young.
I had no day-off for 3 months and worked all night 2 or 3 times a week.

However I'm not so young any more, so please give me day-off more!!
I want to go abroad and read heaps of books.

By the way I have a question. Does it need (a) in this sentence?
"Do you have (a) time to talk to me?"

Posted at Fri Nov 04 17:13:46 UTC 2011
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I was trying to move to a new position.
The posting detail was Apparel Product Manager.
I couldn't get a manager position, but I'm going to work as a member of Apparel Product Staff from next month. Yahoooooo!!
I escaped from a sales assistant department at last.


They accepted my resume.
Last week I had an interview at SHIBUYA.
I passed it!! and I'm trying the next interview with US Head Quarter staff this month.
So I'm still nervous.

My job hunting is still going.

Posted at Sun Oct 09 06:59:22 UTC 2011
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Previous continuation from below
http://lang-8.com/295759/journals/1088895/Job-Hunting%2521%2521-2

Company 3【Shibuya】September 2001 – May 2004
Assistant Designer / Production Control / Sales/ Press
Planning of an apparel brand.(Caps, Apparel, Bags, Accessories and Shoes)
To control product.(200SKU each year)
Released 4 original design shoes each year.(Agent: **** and etc.)
Released 6 original design silver accessories each year.(Agent: **** and etc.)
Released collaborated items with *******.
Business operations. (including accounting)
Public relations.
　Magazines:Men's Non-no, Smart, ASAYAN, and more.
　Stylists, Photographers, Event coordinators and Designers.
*Joined Tokyo Men’s collection.

Company 4【Minami Aoyama】April 1997 – August 2001
Assistant Designer / Production Control
Planning of HONDA motors Collaboration items.(100SKU each year)
Designed for HONDA(Caps, Apparel, Bags, Accessories and Shoes)
Released 10 original design shoes each year.(Agent: Sett and etc.)
Released 20 original design silver accessories each year.(Agent: MARS and etc.)
To control products, which are made in Japan, France, Italy, and other countries.(500SKU each year)
*Joined Paris collection and Tokyo collection.


Bunka Fashion College 【Shinjuku】April 1996 – March 1999
Menswear Design Course
Course works also included:
　Pattern Making, Design, Sewn products manufacturing, Fashion business and history, Chromatics
*The award of ONWARD design contest.


New Zealand, Canada, France, Spain, England, USA, Indonesia, The Philippines, Korea and Japan.

References available upon request.

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Thank everyone :)
I passed a documents examination today !!
I'm going to try an interview next week.

Posted at Thu Sep 08 16:27:23 UTC 2011
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Previous continuation from below
http://lang-8.com/295759/journals/1087398/Job-Hunting%2521%2521-1


Graphic Arts - Illustrator / Photoshop etc.
Office works – SAP/Filemaker/Excel/Word/Access etc.


Company 1 【Tennozu】May 2008 – Present
Assistant Sales
To control delivery.
To support the sales section.
Typing everyday.(Lots of functions and pivot table skills are required.)
To join Logistic process meeting everyweek.(as a representative of Custmer Service)
*Best phone call receiver 2009 & 2010
*Operation award 2010. (I have changed operation with *****)
*The 7th place at **** running event.(I run about 1,200km in 2 months)


Winters 2005-2008

NISEKO 343
Shop staff / Snowboard instructor
Lessons for customer in English.
Tuning up for snowboards and skies.

HAKUBA GORYU
Snow making / Lift operator
Making artifical snow over night
Operate and maintenance lifts


Company 2 【Shibuya】October 2006 – December 2006　
Assistant Planner / Production Control
Planning of a new apparel brand.
Production control of the accessories of ******.

to be continued...

Posted at Wed Sep 07 16:23:41 UTC 2011
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I am job hunting now.
It's not so easy for me to make it.
But if I'm getting older, it's more difficult.
And I have to get a new job until the end of this year.

I think working is for salary or worth doing.
Both of them are not good enough in my current job.

So please collect my resume!!


More than five years experiences in fashion industry.
Considerable experiences in snowboarding in New Zealand, Canada and Japan from 2003 to 2007.
Extensive knowledge of snowboarding.
Fluent in English and Japanese.
Cheerful, positive, self-starter, well organized, and tactful.
Polite and pleasant business manner.
Able to work as a part of a team.
A lot of experience of sports.
(Snowboard, Surf, Wakeboard, Skateboard, Swimming, Scuba, Soccer, Futsal, Gymnastic and more)


TOEIC (Test Of English for International Communication): 770 points in July 2011.
Canadian Association of Snowboard instructors: Level 1 in February 2004.
PADI Openwater Diver License: August 2001.
Good skills of sewing machines.
Able to make simple patterns for clothes and equipments.(Caps, bags and more)

to be continued...

Posted at Tue Sep 06 16:48:11 UTC 2011
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I like furniture.
Especially if it's made from plywood, I really like it.
And if it's bent design, I love it.

This maker is my best. I have some OFFI products.
http://www.offi.com/
SCANDO TABLE is the best design for me :)
http://www.offi.com/products/tablesanddesks/SCANDO.php?p2c=309

Here are 4 plywood tables, 4 plywood stools and some plywood products in my room.
Everyone who comes to my room says how many people lives here?

I'm not married yet, only me here...

My ex-girlfriend always said "no more plywood" when I found new plywood something.
But not anymore I wanna get this slipper rack next!!


Posted at Sat Aug 27 06:27:29 UTC 2011
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I went swimming tonight as I planed at my last diary.
I swam 2,050m. It's the longest distance in this summer.
If I don't exercise hard, I would think about ex-girlfriend.
Negative thinking is not good for me. I should focus on other something.

