My friend is bloggig about quite interesting things.

" How to get sick in Japan"  Check it out and say hello to him!

http://www.alivenotdead.com/tacquito/blog.html

A week ago, we had a family dinner to celebrate " 七五三".  七五三 (Shichi-Go-San ,Seven-Five-Three) is a ceremony to celebrate children's growth. (Seven years old girls, three yers old girs and five year old boys.) We have this ceremony on 15th November.

My litttle niece is three years old. We took her to a shrine to get some pray in the morning. I was worryig about her wearing tight Kimono. Can she stand it? Well.. time flies. She was totally fine.

Traditonally we give children stick-candy called Chitose-ame, 千歳飴. It is long stick of white and red candy. Paretns wish thier children for long life and give them this candy.

She changed dress. So cute!!!!!!! She chose the dress by herself. I gave her a little crown which I used to use for ballet dancing. Now children get 七五三 cake  instead of traditional candy. Looks like it was her birthday.

Do you have similar ceremony in your country, my friends?

I found the pic of my son's 七五三 ceremony. He was hoding candy. :) He was 5.

I went to a nail salon today to treat myself. I've got 100 fans on Alivenotdeadcom.. Yaaaaaaay. My 100th fan is Simon Yin! Thanks for adding me, Simon and everyone.   Well... I think I should blog about more useful or educative things as a doctor.

Here are my feet with sparkling nail art.

There are 2 types of feet. If your 2nd toe is longer than big toe, your feet type is "Greek". If your big toe  is longer than 2nd toe, your feet type is " Egyptian".  Nothig usueful? Well these are just medical classification. I learned this ages ago.

Mines are Egyptian type. What are yours?

6 months passed since I got meningitis. I didn't have typical symptoms so I couldn't diagnosis by myself. I couldn't accept I was sick even I couldn't move my right hand. I am lucky that I'm still alive without any serious disfuunction. I can work, dance and have fun in HK.  :)

Meningitis is a kinda brain iflamation. I still have memory loss. It is like I lost the key to open my box of "memory". I have many boxes in my brain and I still couldn't open some of them.  Here are some examples.... I forgot names of my favourite band. I had to see my iPod to check their names. I forgot my "best" friend's name at high school. When my friend told me his cousin commited suicide, I just felt sorry. A few hours later I suddenely remembered "my cousin" also commited suicide. I forgot all about this when my friend told me about his cousin. I couldn't believe. How could I forget it? These are the things about "my past". Meningitis affects my short term memory as well. One day I was at a restaurant with my family. I wanted to eat salad and ordered one. I found empty dish. `Oh! Who ate my salad?" My son said to me " You did!! I wasn't drunk at all. I don't drink when I eat out with my family because I'm a driver.

I know it's strange but I feel I'm happier.  I think I forgot all bad things in my past. About short term memory loss, my doctor says it will be fine sometime soon.

By the way I got a new hamster! She is a cutie, huh?

This Friday is Baby Jane's birthday. She is turning 21. I took her to early birthday dinner in Shinjuku.

Before the dinner, Taiga-sensei checked Jane's homework. Jane is here to study Japanese. My son got glasses today. He is short sighted and they are his first glasses.

We had Japanese food,　"Nabe".

And flowers and cakes for birthday girl.

Happy Birthdy Jane!  We love you!