We purchased Duke Nukem and Cosmo from Apogee in US four years ago. It was long before the American games were prevailing here in Japan. Since then we have been video game nuts. I conquered all the levels of Duke1,2 and Cosmo and Dark Ages, with the help of my swift second son. (This is something we can be proud of anywhere in the world.)
Recently I feel dizzy or sick within 15 minutes after I start playing 3D Duke. I can't play this game for more than 15 minutes. So my second son ,who is gifted with the special immuno-eficiency against the 3D Duke virus, is the key person to conquer the final version of this game. In his eagerness to shoot'em up, he asked me to give another Duke Zone 500 levels as a Christmas present. That proposal, of course, was willingly accepted his gentle father. (Maybe father himself just wanted to get it.) We now have a formidable task which is about 500 levels to be conquered by the year 2000. But don't worry. I know it is a wise father who can prevent his sons from playing too much video game (wearing glasses).

The other day I took out my butterfly collection from a closet for the first time in ten years. To the eyes of my two sons, those butterflies I had collected more than 25 years ago were a great surprise. They were impressed by "GIFU-CHO", an endangered butterfly and "BIG PURPLE" the national butterfly of Japan. In my boyhood I had been a fanatic butterfly collector who killed maybe more than 1000 butterflies. To soothe the pang of my conscience, I am always telling my children not to kill creatures however little they are. I would like to have various butterflies roaming in my backyard all through the year except the coldest three months. To know the wonder of Nature I want to call them to my herb garden and small orchards. To grow them from catterpillers to their beautiful adults is a wonderful experience, isn't it?