Saturday, December 31, 2011
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Joyeux Noël!
Christmas in Japan is not a family gathering. It is Valentine's Day. You need a boyfriend/girlfriend and have a romantic dinner in a western style restaurant (this is Japan). My daughter (16) hinted she wanted to do exactly that. I refused. Too young. But I proposed to be the cook at home. Boyfriend was invited. An opportunity to check him out. He seems to be a nice guy. My daughter made a good choice. As long as it is not a definitive choice... Here some pictures of the food, made with love (not perfect)
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
Some Oscar Wilde quotes:
"I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after"
"Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken."
"I can resist anything but temptation."
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"
"I am not young enough to know everything"
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best"
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes"
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made"
"It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart"
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”
"I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after"
"Be yourself. Everybody else is already taken."
"I can resist anything but temptation."
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"
"I am not young enough to know everything"
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best"
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes"
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
"Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made"
"It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart"
“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.”
Friday, December 23, 2011
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
Friday, December 16, 2011
Cold shut-down?
Prime Minister Noda is expected to announce today that engineers have brought the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to a 'cold shut-down condition'.
Should we be relieved? No! It's playing with words. It's a lie. 'Cold shutdown' does not have much meaning for severely damaged reactors like those at Fukushima Daiichi.
See this article in the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/asia/japan-set-to-declare-control-over-damaged-nuclear-reactors.html
Should we be relieved? No! It's playing with words. It's a lie. 'Cold shutdown' does not have much meaning for severely damaged reactors like those at Fukushima Daiichi.
See this article in the NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/world/asia/japan-set-to-declare-control-over-damaged-nuclear-reactors.html
