Hi, everyone!
It has been warm today, and I could feel the coming of spring. Tomorrow is the 1st of March. It sounds nice, doesn’t it?
Tonight My HD came home from his two days’ business trip. He is a sensitive person and I could enjoy my free time these two days. On the day before yesterday, my kids and I went to a big shopping center to get some clothes after school. We looked for good clothes, got them, stood and read in a bookstore, had a try at some massage machines. (How wonderful the latest ones were!) At last we ate some sushi at a sushi bar, and could have a pleasant time. Then my kids asked me, ‘When will he go to business trip next?’
So, see you tomorrow. Good night.
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. It has been cloudy since this morning here in Toyohashi. Precisely to say, It rains on and off. How about your place?
Have I ever asked about your oldest memory or conscious at the earliest stage of your life? I might have raised this topic before. Did I write that mine was the time I was looking at a brochure of a kindergarten?
So far we have posted dozens of stories and comments. I can't remember which topic I have already brought up. If I repeat the same stories, please tolerate my forgetfulness. But, let me change my mind. I will write about my oldest memory some other time.
Retention is haunting me these days. I mean, I wonder how I can retain memories. I remember the fact that I had remembered the famous 100 Japanese old poems called Hyakunin Isshu when I was a teenager. Recently I realized I had forgotten most of them. My nieces are memorizing them now. They are doing strategically so because they want to win a karuta game held at school. The strategy is that they don't commit the whole poems. You know, each waka poem consists of 5 parts. They remember only the first part and the last 2 parts. That's all. For most of the poems, they are enough to grab them as quickly as possible. They can memorize things without being helped by understanding. I can't remember things without understanding meanings or relationships. For example, when I tried to remember the word, “servile”, I can't remember if I first make me understand it relates to the verb, “serve, ” or the noun, “service”, which I have already known. The origins of words often help me remember them. So the context is very crucial for my retention.
Azalea, my IC dictionary doesn't pronounce “King Kong”, but both “ping-pong” and “Hong Kong.” She stresses “ping” of “ping-pong” while “Kong” of “Hong Kong” sounds stressed more than “Hong.”Does it help you?
I hope it will be fine tomorrow.
Hi, ladies!!!
It is Saturday, March 1, 2008, today.
I just cannot believe that we are in March. I often thought March would not come because it was s, s, s~~~~~o cold almost every day in February. But time is much smarter than us. It knows it has to go on no matter what happens in the universe. Whew!!!
Yesterday I went to Cosmos’ place to join the members of Jonathan’s discussion group. They brought up for discussion whatever recent news they wanted to talk about, and we had a fascinating time together. One of the interesting topics was a “family suicide case” which is often reported on television. Actually Etsuko san spoke about it, and also she brought some copies of a web article (probably) about it and gave one of them to me. Parents’ murdering their children is a horrible piece of news. But at the same time, it is, nonetheless, sad to live on as a parentless child in contemporary Japanese society. Even though you have an excellent guardian, it is much better for small children to have their parent(s) alive and with them no matter how poor he/she/they is/are.
Today I went to Matsuzakaya Department Store in Sakae with my husband to buy some souvenirs for my son, daughter-in-law, and Lan, their daughter. We bought some clothes, which were so cute and pretty, for Lan, first of all. Then, we got presents for my son and his wife, and one of the Aichi specialties for her parents. We are planning to go to see them by air next weekend, actually, to celebrate our belated hina festival. If we have time, we would like to visit Fukuzawa Yukichi Museum in Nakatsu, which is his hometown and is not so far away from where they live.
Tomorrow we are going to have a big party for the four ladies, who have successfully finished their studies at graduate school. What a wonderful achievement they have fulfilled!!! I really admire and respect them for their efforts. It’s not easy, I know, to study and write a thesis at grad school. I salute to them.
Good night, my lovely and precious friends. I am glad that you are with me when I need you. See you tomorrow.
Dear Cherry and friends,
Thank you for celebrating our graduation today.
I appreciate Plum's generosity in particular. Thank you very much, Plum. Cosmos kindly reserved a table at an expensive restaurant for us.
Also all the tutorial members gave us a warm congratulations.
Today, we had a big lunch at the restaurant and tea and some dessert at popular cafe in the building called Midland Tower. I wish Cherry could have attended the party. You have become a very significant member. We appreciated your effort that through this blog for at least 8 months you have provided such a good opportunity to share what's been happening to us. Thanks to you, we can feel as if we are close each other even if we are at a distance.
Hi, ladies!!!
It’s Sunday, March 2, 2008, today. It has been a warm day, hasn’t it?
It has been a very special day today, because we had a big party to celebrate four friends of ours for the accomplishment of their studies at graduate school this afternoon at a Japanese restaurant in Midland Square near Nagoya Station.
Here are the celebrated:
Ms. M. M.
Champagne
Ms. N. D.
Alice
The celebrants are:
Cosmos
Sunflower
Magnolia
Azalea
Ms. K. F.
Plum
There were ten of us getting together and we had a delightful time listening to the remarkable speeches made by the four and our special guest, Ms. K. F., who was on the way to her house in Izu from Osaka. I was especially happy that Ms. N. D. could finish her studies, since I was so concerned about her conditions as a student. She seemed to have been having quite a hard time trying to establish a good relationship with her supervisor, who I just suppose is an extremely difficult person to please. I would have left her in the middle of writing my thesis, if I had been Ms. N. D. The supervisor’s way of talking would be absolutely and ridiculously unbearable to me. But anyway it is terrific that it is now gone and totally behind us.
I will never have such an enjoyable time in my life in the future, and so I tremendously appreciate their efforts and achievement. All the arrangements were made by Cosmos, who kindly accepted this duty although she was extremely busy since one of her relatives (or friends?) died just recently. I, from the bottom of my heart, appreciate her usual patience and affection.
We had coffee at a café, which was incredibly trendy and stylish, on the first floor of the building after the lunch and Sunflower and Ms. K. F. left home, but the rest of us went up to a café in the big hotel at the station and had a fascinating time, again, chatting and having some drink.
Talk to you again tomorrow, my precious friends. Sleep well, good night…
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