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「良い」だけじゃない！？「Good」を使った英表現
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「Good」と言えば、誰でも真っ先に思い浮かべる意味は「良い」だと思いますが、日常会話では実に様々な表現に使われています。今回は、その中でも特にネイティブが会話の中でよく使うgoodを使った5つのフレーズをご紹介したいと思います。
　
　
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1) I'm good
→「結構です・大丈夫です」
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「I'm good」は相手の提案や誘い、または申し出や依頼をカジュアルに断る時に使われる表現です。「No, thank you」と同じ意味ですが、より口語的でインフォーマルなニュアンスになります。日本語の「大丈夫」と同じような使い方ができ、例えば、レストランで店員さんに「お水のお代わりはいかがですか？」と聞かれた時に「いいえ、結構です」と断ったり、友達に遊びに行こうと誘われた時に「やめておくよ」と言ったり、周囲の人に何か心配してもらった時などに「大丈夫です」と返答するような状況で「I’m good」がよく使われます。
　
✔「No, I'm good.」と断ることもできるが、Noを言わずに「I'm good.」だけでもOK。
　
✔「I'm okay」や「I'm fine」も同じ意味として使える。「I'm fine」は丁寧な響きがある。
　
＜例文＞
　
〜会話例１〜

A: Would you like your receipt?
（領収書はいりますか？）

B: I’m good, thank you.
（いえ、結構です。ありがとうございます。）
　
〜会話例２〜

A: Do you want to go to karaoke after this?
（この後カラオケに行かない？）

B: I’m good. I’m going to head home. I need to get up early tomorrow.
（いや、遠慮しとくわ。明日朝早く起きないといけないから家に帰るよ。）
　
　
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2) For good
→「永久に・これから先ずっと」
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For goodは「永久に」や「これから先ずっと」の意味として日常会話で使われます。例えば、海外で仕事している友達から「Hey Jun. I’m coming back to LA next month.（来月ロスに帰るよ）」と連絡が来たとしましょう。一時帰国なのか、それとも永久に帰国するのかを確認したい時は「For good?（永久に？）」と聞いてみるといいでしょう。

また、for goodはforeverと同様に「永遠に」を意味しますが、foreverほど重い感じはなくカジュアルな感じで使われます。例えば、タバコやお酒などを永久にやめると言いたい時は「I’m going to quit smoking/drinking for good.」のように表現し、for good は基本的に文末で使われます。その他、foreverには「（これから先もずっと）永遠に」のニュアンスがあるのに対し、 for goodには「（これを最後に）永遠に」のニュアンスがあるため、例えば「彼のことはずっと前から知っています」という場合は「I’ve known him for good.」と言うことはできず、正しくは「I’ve known him forever.」となります。
　
＜例文＞
　
Are you moving back for good?
（永久に帰国するの？）
　
She's planning on moving to the U.S. for good.
（彼女はアメリカに永住する予定です。）
　
That shop is not temporarily closed. They're closed for good.
（あのお店は一時休業ではなく閉店しました。）
　
〜会話例１〜

