Hi, everyone!
Plum, thank you for showing the recipe of lasagna with spinach and pumpkin.
Only reading it made me feel tasty and try cook it.
I also checked the site of Martha Stewart, as Plum showed before.
It is amaｚing that has many wonderful corners,
about such as food, crafts, gardenning, and so on.
Each of those is so stylish and fancy, that I just watched every corner of them.
I wondered who is Japanese Martha, is it Harumi Kurihara?
Azalea, Plum, I'm glad to see your favorite novels.
Do you like historical novels in china, Azalea?
I've never read those to the end, because I'm weak in remenbering names of many characters.
But I'll try them someday.
It's the end of terrible August today.
With the arrival of September, I feel mild and calm.
So, see you, dear friends!
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Hi, everyone?
How are you doing?
I am extremely happy to hear that Alice visited Magnolia at Kasugai and solved Alice’s computer problem so that she could come back to this blog. Also it is fabulous and fantastic to hear that they had Italian dishes together and talked a lot. Italian dishes are really good, aren’t they?
Peach, how did you spend your time with your husband and children in Guam? Or is that Hawaii you went to? Was it fun? Did you swim? Did you buy anything? How was the food there? Did you have a big dinner?
Today I could have the time to watch the DVD The White Countess scripted by Kazuo Ishiguro. (I watched it, rocking the baby on my lap all along until the end of the movie while Ulala was doing housework.) There is a story about the invasion of the Japanese military forces into Shanghai in the background whereas the story at the fore is about the realization of the dream of an American former diplomat who lost his eyesight and his family in a fire and an accident. His dream is to set up a perfect bar in Shanghai and he involves a Russian countess in his scheme as the centerpiece hostess. He names the bar The White Countess. Of course, it is a love story, but it develops very, very slowly, and actually there are no dramatic scenes at all, just as romantic novels written in the Victorian era.
Also there is a mysterious Japanese, Mr. Matsuda, who helps the American actualize his dream, but in fact he is a, sort of, fanatic leader of the Japanese forces and masterminds the aggression against China, in order to make Japan a great nation. (That’s his dream.)
It is very interesting and, sort of, meaningful that HM wrote "the horrifying narrative of a soldier in World War 2 Manchuria" and KI created a Japanese military leader deeply involved in the massacre of Shanghai done by the Japanese forces.
I am glad that I could see the movie, and it was so good that the baby did not cry while I was watching it.
This is how I spent my day today, and I was very happy. How about you? Did you have a good day today?
Goodnight. I would like to talk about Gilman someday soon. Sweet dreams…my dear friends.
Hi, everyone.
Plum, How sweet your heart is!
My pain is now OK. Because it moves to other places except for the head and the neck. Now it stays in the side of the back. The pain is not intense. My pain is transient. Thank you.
I am worrying about your chronic artheritis. Strain is likely to become an agent. Please take care of yourself.
Cherry, I understand your troblesomeness about 'Sangokushi' and 'Kou and Ryuho', I sometimes remember characters mixed with the two novels. However, if you read them, there are Romances and you are convinced human beings are same all the time or at any time.
When I read books about historical events and historical novels, I think punctuated equilibrium for human beings is twice, they are the Industrial evolution and invention of Internet and PC. Don't you think so?
Peach, How is your trip? Would you tell us?
What is the problem in Magnolia's computer. How did you solve it? Please explain it in detail.
P.S. I like Lasagna, too
Dear Cherry and friends,
Today, I visited Magnolia and checked her computer.
The cause of the trouble was the unkind instructions in the comment window. As you can see, the blogger first tells us, “Enter your Google account,” but beside the text box, it says, “User Name.” They are confusing. We found that we have to enter our e-mail address which we registered, not a handle name like, “alice.” Magnolia was trying to enter with her handle name. So we checked which user name she should use and found the correct one.
Luckily, Magnolia treated me to the delicious lunch!! Thank you, Magnolia.
If I take a roundabout way, her station is on the way to school. I needed to go to school because the book I reserved was available.
The nearest station from the campus is Yamaguchi in Seto. I knew it usually takes only 15 or 20 minutes from Kozoji in Kasugai to Yamaguchi. In my rough estimation, it would take at most one hour to go to school from her place.
But, because of the heavy rain in the morning, the train, Aichi Kanjo Line, didn't move between Kozoji and Shin-Toyota. The alternative I took was the school bus from Hongo. I went back to Chikusa by JR, took subway to Hongo, waited for 40 minutes at the bus stop, and took the school bus. So it took 2 hours in total. Perhaps, I should have taken the maglev train from Fujigaoka.
By the way, Magnolia has a book translated by Fujisawa-san. The title was, “Princesses of Wales.” I saw the book. It's a gorgeous book. Today, there was a memorial service for Princess Diana. The ceremony was being broadcated on BBC when I came back home. Fujisawa-san's new book is published so timely. I'll buy one sooner or later.
