Looking through the organizer, major events occurred during the year 2006 are: grand father passed away in Feb, Masa hospitalized, grand mother of my mother's end had cerebral infarct and partial paralysis on her light side, went to Nagasaki/Saga/Iki during the golden week, count down for Ton chan started, then we have her now. It doesn't look much of a busy year listing these events, but surely time flies. Ton chan's 4th week starts from today, the new years day. She shows progress on little things, which amazes me.
Overheard a conversation between two senior ladies on the bus way back to home from work. One lady said she was worried about her daughter not getting married. "I was worried about her going out when she was young, and was careful not to let her go on date with some boys, but now I regret what I did. If she had more chances of meeting, she would've been married by now." The other lady was telling her that she was embarrassed by her daughter married to a man not from the good family. "Children of my brothers and cousins all married to the people from the good family. My daughter is the only one not married to such a good family. Even my husband's end relatives also married to decent family. I'm so embarrassed." The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. One is not happy about her daughter being single. One is not happy that her daughter doesn't belong to decent family that she can claim to her relatives. Probably both of them were trying to ...
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