Category: Yuki’s Diary 日記
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An unhappy New Year / 明けましておめでたくない
日本文が後ろに続きます。 On New Year’s Day, as I do every year, I paid a New Year’s visit to a local shrine to pray to the deities enshrined there for the development and prosperity of the Imperial nation and the happiness of all the people, to buy a shrine calendar to check my good fortune around my…
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The words of the year 2023 / ２０２３年のキーワード
日本文が後ろに続きます。 It’s time to wrap up the words of this year. As I do every year at the end of the year, I’m looking back at what has happened to me and what I have encountered over the past year, and I’m listing them up in a few short words. The words of 2023 are flight…
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Visiting Taipei and the National Palace Museum / 台北の故宮博物院を訪れて
日本文はフォートラベルのほうをどうぞ。 I visited Taipei last week. It was the first time I went abroad in four years, as the coronavirus pandemic beginning in 2020 had prevented people from getting in and out of borders. Since the border opened this year, I wanted to travel somewhere overseas. I chose Taiwan for this trip because I wanted…
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Flying an airplane / 飛行機を操縦する
日本文が後ろに続きます。 As I wrote in this entry of my blog, I became interested in flying an airplane last year; I had been interested in airplanes and aviation 20 years ago, but at that time, I was more fascinated by the women flight attendants who took care of the passengers in the cabins of airplanes than…
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The words of the year 2022 / ２０２２年のキーワード
The words of this year are: web3, Ford Focus, gout, and pilotage. ２０２２年のキーワードは、ｗｅｂ３、フォードフォーカス、痛風、飛行機の操縦です。 日本文が後ろに続きます。
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The words of the year 2021 / ２０２１年のキーワード
日本文が後ろに続きます。 The last day of each year is when I look back at what happened, what I encountered, and what impressed me much throughout the year. Then I summarize them up into some words as “the words of the year.” For example, the words of the year 2020 were Synapusyu, the handgun, and computer programming. The words of the…
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My Jeep has been saved / 私のジープは救われた
日本文が後ろに続きます。 I wrote in this entry that the garage was about to be closed and that I had to move my Jeep Grand Cherokee away from it before the closing day (Dec. 31). I also said that if no other parking space was available, I had to sell my car. Luckily, the real estate agent…
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Garage closure / 駐車場が閉鎖
日本文が後ろに続きます。 The real estate company managing the garage I rent monthly for my Jeep Grand Cherokee is announcing that the garage is being closed at the end of December and requesting all renters to leave it by the time. This closure is because, as the company says, the garage owner died these days, and its…
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The words of the year 2020 / ２０２０年のキーワード
日本文が後ろに続きます。 It is time for me to look back at what I experienced this year and summarize it in some words, as I do it every year-end. This year, COVID-19 has affected a great deal to the lifestyle of people all over the world, including myself. I have been forced to stay home and work…