Konnichiwa: Centuranians

Friday, September 13, 2013

Centuranians

Asahi Shimbun, 14th Sep 2013

Japan celebrates "Old Folks Day" on 16th, Monday and this day is made all the more meaningful by the figures released by the authorities. As of today, there are 54,397 people who are over a hundred years old in Japan. Compared to last year's figure, it has increased by 3,021 people. This is the highest figure recorded in the past 43 years. 88% of these centuranians are ladies.

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About my name Candilin

In recent years, I have come to realise that my name 'Candilin' has been used by others. Once in a while I run checks on my name on Google to see what it turns up with. Recently I find people with the same names. There is also an anti-fungi drug in my name!As such I thought I should at least tell you where my name Candilin came from, in case you think I am a copier, instead of the originator.When I was 12 years old (some 30 years ago!), I started using the nickname of Candy because at that time there was a famous Japanese anime called Candy Candy. But then I thought the name to be a little too common and wanting to be special, I tried to modify that name into something original. My first penpal was named Adeline, and I thought girls' name should end with a 'line' like hers. So I played with adding 'line' to Candy, and in grammar, we learnt that by changing a noun to plural, 'y' becomes 'i', I changed Candy to Candiline. My name was Candiline for sometime until I dropped the 'e' at the back so that people would stop pronouncing it as Can-di-line, instead of Can-di-lin.That was how I came up with my name 'Candilin' 32 years back. Maybe someone somewhere too came up with this name on his or her own, and I really don't mind. I just want to clarify that I did not copy my name from somewhere, I invented it!

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Centuranians

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