2001 Dream Sydney Notebook

Do you like my page? Please your comments. Also please tell me more Japanesephoto pages of Australia or modelling or both, like me! Also other bush walkor swim (no clothes) or photo ideas near Sydney. Please click [Sign notebook] button, Yumi ..;-)

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News
Since the book is not automatic any more, and since I am too lazy to transfer all my mail and Guestbook contributions here, we are going to try a forum instead. This means that you can also reply to other people's comments and questions. Please be helpful. Yumi no yume - bush and beach Forum

Also, here is a great chat site (c/- YD Forum), mainly English teachers being naughty in Japan, I think. See if anyone is home!


Dear Friend:

Our company would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. So please accept our warmest wishes to You and your family May your life be filled with Christmas Spirit all year long and may you experience love, peace and happiness as well as abundant success throughout 2002 and beyond. BEST Regards

Joe (in Taiwan)

Happy Holidays! ** (See Footnote 1)

** Footnote 1:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all . . . and a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling, and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2002, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, (not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country or is the only "AMERICA" in the western hemisphere), and without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or sexual preference of the wishee.

By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It is freely transferable with no alteration to the original greeting. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others, and is void where prohibited by law, and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wisher. This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.

The wishee further agrees to hold harmless and indemnify the wisher, along with its heirs, assigns, officers, directors, shareholders . . .

Well thank you, Martin in Texas, and the same to you.

From:"Matt" mattbezzina@bigpond.com
Subject:Something for your notebook add
Fri, 21 Sep 2001 13:45:20 +1000
Comment: Your canyon page is great! I love canyons in The Blue Mountains also and especially going bush and jungles all over The Pacific. I am born and bred in Sydney. Where are you now? Here is me in a Canyon!
Reply: In front of a computer! wish I were in a creek.

From:" civics@geocities.com " Wed, 12 Sep 2001 01:12:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject:Your Data Transfer Status
Dear GeoCities Member:

Congratulations, http://geocities.datacellar.net/yumi188 is very popular and has been receiving a large amount of traffic. Your site has become so popular, in fact, that our records indicate that you're using more than the allotted amount of data transfer we provide for a free web site, which is 3GB/month (measured on an hourly basis).

In the past we have not enforced that limit, so your site has been uneffected thus far. However, shortly, all free member sites transferring more than the allowable data limit will be disabled for portions of the day until usage falls to within the prescribed limits.

If you'd like to prevent this from happening to your site, you may join one of our new premium services ....

Thank you, Yahoo! GeoCities

Reply: Nice to be popular. :) Then think again .... Bandwidth allowance ia only 4Mb each hour, standard geocities space allowance is 11Mb, So if anyone spends less than 3 hours visiting the site then they get disabled .... well done boys. :(

Sorry for slow posting of contributions, catch up soon, maybe!

From: "Mieko Noguchi"
Subject: Genkidesu ?subject=Something, for, your, notebookadd
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:59:14 +0000
Please look at my page. I come to Sydney now!!
http://mieko.cjb.net/
maybe you have some e-mail friends in Sydney.
ima Sydney he kitemasu. mainichi jyujitu shita hibi wo sugoshite imasu.
... Hi Mieko, we hope you add some more photos to your page soon. Your pictures are at Zigzag. Gooch's Crater is near Clarence too, maybe you can go there one day.

From:"Peter Griffiths" <ausdiver@cairns.net.au>
Subject:I saw your page, please something for your note book include.
Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:43:13 -0700

hi yumi
quick word to say thanks for the web page - you are clearly a lovely person, and the world would be a better place with more like you.
best wishes peter
... my Aussie friends say, "And pigs also fly!"

From:Sonia 5:02 am friday june 15, 2001
Subject: Japan Info Site
Curious about life in Japan? Check out the seasonal guide of Find Japan. Curious about dating customs? Check out Japan Secrets. How about "love"? Check out Love Lessons. For all this and more, visit http://www12.org1.com/~f-japan/ A shopping site in English filled with Japanese Products Hand-fans, kimonos, chopsticks, masks, anything and everything Oriental. Limited quantities. Visit http://www10.org1.com/~abcweb/

From: Patrick Maher < maher@access.inet.co.th >
Subject: hi
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:44:29 +0900

Dear Yumi,

I am an American writer who has written a successful book about a gaikokujin living in Japan. The cover of my book even has kanji on it.

My book has been very successful in America. But I have not gotten an opinion from a Japanese person on what I wrote about their country.

Would you read my book? Then we can talk about what you liked and didn't like about the novel? The book is very easy reading because it does not have slang. It is not difficult to understand.

If you would do this, please go to www.bn.com (the largest bookstore in America) - type in either my name or the book's name which is "Candid Confessions." You can read about the book there and see the cover. In Japan, my novel is with www.amazon.co.jp.

Please write back with any questions and let's have a talk via email.

