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Meeting With My Rare Friend
Today was the first day to go to work with my new hairstyle.
When I was walking to my office, my co-workers came from the other day.
They laughed at me saying, “Ohhhh you look so cuuute.”
I felt embarrassed…
Most of them thought that I was wearing wig, and could not help laughing.
The picture above is pie ice cream we made for a recipe to cell our pie shell.
They are yummy!!
I supposed to meet someone tonight which I was looking for, but my friend had a cold and the appointment was canceled.
So I worked till late but did not feel like eating by myself so I called my different friend whom I have not seen for a while.
I have been friend with him since I was 14 years old.
Ryohei is a good guy but very different from me.
He is a type of guy whom I don’t usually hang out with.
However, he is a good friend for me whom I can be honest with somehow although I don’t get to see him that often.
He got married so it is hard for me to ask him out for dinner but ask him twice a year.
He came over to my apt and we went out to drink.
Ryohei can’t drink much but he drank much enough for me.
Since he is one of my good friends, I got drunk easily.
So nice to see a rare friend.
It was too fun and forgot to take any picture…
It was a nice night tonight.
Slow Monday
Monday is usually the busiest day of a week.
However, it was kinda slow today.
Very nice!!
Today is the first day of December in Japan.
Wow, time goes so fast...
Year 2008 will be over sooooooon. Nooooooo!!!!
What's new today...
Let's see... I decided to wear glasses much more from today.
I love glasses, have a lot and I just bought 2 pairs of glasses yesterday.
Still feel more comfortable wearing contact lenses even when I am sleeping.
However, lately my eyes hurt.
I will try to care my eyes for a while although I am not sure how long it will last.
I was thinking about relationship tonight in a bathtub.
Why is it so difficult and complicated?
And why do people mean to someone whom they love when they are in a relationship?
People are sometimes so cruel...
Men sometimes become cunning fellows and women are shrewd.
It is so random but somehow it was my topic at my bath time tonight.
Maybe because I figured out a shocking fact about my past today...
Hummmmmm.
BTW, the picture above is small sweets I decorate on my desk at my office lately.
I know it is too much, but cute, isn't it?
No Hula Day
I get frustrated when I can’t attend Hula lesson.
I will be on a stage in March, so I have to attend the lesson every time and practice a lot.
I was ready to leave office at 7, but many things happened.
Now Hula dance is my favorite thing in my daily life.
Ahhhhhhh.
This is new sweets I make at work now.
Very simple and all organic.
We just started selling from yesterday on website.
Ah, somehow I got really really tired today.
I don’t wanna go on a business trip to Tokyo tomorrow…
First Experience
I did Omiai for the first time in my life tonight after work.
He was president of a BIG company in Japan.
Omiai is one of Japanese traditional brind date, sort of...
It is basically for marriage, but not all the time.
I felt really weird me sitting in front of unknown 46-years-old guy.
It was interesting experience.
He took me out to a steak house, and this is an apple pie I ate there.
I don't think I would do omiai anymore.
Tasting Organic Life
I could sleep well on both ways between Osaka and Tokyo on a flight.
I went to Tokyo branch in this morning and went to see a person of an organic store to sell our products.
It seems like he got interested in.
After the appointment, I went to a different organic grocery store.
There are more interesting organic stores in Tokyo than in Osaka.
The organic grocery store I went this afternoon has a restaurant.
So I had lunch there, which was buffet.
It tasted pretty good, but $12 for lunch is pretty expensive with these simple buffet menus.
But I thought eating only organic stuff is not a bad idea.
These are organic cakes I got at other oraganic store.
Disgusting!!
They tasted horrible.
When you eat sweets, you can’t think about organic!!
Well, now we are trying to make organic sweets though.
However, we are trying to produce DELICIOUS organic sweets.
That’s why some owners of organic stores got interested in our products.
I ate other normal sweets at café too.
They were horrible too.
Where is the pâtissier’s pride?
I went to sales to one more organic store.
The buyer guy at the store said he was in Germany and Paris for researching organic stuff.
I am going to go to Organic Expo in the US, and now I see many people who goes to expos in other countries.
Talking with them is interesting and I can learn a lot.
I took a flight back home and I could get a rest at my apt.
I was going to go to Tokyo for convention from this Sunday.
