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I spent all day cooking yesterday.  I had a sore back and I couldn't sit on a chair for a long time so I gave up studying English and other stuff required sitting ( frustrating!)  Since Gori's mum had been away so we decided to invite his dad for dinner.  I made a banana upside-down cake for the first time. I used a recipe from a cake book but the cake turned out to be sooo dry!! I was so disappointed. I should have gotten a recipe on the net instead of using the book.. That's kind of problem about cooking by booking books, isn't it?? Recipes in the books look yummy but you don't really know if they are tasty or not until you actually give it a try. On the other hand, recipes on the net usually have reviews and ratings, which are usually pretty reliable. So the better reviews they have, the more you are confident that they will be good. Gori has gotten me several cooking books so far,  by which he might be indicating something about my cooking (LOL), well after yesterdays stuff-up, I asked him not to buy me this kind of books any more because I could get good recipes on the net and you know they are for free!!( books are very expensive!)

Oh boy my back is still sore. There are lots of things I want to do but I can't! To be honest, I shouldn't be writing my blog now but I wanted to do something other than lying on the bed!!

There are also some other things that I have kind of accomplished for the last few months. One of them is share-trading. You know what? Now I am back on doing the share-trading!  Some people might be thinking ' finally, she did it!! ' but I needed enough time to study and doing more research on share-trading so that I could feel more comfortable and confident about it,  and of course, so that I can be successful. Gori was very happy to see that I'd finally taken the plunge and restarted share-trading. ( He thought I'd been putting it off or even chickened out,  but I was not! I was just looking for the right timing to buy shares!)  

I had bought some stock and it's share price had gone up very nicely as I had expected.However, I had totally forgotten that China's International expo would finish this month, which could cause a turbulence in the economy all over the world!  I remember when I went back to Japan, which was about 6 months ago, I was watching TV and some economic expert predicted that China's bubbling economy might crash after it's expo had finished because that's what had happened to Japan. Usually, I don't care less about other people's predictions and rumors about share market but this time I felt it might be true. That's because share charts I use for analyzing stocks are indicating some ominous signs, which could drag the world's share markets down even more. The stock I had bought was doing OK in spite of the current situation but I had a hunch that if the things would keep going down, the stock could go down as well no matter how it tried to go against it. And anyway it's not a good idea to go against the trend, which means buying shares when the overall market is heading for the south. So I sold the share this morning.  Sadly I didn't make any profit but luckily I didn't suffer any loss, either.

This time when I was in action, I often found myself being calm and collected, which is essential to be a good share-trader.  I remember those days when I was share-trading about a year ago, I was always checking share prices and every time the shares went up and down,  my mood swung from the top to the bottom, like riding on an emotional roller-coaster!  But not any more! I didn't make any profit this time but I am sure that I am now one step closer to be a successful share-trader!

It's been more than a month since I made the last entry on this blog. ( oh boy,  I am ashamed of saying this AGAIN.) Well, the reason I had been away for such a long time was simply because I had been every busy doing things ( I will write about them later ( probably)).  Since I had been leading such a pretty hectic life ( hectic for me^^;), I was kind of struggling with keeping myself up both mentally and physically. I have to admit that there were some moments in which I became so overwhelmed that I pushed myself to the verge of falling apart. But luckily I was able to catch myself before I fell completely ( Thank goodness). There are lots of things have happened for the last few months, some are good and some are bad, and one of them is so awful that I find it really hard to write about it.

It's good to be back here. I feel pretty pumped about making entries at the moment.  I wonder what kind of things I want to write about. See you soon!