A: I’m coming back to LA next month.
（来月LAに戻るよ。）

B: For good?
（永久に？）

A: Yeah, for good. Let’s hang out when I get back.
（うん、永久に。戻ったら遊ぼうね。）
　
　
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3) Good
→「有効な」
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Goodは「有効な」の意味として使うこともでき、割引券や定期券、チケットなどが期限切れではないことを表します。例えば、「この切符は明日まで有効です」は、「This ticket is good until tomorrow」と表現します。その他、賞味期限や消費期限について話す時にもgoodがよく使われ、「Are those eggs still good?（卵まだ大丈夫かな？）」、「Let me check. Yeah, they're good until next week.（ちょっと見てみるね。うん、来週まで大丈夫だよ）」という具合に使うことができます。
　
＜例文＞
　
This coupon is still good. Let's use it.
（このクーポンまだ有効だよ。使おう。）
　
When is your commuter pass good until?
（あなたの定期券はいつまで有効なの？）
　
This milk is still good. It expires tomorrow.
（この牛乳はまだ大丈夫だよ。賞味期限が明日。）
　
　
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4) A good
→「少なくとも〜」
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A good は「少なくとも〜」や「最低でも〜」などのように、何かしらの（合計の）数量を強調する役割としても使われます。特に時間を表す際に使われることが多く、例えば東京から大阪まで車でどれくらいかかりますか？と友達に聞かれた時に、「I'd say it takes a good six hours.（最低でも6時間はかかると思うよ）」と表現することができます。ここのポイントはgoodの前に必ずaを入れてa good~と言い、a good 30 minutes、a good 2 hoursのようにgood の後に数量を入れます。
　
＜例文＞
　
It will take a good 4 to 5 hours get to Las Vegas.
（ラスベガスまで、少なくとも4、５時間はかかるでしょう。）
　
Take your time. We have a good 30 minutes before the train leaves.
（急がなくていいよ。電車が出発するまで最低でも30分はあるから。）
　
It takes me a good 20 minutes to fall asleep.
（眠りに落ちるのに最低20分はかかります。）
　
　
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5) A good amount of
→「かなりの〜」
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Good amount of は「かなりの〜」を意味し、時間や量を強調する時にも使われます。一般的にお金や時間、労力などと一緒に使われることが多く、a good amount of money、a good amount of time、a good amount of effort のように表します。例えば、「かなりの時間がかかります」は「It takes a good amount of time.」と表現します。
　
＜例文＞
　
A good amount of my salary goes to rent.
（私の給料の多くは家賃に当てられます。）
　
A good amount of time and effort went into this project.
（このプロジェクトに多大な時間と労力が注がれました。）
　
It takes a good amount of time to become fluent in a foreign language.
（外国語を流暢に話せるようになるには、かなりの時間がかかります。）
　
　
　
　
　
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My sister, Michelle-Ann Iking's 3% chance of conceiving naturally was a success! Here's her story:

(My apologies as I've been overwhelmed with personal matters. I've only managed to get to my desk. So finally got around posting this).

This is the story behind my sister's pregnancy struggle and how she shared her journey over her Facebook page.

Because some may have not caught her LIVE session chat with me (https://www.facebook.com/daphneiking/videos/687743128744960/) , or read her lengthy post (as it's a private page);
she's allowed me to copy and paste it over my wall, in case you need to know more about her thought process on how AND why she focused on the 3% success probability. Read on.

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Posted 10th May 2020.
FB Credit: Michelle-Ann Iking

A week ago today I celebrated becoming a mother to our second, long awaited child.

Please forgive this mother's LONG (self-indulgent) post, journalling what this significant milestone has meant for her personally, for her own fallible memory's sake as well as maybe to share one day with her son.

If all you were wondering was whether I had delivered and if mum and bub are OK, please be assured the whole KkLM family are thriving tremendously, and continue scrolling right along your Newsfeed 😁.

OUR 3% MIRACLE

All babies are miracles... and none more so than our precious Kiaen Aaryan (pronounced KEY-n AR-yen), whose name derives from Sanskrit origins meaning:

Grace of God
Spiritual
Kind
Benevolent

...words espousing the gratitude Kishore and I feel for Kiaen's arrival as our "3% miracle".

He was conceived, naturally, after 3 years of Kishore and I hoping, praying and 'endeavoring'... and only couples for whom the objective switches from pure recreation to (elusive) procreation will understand how this is less fun than it sounds ...

3 years during which time we had consensus from 3 different doctors that we, particularly I (with my advancing age etc etc) had only a 3% chance of natural conception and that our best hope for a sibling for our firstborn, Lara Anoushka, was via IVF.

Lara herself was an 'intervention baby', being one of the 20% of babies successfully conceived through the less intrusive IUI process, after a year and a half of trying naturally and already being told then my age was a debilitating factor.

We had tried another round of IUI for her sibling in 2017 when Lara was a year old. And that time we fell into the ranks of the 80% of would-be parents for whom it would be an exercise in futility... who would go home, comfort each other as best they could, while individually masking their own personal disappointment... hoping for the best, 'the next time around'...

So the improbability ratio of 97% against natural conception of our second baby, as concurred by the combined opinion of 3 medical professionals, was a very real, very daunting figure for us to have to mentally deal with.

Deep, DEEP, down in my heart however, though I had many a day of doubt... I kept a core kernel of faith that somehow, I would again experience the privilege of pregnancy, and again, have a chance at childbirth.

And so, the optimist in me would tell myself, "Well, there have to be people who fall in the 3% bucket... why shouldn't WE be part of the 3%?"

