Lily's Diary

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Good morning, Satoe.
Thanks for your reply.
Yes, He should have said it simply. Mad

I hope they will get another chance to talk about their future.
Love is troublesome.
I think they could talk about a lot of things frankly except that subject. Rolling Eyes

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

It’s very cold and raining today. Sad

I woke up by cold this morning because I’m an untidy sleeper.
I bracket slid down from my bed.
Very large Typhoon is approaching again.
We have so many typhoons and earthquakes this summer.
What is happening on the earth? Confused

I decided to make curry and got up.
You know, one of my friends gave me some spices.
They smell so good and make us warm. Razz

I think some of neighbors woke up by smell of curry which I cooked.
I’d like to go back home earlier than usual.
Very spicy curry draws me to my home.
Indeed, I was ordered to come to our office tomorrow.
Oh! No!!!!!!!! Mad

I really want to go home early.

Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 18

its cold and rainy where I live too. We've had lots of hurricanes, like you have had many typhoons! What a year!

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

I did my part time job last weekend.
It was a salesperson for two days at the exhibition of mineral, precious stone and semi-precious stone.
I could enjoy that job but I found that all of customers tightened their purse strings.
I think almost of all shopkeeper were disappointed. Sad

I know they were charge 80,000yen to have a booth.
Indeed they have to pay their transportation expenses and hotel expenses.
I searched and booked cheap hotel for my friends.
It was a very small help for them.

My boss, Jan didn’t give me my part time job fee as much as he promised.
I was disappointed deeply.
I decided that I’ll never help him again.
What a year!! Mad

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Recently, my boss hired a new worker.
He is 57years old sales staff.
Our company is a small civil construction company which makes roads, tunnels, rivers and so on.
As you know we have been in a long recession. Especially, construction industry has been in a severe recession.
Every company is eager to get new business relationship.
So my boss hired him. He has been a sales staff at middle class construction company but the company which he worked dissolved because of a business depression.
Ummmmm. Rolling Eyes

I’m not sure whether it brings good result or not to hire him.
I think if he was a very good sales staff, the company which he worked might have continued.
Don’t you think so?
Any way I have to go our office earlier and stay our office longer time than before.Geeeee Confused

Indeed I can’t stay alone in our office as much as I could.
It’s a big problem for me. Mad

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

I subscribe many e-mail newspapers.
They are so useful especially to study English.
Sometimes I can’t check some of them because I can’t have enough time.
When there are a lot of unread e-mail newspapers in my e-mail box, I delete them.
If I read all of them, I could be a good English speaker and writer.
But I think the most important thing is to enjoy studying English so I don’t care. Laughing

I decided to subscribe another e-mail newspaper.
Here it is.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/forward/school/magazine
TOMO is my English writing teacher on e-mail in recent years. Wink

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

We have very heavy rain and wind in Osaka. Sad

We sometimes see and hear some flash of lightning and thunder clap.
A TV newscaster says that there are so many people on platforms of every station.
It’s the rush hour to go back home now.
But railroad schedule has gone haywire so many people are in their trouble.
Fortunately, we are in our home. Smile

In this morning we didn’t have a storm warning so I left our home to our office and my kids left our home to their school.
My younger son’s school staff called my cellular phone and told that the there will be no school today.
I called our office and asked to give me a day off. I turned back the way I had come.
After I retuned our home my kids retuned. We were wet through.
We are lucky because we can be in our home now.
I’m sorry to see the news that many people are in heavy and cold rain.
The typhoon 23 is moving to east. You, people who live in the Kanto region please be carefull. Confused

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

I bought a pot plant at an open-air market in a park.
There were so many flower stalls so I was not able to decide what I bought immediately. Confused

I need a very strong and beautiful plant because I don't have a green thumb.
After all my efforts to find good plant, I chose one.
I brought it my home and transplanted it into a larger pot.
I hope it will grow well.
It's name is Strelitzia.
It's still small one so it doesn’t have any flowers.
After it grows, it has many flowers like this.
http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/hachijou/img1031450389.jpeg
I think it will look so gorgeous. Very Happy

Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 18

what a cute plant Very Happy

Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

How beautiful flower. I've never seen a flower like this one. Very Happy

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Laura and Rinoa, Thanks for your replies. Very Happy

Yes, it looks gorgeous and it looks like a bird.
So they call it “ Bird of Paradise.”

