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My chinese name is Yin Ling and baby Minori's unofficial middle name is Yen. Both Yin and Yen mean swallow (as in the bird) in chinese. The same swallows that migrate to Malaysia in winter to escape the cold return to Japan when the weather begins to warm up. Like the swallows here, together with daddy, we make our trips between the two countries. Isn't it nice to have two places we can call home?

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Hirayu onsen

We recently returned to Hirayu with M's grandparents because jiiji wanted to ski just this one more time before the winter season ends. M had a blast.

This time she was less interested in coming down the slopes with daddy as she was in scooping snow.

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Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Yee haaa!

During the annual new year Kageyama family ski trip, M came down the slopes for the first time in her life. In the last few years Daddy has always preferred to snowboard, but skied this time to give M the thrill of her life. She was a little apprehensive at first but very quickly got used to, and enjoyed, it.

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