Those who know me well, understand my belief in the Law of Attraction, the philosophy of focusing your mind only on what you want to attract, not on what you don't want, and so even as Kishore and I prepared to go into significant personal debt to attempt IVF in the 2nd half of 2019, I marshalled a last ditch effort to hone in on that 3% chance of natural conception... through research coming across fertility supplements that I ordered from the US and sent to a friend in Singapore to redirect to me because the supplier would not deliver to Malaysia.

I made us as a couple take the supplements in the 3 month 'priming period' in the lead up to the IVF procedure - preconditioning our bodies for optimum results, if you will.

At the same time, I had invested in a sophisticated fertility monitor, with probes and digital sensors for daily tracking of saliva and other unmentionable fluid samples, designed to pinpoint with chemical accuracy my state of fertility on any given day.

(UPDATE: For those interested - I obtained the supplements and Ovacue Fertility Monitor from https://www.fairhavenhealth.com/. Though I had my supplies delivered to a friend in Singapore, and redirected to me here since the US site does not deliver to Malaysia, there are local distributors for these products, you will just have to research the trustworthiness of the vendors yourself...)

I had set an intention - in the 3 months of pre-IVF priming, I would consume what seemed like a pharmacy's worth of supplements, and track fertility religiously... in hopes that somehow, within the 3 month priming period, we would conceive naturally and potentially save ourselves a down payment on a new property... and this was just a projection on financial costs of IVF, not even considering the physical, emotional and mental toll it involves, with no guarantee of a baby at the end of it all...

It was a continuation of an intention embedded even with my first pregnancy, where all the big ticket baby items were consciously purchased for use by a future sibling, in gender neutral colours, in hopes that sibling would be a brother "for a balanced pair", though of course any healthy child would be a welcome blessing.

It was a very conscious determination to always skew my thoughts in service of what the end objective was. For example, when 3+year old Lara would innocently express impatience at not yet having a sibling, at one point suggesting that since we were "taking too long to give her a baby brother/sister", perhaps we should just "go buy a baby from a shop", instead of getting defensive or berating the baby that she herself was, we enlisted Lara's help to pray for her sibling... so in any place of worship, or sacred ground of any kind that we passed thereon, Lara would stop, close her eyes, bow her small head and place her tiny hands together in prayer, reciting earnestly, "Please God, please give me a baby brother or baby sister."

After months and months of watching Lara do this, in the constancy of her childlike chant, Kishore started feeling the pressure of possibly disappointing Lara if her prayer was not answered. Whereas for me, Lara's recitation of her simple wish became like a strengthening mantra, our collective intention imbued with greater power with each repetition, and the goal of a sibling kept very much in the forefront of our minds (hence our calling Lara our 'project manager' in this endeavour).

And somehow in the 2nd month of that 3 month period, a positive + sign appeared on one of the home pregnancy tests I had grown accustomed to taking - my version of the lottery tickets others keep buying in hopes of hitting the jackpot, with all the cyclical anticipation and more often than not, disappointment, that entails...

This time however I was not disappointed.

With God's Grace, (hence 'Kiaen', a variation of 'Kiaan' which means 'Grace of God'), my focus on our joining the ranks of the 3% had materialised.

It seems poetic then, that Kiaen chose to make his appearance on the 3rd May, ironically the same date that his paternal great-grandfather departed this world for the next... such that in the combined words of Kishore and his father Kai Vello Suppiah,

"The 1st generation Suppiah left on 3rd May and the 4th generation Suppiah arrived on 3rd May after 41yrs...
One leaves, another comes, the legacy lives on..."

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KIAEN AARYAN SUPPIAH'S BIRTH STORY

On Sunday 3rd May, I was 40 weeks and 5 days pregnant.

The baby was, in my mind, very UN-fashionably late past his due date of 29th April, so as much as I had willed and 'manifested' the privilege of pregnancy, to say I was keen to be done with it all was an understatement.

In the weeks leading to up to my full term, I had experienced increasingly intense Braxton-Hicks 'practice contractions' - annoying for me for the discomfort involved, stressful for Kishore who was on tenterhooks with the false alarms, on constant alert for when we would actually need to leave home for the hospital.

Having become a Hypnobirthing student and advocate from my first pregnancy with Lara, and thus being equipped with
(1) a lack of fear about childbirth in general and
(2) a basic understanding of how all the sensations I would experience fit into the big picture of my body bringing our baby closer to us,
I was less stressed - content to wait for the baby to be "fully cooked" and come out whenever he was ready... though I wouldn't have minded at all if the cooking time ended sooner, rather than later.