August 31, 2007 23:10 JST
Hi,Cherry and friends.
Alice, I'm so sorry to have caused you a lot of trouble. As for transportation, you were very unlucky yesterday. I feel a kind of guilty. But thank you for your kindness and an enjoyable talk.
You were a great help and became my mentor of the computer.
As for novels, I read Murakami Haruki's books more than 10 years ago, so I don't remember them well, but I liked 'Norweigian woods'. I also enjoyed reading 'Dance,dance,dance', but I'm sometimes confused which is which. Was it written by Murakami Ryu?
My favorite novelist is Miyabe Miyuki. I read many of her novels. I wonder why she could write so different books. She is really a prolific writer. She deals with current money problems like loan hell in 'Kasha' and pshychic phenomena of 'Cross fire' and drug abuse in 'Level seven'. She also wrote Jidai-mono in Edo era. Her works sometimes became movies like 'Moho-han'. I ccouldn't stop reading her novel.
But now I ｌｉｋｅ reading Uehashi Naoko's books who translated 'GEDOSENKI'before and she wrote her own books which are very fantaastic, among them my favorite is 'Kemonono souja'which I read recently and was moved so much. It was a kind of fantasy, but the young and the old, from children to adults can enjoy her boooks. Uehashi studied aboliginis in Australia and she made up her own world in her novels. made up her own world in her novels.
I read some articles about her books which said that her novel became one of the best sellers sellers among 20s and 30s. I felt happy to empathize with them.
See ya!
Hi, everyone.
Alice, I live in Toyota, If you are stalled at Shin-Toyota station, please tell me, I'll go to meet you. I understand your explanation in detail. Thank you.
I like Michael Crichton. Especially, Jurassic Park and the Lost World and I saw movies Jurassic Park, the Lost World and Jurassic Park the second.
I sometimes dreamed about Dinosaurs based on his novels and movies. It's very real. Sometimes, the parts I read appear in my dreams. I remember it, but I confuse my dream with scenes of movies. I believe it is from the movie. However, when I see the movies again, I recognize it is from my imaginagion.
I also watched Oliver Twist. I like Dickens very much. The Director truly dipicted Dicken's world and aspects of life in the 19th century. I think the film work is not different from my imagination when I read Dicken's books.
Today, I went to Chausu Yama and a hot spring located in Tenryu. The temperature in Chausu Yama was approximately at 20 degrees Centigrade around noon. It was cool. I felt relaxed.
The hot spring was not so crowded. It was very confortable to bathe. Open roof bath faces nature. I was relieved.
I would like to correct the word of my previous comment
Not Industrial evolution but Industrial revolution.
Hi, everyone!!!
It is the first day of September, 2007.
How did you spend your time today? Was it a good day today? I am ok. So far so good. I will be back in Nagoya in ten days, and I am very happy about it.
Today first I would like to review what we have learned from some feminist theory articles listed on the web.
Toward the end of the 18th century, MW claimed that education was very important to women. At that time, probably, not many girls were educated properly, because virtually there were no schools for girls, whereas boys, normally ones of the upper class, went to school and consequently dominated society, because in a sense knowledge was power (still it is!!!).
In the mid-19th century, HT argued that profession or paid work was essential for women to get liberated from the control of men. At that time, decent jobs for women were just a governess or a writer. Since they were not educated as well as men, there was not any intellectual or professional work, which supposedly made them physically and financially independent, available to them. They were in, sort of, a vicious circle.
We have also learned something about The Subjection of Women written by John Stuart Mill (1869), which is an important piece of work for the development of feminist philosophy. “Mill was convinced that the moral and intellectual advancement of humankind would result in greater happiness for everybody. The Higher pleasures of the intellect yielded far greater happiness than the lower pleasure of the senses. He conceived of human beings as moral and intellectually capable of being educated and civilized.” (Wikipedia)
In addition, we have read part of Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State by Frederick Engels (1884).
In order to get out of the above-mentioned vicious circle, some feminists began to demand votes for women, and one of them was JB in the late 19th century.
On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Gilman claimed that the institution of marriage destructed women physically and psychologically, by writing her presently highly regarded short story The Yellow Wallpaper' (1892).
Now I would like you to know something about her. Please go to the website: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gilman.htm. This is a very short article about her life and work, and the language is relatively easy, and so you may not find it too difficult to understand.
I just everything is going well with you. I will talk to you tomorrow. Have a goodnight, my dear friends.
Hello, everybody!
Time is flying. September has brought a little bit coolness. That’s nice isn’t it?
Well, I was very impressed to find that all of you are avid readers and movie enthusiasts. Do you have a sleeping time, Plum, Mongolia, Azalea? In addition, you are enjoying handicrafts, sewing, cooking and gardening. Amazing!! In addition again, you are computer savvy persons. Today I have felt down because what I am proud of is only long sleeping hours. Good night, everybody. I am doing to bed.
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