However, it seems like I have to go from Saturday night because I got an appointment with other company this Sunday.
I will have a hella long meeting on Saturday and I have to leave to Tokyo on that night.
Wait! When do I have to pack my stuff for Tokyo and America??
Ahhhh, I wanna get a day off, but no time to get a day off…
Happy Valentine's Day!
Look how many chocolates I bought.
I did not get any roses this year…
In Japan, girls don’t get anything on Valentine’s day, but get something back on March 14th from men whom I gave chocolates.
Unfortunately, I would not be in Japan on White Day, March 14th.
But it is all right, because I was happy enough to see everyone’s happy face when I gave them.
I woke up at 4AM this morning by shouting.
I had such a bad dream about work, I got really scared while I was dreaming, so I was glad to know that it was just a dream…
I guess I am so tired, so when I was on the airplane this morning when I was going back to Osaka, I passed out.
I went back to office and worked on so many things.
Too bad that I did not have time to open all e-mails.
Nowadays, when I don’t check e-mail a day, I got tons on the next day.
I had a business dinner tonight in Tokyo.
I have to take care of very important person for my project now.
So I took them to very expensive Geisha place.
You can’t play with Geisha that often.
Actually this is the second time for me, but I had to pretend that I am used to play with Geisha since all other people never had played with them.
Geisha and Maiko play games with each of us.
This is me learning how to play a game.
I look happy, but I really did not want to, felt ashamed.
However, this is part of a job as a Japanese business woman, you know.
I drunk sooooo much, and I was tired to concentrate on taking care of them.
I want to give perfect score to myself about today’s business dinner.
All men went to nasty bar afterwards, so I came back to Osaka by train by myself.
I feel lucky to be born as a woman because I can go home earlier than men because men usually want me to go when they go to nasty place.
Still I came back home at 10:30 PM.
Well, I can’t imagine till what time all the men play and drink.
They will come to our company early tomorrow morning, though.
Men are tough…
Business Dinner with Doctors
I just came home from a business dinner.
I had dinner with doctors who are in charge of our special products.
One is a veterinarian and the other is a pet dietician.
Have you heard a pet dietician?
I don’t think there are many of them, but a pet dietician direct pet owners what their pet eat.
It is such an interesting job.
We took them a nice steak restaurant, but it was too much.
I was the one who supposed to take care of everything, but I was kinda slow, so my boss took care of everything, like serving stuff.
I am bad….
Since they were our serious business partners, I could not take any pictures at the restaurant.
I hate to update this blog without any picture so I upload this picture, my sweets.
This is petite chocolate which we just started to sell for Valentine’s Day.
This is one of our popular sweets.
Ahh, Valentine’s Day is coming up!!
Oh, so after we left a steak house, I took them out to a wine bar.
Well, it supposed to a wine bar, but it wasn’t.
We researched by a magazine and totally misunderstood it was a wine bar.
I ordered red wine, but they kept the bottle in a refrigerator!!
No way!
Also the owner said, “I don’t know much about the kind of wine”.
Such a disappointment, but we had a good time.
Doctors are different kind of people from us.
I don’t know how, but different.
Very interesting, but there are so many technical words I could not understand.
Maybe I should study Japanese language more…
One of the doctors is from NY.
There are many similarities between us.
It was fun for me to hear a lot of unknown place in the US, which I might be able to visit the next time.
We will have them to our company to tour them our factories.
It will be a big day tomorrow again!
Good Thing and Bad Things
These are my dinner for tonight and breakfast for tomorrow.
I know this is bad, but I had to buy these roll cakes for work.
These are such a famous cakes in Osaka, but since I am so used to delicious sweets in Tokyo, these were nothing, unfortunately.
Oh well…
I got something to eat.
I had department morning meeting so went to work early this morning.
And I got a call from my co-worker in Tokyo whom I went to sales together.
It was a bad news.
We could not get a business with a big fast-food “L”.
We almost got them, but they turned me down at the last moment.
Actually this is the second time when my customer turned me down at the last minute.
Making business is not easy, I realize.
I regret that I don’t live in Tokyo, so that I can go talk to them to pursue, well maybe still it would not work, though…
Still I have to wait the answer from coffee shop “S”.
I am trying hard not to expect too much not to get disappointed too much.
From this afternoon, I went to a seminar to learn about Internet sales.