Patrick Maher

P.S. I now live in Thailand and I am writing a new novel. If you visit here, let's have lunch.


"Douglas Adams, what did he write?" asked my nine-year-old as I lamented the passing of one of the great storytellers of the 20th century. I thought about explaining the meaning of 42, Life, the Universe and everything, parallel universes, bail and stumps... "It's like Harry Potter for adults," I replied. Now he wants to read them all. And when he is old enough to understand that it is a trilogy in five parts, I'll let him. After all, it's Mostly Harmless.
Robyn Sykes, Binalong, May 16.

From: Thomas Bolling kendo@u.washington.edu
Subject: warm spring day in Seattle
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 13:12:13 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Yumi: It's warm and sunny with refreshing sea breeze in Seattle, flowers everywhere.

I visit your page pretty often.

Right now Takashi Shimokado is here in Seattle visiting me too, by the way. He came for the groundbreaking ceremony for a new UW Law School building named after Bill Gates's father. Bill Gates gave a fantastic speech about reaching out to the health needs of the poor nations, too... wonderful! Bill Gates is a really good guy...!

Of course Takashi and I are practicing Kendo togther... and we saw the mighty Husky Women's Crew win the Windermere Cup on Saturday. They are the greatest!

Yumi, on your "Renga" page, what is the picture number 17? Is it a secret? We can't see it...

Yumi, thanks for being so wonderful, and having such a beautiful page.

Ciao! Talk with you soon, and take care! Tom

From: Thomas Bolling kendo@u.washington.edu
Subject: sunny morning
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:08:56 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Yumi: The sun's coming up through the old pear tree... a few fringes of clouds, with blue sky overhead.

> Here it is sunny today, after five days of rain, not so much flooding.

It's autumn for you, isn't it? Autumn's my favorite season. I'm glad you don't have flooding... we have not had enough rain. Down here near Puget Sound it's fresh and beautiful, but technically we are in a "drought" because there is not enough snowpack in the mountains, and the reservoirs are very low. People are worried that we might have a long, dry summer with serious water shortages.

> May I put your letter on the notebook page,

Sure!

> there has not been much from North America for a while?

Well, I think of you often, and visit your page very often. Maybe you didn't get the thing I sent in March about our earthquake. I'll send it to you again, in case you'd like that one too.

> Bill Gates a good guy, like man bites dog, that is news I think.

Heh,heh,heh... seriously, though, he has a really serious plan about attacking the infectious diseases which are killing millions of poor people when they could easily be controlled with vaccines. I think he's really going to do it.

> About no. 17, I think that is supposed to be a tennis shoe.

Oh! Interesting...

> That is a joke about bushwalkers from Sydney who have discovered that the sole on Dunlop Volleys tennis shoes grips the sandstone on the local mountains better than expensive hiking boots.

Sure. That makes sense!

> You can also walk or swim through rivers without taking them off. Bushwalkers never clean them so they are always grey. Only novices and tourists wear boots.

Wow! That is really cool... Now I get it!

See what I mean? Your pages are always so interesting!

Well, last night was Takashi's last night at the old UW Kendo Club, and we had a really great practice. Golden Week is about over, so now he's headed back to Tokyo today.

How wonderful hearing back from you, Yumi! Talk with you soon and take care! Tom

From: Thomas Bolling kendo@u.washington.edu
Subject: thinking of you (fwd)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:10:26 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Yumi: Here's a fairly recent one from back in March if you'd like this one for your notebook, too. Tom

---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:03:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Thomas Bolling kendo@u.washington.edu
Subject: thinking of you

Dearest Yumi: Happy third day of spring! And it really is spring here in Seattle, too... the plum blossoms are blowing away, and the cherry blossoms are starting. In the shady north side of the house trilliums are blooming.

This morning I took the two kitty boys, Tippy and Badger, to the vet to have their teeth cleaned. For cats, it's kind of a heavy procedure, so they put them under an anesthetic. While they were there, I had the kindly doctor put tiny microchips under their skin... to identify them in case they get lost, or picked up by the dog catcher. It's good, because now they won't have to wear collars and license tags any more, and the nice fur around their necks can grow back where it wore thin before.

Right now they are still sleepy, but happy.

You may have heard we had a 6.8 earthquake. I was in the library at the time... all the students were SO GREAT... stayed really calm, got under strong tables and desks, said reassuring things to each other... they were WONDERFUL!

Tippy and Badger were OK at home, and not too many things had fallen all over the floor.

In my library, the top floor was the worst... LOTS of books and ceiling tiles fell down, and very dramatic huge cracks in the plaster of the beams and roof. However, the engineers ruled that they were not structural damage, but only cosmetic.

On the older gothic-style main library across from us, many finials and stone or terra cotta decorations fell off... VERY dangerous if anyone had been standing down below them! That library was immediately closed for the rest of the day, until it could be thoroughly inspected.

