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This post is only to inform my blog readers of some changes I made today.

Change1: About page is a bit modified.
Change2: Links page is accessible from “Blogroll” at the sidebar, not from the menu bar any longer as it used to.
Change3: Hire Me! page is added to the menu bar.

Thanks!
Kirin

At a moment, I’m planning to go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia somewhere in March. I’ve noticed that many of my blog readers are from Malaysia, and I’ve been interested in the country. But I never thought the chance would come so soon.

This time, my purpose is half for business and another half for fun. I will stay there a week or so…if possible. If any of you have been a reader of this blog and are interested in seeing me in person in Kuala Lumpur, this is a good chance!

I have to arrange my trip, read a guidebook, prepare for what I should see and study there, and so many things to make my short stay useful. Please advise me or give me tips about Kuala Lumpur if you are familiar with the city, or if you have travelled there. Your comments or emails are very much appreciated!

Thanks! ^ ^

Just a quick post before I leave for the new year party this evening, let me ask this to you now.
The question is as in the title of this post: Who else wants to subscribe to my kawaii newsletters?
What’s that?

Well…once I suggested if there is anyone who might be interested in reading my kawaii newsletters that focuses on actual kawaii/cool/nice shopping information among Japanese online stores such as Rakuten or maybe any kind of online shops as now you know you can make use of the service that allows you to have your address in Japan. You could browse Japanese online shops or Rakuten as you like, but what if you don’t know the right key word to search the very item you are looking for? What if the English translation doesn’t correspond to the name of the item and as a result, you cannot reach what you are looking for? Also you may not know what’s hot in Japan now and that there are things which you never expect to exist but they actually do.

This is the background of the reason I came up with the idea of kawaii newsletters. I hear at a moment there are some who want me to do this. (The newsletters will be issued irregularly, to which you will subscribe from the opt-in form by entering email address and your name. ) If there are more people who want me to do this, I’ll go for it. So…this post today was to ask your opinions. Are there any other people who would like that service or not? The email newsletters are free, of course. So when I do that, that means there are certain numbers of people who want it.

Let me hear what you think.
I look forward to your comments or direct messages to me from CONTACT page.
Gotta go now… :p

*It’s only my hand drawing without any draft or planning (LOL) but I drew it thanking you all!

Year 2009 is getting over…
How was this year to you? Did you have special days or experiences or achievements or anything this year? As for me, altogether I’d say this year was very good!

-good things-
-I could finally travel abroad for the first time in 4 or 5 years. I went to Australia, Netherlands, Belgium, and Italy.
-I was able to have 2 Onsen (hot spring) trips: one was to West Japan, including Kyoto and Osaka, the other one was with Pi-chan.
-I worked harder on this blog, and it seems that the visiters, subscribers, and comments have increased a lot, compared to this time last year.
-I could get connected with many people from blogging, and I actually made friends with some of them. I met them in person! There was even someone who I worked with! This is so great, as it’s one of the purposes of keeping this blog.
-I started to trade stocks and made good profit out of them for a beginner. (beginner’s luck?!)
-I challenged DECOTTI and decoden for the first time but they went good.
-Thanks to Pi-chan, I found exuberant motherhood inside myself, which was least expected in my life so far and widen my way of thinking.

-bad things-
-I have become too busy to see friends often.
-I got fat because I have to work on computer too long hours and no time to exercise.
-For the same reason above, I sometimes suffer from back ache, dry eye, and stiff shoulder.
-I had less job offers for writing (in Japanese).

This year I had more good things than bad things, which I believe is because sometime ago, it was vice versa.
Then what I want to achieve next year?

-I need to work out to get fit and lose accursed fat! I’ve made an appointment for a beginner Belly Dance class that is open for trial on 8th Jan. 2010.
-I learned how it’s like to trade stocks this year, which was less risky compared with Forex because there’s no notion of leverage. Now I’m starting to study Forex and I will practice trading on Forex next year to gain profit safely.
-I work on blog as much as I have done this year, to make it more useful, informative, helpful, enjoyable and interesting to my blog readers. Hopefully I want to make a free material for you to enjoy. But I wonder what topic will make many of my blog readers happy.
-I want to enjoy cooking more. Now it has become a chore that I cannot stop and keep doing day after day. I want to change my mind.

To make these possible, I know I have to give up some things. That’s how things are.
I will have less time seeing my friends, which I have to accept.
I will have to struggle and suffer from practicing trading Forex.
I will have no time to study foreign language, even though I’m quite interested in that.
I will have small time of reading books, and almost no time to watch TV and movie. (same as this year)
I will be busy again…
But it’s OK, I have a big goal, and to achieve it I can accept this.

I wish you all the best for 2010, and I’ll see you again in next year! As mentioned in my last post, end of the year to early January is a long period of holiday for Japanese people who can finally rest from work. It’s only Golden Week in May and this time of the year that we can rest without hesitation against our colleagues or boss of the company that one works for. That’s why many of us travel this time paying 3 times more money than off-peak season.

I will be away from blogging for a while, maybe until around 3rd of January.

Thank you for reading my blog, and exchanging comments or messages with me from time to time.
I really enjoy communication with people from various places around the world. I will just do my best to keep this blog a better place for you and make it useful or informative and also entertaining. If you have any opinions, suggestions, messages, or anything, please feel free to contact me or leave me comments.

How would you like to spend next year? Do you have any big plan or goal?
Best wishes for your new year 2010!!

Simone from Harukosama.com was so nice as to feature me in her blog as a “coolhunter”.
Please look at the page she created. The black and white art looks very interesting. (My face is so flat, that’s so…Japanese LOL…well, never mind that!)

At first I felt a little timid to be listed under one of the coolhunters among other authorities. But I’d rather appreciate her choosing me as one of them, and she has created interviews and this article very promptly. This is one of the greatest things I can experience from blogging. I can feel that someone has paid attention to what I have been doing. When I had a job offer from a reader of my blog, that was so wonderful as well, but you know that how much your comments, emails, messages, etc. also mean to me. All these things give me energy to produce something interesting, useful, and informative to my audience.

If you’d ever think of featuring me in your blog, just like Simone did this time, I’d be more willing to answer your interview questions, too!
If I am better at time management, I’d like to interview someone, like Japanese kawaii artists, fun people, and cool guys…etc. and share with my audience. :p
There are so many things I can do to make this blog a better one, but there always exists a limit while I am a single player. ^ ^;