Swung by to get some cosmetic supplies in Shibuya, found out the products weren't in inventory due to the Tohoku Earthquake which damaged the factory. It's not a big deal and surely I can live without it, but being hopeful, left a message to call me when the factory would come back again. It's been 3 months and life in Tokyo seems got back to almost normal, but things aren't the same anymore. It might be a cliche, but was the earthquake Pandora? We don't know what's going to happen nor when actually things settle down: omen was left in the box and we human cannot ever have...
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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In Tokyo, the loss of electrical generating power will alter, forever, the life of many businesses.
But remember, people are resilient - and the Japanese people are especially so.
Love,
Papa