混ぜればできる、というもとをもらっていて一年くらい経って、ようやくやってみた！ すごい芳香がただよう。美味！！
Made chicken rice with a packet of seasoning that I got from a friend about a year ago. Finally got to try it. It filled my kitchen with fragrant pandan and ginger aromas. So nice... and of course it was delicious! It made me miss Singapore.
Peach festival というとジョージア州の何かだと思われるが…
三十三間堂が無料公開されていた。当日限定の桃のお守り、桃のおみくじなどあった。商売上手～と思いながらも、母へのお土産に購入。価値の分かる人にもらってもらえたらいいよね。むっちゃくちゃいい天気だった、それにしても…。鴨川を自転車でこいでるだけで最高。
Sanjusangendo temple was freely open to the public today for the Peach Festival. There were Hina dolls displayed too. There were so many people there! They know what is free and where to go, including me. Peach-themed lucky charm and fortune-telling were only for sale today, and apparently flying off the shelves like pancakes. Good business... so I thought, but I got one as well for my mom as a souvenir. At least she appreciates that kind of stuff, so.
It was a BEAUTIFUL day! Cycling on a sunny, warm day lets me forget everything and just relax, feeling refreshed.
Had an opportunity to design bean pasta box. It is to showcase what beans can be made into. I'm honored to lead this project! Despite unexpected delay, 300 printed boxes will soon come to the lab and filled with pasta, and be shipped to an internal conference for distribution. I am excited to hear people's opinions on it. A three-month project nearly finished.
I got to learn how to use Illustrator a little bit, so it was a big plus.
豊岡で白黒のパンダ豆を発見したので大量買いしてしまった。調査用、布教用。笑
さすが昨年秋に収穫されたばかりなだけあって、20分くらいで柔らかくなった。色もきちんと黒白に分かれたままで、綺麗です。中はクリーミーで美味しい。いもっぽい、でんぷん質さがあるけど、やはり豆は豆味。
Got a locally grown black and white beans. it was ~$3.6 for a 7 oz. bag of dried beans. I will go bankrupt if I have beans as a staple food instead of rice, I'd love to, though! They're fast-cooking, onlyl 20-25 min, I think, as I overcooked them by boiling them for 28 min. They are about the size of cranberry beans, and the colors were retained nicely.
梅小路公園、その名前の通りきれいだった。青空だったらなおきれいだったんだけどー
紅梅？のようなどピンクのドレス（しかも上下分かれたヘソ出し）を着て写真撮影している梅の妖精さん？がいてた…。成人女性、長身がっしり体型。コスプレかな…？
Plum blossoms at Umekoji park!
There was a lady wearing separate frilly pink dress and photo-shooting. She looked like a plum fairy. Cos-play? Wasn't courageous enough to take a picture with her, but it was cute to watch.
フランス人の方がおすすめしてくれたので美味しいに違いない！と思っていったら本当においしかった…！ いろんな種類の餃子に、麺とか中華おかずとかもある。他にも色々食べてみたい。
大田比路さんの、「この世は金持ちが牛耳る社会」というの、ことあるごとに思い出した方がよい…。
お金持ちは1日8時間も、毎日働かなくてもよい。なぜなら、莫大な財産が産み出す利子だけで生活できるからだ。
「低所得者層は、労働しなければ生きていけないように仕向けられている。もっと消費するように踊らされて、負債を抱えさせられるからだ。現代の奴隷を縛るものは、足かせではなく、借金なんだね。」
労働者は、もっと消費しろ！ もっと働け！ もっと競え！ 甘えるな！（公的援助はなくて当然！） という4つの価値観を幼い頃から叩き込まれ、資本主義社会において心身ともに労働者となる準備をさせられる。資本主義社会では、資本家が労働者を使い、より豊かになる。そして、労働者に労働を余儀なくさせるために、ローン漬けにする。大企業はもちろん、政府までもが一見善良者のような顔で労働者階級に喧伝してくるそれは、資本家を、資本主義社会を肯定する。労働者はそれを信じさせられ、疑うことなく労働と借金と消費に満ちた一生を送り、資本家を、権力者を、もっと豊かにする。 つまり、「弱者が弱肉強食を肯定する社会」というトンデモナイ世界に我々は生きているのだ。
低所得階級である我々は、そんな現実を突きつけられると絶望しかない。だから、目を背ける。「労働から得られるものもきっとある。」「お金持ちでも、得られないものもある。」それも本当だろう。しかし、この社会の仕組み、そもそもが、弱者に圧倒的に不利にできているというこの現実は、忘れてはいけない。なぜなら、社会は、声を大にして、それを忘れろと大声で命令してくるのだから。
I should remember Mr. Hiro Ohta's statement, "This world is a society where the rich have a control on everything" more frequently....
The rich do not have to work 8 hours a day, every day, because they can live on the interest that their vast wealth generates.
The low-income class is made to work in order to survive. Moreover, they are made to consume more, and they are made to go into debt. So what binds the modern slave is not shackles, but debt.
Workers, consume more! Work more! Compete more! Self help! (No public assistance, of course!) These four values are drilled into them from an early age, preparing them to become workers, both physically and mentally, in a capitalist society. In a capitalist society, capitalists use workers to get richer. Then, to force the workers to work, they take them on loans. The propaganda that big business and even the government try to impose to the working class with seemingly benevolent faces, it affirms capitalists and the capitalist society. The workers are made to believe it, and they unquestioningly live a life filled with work, debt, and consumption, making the capitalists and those in power richer. In other words, we live in a ridiculous world of "a society that the weak affirms the power of the strong".
As a low-income class, "we" can only despair when confronted with such a reality. Therefore, we look away. "There must be something to be gained from labor." "There are some things that rich people can't have." That may be true. However, we must not forget the reality that the structure of our society, to begin with, is overwhelmingly unfavorable to the weak. We must not forget it because society continuously and loudly commands us to forget it.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) with major edits by author.
