Hi, everyone!
It is too hot today, isn't it??
Azalea, your story about our finance seems very interesting.
Since I'm not familiar with the details of economy, I should begin learning
some economic study. But I have a fear of a difficult theory, and I am an easygoing person.
I feel great respect for your savvy.
Alice, I was interested in your story about your father.
Did you hear those tales from him?
I haven't heard such memory from my father, who was a typical salaryman.
When I was a young girl, I didn't understand his workstyle, and so I couldn't respect
him at that time. My kids, too, only see their father's exhaustion from work.
How can I give them respectworthy memory for their father?
Plum, you will enjoy your family's trip.
It is fantastic that family members can gather around new-born angel at such a nice place!
Have a good time!!
Our family will go to Osaka from now, and get back on Sunday night.
So, I'm sorry I can't post this blog tomorrow.
See you later, and have a nice weekend!
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Hi, everyone.
Cherry, I will also go to Osaka next week.
I would think mother tells children earning money makes such a full-fledged person exhausted. At home, people can show face or themselves which they never show it or them to others. My friend, Betty said 'My husband messes up things I organized. I am not relieved in the mess' I said ' Family member wants to be relaxed in the house. House should be so.' she said ' O.K. If so, Where can I be relaxed?'
Alice, your father is gifted. I suppose from childfood, your father has reapeatedly drawn a picture and born concentration. since children don't know exhaustion.
Plum, your family members are literally a global one and go everywhere borderless. You spearhead the trend of globalization. As if you went surfing the tide.
Hi, everybody!
TV news reported that the moving to their hometowns for the Bon holidays has started. The peak will be tomorrow. Everybody knows they must bear up under jam-packed trains and traffic congestion on expressways. But Japanese people tend to move all together. Why? Because it is the only time to fit with the both parents’ working holidays and summer vacation for children. Unless we make use of this special season, we, Japanese family lose a chance for family-trip. Anyway I hope everybody enjoys their holydays against harsh weather and crowded tourist resorts.
By the way, Cherry wrote in her comment that a lot of specialists said that one should and could choose one’s favorite things for a job. Yes, it is an idealistic idea, I think. It is impossible for everyone to find a favorite job. I have heard a reverse story, too. One specialist said that he had hated his job, but he was a successor of his family’s business and he inherited the business reluctantly. And what happened? Did he fail the business? No. As he continued the work patiently, he began to have interest in his work. He finally found the job itself as life worth living. Of course, it is wonderful to have a job to love to do as a one’s favorite. But I am afraid many spoiled young could go anywhere.
Hi, everyone!!!
How was your day today? Were you happy today?
First of all, I would like to apologize to Sunflower for my having forgot to tell you how to go to Norika’s Home Page. You might have been successful in getting there by now, but I just let you know how to reach her HP. It’s very easy; just put her name in Chinese characters, and press the search key, and then you get what you want. I hope you enjoy the English version of her diary.
I just came back from Hunter Valley, which is about 3 or 4 hour drive away from the Sydney city center and is well-known throughout Australia as a, sort of, get-away resort for urban residents. (It is much further than Blue Mountains from Sydney, which can be reached probably in less than 2 hours.) There are not only a multitude of vineyards and wineries for wine tasting and sale, but also several first-class restaurants & function facilities & cozy and fashionable mini hotels in addition to pretty little cafes and enchanting souvenir shops.
We stayed at a 3-bedroom villa, which was clean and fantastic and commands an incredibly beautiful view. Especially a sunrise beyond the extensive field with gum trees, which are eucalyptuses, here and there, was unforgettably magnificent and impressive.
A number of unexpected things (a few good things and a lot of not so good things) happened during the overnight trip, but they will become laughable memories sooner or later. Nonetheless I was extremely glad that we went to Hunter Valley together and went through hundreds of new experiences.
My parents lived in Osaka when they were alive, and at round this time of the year (plus during the new year holidays) we regularly visited them for a few days, sometimes by bullet train and some other times by car. Occasionally I get extraordinarily surprised to discover we had a tremendous amount of wonderful and pleasant time visiting a variety of places when I was raising my children.
It is Sunday tomorrow. My husband and I will go out together, because my daughter will have several visitors, at home, from her former company and Yoji will probably go to his uni’s library to do his assignment. (He is planning to get an MA degree by next March.)
I have no idea what day will come tomorrow, but I just pray for a lovely holiday for you, my dear friends, and me.
It’s getting very late, and I am going to bed now.
Sweet dreams, my dear friends.
Hi, everyone! We have been suffering from MOUSHOBI: over 37 degrees recently. I'm afraid that it's because of global warming. What will happen to the globe in the future?
I remembered nice summer holidays when my children were small. When my husband was young, he had energy to drive to Hakone, Kobe or Shinshu, but I can't expect him to do so anymore. I missed those days when I took it for granted and I didn't show him my thanks for his taking us somewhere. That is my reflection. So I envy Cherry and I want you to thank him and tell your children how happy they are. Then you can teach them to thank and respect their father.
