Why don't friends with kids have time?

I really liked this article although it was found in one of my acquaintances on Facebook. (Sorry S for taking this out of your album). But it is so much thruth that I needed to post in into my Blog. I find myself so guilty sometimes for not being able to find time to old friends and girlfriends. Specailly when I am trying to juggle both, work and child, at the same time. Of course, child will always come first! No matter what! But I've been there too. I thought the same thing of my friends with kids before having one of my own. But no matter how much you plan and prepare, it is really hard to understand what is really like having a child and how much life as you used to know just changes 180 degrees. Good article neverthless!

Miss Nikkei Rio Grande do Sul 2008

My cousin, Luciana Hikari Kuamoto has won the title of Miss Nikkei RS 2008. Miss Nikkei beauty contest was held in Porto Alegre. I am really proud of my 20 year old cousin. She is not just beautiful but a very sweet and smart lady.
Also, various festivities and events celebrating 100 years of Japanese immigration in Brazil were taking place in different parts of the country throughout the year. The week around June 18, the date when the Kasato Maru docked at the port of Santos in 1908, packs up some of the year's highlights.
On June 18 1908, the first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil, aboard the Kasato Maru. A new era was about to start for Brazilian culture and ethnicity, but permanence was not first and foremost in the mind of the newly arrived workers who had responded to the appeal of a Japan-Brazil immigration agreement. Most of them had imagined their trip as a temporary endeavor – a way to achieve prosperity before returning to their native country.

aso kumamoto from yasu4920 on Vimeo.

Feeling quite nostalgic of the time I was in Japan. This is a scene of the volcano area of Aso in Kuamoto. The Japanese islands are laced with volcanoes, some thunderously active and others not. Of these, the majestic -- and dormant -- Mt. Fuji draws by far the most attention. Yet, an hour and a half by plane south of Tokyo lies another volcano that has been too long removed from the eyes of foreign tourists.

Mt. Aso sits in the center of Japan's southern island of Kyushu and is merely this: the largest volcano on earth!

Aso's volcanic rim stretches 128 km in circumference, and it was here that the island of Kyushu first bubbled up from the sea. The gigantic crater has been dead since time immemorial, but inside stand several other volcanic peaks, one of which is still very alive.