<< Go to a Japanese Page of my profile
a profile of Webmaster| real
name |
Megumi
Kanie |
| penname/ nom de plume |
Margaret
Grace |
| (for writing for the magazine in English. 'Margaret' is attributed to its nickname 'Meg' [=similar to 'Megumi'], 'Grace' is named after 'megumi', meaning 'grace' in Japanese) | |
| online
name |
MG (fromMargaret
Grace) |
| E-mail
address |
ecarge‚¨@yahoo.co.nz
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| place
of birth |
Nisshin
(next to Nagoya, Japan's 4th largest city), Aichi, Japan |
| date
of birth |
22 May
1980 |
| zodiac |
Gemini
(Twins) |
| blood
type |
B |
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| my
favourites & interests |
Japanese
pop & rock music of high quality in lyrics and sound; baroque music, Irish
music; having a sound sleep; writing, esp. haphazard jottings; designing
webpages; breads, buns & cakes of plain tastes; blue sky and brooks; singing;
playing the piano a little; simple stuffs, etc.. |
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1980
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May
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0yr
old |
on 22nd,
born at a hospital in Toyoake, Aichi, Japan as the first baby of my parents after their 2 years of marriage without baby, named 'Megumi' meaning 'grace' or 'blessing', for they thought me as a 'blessing from the heaven' |
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1982
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Sep
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2
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on 22nd,
Brother is born |
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1983
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Apr
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enter a public nursery school in Nisshin | |
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1985
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May
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4
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on 4th, Sister is born |
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1987
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Apr
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6
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enter
Nishi (West) Primary School in Nisshin |
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1988
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May
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7
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on 6th,
a grandfather (on Mother's side) died |
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1992
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12
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start
to write a novel |
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1993
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Apr
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enter
Nisshin Nishi Secondary School |
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13
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(win
a prize of book impression contest, writing about the late grandfather) |
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Oct
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my hometown,
Nisshin, becomes a 'city' from a town (Brother wins a prize of the memorial
art contest) |
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1994
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Oct
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14
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break
bones on the right knee and hospitalised for a week |
| often
absent from school long term due to severe eczema and neglect by female
classmates |
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| 1995 |
Jun
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15
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missing
the school (grad) trip because of long term, continual leave |
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1996
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May
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15
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enter
Tempaku High School in Nagoya |
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16
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keep
writing short poems every day |
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1997
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Mar
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leave
(quit) Tempaku High for transfer |
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Apr
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transfer
to Kyokuryo High School (correspondence) in Nagoya schooling is held only on Sundays and Tuesdays - 5 days off a week |
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| start
to go to an NGO, Asian Health Institute
(AHI) in Nisshin as a member of its Speech Festival Committee |
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Jun
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17
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from
then to the time of graduation of high school, keep going volunteering,
helping office work at the AHI office twice a week, for 2 years |
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| 1998 |
Jul
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18
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paticipate
in a training course for NGO staff and volunteers by (JANIC,
Japan NGO Centre for International Cooperation) as the AHI delegate(?) and visit the Philippines for 10 days (go overseas for the first time) |
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Sep
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run in
the AHI Speech Festival of which I was a member of the executive committe and make a notorious (?) speech in English about the experience in the Phillippines |
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Dec
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join
another training course for NGO staff and volunteers (held within Aichi) and come to rethink my involvement in NGOs |
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| 1999 |
Mar
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graduate
Kyokuryo High School |
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Apr
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go to
an English school in Auckland, New Zealand at my family's expence, without
help of agents (only visit them for information gathering) for 6 weeks |
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Jun
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19
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after
back to Japan, start working part time (9.00-16.45) five days a week at a local supermarket, for earning money to proceed to tertiary education in New Zealand |
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Oct
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win a
scholarship for the current college filling up a vacancy, which was found in the newspaper just after starting working |
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| 2000 |
Apr
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leave
the job and enter International Pacific
College in Palmerston North, New Zealand after a 3-year absence from fulltime student life |
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May
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start
Bachelor of International Studies part time at Faculty of Intenatinal Studies
(then) while being enrolled in then Faculty of Foundation Studies (doing foundation studies part time) |
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Sep
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20
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fully enrolled in Faculty of International Studies | |
| 2001 |
Feb?
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approached
by Itsuka Yamasaki (then), the current editor-in-chief, set up Writers'
Group The 8th Continent with Emiri Ymamoto (friend of both), Daniel Parkes (Itsuka's then boyfriend and current husband), and Chang-yi Lo (Emiri's boyfriend) |
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Apr
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launch
literature magazine 'Melange' (circulated
for free) by Writers' Group The 8th Continent |
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suggested
by Emiri, open a website for the magazine and become Webmaster for I was the one registering the site and design the website for the first time |
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| start
to work as a Peer Tutor, helping degree students in touching up assignments in English and so on for assistantship hours (as a condition of scholarship) |
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Jun
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21
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decline
an offer of the Student Association Constitution Committe chairperson for a possibility to go to Nepal at that time (though deadlocked later) but become a member without title |
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Sep
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terrorist attacks in the United States | ||
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Oct
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the US and UK armies start bombing Afghanistan | ||
| come back to Japan for job hunting | |||
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2002
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Apr
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go back to the college | |
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Aug
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22
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on 29th
at 10.03pm, Mother passes away at age of 50 2 days after I hurriedly have come back home |
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| Now |
struggling with house chores, keeping up with a thesis at home in Japan |