I learned about mobile sales, since there are so many buyers through their cell phones.
It was interesting and I got so many good ideas what I should do about my Internet business.
After the seminar I asked so many questions and I left my important item which I had to use for the next appointment.
How come I am so careless!!
I realized one hour later and the person who was in charge of the seminar had already got on a bullet train with my important stuff.
He tried to be nice to me not to leave it at the seminar room.
Because of that, I had to postpone the appointment.
The good part is that I could go home early because I missed the appointment, although I feel a little guilty.
I came home, and I cut an apple and a persimmon to get ready for tomorrow.
I love eating fruits, which I do everyday lately.
I could do my laundry, which is so unusual that I can do it on weekday night.
I cleaned my house and I got rid of a lot of old stuffs I kept to get good luck.
Someone told me that I have to throw things away, which I am not good at, because keeping old stuff would not let people move on.
Let old air be out and let new air be in.
Well, I don’t think I can throw all old stuff, but I would try some because I believe someone’s advice.
Gotta Stop Eating!
As I could not stop watching American dramas on-demand-TV last night, I was so sleepy at work.
I feel I am stupid, but I had been looking forward to watch them tonight again although I need to sleep.
I was on a diet, and I lost 6 pounds.
However, now I eat a lot again.
When I was on a diet, I did not feel like eating much, but now I would love to eat.
It is not because of the rebound, but because of this season.
Now there is so so so much good food in Japan.
I don’t wanna miss any dinner by grubbing something from convenience store.
So I eat out a lot with other people.
Because I eat a lot for dinner, my stomach is getting big, and I always feel hungry.
Like when I work at office, I get so hungry and can’t wait for dinner.
Today, I was starving, so I went to cooking lab to beg for food.
The only food we have at this company is “Sweets” unfortunately.
So one of the artisan said, “Oh, good time. I just made coconut cheesecake tart for test. Will you taste it and give me advice.”
So I did.
It was really good one, so I took another piece.
And one another piece…
I told him, “This is really good, but made me sick.”
Such a bad comment to an artisan, but he laughed.
Obviously it is my fault that I ate too much, and it is natural that lots of sweets made me sick.
Not only sweets our artisans make, but also there are so many sweets we bought from other places for taste at our office.
Very dangerous place here for the people who want to go on a diet.
This is why I take hula lesson and also go to gym.
Today was a hula lesson day.
Good exercise after eating too much, but I could not help drinking beer after the lesson…
Damn it!!!
Being With Snoopy
I went to a meeting for Snoopy Licensees in Tokyo.
We are one of the newest licensees, so our company was introduced in front to more than other 200 people.
My boss gave a speech, and that time, I was more nervous than the time I had to give a speech in front of those people.
It was the most interesting meeting that I have ever joined.
There are some Americans from NY and Santa Rosa, who are related to snoopy character.
The presentation they gave was with all snoopy cartoons, and was fun.
I saw a snoopy fashion show which was held in NY this year on a screen.
All dresses were quite crazy, but I loved the wedding dress, which was sooo silly dress, but cute!!
At the lunch, I talked with the American guy who showed the fashion show.
I asked him where I could get the wedding dress, and told him I would wear it if I would get married in two years, which is our contract year with snoopy licenser.
Unfortunately, since some of the other dresses were sold on ebay, but not the wedding dress.
At lunch, we had three huge snoopy cakes.
This cake of this picture is one of the cakes, which were all snoopy!
They were all cute!
I have loved snoopy since I was a kid, and now I sort of work with snoopy.
I get to know many kinds of snoopy information now.
All people I saw at this party (meeting) know snoopy a lot.
I never thought I would do this kind of job.
All the attendees got a bag of presents.
Got a lot of snoopy items.
This is such a dream job which I had ever had!
I was at the place from 10 to 16, and had an appointment afterwards.
It had already got dark, but I had to go back to my Tokyo branch to finish up my paper work for this Saturday meeting.
I was suffering for a couple hours till 9PM, and went to drink with my colleagues in Tokyo.
4 of them were older than I, but since I am on a little higher position, I paid for them.
So Japanese… I still feel that is sort of rude for elders.
I don’t know how they think about it.
I don’t get much more money than them, but that’s a role for people who hold an administrative position.
Came back to hotel at midnight.
No more alcohol this week… please…
Business Trip in Tokyo
I had one-day business trip to Tokyo today.
