6th Dec 2007. Andrea Zimmerman's Birthday!

6th Dec was Andrea's birthday!
Rain and Cold, but Happy and Sparkled!
Andrea, Lassa, Josh and I walked by the regents canal and down to the West End, in order to celebrate for Andrea's birthday at a Korean restaurant, suggested by Alisa and Basak, and later recommended by Christine and Valentine! Sadly our super star Radio was absent from this birthday party because of ill and being in the hospital (viva forever!).



Andrea's wonderful friends were enthusiastically talking about how wonderful Andrea is!
"Isn't Andrea getting younger and younger every year?"
"Yeah! isn't she very sweet?"



" Andrea C'mon show us Yoga!"



Then suddenly the birthday cake was brought!
Where is our dinner?!!



Happy birthday to you!



Happy birthday to you!



Happy birthday Dear Andrea!



Happy birthday to you!



"Oh my gosh! I am soooooo full" Said Andrea!



Happy birthday again Andrea!

1 July, Aya Sawane’s birthday. I have known her for over 5 years now. She is always beautiful as you can see on the picture, but also very literate, warm and kind. She has a beautiful son (Ace) and daughter (Asia Grace), and has nice partner (Alec).
For her birthday, we went to a very fine restaurant in Notting Hill. What is the restaurant name? I forgot. But this place was eating as much as you like, meat meat meat place. I love meat, any kind of meat. So I naturally enjoyed it. (This blog is becoming also a semi-restaurant blog. Because I usually go to restaurant to celebrate my friend’s birthday. But I don’t mean to make this restaurant blog. But this is birthday blog!!). Anyway, look how happy Aya is! Looking at these pictures also make me very happy too. We kept laughing and smiling all the time we were there. It was such a nice fun! Happy birthday Aya! Viva.

Joe Oppenheimer's birthday!

This is Joe, Dr Joe Allan Oppenheimer of Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA, and 20th June was his birthday! I was going to note his full address, but you can never be too careful... Dr Oppenheimer insisted that we should have a pyjama party for his birthday and he wore this nightgown. Bonnie, winner of the Peoria, Illinois World Strudel Championship, wore her pyjamas too in order to celebrate the big day. Dr Oppenheimer's sister Cathy -- and of course J. and i -- refused to wear one, but Joe did not mind. We went to a very fine restaurant, and when we tried to enter the restaurant, they barred our way because they had a policy against diners in peejays. J. and Cathy tried to woo them with the 'Horseradish Dance' and then Stinky Monroe promised to do a free concert if only they'd let us in and not seat us in some obscure corner for diners in bedclothes. Well, when they realised that J was Stinky Monroe they were so delighted that Dr Oppenheimer almost walked off in a huff because he was no longer the centre of attention even though it was his birthday. We had a wonderful time and enjoyed it very much.

Michael's Birthday!

16th May. Michael's birthday! We (Michael, Josh, Andrea, Lassa, Alisa, Shu) went to the little georgia restaurant to cerebrate his birthday! Michael brought amazing french wine and we all became sommelier to taste the wine. Chocolate, vanilla, raspberry, asbestos, oak, pepper, truffles, mildew (we were not tasting michael, but the wine!) With the cozy atmosphere and lovely company, and Lambrini - a cherry wine with 2% real cherry juice and a chance to win £600,000 right on the label. Tasted like bubble gum or cough syrop, it was brought by Josh with a mischievous smile and Michael couldn't stop laughing about it, and the laughter penetrating the dark sky, reaching even the moon and stars (oops, it was pouring raining on that night...).

Nigel's Birthday!

7th May was Nigel G. (Reality TV Star!) birthday. Josh and Shu hosted his birthday party bit afterwards.... but we had a really nice time. We got party crackers for Nigel and tried to pop it, but at first could not easily figure it out how to pop. Nigel and Josh turned around and around the bottom of the crackers like a merry-go-round untill Nigel figured it out that it sould be turned to pop in an opposite direction, instead of an instruction of the package said, Ah!!
Pop Pop and Happy Happy birthday. Nigel loved one of the present from us, MORIPPA (A conbination of Mop and Slippers, great Japanese invention!)

Christine's Birthday!!

4th May, it was Christine's Birthday. She and Josh and Emma and I (Shu) went to a cemetery in London in order to cerebrate Christine's Birthday! We brought Banoffi pie with us and ate it on a green bench. We marched through the cemetery whistling a party whistles with high pitched sounds echoing through the entire cemetery! Happy birthday, Christine!

Lassa's Birthday!

23rd April is Lassa's birthday! hundreds of people gathered (really!) and we all went to a vietnamise restaurant to cerebrate Lassa's birthday! So many interesting people were there and all of Lassa's friends were so nice and doing so many interesting things in London. Lassa is the centre of interesting communities in london for sure!

MORE PICTURES FROM THE SURPRISE PARTY

PICTURES FROM THE SURPRISE PARTY

there's never too much of Shu!

Happy birthday from the mosheeees, xoxox S+N

from Mr. Nigel

'SHU LOVES PUSSY'
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LOVE, NIGEL

from Toshiomi!!!

From Mr. Josh

your birthday in 2006

Oh stinky, happy birthday my angel!!!!

