Sunday, January 09, 2005

Croket

His name is Croket. This is one of best pictures I shot of him.

I am still busy..not only work but also party. I want to write so much things before yesterday's party. But yesterday's party surprised me. So I will write a little bit and attach some photos.

Last Nite(01/08/05), I unexpectedly attended a JCCNC's New Year's Party. What does JCCNC mean? JCCNC is Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California. Usually my company's officers and personnel coming from our Parent company attend this party. So totally not for me. However my boss said one person will not be able to go. Will you come? ok... why not?? It's a very expensive party. One ticket is $200!!! Can you believe that??? Anyway.. JCCNC always invite performer. Last year was Sadao Watanabe who is a Jazz player. So I expected these kind of performer this year. So when I saw this year's program. It said Croket with Tony Hirota... hmm?? I thought I don't know these guys.. hmmm...maybe somehow famous Jazz player or something.. cos one guy's name is Tony..you know? Tony...sounds like Jazz.. That's what I was thinking. Then when I went to the hotel's ballroom. I was still thinking about the entertainers... I went to the place too early. So I was sitting on a chair and waiting for other people in my group to show up.

Suddenly my friend who is working in an Acctg firm was standing in front of me. They also bought 10 tickets and invited their clients. He said I saw Croket in the airport yesterday when he picked his friends up from the airport.. Then huh??? ohhh... then I finally realized Croket is Korottuke ( Japanese pronounciation ). He is one of Japanese Comedian. I am so slow,huh?

I know I supposed not to attend this party and my boss kept saying don't tell anyone in our company until this party is over. So I kept quiet and didn't expect to take pictures...But...But... hahaha... I brought small camera that was a Christmas gift from my wife just in case.

This camera is 3.2 Mega Pixels only. So I know I can't get good quality pictures. But as long as I use for daily snap shot under bright environment, it's useful and handy...plus i can hide it in my hand. So it's also good for spy shot, too. So you know.. i can't expect how much I can take pictures for secret reason. If it's worst case, I planned to take pictures secretly. So that's why i brought this camera instead of my wife's camera.

Actually I was ok to take pictures. Even they want to use my pictures for their parent company's monthly magazine. So I keep shooting photos. I even left my table, walked around ballroom, and shooting photos. Here are some of the photos.

Croket and People

Croket and my big bosses

Croket and Miss Cherry Blossom

Croket is Robot Hiroshi Itsuki.

Of course I was suddenly the photographer for them. I didn't have any photos w/ him. But it's ok.. I should bring my wife's camera. I still couldn't shoot clear pictures. Specially if it's dark, it's so dark. But I tried my best using the 3.2 mega pixel.

He planned to come to San Francisco 5 years ago. But he was so busy and couldn't make a schedule arrangement. But finally he was able to. I also enjoyed it a lot because I didn't hear Japanese joke for a long time.