Unluckily it was raining on the way to home.
My cloths were dumped...

I'm so tired. But I think...
Old sore muscles are recovered new sore muscles :)

I put a "UMEBOSHI" into a rice cooker for the tonight dinner.
It's good for preserving rice!!

What should I do tomorrow?

Posted at Wed Aug 24 14:00:38 UTC 2011
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I went swimming and gymnastic last week, so I am over working...
But yesterday I played futsal with my co-workers after work.

After that we went drinking.
It was so hot and damped last night.
We had too much beer...

I didn't work hard today, because of hangover.
I go to bed early tonight to recover from sore muscles of whole body.

I'm going swimming tomorrow :)
Enjoy the summer.

Posted at Tue Aug 23 15:50:31 UTC 2011
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Today I joined "Cooking in English" which is a community for people who want to study English through cooking.
In my group there were a mom(not mine), her daughter, not young women, some guys and girls.

We were given some recipes(some sweets for tea time) in English.
But a problem is not the recipes in English.
So most of them can't cook well.
They don't know how milli litters of a cup are. They can't distinguish 5g or 50g of sugar.
I was surprised about it...

I cook almost everyday, because no one cooks for me :(
Why can't mom cook? What does her daughter eat?

In Japan to get instant food is easy and cheep.
But I don't like them, because if I eat it, I will have stomach ache.

After the class I went swimming and cooked some chinese food.
I'm full now and getting sleepy...

Tomorrow I'm going to KICHIJOJI to study English then go to SHINJUKU to do gymnastics on a mat.
I have heaps of time without a girlfriend.

Posted at Sat Aug 20 13:46:29 UTC 2011
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I left my office early and I went swimming on Friday.
Because I had nothing to do in that afternoon.
Normally Japanese companies take summer holiday around 11th AUG to 15th AUG.
It's called "OBON"
I work for a foreign capital, so I have no "OBON"

When I was small, I couldn't swim a stroke.
But I belonged to a swimming club in high school.
Heaps of cute girls (older members) invited me to the club.
I went swimming to see them everyday and I could do butterfly within 3 months.
Lewdness is strong factor!!

It was a good memory to be a water melon at a beach.

I like swimming more than running.
Especially in this summer it's not good idea running outside, because the weather is too hot and humidity is so high.

Today I am planning to swim again.
I am free this evening as I can write this diary and internet surf...

Posted at Mon Aug 15 04:28:19 UTC 2011
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Nobody knows about this story.
I can write it only this page here, because Lang-8 friends know me in the internet only.
If I tell this to my friends or co-workers, some heatless person might hurt me.
I might tell them about this in a few months later.

I broke up with my girl friend last night.
Recently I didn't feel her love and she was getting more inconsiderate.
I didn't stand it, so I called her and told about it.
She said nothing either way.
I thought "Silence is acknowledge"

She might think that she can't imagine the future with me, because my job is unstable.
She is not so young, and she wants to get married in 2 or 3 years.
I don't remember it was when, she said lots of money and stable life is indispensable to marry.
Of course I understand what she wants to say, and I'm not good enough now.

I said "Thank you for everything, Good bye"
It was about 1 year and a few months love.
I'm so sad, but I should do it.

Where is my new girlfriend...

Posted at Sat Aug 13 03:24:34 UTC 2011
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When I was 25 years old, I went to Tokyo dome to see "NISSAN X-trail jam"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GnZYBrYIwM

After this competition, I decided to quit a job and to be a PRO.
I didn't think if I could join this event or not. Just believed I can do it.

In May I quit a job, but there was a big problem which there was no snow in Japan.
My friend told me " There is lots of snow in New Zealand"
And I went to NZ to search for snow, but I didn't think what language NZ people speak.
I use to dislike English and I spoke only a few words "Good morning" "Thank you" blah blah blah.
However I went to abroad to snowboard.

Of course I was so worried there, no friends, no Japanese there...
So I went to English school to study from first.
The class was like a kindergarten...
"Repeat after me!! Giraffe!!" "Giraffe!!" "Giraffe!!" "Giraffe!!"

My teacher was KIWI which means he is from NZ.
He was a nice guy and I told him why I came here.
Then he said "You can say --I wanna ride hard out to the MAX!! DUDE.--"

The end of this winter I broke my wrist bones.

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Thank you for reading. I will write continuation of this diary someday. Good night, MATE!!


Posted at Tue Aug 09 16:38:22 UTC 2011
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I graduated from a sawing college, so I like sawing.
But I have not used my sawing machine for a long time, because I am busy after I quite snowboarding which means I got a job.
(I was crazy for snowboarding for 5 years...)

Last week I bought some gifts for my co-workers at MoMA design store in Tokyo.
1 of them is a bib for my co-worker's baby.
But it was too small for him...
I had to use my sawing machine to re-size it tonight.

I wanted go to bed early tonight, but I started sawing and enjoyed it.

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Thank you for reading. Sweet dreams, MATE!!

Posted at Mon Aug 08 15:09:01 UTC 2011
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I write a diary at Lang8 for the 1st time.

Yesterday I received a TOEIC score sheet in my office.
The score was 770 points (listening 425 / reading 345), Yeah!!
Last time it was 715 (listening 435 / reading 280) in 2007.

This time I studied English using NINTENDO DS for 3 days.

I finished a reading section more than 20 minutes left at the test.
So I thought I might get 800 points more, but...

The total score was UP, but the listening part was increased.
I need friends who speak English.

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Thank you for reading. Have a GR8 day!! MATE!!

Posted at Sat Aug 06 03:45:55 UTC 2011
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