It is not unusual thing for me now, since I go to Tokyo once a week every week, and sometimes I don’t have enough time to stay a night there.
Whenever I go to Tokyo lately, I take a flight there instead of taking a bullet train.
The closest Shinkansen station is kinda far from my apt, but airport is just 5 mins by car.
I have to go there early in the morning whenever I go one-day business trip.
I got up 35 mins before I take a flight, but I made it fortunately!!
Today’s trip was for sales.
I am selling pancakes to “S” coffee chain store, which is one of the biggest coffee shop in this world.
Alo went to “L” fast food chain store, which is a famous one in Asia.
What I sell is what I plan, help producing samples, negotiate, and sell.
I have being negotiating with buyers of those stores for a while, and finally it is getting settle down.
If “MY” original pancakes would be sold at all stores in Japan, I would be so happy.
I would go to those two stores everyday, maybe…
“S” coffee shore is my favorite store, which I go almost everyday when I lived in the US.
I have spent so much money, so they should return me by buying my products!
After my sale job, I went to a couple sweets shop to brush my idea of other new products.
This is a picture of muffins, which I bought at Tokyo station, which is popular now.
Tokyo is such a trendy city like NY now.
I can get so much new infos here but now from my town, Osaka, unfortunately.
Since today was Friday, I could not get a flight ticket back to Osaka tonight.
Therefore, I took a bullet train.
I had to read a book which I was given from Mr. Kubota, elder person whom I got to know through work.
He gave me a book about a successful businesswoman, and I have to give him what I thought about it the next time I see him.
I saw him the other day after I got the book, but had not read it yet, and I got embarrassed at that time.
I don’t wanna be rude to him anymore.
I got Bento box for my dinner in a bullet train.
There were so many lunch box stores at Tokyo station.
There are many business people who make line to get a lunch box.
I felt relief that many other people live like me, being lazy and buying this kind of dinner.
It was good lunch box though.
It was 860 yen, not bad…
I got so tired by this trip so I took a cab from the station to my apt.
It was much much more than price for the lunch box.
I have to go to work tomorrow, Saturday.
December is the busiest time for our company, so we have to go to work Saturdays too, but not so many companies are open on Saturday.
Therefore, phone calls would not bother us.
I hope I can get much work done at office tomorrow.
Easy Day
I took longer to get ready today than usual, and was going to be late for work in this morning.
Took a cab to work two days in row...
Anyway, today was a pretty good day.
Not too busy, could get along with everybody.
I had lunch with three younger workers and we discussed about many things.
I get excited talking with those girls, because they got so much possibilities since they are really young and pure, and I wish I could help them a bit.
Maybe I am going to be changed my position soon, and will be able to work with them at the same department.
My apple pies were baked today as a sample by using apples I got in Nagano the other day.
The artisan brought me the first one to let me taste.
I was so moved!! It was soooooooo delicious!!
Lately, I am getting good at tasting, good at telling difference.
They gave me two similar sweets and I could tell what the difference was right away.
They got surprised and I was proud of myself.
I felt glad that I ate so many kinds of cakes since I had complex about tasting before.
The effort is rewarding!!
I had a dinner appointment tonight, but it was postponed suddenly.
So I saw my friend, Shinsuke, tonight.
He was very energetic, so I always impress about his energy to work really hard and also to play around with girls.
When we set up the time and place to see each other, I was a bit frustrated with his selfishness.
So I was almost going to cancel the dinner, but I didn't.
Soon after I saw him, I understood why he sounded selfish, and I felt a bit guilty that I felt frustrating to him.
He looked so tired and he complained about his work as the first time. (He never had before)
Moreover, he got a broken heart with a girl whom he was interested in.
Lately, I listen to many of my friends’ “broken heart” stories.
How come boy’s sad story sounds more miserable than girl’s…?
Although they get hurt from love, but still being in love is good for them, no matter what.
I was going to have a quick dinner and go home, but he asked me to go to Karaoke with him.
So we did.
He thanked me that he could refresh by singing lots of sad song to cheer himself up.
Boys are romanticist like this.
By the way, he teased me about my girly shirt and hairstyle today.
I usually don’t wear girly clothes so I was kinda embarrassed but tried.
Not to be looked too girly, I made my hair regent style today.
