Meriken Park, Osaka & Kobe

Kobe is known as a major seaport city. The picture above is Meriken Park. A red tower in center of the picture is Kobe Port Tower built on the water front in 1963. The shape is very nice.

It is the Kobe Maritime Museum on the right side of the tower. It was designed as a ship's sail. I didn't go to the museum although it has exhibits relating to the port and the Kawasaki Heavy industries Group.

There were many sweet shops in this area. I bought a pudding and it was very delicious.

Haneda Airport, Osaka & Kobe

I went to airport earlier and took rice-balls with tempura, which are popular foods, for lunch in the airport. I spent time at the lounge near my boarding gate.  

It takes about 1 hour by air plane from Haneda airport to Osaka(Itami) airport.

Osaka & Kobe

I visited Osaka and Kobe on a three days trip.

I had two objectives for this trip. The first was to see an art work of Taro Okamoto which is named "The tower of the Sun". The second was to eat a lot because Osaka and Kobe are famous for delicious foods that are priced reasonably.

I will write the detail in my next post.

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

source: google 

I read the book, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Although I didn't know him and Apple before released the first iMac, this book talks about it. It was also written about him after the first iMac.

It was a good book to know about his charm and talent. I think you would love him and Apple's products more if you will read this book.

By the way, my first Apple's product was iPod nano. When I bought it, I was very impressed with the lean package. Of course I also felt that the product was cool and great.

Kiva

source: kiva.org

I made three loan for Asians. I am hoping for their success.

night shift

I have been working on a shift since May. It is about once a month. I will work on night shift next week. It's very hard to adjust to the change in the working hours. Our night shift is from 23:00 to 8:00.