実家から持ってきた大量の八朔。マーマレードにすることに。地味に皮を剥いて、実を剥がして、用意すること2.7kg. 砂糖は40%で。家中の空き瓶を使って、足掛け3日かけて完成。あー疲れた。
Made Hassaku marmalade I brought back from home. Peeled and chopped, total 2.7kg of the orange. Added 40% of sugar, gathered all the empty jars in the house, and completed it in 3 days. Oh boy, I am so exhausted...
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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