My alpine ski season was over

Today I entered my last alpine ski competition . Regret to say , my right ski boot was off its ski in my first trial, so Icould'nt finish the race.Damn it ! I've challenged it four times, but No race to complete ! No woder evrything went wrong. BecauseI've returned to the race for the first time in 20 years. When I checked out my old record,I was more than 3 seconds faster back then!
Next year I have to try agin even harder.Don't miss it!

Aniversary of my uncle and aunt' s death

My wife and I took part in a memorial service on the anniversary of my uncle and aunt's death in the downtown hotel today . Nearly 30 relatives by blood and marriage have gathered together and sat down in front of the alter in Buddhism .
A bonze has come into the room , and stepped forward until he reached the head of the attendance . He looked around and made a deep bow , then started reciting a sutra .
Half an hour later he delivered a brief lecture after finishing his work .
After he walked out of the place , we took a memorial meeting photograph .
Finally , we had lunch together and enjoyed chattering .

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We Japanese perform religious services for the departed souls of our ancestors like that .
This is not only for the dead but also for us who are flesh and blood .
Since more and more people are losig their religious feelings in the modern society , it is a precious oppotunity for relatives to gather round .

NHK Licence Fee

In Japan every householder who owes TV reciever has to pay for NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation ) licence fee due to Japan Broadcast act . Strictly speaking , we're under obligation to contract ourselves to NHK .
However , there're several crucial problems about this system .
(1) No one can make sure that they have TV set in their home
with visiting from door to door .
(2) No one could be punished for refusing to make an
arrangement .
(3) Since NHK has caused quite a few scandalous affairs recently , people can't trust
them .
As a result , more and more people have started rejecting a NHK ' s offer .
Today I recieved a visit from a bill collector and he said I had to make a contract with
you because you had not done yet . After I spoke a few words with him over the intercom , I hung up on him . After a while he has vanished .
Then I decided to post up such a seal like that on the wall at the entrance to take self-defesive measures . I wonder it'll do me good ?

Graduate student from Cameroon

The other day we held a meeting with five foreigners living in Hokkaido.Sali Atanga is one of our guest speakers ,who is at final year of Doctorate degree in Agriculture in Hokkaido University.
He came from Cameroon with his wife Stella and
is living in Sapporo.He is 35 years old and an Agricultural Reserch Scientist working for the Cameroon Government.
The driving force behind their motive for visiting Japan is to understand why Japan is committed to produce durable goods.They finally found out

the answer.That is Japanese desire to do everythig to the best of their ability in order to satisfy the end-user.
There are two critical reasons why they decided to come to Japan.
First, the health care service is reasonable and satisfactory as compared with most developed countries.
Secondly,they have a low degree of crime rate,especially haterelated crimes are relatively low.
He is critical of the mass media because they look at only negative side of things.His experience in Israel comfirmed his idea.For example,most Camerooians believe that earthquakes occur on a daily basis in Japan since they rely solenly on the media. It is also the same in Japan.The media lured Japanese to believe that Africa is poverty ,desease and wars or that Israel is only about wars. The both are not true as they are all isolated cases and you should'nt judge the entirety.
What he admires about Japanese culture are the act of taking-off one's shoes before entering a house and ''the first come first serve'' phenomenon.