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supernutjapanI was delayed in posting because it took me some time to organize my thoughts. I am combining last week's news with this week's.
*************April 15th******************
1. Have you ever felt a generation gap with your friends?
Very rarely. As I mentioned in the previous post, I feel at home with people both younger and older than me. Differences are interesting.
2. At what point in life does the generation gap seem to be the largest?
Elementary and /Junior high school. It is only a few years different, but interests are totally different. Growing up, most of my girl cousins were 3 or 4 years older than I and I could never mix with them. I felt quite left out. Now, the age gap with them doesn't seem wide at all. We are connected on Facebook and enjoy the company like friends.
3. What role, if any does music play in generation gaps?
I enjoy music from 40s and onwards so, maybe that has something to do with how at home I am with a variety of generations.
4. Despite your attempts, have you become your parents?
My dad was good at debate and used to argue with me on a lot of subjects. It galled me that he never gave in or admitted when he was wrong. I may be similar LOL I do admit I am wrong if I find out I am because I hated it so much. I do like to discuss various topics but my memory is not the greatest so I try not to make any direct assertions without looking it up and making sure I can prove it.
5. Do you think your generation's fight is similar to your parents generations fight?
Generation's fight? You mean, what we strive for? What are goal is? Obviously not. I was born and grew up in an age of relative peace and prosperity that my parent's generation created and I feel lucky and also ignorant/naïve because of it. Compared to prior generations that may have focused a lot on attaining peace and gender equality, my generation focused more on saving the Earth, I suppose. That seemed to be a big focus in University, anyway. Now, it looks like there is a lot of focus on LGBT equality and sexual orientation.
***********April 22nd****************
1. Do you think the media have created a negative effect on self image?
Yes - media has a great impact on us all. it was a lot worse before I think. Recently there has been more effort to cater to various body types. The show The Bold Type is about three girls working for a women's magazine and it takes up a lot of those issues.
2. Do you think the entertainment industry is the main reason why there are so many men and women with eating disorders?
Yes.
3. Have you ever had an eating disorder?
No... well, I did use to binge eat sweets and snacks and I guess it was for emotional purposes so maybe that can be counted. It never got as bad as it could have.
4. Do you believe that depression is a disease or an excuse?
I think it is a state brought on by hormonal or other imbalance in the body. Some more prone than others due to family history. It is definitely not an excuse.
5. Do you believe that it is possible to develop depression, or are you born with it?
I think it is like any other bodily condition. It can manifest later in life but is something you may have the tendency for from birth.
That is my understanding - I am sure there are people who can explain it more correctly/better.
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Last week was my first week back at work after three and a half weeks off. The weeks off were spent relaxing and watching a lot of TV so this first week was quite tiring.
I finished watching all I want to watch of Suits - to those interested, I stopped watching when Mike didn't come back in Season 6. He was the one I was most interested in, and I quite resented the fact that they thought his character was not worth developing further.
I am now almost finished with season 4 of 9-1-1 and enjoying that. There seems to be more to the series, but Disney+ doesn't seem to have it - maybe that's just Japan?
Some of the stuff handled in western shows, I can't imaging happening here. For example, a Japanese person would NEVER go up on a billboard on a freeway to proclaim love (unless they had some mental illness) and I have never heard of any Japanese person setting a bomb in their previous company because they were fired unfairly. Japanese people also hardly ever go to a therapist and that is a huge part of American TV shows LOL That is one thing that maybe needs to change in Japan though... considering how many people commit suicide here. I don't watch much Japanese TV but it makes me think that peaceful countries sure make for boring TV. LOL I have heard that there is a Japanese version of Suits and I am somewhat curious to see how they do it.
Anyways...
Some happy news is that hubby finally brought over the TV from his mom's house so we have a TV! We had been paying for optical cable TV (internet TV) for the longest time without a TV to watch it on and it was driving me bonkers. Now the Firestick and the cable TV are all set up on the TV so we can watch movies etc. together. Alex and I were able to watch a French movie adaptation of City Hunter together. This is originally a popular Japanese comic and anime geared toward adults - particularly men. The French movie was very well made and hilarious. I was happy to be able to enjoy it with my son.
Audrey is now watching 9-1-1 with me too, so that means I can't watch it without her LOL Instead, I watched Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki. I was never interested in Loki in the other films, but this show is enjoyable and was fun after the dark nature of the former.
The other day I made some chocolate pie with coconut milk. I didn't like it as much as others I had made. The sweetener was honey, and there was too much of it so it was way too sweet and left a vaguely burning sensation in the throat as honey tends to do.
Today is Julian's birthday. He is now 21. I am preparing a strawberry cream pie (banana cream pie with strawberries) on his request, and hubby will get some chicken from COSTCO.
Posting some photos.
(Hana on top of some stairs leading to a little nature spot with a beautiful hanging cherry tree.)
Cherry trees lining the streets fully in bloom.
Dogwood! So pretty this time of year.
The elementary school near our home - which all my kids went to. I passed it as I usually do on my walk with Hana and saw that they had little gardens in the back, and the kids were there with their teacher. This one looks like a vegetable garden.
This one looks like a rice pond. Some of the kids were in the mud - maybe getting ready to plant the young rice stalks.
