Lily's Diary

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

I think I got a hay fever.
I feel itchy in my eyes recently.
My nose runs and I have a headache.
They say that a large quantity of pollen scatters in Japan this spring.
Uuuuuuuu.
Until when??? Do I have to be patient? Crying or Very sad

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

A president of a company who has business relations with our office gave me Wild boar's meat which he hunted .
Uuuuuu. Shocked

It was my first experience.
We, Japanese eat Wild boar's meat in hot-pot cook at the table but I’ve never have.
Uuuuu. I’ll try to cook. People say it’s tasty and we should use miso( soybean past)

Joined: 04 Jul 2004 Posts: 85

Hi Lily!
I'm sorry to hear that you have got hay fever. I can imagine easily you have to spend hard time for a while.
My husband and his mother have got it too. They go to a doctor once in 2 weeks and they are given medicine. It helps them very much!

I've never have Wild boar's meat. How was it?

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

We ate wild boar meat yesterday.
Ummmm, it was not so bad but we don’t want to request it again. Confused

We found that it has wild energy.
Ummm. we are frail agricultural tribe maybe.
The wild boar meat has a little bit small and it’s tough.
We had an afternoon nap after we ate it.
We dreamed of wild boars. They ran about in our insides.
It was very interesting experience. Wink

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

It’s raining
It has been raining from early morning.
I don’t like rain usually.
But I have hay fever this spring so this rain makes me refresh today.
I was released from itch in my eyes. Smile

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

More than 10,000 hits!! Shocked

Amazing!! but why??? Question

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

The other day, one of my friends visited my apartment.
You know there are so many foreigners in Japan.
Some of them are very good speakers in Japan.
Even though, it’s very difficult for them to write in Japanese.
Some of my friends ask me to translate their documents into Japanese.
If I have free time, I accept their request.
They give us some presents in reward.
For instance, exotic dishes, T shirts with exotic prints, small carpets, small accessories and so on.
I love them. Laughing

As a result, my small apartment looks like a shop of trader in sundries.
Some Japanese friends ask me to sell goods that I have.
Sometimes I present them my good that have very nice exotic atmosphere.
If Japanese friends want more, I introduce my foreign friends to Japanese friends.
They have dealing sometimes.
Some of my friends say that I should do some business.
Well, it doesn’t sound bad.
Well, let me see. Rolling Eyes

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Thanks to an unusually bountiful catch this year, saury, an autumn delicacy, sold Friday for less than half the price it sold for last year at a fish shop in Kuromon Market in Chuo Ward, Osaka.

That sounds good! Very Happy

I guess my family will eat a lot of Sanma until they will be tired.

You know, at this Ushi-no hi( the eel day) eel were sold for a little bit expensive price than it sold for last year at super-market.
I was really hesitated to but it.
I bought some split and broiled eel finally, though.
Needless to say, we haven't eaten domestic eel for long years.
But if we boil inported eel with sake,it becomes softer.

Sanma, Sanma, we love you.
You are the good friends of the people.
You are cheap and testy with grated radish.

Site Admin Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 747

Maybe you really should start a business. It looks like you'd have plenty of jobs and good connections for a good start. Have you thought of it seriously?

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

One of my friends e-mailed me today

“Hi! Lily !
One of my acquaintances wants a webpage made for a reasonable price, and someone to help him maintain it , but he wants the access code also.
Can you do this? if not can you recommend , some one, right this week , who can do it and if , so what is the price, also this person needs to speak French or English and to write French or English as well as Japanese.
The web is to be in Japanese.”

He always throws me into confusion. Confused

Well, I can’t do such a great job.
And I can’t speak French or English and to write French or English as well as Japanese.
If you can do it or you can recommend someone, please e-mail me.
I’ll connect you with client.
But what I can do is just to connect.
I don’t need commission.
You can negotiate directly. Smile

OH!! Sebastian !! Idea

You can do it!

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

I have heavy headache and toothache today.
I think I have a cold or an air conditioner sickness.

I took medicines and took a short nap.
Now I feel better.
I’ll have a bath to sweat.
You know that office workers stay in the office with air conditioner.
And it’s too cool for women mostly. Sad

I have to have a lap robe in our office.

I feel out of sorts at least once in a summer.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

The other day I ordered oil paintings.
Oil painting suppliers e-mailed me that they decided to send the paintings.

After I ordered, they e-mailed me frequently.
They ask me a lot of thing.
For instance, about Gogh’s sunflowers, because there are several patterns.

About ballet dancer, I ordered “the ballet dancer in red tutu” but they suggested that I should change my order because they found it difficult to paint “the ballet dancer in red tutu” with the small size 20x24"(51x61cm).
They were worried if they paint it with small size, the effect will be not good enough.

So I changed my order.
Anyway I’m looking forward to seeing them. Smile

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

They clutched my heart.
They are so handsome and they have incredible voice.
I get drunk with them.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

I went to see my dentist on Friday.
He took an X-ray photograph og my teeth.

Fortunately, we found that I don't have bad tooth.
A part of my gums is swollen because of tiredness. Sad

Yes, I know.
I'll manage to get over these stressful busy days.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Typhoon passed away
We heard very loud sound of wind this morning.
All of my family was looking forward the storm warning because we wanted to take a day off.
But it was not announced.
We were disappointed a little.
School boys and girls went to their school reluctantly.
We have little damage usually.
We know we are lucky.

