Its awfully quiet, are we actually working? - (Jun/11/2009 )
It seems to be quiet round here at the mo, where is everyone?
This past month I"ve been super busy writing reviews and abstracts for meetings, this week is a quiet week waiting for cells and other things to grow. Just wondering how everyone is...
A bored Lost
Down here, I am fine. The weather is just great with occasional rain. Bit busy doing nothing. But, am around.
Yay! Its been pretty wet up here too, with more this weekend just when I was going to go to the Yosakoi soran dance festival...Ah well.
Experiments going ok? no flu in your parts yet?
LostintheLab on Jun 12 2009, 11:22 AM said:
Experiments going ok? no flu in your parts yet?
Just one single case of the dreaded Buta-Flu/ 新型インフルエンザ so far. Some of my lab-mates returned last week from a congress in US and they did not bring the virus with them.
Rain is fun, isn't it? But, I hope it does not rain tomorrow. Was thinking of going out in the afternoon for sometime. Isn't it time for icecream up there? I don't have any Sunkus selling Hokkaido-miruku softo-cream nearby.
Nabi on Jun 12 2009, 11:41 AM said:
LostintheLab on Jun 12 2009, 11:22 AM said:
Experiments going ok? no flu in your parts yet?
Just one single case of the dreaded Buta-Flu/ 新型インフルエンザ so far. Some of my lab-mates returned last week from a congress in US and they did not bring the virus with them.
Rain is fun, isn't it? But, I hope it does not rain tomorrow. Was thinking of going out in the afternoon for sometime. Isn't it time for icecream up there? I don't have any Sunkus selling Hokkaido-miruku softo-cream nearby.
Oh yes its ice cream time up here for sure (although anytime is ice cream time as far as I'm concerned!). There is an excellent shop on the outskirts of Sapporo which has fabulous flavours like cheese, kiwi fruit, lavender, pumpkin etc. I have eaten squid ice cream in Sapporo beer factory, it wasn't so bad!
You need a conference up here in Sapporo to come and try the flavours of ice cream!
I had to spend a week away from work when I got back from a holiday in New Zealand in May, the university banned me from working.
Our Univ also thought of doing that for those coming back from US but did not impose it. All those who came back were healthy and its been a week now without anything.
As for icecreams, I love them .. . (^^) they are better in winter than summer, I think and I envy that U r in the cold north. Squid flavor should have been good. They have weird tastes everywhere. I travelled down to Kagoshima few months back just to try Siro-kuma and planing Kyoto for a good softo-cream somewhere there.
Aren't U coming down west any time? No signs of any conference in Hokkaido when looking from here.
Nabi on Jun 12 2009, 03:06 PM said:
As for icecreams, I love them .. . (^^) they are better in winter than summer, I think and I envy that U r in the cold north. Squid flavor should have been good. They have weird tastes everywhere. I travelled down to Kagoshima few months back just to try Siro-kuma and planing Kyoto for a good softo-cream somewhere there.
Aren't U coming down west any time? No signs of any conference in Hokkaido when looking from here.
I guess Hokkaido was a tad more paranoid and I didn't even go anywhere near North America!
Siro Kuma? bear ice-cream????!
I too love ice-cream in the winter, I have some nice hokkaido milk ice cream bars in my freezer at the moment, though non in work
.....yet. Can't you get those in the 7-11 or lawson? or is the local flavours only?I shall be going to Fukuoka in December for a meeting, but before that I"m off to Budapest (I"m trying to learn some Hungarian for that), so I guess its goulash a go-go there. Still no trips to Hiroshima in the offing yet.
Yeah, White(?Polar) beer in Kagoshima. U can find at 7-11 with the same name but that is in no way near the real one. I had wrong impression on Sirokuma till I had it myself at Kagoshima. 7-11 ones are not good and bit expensive.
Basically it is giant bowl of shaved-ice topped with cream and lots of fruits pieces. I have here a photo of one before I lost my patience and digged in.
It is much better than it looks in this lousy pic I could take.
Sunkus has Hokkaido Miruku but they are a little far - not so far but . . still far. There is a supa nearby and am waiting for them to bring those this season so that I can fill dept's refrigerator with those. 
Yeah, White(?Polar) beer in Kagoshima. U can find at 7-11 with the same name but that is in no way near the real one. I had wrong impression on Sirokuma till I had it myself at Kagoshima. 7-11 ones are not good and bit expensive.
Basically it is giant bowl of shaved-ice topped with cream and lots of fruits pieces. I have here a photo of one before I lost my patience and digged in.
It is much better than it looks in this lousy pic I could take.
Sunkus has Hokkaido Miruku but they are a little far - not so far but . . still far. There is a supa nearby and am waiting for them to bring those this season so that I can fill dept's refrigerator with those.
No, the pictures good, all moody lighting! that looks very Oishii so
I shall have to try and take a pic of some of the ice creams up here.
Have a good weekend anyway, I'm escaping early because I've just agreed to get up at the crack of dawn to go and support our department baseball team at 8am tomorrow....
U missed this then . . the Azuki Green Tea version.. . Ummm,
Good luck for the baseball.
