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Earthquake happend in Japan (3/18 fri.)

Now is Friday night and this week was very hard time for me. I slept about 4 hour per night almost everyday so I felt very sleepy and very tired. Here osaka is not affected this earthquake and tsunami, but we related very close to the area of tokyo and function of tokyo is very damaged by the plan of stopping power supply, so we must check how much effect we are if power supply of tokyo area is stopped. And like this, this week was finished. (and Japan's fiscal year is closed at March, so those two factor is mixed to boost our work!). Next day (sat.), I must go to office so I sleep now and refresh my brain. But compared with people suffered from tsunami and earthquake and refugees from fukushima pref. where atomic power plant is located, we must thank to our happiness.

Earthquake happend in Japan (3/14 mon.)

Today(monday) was very busy day, because today was the first working day since last Friday. Our company is located at Kansai district(west japan), but part of our office is located at Tokyo and part of our system is related to the system located at Tokyo, so we checked how much influences if power supply at Tokyo district would be shut down. But some of employee (including related company's employee) couldn't go to office because of train's stopping at Kanto district so it was difficult to get the information. Company like us located far from kanto was such situation, so company located at kanto(around tokyo) area might be terrible, I think. And today, another atomic power plant was exploded, so it was very seriou situation. I have some acquaintances at Tohoku area, so I am worried about their safety.

Earthquake happend in Japan

On Friday afternoon, big earthquake had occured. I worked at office at Osaka. At first, next branch's team used TV conference to Tokyo office and tokyo team said earthquake had occured, and a few seconds later, we felt earthquake. Our office is at 11th floor and swing was very big so we felt very awful if our building was collapsed. It was about 2:30 PM. Afterthat, we switched our TV on and saw what happend in Japan, so our work had almost stopped afterthat. (safely, my house in Osaka and my parents and brother and sister's house in Shizuoka-pref. was safe) Magnitude 8.8 was very huge. Newspapers said it is the biggest magnitude earthquke in japan since authority had a record. Our hometown shizuoka was said to be occurd big earthquake since I was a child 30-40 years ago, so we had many training since i was a junior school, so at first I thought that earthquake at shizuoka had finally happend ! This eqrthquke had happend at touhoku-region so maybe many japanese thinked

Amazon kindle !

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I bought amazon kindle. ( I happend to pass the exam " network specialist " and if I passed this exam, my wife promised that I  could bought amazon kindle ..) I orderd it 26 Dec. and arrived at 20 Jan 15. It took a little time to get it and extra money due to shipping and handling($20) and import fees deposit($8), but cheaper compared to other readers. ( amazon total: $168 = 14thousant yen and sony reader 20 thousant yen and furthermore kindle handle internet browser). Amazon japan don't handle kindle so I ordered amazon usa and bought it.  #when I orderd it, there are selection "shipping speed" and when we choose fast shipping, it took extra money. I choice fast shipping because I wanted to use fast! (about $10 extra money) -> ref1 , ref2 We bought netbook last year and it was light (about 1 kg) and was very useful in my house because we can access wirelessly by wi-fi access. But when we used it outside, it was a little heavy and wasn't useful. But kindl

New Year's trip to shizuoka

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We went back to my hometown shizuoka-prefecture to spend new year's vacation.(from 31 Dec. to 2 Jan.) It is about 370 km from hirakata-city to shizuoka-city by highway and during 0-4 o'clock, highway fee is half of regular fee so we left our home at 3:10 am midnight passing highway entrance gate about 3:30 o'clock and reached my hometown about 8 am. at highway station of hamana-ko, shizuoka, 7 am. arrived at my hometown. with his nieces, saki & sana. osechi

Otani museum, etc

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We got some tickets so went to the nishinomiya-city otani museum and saw "2010 Original picture exhibition of Bologna International picture book festival" (Bologna Fiera del Libro per Ragazzi). It was first time to go to Otani museum and it was a very good museum because it has a beautiful garden in it and atmosphire was very good so we liked it. Furthermore, its" exhibition was very good and pictures were very intersting and cool. We always read picture books for our son so we are accustomed to picture books, that's one reason we liked this exhibition. Afterthat, we went to motomachi-station at kobe-city and went to daimaru-dep. museum to see the " RIMPA, JAKUCHU and the world of elegance -selection for the hosomi collection, kyoto ". It was also good but impression of otani museum was so strong that we finished watching them about 20 min. After such things, it was evening time and around there was very beautiful in color an light.

