Ito Shunsuke

The new portals of Ingress are appearing all over Miyako now. I believe those portal requests have been accepted by Ingress, and those, who took the pictures of them and sent Ingress the request, must be very happy to see their new portals in town.   I am one of them who is happy to see my new portal too. I have sent them like 7, 8 or even more portal requests; I see 2 of them are accepted so far. One of them is the post office in Toyomane, Shimoheigun, little farther out from southern Miyako.   You can see my handle name, DualWeildRed, credited under the picture in the green letters. The other portal is Shiroyama Shinto Shrine Main Hall.              Just one half second before I submit this request, I found the mistake, but I clicked "submit" without rethinking.   I named it "白山神社本堂　(Shiroyama Jinja Hondo, Shiroyama Shinto Shrine Main Hall)" but "Hondo (Main Hall)" is used for Buddhism temple.  ...

Assistant Producer: Yuri Kimura, Saaya Tazawa Navigator: Eri Ito Members: Charles Kosoy, Rage Paige Interpreter: Ito Shunsuke Thank you very much for the radio staffs and everybody who were in the show last night. It was very nice to see you all as always, and it's cool to have you at the show, Paige-san.   Eri san, the radio DJ, wanted to ask Paige-san how was her travel being in Miyako, but she just arrived from Morioka 1 hour before the show.  So, she had not had enough time to look around that time, but hopefully, she is having fun with Charles san and others by now.   During the radio show, Paige san mentioned the fruits, such as watermelons, cucumbers, pineapples, so on, sold at the corners in Los Angels. And people there eat those with chili pepper powder. I have never tried that before, so I am curious how the combination of sweet fruits and spicy chili pepper powder would be.. I would like to try it sometime.   There is always something...

      [TomoNas] Tomoko Onodera (vocal,) Shouhei Nasu (guiter)   [Grazia] Chigako Nozaki (flute,) Chikako Komatsu (violin) [Paint Artist] Taku Furuyama (water color paint)     That was very hot night in Miyako not only because of the summer heat, but also because of the live show at Ume Yasu, one of the popular bars in town. In the live show "Live Painting Performance," with the music played by TomoNas and Grazia, Mr Furuyama, one of the famous water color artist, painted one picture impromptu per song. So, he had only few minutes to complete one picture.   After each song,, he showed the audience what he drew, and explained what he saw in the music.   It was very interesting concept.   Also, they had the auction for the paintings after the live show. I really liked one of his paintings whose name was "Aqua," but I did not have any money to bit, so that was too bad.  Well, maybe the next time.   Just as I thought, the...

After I filled the gas at one of the gas stations in the town, I started my car to get out there. Suddenly, the store attendance stopped me by standing in front of the car that is about moving. I was almost running him over.   I almost said to him "GEEZ, man!! Even if you have a dying wish, don't make it come true with me, but somebody else!!"   The reason he asked me to stop was there was something hanging out from the front bumper.  So, I got out of the car to see what that was.   Then, I saw this guy, Mr. K was sitting down on his heels, and checking my front bumper with the store attendance.  I did not see anybody coming down from the sky, so he must be coming out from the ground like one of those green people in Dragon Ball.     What hanging out there was some sort of the wire to connect to the fog light which I don't have it there. The small rid to hold the wire was little bit off so, that's how the wire had come out. I put it ba...

When I was babysitting, those kids asked me to make something with the cray. So, I took one of the books of Frozen, the Disney movie, and started making little Anna from the story.               After I made it, I showed them and they asked me what that was.  So I told them:     me: This is Anna from the Disney movie, Frozen.  kid#1: NO IT'S NOT!!!  me:  Yeah, it is.  kid#1: NO THAT'S LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD!!!  me: Little red... OH.  You know what?  The Little Red Riding Hood is Anna in Frozen.  You may not know but basically, they are the same person.      Then, the kid#1 stopped.  That's "Frozen," literally, I thought, but the next moment,      kid#2: NO, THEY ARE NOT THE SAME!!!      Then, they started telling me how the Little Red Riding Hood and Anna from Frozen are different, what are thos...