My colleagues liked my style today though...
Ahhhh, what should I wear tomorrow, what kind of hairstyle should I do…???
Gotta go to bed now, can’t take a cab three days in row…
Had a Good Weekend
I read my old diary the ohter day.
Since I am not good at writing, and moreove, not good at keep doing one thing, there were only a few notes on my diary.
However, I could remember what I was thinking at that time by reading a few notes, and it was kinda fun.
So I decided to write little by little what I think each day here.
I wonder how long I can keep writing, but I will try from today...
I had been really busy lately and my work has been over my capacity.
Since I had not had enough rest for a month, I decided not to do anything during this weekend.
First thing I did was sleeping.
I slept more than enough, and I felt really good.
Afterwards, I cleaned my room and did laundry.
I took everything out from my closet, and found shits of mouse.
Yewwww, I don't want to imagine that there s a mouse in my apt.
If I find one, I will move on the next day for sure.
This picture is macaron which I bought in tokyo for work the other day.
They were damn good.
I go to see many sweets place for research.
So I eat a lot of sweets everyday.
Lately, I can't stop eating besides work.
Also I go out to drink a lot, and I eat really late.
very bad habbits...
I was too afraid of weighting myself but I finally did when I went to Spa today.
Then I figured that I did not gain any weight!
I felt really good because of it, so I did some shopping on the way home.
I wanted to do more cleaning but I called my friend and went to eat noodle which my friend runs.
By looking at my friend who is struggling running a restaurant, I realized that I could work harder.
Lately I think I comlain too much about me being too busy.
I think now is the time I should work really hard no matter what.
If I can go through this time, I will have lots of confidence and I can start something I want to do.
I believe it, so I will hang on here.
Tomorrow is Monday, first day of a new week!
Is Woman Equal to Man?
This is what we ate the other day.
We ate Mango sweets like this lately everyday.
See why I can’t go on a diet?
This is just some of sweets I eat, but I have other research too, so I eat more than this a day.
To be honest, most of them are not good at all…
But it is fun that I can buy whatever mango sweets I see at the department store.
They all look cute and fun to talk about each sweets with my co-workers.
Lat couple of weeks, I have stayed at office till midnight everyday.
We installed whole new system to office, so we had to work on it.
The hardest part of overtime is that I can’t eat dinner.
Since I eat lots of sweets at daytime, I feel myself that I need to eat normal food too.
We are trying to make Mango and Avocado sweets now only because I love Mango and Avocado.
It is crazy idea, so we are having a hard time.
This kind of job is looked very interesting, but I do some other jobs too.
I love to work.
But sometimes I feel that I would not be able to keep working till I die.
The other day, finally I got sick and I was disappointed with myself.
I had been very careful about my health and wasn’t sick for a while.
Basically I am not strong because I get sick pretty often since I was little.
When I was in the US, my American boyfriend once asked me why I was so weak.
I was very surprised that he was so strict when I was sick.
But I figured that American men treat women equally like that.
Japanese society is getting the same way, but I don’t have confidence that I can be like a man ever.
And I am not sure if I wanna be like a man because it is natural that women are weaker than men in many ways.
(I know I can’t say “all women”. I bet there are lots of strong women in this world.)
That’s why I respect men a lot.
They are strong, they are tough, they work hard and they are ambitious.
I appreciate that women could get equal opportunity to work in a society, but I wonder I could do the same job as men…
I know that I shouldn’t feel this way.
I gotta be strong, strong, and strong!
Will Be ON TV
The other day, we were video-taped by TV Broadcast.
It was the second time for us that our product would be introduced on TV.
However, it was the first time for me myself to be on TV.
I usually don’t mind talking in front of people, but it was different this time.
The reporter stood very close to me and talked really loud.
Also they gave me a paper what to talk and I had to say pretty much the same thing that they wanted me to say.
Now I know I can’t be an actress.
I love to talk with my own words, not with words which were made by somebody else.
I know I have different reason that I CAN’T be an actress…
It was a nice experience but I know it was the first and the last time for me to be on TV.
I don't want to be on TV anymore.
It will show on TV for one week over and over, but unfortunately I don’t want to tell any of my friends to watch it, because I might look horrible….
Anyway, overall I was very happy that our products would be known by more people now.
This product on the picture above is very very popular now.
It sells a lot which made me laugh!!
