Joe wrote:

|Minnasan, Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu!

Yup, Happy New Year, even though it's already 3 days past.

|Sounds like quite a show.  I ended up watching the "real" Kouhaku on
|NHK New Year's Eve.  Amuro Namie came back fatter than ever, and cried
|so bad she couldn't finish "Can You Celebrate"  So it was no wonder
|that Wada Akiko smoked her.  She has an amazing voice.  Not to say
|that I like it, but I respect anyone who can sing to a hall that large
|without a mic...

Ugh, something I want to watch but can't. Hopefully they'll broadcast it
here sometime.

|And I never knew that the NHK special ended 15 minutes before the New
|Year!  The next half hour is spent quietly going around to the
|countries temples and people's homes, asking them about the new year
|in as boring a fashion as possible.

Woo, hatsumoude. Someone I know hates it because it gets really crowded.

|Ah well.  Usagi no you ni you otoshi wo.

Ah, eh? In what way is an usagi 'yoi'? ^^;;

Tonikaku, ii otoshi wo mukaeru you ni.

Derek