daily slice-of-life photo blog of a Gen-X dad
こんばんは。Well, to wind down the weekend, a cold beer hits the spot, doesn’t it? And to accompany the icy Asahi, we had a bunch of delicious sushi! 🍣 Or should that be the other way around? I guess it depends on your mood. 😆
I hope you had a nice Sunday!
またね～
こんばんは。How’s it going?
Tonight my 15-year-old son and I went to a pay-per-view boxing match showing at a local movie theater. I had not been to one before, so I didn’t know exactly what to expect, but it was kind of what you would imagine: watching sports tv on a very big screen with a bunch of other people. 😀 The main event featured Mexico’s top two fighters, Canelo Alvarez and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. with Canelo being the heavy favorite. But before the big fight, there were three undercard fights, which were all pretty entertaining.
What made it fun was that the crowd was really into the fight. I’d say 75% of the crowd were Mexican or Mexican/American, and lots of the crowd cheered when their fighters were introduced. And in the post-fight interviews, they were laughing without needing to wait for the English translation. It was cool to feel the energy from the crowd, even if we were all watching the live event from hundreds of miles away.
Anyways, the main bout was a bit disappointing because Chavez Jr. didn’t put up the kind of fight everyone was expecting. On the other hand, Canelo fought exactly as expected, which was with precision and power. He won every single round and had Chavez Jr. bleeding from the nose within the first minute. It was a very one-sided fight. Still, a fun event and I am glad we went.
As you can see from today’s photo, we received fight posters with admission, and the designs were pretty cool!
The next big fight will be in September, and Bay said he definitely wants to go. 🙂
I hope you had a nice Saturday!
こんばんは。How’s it going?
Tonight the percussion section of Koa’s school band performed a concert, and Koa had a solo. He did great! I was so nervous for him, but it was an awesome performance and everyone enjoyed it. Koa said he made a bunch of mistakes, but I thought it was amazing. All his friends cheered him on which was so great. Please watch/listen to the song below:
I hope you had a great Tuesday!
またね～
こんばんは。How was your Tuesday?
Today is my younger son’s 13th birthday… yes, he’s a teenager! And now both my kids are in their teens. I can’t believe time flies so quickly. 😱
Koa has requested the same birthday dinner this year: karaage (Japanese style fried chicken). As you can see in the photo, the chicken was piled high! In fact, I knew there would be a mountain of karaage again so I got out my ultra-wide-angle lens for my dslr to give it even more emphasis. It was so delicious, that I am thinking that I might want karaage for my birthday dinner as well. 😄
Seems like these days I’ve been posting about food A LOT. Well, yes. I guess it’s fun to take photos of the yummy food that Mariko prepares, and then I need to share that of course. 😘
In other news, I’ve been enjoying the book “The School for Good and Evil”. It’s fun and funny! But, I have a reading problem in that I find so many books I want to read, but cannot read fast enough to get to all of them. And the sales that Amazon has on their kindle books doesn’t help either. My library of unread books keeps growing and I may never be able to catch up. 📚 Oh well. しょうがない
I hope you had a nice day!
またね～
こんばんは。
Today, my 15-year-old son (second from the left in the photo above) graduated from Japanese school here in Austin. I can’t believe he has been going for 11 years! I’m so proud of him for sticking with it and completing his studies. And of course, it’s been a long 11 years for Mariko too, who put in a lot of effort to help with schoolwork and also helping with school duties. Since my Japanese language abilities are so low, the most I could do to help was to support Mariko in whatever she needed.
Today at the graduation ceremony, the graduating class of 7 students gave a speech and presented a slideshow of photos for the rest of the school and parents. Seeing the pictures of the kids as they grew up together was really touching. It was also a bit sad to know that this part of his life is complete. Understandably, there were many tears shed by the parents in the audience. 😭
I hope Bay keeps up with his Japanese skills! I’m sure it will be a big help to him in his life.
またね～
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