With Lara, I had been somewhat 'forced' into an induced labour, even though she was not yet due, and that had resulted in a 5 DAY LABOUR, a Birth Story for another post, so I was not inclined to chemically induce labour, even though I was assured that for second time mothers, it would be 'much faster and easier'...

That morning, I had a hunch *maybe* that day was the day, because in contrast to previous weeks' sensations of tightening, pressure and even spasms that were concentrated in the front of my abdomen and occasionally shot through my sides and legs, I felt period - like cramping in my lower back which I had not felt before throughout the pregnancy.

It was about 8am in the morning then, and my 'surges' were still relatively mild ('surges' being Hypnobirthing - speak for 'contractions', designed to frame them with the more positive connotations needed to counteract common language in which childbirth is presented as something that is unequivocally painful and traumatic, instead of the miraculous, powerful and natural phenomenon it actually is).

I recall (masochistically?) entertaining the thought of opting NOT to have an epidural JUST TO SEE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE...

I figured this would be the last time I would be pregnant and so it would be my 'last chance' to experience 'drug free labour' which, apart from the health benefits for baby and mother, might be *interesting* in a way that people who are curious about what getting a tattoo and skydiving and bungee jumping are like, might find these *interesting*...even knowing there will be pain and risk involved...

Since I have tried tattoos and skydiving (unfortunately not being able to squeeze in bungee-jumping while my life was purely my own to risk at no dependents' possible detriment) a similar curiousity about a no-epidural labour was on my mind...

In the absence of other signs of the onset of labour (like 'bloody show' or my waters breaking), I wanted to wait until the surges were coming every few minutes before we actually left the house for the hospital, not wanting to be one of those couples who rushed in too early and had interminable waits for the next stage in unfamiliar, clinical surroundings and/or were made to go home in an anti-climatic manner.

I was even calm enough through my surges to have the presence of mind to wash and blowdry my hair, knowing if I did deliver soon I would not be allowed this luxury for a while.

Around 9am I asked Kishore to prep for Lara and himself to be dressed and breakfasted so we could head to hospital soon, while I sent messages to family members on both sides informing them 'today might be the day.'

My mother, who had briefly served as a midwife before going back into general nursing and then becoming a nursing tutor, prophetically stated that if what I was experiencing was true labour, "the baby would be out by noon".

The pace in which my surges grew closer together was surprisingly quicker than I expected; and while I asked Lara to "Hurry up with breakfast" with only a tad more urgency than we normally tell her to do, little Missy being prone to dilly-dallying at meals, I probably freaked Kishore out when about 930am onwards, I had to instinctively get on my hands and knees a couple of times, eyes closed, trying to practice the Hypnobirthing breathing techniques I had revised to help along the process of my body birthing our child into the world.

I recall him saying a bit frantically as I knelt at our front door, doubled over as he waited for Lara to complete something or other, "Lara hurry up! Can't you see Mama is in so much pain and you are taking your own sweet time??!!"

SIDETRACK: Just the night before, Lara and I had watched a TV show in which a woman gave birth with the usual histrionics accompanying pop culture depictions of labour.

Lara watched the scene, transfixed.

I told her, simply and matter-of-factly, "That's what Mama has to do to get baby brother out Lara, and that's what I had to do for you also."

In most of interactions with my daughter, I have sought to equip her to face life's situations with calmness, truthful common sense, and ideally a minimum of drama.

Those who know the dramatic diva that Lara can be will know that this is a work-in-progress, but her response to me that night showed me some of my 'teachings' were sinking in:

She looked at me unfazed, "But Mama," she said. "You won't cry and scream like that lady, right? You will be BRAVE and stay calm, right?"
#nopressure.

So as we prepped to leave for the hospital I did indeed attempt to be that role model of calm for her, asking her only for her help in keeping very quiet,
"Because Mama needs to focus on bringing baby brother out and she needs quiet to concentrate...".

As we left the house at 10.11am, I texted Kishore's sister Geetha to please prep to pick up Lara from the hospital, and was grateful Kishore had the foresight to ask our gynae to prepare a letter for Geetha to show any police roadblocks between my in-laws' home in Subang Jaya and the hospital in Bangsar, this all happening under the Movement Control Order (MCO).

