after picking up my wife at the airport, we went to have lunch. it's like a "tempura diner." they serve freshest of the freshest tempura as they bring pieces right after they cooked. also, you get to pick 3 kinds of pickled vegetables and fermented squid for "all-you-can-eat." delicious!!
since my ex-colleague whom i have known for about 15 years (we've known each other since we were in the us) was back to our city to pack things up, some other colleagues and we went to have some foods and drinks. the place we went looked rather regular "izakaya" but the food they served was somewhat different from the regular izakaya. i would say that they served like trend-following food. food was pretty good!!
cooked polk with chinese buns (white stuff on the right)
角煮饅頭
duck + egg plant / 鴨なす
foie gras sushi + cabbage sushi
フォアグラの握り+キャベツの握り
dessert (cake, ice cream, pear, etc.)
デザート(ケーキ、アイスクリーム、梨などなど)
we ordered some other stuff but forgot to take pics. we went there at 9 o'clock and it was 1 o'clock by the time we left. anyway, i had good time, and do hope other people did too.
i received an email from ebay, saying that the item i lost was re-listed due to the fact that the highest bidder canceled for some reason. so, they gave me the second chance but i was kinda suspicious about this: the seller and the highest bidder were a team and they intentionally raised the price. then the highest bidder cancels the bid, so that second highest bidder gets a chance to buy at his/her highest bid, which means the seller can sell at higher price than the starting price as compare to the situation where there was only one bidder. what do you think about this? or is it just my imagination?
i proceeded to place bid on the item and i won as it was buy-it-now. i thought about it as i wrote above but the price was still a lot cheaper than the price offered in japan.
today, i was looking forward to win an item on ebay auction but i was outbidded. the bidder was a sniper, and i totally forgot about sniping..... also, i was going to place a bid on the other item but the price now already exceeded my upper limit. i am trying to convince myself that someone up in the air is saying i should not spend money on them at this moment but you know.....
me and my wife had lunch at ringer hut. i was first kinda surprised by the fact that they raised the price but then while we were eating, a staff came up to us and gave us "to go bags." the staff said that it was a part of campaign for the anniversary of the founding. the campaign started from today and first 100 people get the bag, so we were lucky!?
many kinds of fortune-tellings say that i should wait calmly. even though i am in the middle of paid vacation, i have been kinda nervous but decided to let go.
i mentioned about bubble sputnik lamps the other day. so, here are some pics of our lamps. we we got all of them from the same antique dealer in belgium through ebay. of course, all of them are antiques.
it was a quiet day, and i was quiet too. it is getting colder these days which means we are in the middle of autumn season and winter is approaching so quietly.