The day I picked up my dad from the airport, I had a karate belt test. We dumped his gear in my living room – a corner of which he later put up his tent and made his temporary home– then rushed to the dojo where fellow white belts exchanged greetings crisp with tension.
The test […]
Mum called a long-distant friend and encouraged her to see a specialized doctor.
“But I don’t know of any such doctors in my area” the friend replied.
Mum: “Well, use the Internet thing, it should tell you”
Friend: “But I don’t know how to do the Internet”
While my mum recanted her frustration to me over the phone, I […]
By golly what a chain of events it’s been the past week. I’ve stayed up working on two videos (one for a friends’ wedding which I’ll upload in July, and another for a family reunion).
Flatmates got together to paint the walls of the living room, now it looks like this:
(I’d be admitting to living in […]
I’ve never considered myself good at sports. I don’t care enough about competition and I fumble too much in most ball games. I was a bench warmer in volleyball, and for the life of me I can’t throw.
So when the teachers at a 6 year old’s karate birthday party invited me to join, I laughed […]
Four Pauls in a Row
So I found out all about the mischief of the Easter Bunny last night. Aside from distant memories of painting easter eggs, (I think that was in Alaska, or did we ever celebrate Easter Mr. and Mrs. Brown?) my only other reference was the display of bunny chocolates and pretty baskets […]
Long time ago on Valentines, somebody at church (I used to live with a Mormon family) told us to say “I love you” to our parents. I couldn’t bring myself to make a phone call, nobody says “I love you” in Japan, especially to family members, and even with my British father it was odd […]
How an infant grows in just 2 weeks! He called me ‘nanny’, what a joyous moment, to be granted a name. ‘Ayumi’ is a bit too difficult to pronounce. ‘Nanny’, sure, I like that.
It’s been a long 2 weeks in England. At times, Paul and I felt like we stumbled into a family soap opera. […]
Cousin Samira, Mike and his mum
Me and groom’s sister
Dad with flags. He is often seen with flags.
“What so ever you judge is not a judgement about others, it is a judgement about you. Jesus says again and again, judge ye not, for all your judgements are going to be wrong — you will be there. A thief is a sinner for you. Why? Because you are so attached to your private […]
I’ve received a handful of sweet photo-cards of families and couples and new babies, their smiling faces end up on my wall into much of the following year.
This Christmas season, squeezed between all else, we (in the photo) recorded carols. Paul’s sister Mia is an opera singer, and her husband sings for a U2 tribute […]
