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I recently celebrated my birthday this past week by playing a round of golf with my dad and uncle. We played in a best ball tournament at Waikele Country Club. This was a big deal for me because it was the first time I had ever played in tournament before. The tournament was set up so that each team had 3 players and each group had 2 teams. Luckily, the other team in our group was really cool and made the day a lot more fun. At first I was kind of nervous but then after the first few holes, I started to get in the zone. I don’t know how or why but I was hitting everything just right. My drives were going straight and I was able to hit my second shot on the green. Usually, I either only hit my driver well or my irons well, but never hit both well in a round. But on this particular day, everything was just going my way. Even though we came out even in the end, I had a lot of fun just hanging with my dad and playing around. They say that your worst golf day is better than any day at work. But when you have a good golf day… well, you just can’t beat it.

今日はセントラル・ユニオン教会で、知人家族のウェディングセレモニーがありました。
参列者の皆さんは、ほとんど日本からの方々でした。

ここはナコスから徒歩１０分のところです。
日傘をさして、気楽な気分でお祝いに出席して参りました。

まぶしい

調べ物をしているうちに、ネットサーフィンをしてしまいました。

オルフェウス室内管弦楽団（Orpheus Chamber Orchestra)をYouTubeで見て、演奏が素晴らしいと思いました。生で聴くに越したことはありませんが、生きた波のように空気を突き動かすようなオルフェウスの音楽がじゅうぶんに伝わってきました。このようなオーケストラはそう多くないと思います。Joshua Bellとのベートーベンのヴァイオリン協奏曲を楽しみました。

～～そして仕事に戻ります。ネットサーフィンが長々とならないうちに～～

私のアレルギー医は台湾出身のドクター・クオさんと言います。お年は６０代後半です。

いつもすきとおった明るい声がクリニックに響いています。
私　　「いつも大きな声で話していますね」
クオさん「ハッハッハ、私の癖です」

クオさんもアレルギーです。お母さんはアレルギーで５０才代で亡くなったそうです。当時は原因や治療法がよくわからなかったそうです。それでクオさんはアレルギー専門医になりました。

私　　「クオさんもアレルギー注射をしてますか？」
クオさん「自分でしています。なぜだかわかる？患者さんを診るために健康でいたいからだよ。３４年間クリニックを病気で休んだことがありません、ハッハッハ」

私は埃やカビやハワイのキアヴェの木などにアレルギーがあるため、アレルギー注射をしています。
ある時、アレルギーの食べ物リストを渡してもらった時のことです。

クオさん「 save money, save money」
私　　「えっ？」
クオさん「この食べ物を食べても無駄になるからお金の無駄になるでしょう、ハッハッハ」

毎回の受診時間は短いのですが、いつもこんな調子で、二人で大笑いをします。つい、いつの間にか、行くのが楽しみになってしまいました。う～ん、それはよいことなのか、よくないことか。。。。。

日本の料理雑誌に「もやし料理」の特集が載っていました。

「家計もおなかも大満足」とあるのは納得したのですが、

「下ごしらえがラクチン」には、思わず、　まさかー！！

もやしは好きですが、ひげ根とりにはいつもふーふー。

ひょっとしたら、日本のお店で売っているもやしはひげ根無しなのかも？

This was a scary but happy happening when my mother and I went to Russia about 5 years ago.  We were on a stop over in New York.  Coming out of the plane, I checked the departure time posted near the door and it said, 1 hour from now.  Since we were really hungary & wanted real food not airline,  we rushed out to find a restaurant.  Around the corner in the next wing there was a sit down eating place & you could hear the announcements of the NOW boarding Flight #’s.

We were enjoying our food which took a long time to order, when I heard a voice very loudly call out “KAREN!”, like as if they were yelling at me.  It scared me, &  I had a funny feeling something was wrong.  When I looked around it seemed as if the restaurant had  gotten  empty & all the people had left.  So I rushed my mother & I stood up & said, “we have to leave NOW!”The restaurant had the worst service, very slow & it took 10 minutes just to get our bill & another 5min. to pay at the register.

Then we started running back to the gate, but when we reached there it was empty, just the airline ticketers , the door was closed.  I explained that we were supposed to be on the plane and how come it left early?  They said they were looking for 2 passengers.  Then quickly got on the phone to call, that they had found us.  She said that’s your plane, and it was starting out of the gate and proceeding towards the runway when it abruptly stopped and returned back.  The gatedoors swung open, we were rushed down the walkway, the door to the plane opened and we rushed in with door quickly closing.  The plane started back towards the runway as we walked to our seats, it was moving.

It was SO—- embarressing.  Everyone looked up at us as if to say “who are these people!”  Like as if we were some kind of VIP.  My mother and I was so releived as we sat down in our seats.   This was the last flight out of NY heading to Russia, and if we had missed it, we would have had to stay overnite and then try to hook up with the tour group bus  on our own, behind 1 day’s travel.

Later, we found out from the rest in our group, that they announced on the plane , that they  had forgotten some important papers and had to return to the gate.  Thank Goodness for that Guardian Angel that yelled at me and made us run to the plane.  Lucky we were able to plane!  My Mom and I had tears in our eyes when we saw the plane leaving without us.  What’s worst, no one from our group even knew we were MISSING!

長屋メンバーのジョシュアさんがハワイ大学を卒業しました。今夜は、ジョシュアさんのお祖父さんのお家で卒業パーティーがありました。腕をふるってお料理を作る可愛い笑顔のお母さん、８０歳でまだ現役でお仕事をしていらっしゃるお祖父さんの柔和な笑顔。お祝いと共に、今日も、素敵な人たちとの出会いがあったことに感謝します。そして、ジョシュアさんのガッツある表情からは、座右の銘である、「永遠に生きるつもりで夢を抱き、今日限りの命と思って生きる」、というジェームス・ディーンの言葉を物語っているように見えました。