Beautiful little flowers by a garden wall.
*************April 15th******************
1. Have you ever felt a generation gap with your friends?
Very rarely. As I mentioned in the previous post, I feel at home with people both younger and older than me. Differences are interesting.
2. At what point in life does the generation gap seem to be the largest?
Elementary and /Junior high school. It is only a few years different, but interests are totally different. Growing up, most of my girl cousins were 3 or 4 years older than I and I could never mix with them. I felt quite left out. Now, the age gap with them doesn't seem wide at all. We are connected on Facebook and enjoy the company like friends.
3. What role, if any does music play in generation gaps?
I enjoy music from 40s and onwards so, maybe that has something to do with how at home I am with a variety of generations.
4. Despite your attempts, have you become your parents?
My dad was good at debate and used to argue with me on a lot of subjects. It galled me that he never gave in or admitted when he was wrong. I may be similar LOL I do admit I am wrong if I find out I am because I hated it so much. I do like to discuss various topics but my memory is not the greatest so I try not to make any direct assertions without looking it up and making sure I can prove it.
5. Do you think your generation's fight is similar to your parents generations fight?
Generation's fight? You mean, what we strive for? What are goal is? Obviously not. I was born and grew up in an age of relative peace and prosperity that my parent's generation created and I feel lucky and also ignorant/naïve because of it. Compared to prior generations that may have focused a lot on attaining peace and gender equality, my generation focused more on saving the Earth, I suppose. That seemed to be a big focus in University, anyway. Now, it looks like there is a lot of focus on LGBT equality and sexual orientation.
***********April 22nd****************
1. Do you think the media have created a negative effect on self image?
Yes - media has a great impact on us all. it was a lot worse before I think. Recently there has been more effort to cater to various body types. The show The Bold Type is about three girls working for a women's magazine and it takes up a lot of those issues.
2. Do you think the entertainment industry is the main reason why there are so many men and women with eating disorders?
Yes.
3. Have you ever had an eating disorder?
No... well, I did use to binge eat sweets and snacks and I guess it was for emotional purposes so maybe that can be counted. It never got as bad as it could have.
4. Do you believe that depression is a disease or an excuse?
I think it is a state brought on by hormonal or other imbalance in the body. Some more prone than others due to family history. It is definitely not an excuse.
5. Do you believe that it is possible to develop depression, or are you born with it?
I think it is like any other bodily condition. It can manifest later in life but is something you may have the tendency for from birth.
That is my understanding - I am sure there are people who can explain it more correctly/better.
*****************
Last week was my first week back at work after three and a half weeks off. The weeks off were spent relaxing and watching a lot of TV so this first week was quite tiring.
I finished watching all I want to watch of Suits - to those interested, I stopped watching when Mike didn't come back in Season 6. He was the one I was most interested in, and I quite resented the fact that they thought his character was not worth developing further.
I am now almost finished with season 4 of 9-1-1 and enjoying that. There seems to be more to the series, but Disney+ doesn't seem to have it - maybe that's just Japan?
Some of the stuff handled in western shows, I can't imaging happening here. For example, a Japanese person would NEVER go up on a billboard on a freeway to proclaim love (unless they had some mental illness) and I have never heard of any Japanese person setting a bomb in their previous company because they were fired unfairly. Japanese people also hardly ever go to a therapist and that is a huge part of American TV shows LOL That is one thing that maybe needs to change in Japan though... considering how many people commit suicide here. I don't watch much Japanese TV but it makes me think that peaceful countries sure make for boring TV. LOL I have heard that there is a Japanese version of Suits and I am somewhat curious to see how they do it.
Anyways...
Some happy news is that hubby finally brought over the TV from his mom's house so we have a TV! We had been paying for optical cable TV (internet TV) for the longest time without a TV to watch it on and it was driving me bonkers. Now the Firestick and the cable TV are all set up on the TV so we can watch movies etc. together. Alex and I were able to watch a French movie adaptation of City Hunter together. This is originally a popular Japanese comic and anime geared toward adults - particularly men. The French movie was very well made and hilarious. I was happy to be able to enjoy it with my son.
Audrey is now watching 9-1-1 with me too, so that means I can't watch it without her LOL Instead, I watched Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Loki. I was never interested in Loki in the other films, but this show is enjoyable and was fun after the dark nature of the former.
The other day I made some chocolate pie with coconut milk. I didn't like it as much as others I had made. The sweetener was honey, and there was too much of it so it was way too sweet and left a vaguely burning sensation in the throat as honey tends to do.
Today is Julian's birthday. He is now 21. I am preparing a strawberry cream pie (banana cream pie with strawberries) on his request, and hubby will get some chicken from COSTCO.
Posting some photos.
(Hana on top of some stairs leading to a little nature spot with a beautiful hanging cherry tree.)
Cherry trees lining the streets fully in bloom.
Dogwood! So pretty this time of year.
The elementary school near our home - which all my kids went to. I passed it as I usually do on my walk with Hana and saw that they had little gardens in the back, and the kids were there with their teacher. This one looks like a vegetable garden.
This one looks like a rice pond. Some of the kids were in the mud - maybe getting ready to plant the young rice stalks.
Beautiful little flowers by a garden wall.