MISDO Playlist (1) http://itoshunsuke.blogspot.jp/2015/07/misdo-playlist-1.html [oldies but goodies (1) (2)] [THE MORNING SHUFFLE (2)] [Now Hit Parade (2)] [oldies but goodies (2) (2)] [The Special! (2)] THE NIGHT SHUFFLE (2)

    Producer: Hisao Hashimoto Assistant Producer: Yuri Kimura, Saaya Tazawa Navigator: Eri Ito Members: Ben Pedersen, Yonae Rolle Interpreter: Togo Sasaki, Ito Shunsuke Thank you very much for the great show as always, the radio staffs and members!! It was very fun as usual and so funny to hear how they did at the cutter boat race, especially that they were beating each other because their timing of paddling had been off from each other *s*   I wanted to join to the race too, but somehow I thought the race would be sometime in September.  Even when I saw the pictures from the race on their timeline on SNS, I thought those pictures were from the previous year.  My positiveness makes me blind sometimes like this *LOL*       Besides the cutter boat race, we talk about the food in summer time. In Japan, people eat cold noodles, "hiyashi chuka" and "reimen." It totally killed Togo san, the interpreter. Because he interpreted "hiyashi...

In middle of April, when I went back to home, there was something sitting in front of the door. It was a rooster.         I was bit freaked out and confused.   I thought I was probably the only one in the world who had been freaked out by seeing a rooster in front of own house door at the moment.       And yesterday, there was another something sitting in front of the door.   It was a cat.            I think there's got to be some sort of formula for these gatekeepers.  And I found the answer.   First I found the rooster, then, the cat.  Following gatekeeper animals are:  Dog, dragon, pig, snake, rat, horse, ox, sheep, tiger, monkey, and cat, then back to the rooster.     In order to find it, I used the Chinese zodiac chart.         Picture a clock over this image on above; rat is at...

"In summer the nights. Not only when the moon shines, but on dark nights too, as the fireflies flit to and fro, and even when it rains, how beautiful it is!" [The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillow_Book As the Pillow Book written by Sei Shonagon says, the evening/night time is gorgeous in summer time in Japan.  The fireflies are excellent, but also taking a walk on the path in between the rice fields in the cool air with the mountain breeze is also great after the summer heat in Hanawa, Miyako.  That was my last Sunday evening. Hanawa Elementary School:  https://goo.gl/maps/Fz561

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Blogs and AdSense http://itoshunsuke.blogspot.jp/2015/07/blogs-and-adsense.html     When I see my Adsense page today, I see some numbers!! *Yay* Last time I open this page after years about 10 days ago, I found that I had made only 78 yen, and other numbers on the list were zero yen. But now, I see "+224 yen!!" This is GOOD. I will donate whatever I make from my blogs to the city of Miyako. Then, hopefully the city of Miyako will let people know by saying "The blogger, Ito Shunsuke, from Miyako has donated 10,000 yen!!" on city paper. So, I will get more traffic, and it will make even more money. Then, I probably can donate 100,000 yen next year, and 1,000,000 yen for the following year, so on. When it reach to 10,000,000 yen, I will say       *LOL*

Friday is the day that they collect the burnable trash in my area. So, I was taking my trash out. I usually take a walk after I throw the trash to the public garbage box. When I was walking back to the home, I saw one lady who was throwing like mount of the trash. Then, she saw me and her face was like I assumed she felt sorry to threw away so much trash at once. But after I came back to home and thought "OMG.  What if those were DEAD BODY?  Did she killed someone!?" Yet, I did not hear that anybody had gone missing nor saw police was being around to find somebody.  So, it was not dead body, but bags of dildolls or something.

　 Assistant Producer: Yuri Kimura, Saaya Tazawa Navigator: Eri Ito Members: Ben Pedersen, James Macrae Interpreter: Ito Shunsuke  　 Thank you for all who came to the show also the staffs who supported the show!! That was a good show because of you folks, Yuri san, Saaya san, Eri san, Ben chan, and James chan.  James had came in very last second before the show started.  He was like sliding himself between the space of the door that was about to close.  But too bad that Toby could not make it inside the studio.  Sorry, man.  Togo san could not make it either because of his work, but hopefully we can have them in the studio next time.     Togo san has been a reliable interpreter for last 3 or 4 times, so I have not interpreted for about a month.  I felt bit weird to interpret all by myself, but I think I done enough what I could.     The topic was about "mosquito." The radio staffs told Eri san to pick the topic, so she...

