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[LostintheLab]

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

[Doki]

Down here, I am fine. The weather is just great with occasional rain. Bit busy doing nothing. But, am around.

[LostintheLab]

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?

[Doki]

LostintheLab, on Jun 12 2009, 11:22 AM, said:

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?

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.

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Nabi, on Jun 12 2009, 11:41 AM, said:

LostintheLab, on Jun 12 2009, 11:22 AM, said:

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?

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.

[Doki]

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.

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Nabi, on Jun 12 2009, 03:06 PM, said:

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.

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.

[Doki]

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.

[LostintheLab]

[quote name='Nabi' date='Jun 12 2009, 04:53 PM' post='26584']
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.
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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....

[Doki]

U missed this then . . the Azuki Green Tea version.. . Ummm,

Good luck for the baseball.

[Doki]

Good morning LiL, how was the game?

[LostintheLab]

Good morning Nabi,

Well they lost... I'm no judge of baseball (you hit the ball but anything outside of that is fuzzy for me), but I think the other team seemed to be rather good, they got lots of points. It was freezingly cold too, didn't feel like June at all.

Your previous picture lots also very nice, even if it has the dreaded anko on it. I should try and put some pictures of Hokkaido foods up... but I always forget to take a picture before eating them.

how was your weekend?

[Doki]

Never played baseball but used to play softball when I was in Junior High School. I love the game still and we closely follow our beloved Hiroshima's Carp. No problem even if they lose 23-2 like last week's game. Our love for the team is blind and deaf.

Weekend just passed by without doing anything worth remembering. Went to movies on Sat - Terminator-4 and Sunday just did goro-goro.

I have learned to overcome the urge to bite before taking picture - and it took a long time for that. Would love to see Hokkaido foods - heard a lot of good things about them. I found Siro-kuma as ice-lollies in a Supa. Not as good as the real one but was good.

[LostintheLab]

I don't even know how Nippon Ham are doing this season. At least your team sounds nicer than than Nippon Ham Fighters, which always makes me think of some form of meat-based superhero's, along the lines of the power rangers or something.

[Doki]

LostintheLab, on Jun 15 2009, 05:28 PM, said:

I don't even know how Nippon Ham are doing this season. At least your team sounds nicer than than Nippon Ham Fighters, which always makes me think of some form of meat-based superhero's, along the lines of the power rangers or something.

Haha, U said our team sounds nicer. They do sound nicer but when typing their name sometime, 'a' and 'r' tend to switch places and even if they do . . the meaning might be the same describing their performance, The good part of them is that crowd goes mad when they are winning and rest of the time they are madder yelling out all sorts of things in pure hiroshima-ben.

I thought U will have photos from ur lunch today. Need to revive the old thread.