maiko-san

In my family there are four computers. My daughter has the latest operating system, Windows 10. I envy her because her computer runs smoothly. But I can't help it. She uses her computer for her office work, too. As for me I have three computers in my room, an 8 -year- old desktop with windows Vista , Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. All of them run slowly. According to Microsoft it would be better to use only Vista, because they stopped supplying Windows Update for Windows XP in 2014. The problem of the Windows Vista is that all of my family uses it. My daughter has no printer in her room. She sometimes sends G-mail to Vista and gets copies. My wife likes surfing her favorite websites, i.e. opera singers, Shirasu Jiro's blog and so on. Once a week she orders me to fill out the form of Kitchen Ale, a delivery company, for buying food, vegetables and rice. Otherwise she uses neither WORD nor EXCEL. So, I use WORD for this  English lessons material and

In November 1975 I flew to Europe with my wife on a package tour. There were also 5-6 newly-wed honeymoon couples. on board. First we landed in Vienna. Immediately my wife bought a fur coat. Fur clothing was in fashion in those days. She looked great in that fur coat. I thought she was an actress. When I looked around, I was surprised to see a woman who was one of our tour members. She wore the same fur coat as my wife's. I surmised that fashion forces human beings to follow the same new trend. Looks like they competed for attention. Both of them looked gorgeous against the background of the coldest weather in Europe. In Paris my wife was big into brand bags like Louis Vuitton, Fendi and Hermes. We took a taxi. My wife showed the driver a clipping from a Japanese fashion magazine, "Ann Ann &Non Non" I doubted he could understand our destination, because it was all written in Japanese. He just nodded and answered "Si! Si!" Soon we arrived at the Louis V

Recently I have worn out my favorite sports shoes. I bought it more than ten years ago. Moreover I wear them every morning when I go to the supermarket. The brand name is "Asics" manufactured by Onitsuka. I like the shoemaker, Onitsuka, because I once visited its factory in Taiwan in the 70s. When it rained, water soaked through the rift in the toe part. Sometimes I applied glue to the small openings and fixed it. My wife said, "It's about time you bought new ones." I agreed with her. I went to a shoe-store near Minami-Morimach Station.The rumor has it, that the shoe store sells the cheapest shoes in Osaka. A young employee greeted me cheerfully. He said, "We're on a clearance sale". I glimpsed at white sports shoes and asked him for the price. He said, "Two thousand Yen on the dot." I thought,"Not bad" and tried them on. It was too tight for me. I looked around the other ones. Unfortunately there were casual shoes for wom