I have just woken up and now in both London and Japan (and here), it is
truly your birthday, meaning that you have made 28 complete rotations
around
the sun! Oh stinky, how I miss you this morning. Last night I
couldn't sleep
when I went to bed. It's not that I didn't try to sleep. I tried away
and I
lay there and I imagined holding you in my arms and I imagined us in
beachy
head and in the pyrenees and singing daisy daisy on the canal and
kissing
you a hundred times on your cheek and your pushing me away a little
bit and
saying STINKY! Oh stinky, I did I did I did, I really did.

Oh stinky! It's your birthday and I wish I could be with you all day,
giving
you a hundred million kisses and hugs and even a bite on the bum and
you'll
say STINKY! DON'T ALWAYS BITING ME ON THE BUM! Oh stinky, I love you
so so
much you cannot imagine it. It's like every part of me is going to
explode.

Oh stinky! Please take care of yourself today. Do wonderful things.
Go to
the tate modern. Go for a stroll along the river and think how
wonderful our
life is.

I think last night I was a little distracted by the housing issue
because I
guess I was really hoping for us to have our love nest all nice and
ready
for my return, and sometimes when I couldn't sleep it gave me great
comfort
to imagine us all alone mumbling and jumbling around in our little
nesteroo.
Oh stinky!

But then when I realise that as soon as we're back we can find a little
place for us to move and a little nest for our love, I felt so
excited and
relieved.

I just want to tell you how much joy you bring to my life, how much
meaning,
how when I think of you I never feel alone and whenever I imagine
your smile
I smile (I can't help it, I just do, a great joyful grin creeps
across my
face as the happiness begins warm in my chest and comes up to my lips
and
forces its expression there). I want to tell you how each and every
day your
friendship makes me feel so safe and so valuable and so happy. Please be
good to yourself. Please take care of yourself. Please look both ways
and
never gawk around.

You really are the greatest and most wonderful person I could
imagine, the
greatest thing that ever happened to me, my best friend, my reason for
living. If I could dedicate my life as though it were one great
complex work
(like the time we discussed a hypothetical documentary where somebody is
filmed in real time, and it's as much a sacrifice as a privilege to
watch
the resulting film, because one must sacrifice one's own life to
share time
with the person being filmed), well if my life were one enormous
multi-faceted work, it would be an understatement to say that it
dedicated
to you. It is all yours, for you, of you, with you, and even by you.
I love
you. I will stay with you my whole life, and always love you. If I could
better express this love by ripping off all my clothes and running
down the
motorway, or swimming home to you in england, or screaming it out at
the top
of my lungs hoping the sound would bounce off the moon and reach you in
London, oh stinky I would I would I would.

Please have a wonderful birthday!

I love you so so much. I attach a few pictures so you remember us
together
on your birthday morning.

Mister stinky A.K.A. mister doodlebird A.K.A. "stinks".

from your Family!!!

周作様、誕生日おめでとう！29歳ですね！もう周ちゃんとは言えないりっぱな大人に
なりました。これも近くにいる友達のおかげです。それを忘れない様にね！皆に支え
られ生活が出来る周作は幸せ者ですね。今までも良い人生であった様にこれからも身
体に気をつけて自分の決めた夢を追いかけて下さい。

振り返る必要はないけれどこれを書きながら家にいた頃を思い出して書いています。
小さい頃から何でも出来る凄い良い子でした
運動・勉強・趣味、何でも興味のある子でした。こんな周作を生んだ母は幸せ者です。
生まれてくれてありがとう！私の自慢の子です。
これからもこれを生かして自分なりに皆に迷惑をかけないで夢に頑張ってください。

ある本を読みました。そしたら私にもズキッと来る言葉が書いてありました。

「幸運が訪れないからには、訪れないだけの理由がある。幸運を掴む為には、自ら下
ごしらえをする必要がある」

「欲するばかりでは幸運は手に入らない幸運を呼び込む一つの鍵は人に手を差し伸べ
られる広い心」

「自分の知っている事が全てとは限らない
幸運を掴むにはあらゆる可能性に眼をむけなくてはならない」

「幸運を作るというのはつまり条件を自ら作る事である」

私はこの本を読んで「ウー」と思いました。
私はこの言葉の様に強くないから「ウー」と思うばかりです。
この本の作者は、この本を書くのに８時間しか掛からなかったと書いていて、
この本を考えるのに３年掛かったそうです。ですから私がこの人の言葉を借りていい
のだろうかとも思いました。
でも凄い言葉だったので我が子、周作様に送りたかったからかきました。
こんなに強く人生をいきられたらいいですね。
頭に入れて生活するだけでも違うと思って？！

これからも身体に気をつけて毎日を大切に過ごして下さい。周作の体だけを何時も気
にかけています。でもこのメッセージをジョシュア様・友達から受け取り、周作の回
りの友達の愛に感動・感激しました。私の心も安心した次第です。
本当に良い人たちに囲まれて周作は幸せ者です。
皆がいるから周作もいるのでしょうね！

これからも頑張ってね！父・母・兄より

From lovely Joe for loveliest Shu: 1

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From lovely Joe for loveliest Shu: 2

still, you need to click on the image so it gets big!