未だに親に朝起こしてもらってるのが何か情けないというか、
自分で起きられるようにしないと今後社会に出て、一人暮らしとかできないから、
今日こそは自分で起きようと思って携帯のアラームセットしたのに、
起きれず結局お母さんに声かけてもらって春休み初日の朝を迎えました
明日の朝こそは・・・・

今日は初日とあって春休みをどう過ごすか考えてみた
大学の１年で学んだ教科をどうつなげていくか。
教科書で読まなかった部分を自分で通してやってみたり、
生化学、基礎栄養学、有機化学の同じ単元を並行して勉強していくとか、
基礎栄養学と臨床栄養学をつなげていくとか、
漠然としか考えてないけど。
実際やってみないとうまく行くか分からんし。
でもとりあえずは臨床栄養学と解剖学はやらなあかんよね

個人的に自分の英語力を伸ばしたいので、
朝 Japan Times読んで、就寝前にPodcastのCNN News聞いて、このブログを英語でも更新する。
これで、読み、書き、ヒアリングが強化されるといいな。
実際去年の夏休みもJapan Times 読むのとCNN聞くのはやってて、
その後冬休み前に受けた学内の TOEIC テストでは７０点も伸びててビックリした
夏休みの成果か

中国語もフランス語も何かしらをやろうと思って、
Podcastでダウンロードしてみたものの、
中国語はしばらくブランクがあるから果たしてどこから始めていいのやら
フランス語は大学１年で習う内容で既についていけてない状況で、
この先続けていけるのか不安

春休み入る前から、
ランニングはしたいと思ってたから、
今日SPORTS DEPOに行ってランニング用の靴買ってきた
走るぞ〜
ちゃんとbefore afterで変化が見られるように身体測定もしたよ
かなり残念なプロポーションですが
まぁ、大学２年の健康運動実践指導者の授業受ける前の体力向上も兼ねて、
モチベーション維持しながらやっていきたいと思います。

I really feel dismal about myself, not able to wake up on my own.
Still my mom helps me wake up.
I know that I can't be depending on my mom from now on,
thinking that there will be a day I would live on my own.
I was going to wake up by myself this morning and set the alarm,
but it ended up to fail.
I heard my mom calling my name. Not the alarm.
I'll try tomorrow!

Today I planned what I could do this spring break.
How I should link all the subjects I learned during the first year of university.
Like,
・Read the parts of the text that the teacher didn't go through
・Study biochemistry, basic nutrition and organic chemistry together
・How I should link basic nutrition and medical nutrition
etc.
I don't know if it would turn out to go well, but must try before I make a decision.
I definitely need to do anatomy and medical nutrition.

Personally, I want to improve my english,
so I'm thinking to read Japan Times in the morning,
listen to CNN News downloaded from Podcast,
and write in english, like what I'm doing right now.
Actually, I was listening to CNN and reading Japan Times during last year's summer break.
And what a surprise!
My TOEIC score improved 70 points!
So I thought that I might as well continue doing this.

Speaking of improvement in language,
I also want to make improvement in Chinese and French.
I really didn't know what I should start from so for now,
I downloaded some Podcasts.
For French, I'm feeling to fail sometime in the future since I can't even what I learned during my first year of university.

I was thinking to jog even before spring break,
so I went to SPORTS DEPO to buy jogging shoes.
I measured my body to make the change clear from before and after,
but it was quite shocking.
I'm gonna run to shape my body but for another reason,
I felt some necessity to build up one's strength before I become a 2nd year university student and take classes to be a health exercise instructor.

I'll try and keep high spirit and put these plans in action.

先週の木曜から始まった定期試験が今日で終わりました
今めっちゃ眠い
前期の定期試験が結構大変やったのを覚えてるけど、
後期はそれ以上に大変やった

単位落としたくないけど、落としてる可能性が考えられるのは、
臨床栄養学と人体構造学
どっちも量が多くて内容が濃い教科。
成績表早く来て〜

明日からは長い春休みが始まるし、
この期間を利用して復習せな

しかし、もう大学１年目が終わってんなぁ。
大学１回の１年間は結構長かったような感じがする。
たぶん環境が大きく変わって毎日が新鮮だったのと、
通学時間が長いのもあって、
高校生の時と比べて、１日の始まりが早く、
終わりが遅かったのが大きいと思う。

１回生で学んだ教科はすでに専門科目のものもあって、
結構勉強が充実してた感じはあるけど、
自分でその知識が使えるまでには至ってない。

この１年で学んだことをつないでいかないとねぇ。
春休み長いから本間にダレないようにしないと、
適当に時間が過ぎていってしまう。

ちゃんと計画立てよかぁ
勉強以外のことも出来る春休みでもあるから、
とにかく毎日活発に規則正しい生活を送ることを心がけよう

The test term that started last Thursday, finally ended today!
Right now, I'm feeling so drowsy.
Must get some sleep.

I remember that the test for the first semester was hard,
but this semester was much more tough.

I really don't want to fail in any subject,
but there is a possibility that I might have failed in clinical nutrition and structure of human body.
Both subject has a bunch of memorizing to do,
and has a substantial contents.
I'm so curious about my grades.

I must review what I learned, during this coming spring break.

It's surprising that one year has already gone by.
This whole year felt pretty long for me somehow.
Maybe it's because there was a big change in environment
and practically, the time I stay active in a day has inevitably extended since I need to commute to school using 2 hours one-way.

The classes I took at the university was already teaching us specialized subjects,
and it felt like I studied massively thorough it.
But I wonder how much I developed the things I learned.
I think I still can't use them either.

I must relate the things I learned in different subjects
and understand it as a one whole systematic academic.