Many of the other libraries on campus got SEVERE damage, though... and are still not fully operational. In the city of Olympia, about 35 or 40 miles from here, near the epicenter, the State Capitol dome actually CRACKED... and many buildings continue unusable.

Yumi, we are having the first ever PNKF NORTH AMERICAN WOMEN'S INVITATIONAL KENDO CHAMPIONSHIP. The PNKF North American Women's Invitational Kendo Championship will be held on Saturday, June 23, 2001 from 10am to 6pm at Renton Community Center, 1715 Maple Valley Highway. We are honored to have as our special guest, Otsuka Mayumi Sensei, 11WKC Japan Women's Team Coach. Entry Fee is $25.00 (US). Please make check payable to PNKF. Lunch will be served to all Shinpan, Sensei and Taikai participants. All entry fees and a list if participants and Shinpan should be sent by May 26, 2001 to: Moselle Horiuchi, 6020 215th Avenue NE, Redmond, WA 98053 USA. This event will be a senior individual and team tournament and all participants must be 15 years of age or older. The invitee may enter up to two teams. The format of the tournament will be similar to the AUSKF Championships and the IFK Championships.

Wouldn't you like to come and take part in this? It's going to be GREAT!

Yu-chan, I'm sorry you are having trouble with your wonderful, WONDERFUL guestbook! I visit it often and enjoy it so much.

So I'd just like to give you the news, and also tell you that nothing has changed... I still love you and adore you. It means so much to me that

you're my friend.

Beautiful Yumi, thanks so much for being there. Ciao! Talk with you soon, and take care. Tom

From: Thomas Bolling kendo@u.washington.edu
Subject: Gates Foundation
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 07:16:56 -0700 (PDT)

Dear Yumi: Here are some interesting stories about what Bill Gate's foundation is working on. I think he's entirely sincere about this -- in fact he seems passionately concerned and committed. I'm proud of him. Tom

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/africa/project.asp

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134292333_gates05m.html


From: "gonzalo jimenez sanchez" Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:44:11

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 ?, try Babelfish:
yumi hola as these wanted brindarte un gran saludo y for felicitarte for tus colegio grandez hoaxes en el quiero invitarte the one that me escribaS MI CORREO ELECTRONICO LA DIRECCION ES GONZAJ88@HOTMAIL.COM Y PLEASE In IF YOU ANXIOUS OLVIDE ESCRIBIRME ESTARE FOR WAITING TU RESPUESTA BUENO UNDRESSED ME CON UN ABRAZO BIEN GRANBDE CHAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 ??, now put fish in other ear:
yumi hello as these queria brindarte a great greeting and for felicitarte by your grandez profits in the school I want invitarte to that me escribaS To MY MAIL ELECTRONICO the DIRECTION IS GONZAJ88@HOTMAIL.COM and PLEASE DOES NOT FORGET to YOU TO WRITE ANXIOUS ESTARE TO WAIT FOR YOUR GOOD ANSWER to ME I TAKE LEAVE WITH an AFFLUENT HUG GRANBDE CHAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
 Remove fish, cover both ears. Jim, please don't SHOUT.


Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:03:36 +1000
From: Keith Muir

Dear Wollangambe Wilderness Campaigners

The decision on the extension of Clarence Colliery adjoining the Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area is coming up soon.

*** To find out more on this potentially damaging development go to ***
www.colongwilderness.org.au/ClarenceColliery/ClarenceColliery.htm

2001 April 1, go back yume place.

Banner in the trees.

Maybe no more bush soon :(

You can call 0415 276 916

Try to save this place from the $$$ people.


Big apology to everyone. Yahoo! stopped all geocities guest books atthe end of last year but they did not tell us. Old system was good because vistors could write anything in books and I only check sometimes. Good for lazy owner. Now we have to choose between ordinary guestbook like other sites, with questions set by yahoo - boring. Or mail form so nothing happens till I copy e-mail to the notebook - grump. Fix soon maybe, meanwhile send mail, if you like.

Thank you to people who sent nice mail and pictures, transfer to Notebook or Renga pages soon, maybe.


From:k.watashi@docomo.ne.jp
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:58:29 +0900

行った、まだ行かない。返事下さい
Y: Thanks, and yes :) :) :)


Urgent - just noticed it
Geoff Wise
at McMahons point Community Centre, 165 Blues Point Road, North Sydney(as u comeout of the station, turn left and left at the first corner, that is Blues Pt rd, 3 minutes down hill, 6 minutes back. Parking for sports cars only is easy at night.)
Thursday 15 February 2001, 7.30pm
Geoff is going to talk about remote wilderness photography, and maybe show us some of his work. I think NPA don't charge admission. If u r under 40 bring a cask of reisling, others bring a plate of lamingtons. Maybe this will be our chance to see what the great man looks like when he is not in the bush.


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