maiko-san

At the end of this month my daughter is going to India. It's a four-day-trip. She will fly with ANA from Itami Airport via Narita Airport to New Delhi. She's already booked a hotel there. She's on a sightseeing trip with her business counterpart. The moment I heard India, I thought it was a dangerous country. It has a possibility that her handbag, passport and belongings will be stolen, as there are many robbers in the country. Well, I'm not allowed to get in detail what she is actually going to do out there.She won't deliberately let me know her schedule. She only asked me to lend her my digital camera, I said, "Sure, but can you lend me your IC recorder?" She said, "No problem. That's a deal." I was on the top of the world, because for one thing I could record my own voice into the recorder while I read a German book aloud." I'll be able to brush up on my German pronunciation. Besides I could look into her photos secretly, wh...

Last Thrusday I went to Karaoke Bar by the name of ("Cote Dazur") after this lesson was over. I reserved a Karaoke room for one hour. I sung four songs in German and five songs in English. The following is the list of songs I sung. 1. "99 Luftballons" by Nena                                       ("99 Airships") 2. "Sie liebt dich" by Beatles                                      ("She loves you") 3. "Komm zu mir deine Hand" by Beatles                     ("I wanna hold your hand") 4. "Wo sind die Blumen geblieben?" by Kingstone Trio     ("Where have all the flowers gone?") 5. "GI Blues" by Presley 6. "Jailhouse Rock" by Presley 7. "Yesterday once more" by Carpenters 8. "Only Yesterday" by Carpenters 9. "Touch me when you dance wi...

On the 6th of March I picked up Hidechen at the Imperial Hotel. Every two months we read the book of Anne Frank together. Hidechen is a 40- year- old something guy with whom I learned German at Goethe Institute. Immediately we sat at a table in a UCC coffee shop. The meeting last four solid hours. Actually it started at 11:00 and ended at 3:00 in the afternoon. I was taken aback when I saw him "equipped" with a Smartphone, I- Phone and tablet. He doesn't use a notebook like me. He installed WORD on the tablet and wrote German sentences and Japanese sentences on the gadget. It seemed he had a lot of knoledge on these communication tools. It's all Greek to me. When Hidechen wanted to take a break and went into the men's room, my wife and my 37 -year -old daughter appeared out of thin air. As soon as she saw me, she just smiled at me and went away. They are gone. Oh shit! I could have introduced Hidechen to them. After Hidechen and I were done with reading the ...

Today I'd like to introduce to you my Skype friend. He's an enjoyable 64-year-old American named Sullivan. Last Sunday he started chatting with me. Immediately he called me. I was surprised that he phoned me, because we have been always chatting. It's been 7 years since I heard his voice last time. Four years ago he suffered from prostate cancer. That's a shame. Just a couple of months ago he divorced his wife. He now lives with his son, Johnny. He called his wife a bitch. So I surmise that there must have been obnoxious struggles between him and his ex-wife. when he made up mind to separate. . He explained to me, the bitch means a mean, cold and nasty woman. That reminds him of Hilary Clinton.. Is Bill Clinton pussy- whipped? So am I. Then we started talking about American presidential candidates. Donald Trump is eccentric..He is a businessman, not a politician. Asshole! What is commendable about Sullivan is his volunteering spirit. As soon as he overcame the disea...