Spring break is long so I must be careful not to linger around doing nothing.
I have to make a plan.
I also want to do something other than studying and spend a satisfying spring break.
I must keep in mind to spend each day actively and keep everything running in a constant rhythm.

ルーカスの散歩に行った後、
お母さんに晩ご飯を頼まれた

夏休み以来の晩ご飯作り

以前失敗したポンでゲージョに再挑戦しようかなぁ、
なんて思て、
それにあったメニューを考えてたら、
途中で肉汁ジューシーな肉まんがずっと食べたかったことを思い出して、
急きょ、肉まんに変更

昨日の残りのぜんざいから餡を取って、
あんまんも一緒に

COOKPADで検索して、
生地から作りました

今日の晩ご飯はこんな感じ



肉まんの上にエビチリ（by母）と右隣には中華風オニオンスープ
んで、肉まんあんまんのアップはこちら
上がきゅっとなってるのが肉まん、
つるっとしてるのがあんまん。



生地がふかふかでもう最高っ
ただ中の具がちょっとね

牛豚ひき肉を買ってしまい、牛の味に違和感
そして肉＞野菜だったので、中の具の仕上がりがちょいと固め
次回はタケノコ、椎茸、長ネギに加えて、
白菜とか足そか[
肝心の肉汁は食べにくいくらい溢れ出てきてしまい、
具はかなりの改良の余地あり

あんまんはおいしかったよ
でも、皮をもっと厚くして、
あんこ減らすとなお良いかな

次回はおやつにポンでゲージョ作ろー

My mom asked me to make today's dinner,
so after taking Lucas for a walk,
I went to the grocery shop to purchase the ingredients to make Nikumann!(has vegetable mixed meat paste in a flour dough )

At first I was thinking to make a Salmon hamburger steak,
and thought of a menu that will go good with it,
but I recalled that I had been wanting to make a Nikumann full with gravy ever since.

So I changed my menu to Nikumann!

Made Annmann with it to.(It has sweet been taste in it)

I found a nice recipe at COOKPAD and made it from the dough.

See the upper picture?
The bottom left is the Nikumann, Annmann and
to the right of it comes the onion soup,
and on the top is the Chili flavored shrimp.

The bottom picture is a bigger picture of the Nikumann, Annmann.
The smooth textured dough is the Annmann.

Both does were so soft and perfect.
The problem is the inside.

I was supposed to use pork meat only,
but I accidentally bought a mix of beef and pork.
Tasted a little awkward.
And relatively, the meat was taking a large part of the inner paste compared to the vegetables, so that made the paste a little hard.
Next time I should put napa cabbage other than,
bamboo shoot, shiitake mushroom and green onion.

The most essential gravy was so abundant that it made it hard for us to eat.

The Annmann was delicious.
I just have to make the dough a little thicker,
and cut down the bean paste.

Next time I'm thinking to make Pondegajo, that I made before last summer which I failed.

お久しぶりです！
２００９年、元日のルーカス君です
もう７歳になりました。
相変わらず元気です

外飼いなので、家の中に入れると、もうはしゃいで、
落ち着きが無いのですが、
今日は撫でていると伏せてお利口にしてました
もしや今年の目標は「お利口にする」とか？！

せっかくあげたおせち料理（黒豆、かまぼこ、きんとん）も味わいもしないで、
ガッツガッツ食べてたけど、
今年もルーカスにとって健康デ良い１年になるといいな

This is ''Lucas 2009''!
He is vigorous as always.
Would be rather young.

We keep him outside so whenever we let him inside the house,
he so hyper and frolic.

But today he was pretty calm. Good doggy!
Wonder if his goal for this year is to be a good boy!

Even though we gave him Osechi,
he just gobbled it up without tasting it,
but I hope this year would be healthy and wonderful for him.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

今日はケーキ作りに一日をあてたよ
６時間くらいキッチンにこもりっぱなし
ちょっと時間かけ過ぎたなって感じやけど、
仕上がりと味には大満足

上から見るとこんな感じ



横から見ると、こんな感じ



このケーキ４層になってて、
下からクッキークラスト、レモンローフ、ブルーベリーのムース、でフルーツ寒天
今年はレモンでさっぱりしたスポンジとラム酒を加えたムースで、
大人っぽい味付けのケーキになったよ

午前中に買い出し行って、
その後はずっとキッチン。
大体１８時頃にケーキは完成形やってんけど、
お母さんのクリスマスディナー手伝ってたら、
マジでさっきご飯食べ終わるまで、キッチンおった
ディナーはラザニア、チキン、スモークサーモンのサラダ、コンソメスープ
ラザニアがごっつおいしかった

お父さんにも腹が割れるくらい、
いっぱい笑わせてもらって、
今年も幸せなクリスマスでした。

年賀状書かなぁ

Merry Christmas!
Today I was baking a cake for the whole day!
Sounds a little stupid using one whole day just for making a cake,
but I'm really satisfied with the finish and the taste of it.

See the 2 pictures above??

The cake is made from 4 layers
From the bottom it goes,
cooky crust, Lemon loaf, Blueberry mousse, last, fruit jelly!
I flavored the sponge lemon and
put rum in the mousse so this year's cake tasted pretty mature.

After I went to buy the ingredients this morning,
I stayed in the kitchen for the whole day.
I came out, like just now!
My cake was nearly finished by 6 p.m. but,
after that I started helping my mom cooking dinner,
so I really stayed in the kitchen until I finished my dinner!

Today's splendid dinner was,
Lasagna, chicken, smoke salmon salad and soup.
Lasagna was super delicious!

This year's Christmas was a very happy one!
Can't forget what my dad said during dinner.
It just cracked me up! I mean the whole family!

Anyways Merry Christmas!

Gotta write my new year card!