My trivial thinking

New Year's Eve, I'm happy to have finished all my works in this year. I'm sitting back and listening to music now. Seiko Matsuda's song Missing you (1996) is a good song. You can find English version of this song easily in YouTube. I've heard that she is a little bit eccentric. Many men love her and many women dislike her. But I like this song. Enjoy!

The year before last my daughters took my wife and me to Beijing for our wedding  anniversary, and they took us to Okinawa as my birthday present last year. This year, Yumi and my wife Kazuyo hoped to go to 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa ( http://www.kanazawa21.jp/en/ ). Let's each pay a four, this time. It's not a present for me. In the early morning, October 30, we went to Kanazawa through Meishin and Hokuriku Expressway. We arrived at 21st Century Museum at 10 a.m. It took about five hours from Osaka by car. We visited Kenroku-en first. Kenroku-en that is one of the three most beautiful gardens in Japan was close to the museum ( http://www.pref.ishikawa.jp/siro-niwa/kenrokuen/e/about.html ). I've been there once long time ago. There were many foreign tourists. Chinese tourists were speaking loudly. Please speak in a quiet manner. After that, Yumi insisted to go to Ohmi-cho Market for lunch ( http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4207.html ). Yumi told

You can't withdraw money at ATMs during your trip. You don't have enough money. How do you get over that kind of situation? Nobody can go on a travel without money for a month. My daughter went to Europe alone on the beginning of this month. I've been worried about her trip because she can't speak English at all. A trouble happened soon on the first day. She failed to withdraw money at ATM at Heathrow Airport. She moved to Malta, and tried it at an ATM and failed again. She's never been able to withdraw any money for six days. Yesterday afternoon, she called me with skype in tears. Her debit card became invalid because she input an incorrect PIN(personal identification number) several times. She called the bank that issued the card, but their response was cold, "The only way to be settled the problem is to reissue your card." I called the bank again. My call was transferred three times, and told me the phone number of the particular department and yo