The ALT had to take the medical examinations in the different rooms, so the three of us, the ALT and her boyfriend and I were going around the hospital.    　 It was little surprised that she knew me before I met her.   She was listening the radio program, MICR (Miyako International Community Radio,) over the internet; I am the part of the show as the interpreter.    She has the radiko, the radio application, on her android phone.  So, that was how. 　 [Radiko] Application: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.radiko.Player&hl=ja Radiko Webdiste: http://radiko.jp/    But every time I see the people who say  "Oh, hey.  The radio show you are in is fun!" kind of things, I feel awkward because that makes me feel like            　     　 I know how the radio works. but still that's how I feel.  That could be the reason I don't really get n...

One of the ALT got sick and I had to take her to the hospital. In order to get where she was, I did not want to get lost since I am not good in the direction even in my hometown Miyako. So, I asked the address to the ALT recruitment company staff and put that to navigator application on my android phone. (Actually, I had been to the place several times, but I wanted to make sure the address.) I drove about 15 minutes, and the navigator said that I was at the destination. So, I parked my car and look around. I was in the forest. I got off the car to see where I was. There was a road in front of me seemed like going down to the beach. There was a road behind me that's where I came from. Left hand side was a forest, so was the right hand side. Beautiful blue sky up there, and birds were singing. WHERE THE HECK AM I THOUGH?  I thought. I called the company back again to confirm the address. The staff said the address was in "Saki-Kuwagasaki, Miyako" while...

It was the one of the hottest day in Miyako last Sunday. So, I visited Suido Kouen (Water supply park) where has the water fountains and benches that I can sit and cool down a bit. You can also bring a beach chair and sit to get suntan, or a plastic sheet to put on the grass under the trees to read a book. There were many people that day; I guess everybody there had thought to come to the park as well. I saw some boys playing with their water guns loading the water there, shooting it up in the air, and catching the falling water with their mouths while I heard one boy was shouting "MOM!  I PEED!" out loud. I guess it's not a good idea for you to load your water gun there, shoot it up in the air, and catch the falling water with your mouth.

I am a hacker; especially when I cook, I become a hacker. I mean.. I always seek the way to make complicate procedures simple from different prospective. Yes, you can say that I am just "lazy." *LOL* But hey, that's how technologies in different areas have been improved. Now, let's say that you cook pancakes. (In Japan, they call it "hot cakes" instead of "pancakes" by the way.) Anyhow, the ideal pancakes are like below.   For me, that looks being required too many flipping works. So, I was thinking how to make it less flipping work. Then, mine came out like this: Well, what I did is that I made one big pancake instead of many little pancakes. Then, I just cut it into to 6 pieces. In this way, I just need to flip once. But as you can see in the picture, I needed to wait long enough to make its inside heated and solid. I ended up heating it in the microwaves.  It was still good though *s*    

The English teachers in Miyako's one of the favorite places to hang out is Mr.Donuts. They have not only the delicious donuts and refill free coffee, but also the very nice music in the background. I checked what kind song they have on their playlist and made it in Youtube. So, play this music to turn your room into Mr. Donuts.  (You have to buy your donuts and coffee because these are only playlist and does not come with donuts nor coffee *LOL*) [oldies but goodies (1) (1)] [THE MORNING SHUFFLE (1)] [Now Hit Parade (1)] [oldies but goodies (2) (1)] [The Special! (1)] [THE NIGHT SHUFFLE (1)]

Navigator: Eri Ito Members: Yonae Rolle, James Macrae Interpreter: Togo Sasaki (*Photo by Togo Sasaki)     Thank you very much, Eri chan, Togo chan, Yonae chan, and James chan, who were at the radio show yesterday!! It was very lively show as always. Sorry that I could not make it, but I was happy to listen you folks were doing the great show in the other side of the radio.   Eri san did very good work as a DJ for the whole show.   She had her lines solid in the script, and guided everybody there very well. Togo san did excellent interpreting even though in some parts, I could picture that he was showing the "yellow card" over the radio to ask me for some help. *s* You did a very skillful work, Togo san. Yonae chan and James chan, thank you for coming join to the show. It sounded little bit hard for James to talk about Tanabata which he had no idea what that is. I enjoyed listening his inner voice saying "What the heck Tanabata is anyway?" But i...

I have been organizing my online "stuffs," and found that I have few blogs. Those are: 2 blogs that have only the titles on the top, but no article at all. Another 2 blogs, I wrote some articles, but had no update since couple years ago.(*) Another 1 blog, it keeps updating automatically by itself (and still going.) Another 1 blog, I am writing with different name, but it has not been updated like for years. The other one is this. I am using this blog as diary, and restarting another 2 blogs (*) again now.   One of 2 blogs is " Hearts2Hearts " - In this blog, I am introducing excellent quotes from my timeline in SNS.  Because those quotes are in English, I translate them to Japanese, so Japanese readers can get known those beautiful quotes of the world.   The other one is " Copipe Forest " - Copipe is the abbreviation of "copy-and-paste" in Japanese.  Forest stands for "bunch of" So, the blog is consisted by "bunch of c...