Recently I enjoy myself without any help from my husband. I went to see musical 'Aida' played by Gekidan SHIKI the other day, which was very impressive love story.
And I have another plans to go to Hirugano Highland with my friends on 26 of this month. It takes 3 hours by train, but I'm looking forward to going there.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hi, how are you?
Do you enjoy summer holidays?
So far, we have found most of you are taking vacation, visiting relatives, or welcoming your family now.
Our family business is extremely busy these days. Just yesterday, one of our customers called and asked us to make a few big signboards during obon, which means this week. The customer moves its shop, so they need a new signboard. We have several other jobs to do by the next week. We decided not to go anywhere to take vacation. In fact, we planed to go to Toyota to do another job this week. I was also asked to drive there. We had to change the plan and decided not to go there, either.
Fortunately, I have finished doing my own part. I am exempted from drilling, hammering, sawing, and other physical labor. I know I'm spoiled. Yes, I have enough reason to appreciate my parents' generosity. Thanks to them, I can focus on other things like reading and writing. I hope I can finish writing a master's thesis as soon as possible.
Have good holidays!
August 12, 2007 15:17 JST
Hi, everyone?
You could appreciate eucalyptuses, could you see a koala? I have never seen a wild koala. Have you seen it before?
Today, In South Africa, a calf of buffalo was attacked by one of pride in front of his or her parents(maybe). When a lion jumped to the calf, they fell into the river. Two other lions jumped into the river and tried to catch the game. They scrambled up a bank of the river. When they got out of the river, a herd of buffaloes waited for them in the shore and threatened the lions . The predators were surrounded, the calf found a room to escape. It narrowly escaped from the death. Then, the second curtain was opened. The herd began to seize the lions. The lion looked so small compared in size to the buffalo. The lions were attacked. One of them bounced. There is a witness. My family were very surprised with the baffaloes' brave and collective solidarity. You can see the scene through the internet.
Hi, everybody!
I am very happy now because I am old enough to enjoy by myself without guilty sense, relieved from a responsibility to take kids to a swimming pool or a trip in a summer vacation. I recalled the hottest days with my daughters every summer. We went swimming in the sea very often with my sisters’ families. I miss now the sunburned smiling faces of my daughters’ and their cousins’.
They are now all middle-aged persons. recently they are very busy in entertaining their own kids except my daughters, who are singles. Kids’ joy was parents’ joy those days. We, sisters and my mother enjoyed chatting a lot in the beach hut, seeing children playing with blue sea waves and white sand under the scorching sun. What good old days! If I had grandchildren now, I would go with them together without flinching harsh sunlight, just like my mother acted with us together. Fortunately, ( or unfortunately ? ) I have no such burden now. I prefer to stay at cool home.
However I envy you, Plum. It is now cool season in Sydney, and your cute angel baby has brought all your family happiness. Please, please enjoy fantastic family-ties in idealistic surroundings in Australia.
Plum, it is very fun that your husband wanted to eat Sushi in Sydney. To tell the truth, my husband loves Sushi, too. We had Sushi in London and New York in spite of the ridiculous prices and bad tastes. Anyway he'd like to eat Sushi whereever he is.
Hi, everyone!!!
It was quite warm today in Sydney. I just wonder whether summer has already come to Sydney. Where is spring?
I have just come back from the Japanese restaurant Tsukasa, where we found quite a number of Australians and Chinese sitting, eating and talking so loudly. They were surprisingly noisy and I thought I couldn’t stand it at first and I was terribly disappointed that we had come there.
The reason we went there was that my husband said that he wanted to have some sushi. I couldn’t believe what I had heard. This is not Japan but Australia, do you understand? Are you not stupid, are you? I didn’t say it of course but just thought to myself.
The restaurant was in a basement and it was awfully cold, although it was unbelievably warm outside still at night. The dishes were not so bad as I anticipated, but nonetheless they were not so delicious as Japanese cuisine in Japan. So, it was OK. But I will never go to the restaurant again. The best Japanese restaurant in Sydney where you can have delicious Japanese food with reasonable prices is Sakanaya which is located in North Sydney, where I occasionally went to eat lunch or dinner with some Australian friends while I was there several years ago. In fact my daughter tried to make a booking at Sakanaya, but all the tables were already booked.
Anyway, the baby was asleep while we were eating, and so it was good. Tomorrow, Yoji goes to grad school to attend his classes, and so I will be exceedingly busy, but it’s OK with me. Yujin is growing so fast and everybody says that he is fatty, but he is so cute nonetheless. He is only two weeks old, by the way.
It’s getting so late, and it’s better to go to bed. Bye, bye, my dear friends.
I will talk to you again tomorrow.
P. S.
Azalea, thank you for asking me whether I have seen a wild koala bear. No, unfortunately I have never seen it, although I have seen koala bears mainly through the fence at a lot of zoos in Australia, many, many times. Have you seen a wild koala bear, Azalea?
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