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6 teacup duos c.1930~1950 (eBay purchases)
Oh dear… I think I need more display spaces in my phantom cupboard! (or better still, another bigger matching 1930’s art deco display cabinet to the one in my rented house – will be on the hunt at Antique dealers once I get back to A house!). Despite a large number of photos, there are [...]
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Blue Rose 青いバラ 藍薔薇
Gosh – what a news! Suntony’s finally done it – they’ve commercialised Blue Rose!!!
It may be old news if I’d been keeping up to date with latest Biotech discoveries, but no, I’m not doing that anymore…
Yes Suntory makes things other than Japanese ‘Scotch’ Whiskey and Midori. They’ve been onto this for ages, well, at least [...]
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Comparison (Japanese/Cantonese (English)) 日語・粵語・英語
Similarities between Cantonese & Japanese I’ve been noting (particularly while watching Cantonese TV shows). The list can expand more I’m sure… I found more words are similar in Japanese & Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese), but I must stick to Cantonese while in HK for now (otherwise I continually encourage my Mandanese ) Even though people [...]
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レンザブロー「日本語に片思い」(Japanese blog)
常純敏(Chang Chun-min)さんの「日本語に片思い」とのタイトルのエッセーを集英社のWEB文芸「レンザブロー」で読んでます。
彼女は日本語<->中国語の翻訳者で、ジャンルも言語は違うけど、なんとなく私と似た境遇？多分歳もそうかわらないと思う。彼女の目からみた、日本／日本人の感じも同感する事が多い。香港に住む日本人として、香港人は台湾人ほど日本文化に浸かっていないけど、でも若い人の間ではファッション、ヘア、音楽、雑誌、漫画とか、日本の物が人気だし、化粧品、お菓子とか食べ物とかもなんか日本語が書いてある物の方が売れるようだし（意味不明の物や絶対に日本人がチェックしてないものも含めて）。前から行きたかったけど、台湾面白そうだな〜と思いました（食べ物もすごい美味しそうだし〜）。
今中国の60周年記念イベントをニュースで見ながら書いてます。相変わらずすごいですね。今回は女性の兵隊のマーチにフォーカスしてましたね。みんな綺麗（笑）で足の長さも顔の角度(大きさも？)も同じ！それにみんな多分優秀な人たちなんでしょう。今現在、中国以外の国では成し遂げられないでしょう。
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BS debate (Japanese TV)
Just turned on BS1 (one of sub-channels of NHK, a Japanese TV channel) expecting to watch a light-hearted traveling show called ‘Out & About’, but ended up watching a debate show involving 3 young politicians from the Japanese Democratic (Minshutoh 民主党) party, which of course is the new political party which won a landslide victory [...]
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HK JPTimeTV 香港aTV じゃぱナビ
It a TV show on aTV on Sunday at 6:25pm. I do often miss it as we’re out on Sunday afternoon, but you can watch missed episodes on their website (http://www.jptime.tv/ an ancient website which sometimes has issues with my browsers, but it’ll get there in the end). It’s the first (& only) HK locally [...]
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Uniqlo ユニクロ
Uniqlo is a Japanese fashion brand that’s taking over the world by storm! When it first opened in Japan, it wasn’t all that well regarded fashion-wise – they’re good for low priced T-shirts, underwear & socks & stuff, so mainly patronised by men, or housewives & the kids.
Then, they started to put more effort into [...]
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クレヨンしんちゃん 蠟筆小新
This would not make sense to people other than in Japan or HK/Chinese speaking cultures, but the author of the cartoon クレヨンしんちゃん (in Japan) & 蠟筆小新 (in HK/China) passed away recently from a fall while hiking in a mountain after being missing for a week or so. It shocked the nation. My thoughts are with [...]