New netbook has arrived !

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Our new netbook has arrived yesterday ! I bought netbook 2 month ago (ASUS Aspire One), but recently it was suddenly broken when my wife connected a mouse and power supply suddenly down ! ASUS Aspire One was good because it was cheap (30 thousant yen) and display is 1240 * 720 and 11.6inch wide, but weight is a liitle heavy and CPU Power is also a little weak so I asked the shop to change another netbook when it was broken, and shop said they paid back 30 thousant yen. So I searched at shop and web then ordered the new netbook at amazon.com. This one is by mouse computer which is an BTO(Built To the Order) company in japan. This company isn't so popular in Japan but its spec and price is very good because it is the same price as Aspire One(30 thousant yen), same display resolution and CPU is latest one (Atom N450 and graphic chipset is MN3500) and weight is lighter(1 kg) so I orderd it (it is the last one amazon listed). We used it some days and I liked because it is easy to carry

The possibility of internet, blog, twitters, etc.

Reading some twitters and blogs, I think about what is blog and twitter mean.Of course, it is interesting to read someone's article and also intersted in writing something, but that's all. I mean that web's tool (blog, twitter, etc) might have much power. For example, when I was graduate student 20 years ago, there aren't such internet circumstances but there are news group in some internet providers and some people use such newsgroup (they call it "Forum") and my friends use them and get specific information and argue about some kind of things and it is very powerful tool for some kind of interst area. I did not use internet in such a way, but if I can use blog or some internet tool in such a way, I might utilize internet more powerful besides expressing daily life (for example, I ate something now expressing by twitter, etc etc).

Ooji zoo (kobe-city)

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Ooji-zoo ( MAP ) is a famous and very popular zoo at Kansai. Today was fine day and it is in the "golden-week" vacation time, so we left home at 9:30 and took train about 1.5 hour. Arriving at Nada station where japanese sake is famous. From station to the zoo, it took about 5 min to walk.This erea is calm and nice place. When we arrived there, there were so many people because it was the best season to go around. Elephant! I didn't see elephant for a long time so it was fresh to me, but my son was tired so he didn't show attention. This zoo have many places to be watched and it took about one day to go around, so we(me and he) are a little tired to walk (my wife took the picture). After sleep about 10 min, we went to aquarium and it is very nice because we could watch penguin through the water and the color of water was very wonderful! And this zoo's most popular animal is Panda. After leaving zoo about 3:40 pm, we walked to the south to go to "Nagisa park&

Swiming school for baby

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Every sunday is a day for swiming for baby class. We have been to a hirakata swiming school for about half a year. Baby class was done 3 days a week and on Sunday I swim with him.(on weekday, my wife swim with him) At first, I was not willing to the class, but recently I am accustomed to do it because it is good for health (my work is deskwork so I have little time to exercise). And after swiming time about 40 minutes, we have hot spa time and take a shower and take a lunch box at a seat. So always, we left home about 11:30 and swiming class began at 12:00 and finished eating about 14:00 and afterthat, we drive to shopping, etc. This swiming school is famous around here because Athens olympic medalist yuko nakanishi is a member of this school and I like this school.

About life

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Recently, I sometimes think about the happiness of my life. Maybe that is because I had a family and my house and our child and feel very happy. First time I had thought such a thing was maybe when I triped mainly to Europe 20 years ago, and I felt that the quality of life is better than that of Tokyo, I mean that compared with Japan, the philosopy of life seemed to be based upon the happiness of life. In japan, their life is based on company or society (student go to cram school to enter good university, etc) and I grow up in such circumstance so I was shocked to experience such things. For "good and model" salaried worker, the proportion of work must be bigger in proportion to the period of time of company's man, but I often think what is "happy". My sense of value might be changed compared to what I was student 20 years ago. The sense of value might be different to person to person, and recently such books (about the way of life, for example, the way of