To Lara's credit, in the journey over to the hospital, she - probably sensing the gravity of the situation, sat very quietly in her seat at the back, and the silence was punctuated only by my occasional deep intakes of breath and some variation of my Ohmmm-like moans when the sensations were at their height.

By the time we got to Pantai Hospital at around 10.30am, my surges were strong enough I requested a wheelchair to assist me in getting to the labour ward, as I did not trust my own legs to support me... and Kishore would have to wait until Geetha had arrived to take Lara back to my in-laws' house before he himself could go up.

I slumped in the wheelchair and was wheeled up to the labour room with my eyes closed the whole time, trying to handle my surges.

I didn't even look up to see the attendant who pushed me... but did make the effort to thank him sincerely when he handed me over, with what seemed like a palpable sense of relief on his part, to the labour ward nurses.

The nurse attending me at Pantai was calm, steady and efficient. I answered some questions and changed into my labour gown while waiting for Kishore to come up, all the while managing the increasingly intense surges with my rusty Hypnobirthing breathing techniques.

By the time Kishore joined me at around 11am (I know these timings based on the timestamps of the 'WhatsApp live feed' of messages Kishore sent to his family), I was asking the nurse on duty, "How soon can I get an epidural??" thinking what crazy woman thought she could do this without drugs???!!!

The nurse checked my cervix dilation, I saw her bloodied glove indicating my mucous plug had dislodged, and she told me, "Well you are already at 7cm (which, for the uninitiated, is 70% of the way to the 10cm dilation needed for birthing), you are really doing well, if you made it this far without any drugs, if can you try and manage without it... I suspect within 2 hours or less you will deliver your baby and since it will take about that time for the anaesthesiologist to be called, epidural to be administered and kick in... it might all be for nothing... but of course the decision is completely up to you... "

So there I was, super torn, should I risk the sensations becoming worse... or risk the epidural becoming a waste?? And of course I was trying to decide this as my labour surges were coming at me stronger and stronger...

I was in such a dilemma...because as a 'recovering approval junkie' there was also a silly element of approval-seeking involved, ("The nurse thinks I can do this without drugs... maybe I CAN do this without drugs... Yay me!") mixed with that element of curiosity I mentioned earlier ("What if I actually CAN do this without drugs... plenty of other women have done it all over the world since time immemorial.. no big deal, how bad can it be...??") so then I thought I would use the financial aspect to be the 'tiebreaker' in my decision making...

I asked the nurse how much an epidural would cost and when she replied "Around MYR1.5k", I still remember Kishore's incredulous face as I asked the question, i.e."Seriously babe, you are gonna think about money right now? If you need the epidural TAKE IT, don't worry about the money!!!"... and while we are not rich by any stretch of the imagination, thankfully RM1.5k is not a quantum that made me swing towards a decision to "better save the money"...

So in the end, I guess my curiosity won out, and I turned down the epidural "just to see what it would be like and if I had it in me" (in addition of course to avoiding the side effects of any drugs introduced into my and the baby's body).

My labour occuring in the time of coronavirus, it was protocol for me to have a COVID19 test done, so the medical staff could apply the necessary precautions. I had heard from a friend Sharon Ruba that the test procedure was uncomfortable, so when the nurse came with the test kit as I was starting another surge, I asked, "Please can I just finish this surge before I do the test?" as I really didn't think I could multitask tackling multiple uncomfortable sensations in one go.

The COVID19 test involved what felt like a looong, skinny cotton bud being inserted into one nostril... I definitely felt more than a tickle as it went in and up, being told to take deep breaths by the nurse. Then she asked me to "Try to swallow" and I felt it go into my nasal cavities where I didn't think anything could go any further, but was proven wrong when she asked me to swallow again and the swab was probed even deeper. Then she warned me there would be some slight discomfort as she prepared to collect a sample... but at that point all I could think about was:

(i) I really don't have much of a choice
(ii) please let this be over before my next surge kicks in
(iii) if all the people breaking the MCO rules knew what it feels like to do this test maybe they won't put themselves at risk of the need to perform one...

In full disclosure as I was transferred into the actual delivery room at some point after 11am, another nurse offered me 'laughing gas' to ostensibly take some of the edge off... I took the self-operated breathing nozzle passed to me but don't recall it making any difference to my sensations..so didn't use it much as it seemed pretty pointless.

