10.000 yen challenge ; final report
10.000 yen challenge ; final report
Finally, I finished 10.000 yen food challenge somehow.
The duration was a month(4/18~5/18)
Last time i wrote the diary about this challenge, 1611 yen left at May 4. after that, I paid some money , so the rest of them ended up 260 yen for 8days haha, It was really first time to get over such a situation. And I used some of them for buying bread, and banana, and all money left at the end were 60 yen for 4days. Anyway, I could get over the challenge without any cheating.
・what I got
1, how delicious foods are
2, people can live only with 10,000 yen somehow
3, it wasnt harder than I thought.
4, how important money is
through this challenge, i could learn many things i may not learn from ordinary food lifestyle. Thats big gifts i got from this try , it was just for a month though. And Tonkastu bento that was the first food i ate after this challenge, was so tasty, which is sold at supermarket though, that ill never forget. its a really good findings. i thought i have to appreciate all meals i eat every time.
I wanna try another challenge someday , next time, 9,000 yen challenge.
10,000 yen a month for food expenses
During this coronavirus problem, I can't go out enough, bit feeling stressed, so I started 10,000 yen for food expenses challenge. first of all, 100 yen is equal to 1 Dollar approximately. Second, i can use food material I ready have or stock.
・ WHY ?
I have mainly two reason for starting this challenge.
1, this is my first challenge, new experience.
2, I think through this challenge, it will teach me some lessons like what is needed really for living, or this is actually not needed. Those findings will simplify my way to live.
・ Time for challenge 4/18-5/18
im writing this article on May 4th, its already been 16 days,passing half of it, but i already spent 8,243 yen so 1757 yen left for 14 days. it seems to be challenge haha.
・ Household account
April 18 0 yen
April 20 1244 yen
April 23 1347 yen
April 28 925 yen
April 30 2407 yen
May 1 709 yen
May 4 1611 yen
・Food
Im gonna introduce what kind of foods I eat in this period.
Moring
bread (with butter, chocolate , blueberry jam ) with coffee.
Lunch
pasta with some sources,
fried rice
cereal with yogult, and banana, honey
Japanese soba(my favorite)
yakisoba with onion
omelette
Dinner
Nabe(hot pot )(tohu, shrinps, some mushrooms, fish)
・Progress report
1, Its more enjoyable and not so hard than I thought before I started.
2, I feel its kinda enough things to eat for a month, its just in the half though. and this leads to saving my money for future.
3, I can say that this challenge is healthier than normal way for food practivce because I became to buy from materials, not already cooked food.
4, I found myself that I havent eaten any meats for long time, instead of it, I eat fish or shrinp.
Those are the sample of what I buy recently for this challenge~
Still I have more half month to go , i gotta go for it.
World gourmet 3 ~Portugal~
This time, im going to fearture the gourmet we can meet in Portugal where is known as the place in 15 century called " The age of Discovery ".
We went to Lisbon , and the capital city Porto.
In Portugal, egg tart, and octopus dish are famous.
I like this kind of sweets, so everytime I find egg tart there, I ate them and comparing them. it costs around 1~2 euro. there are lots of coffee offering egg tart, so you can eat and take a rest while you are touring the city. Egg tart is so good taste, but i dont recommend you to eat them too much. I feel like I ate enough egg tart to last my whole life 😅. Anyway, the taste was really good so you need to check it out.
This is a dish named " Francesinha" that is said to be brought by France. The main stuff in the middle is bread, full of meat and sourse, which you must wanna taste it. 😎 Actually till I went to Portugal, i didnt know about this, but thanks to my frined's research, we could eat it. and this is one of the famous food there, so try it!
Here is the dish famous in Porto. it is because Porto faces to the sea, and the place famous for the age of discovery. so no wonder porto is famous for seafood, and you can't come back without eating it. this is the typical octopus dish there, we can eat fresh octopus. so tasty😋
Portogul is a small country, but there are lots places to see and visit, you can enjoy not only for visiting touring spot, but foods😎.
World gourmet 2 ; Jaén
This time, im going to feature the goumet of my place Jaén where is located in the south part of Spain called Andalucia ~.
This is really typical breakfast in this region called bread with tomatos with olive oil, and ham. the sourse is cold. when you eat the toast, first, cut the surface of the toast so that the source soak good ,which i learnt from my professor of the geography haha. you can eat this breakfast with only around 2~3 euro with coffee, so sometimes when i go to school, i dropped by the coffee shop and had this breakfast. I like it so much.
These foods are served at a same restaurant named Bar Barranco that is so close to my place and university so i often went there to have lunch. Actually i dont know the exact name of these food below, but they cost around 5~8? euros , having cheap price image.
The baguette with cheese was the one i ate with my spanish roommate and was really big as they're saying ,it's little bit hard to see from this picture though, you can see how big it is comparing the glass beside. Cheap and big food are good 😎
In Spain, especially in Andalucia region is famous for tapas, which you can have when you order one drink at bar or kinda restaurant place. This is Tapas i used to have. it costs only 2.5 euros with drink. so we often gathered there and had lunch. Every bar serves different Tapas, some serves small one, some not. So we can enjoy what kind of Tapas we can eat.
