Every little thing in my ordinary life 14

I’ve been busy
I told I was busy in my business recently. Yeah, it’s still keep goin’ on. Ummm…I’m desperate to go to onsen(hot srping) so that I take a relax.

Almost cried
For the next journal of my travel, I’m preparing for a few things, such as making a size of photos smaller. As one of such things, I have a book I have to read. It’s a biography of one person, Jose Rizal. He is a hero between the Philippines.

Yesterday, I dropped by a car shop in order to change an oil of my car. While waiting for my car finished, I was reading the book. Oops, I almost cried out loud. His ideas for liberty and his attitudes turned me on.

By the way, I don’t know how I could say “I can easily cry” as an idiom in English. We have one phrase in Japanese namida moroi when we were touched with something emotional or were impressed with something sentimental. namida means “tear”, and moroi means…”fragile”, I guess. For example, “kare wa namida moroi“, I guess I would express like this; “He easily cries.” Sometimes I find such a expression in books, “he welled his tears on his eyes.” I guess it should be for…”kare wa me ni namida wo ukabeta.”

Anyway, although I was in public, it was so hard to stop crying while reading the book. I think I got older. Japanese often say “The older you get, the more oppotunities to cry you get.”

Haven’t seen sakura blossoming vigorously
Between Christians, a lot of events happen now, like Holy week. As for most of Japanese, sakura is the main thing in this season. Fortunately, this blog has reached the third year. I already wrote a few journals on sakura(cherry blossom).

In addition to sakura, we have some festivals in my region. I hope I could take pictures and introduce them in this blog. However, I haven’t even seen any sakura this year.

We call “drinking under sakura” “hanami.” People wake up early, try to get seats under sakura for their friends or colleagues, and enjoy drinking. Please look up and watch sakura blossoming above you, you can see the beauty of sakura. And imagine this, one of petals of sakura falls flutteringly and you have it in your cup. What an amazing moment! sakura can blossom in a short time. They are beautiful but can’t keep their beauty so long. That’s the secret why Japanese love sakura.

Incidentally, we have a phrase in Japanese when we call our colleagues, co-workers who start working at the same year. douki no sakura. “watashi tachi wa douki no sakura desu” means “we joined a firm(or other organizations) at the same year.”

Sadly, recently some of Japanese have their bad attitudes when doing hanami. With their attitudes, sakura might be weakened.