I recall some measure of relief when I heard my gynae Dr. Paul entering the room, greeting Kishore and me, and telling us it was going well and it wouldn't be long now and he would see us again shortly.

From my previous labour with Lara I knew the midwives pretty much take you 90% of the way through the labour and when the Dr is called in you are really at the home stretch, so was very relieved to hear his voice though knowing he would leave and come back later meant it wasn't quite over yet.

I do remember realising when I had crossed the Thinning and Opening Phase of labour to the Birthing Phase, by the change in sensations... it is still amazing to me that as the Hypnobirthing book mentioned, having this knowledge I was instinctively able to switch breathing techniques for the next stage of labour .

Was my opting against epidural the right choice for me?

Overall? Yes.

Don't get me wrong.

I *almost* regretted the decision several times during active labour... especially when I felt my body being taken over by an overwhelming compulsion to push that did not seem conscious and was accompanied by involuntary gutteral moans where I literally just thought to myself, "I surrender, God do with me what you will..." (super dramatic I know but VERY real at the time...).

I think I experienced 3-4 such natural explusive reflexes (?), rhythmically pushing the baby down the birth path, one of which was accompanied by what felt like a swoosh of water coming out of a hose with a diameter the size of a golf ball... this was when I realised my water had finally broken...

The nurses kept instructing me to do different things, to keep breathing, to move to my side, then to move to the middle, to raise my feet... and when I didn't comply, Kishore (who was with me throughout both my labours) tried to help them by repeating the instructions prefaced with "Sayang..." but I basically ignored all the intructions because I felt I had no capacity to direct any part of my body to do anything and someone else would have to physically manoeuvre that body part themselves.

When I heard Dr. Paul's voice again and the flurry of commotion surrounding his presence, I knew the time was close... and when I heard the nurse say to Kishore, "Sir, these are your gloves, for when you cut the baby's cord", it was music to my ears...

I'm very, VERY grateful Kiaen slid out after maybe the 4th of those involuntary pushes... the wave of RELIEF when he came out so quickly... it still boggles my mind that my mother was essentially right and as his birth time was 12.02pm, it was *only* about 1.5 hours between our arrival at the hospital and his arrival into the world.

Kiaen was placed on my chest for skin to skin bonding and remained there for a considerable time.

For our short stay in the hospital he would be with us in my maternity ward number C327... another trivially serendipitous sign for me because he was born on the 3rd (May) and our wedding anniversary is 27th (July).

I was discharged the following day 4th May at about 5.30pm, after I got an all clear on COVID19 and a paediatric surgeon did a small procedure on Kiaen to address a tongue-tie that would affect his breastfeeding latch... making the entire duration of our stay about 31 hours.

I have taken the time and effort to record all this down so that whenever life's challenges threaten to get me down I can remind myself, "Ignore the 97% failure probability, focus on the 3% success probability".

Also that the human condition is miraculous and it is such a privilege to experience it.

To our son Kiaen Aaryan, thank you for coming into our lives and choosing us as your parents.

Even though Papa and I are both zombies trying to settle into a night time feeding routine with you, I look forward to spending not only all future Mother's Days, but every day, with you and your Akka...

And last but not least, to my husband Kishore...without whom none of this would be possible - we did it sayang, I love you ❤️

Photo credit: Stayhome session with Samantha Yong Photography (http://samanthayong.com/)

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「良い」だけじゃない！？「Good」を使った英表現
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「Good」と言えば、誰でも真っ先に思い浮かべる意味は「良い」だと思いますが、日常会話では実に様々な表現に使われています。今回は、その中でも特にネイティブが会話の中でよく使うgoodを使った5つのフレーズをご紹介したいと思います。
　
　
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1) I'm good
→「結構です・大丈夫です」
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「I'm good」は相手の提案や誘い、または申し出や依頼をカジュアルに断る時に使われる表現です。「No, thank you」と同じ意味ですが、より口語的でインフォーマルなニュアンスになります。日本語の「大丈夫」と同じような使い方ができ、例えば、レストランで店員さんに「お水のお代わりはいかがですか？」と聞かれた時に「いいえ、結構です」と断ったり、友達に遊びに行こうと誘われた時に「やめておくよ」と言ったり、周囲の人に何か心配してもらった時などに「大丈夫です」と返答するような状況で「I’m good」がよく使われます。
　
✔「No, I'm good.」と断ることもできるが、Noを言わずに「I'm good.」だけでもOK。
　
✔「I'm okay」や「I'm fine」も同じ意味として使える。「I'm fine」は丁寧な響きがある。
　
＜例文＞
　
〜会話例１〜

