The New Year's Eve

Finally the end of the year has come around. But I don't feel like the usual Christmas nor the last moment of the year.
I'm in the summer still being in 2014 so long.
I'm sure I will feel to be lost time like Urashima Taro who had been in the Dragon Castle when I will be back to Japan.
Anyway we are getting to meet A New Year 2015 soon.

My daughter has finished knitting of "dragon costume" for Jace.
She is enjoying to dress his son with her favorite design costume.
We are going to New Year fire works at around midnight near the park. She will let him wear it.

I'm sorry there seems much snow for a few days between the end of the year and the new year in Japan.
Wishing you happy New Year's Eve.

Medical check

It was the sixth week medical check. Jace got about 2.5Kg gain after birth. He is 2 times as much as the weight from the birth.
Clothes are needed more bigger ones. My daughter changed his clothes from the small to larger ones in the drawers.
It is getting hard to let him sleep in his bed because he likes to sleep in arms.
He is now very strong though having born prematurely and now heavy.
It's so hard to sit a baby all alone by a mother.
I'm sorry for my daughter to stay by herself with her son during the day. I'm leaving soon.

Winery

There are many wineries in Swan Valley.
People can easily taste and take any favorite bottles of wine away.
I tasted some kinds of wine and bought as a souvenir.

There are also some kinds of bars, garden bar, spot bar and restaurant bar around the shopping center.
We ate late lunch at the garden bar. Fish and chips are typical menu as well as hamburger, sandwich, pasta, pizza and so on.
They can drink beer and wine lightly with lunch even a driver.
And some couples including us took new born babies in a cram car.
Of course there is a changing room where parents can use for babies.
So to speak, people and social are all different here from Japan.

Lost in translation

10 days have passed since I visited my daughter to see my first grandson. It's the sixth visit here in Perth not on purpose of the regular trips like visiting sightseeing one but going around the usual daily life in here.
I feel most people here speak so quickly that I can't hear them very well. So I sometimes lost in translation.
When I offer some help for my son-in-law to wash dishes or hug the baby while mammy is busy, though my son-in-law likes to do anything to do housekeeping, he reply "If you want ?"
Actually I just wanted to help not wanted to do but he doesn't take it for my kindness but for my option!
It's the difference of culture, too.
I realize that we Japanese tend to care about too much to behave for others...is it only my opinion?
My daughter has been oversea and adjusted different culture so she doesn't care too much about others.
I'd better say "Not really but just want to help you" if I were asked "If you want?".












Hillarys beach

Garbage truck

It's funny to find a different way of the daily life.
I saw a garbage truck to pick up every house's container and put into the truck by the machine arm.
One man truck driver only operates the system on the car.
What an impressive cool one!
In Japan we each bring garbage to the garbage station and the garbage truck comes and a few staff take those plastic bags filled with garbage into the truck. What a horrible work!
But there are very different town situations between the two.
The first one is houses scheduled along the big streets in Australia but the latter one is houses in the narrow streets in Japan.
We call it "gomi shushusha" can pass around the wide street that's why we need to take garbage plastic bags to the place of the garbage station.
There are some differences and other same in the different countries.
I've never seen any "washlet" nor "warmlet" such as in Japan comfortable toilet here.

Boxing Day!

December 26 is Boxing Day which is the day for workers who had no Christmas holiday were given gift box from the owner after Christmas.
The big sale is promoted around the countries of *Commonwealth.
Many people expected big present after Christmas on the bargain sale.
We are going to leave early before the store open.
It will be crowded too much.

* イギリス連邦（イギリスれんぽう、英: Commonwealth of Nations、旧名 British Commonwealth）は、かつてのイギリス帝国（大英帝国）がその前身となって発足し、イギリスとその植民地であった独立の主権国家から成る、緩やかな国家連合（集合体）である。 英連邦（えいれんぽう）、コモンウェルス（the Commonwealth）ともいう。 実態は、民族の共通の利益の中で、また国際的な理解と世界平和の促進の中で、協議し、協力する自発的な独立の主権国の組織である（コモンウェルス原則の宣言前文）」と再定義され、ゆるやかな独立主権国家の連合となった（連邦国家ではない)。



Banksia


Mango

Happy Christmas!

Today is the world wide special day to wish you Merry Christmas, even you are not a Christian, our pure mind to make world peace and happiness all over the world.
"This is Christmas" makes family gather and cerebrate once a year in the western culture.
I'm making sushi roll to take the daughter's family party today, thank you!