Hi, everyone!
Plum, did Ulala-san enjoy her memorial dinner yesterday?
Today I watched some news about APEC at Sydney on TV,
and it reminded me of your comment.
You could greatly help your grandchild to be born, and your daughter to enjoy her birthday.
It's wonderful for children that their mothers are in good health and support them.
Since I have never been Australia, I don't know about her real attractiveness.
The Blue Mountain sounds nice, and I can imagine beautiful nature of it to some extent.
If you give some charms or favorite things on Australia, what is it?
I will be happy to hear it from you.
Magnolia, I'm happy to hear that you visited onsen in Nagano.
It might be enjoyable to go onsen with friends, might'n it?
The season is turning to autumn.
We are looking forward to meet autumn wind...
So, see you, and good night!
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Dear my precious friends,
How are you spending your time today?
I had a lovely time with Hitomi san, Yoko chan, and my daughter this afternoon. Yuko chan arrived at around noon, and Hitomi san got here, probably one hour later. She called my daughter when I was talking with Yuko chan in the lounge and said that she overslept this morning and would be a little late.
Yesterday we bought two fennels, which are like onions but twice as large as they are and have some different flavor, and I tried to cook them for today’s dinner, since I got a recipe from the web, although I was worrying about how they would turn up to be. I had never cooked them. I sliced them into 1 cm thick pieces, put two different kinds of cheese over these pieces after sprinkling salt and pepper, and baked them for about 30 minutes in the oven. They came out all right, and we had them for appetizer.
Then I deep-fried red fish, which is soft and tasty, large tiger prawns, and some different vegetables, all of which tasted beautiful and fantastic, and we quite enjoyed them. For the last course before desserts, we had the buckwheat noodles I mentioned about yesterday.
Yuko chan kindly brought strawberries covered with chocolate and Hitomi san egg tarts. They were fabulous and enchanting!!! We love desserts, oh, yum---yum. Then, we wrapped up our lunch dinner. They left at about 6 o’clock, and after that we bathed the baby, which is the last task for me in my everyday life in here.
Cosmos, thank you for letting us know about the movie you saw. Your story was enormously intriguing and I was very moved by the passion and energy with which the heroine devoted herself into her attempts to change the Masai’s mind, habits and sacred rituals, which are, sort of, their cultural and spiritual identity, aren’t they?
Does it also depict the powerlessness of a woman, do you think? If the main character were a man, not a woman, do you think he could have changed their culture? Or it is just the defeat of the Anglo-Saxon arrogance, “a shame on you type of episode?”, I just wonder.
Magnolia, I got you. You can count on me. I will definitely get you the gel, and on Monday I will go to the city and will be able to get lanolin cream for you, I suppose. I will let you know when I get the cream.
Cherry, I enjoyed your comment on my daughter’s birthday dinner. It seemed she had a fantastic time with her husband, who gave her a beautiful necklace for her birthday, and she was extremely happy about it. She is a little materialistic, isn’t she? She is very weak on presents like me…
There are many good things about Australia. One of them is delicious fruit, a lager selection of fruit, exotic and colorful fruit… fruit, fruit and fruit. How juicy they are!!! Also vegetables are so good and tasty and “sweet”. Even onions and carrots are so sweet, and we can eat them uncooked. The best thing about this country is the climate. I would like to get back this blue sky and sunshine to Nagoya, and share them with you. You will be very happy about them.
Azalea, I really appreciate your warm concern about the medicine I am taking. Yes, I have to be very careful about possible side effect of the medicine. At the moment I am quite all right. Thank you for your kind thought. I will definitely stop using this medicine when I get any bad side effect. Thank you, again.
It’s getting late, and I think it’s better to go to bed a little earlier, because I am pleasantly tired. Goodnight, my precious friends.
Hello, friends.
Since the beginning of Sept. I've been busy working except Friday, but today my younger son's family came to see us and had dinner together then stayed untill 9:00, when my 2-year-old grandson was excited to play with us and I also enjoyed a lot, but after they went back, I was so exhausted. Because after work, I went shopping, cooked dinner and played with him even though my daughter-in-law helped me with washing dishes, and the cooking was simple YAKINIKU with salad and Tougan no nimono with minced chiken,I became tired.
But when I heard my grandson's word,'OISHII', it was payed off.
Plum, your cooking sounds very tasty. It reminds me of Kirishima Yoko's book 'Clever women are good cooks.'
Murakami Nobuo, the late top chef at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, who died two years ago at age 84, said ,"Cooking is less a matter of technique than using your head." in his book'Murakami Nobuo no France ryori.'
