Hi, everyone!
Plum, I was really happy to hear your wonderful comment yesterday, and how nice your word, ‘happy three month birthday to us!’ was. Without your warm, emotional response, I also could not have this fantastic experience. And I’m pleased to read friend’s offers to continue this blog. I am proud to have been involved in this project.
By the way, I’m trying with my paper these days, and have many difficulties. I must improve my poor English more and more. As Peach mentioned, it is hard.
So, it's time to cook...
Good bye, see you!
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Hi, Everyone!!!
It is Wednesday night, September 19, 2007.
I happened to see Yasuko san at the subway station, Motoyama, on my way to work this morning. She was on her way to her Time reading class, and we kept talking until we got to Yagoto, where we got off, I, to change trains, and, she, to walk out to her study place.
I got urgent business today, which demanded that I should stay in Nagoya on Thursday and Friday, and had to cancel my trip to Osaka to see my sister. I really did not want to accept to do that, but there was no other choice, coz it was part of my paid work.
My sister and I sometimes get together to talk face to face. We have been talking on the phone almost every night since I came back to Nagoya. Most of the time I write a letter and send it to her in a conventional way, which means by post, and she calls me, and then we talk. I used to call her, but sometimes she was not feeling well and I had to hang up, and thus I decided to write to her first so that she could call me when she feels all right. (She does not have a computer. No matter how many times I tried to persuade her to get one, saying that sending email is much faster and cheaper, she did not say yes. Oh, she is so stubborn, just like my father.)
I will visit her, probably next week, or at the beginning of October. It seems that she sometimes feels uneasy living just by herself and needs company especially when she does not feel well. (She is a divorce.) She has recently got a talking bird for a pet, but I know it is not enough. Life is really hard… BIG SIGH.
It is getting late, and I am getting ready for bed. I got a little tired since I talked with many people, but I was very happy that I came across Yasuko san at the station, since I did not see her for a long time.
Goodnight, my precious friends. I hope you had a lot of good time today.
Hi, everyone.
Thank you again, Cherry.
I coped with my paper, today.
I can see a shaft of the light, but it repeatedly disappers and reappers.
Nowadays the pro-baseball is exciting, nevertheless we can't watch it on TV even the match of Tigers to Giants. No more sumo, Japan should replace sumo with baseball as the Japanese national sport. By the way, did Hakuho or Asasyoryu have a mongolian spot?
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
A little late, I know but
Happy birthday to your three-months “ Cherry’s English blog”. It was a tremendously wonderful and helpful tool for us to communicate one another. Thanks to Cherry’s daily efforts, I enjoy reading each interesting and personal message. Sometimes I spontaneously burst into laugh, especially when I read Azalea’s comments. It may sound like just an excuse but only reading makes me too busy to write my own.
Plum, first I don’t know who Kazuko san is, but I remembered that she is Kazuko Inoue, right? How is she doing? I suppose she continues to improve her English.
It’s time to go to bed. Good night, my friends.
Hi, everyone!!!
How are you?
It’s been another humid and hot day today, hasn’t it?
It is Thursday afternoon, and since I don’t know whether I could write this evening or not, I am writing in this blog now. I have just cleaned up my main sunroom, which was a mess, simply chaos, with a lot of dead plants, an enormous amount of dark brown leaves and totally shrunk roots, here and there, when I got home. I asked my husband to water the plants during my absence, and I know how hard he tried, but he just could not catch up with this summer’s heat. Or, he was just lazy…, I don’t know. Anyway I put away all the dead plants, and vacuumed the whole area. Oh, it tired me completely.
I did not have any time to cook physically after I got home on 11th, but I got a little time to spare this afternoon, and so I cooked noodles, yes, buckwheat noodles, and made a cold buckwheat noodle dish. It was so tasty, and I really thought how simple-minded I was, since I was so happy with this simple meal.
Tonight I will have to work hard, and so I will talk to you tomorrow. Bye, bye, my dear friends.
Sunflower, I saw Yasuko san, not Kazuko san. Yasuko san is one of the members who attended Jonathan’s meeting last week, I suppose. Does this information help you remember who she is?
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
I don’t know whether Asashoryu and Hakuho had Mongolian spot or not.
Azalea, which do you think that Asashoru is a victim or villain. Is an Asashoryu behavior a minor offense or major offense?
The current scandal over his behavior is a controversial problem in the world of Sumo.
The problem seems to be a sort of clash of cultures. The Japanese Sumo Association (JSA) has a conservative, and old-fashioned rules to follow.
While Asashoru is a modern Mongorian-born Grand Champion who has ranked the top position in Sumo.
Asashoryu is really a dominant 26-yeaer-old yokozuna. He apparently belongs to a younger generation. He was promoted to yokozuna in 2003. Since then he has been only one great yokozuna and supported the popularity of Sumo. It is the first time in 22 tournaments since new Yokozuna Hakuho, 22-year-old, appeared in the grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya.
On the other hand JSA came down severely on Asashoryu.
JAS suspended him from the next two grand sumo tournaments, and ordered him a 30 percent wage cut. The punishment gave him mental stress. He was diagnosed with dissociative disorder （解離性障害）and finally allowed to return to Mongolia for treatment.
My conclusion is Asashoryu is a villain and his offense is major.
Behaviors he took over these years sometimes seem to be arrogant, rude and disrespectful as yokozuna. In the end he lied and skipped his regional tour. It is a major offense against rules of JSA. He is Yokozuna so he must take responsibility as yokozuna.
But at the same time JSA should become modernize. It seems to be a hide-bound society. One example of this is that women are not allowed on the dohyo for awards ceremonies.
By the way this morning a crazy woman tried to climb on the dohyo but she failed.
Plum, I'm sorry I don't remember Yasuko san. Does she have a good singing voice? I'm so much confused.
Hi, everyone.
Cherry, Sunflower, you are very sincere in the Japanese culture. I only wanted to watch a baseball game. I regret my inadvertent opinion.
However, I think if Asasyoryu had been Japanese, he would have been a villain. He should have resigned from Yokozuna. He is a mongolian.(I think he also had a mongolian spot in his toddler days.) The JSA should have predicted such days would come sooner or later. His viewpoint is different from us. He is a mongolian. Our sense of value is differnt from his. Individually, I think his plastic surgeon should be stripped of doctor license. It's his stable master's responsiblity.
I like buckwheat needle. When I eat it , I don't dip them in the soup at first. I eat only buckwheat needle. I can enjoy the sweatness and slight aroma indigenous to the plant, if the needle is made of new qualified buckwheat powder(flour). At the foot of Yatsugatake near Haramura at Okkototei buckwheat needle restaurant runned by a village, it served very little soup, customer often asked another cup of soup, the chef come out of the kitchen with anger and said 'I don't make the needle to deeply dip in the soup.' However, last year it served more than before.
Will you sit up late?
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