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今年初めての毛筆＆硬筆のお稽古に行った際、２人で書きぞめをしました！
小学生以来の習字は難しく思い通りに書けなかったけど、久しぶりの習字は楽しかったです。
私は新年の抱負として「健康」という字を選び、Davidはと～っても難しい「心」という漢字を選びました！

(David: I couldn’t translate that, but I will explain! It is tradition to write out a word or a phrase (in Kanji, Japanese/Chinese Characters) at New Years to bring good luck, happiness etc. Kiko and I both go to calligraphy class on Tuesday so we wrote out these for our New Year’s Kanji. Kiko wrote “health”. I wrote “heart.” Kiko’s is very good. Mine is fabulous. (Unless you are Japanese and recognize that is most certainly not fabulous. I guess it is more fabulous for ME, taking in to consideration my skill with handwriting in any language.) I wrote heart because it is the only one I could remember.)

Small but important note: Check out SKYPE. If you have a microphone on your computer you can use it to speak with other people on Skype for free. It is quite different from MSN and works more like a personal phone service. It is super. You can also make really cheap call sout to phone lines. Read to the bottom to find out why I’m pushing this!

I finally understand what’s happening! People don’t care about the text… they only care about the pictures…!

What’chu talking about?

OK, here is what I have noticed. If I post once every week or so, and include a neat picture or some sort of graphic I found on the web: it’s all good. However, if I post fairly regularily only using text and no pretty pictures, I get an angry e-mail from our 2 (maybe 3?) regular visitors.

This leads me to believe that it’s all about the pictures.

Aren’t they cute? There name is Mii. Or one of them is Mii… I don’t really know. But suffice it to say it makes my title for this entry very clever. I gave a medium sized one to my sister Tracy for Christmas. They are super cool tiny-bean pillows. They are super, soft, smooth and addicting. I have seen a few of them pop up in Canada, but these, by far, are the cutest. Kiko really wants to get one for herself.

Now that I have your attention:

What the hell is happening with the site?

Kiko and I are both really involved with the site, and both really want to keep it updated regularily, and more importantly, have you guys visit regularily. Unfortunately, Kiko broke my computer. (hahahah… I am only sort of joking.) So when I get my computer fixed, expect the following:

New and Improved entries such as:

– Kiko’s New Bread Machine and First Bread Pictures
– Pictures from Canada – family, friends, Christmas –
– Pictures from our new house!

That’s right! We are moving. It will be to a super-fabulous place that unfortunately has a shitty ass Internet connection. There is a large possibility that our 416 phone will be out of commission but we will keep you in the know.

Also expect to see the long-promised davidandkiko.com 3.0 which will be rolled out before I move.

– New and pretty colours.
– More neat stuff and animation.
– More organized menus and pictures.
– Other cool stuff which I haven’t thought of yet.
– A where is Kiko game… (when I become less lazy.)
– Actually, Elizabeth, please program a whereiskiko game with her picture dancing around. Please & thank you.

OK… that’s it for now. My computer is almost fixed so when I get photoshop back on, expect to see a ton of pictures.

David & Kiko: out. (that’s my new cool sig.)

So… after 25hours in transit I walk through my door, turn on my computer and it blows up. Everything is gone! all my pictures, music, movies, e-mail, website stuff.

We are back in Japan, we are safe, but it will take a few days longer than I expected to update the website. I have to rebuild my computer first. 🙁

We are both back to work tomorrow, so wish us luck! Expect an update soon!! Lots of pictures and stuff…. (Kiko has also promised to write more entries herself!)

It was great to see everyone back in Canada, and I’m sorry we didn’t have more time to meet up with everyone.

Love, David & Kiko.

It’s painful that I haven’t been able to update the site while in Canada, so please forgive me. Kiko and I have been discussing many changes that we hope to implement in the New Year, so look forward to that and keep on checking back!

In the meantime:

HAPPY NEW YEAR

It has been an amazing year with lots of ups and downs. We have made some new friends in Japan, and have been thrilled to see old friends while in Canada. We wish we could have seen more of you!

From finishing my MA, to our move to Japan, and the wedding in between, it really has been a crazy year. Hopefuly we can use this site to keep in touch with all of you, and as a homebase for getting in touch if we ever fall out of it.

Take care, have a great year, and drop us an e-mail or a comment here when you have time!

love,
david & kiko

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

-remember to pretend that I made a cute Christmas colour scheme!-

love, David & Kiko

ARG!

Well, Kiko and I are now safe in Canada. We are happy to be back, but are super jet-lagged. I promised myself to update this site at least once a week (preferably everyday! -which I will start to do in the New Year) but between the Tokyo Business Trip, the racing back to Chunan to catch my bus to Osaka, to flying to Toronto, to sleeping, to buying Christmas presents, –I have had absolutely no time.

To be honest I have a whole Christmas theme lined up and ready to implement. Alas, from my crappy-ass dialup modem in Brampton, it is not going to happen. If I am lucky I can get to a broadband connection before Christmas and rollout the Christmas version of the website. If not… well… please pretend that the site is full of christmas colours, and CONTINUE TO CHECK REGULARILY!!!

The website will constantly be updated, and there will be tons of pictures and fun stuff. We miss you all. We thank you for stopping by, and we will enjoy our ime back in Canada and be sure to let you know how it all went.

So assuming that I won&t be able to update this site before Christmas:

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

– David & Kiko

ps. I just read: Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde: really fun! It’s a series. Read it.

215 ginerbread houses down, 44 to go.
It’s the final lap.

Maybe it’s because my brain/head/arms hurt, but I found this really funny/interesting.

See? It’s a face using characters from the Japanese alphabet. Those Japanese… they are so inventive.

GO KIKO’S PEOPLE!!! (and jotaro)

ps. I am going to Tokyo on Friday for a business trip. I come back on Wednesday at 8:30pm where I proceed to pick-up my lugggae and go to Canada. I will be updating the website, but I will also be very tired. Who want’s to see more Kiko messages? I do.