Fascinating ice state

Ice skate international match is hold in Russia a month later from the scheduled period in Japan.
My favorite Japanese athlete Mao Asada, who won the champ last year, failed but she keeps in the seventh grade in the short program.
I wonder if she might be slump getting away from the girl to the woman.
Her performance is very sharp and elegant but something passionate punch is missing.....compared to her rival Kim.
Kim's performance seems much more mature than Mao's even though Mao's skating were strict and perfect.
Mao is now on the way to grow up and still unknown possibility.
I really love to see her revival performance as a mature woman.
We are all together, Japan! Cheering our Mao!



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Something strange happens to bamboo shoots

It's season to eat bamboo shoots.
Every year I enjoy tasting wild mountain plants especially, bamboo shoots are abundant as natural gift.
I happened to join lunch at the bamboo shoots restraurant olly open for two months on the season of bamboo shoots.
It was very delicious.
There are 5 dishes, including rice and soup, tempura, stew and salada with vinegar. Those dishes are from the ancient priests who were having lessons to gain high spirit such as SATORI.
I'm sure one could get growth like bamboo shoots.
But I'm sorry to hear that bamboo shoots this year don't grow well.
They are the worst little products ever before.
The owner worries an extraordinary climate change might have caused wild plants badly.
I felt uneasy with something bad phenomena happening here and there.
I just thank natural gift I tasted.
I'm happy to share nature life.






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A nine-year Aussie boy represents friendship

"Dear Prime Minister Gillard. I've heard you can speak to other Prime Ministers in other countries.

Can you give my message to the Prime Minister in Japan?"

This letter is written by a nine-year old boy, who lives in Perth in Western Australia. His name is Ashwine Kleswell. He appealed his good will heart to the Prime Minister.

"I saw a boy in the news paper whose name is Toshihito Aizawa. My mother read the article for me.

It said …..there is a boy walking around hanging a board in the 2,000 people backed up in the gymnastic as the temporary refuge. The board is made of thick paper and it is something written on it.

He was only a survivor in his family in a car. On that day when the big earthquake hit he and his family were in a car and rushing to the hill. But Tsumani attacked their car and they were drown.

He goes around every different refuges to find his family and hanging board with his family's name."

"I ask him to come to my home if he can't find his parents. If he lives with me we can go to school together and share toys, too."

The Prime Minister Gillard was moved with his note and promised him that she would surely make it to Japan.

At last she handed his letter to the Japanese Prime Minister, Kan.

The Aussie Prime Minister said to the Japanese Prime Minister, " We are one."

She called to Ashwine that she delivered his message and she made it.

                                                                    The Prime Minister Gillard visiting Soma City

Allergy

I've got allergy this year.
It's said there are getting many people who got affected by pollen but it was not for me since last year.
I felt dry skin around my eyes and getting to feel itchy and found more wrinkles around eyes in the mirror in the beginning of March.
I went to see the doctor and got prescription of eye drops. It's effective for allergic conjunctivitis.
So I need to drop the eye lotion three times a day and it's improved my eye condition.

But now, I've had running nose and sneeze a lot. It seems like allergic nasal rhinitis.
I can't stay for a minute without blowing my nose with tissue.
So I wear mask outside to protect me from allergens.
It makes me very calm with a small drop of peppermint oil on the mask.
I have to endure for the seasoning disease so far so long.

Animals in ghost towns

Abandoned pets around 10km from the nuclear plant where people were forced to evacuate to the place of refuge without their pets. While they were not allowed to take pets to the refuge, they had to leave them at home, in the ghost town.
These films are reported sneakily by the animal right group.

Many pets are being left....

It was almost two weeks ago that this article had been uploaded.
I hope those pets dogs would have been taken care of right well and meet their owner in the end.

Dogs wonder around a town of Minami Soma, inside the deserted evacuation zone established for the 20 kilometer radius around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in northeastern Japan Thursday, April 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)




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Keene on path to Japanese citizenship

Donald Keene, a prominent scholar of Japanese literature at Columbia University, has decided to move permanently to Japan after he delivers his final lecture at the university later this month, sources close to him have said.

The 88-year-old professor emeritus has started the process of acquiring Japanese citizenship, they said.

While he has been spending half of each year in Japan, he determined around January to live in the country full time, partly because travel has become physically demanding for him.

The sources also indicated the March 11 calamity has distressed him and intensified his desire to make Japan home.

He was awarded the Order of Culture in 2008.( Kyodo )



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