Ha,ha,ha. It's good name, I think. Wink

Don't you think so?

Now, it’s raining and we can hear the rumbling of thunder.
Oh! again. We have a lot of rain recently.
Indeed I had to go to work today.
Bad weather and work on Sunday make me tired. Mad

Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

Yes, I think it's the best name for this beauty. Very Happy

Working on Sunday isn't the best thing especially
if the weather is bad too. Rolling Eyes

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

My youngest brother married on Sunday.
We had a wedding ceremony and a party at Hotel Okura in Kobe.
It was so gorgeous and friendly party.
So many friends and colleagues came to wish their good luck.
We could see that they have so many nice friends.
They are very beautiful couple especially the bride looked like an actress. Shocked

We felt happy. Very Happy

Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

Many happines to them. Very Happy

Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 85

Congratulations to your youngest brother and his wife! Very Happy

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Thank you, my friends.
I have some strange feeling.
I can't explain it. Rolling Eyes

When I left my parents home to marry, my youngest brother was only 12 years old.
I was suprised every time I saw him because he grew so much.
I think that I only know little boy but I don't know present him so much.

Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

That's exactly what always happens. Rolling Eyes

The little child suddenly become a man. Laughing

Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 18

My cousin is like that too.

He used to live far away but now he is close. He grows by leaps and bounds. Thats life.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Hi! Raura.
Yes, boy grows by leaps and bounds.
I was really shocked Shocked

when I saw my youngest brother have beard.

IP phone
I set up IP phone yesterday.
One of my friends calls me yahoo BB phone.
He told me that IP phone is cheaper than regular phone.
But until recently his BB phone sometimes becomes interrupted.
So I have been considering. Ummmmm.
Finally, I decided to set up IP phone because my kid and I spend a lot of money for telephone charges.
I’ll receive bills from telephone company(NTT) and Server.
I hope we can save our money.
If you have IP phone by ODN, we can talk without fee. Shocked

They say we can talk 8,4yen /3min in Japan.
We can talk with friends who live in US 9yen/min.
Ummm. Anyway I'll try.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Quote:

A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is dedicated to Godzilla to fete the monster's 50th anniversary, during a ceremony on Hollywood Boulevard near Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.

Do you like Godzilla?
I went to theater several time with my kids in their school days.
We could enjoy it.
I think Godzilla is the most famous Japanese actor? actoress?
By the way, it's a miracle that we, Japnese can reconstruct Tokyo or other cities soon after Godzilla destroyed them, right? Wink

This is Minilla. Godzilla's son.
I'm sorry I couldn't find a good picture. This is a picture of toy Minilla.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Quote:

ELISTA, Russia, 30 November (AFP) - Hundreds of Buddhists in southern Russia marched through snow to see and hear the Dalai Lama as he continued a long-awaited visit to the country in spite of Chinese protests.

http://www.tibet.com/NewsRoom/hhkalmykia2.htm

I'm surprised that there are Buddhists in Russia.

Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 110

Very interesting. Russia is a big country, there are all kinds of religion, I think.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

It was my younger son’s birthday, yesterday.
He became 17 years old.
We prepared small cake, pizza and some dishes.
Some of our friends sent my younger son a congratulatory telegram.
That was very cute one.
The stuffed toy Mickey Mouse wore a tuxedo and silk hat and he had a pipe.
There was a message card in it.
It’s the first experience for us to receive a congratulatory telegram on someone’s birthday.

I guess they considered that I come home after I finish my work so
I can prepare so much things.
They wanted to say “Congratulations!” to my younger son on his birthday.
Thank you, our friends. Very Happy

Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 85

Happy belated Birthday to Lily's younger son!
It sounds he had a wonderful birthday and I'm happy to hear that!

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Thank you, Satoe.
We are lucky, I think Smile