A: Would you like your receipt?
（領収書はいりますか？）

B: I’m good, thank you.
（いえ、結構です。ありがとうございます。）
　
〜会話例２〜

A: Do you want to go to karaoke after this?
（この後カラオケに行かない？）

B: I’m good. I’m going to head home. I need to get up early tomorrow.
（いや、遠慮しとくわ。明日朝早く起きないといけないから家に帰るよ。）
　
　
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2) For good
→「永久に・これから先ずっと」
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For goodは「永久に」や「これから先ずっと」の意味として日常会話で使われます。例えば、海外で仕事している友達から「Hey Jun. I’m coming back to LA next month.（来月ロスに帰るよ）」と連絡が来たとしましょう。一時帰国なのか、それとも永久に帰国するのかを確認したい時は「For good?（永久に？）」と聞いてみるといいでしょう。

また、for goodはforeverと同様に「永遠に」を意味しますが、foreverほど重い感じはなくカジュアルな感じで使われます。例えば、タバコやお酒などを永久にやめると言いたい時は「I’m going to quit smoking/drinking for good.」のように表現し、for good は基本的に文末で使われます。その他、foreverには「（これから先もずっと）永遠に」のニュアンスがあるのに対し、 for goodには「（これを最後に）永遠に」のニュアンスがあるため、例えば「彼のことはずっと前から知っています」という場合は「I’ve known him for good.」と言うことはできず、正しくは「I’ve known him forever.」となります。
　
＜例文＞
　
Are you moving back for good?
（永久に帰国するの？）
　
She's planning on moving to the U.S. for good.
（彼女はアメリカに永住する予定です。）
　
That shop is not temporarily closed. They're closed for good.
（あのお店は一時休業ではなく閉店しました。）
　
〜会話例１〜

A: I’m coming back to LA next month.
（来月LAに戻るよ。）

B: For good?
（永久に？）

A: Yeah, for good. Let’s hang out when I get back.
（うん、永久に。戻ったら遊ぼうね。）
　
　
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3) Good
→「有効な」
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Goodは「有効な」の意味として使うこともでき、割引券や定期券、チケットなどが期限切れではないことを表します。例えば、「この切符は明日まで有効です」は、「This ticket is good until tomorrow」と表現します。その他、賞味期限や消費期限について話す時にもgoodがよく使われ、「Are those eggs still good?（卵まだ大丈夫かな？）」、「Let me check. Yeah, they're good until next week.（ちょっと見てみるね。うん、来週まで大丈夫だよ）」という具合に使うことができます。
　
＜例文＞
　
This coupon is still good. Let's use it.
（このクーポンまだ有効だよ。使おう。）
　
When is your commuter pass good until?
（あなたの定期券はいつまで有効なの？）
　
This milk is still good. It expires tomorrow.
（この牛乳はまだ大丈夫だよ。賞味期限が明日。）
　
　
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4) A good
→「少なくとも〜」
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A good は「少なくとも〜」や「最低でも〜」などのように、何かしらの（合計の）数量を強調する役割としても使われます。特に時間を表す際に使われることが多く、例えば東京から大阪まで車でどれくらいかかりますか？と友達に聞かれた時に、「I'd say it takes a good six hours.（最低でも6時間はかかると思うよ）」と表現することができます。ここのポイントはgoodの前に必ずaを入れてa good~と言い、a good 30 minutes、a good 2 hoursのようにgood の後に数量を入れます。
　
＜例文＞
　
It will take a good 4 to 5 hours get to Las Vegas.
（ラスベガスまで、少なくとも4、５時間はかかるでしょう。）
　
Take your time. We have a good 30 minutes before the train leaves.
（急がなくていいよ。電車が出発するまで最低でも30分はあるから。）
　
It takes me a good 20 minutes to fall asleep.
（眠りに落ちるのに最低20分はかかります。）
　
　
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5) A good amount of
→「かなりの〜」
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Good amount of は「かなりの〜」を意味し、時間や量を強調する時にも使われます。一般的にお金や時間、労力などと一緒に使われることが多く、a good amount of money、a good amount of time、a good amount of effort のように表します。例えば、「かなりの時間がかかります」は「It takes a good amount of time.」と表現します。
　
＜例文＞
　
A good amount of my salary goes to rent.
（私の給料の多くは家賃に当てられます。）
　
A good amount of time and effort went into this project.
（このプロジェクトに多大な時間と労力が注がれました。）
　
It takes a good amount of time to become fluent in a foreign language.
（外国語を流暢に話せるようになるには、かなりの時間がかかります。）
　
　
　
　
　
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This is one of my favourite duets of all time and the lyrics (and the subtle things behind the song..etc) are very beautiful & meaningful. If you think of anyone while watching this video, I hope you can send it to them to let them know the impact they’ve had on your life.