We also know many people were damaged.
Many people lost their important people and property.
I felt my heart tighten when I heard the news of three elders who were killed by a landslide.
I guess they were friends from their childhood.
Even after they grew up, even after they had their partners, even after their children went out from their village, even after they lost their partners, they have been friends.

We are powerless to against the menace of nature.
We can only pray and donate a little.

We should try to do something to keep nature calm.
I mean recycle or something.

Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 234

"We are powerless to against the menace of nature."
Bad as it is, we are also powerless against stupidity, selfishness and greed. See New Orleans. Less greed would calm nature for sure.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

You know, we had big earthquake Kobe about 10 years ago.
About 6,000 people died in earthquake and fire.
Everybody knows that Kobe is very fashionable and beautiful city.
We couldn’t believe our eyes when we saw the sight that Kobe was burning like the hell on TV news.

We guess that there were so many problems after the earthquake.
But fortunately, we didn’t hear such s terrible news that happing in New Orleans.

You know Japanese Democracy has started after World Second War.
U.S was the symbol of freedom and justice and democracy.
I wonder whether they understand the meaning of freedom, justice and culture.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/culture/20050910TDY01005.htm
Miyazaki gets Golden Lion for career works

Congratulation！！Mr. Miyazaki Very Happy

So many people love his works. I love them, too.
We can see a lot of incredible sights in his works.
They take our breath away because of beautiful, minute and vivid depicting.

I hope we, Japanese become well-know for that we love beautiful things. Smile

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Hong Kong's superstar Jackie Chan, right, speaks as India's Bollywood actress Mallika Sherawat look on during a press conference to promote their new movie "The Myth" at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Monday, Sept. 12, 2005. Jackie Chan said Monday he plans to stop starring in action movies within five years, but he'll remain busy by producing and directing films. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

like Jackie Chan and his movies.
We can see his movies with little children and old parents.
When we run into a too romantic scene in the movies, we are flurried, right?
Needless to say, I don’t be flurried, when I watch it with my boyfriend.

Oh! That India's Bollywood actress is so beautiful.
When I was young girl, I really envied my beautiful classmates.
I really though that girls should be beautiful to be happy.

Now, I’m mature enough to know that anyone should be good person to be happy.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20050914-00000112-yom-soci
The news paper says
A woman fell in love with a man.
But a man had a wife.
His wife got pregnant.
A woman got angry and asked an assassin to kill the wife on the Net.
A woman paid an assassin 15,000,000yen but the wife still lives.
A woman held a consultation with police station because she thought that she might be taken in.
The police found that she planed to assassinate the wife then the police arrested a woman and assassin.

I think it sounds silly.
I don’t blame a woman for her error that she loved an inconstancy man but it’s unpardonable to plan to assassinate the wife.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

The professor emeritus of Saitama University, Yutaka Shimizu (education for children with learning difficulties study) found that a lot of mentally deficient persons who should be exempted from the military draft were drafted into the army in the Second World War.

Shimizu professor emeritus think more mentally deficient persons were drafted.
It became clear that many of them developed .mental disease in the battlefield but they couldn’t received the pension or the recuperation

The pension and the recuperation expense are provided for the soldier who owed the body and mental a wound in the battlefield.
However, almost of all the intellectual disability soldiers developed a new mental disease in the battle field; they were considered that they originally have the trouble.
Then they were excluded from the pension and amends.

Shimizu professors emeritus spoke” The war does the cruelest treatment to the weakest person. I want to tell the reality to young people.”

We know that the war is very cruel for anybody.
But we never should accept the thought that the weakest person should be misery.
That thought makes all of us misery I think.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

Recently, I like to eat “myouga”, a sort of Japanese herbs.
I’m not sure that it’s originally came from Japan or China.
But I think it’s an oriental herb.
I didn’t like myoga in my childhood.
I couldn’t understand why my parents like and eat such a singular smelled vegetable.
I didn’t like celery, too.
I think that ageing means being insensitive but we can get another sense to taste.

This morning, I sliced cucumber and myouga then I put a pinch of salt in it.
I crumpled them and wrung then I dress with Ponzu.
It was so tasty.

I studied about myouga on the Net and found that it‘s very tasty with tuna-can.
I’ll buy tuna-can on the way to my home from my work.
You know, they say that if we eat myouga too much, we forget many things.
I don't know why they say so.

But I don't care the tradition because I know I'm absent-minder already.

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

heard that myouga is call summer-myouga in June, July and August.
Myouga is called autumn-myouga in October.
Then, what should we call myouga in September???

They say that if we eat myouga too much, we forget many things.
I found why they say so.

There was Handoku in India. He was one of pupil of the Buddha.
He couldn’t memorize teaching of the Buddha.
He couldn’t memorize even his own name.
So he couldn’t answer his name when people asked him his name.
People held him cheap.
The Buddha wrote his name on name card and gave him.
Handoku was delight and go to about asking for alms.
He swept and cleaned everyday because of the Buddha’s order.
He concentrated single-mindedly on his work
People were impressed with him.
The Buddha appointed him very high rank.
After Handoku died a, a certain plant came out near his prave.
They named it Myouga.

I feel like to eat myouga so much.

Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 234

I didn't know this word, so I grabbed a dictionary.
茗荷 = Japanese ginger.
Another word with the same sound is 冥加 = Blessing of God.
After your explanation it makes sense, doesn't it?

Joined: 27 Dec 2003 Posts: 423

茗荷 ! That's right!
We eat 茗荷 before it flowers