But thinking new products every month is pretty tough job.
I got in fight with an artisan today.
His health condition is not good enough to work hard, so he started making normal sweets.
It does not match the concept we made for this project.
Since I respect him so much, and I like him so much, it was hard for me to tell him that his new products are not good enough.
I still trust him that he would try hard and we can produce something which would sell more than this soon!
Artisan and I
This is my favorite place at work, where we study our products.
This is a place where I talk with an artisan whom I really respect.
Recently, I think a lot.
Well, I am a person who tends to think too much about lots of things.
But I like myself that way.
I have lot of positiveness at work, and I can get excited about work all the time pretty much.
However, once in a while, I loose all my confidence about what I am doing, and started to be scared of carrying my ideas out.
Yesterday was the day I got freaked out.
I have a responsible for one new big project at work somehow suddenly, and got more work to do.
Actually I was interested in the project and wanted to do it, but once I got it, I got scared.
Whenever I realize how weak I am like this, I get depressed and things get worse.
After a depressing meeting, I went to talk with the artisan about other project we are working on together.
By discussing about stuff, I was shocked about his perspective to see stuff.
He was not exactly talking about my problem at that time, but I got a hint from him.
He might realize that I was struggling about something.
Maybe because we talk everyday… When I don’t go see him, he comes to see me at my desk.
We were not like this before…
As I wanted him to produce what I describe, I went to pursue him every single day and kept asking.
He has a strong artisan sprit, so he does not like to do things that he does not agree.
He has refused to see me a couple times before because he did not wanna listen to me.
So it is interesting that how much we talk and hang out now.
These are Mont Blanc he made based on my request as a product for our Internet business.
Whenever before I ask him an order, I have to think a lot and describe well.
I really appreciate him being such a difficult and strict person so that I could study a lot before I talk with him.
If I did not meet him, I think the way I think about work would be different.
He is not a businessman, but he is such a great artisan.
We are in a different field but I have learned a lot from him.
Anyway, I might be too simple but now I got powered up and feel like succeeding the new project for sure by a small hint from the artisan.
Valentine’s Day
Today is Valentine’s Day in Japan.
I went to a department store to get tons of chocolates for my co-workers.
In Japan, there are two kinds of Valentine’s gift, one is obligation chocolate, and the other is real love chocolate.
I went to buy lots of obligation chocolates and felt silly to spend money to buy those.
Also I wonder if they would be happy to get those…
Especially, in Japan, there is White Day, which is the day men who got chocolates on Valentines, have to buy something back to those women.
I give 7 bucks to 25 bucks chocolates to them, and they will give me back more expensive stuff.
Valentine’s day in Japan is the day when girls can tell their loves to boys.
Therefore, boys don’t buy anything on that day.
I remember when I was 9 years old, I went to a boy’s apartment to give a chocolate, and his mother answered the door, and felt embarrassed.
When I was thirteen, that was the first time I made cookies by myself, and failed.
I cried and asked my mom to let me try again, but she didn’t.
I had to give ugly cookies to a boy I liked.
When I was sixteen, I went to a boy’s bus stop to wait to give a chocolates and a gift.
I knew he had a girlfriend, but I gave them anyways.
Two years ago, my American boyfriend gave me a Valentine’s gift.
That was the first experience for me to get a gift from a boy on Valentine’s day, and I felt weird, but was happy.
There are lots of stories about Valentine’s Day in my life.
This Is What I Sell
I sell sweets on Internet.
The name of my brand is "MARCIA&JERRY"
Most of our products are frozen.
This is the package we made.
Since Valentine's Day is coming soon, I decided this color and design.
This is all original!
We make all sweets by hand, and we use really good stuff to make our products.
They are expensive, for example, this is $35 in US dollars.
They are what I really wanted to make!
Pink and Black cheesecakes.
Each of them are quite small, but they are really rich.
The red one tastes strawberry cheesecake.
And in the middle of the cake, there is white chocolate.
The black one is a normal cheesecake colored black by coal, which you can eat.
And in the middle of the cake, there is black chocolate.
It is hard for me to think one new item every month, but I feel really happy when they make exact the same thing I imaged like this cheesecake!
I am sooo tired today since I was out of office most of the day.
This new building was cute.
After eating too much at the restaurant, we went to a couple department store to check out new products.
