Today is Coming of Age Day

Somehow it is sarcastically snowing and is unlikely to stop soon..

No matter how the weather is, today is undoubtedly the special day to those who are eligible to attend the ceremony on the grand that he or she has become adult legally.

My Juniors,
Congratulations for becoming grown-ups !

At the same time, you have responsibility for any of your action and behavior !
Your obligation and your right are living cheek by jowl.

Do contribute to your society as much as you can in your field !

Do not cause troubles, otherwise you are taken into custody...Please just do goodness to anybody ! 

Nothing ventured, nothing gained 

Please bear this in your mind...should you try to become today's movers and shakers !

My Juniors, 
Enjoy yourself !

But please be careful not to fall down on your way home, coz it is pilled up with snow !

GANBAREYO ! SHIN-SEIJIN NO MINASAMA TACHI ^^ 

タケ 

 

Dear daddy! - sequel

Dear my dad,

15 months passed since I have mentioned you here on my blogger, dad ! 

http://take-is-here.blogspot.jp/2011/10/dear-daddy.html

As I reported you yesterday, mom looked so happy last time I met her on Jan 2 ^^ 

She told me she feels happy whenever I see her, and I am reassured that nothing was in vain during my visit to her hospital, or at least I realized that I have made her happy in anyhow..

I owe it to you that I was able to surmount everything I am involved over the last couple of years, and I still remember...you said in your will in Oct 24, 2004, which was,

Quit playing around (in original; MAJIME NI YAREYO=まじめにやれよ)

At that time, I still was greenhorn, and I must admit I could only grasp your words on the face value!!

Maybe, I was only scratching the surface of your last word you had left me before you were in critical condition..

Already more than 8 years passed since God had rest your soul dad, time flies !

Now that I understand what you've meant by MAJIME NI YAREYO.. 

It is not because of I got order, but because of I have got to face the music including mom's issue..

And I do know dad, you're always watching us (me and mom) from the heaven; 

Dad..!!!
I really was prodigal son when you were alive !
I have caused you millions of troubles..I'm very sorry, dad !

By way of apology, I will make it up for my mom (your wife) as much as I can..

And I'll never be succumbed to temptation or whatever..
I'll try my utmost especially at work..

Yes, you raised me up, Dad ! 
I thank you so much for your watching us as always !!!

ありがとう、お父さん・・

Your son,

タケ  

 


　    

   

May always be Happy, be Positive & be Challenging !

Dear all viewers,

A Happy New Year !
2013 has begun !

To digest last year, it was very bountiful to me !
I think the most fruitful time I have ever had...it's not exaggerated at all.

A Founder and the current Chairman of H.I.S Hideo Sawada shows us in his book that we must always challenge to seize our chance no matter how hardship overwhelms upon us, even weaken our willpower.

He also tells us in the story that you can surmount everything as long as you are always willing to overcome..!!

Indeed, I experienced many things last year, I encountered good times and bad times one another. 

What I could surely say is; 
I enjoyed 2012 to full extent ! 
It was really wonderful to me !

But I wouldn't look back no matter how it was and; 
Here's my pledge right in front of viewers and bloggers around the world as well as Facebook friends that I'll be happier than 2012 ! 

I'll be more positive, more constructive and more imaginative..I'll jump up !!

I will always challenge and change my life as an employee of the Group Enterprises of Mr.Sawada's. 

So Let's be more Positive and challenging as to become happier in 2013, shall we???

As a proverb goes;

WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY

Stay healthy, be happy, be prosperious, always be challenging, my friends!
Do enjoy your 2013 ! 

タケ  

         

There were actually several site proposed for my journey this time !

You may shock to know after reading it, but...to be honest, the destination for my journey which was first on my mind was Palau! 

I still remember it was the early September when I made a phone-call to my travel agent H.I.S for the first time in 3 months ! (after I traveled South Korea during Jun 11- Jun 16) 

I asked my person in charge of HIS on how Palau sounds like for my expecting journey..

However her answer was there's only 1 hotel available...

