10/04/2007

New computer

I am thinking to buy a new computer. I wanted to have a notebook. However, after considering the capacity and price, I decided to go with desktop computer. There are some different sizes. Yes, I still would prefer to have smaller or even smallest one, but I need my minimum condition for video card, CPU, memory. Video card must be GeForce8600GT CPU, memory should be over 2GB DDR2, CPU would be Core 2 Duo E6750/6850 or Core 2 Quad Q6600/6800.
I find one computer which is just matched for these capacity from Dospara. This computer shop will change these capaticies. On the website, I picked the smallest computer, and which I could make the original one which just matched the capaticy which I wanted. Also, the price is pretty much reasonable.
So, hopefully I buy it in a few weeks.

10/01/2007

My nephew's kindergarten dance & athletic event

My nephew had dance & athletic event in his kindergarten on 30th of September.

It suppose to be done in their ground, but it was raining today. So, they did in the gym in high school which is next to his kindergarten (5 minutes walk).

All my family except my father didn't go. My father was busy with his work today. Oh, yeah. My nephew's mum side grandma and his mum's sister also came to see him.

It started at 9am, I went there with my grandparents by their car, but it was a bit late, maybe 5-10 minutes late.
I missed pre-excise. But, next was running competition. Yes, he was 3 years old. Under the Japanese education system, school year starts in April, and finish in March. Basically, kids whose age is between 2nd of April to 1st April in next year are the same grade. Don't ask me why the the border is put on 2nd of April. It sounds strange to me, too.
Anyway, each kid had one race with other 3 kids randomly selected or just divided by their hight. My nephew got the 1st place in his group. Oh, there was one girl who was very first. She was one year youndr than my nephew, but I think she was the fastest in hers and next two older aged kids.
He did two more dances and a sort of running competition (get two coloured balls (maybe the same colour or maybe not the same) from a box, running to the same coloured baskets (10-20m away depending on the baskets), and put the ball in the basket), and tug of war (TSUNAHIKI). He was a good dancer, but he was always looking for the camera to be take by me and his parents. So, he sometimes did over reaction to a camera while he was dancing.

Anyway, I really enjoyed watching his dances and competitions, but I was very busy with taking photos of him. I actually took more than 200 photos during this event. But after I checked them in the computer, there were many unclear or unfocused photos. It was simply because darker condition by not enough brightness from the right in the gym and speedy movements of people. However, there were some very nice photos, so I was so happy with that.