20131229 Year End/New Years in Ibaraki, a set on Flickr.
Year end vacation started with a visit to Momo, a daughter of friend of mine since 3 years old. They cooked us dinner! Kids had fun riding all kinds of farming machines at their house. Then Masami jiji picked drove us back to their house, where we helped making mochi (rice cake) for New Year's. It was cold except the actual New Year's this year.
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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