Hi, everyone!
Alice, I have heard mixi a number of times.
I'm also interested with "the second life," a virtual area in the Net.
I'd like to try them some day, but I need more time and skill.
We can get and even excange the latest information about whatever we want.
Actually, it was through the Net I found out our English study group 2 years ago!
You are really enjoying with your maimiku, Alice, aren't you?
So, see you tomorrow, friends,
good nignt.
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Dear Cherry,
“The Second Life” - what an attractive phrase!
Although I don't know much about “the second life”, I'm not interested in it right now. The big reason is that the animation consumes a vast memory of the computer. The computer I mainly use is almost 5 years old now. Its speed feels slow these days. I don't want to buy another computer for some years. So it's risky to install any complicated and state-of-art software programs on my computer.
I have some other reasons why I'm negative about “the second life.” Isn't it a shopping mall over the Internet? I'm still suspicious about the Internet security. I avoid using credit cards for on line shopping these days. Instead, I try to pay by bank transfer. I will keep doing this until the further security of the Internet is guaranteed. “The second life” might not ask us credit card numbers, but I guess the program demands some personal information like our age. It's one of their marketing strategies. I hate this process the most.
Talk to you later.
Good night.
MIXI ? What’s that? I was very confused about the word “Mixi” when I heard the news that said Mixi ( Japan’s largest social networking service ) traded the first time on the Tokyo Exchange’s Mothers market on Friday ( September 15th ) at 2.95 millions. To my sadness, I couldn’t understand the news at all then, because the words, Mixi and Mothers were utterly unfamiliar to me. At first I misunderstood it the news about toy industry involving with mothers and Micky mouse. It was total mistake. It was the story of indifferent fields for me, online community and stock market. Anyway I managed to understand that the founder of Mixi is very young man (30-year-old) and earned huge money by listing the company on the market. Now I have realized that I am one of computer-illiteracy and can’t catch up with the rapid changes of the society.
By the way around forty years ago, common retail stores selling foods and daily general goods disappeared rapidly from the town and supermarkets replaced them. A number of supermarkets emerged and replaced small shops operated by family. We can not see small mom-and pop shops of daily goods and foods in our neighborhood now. I recall that the older complained that they couldn’t be familiar with the way of supermarkets. Especially they had guilty to take goods into baskets by themselves before paying. It seemed strange to have such feeling for the young those days. Now, the time of internet shopping has come! I really understand the feeling of the old of those days. How rapid the society has changed!
Hi, everyone.
Thank you for your kind response to me, Plum.
I also have never seen a wild koala bear. However, I saw a wild wombat. Many in Jenolan cave. Perhaps many people visit there, but they go back to Sidney by bus before sundown.
Wombats appeared soon after they went back. We stayed there. They didn't look fear of human beings.
However, they put a certain distance from us. They are nocturnal animals. We stayed at a hotel, but our room was detached. We had to move to have supper through darkness of outside at evening. Wombat dug a root of a plant.(maybe) It sounded crunch. We could find the tait of them else. How? It is manuar. When we walked in the hill for about two hours, there were numerous brand new manuar here and there.
Sorry, I went to Awaji island and Osaka yesterday. We left at 6:00 a.m.. We hit a traffic jam many times on the way to there.
How stupid you think we are. You are right. During Bon season, wise people don't move. My husband planed, not me. We must go there to convince us about the line between neighbors and us. Incidentally, we cut the trees to make our vision of the land clear. Of course, we take a permisson from the neighbors. How stupid you think we were in such ''KANKAN Dayright'' to cut trees. My husband planed, not me. Cutting trees with a saw, I almost fainted. We carefully supplied water to ourselves and we were in winter wear and a straw hat. Idiot de(of) idiot!! I wish I went fishing.
Hi, everyone!!!
I really love to hear from you.
What you say in this blog always impresses and delights me. Also I am absolutely happy that you keep writing what is happening to you, in English. I know it is terribly hard to write what you really want to say, in a foreign language, but it is definitely fun. Even Norika, an actress, enjoys writing, although her English composition skill is not so excellent as the standard “English blog” requires it to be. We can do what Norika can do, even though we are not so beautiful as Norika.
I could not write in last night because I had a long night, since it was the last night of my husband’s stay in Sydney. We were going to cook something, but it ended up going out to get some Thai take-away food, due to the hectic afternoon we had. Anyway Yoji came home from school by 10, but by that time my husband got totally intoxicated, and kept talking, although he did not say anything, which commonly occurs to drunkards.
I was extremely embarrassed by Yoji’s father and my husband who were heavily drunk at my daughter’s place (I know how happy they were to be with their son or daughter. Nonetheless, I am strongly against being intoxicated before their families. Probably it’s OK they get drunk at a drinking place, but never, ever, before their families…, especially not before those who really hate the drunk like me!!!), and I sincerely hope this little baby Yujin will not get influenced by alcohol when he grows up, which I often think, especially when I see the intoxicated, is the worst drink in the world.
I thought about divorcing my husband hundreds and thousands times before I studied Women’s Studies, due to his alcohol problem, although he never thought his drinking was a problem, which was a serious problem to me. However, I studied it, and I realized that I was not the only one, and also I was really moved by Anne Bronte’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
I am getting old, and have gradually learned, sort of, in a hard way, how to tolerate the drunk and even forgive their misbehavior (although it’s extremely difficult to forgive it sometimes and I still hate them deep in my mind), and so I will never divorce him, and now he appears to be very happy about it.
I just wanted to explain why I did not write in last night. I think I talked too much. Forgive me.
I will talk to you again later today, perhaps.
Until then, bye, my dear friends.
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