I'm sitting in my room reflecting on days in this few monthes. Not bad, but not enough.

My Credo

I found a new word sounds nice today. Credo.

One of My credo in my life is a famous phrase that is said by Shinsaku Takasugi, Japanese Samurai who lived and played an active and important role for the Meiji Restorration.

"The world that is uninterested, I shall interesting."

or like...

"Let us make an uninteresting world interesting."

Also it can be translated to

"Do something interesting in this boring world!!"

the Use of the Space for Milityary Purpose

The aim of this Blog is to create a my own English dictionary or to practice writings in English. So, to do this, I'll add some comments on articles that is about Japan, or just that is interesting for me.

The protest against China's Tibet control has been spreading over the world. China says that you have to think of sports and politics separately, though he made a use of it as much as possible before. But I can't deny this fact because all of things in this world connects with each other. That's why we suffer. We have to think.

The Space, as well. Japan lunched a new law that allows himself to use the space for military purpose. It doesn't sound good, but we need to face up to the reality that many country are using the space to get profits for themselves. Of cause, though realism is not just to confirm the reality.

Change in law launches Japanese military into space - Times Online via kwout

the Reason He Travel to Hokkaido

A few months ago, one my friend told me a story of his traveling to Hokkaido, an island located in northern Japan.

He visited there just to see a distiller. I could not understand what's interesting to go there, but I found his thought now through the following article.

Ochone! Japanese whisky is voted the best in world - Times Online via kwout

How to Communicate with Consumers

I'm really interested in new communication ways in information society. It must be different form what we use now. If we turn our eyes to business world, the change has already been emerging.

For a New Brand, Pepsi Starts the Buzz Online

Appreciation before All

Always express appreciation first before discussing a problem or bringing up a complaint.

問題を議論したり、不満を持ち出す前に、まず感謝の気持ちを伝えなさい。

Again quoted from
http://imanok4.blog4.fc2.com/

In Your Place...

In your place, I would dump her.
僕なら、彼女を捨てちゃうけどね。

In your place
position
shoes

Jules Verne

Jules Verne is one of the most favorite author when I was young. Today I found his name at a science information site, Science Daily. He dreamed up a way to Moon in his works but he never go to space.

Now, in 2008, a spacecraft named his name reached to the space at last. His imagination was realized by people who take over it.

What does he think if he knows his name flied to the space?

Contentment

Contentment is a feeling that envelops you when you're truly thankful for what you have and are no longer seeking to acquire more.

持っているものを心から感謝し、
それ以上求めるのをやめる時、
満足感に包まれる。

Silicon Valley Proverb

A-level people tend to work with A-level people.
B--level people tend to hire C-level people.

This is timely word for me because I'm in job hunting just now.
I may be able to change this proverb to "If you wanna be a A-level person, want to work with A-level people!"

Hillary's ward

After the win of a election in Texas, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that...

We are going on!
We are going strong!
We are going on my way!

Bite the bullet!

Hard times come to everybody.

Bite the bullet!!

Life is full of ups and downs

I found a cool phrase at my friend's blogs article.

Life is full of ups and downs.

Let's get started again!

I haven't come to this site for a long.
More than one month has already passed since I got back home from Lithuania.
Of course I don't have any opportunity to use English except for talking with my foreign friends, but I still feel the necessity of English skills even in Japan.
When I was listening to Top Speech of some company as a process of job hunting, or when I was reading news paper in daily life.
After the exchange program, I started to think that the world is really connected each other, and I must learn English to input and output information to understand what we are now.

as a practice to do that, I put a good material reading.

Think Social Influence Marketing in 2008

Silence

"He who does not understand your silence will not understand you words."

Elbert Hubbard

Now I will value the communication way of silence more. "Silence is golden."

Economic/Political Jargon English-Japanese Dictionary

potential growth 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　　　　潜在成長率
structural reforms 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 構造改革
pensions　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 年金
social security　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　社会保障
medium-term budgetary efforts　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　中期的な財政努力
R&D　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　研究開発
"severe downturn"　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 「著しい経済下降」
"other relevant factors"　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　 「関連する要素」
"exceptional circumstances"　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 「例外的状況」

automatic stabilizer

M: In macroeconomics automatic stabilizer work as a tool to dampen fluctuation in real GDP without any explicit policy action by the government. (By Wikipedia)

autonomous

Serbia insist the region should remain autonomous within its borders.

1. Having the power to govern an area, country etc. without being controlled by anyone else
R: autonomic, autonomy

The central government and local autonomous bodies are always in opposition to each other in Japan. the discussion about decentralization is one of the biggest issue in national administration.

skyscraper

A skyscraper is a very tall, continuously habitable building.

I would have a exam this afternoon, but I came to be crazy about looking over skyscrapers in the world. I don't know why I did so. Then I missed a class which I would have a exam. Well, all I can do now is just laughing. hahaha...

At the present moment, the world's tallest completed skyscraper is Taipei 101 in Taiwan. I haven't seen this building but I think the Petronas Twin Tower is much more beautiful that I visited during my Great Journey. And the Petronas Twin Tower was the world's tallest building in 20th century and is still the world's tallest twin tower. I still remember the feeling that came to my mind when I saw the skyscraper. I was so impressed and overpowered the beauty of it.

calligraphy

M. Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type.

Steve Jobs who I really respect said about connecting dots in his address.
He dropped out from his college and he took a course of typography that looked interesting. None of that had even a hope of any practical application in his life. But ten years later, when he was designing first Macintosh computer, it all came back to him. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when he was in college. But it was very very clear looking backwards ten years later.