:-)

我也还没有去过中国，但是去过七次台湾

你来过日本吗？

I'm fine. thank you and you?
I can speak chinese a little.
我叫阿部雅哉,住在神户。你住在那儿？

Hi,Yoko. from Japan. Nice to meet you.

Hello Yoko,

How are you? Its been quite a while since I last heard from you and it seems I started to miss you :-(

Hope you are OK and well. Miss you.

Hi Yoko,

Yeah I am good at cooking, time teaches everything, I have been cooking since I was very young, since I am not married and my Mom has passed away so I have to look after the house too.

So Yoko what are you doing these days? are you working somewhere or are you studying? Its nice to meet old classmates, it brings back the old memories. Do you use hotmail or yahoo? we can write e-mails there too. Yeah? what do you think?

Today my cell phone broke :-( gotta buy a new one.

Mike!!!

Hi Yoko,

As always it was great hearing from you, no the movie I told you about is not horror but its full of violence, you know how the Samurai movies are, they are full of sword fights.

Anyways as I told you I also run a noodle making factory so nowadays I am quite busy as my worker are on holidays, hehehe for the past few days I am making noodles, too tiring work but I guess that is ok.

I like talking with you.

Mike!

Dearest Yoko,

Hello, how have you been lately? Sorry for my late reply, I was quite busy with my work for the past few days, hope you missed me, hehehe.

I must also appreciate you for not taking my advice in a wrong way, I just told you as I have felt all these years, and you are right its not an easy thing to do as we all have to submit to the will of Heaven. everything will happen in their own time and that's why its destiny, right?

Anyways you tell, what have you been up to and what's new with you? seen any good movie lately? I have watched 13 Assassins and I am sure you must have heard of it, its a Japanese movie about Samurai, I liked it as a good time pass. You know all those sword fights in Samurai movies, hehehe.

Mike!!!

Hello Yoko,

How are you and how was your day? Hope all the best happened with you today.

Regarding to your reply, today I am going to give you a long long lecture and advice, so I hope you would not mind and take it as a friendly advice. Look I do not know what you think of me but I have taken you as my friend and it is my duty to be very straight and honest with you.

Life is not a piece of cake, we only live once and we die once, so we and only we are responsible for it and only we can judge what is right for ourself, what you have written I do not completely agree with you 100 percent, I mean its OK when you are young, you feel like you are on top of the world, its great to have friends and nobody and live without friend, but when you grow old, my question is what will you do? When all our friends would have been settled down and have families of their own, they would have liabilities of their own, no one stays with you forever.

You know I am 41 years old and my biggest regret in my life is that I am still single, I would have been married 10 to 15 years earlier but due to my wrong judgement and wrong decision I did not get married, now I think if I would have gotten married, my kid would have been around 10 to 12 years old, and I only blame myself.

Its not that I did not find any girl or I have not fallen in love before, I was in love but the girl I loved did not want me as I was so busy in my life that I did not had time and now I come to an empty home and I just look at the empty walls around me. I keep thinking wouldn't it be great if I had a family to come home to, a couple of years back I did try to get married but the girl refused by saying I am kindda old.

On the 5th of July its going to be 2 years since my Mother passed away and I live a life with no woman, I often think that wouldn't it would have been great if my Mother would have been able to be a grandmother and see my children and play with them. I have my brothers and dad bu