Sunday, January 3, 2010

仕事始め・・・shigoto hajime (the first work of the new year)...

hello 2010, the year of tiger. the year of those people who were born in '38, '50, '62, '74, '86, and '98 including shinya!

寅年の木村氏。よっ!年男!


our first work of the new year,
going to the flea market!!

今年の仕事始めはもちろん、
アンティーク・フリーマーケット歩きからざんす。
なんて縁起が良いのかしら。


only a few people know that shinya is an entomologist.

日本の皆さんにはお馴染み、昆虫学者でもある木村氏、虫を凝視。


what's wrong? the cart is empty.

どうなさったのかしらね、
いつもより小さいカートなのに空っぽざんすよ。


it's still empty.

どうもね、手ごたえがないのね、今日は。


still with the empty cart.
it felt like an away game.
well, it's in a chic town pasadena 
and it's an atique flea market 
not the usual swap meet.
everything there cost 10 times more 
than we usually find.

何だかね、恐ろしくて何も買えないのです。
ここはオサレタウン・パサディナ、しかもアンティーク・フリーマーケット。
いつものメッヒコ・スワップミートとは勝手もお値段も違います。
大体いつもの値札の10倍、恐ろしいでしょ、買える訳ないでしょ。
なんだ、全然縁起良くなんかないや!


as soon as we decided to leave 
we found this freebie lot!

てやんでぇ、けーるぞ!と出口に向って歩き出すと、
じゃんじゃんタダで持ってっちゃってコーナーを発見!


even if it's free, shinya carefully examines...

タダと言えども迷いに迷ってやっぱりもらうのやめたりする木村氏・・・


yay! it seems to be off to a promising start!

おお、何だか縁起が良くなってきたぞ。幸先の良いスタートを切れました。


6 comments:

t said...

I was getting worried.. that could've set a bad precedent.. empty handed at the first swap meet. I haven't been to a swap meet in months.. I've been going through withdrawals.

matt machine said...

we dont even have swap meets here anymore....oh...maybe a couple....once a year one close by...the rest 400 miles away...

Chris Saddler Sam said...

ΚΑΛΗ ΧΡΟΝΙΑ!!!!
ΚΑΛΟ 2010!!
ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΛΑ ΣΙΝΥΑ & ΑΓΙΟΥ'!!

;)

best wishes... from Greece!

and better luck on your next flea-market visits!!!

hehehe

menacing ayu said...

t: is there any good swap meets in oregon? maybe we can meet up there.

matt@machine: we still wanna visit there sometime.

SakeRacer: thanks & happy new year to you,too!

t said...

In Oregon? Yeah there is some.. the Portland Hot Rod Swap meet is supposedly the biggest auto swap meet on the west coast. Don't they all say that though? That's not until April though. :(
You have to come up for the Bonehead Enduro I was telling you about. off road ride near where they filmed Twin Peaks for old bikes, choppers whatever. I think that's in April too.
http://www.soundrider.com/archive/events/bonehead_enduro.htm

http://www.portlandswapmeet.com/

menacing ayu said...

t: thanks for the info! we're planning to expand our sphere of swap meet activity. shinya will be busy until march so april sounds perfect. definitely the bonehead enduro! OXOX