Snow Dome

Snow Dome of Camels 

My Pakistani friend went to trip for his New Year's holidays.  He bought some dates stuff which is sweets and this at Dubai for me and it made me laugh!!  This snow dome isn't so funny?  My friends are so international and they bought some "Omoshiroi" souvenirs for me sometimes.  "Omoshiroi" means funny or interesting in Japanese.  There are those kind of stuff only middle east area, right?  Snow and camels....it doen't make sense but I love it!!

Takoyaki Machine

Ready to eat!!

18 Takoyaki cooking at once

My mom bought a TAKOYAKI machine for us.  "TAKOYAKI" is one of popular and famous soul food.  It's come from Osaka.  Tako is an octopus and make dough with flour with egg, Japanese leek, red ginger and cabbagge.  We can cook them at our dinning table.  Put Takoyaki sauce and fish freaks which is Katsuobushi on top when you eat.

My mother got same one

Look at her Happy Smile with TOSHIBA.

"Me too!  I wanna buy it."  my mother said when I told her that I got a new vacuum cleaner and rice cooker for my New Year's "Otoshidama".  "Otoshidama" means new years money or gift, maybe lottery in Japanese.  

I could go shopping if I knew it but I didn't know she also wanted to get a new cleaner so in a few days, I went back to YODOBASHI CAMERA with her.  The shop held a new year's first discount sale but it's been already over.  However I met same guy who was taking care of me on 2nd and he remembered me so I said him "Hi, I brought a new customer for you!!"  He was laugh and happy for that.  My mother got same one I bought but different color.  Actually she is a kind of TOSHIBA freak.  So it's a very comfortable to clean up our place by TOSHIBA cleaner.  Oh by the way, the staff gave me a nice mug cup as a reward!! 

A Happy New Year!

Left : Rice Cooker  Right : Vacuum Cleaner

I went to YODOBASHI CAMERA for New Year's first sale.  At New Year's Eve, our vacuum cleaner is broken so me and my husband went to shopping today.  YODOBASHI CAMERA is one of biggest electronics shopping mall in Japan and they sell things in cheap.  They held New Year's special bargain.  I wanted to buy a new rice cooker so we got it too.  We bought TOSHIBA products.  We had a more than 30,000 points which is 30,000 yen, can use as money so we used points and got these almost for free.  Can you believe I spent only 2,800 yen!!