When having meals, they say  itadakimasu  and after finishing meals they say gochisosama. When someone is going out he says itekimasu and the family member says okairi. When passing owners stores the

The first thing that healed me was the Teochew Opera. Next was my favorite singer of Terasa Teng, Our dogs Potato and Kojiro. I used to go to a Karaoke for singing but now I don't feel fun. The last b

May 7 th is Mother's Day. Women are very strong. I really appreciated my mother and mother-in-law. If they had not been in this world, we wouldn't have been born. Both mother's characters are calm and

For girls we have Hina dolls festivals . It is on March 3rd. In those days and even now parents of wives side give a set of Hina dolls. Most families decorate them in tokonoma ( tatami room ) and they

There was a merit if you were a foreigner in Japan. By the name of Tan Lan Kwee, I was asked to be a one day nurse, I was asked to teach some games to children what I played in my childhood, I was ask

Parents back home were strict because they wanted their children to behave well. My memory of my father was he used flip flop to hit my legs if I behaved badly and my mother would use canes to hit me.

I commute to work by train everyday. I am curious at people in the train. Everyone is looking at the cell phones. In my case I decided not to do anything when I am with my hubby. In those days especia

Since we got married I usually serve my husband everything. I have been doing all these like preparing meals, getting seasoning he wants and clearing the table of what he uses for years. Maybe not onl

Yesterday it rained the whole day. I am afraid the petals of Sakura will be blown away. After all it bloomed so beautifully. In those days when my father-in -law saw the Sakura he said, Could I see it

Every year I was introduced to the new students at the opening ceremony. I always prepare a short speech. At first I was going to say Congratulations. Welcome to the hairstylist institute. Let's enjoy

We have an old saying. Maybe it is a kind of superstition but it is true. If we were given 2 presents there would be the third one. One day our daughter gave me a tablet of pc. Next a stuffed animal l

In my Secondary years in school I joined an activity. What made me join it? It was the uniform and beret cap with a badge of Red Crescent . In those days we called Red Cross. I studied how to apply fi

Many families are visiting their families' graves. According to the lunar calendar this coming Sunday is the day where many families visit the graves once in a year. Over here we can visit anytime we

In foreign countries, they use the year like 2023. Over here we use both like Japanese and English year. Now we use Reiwa 5 or 2023. In those days we had Showa, Heisei and now Reiwa. I came to Japan i

When my mother enrolled me in my school I was pretty happy. In my primary first grade she bought new text books, a brief bag, a small black board and a box of chalk for writing. I usually hung on the

As I know my husband like the concert I requested him to see again. Actually the concert was held from April 18 th to 23rd. Since 21st was a public holiday both of us went to see again. The seats for

Last Sunday my husband and I went to see a concert. After the concert we had dinner at a restaurant. Since Corona we had to be careful not to be infected. For these 3 or 4 years we stayed home except

Finally the concert of our favorite singer appeared on stage. Actually my husband has been looking forward to seeing his concert. I usually followed him and I also become one of his fans. During Coron

Yesterday my husband and I visited a city hall for some reasons. If we drove there the place would be easy to get there but we took a train. We had to change to another train. It was quite a complicat

Since I was young my eye sight was pretty good. People said if your eye sight was too good you would be far sighted at a younger age. That's right. I became far sighted in my early age. One day I happ