I have liked For Good since the first time I heard the song and have always wanted to record a cover of it, but never quite found someone I thought would be the right person to sing this song with me. When I started cosplaying as Magnus and later came across the Edom scene in Shadowhunters, where the characters were potentially separating from each other forever, I knew this was it. Plus, there are other similarities between Glinda & Elphaba in Wicked and Alec & Magnus from Shadowhunters (feel free to comment to let me know what you come up with).

Doing a cover of this song while cosplaying characters from one of my favourite shows, I knew I had to go the extra mile. The amount of time and effort spent along with the things I had to learn, get and do to pull it off was kind of insane, but worth it at the same time (lost track of how many all-nighters were involved.

Without help from Ivan Wong, Robin Oh and Chris Jayden of KANTAN Media, this project would not have been possible. Thank you so much!!

Magnus/Alec: Freeyon Chung
Piano Accompaniment: Ivan Wong
Audio Engineer: Robin Oh
Producer-Editor: KANTAN Media (Chris Jayden)
Special Thanks: Cantius Lee
Director: Freeyon Chung
Hair: Freeyon Chung
Make Up: Freeyon Chung
Lighting: Freeyon Chung
Wardrobe: Freeyon Chung/Ivan Wong
Camera Operator: Freeyon Chung

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I've heard it said
That people come into our lives
For a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those
Who help us most to grow if we let them
And we help them in return

Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today
Because I knew you

Like a comet pulled from orbit
As it passes the sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder
Halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

It well may be
That we will never meet again
In this lifetime
So, let me say before we part
So much of me
Is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me
Like a handprint on my heart

And now whatever way our stories end
I know you have rewritten mine
By being my friend

Like a ship blown from its mooring
By a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a sky bird
In a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better
But because I knew you

Because I knew you

I have been changed for good

And just to clear the air
I ask forgiveness
For the things I've done, you blame me for

But then I guess
We know there's blame to share

And none of it seems to matter anymore

Like a comet pulled from orbit (like a ship blown from its mooring)
As it passes the sun (by a wind off the sea)
Like a stream that meets a boulder (like a seed dropped by a bird)
Halfway through the wood (in the wood)

Who can say if I've been changed for the better
I do believe I have been changed for the better

And because I knew you
Because I knew you
Because I knew you
I have been changed
For good

Ni no Kuni II Revenant Kingdom Gameplay Japanese Voice Trailer - PS4, PC
Ni no Kuni fans, we need a bit more time to make sure the Ni no Kuni II experience meets our highest quality standards. Here is a message from the President and CEO of LEVEL-5 to better explain the situation:
“Hello Ni no Kuni fans,
As you all know, LEVEL-5 is committed to delivering the highest levels of design and quality in each of our titles. The development of our latest project, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, is coming along very nicely and we can’t wait to share this new adventure with you, our fans. In an effort to constantly innovate, we’ve also implemented new modes in Ni no Kuni II, including the new Skirmish and Kingdom Modes.
However, with innovation and new ideas comes the need to ensure everything works together in a fun and cohesive way, this means we’ll need a bit more time to make sure the entire Ni no Kuni II experience meets our highest quality standards. So today, I would like to ask for everyone’s patience as we move Ni no Kuni II’s worldwide release date to March 23, 2018. We will be sharing more news about Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom in the coming weeks and months as we move closer to our new launch date. On behalf of everyone at LEVEL-5, I want to thank you all for your patience and continued support."
Akihiro Hino – President & CEO of LEVEL-5
In the meantime, check out this all-new trailer featuring the Japanese voice-over cast of the game. Ni no Kuni II will feature dual audio tracks (English and Japanese).

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