World gourmet 1
Im gonna pick some good gourmet I ate on the way of traveling and introduce them 😋
Writing it and i noticed i have many pictures of gourme, so im gonna write about it splitly.
This is a dish I ate after Camino de Santiago as a feast at Galicia region in Spain. I still really remenber the taste vividly. it was really good one so we can enjoy the freshness of the octopus that is famous in the region. so i really recomand you to try it once when you visit there.
This is the picture of grilled goat meat cooked by Berber people in Morocco. We ate the goat that was running just before they cooked and was killed for dinner in front of us. The taste was really good. This was a good lesson for me to know deeply about what life it is and we eat their life to live actually.
Spain is famous for ham! Everyone loves ham there, and as you can see there are various type of ham in spain. this is a picture taken at the hotel buffet in Granada. The taset was awsome and one bite is enough to take every person to heaven. you gotta check it 😎
This is just amazing. No explanation to describe the taste it has. Just go and check it out. I can say this is the best gourme i ate when i was doing Europe journey. This is a pizza in Naples where is known as the birth place of pizza and pasta, and whats more, we can eat them with low price and big size, and best taste. At that time we ate it, we didint eat at all before we arrived there, and so tired by moving, then we found this place for pizza having a good reputation, but so local spot seemly. And our choise was totally correct. If i can go to Italy again, i gotta go there to taste it again👍.
Coronavirus : what we can do to contain it faster
Since early this year, gradually the new coronavirus started spreading around the world and is giving serious impact on various aspects, like changes of the way to live, economy, envirounment, and so on. Every countries disclosed the statement we need to stay at home and stop economy activities till it gets settled down, which makes us worry about till when it continues or when this virus activity will be over.
We are living in so many information since the virus came out. So, to know right informatin, and to be afraid of new coronavirus properly, we need to access right information among them. For example, how this kind of human infection virus born, what kind of environment people can get infected easily, and is it seasonal virus or not, what kind of people get serious when they infected and so on.
In general, what we can do for containing this virus, this is the only way. Do not go out unless you have something you must do. This is for not spreading virus from human to human. Its simple, but its sometimes hard just staying home becaouse of less activity than usual. Japan also is taking the measure requireing people not to go out and stay home since early April after the declaration of state of emergency. Untill having immune system in most poeple, or getting new vaccine for this virus, it is said that we need to continue to take this measure not to get worse for us , and for economy. so thats why some people say it takes over one year or more to make this virus end, given the time of inventing the vaccine.
Staying home , sometimes you may feel boring, or nothing to do. But find something to do without outing, that helps it make it end faster. not to get worse this situation any more, what we can do is taking the method we can do. Then the normal life will return again and we can go out as we want like before.
Newest technology with VOCALOID
I saw one song written by Kenshi Yonezu, that is called " 砂の惑星”, which was sang by Miku Hatsune, which is famous vocaloid. it shames me, but that was the first time for me to know not only a song for vocaloid, but also the fact that creator can provide songs to vocaloid. Acutually ,its not providing, but make a song by using the system of vocaloid,like this case.
I think everybody already knows the most famous vocaloid character Miku Hatsune. after knowing the song, i started to find lots information about Miku Hatsune. it is said that the vocaloid system Miku Hatsune was invented by YAMAHA since 2007, till now it has been developing , and what i was surprised is MIku Hatsune`s live. At the concert, we can see her on the stage as if she is there really. According to the explanation about it, they are developing image technology by repeating lots making experiments and through this kind of live. they use hologram to project the character onto several screen, so that we can see the object made by it like its real,3D! its totally innovative 😎. And whats more that i was surprised is all audience there really are excited when the live starts and see Miku hatsune ,though they already know that its not real,but image. its really interesting. A girl from the electronic world entertains so many people in the world. when i watched the live, i really felt it exists there, like she is living in this world because she is singing and dancing, sometimes does call and response with audience. If you still doubt it, then check it.
It has really good aspects like i wrote above, on the other hand, sometimes when i wached it, i felt sadness or lonliness from the characters on the music video or the live. i think it was coming from the fact that it was made by a creater to give a life to it. so it means all vocaloid totally depends on human,like creater, technician, and electricity. For example, after finishing every songs, the character disappears because of adjusting. its really sad thing. Even though we can see them at live like its real, performing like all vocalids are enjoying, having some emotion alike to the one we have, actually it doenst exist there. so in some meaning, I think its really alike to the behaviour that robots have. they are programmed by designer to do something good for human by contributing. they do whatever if its programmed, but they cant do more than its programmed. they dont have emotion, though they are made with the outside alike to human body. Thats why i feel sadness from seeing vocaloid maybe. or it might be better than not be able to see them at all,but.
