Final i-movie project

My 2009 Spring Work

Here is my first work in a class: "a banner" for my blog.



This is a second project "print design". I made four page print communication piece about "Graduating in 2009".



For a third project, I was working on to make a website of JMC.



Here is URL of my website about JMC.

http://www.jmc.sjsu.edu/student/newmedia_fang/s2009/kanami-space/

Ridge Vineyards

Last weekend, we went to "Ridge Vineyards". California is famous about a wine, but it is very far to go to Napa just for wineries. So, we found nice winery, which has good wine and nice view. "Ridge Vineyards" is located in a top of a mountain, and it takes only 20 minutes from Mountain View. We brought lunch and bought some wines to drink with. The view from their winery is so nice, so we stayed there more than 4hours.Here is their website. http://www.ridgewine.com/

Mother's Day

Today was a Mother's Day, so we baked cookies. My mom has been working as a PE teacher in high school for more than 25 years, in Japan. She is very tough, and I respect her. When I was a kid, I didn't like her because she was too busy to take care of me. However, now, I understand how hard she was working and how much she loved us. Although she is in a Japan, I baked cookies to her with lots of love and respect.

Farmer's Market in Mountain View

Today, I went to Farmer's Market with my friends. In Mountain View Downtown, they have Farmer's Market on every Sunday, from 9:00 to 1:00. They have variety of booth and sale vegetables, meats, fruits, flowers, and so on. I bought 100% pure squeezed blood orange juice and gragrapefruit juice for $4 each. I enjoyed to take a look at every booth.

Clear-Optometry

Clear-Optometry

I went to Downtown San Mateo for a lunch with my friends.
We were not familiar with Downtown San Mateo, but we found out nice frozen yogurt place: Clear-Optometry.
Actually, they are eyewear and optometry store, and they also have some sweets, such as cupcakes, frozen yogurt, and tea.
Today was extremely hot day, and it was good to eat fro-yo.

The interior of their shop was also cool and it was fun to stay there.

If I have a chance to go there again, I want to try their cakes and special tea.
Here is their web site
http://www.clearoptometry.com/index.html

Japanese Nagasaki Campon

Ringer Hut

I went to Ringer Hut tonight with my friends for a dinner. One of my firends came from New York for a spring break. She is also an Japanese international student in New York.

Champon is a Japanese noodle, which is thicker than Ramen noodle and thinner than Udon noodle. Just like other noodle, it is in a soup with some vegetables and fish cakes. It is originally from Nagasaki where is in Kyusyu, southwest part of Japan.Their Campon is good, and everything is fair price.
If you like noodle, please try it.Here is their website.

http://www.ringerhutamerica.com/Home.php

AXIS CAFE

I have a friend who is a student of CCA (California College of the Art). Today, we went to San Francisco to visit his school, CCA. Next to CCA, there is a "AXIS Cafe", which CCA students designed an interior as their graduating project. So, their interior is super cool and their foods are also good. Their wooden taste interior and chic colors' furniture create nice atmosphere in a cafe. I loved to stay there. Here is their website. http://axis-cafe.com/AXISCAFE/welcome.html

Curry

Tonight, my roomate cooked a curry rice for me. He is good at cooking and often he cooks for me. We have been roommates for more than two years. Here is a recipe of Japanese curry rice.

Ingredients:

* 4 cups steamed Japanese rice
* 1 onion
* 2 potatoes
* 2 carrot
* 1/4 lb Japanese curry roux
* 3 1/2 cups water
* 1/2 lb pork

Preparation:
Cut potatoes, carrots, and pork into bite-sized pieces. Slice onions.Heat a deep pan and saute the pork. Add onion, potatoes, and carrots in the pan and saute together. Add water in the pan and bring to a boil Turn the heat down to low and cook for 40-50 min. Add curry roux in the pan and simmer for 10 min. Serve the curry over steamed rice.

SHABU SHABU

SHABUWAY

Today, we all helped one of our friends' school project, short film making. We spent more than 4hours for that project, and we all got tired.
For a dinner, we went to SHABUWAY in downtown Mountain View.

SHABU SHABU is a Japanese traditional food, and it's like a beef fondue. SHABU SHABU is very healthy food, and I can eat beef and vegetable at the same time. SHABUWAY is almost only place that we can eat SHABUSHABU in Bay Area.

If you have a chance, please give them a try.

Here is their website
http://www.shabuway.com/index.html

Red Mango

RED MANGO FROZEN YOGURT

I went to "Red Mango" to eat a frozen yogurt with my friends. Before we went there, we played golf and we were ready to eat frozen yogurt. I was defeated in golf, so I bought frozen yogurt for them.
Anyways, their frozen yogurt is really good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You can choose your topping whatever you want. I always choose strawberry and mango. Please try their frozen yogurt.

Here is their website
http://www.redmangousa.com/

Dynasty, Dim Sum

We went to eat yum cha in Dynasty. In here, we can eat anything we want from a cart, which waitress is carrying. It is good to go with more than 3 people because we can try more different foods by sharing. especially, Dynasty is good place to go. Here is their address and phone number: 10123 N Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, CA 95014,(408) 996-1680.

Japanese Hot Pot

We ate Japanese Hot Pot in our home. We put vegetables and meat in a soy sause based soup (Nappa Cabbages, Mushrooms, Tofu, Chiken, Green Onion, Daikon Radish). Japanese hot pot is very healthy, and we can eat lots of vegetables and meat. We, Japanese, often eat hot pot during a winter because it warms our body. We really enjoyed to eat hot pot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Homemade Cookies

My friends and I baked cookies. What we enjoyed most was to decorate cookies with chocolates and sugar pens. We drew many faces and wrote words on cookies. We used "Pillsbury Ready To Bake"http://www.pillsbury.com/ It was easy to cook and also tasty!!!! We enjoyed to cook it and gave it to our other friends.

First Posting

challenges and opportunities of bloggers

This is a first place for me to show own thought and opinion to the public.
As long as my blog is open for anyone to read, I will meet new people throughout this blog.
I have to be responsible for anything I say in here.
This will be a challenge for me.
Anyways, I want to enjoy posting my thoughts in here.