Hi, everyone!
Plum, I also can’t believe your strange experience. Does the Mango juice have a magical power? Or you must have been very tired that day, I guess.
This afternoon I was watching the TV news of the presidential campaign in Texas and Ohio. Until now there were several remarkable days, and every newscaster said, ‘It is the climax on the election.’ each time. I wondered when this tough race would end, and if two of them could run for the main election. Thanks to such excited race, I can get some technical terms such as presidential primary, delegate, endorsement, and the name of the states, too.
So, see you later. Good night.
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Dear Cherry and friends,
Hello. How are you?
Plum, you are incredibly good-natured drinker.
When I get heavily drunk, I become sappy.
Once I became very sick because of too much alcohol and a taxi driver asked me to get out of the car, then I was not able to move there and was lying on the street. I remember it slightly. I was young...
A cinema complex in my town offers ladies days on Wednesdays. After work, I drove there to see a movie. Its title is “Elizabeth: the Golden Age” starring Cate Blanchett. Many years ago, I saw “Elizabeth” which also featured Blanchett, my favorite actor. Plum talked about the movie about a year ago when she gave a lecture on Mary Stuart. This newer movie climaxed with England's victory over the Spanish Armada. In this movie, Mary Stuart is not as impressive or lofty as written by Stefan Zweig. To my relief, the scene that she is executed is not as precise as Zweig's description. It effectively makes Elizabeth less cruel. It is interesting to hear Walsingham suggest Elizabeth should order Mary's execution taking the idea of law which protects human beings in general. It sounded anachronistic. I wondered, “isn't it an idea shared among Victorian people?” The movie depicts her age as the time not only Queen but also ordinary people were under the protection of laws. I wonder whether laws that rationalized capital punishments or wars were ever supposed to give people human rights before the age of the Enlightenment.
Anyways, Blanchett is a really excellent actor. When I first saw her in the movie “Elizabeth,” I didn't think she was beautiful. But she looks more beautiful as she acts.
Now it's late. Good night.
Hi,
How are you doing? It is March 5. It is getting colder in the late afternoon. My HD caught a cold and told me it was so cold. I will make something to drink with ginger and plum for him tomorrow because it is too late at night today. I believe both items are the must to cure diseases like stomachache and lower high fever. Well I’m going to talk about “kaiawase”, a traditional matching clams game. The other day I went to Tokugawa Museum by myself to watch hina dolls. Among them what attracted me most is a lot of toys or belongings of the princess. They are so beautiful and gorgeous with elaborate works. Japanese princess used to bring various things including a set of kaiawase and shogi when she got marriage. Why kaiawase ? It is because every clam makes a pair. The pair of clams is a perfect match. So ancient people seems to think it is a symbol of marriage. Thank you for reading, my precious friend.
I foudn a least two misatakes in my writing.
I should have written:
What attracted me most was, and
When she got married.
Maybe more ! Sigh !
Dear my friends,
I posted my two writings of March 3 and 4 on the previous blog. Plum and my friend, would you please look back the page 'Party'. ? Thank you.
Hi, again. Azalea, thank you for letting me know about Ms. KF. I'm sure I'll contact her. The word "pin" is so cool. I must add it in my word list. Thank you again. Please forgive me my rudeness on that day. I really missed Ms. KF and the party.
Hi, ladies!!!
How did you spend this warm, though a bit windy, afternoon?
Cherry came to my house this morning to discuss her essay and left my place at around noon. Her essay is getting better and better, and I’m very happy about it. She said that she should have got more knowledge and information about her topic before writing her essay. I quite agreed with her, but we don’t have much time left now, and so we will work on her essay together for a few more weeks. Then, I hope she will be able to submit it to Bev sensei for correcting English mistakes. After Cherry left, I went out grocery shopping, because I needed some bread to make French toast tomorrow morning.
I told you that my husband and I went shopping to buy some souvenirs last weekend, since we are visiting our son, his family and our daughter-in-law’s parents, actually to celebrate our grand-daughter’s first hina festival at her parents’ place. Did I tell you that they live in a huge house with an extremely large garden, just like the Japanese traditional landscape garden in Shinjyuku-gyoen in Tokyo? Marvelous, isn’t it?
A couple of days ago, my son called me and asked me what I’ve got for his parents’-in-law, and so I said that we’ve got an Aichi specialty.
He said, “Is that food?”
I said, “Yes.”
He said, “You shouldn’t have got that, I told you. They’ve got four fridges in the kitchen. They are filled with food. They don’t need any more food…”
I know, I know. It always troubles me what we should bring to them. Beside, my son is always meticulous and fussy about it. Maybe, tomorrow I will go out and look for something nice for them. I will have a hectic day tomorrow… but it’s OK. I think I can manage it.
Goodnight, my lovely friends. Have a happy spring evening. Talk to you again tomorrow, oh, a hectic day…
Dear Cherry and friends,
Good evening. How's everything?
Around 10 o'clock every morning, my co-workers and I have tea. My sister brought a chocolate confectionery. It's karinto, a biscuit made from fried dough, covered with chocolate. The sweet is from Royce of Hokkaido. She didn't go to Hokkaido, but to a department store which exhibited products from Hokkaido. In Toyohashi, there is only one department store, Maruei.
What was I going to write about? Let me see...
Well... The weather!
We chat while having a cup of tea every morning.
Today, we talked about pollen. A woman said that the weather forecast more pollen would spread over the wind in Okazaki than in Toyohashi.
We wondered why.
Perhaps, Okazaki's neighboring towns have more ceders and cypresses. In fact, the Nukata-cho Forestry Union recently became our new client. They produce signboards made of wood. As a signboard maker, we don't make these signboards. The Union asks us to make stickers of characters and pictures to stick to them.
I was derailing in my mind wondering if pollen and yellow sand distinguishable or not.
Yesterday, Peach wrote about a lovely Japanese toy, kaiawase.
It brings me a happy memory. Some years ago, when we had a hina dolls party, somebody brought clams of that kind. We ate them and a friend of mine took the shells home. Weeks later, she brought each of us a pair of shells that was beautifully transformed into kaiawase. Her hobby is drawing pictures. Each pair had a different picture. Mine was tsukushi (fertile shoots of field-horsetail).
Good night.
Hello, everyone
It is Friday, March 7th, cloudy. It will be sunny in the afternoon. I am watching a video program of practicing soft aerobics while writing. It is rather good for me, not too demanding or too easy. I bought it at Nagoya City Gym about four years ago. I haven’t watched it for a long time. Interestingly I started to watch it as I started to write in this blog everyday. To continue it or not, this is the question.
Today I’m going to talk about Japanese usual way in communicating with foreign people; talking to them in English. Almost all Japanese people who study English do so when they meet foreign people. I am not the exception. They might not be able to speak English. They might as well speak to us in Japanese. Still we cannot help speaking to them in English. I’ m afraid I’m in a low stage of learning English. It can be said as an inferiority complex to something Western. This blog surely make me change for better, I mean, overcoming psychological problem. Thank you.
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