" Tanabata is a Japanese festival originating from the Chinese Qixi Festival. In present-day Japan, people generally celebrate this day by writing wishes, sometimes in the form of poetry, on tanzaku, small pieces of paper, and hanging them on bamboo, sometimes with other decorations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabata  " So, my wish for this Tanabata in year of 2015 is: Well, going pee is really wasting the time and money especially when I am driving. When I am driving and have to go to bathroom, first I have to find a convenience store; I would be lucky if I could find the public bathrooms like the ones at the train station or at the parks. But a convenience stores are easier to find because there is at least one almost every couple miles. Though, after I use their bathroom, I feel like I have to buy something there, you know. I cannot just use their bathroom and walk away. So, I buy something to drink. Then, I drive. After while, the drink makes me ...

　 　 　　　 One of the public bathroom in Hachiman Kouen (Hachiman Park) cannot be used for a while now. There was a paper on its door said "The toilet was destroyed by somebody, and the police is looking for the person who did it. So, we close this toilet for a while - City of Miyako." It has the picture on it too. I have been seeing similar pictures on the timeline of mine in the SNS, such as facebook and google plus; then, one question came in to my mind which is "Did Taco Bell finally opened in Miyako!?"   　 　 (The park's name was not on Google Map. That was another discovery.  I thought Professor Google knows everything.  There is actually something I know better than Google.  Yay.)

I have been looking for this guy for the longest time in my life. And finally I found him in the real life!!    ...that's what I thought the first time I saw these corns for the construction in front of my parents' house.  They were repairing the cracks and gaps of the stairs, so the construction folks placed them there.  Though why are those corns have red and white stripes on them?  Aren't they usually in one color like orange or red?   Well, red and white stripes means "festival" in Japan.   So.  Are they going to have "construction festival?" I have no idea what "construction festival" is, but at least that's how they appeared to me, or the missing guy.   

Every Tuesday and Friday are the day for burnable trash in my area, so I was taking the trash out in this Friday morning.   On the way to the public trash place, I saw the neighbor elder lady who was trying to get her bicycle out from the garage.  She was facing the other way working for something, and I wanted to say her "good morning" since I thought it was kind of rude if I didn't. So, I was walking and looking at her waiting for her to turn around because I did not want to make her surprised by greeting from her back.   Then, I stumbled on the brick, and almost fell down. One old lady was seeing the whole thing, and she said "I see you are in love with her, but you have to see straight where you are going."   I was like    

   Navigator: Eri Ito Members: Toby Almy, Adam Ramli Interpreter: Togo Sasaki, Ito Shunsuke        Thank you very much for everybody who came join to the radio live yesterday. In the beginning of the show, we talked about the rainy weather these days, yet neither Togo san nor I were ready for the translation of Tanabata festival when Eri san asked about it.  So, it was like surprised attack from Eri san. But, Togo san managed it very well just by passing me the translation. I tried my best to explain about Tanabata somehow.  Hopefully, they got some idea of it.      I felt kind of sorry to hear that Yonae san's story. While other ALT were going to Mt. Gassan, they left Yonae san in town because she seemed unwell the day.  So, because they did not want to bother her, they left her without saying anything.   When they were driving on the way to Mt. Gassan, Yonae san kept calling them to ask them th...

Azuki (red bean) ice candy is one of the hardest ice candy in Japan. It's almost as hard as the Nokia phone, so that azuki ice candy can break your teeth, seriously. I was not big fan of the azuki ice candy because of it. When I have to eat one of them, I wait til it gets melt little bit. So, that can make it softer a bit.       But yesterday, one of my teammate of Ingress told me over the message to crunch azuki ice candy out loud whenever you feel vexing. What she actually said was "when you feel down, have Anzai sensei, from the cartoon Slam Dank, in your heart, and when you feel vexing, crunch azuki ice candy out loud" as some sort of the advise.  I have never read Slam Dank, so I did not get the Anzai sensei part, but I tried the azuki ice candy crunching. It was just great, and crunching made the taste even much better somehow. I think it's similar to making the big noise of sucking noodle when you eat ramen actually make the taste better. Now, I b...