Friday, February 19, 2010

二月十九日 (nigatsu jyuku nichi) : February 19

Today is usui (雨水), one of nijyushisekki (二十四節季), the 24 solar terms. Usui (雨水) literally means rain water. It is a time snow and ice melt and change to rain. It was very cold. When I got up, the field was white with frost. The windshield was frozen again.

Today's big news was the bronze medal of men's figure skating. The hope of Japanese men's skating, Daisuke Takahashi (高橋大輔), 23 years old got the silver medal. Congratulations!!
He had a surgery on the right knee in November 2008 and recovered. The key of the medal was said to depend on the success of quadruple jump. And he tried. This became the first medal of men's figure skating in the Olympics.

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