Hi, everyone!
Alice, I also like soul music, and my favorite is hogaku these days. When I listen old, nostalgic ( for me ) music, such as the Southern all stars, Off course, and Yumin, I can make myself at home. Is it because of my age??
TV program schedule may be newly formed in October. My favorite TV program, 'Desperate housewives' third season will start tomorrow on BS2, and continue for six months. This is very popular in USA, and on a seven- season contract now! Recently, I have no favorite drama in Japan.
So, it’s time to cook, and see you!
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Hi, everyone!!!
Have you finished your dinner?
It has been a nice day, hasn’t it? I am sorry to hear that it was raining in Karuizawa when Magnolia visited the place. But I am very glad that she had a fantastic time with her friends visiting museums.
A few days ago I got a phone call from my daughter in Sydney, and she said that one of her friends, who came all the way to Port Douglas to attend her wedding ceremony last July, died of cancer. This friend of hers was tall and rather chubby, and was quite bubbly, and so I never imagined that she underwent a breast cancer operation a few years ago. This early summer, I heard that her cancer spread to the throat and she was having great difficulty in eating or drinking. It seemed that she was taken to a hospice not a hospital and spent a few months there and died.
In early July, I got a postcard from one of my school friends in Kumamoto, saying that one of our friends, who lived in Hakata, died of cancer. It seemed that she died in horrible agony due to her cancer pain. Actually I never talked to her when I was at school and also I don’t remember her at all, but she said that she came to know about me through my books and started to study English several years ago. (I was an extremely quite student at school and rarely talked to my classmates, and probably, due to this, not many classmates of mine remember me, it seems.)
My daughter has a male friend in his early 30s, who is a Japanese architect working at an architecture designing office in the Sydney city center. His fiancé in Japan is a cancer sufferer and makes a regular visit to her hospital for a medical check-up. This friend of my daughter’s said, when we had dinner together at her place, that it was quite hard for him to marry her soon, and he also said that he needed something to push him to marriage… I don’t know what happened to them after that. That was about a couple of months ago.
Cancer is a terrible disease, isn’t it? It makes us so powerless and miserable. I hate cancer.
I just pray that cancer patients in hospices would have the most pleasant time until their final sleep.
Goodnight, my precious friends. Sweet, sweet dreams… I will talk to you again tomorrow.
Hi, everyone!!!
Have you finished your dinner?
It has been a nice day, hasn’t it? I am sorry to hear that it was raining in Karuizawa when Magnolia visited the place. But I am very glad that she had a fantastic time with her friends visiting museums.
A few days ago I got a phone call from my daughter in Sydney, and she said that one of her friends, who came all the way to Port Douglas to attend her wedding ceremony last July, died of cancer. This friend of hers was tall and rather chubby, and was quite bubbly, and so I never imagined that she underwent a breast cancer operation a few years ago. This early summer, I heard that her cancer spread to the throat and she was having great difficulty in eating or drinking. It seemed that she was taken to a hospice not a hospital and spent a few months there and died.
In early July, I got a postcard from one of my school friends in Kumamoto, saying that one of our friends, who lived in Hakata, died of cancer. It seemed that she died in horrible agony due to her cancer pain. Actually I never talked to her when I was at school and also I don’t remember her at all, but she said that she came to know about me through my books and started to study English several years ago. (I was an extremely quite student at school and rarely talked to my classmates, and probably, due to this, not many classmates of mine remember me, it seems.)
My daughter has a male friend in his early 30s, who is a Japanese architect working at an architecture designing office in the Sydney city center. His fiancé in Japan is a cancer sufferer and makes a regular visit to her hospital for a medical check-up. This friend of my daughter’s said, when we had dinner together at her place, that it was quite hard for him to marry her soon, and he also said that he needed something to push him to marriage… I don’t know what happened to them after that. That was about a couple of months ago.
Cancer is a terrible disease, isn’t it? It makes us so powerless and miserable. I hate cancer.
I just pray that cancer patients in hospices would have the most pleasant time until their final sleep.
Goodnight, my precious friends. Sweet, sweet dreams… I will talk to you again tomorrow.
Hi, everyone.
Magnolia, thank you for your Karuizawa story. I am sorry for raining, but just rainy day conditioned an specific atmosphere to you to visit museums.
Please be careful, if you feel more fatigue than usual, for example, if you feel the stairs you can easily climb at the station are burden or your tiredness is not improved after napping or sleeping or your exhausion is exceptional, would you check up your body?
It is said in the care of terminal cancer poisons of sea snails and blowfish are used, which tells how much the pains are unbearable.
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
I flew to Sendai to meet my friend, Lillian. She has been one of my good friends although we have a big difference in age. She used to be a missionary and now a 77-year-old active and energetic American woman. She used to live in Nagoya but several years ago she moved to Sendai where her Japanese husband was born.
Sendai is a very modern and beautiful city with a population of one million or more. After WWII, its population was just 70,000. Lord Date Masamune settled in Sendai Castle in 1600 and started construction of Sendai castle town.
I visited the site of Aoba castle which was destroyed by Air Raids. The Loop bus is running through the Sendai City. It took us several spots such as Zuihoden(瑞鳳殿), the mausoleum of the Date family and the Tohoku University Botanical Garden.
We also visited Matsushima, riding a sightseeing boat sailing around millions of islands. As they say, there are 800 islands but in reality there are 250.
Sendai is famous for Zunnda-mochi. Zunnda means Edamae, green soybeans and beef tongue, Kokeshi dolls and Sasa-kamaboko to name a few. I bought a modern and creative Kokeshi for my youngest daughter and a Daruma Kokeshi for my partner.
During the trip, the common language was only English so I pracitced English a lot.
I also joined a bible class at Lillian's and on Sunday morning, we went to church.
Sendai was a good place to visit.
I'd like to visit again.
It's time to go to bed. Good-night, my friends.
October 2, 2007 8:35 AM
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