General: May 2003 Archives

Today is looking like it is going to be a perfect summer.spring day here in the "north country". When I say perfect I mean it is so nice out that you can literally walk out in a t-shirt and it isn't too hot or too humid. Perfect! I love this weather and I wish I could take some of it with me to Osaka, Japan.

Last weekend I watched a wonderful movie called, The Way Home. It is a Korean film that deals with a young mother in the midst of sever money troubles, who leaves her son at her mother's house while she looks for a new job. Here is a small glipse into the story:

"More accustomed to the luxuries of the modern world, a spoiled seven-year old boy must stay with his old-fashioned grandmother in a small rural village while his mother looks for work. At first Sang-woo rudely rejects his grandmother's way of life. But gradually, through her constant show of kindness and love, he learns to accept and understand the simple pleasures of nature and her lifestyle. Sang-woo leaves the village a different boy. Because of his grandmother, he sees the world around him with a new found respect and appreciation. "

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I would highly recomend this title as I found it very moving. I have come away from this movie really understanding that what has ruined america and a lot of other places, including Japan, is that people have lost contact from where we have come from. Nowadays it seems like everyone thinks that money grows on trees when if fact that they have no idea of what it is like to have to go without money, as depicted in The Way Home.

Well this is a little glipse into my unified theory about people.

I really didn't know about your site. So I didn't steal your site or your ideas. So please don't accuse me of doing this. Yes you are right that I registered my domain name www.japanish.org in april. It wasn't taken at that time so I choose it. If you are really mad about it and want the domain name then I will sell it to you. You got some cash? It has taken me a lot of time and effort to get this site up and running. It wasn't intentional to steal an idea you thought you had.

If you really wanted this domain name why didn't you by it? :-)

Well anyways, don't be mad about it because it isn't a big deal. I will sell it to you if you want it. Just come up with the cash and it will be yours.

Dave

I have been robed. I know this might sound like I am making a big deal about something so small as a newspaper, but let me reassure you that it is serious to me. I wonder who could be taking my newspaper. Who could be desprate enough to take my damn paper? A homeless person? Would a homeless person want to clip the coupons like I do? I really doubt it.

I am thinking that this low life is a resident of my apartment complex. I mean that, this person is desprate to save $.30 on cream of corn. They have to be! To beat me out to the paper before I have a chance to clip the precious coupons. To Be Continued........

Today was a very rainy day. I mean that it started out nice and sunny, but by 12:00 Pm it was raining and cold and chilly. I guess that it has more to do with the fact that my wife hide the umbrella on me. So I had the chance to walk to the store in the rain and get nice and wet. Needless to say, I bought one for the walk home. I think I will put this umbrella in the car for those times that I am in a hurry.

I miss my Y700 umbrella that I got in Tokyo last year when I was there in Janurary. I miss Shinjuku so much lately. Everything there was so convienent. I wonder if my wife can be talked into moving there.... I guess we will see.

I am really getting into photography. I blame it on Kurt for this condition that I am now feeling, over at easterwood.org. Well I guess I have always liked it from the minute that I was my High School photographer for my school's year book. So I have to let Kurt off the hook a little. I think I will look into what a good camera set up will run me. I would also like to get a dark room going also for black and white.

Photo Links I like:

Ruin Japan<

Don't let the Japanese scary you. You won't be dissapointed!