Furthermore, the Hotel's fee far exceeded my budget...What made me totally upset was the flight schedule (departing Narita Tokyo nearly 12 midnight & returning back there at around 5 in the morning in our time)...that did make no sense to me. 

In fact, it sounded to me really tight, what was worse, the estimate being sent to my email account from my travel agent was too expensive to carry on. 

Hence I had to change the destination despite the landscape of Palau sounded to me such tremendously beautiful & has caught my eyes an awful lot !! 

After having dreamed of staying in Palau during my holidays was up in the air, my next proposed sight was Vietnam..

According to my travel guide book 海外旅行の最新情報 地球の歩き方 , Vietnam has a lot ! 

There are actually so many beautiful places that draws me as well, and many spots are designated as the world heritage nationwide, indeed. 

Yet my decision was somehow wavering, and it went on & on & on..

After wading through a lot of info about this country, I concluded not to visit this time, either !

Still, I was sticking to beach resort such as Ko Samui in Thailand or wherever, and Langkawi was also count in..

Nevertheless, my second thought turned my eyes more onto familiar place than unfamiliar one, and to me, it was nothing but Kuala Lumpur !

The first time I visited there was on Jun 20 in 2001, when I was 36 year old..

   　 

I was tougher than present, also was rough and tumble ! 

Nowadays I take precedence over safety than adventure as I turned 48 year old.. 

 So when I've found Kuala Lumpur International Airport was really huge for the first time on last Monday the 12th, I felt a little bit disoriented !!

What I've found is, believe it not, this kind of ambiguity always makes my journey more bountiful and fruitful as always be ^^

And what made me feel more inclined to visit there at this time is..

Well, it goes without saying that I really wanted to see Facebook sisters face to face, yes, that's true ^^

Above all, what made my journey most comfortable and pleasant was nothing but their tenderness, caring, truthfulness, thoughtfulness..everything was exactly the same as I've imagined before we met each other!! 

And they decorated my 48th Birthday so amazingly !

If it were not for their great assistance, I'm sure I wouldn't have accomplished my journey in such safely & comfortably ! 

Yes, that's true !

Finally we ended up in Malacca where I really wanted to visit ever since I have watched the footage of it on TV, which was as far back as July 2 in 2010..^^

Also I could safely travel Taipei before going back to Tokyo ^^

Taipei was also amazing !

The thing is the traffic jam as well as I was really caught in KL, which was on my way to Chinatown..

As a matter of course, everything is

forgivable as long as I could safely return back to Tokyo !!

As a token of my gratitude for your welcoming when I was there, I really wanted to update here on my blogger ASAP..It took me nearly a week though anyway, I've finished it all ^^ 

Thank you, Terima Kasih Banyak & ありがとう ^^

Take

Visiting Dad's Cemetery for OBON & today is also..

The Day when The World War Ⅱ ended under the unconditional surrender in which Japan was involved, which was as far back as Aug 15 in 1945. 
Speaking of it, I've already referred to one of my blog archives down below, so take a look ^^
http://take-is-here.blogspot.jp/2010/08/maybe-ive-got-to-speculate-more-on-this_15.html

Currently in Japan, Bon Festival is taken place till tomorrow nationwide, which is a Japanese Buddhist holiday in August to honor the departed spirits of one's ancestors.

To follow our ancestral customs, today I went to my dad's cemetery to report him everything that I had had over the past year.

So far, almost everything around me is looking up and I told him so.

Also in the evening after I got home, I cleaned up the Buddhist altar in my place very carefully, where the photos of the deceased (my dad's & my younger sis's) are stood up. I lit up the candle and offered incense sticks respectively for my dad & for my sis, and said a prayer for them.

  

















If I were more respectful, maybe I would have done it more often. I'm really sorry, both !
But by doing so, our bonds are tightened up securely for goods, I believe...they do understand me, maybe !

Thank you so much dad & sis for reminding me of the spiritual day ! 
Okay, I'll try my utmost for the rest of my life ^~^　

タケ