I'll show you a part of my hobbies from now. Collecting sth or making sth is a common hobby seen all over the world, but in my case the items that I collected or I made might be un-common (I mean a little bit childish?). Here we go!

CAR & MOTORBIKE

This is my car named "SKYLINE". If you are an Australian, this car must be quite popular in your country. This car was made in 1991 but I bought it five years ago. Pretty old but looks not so bad, isn't it? I put GT-R's front bumper to my car so that it may look better, but the bumper hid half of the inter cooler. It was an absolute mistake!

I was going to install an audio system in it but I couldn't because I sold this car before I went to Australia. I couldn't afford to pay a lot of money just to keep this car. During my absence I had to pay for park rent and tax. In Japan it's very expencive just to keep a car. In my case, I paid about US$140 as a car park rent, $70 as insurance every month. I also had to pay about $300 every year as tax and each car have to be taken an automobile safety inspection which costs about $1000 at least once every two year!! Needress to say we have to feed gas as well!!

The speakers and woofer are the products of "PHASE RINEAR", an American corp. This amplifier is Jensen's. It has very clear and hard tone.

This bike is a "Suzuki Wolf" which has 2 stroke V-twin quater engine. Its acceleration matchs for 750cc's.

Radio-controls

This is a radio-control car I bought 20 years ago. It has all wheels driving system and two differntial gears in front and lear. This model has a three-points speed control gear. There used to be a TV program which showed competitions of radio-controls and I loved it.

This model has not been built yet. It has a front wheels driving system just like a real Rover Mini do!!

Miniature cars

This is an Italian miniture model Porsche 911carera2 type993 made of steel. I suppose type 993 is the best Porsche among a lot of another types! It's so coooooool!!

These two are plastics models. "Tamiya" is the most famous plastics models' company in Japan. It needs some skills to make these kinds of model, not so easy. That's why I can't build it yet!!

This is a Japanese model train. This train runs all over the night so lots of beds are installed.

others

I love movies! I've got lots of DVD softs but have not seen all of those yet! The prices of DVDs' are getting cheaper in Japan. I hardly go to the theater because whenever I go there, I would become sleepy! If I only see those movies in my place, I can do anything I want during watching. I can drink water...I can take shower... I can read newspaper....don't you think that sound fantastic!!!

I used to see LDs, but now the player's been broken down. I can't see these softs anymore. What should I do?? The jackets of LDs' look much better than DVDs'. So I decorate my place with these jackets!! What's a nice idea,huh??

These goods are to support my favorite baseball team! Baseball is a very popular sport in Japan. There are many Japanese players who play in the Major-leage baseball team in the US, say Ichiro or Nomo. My favorite team "Fukuoka Daiei Hawks" won the last championship!! But it used not to be a strong team and whenever I went to a studium, the team lost the game. So I never go to the studium anymore!!