Connecting dots... by Mr. Steve Jobs

One of my friend shared this speech on mixi.

And I would love to share this with you too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc

What he said to everyone, I could truly understand especially about connecting dots in your life.

These days many things started to connect in my life after I came to U.S.A.

Before I was always the person who think too much and can't move. 

Their is Japanese expression "tap and make sure it is safe before across the stone bridge" but I always tap too much and break bridge before I across... 

But when I decided to come to U.S. everything started to move.

And now I can see everything what I had and did before I come here is connecting one by one finally even I broke my bridge at that time. As he said I didn't know they would be connected in the future but they did. And when I decided to come here, I followed my heart for the first time. What I felt about NY, that was the truth. Already 2 years has past and sometimes I almost forget how much pain I had when I left NY from my one week trip to NY before I moved here. I couldn't move, even I couldn't drink water in the airplane to Japan. This speech reminded me my start point. 

I am lazy enough to do nothing on my day off sometime and I don't think this might be the last day in my life when I do something. And I don't have big dream or ambition. I don't have special ability. I don't have higher motivation than others. But someday if I could tell something with own experiences like him which can be remembered from even one person or can move someone's heart (for example my grand kids or someone), that might be my goal in my life:) I just thought this way when I listened what he said.

RIP

Moneyball

Today I went to see "Moneyball".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiAHlZVgXjk

When I was teenager I was so into baseball and went to baseball stadium sometimes and everyday I was checking the results of games. I haven't seen that much baseball these days but still it was so much fun for me.
And it was funny because I just saw Oakland Athletics this summer at Yankee stadium.
But it was not only about baseball. It was drama of many things. What is important to make decision, data or experience? Money or ... ?

Also this movie reminded me Japanese Manga "Stopper Busujima" which was the story of Athletics in Japan. (We don't have Athletics in Japan but they made up this fiction team.)
Everything made this movie interesting for me:)

KAMBI

And after the comedy show we went to eat ramen noodle to KAMBI.
http://www.newyorkramen.com/
When I go to ramen shop in NY I always thing they are fancier than in Japan.
This Kambi was also clean and neat place with weird pictures.
There were many choices in the menu for example, you can choose not only soup from miso, shoyu, tonkotsu but also you can choose the thickness of noodle from thick, thin and curly.
I got special noodle which has many vegetable on top with basic soup which was tonkotsu (pork bone broth) and thin noodle. This tonkotsu soup wasn't heavy like Kyushu ramen and it was not greasy and it was really light but flavorful. And there was a lot of vegetable on top and I loved it. When my family make ramen noodle at home we always put a lots of stir fry of vegetable and it was like that.
I was so surprised that their ramen was so good. Usually ramen noodle in NY has weird noodle which is like rubber but here wasn't like that.
The portion was definitely American size but it was enough good to finish it!!!
And also what was good for me is they served free hot tea after the meal.
Which is normal in Japan but here in NY it is rare. And drinking tea after dinner is my favorite moment.
So I enjoyed it a lot. And I had two cups of tea after that big ramen noodle!!! lol
And plus that it was really good to have good ramen noodle with fun talking.
It was really nice seeing you again and catching up, Jon and Helen!!
Thank you so much for joining me to your night:)

The P.I.T

After shopping at Jersey Garden I was walking from port authority station to south with wondering where I should eat dinner. And when I get to K-town I bumped into my friends who were trying to meet again soon for long time. It was really happy surprising. And they were on their way to comedy club and I didn't have any plan after that so I just joined them.

For me it was first time to go to see comedy because I always think the most difficult thing to understand in English is politics and comedy. But it was really good chance to try my first comedy club.

The P.I.T.

http://thepit-nyc.com/

It was bar with small show venue. 

As I expected first group was so difficult to understand. Because many people were laughing out loud and it was so hard to listen what they were saying. But the second group was more simple and I could understand more than first one. But it was so fun to be there even it was difficult. And everyone was laughing so hard. That made me laugh... lol

Jersey Gardens

Today I went to Jersey Gardens for shopping with my friend.

http://www.jerseygardens.com/

It was first time to go there and I was so excited. It was so fun to see many shops there in big mall and it is outlet mall so most of them were so cheap. In NY we don't have big mall like that so it reminded me Wood Field where I used to go almost every weekend with my parents when we were in Chicago. So just walking around in the mall made me happy. But I only found one shirt to buy. I was a little bit disappointed not getting many things there but after that I found the reason!!!
Because there was good surprise waiting for me after that. And for that I should not have big shopping bag with me... lol

El Paso Taqueria

The other day after work my coworkers took me to nice Mexican restaurant in upper east side.
El Paso Taqueria
http://www.elpasotaqueria.com/menu.html
We were so starving when we got there so we started with guacamole which was really good.
We could choose how spicy it was and we chose medium but it wasn't spicy at all. So we finished it at once before we got margarita:)
And we got fajita and tacos. They were all good. Fajita was on hot plate and it was so hot and juicy. And tacos was good with green hot sauce and chorizo was so good. Before I prefer chicken tacos but it was really good!!!
And the last thing we had was banana crepe in custard cream with vanilla ice cream. That was so good. Combination of warm crepe and cold ice cream was awesome:)
It was really good to have early dinner after busy work together.
Thank you so much Nidia and Fanny!!!

Google+

I just started using Google+ the other day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B
And just after that Facebook started new style and I don't like it.
Should I switch to Google+?
But it's difficult to use enough both of them and  I've been using Facebook almost 3 years. So I have all of pictures there. So I don't want to switch though...
Now still I don't know how to use Google+ so I'll play with it and see how it works:)
Which do you prefer? And how you will use both of them or switch?
I'm using Google blog so it is better to use Google+? But I don't know how to connect this to my blog...
Ummm... it will take time to know how to use it.
Please let me know your opinion!!! :)