In his poor childhood, he had a hard time and couldn't get his elementary graduation certificate
because of his lack of attendance as he had to work at a restaurant to live.
In spite of that predicament he made a success.
So bittersweet life seasoned top chef's cuisine.
Hello, dearest my friends!
Plum, Magnolia, you are so nice cooking expert. I respect you! There is nothing more happy and precious things than affectonate meals and there is nothing more delious meals than meals with close families and friends. That’s a real happiness of life. I am reflecting on my scamping cooking these days.
Well, I’ll continue next Masai’s story. I told you that I had met a Japanese woman marrying Masi before. The tribe live under polygamy. She is now the second wife of the man. We might not undestand her attitude to accept the position of the second wife. But she said it’s not so bad and she has got along well with the first wife just like a closest friends. Once Masai used to be a one big tribe but it has divided into three different groups. One: educated Masai, who wants to assimilate into modern western socities. They gave up their own peculiar life style as a too premitive. They go to school and acquire knowledge to survive in a modern community, and speak English. Two: Masai of tourist attraction, who can’t maintain their lives by grazinglike before, so they show their premitive life style to foregin tourists and sell their own beautiful artistic beads handcrafts in order to make money. Three: Original Masai, who is now very minority but even now they are there. They are so conservative that they cannot discard old their pecular custom. They stick to their premitive life style with pride. Under the present circumstnces, it is very difficult to keep on the old style. Because their inherited huge land was taken by Government on the pretext of protection of wild animals. Almost all of their lands herited by ancesters are now special Sanctuary for wildlife. They have lived on pasurage of old style with difficulty in alimitted narrow land. They believe their way is nice to adopt to the nature and all creature on the earth and western way will collapse the unity of nature and not bring happiness to people.
Actually I met some Masai in Masai’s village where I saw one Masai youth wearing beautiful red native costume. He showed their huts made of wood branches and excrements of goats and introduced their peculiar culture in English. I saw strong zeal to improve their village and educate children to adopt today’s society.
Oh, I am sorry I haven’t write the Japanese women’s feeling yet. I will mention about that. Plum said that the main character on the Masai’s movie, how it would develop situations. It is a very interesting assumption. Someday I’d like to write my hypothesis. I will continue Masai’s topic, though you may not be interested in. I am sorry. ( Continued ) Bye!
Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. How are you?
Plum, you're coming back only in a few days. I'm sure I can hear you closer even though we can't meet soon. Sorry for Ulala-san, Hitomi-san, and Yuko-san. They will miss you and Japanese dish you cook. Thank you for telling us about Hitomi-san's return and for the suggestion of meeting her.
Cosmos, thank you for telling me interesting stories about Masai. Your story makes me think about culture and marriage deeply. Maybe it's partly because of Engels. I'm wondering which group the Japanese woman married into and each group has a different mode of marriage. For example, in my imagination, more traditional groups prefer polygamy.
I went to Kobe university to listened to presentations at a conference on statistics. One teacher recommended this because it was a unionized conference of several societies related to statistics. Students could get very cheap advance tickets. Some presentations were too difficult for me to understand. But some were very useful for me.
From Tuesday to Thursday, I will go to Takayama. Our seminar teachers and students will lodge together. We call this annual event zemi gasshuku. We are supposed to study there. Of course, I will.
Last week, we were informed that the date of interim presentation of theses was scheduled on the first Saturday of October. When I showed my Power Point file to my teacher last Wednesday, after giving me some hints and suggestions he said to me, “you still have one month. Please keep it up (gambattekudasai).” And I answered, “I will.”
Plum, can you schedule your lecture on feminist theories later than October 6th?
Ooops, I found a grammatical mistake.
I'm wondering which group the Japanese woman married into and whether each group has a different mode of marriage.
Hi, Cherry and friends,
Cosmos,I can't imagine to be the second wife of a Masai even though he might be exceptionally handsom and rich, I don't want to do so. Maybe he doesn't want, either.
And it's too late for me to go to Australia to remarry, so I have to keep on going my life.
But recently I have been stronger and I can say to my husband 'No.'if I don't want to listen to him, which took me 34 years. Now at last I could stop it. I had almost accepted his opinion and obeyed him reluctantly even when I didn't want. But I didn't like myself in such an occasion. So I changed gradually and I don't care about what he thinks of me anymore, because I live in my twilight years and I want to live enjoyably as I like. I don't like to regret at the very end of my life. I'd like to fulfill my time.
More 10 or 20 years will not be my hunband's life, but my life.
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