Doubt About New Project

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  • Sunday, October 31, 2010
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I have been boring for a month because of slow business as I have been a gap between the previous project and the next project. This boring term will end at last and the next project will start from this November.

I hope that I would be captivated by the next project, but there are a lot impediment to accomplish the success when it comes to generally speaking about the marketing strategy. My boss seems requiring ten billion yen while we are providing our product in the market before we plan strategies. I have been seeing many projects failed due to lack of minding the customer's perspective. I am confident that now is the time we stop such a barren procedure and have to think about the connection between benefits attributes of our product can provide and real wants customers recognize consciously.

Athletic Festival

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  • Sunday, October 24, 2010
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There are many athletic festival held in October. Even though Health and Sports Day was on the second Monday in October, an athletic festival for my daughter was held yesterday. She participated in footrace as short as 20 meters but enough for 3-year-old children. every mother was prepared for her child's goal at the finish line. After a while 3-year-old children performed playing imitating shrimps and crabs in a circle. But my child didn't perform well. I asked her why she went out of a circle, but she didn't answer and only tried to change a topic.

I appreciated that this athletic festival was held without any worry as we quit doing any activities in the last year because of H1N1 flu.

New Orthopedic Knowledge

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  • Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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I went see a doctor to be checked the condition of my knee ligament injured while playing futsal. Before today's diagnosis I couldn't stretch my knee joint straight. I thought bending and stretching the knee joint as much as possible is effective to improve this inconvenience. But it's not true.


In fact, when I was in elementary school, I rehabilitated my right wrist which bone was broken, in accordance to the old knowledge. I've learned from my doctor today that giving vibration frequently with holding the affected area is effective instead of stretching as much as possible in these days. The muscle around the affected area must be relax during given the vibration.

After I took this treatment for a while, I became being able to stretch my knee straight and walk easier than before.

Five Toe Socks

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  • Monday, October 18, 2010
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"Can you bend first joints of toes downwards?" When I went back to my parent's house yesterday, I was asked by my father. He said he can do now but didn't before he saw a judo therapist who has a skill of what we would call bone-setting.


It seems that we can get good posture after bone-setting around feet is corrected. Actually he had a very bad posture and stooped when he was walking about 10 years ago, but now he can walk with keeping his back straight.

If we don't walk without using all of bottom of our feet when kicking the ground, first joint of toes won't be used. That is why posture gets worse. In the worst case, we would suffer from bunion or bowlegs which can cause moreover back pain and stiffing in the shoulder. It means our body will be get worse from lower part to upper part of the body.

One of the treatment for this feet's problems is wearing five toe socks. The blood flow of the lower half of the body will be improved by wearing this kind of socks. But my father suggested that don't buy 200-300-yen socks at bargain prices but 2,000-3,000-yen socks which hold each toe firmly tightened.

Easy Music Piracy

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  • Saturday, October 16, 2010
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One of my interests is listening to music. I often watch music videos on Youtube and listen to music on jango. We can play almost all international music on jango. it's very useful but not secure. We can acquire URL of a mp3 file easily from a list of configuration files that your browser shows. It means you can download a mp3 file without paying for it. Of course it is music piracy, but I think jango is responsible for preventing music piracy, if they don't want to be done.

If music industry won't move with the times of digital age, some medium sized companies related to music in Japan will be bankrupt in next decade. It can be also said that those who want to make a break as famous artists in the future must come up with the new system to earn money and face directly how to deal with this trend.

I found a unique idea called Open Score Music which deal music like open source software. Do you agree with it?

Weekly Goal

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  • Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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I have not written English at all since I start this blog, even though I have known writing is effective to improve my English for a long time.

The reason why I started writing English is that I was mentioned that it is imperative to achieve my aim effectively by a tutor of a ESL school where I recently started learning. 

I was so confused about how to write English everyday that I googled which blog site is better to continue writing a blog in English.
There are three proposed sites, Blogger, Wordpress and TypePad.
Because my purpose is just only writing what happened or what I though about simply, I chose Blogger by referring this comparison site.

The way I write each blog is, first of all, I try to find words I can't use in conversation while working; e.g., checking whether or not our products infringe any foreign patents or while browsing ESL learning Web sites.
Then I construct content of a blog and put together some words I can't use well into a blog.

I set posting 5 times a week as my weekly goal.

Cast after taking off a cast

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  • Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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At last I took off a cast on my knee, but what is on my knee has just changed to a medical supporter knee brace.

I was surprised at its high expense. 27,000 yen!!
I really relieved after I was explained that health insurance allows me to be paid back 70 percent of its cost.



My doctor said I have to wear this medical supporter knee brace for 6 weeks and continue to walk with crutched for one more week.
At first I felt disappointed with walking with crutched, but I recognized I still need them right after I moved my leg which still like a cast!

Health and Sports Day

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There are three holidays in Japan from October 9 to 11.
Today is a national holiday called Health and Sports Day annually on the second Monday in October.

Even though Health and Sports Day is a day to promote sports and physical and mental health, I couldn't participate in any activities oppositely because of wearing a cast on my knee.


However tomorrow will be the last day wearing a cast.
I've been wearing a cast for two weeks, and it cost approximately 15,000 yen until I take off a cast.

  • Fist day's diagnostic - 7,000 yen
  • Magnetic resonance imaging - 8,000 yen

I have to abandon purchasing all what I want, e.g. new iPod touch or iPhone...

Sennheiser MM100

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  • Saturday, October 9, 2010
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I am using Sennheiser Communications Bluetooth headset MM100 to listen to music only.
But at first I really wanted to use this headset with Skype for Mac to make a handsfree environment.

Unfortunately this headset can not be used with Skype because of bad sound quality.
According to a listener It seems that echo is generated badly.
I don't know which Skype or Bluetooth is responsible, but when I use this headset by HFP/HSP mono mode, sound quality is not as good as ordinary USB headsets.
Moreover it can be said that it is worse than a built-in microphone of Mac.

I want to know how quality would be changed when using with iPhone.

Japan vs. Argentina

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  • Friday, October 8, 2010
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It's first time that Japanese national football team historically won against Argentina by 1-0.

Before kickoff, I didn't believe that Japan won so that I predicted Argentina would win.
I sometimes bet on football matchs with colleagues.
What we bet on every match is 110 yen canned juice each colleague has to pay for a winner.
The result was... everyone missed!

We have to apologize to Japanese national team for thinking about their loss as we did at FIFA world cup 2010.


What I want to overcome now

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I am appreciative of the book which titled American Accent Training.
I've learned quite a lot about how to pronounce American intonation pattern from this book.
Although my pronunciation was really improved, my speaking pace is not improved yet.
Speaking English quickly is my current big goal.
I want to achieve this goal within one year.

I've got MRI

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  • Wednesday, October 6, 2010
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Today I took a paid leave and went to a hospital to get what we call magnetic resonance imaging on my knee's ligament which was injured when I was playing futsal.

The popularity of futsal has been increasing among young and old people recently in Japan.
I think amateur players cause troubles in every sport without knowing how it will be happened.

Positively thinking, I learned how to say the injured part and a equipment's name in English.
But it is very crying I have been worn a cast from the thigh to near the ankle. :'-(