M; Recent research announces about the connection with periodontal disease and dementia.
F; Does it mean that periodontal disease causes dementia ?
M; Not really but periodontal disease shows the sign of dementia, which might have the possibility.
F; It’s hard to know of the periodontal disease by myself. Don’t you notice if I had a periodontal disease?
M; I don’t think that you have a periodontal disease. What about me? I can’t know it, either.
F; We should be honest to tell the truth each other, right?
M; Yeah, that’s right. I hope you can tell even tough to say if you notice that I have something bad smell with my breath.
F; Sure! We promise to tell the truth.
M; Did you know that you should avoid to brush your teeth immediately after meals. It’s said by a dentist in the U.S.
F; I’ve just watched such a topic on TV yesterday. It’s said by a Japanese dentist who has the same theory as the American dentist.
M; It’s so amazing and shocked because we had been taught to brush teeth after meals as soon as possible.
F; The point is brushing teeth just after meals are dangerous to damage the tooth enamel.
M; Acid food is said to cause to change the pH in the mouth from healthy alkaline to acid.
F; Just after the meal much influences the balance in our mouth. So we need recover the balance by own saliva after in a while.
M; What a wonder!
F; I think so.
F; Look! There’s a space to eat-in at this supermarket.
M; It looks like lots of delicious delicatessens.
F; I’m very hungry…,I wanna eat all of them!
M; Hmmm, I’d like to eat lunch box with seafood, clam chowder and some sweets.
F; I can’t decide but….pizza, salads, fruits and minestrone soup.
M; We can share some of these.
F; That’s a good idea! I’d buy ice cream, too.
M; I’ll get yogurt, too.
myself=M, friend=F
M; It’s announced Mr.Kuramoto is going to write a new drama after
“ the paradise in the village ”, which was acted by gorgeous actors about the senior life apart from the residence.
F; I sometimes saw it but not so excited but tiresome old people drama.
Me; Don’t you like that drama such Kuramoto world?
F; Not me…., but my husband really likes his works especially
“ From the Northern country”.
M; I understand it a kind of men’s romance, isn’t it?
F; I don’t know. I’m not interested in men’s romance nor the senior world.
M; What are you interested in?
F; I like comedy or love story not so serious. What about you?
M; I’m looking forward to the next coming drama by Mr.Kuramoto which would describe the pathos of the different life through each era, Showa, pre and post War and Heisei. It will titled “Moment of comfort”.
F; You seem to feel nostalgic of the old days, don’t you.
M; I just feel sympathy with my elder people who built our society in modern.
A daughter asks her mother asks at the kitchen.
D; Mom, Where is the pumpkin seed this green one. I’ve never seen it from the real pumpkin.
M; No, you’ve not because it’s hiding in the shell.
D; Is it in this yellow big one in the pumpkin?
M; Yes, it is. There’re lots of seeds each covered with shell.
D; How can I take it from the shell?
M; Well, first you wash and remove skin from the shells and dry them on the paper. Then you roast them in the pan with small power not to be burnt until the shells break.
D; Oh…I see. Let me try it.
M; sure you do.
D; I finish to roast them. But it’s hard to peel the shell. I’m not good at breaking shells like a squirrel.
M; It’s much time wasting unless you’re not so busy.
The other day growing fruits are almost done. They’re ripened and time to harvest.
Son and Mom
S; Mom, They’re dropping in the garden.
M; Oh…there it is!
S; Are these fruits?
M; Yes, They’re passion fruits.
S; Woohoo! Passion fruits, passion fruits.
M; Let’s cut it and try a taste!
S; Me, too!
mother; M, son; S
M; It’s announced that the peak of the coldest weather has gone finally.
S; But it’s still freezing cold outside.
M; The temperature is minus 4 this morning! I’ve never seen such cold one in my life.
S; Me neither unless going skiing in the mountains.
M; It seems like in the skiing gelande.
S; They say the coldest weather is gone but snow falling is going on during this week under minus temperature.
M; We need to be careful enough. Go and come back from work safely! Have a good day.
My grandson Jace goes to a Day Care Center, which takes care of kids before school. It has a cultural
festival to show each country’s costume. There are many children whose nationalities are different around the world.
The parents have to think about the task what to wear the children for the day.
My daughter and her husband have planned to make design the costume of the famous Japanese anime Dragon Ball. She sewed for Jace of the Ninja costume. It’s so awesome! Jace looks like after the Goku’s family.
Though Simon, her husband insists on Goku’s my daughter intends to make Ninja costume.They have different opinions.
W; What shall we let Jace to wear looking like Japanese?
H; Japanese don’t wear kimono every day, do they?
W; Of course not but Samurai, Sumo and Judo are Japanese symbol wearing.
H; Yes, they are but not so cool. Instead how about Dragon Ball?
W; That sounds nice.
H; I like Goku family very much.
W; I don’t know but I rather think Ninja is cooler.
H; You can choose anyway.
I; It’s common many people think the wealthy and rich are having money, real estate or stocks. But this Vietnamese man Zaw Zaw is great!
F; According to this article he was too poor to go to school but he found reading books are making himself wealthy and rich in mind. That’s why he built own library to lend books to the people who are hungry to read and want to get knowledge in the world.
I; His grandfather was great enough to teach him money is nothing but knowledge is forever because his money was gone by the change of the government.
F; Well…, poverty makes him very hard but he learns something important which we never know in such a capital society. Everything can be counted to make money. Money rich is the first…,like that.
F; I’m very moved with him and thanks to the writer.
I; I also want to donate books to him.
F; We remind his effort and good welfare to inform young people what’s the virtue in life.
I; Yeah….knowledge is mightier than money.
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