Today I received English class in my company. In today's class, we debated with the subject "Should the Democratic Party (Japan) win this election?", of course in English.
The participants were divided into three groups, which are "negative side," "affirmative side," and "judgement." I was assigned to the judgement.
Because I am poor at listening to other people, it was a difficult task. However I think it was very good for English learning.
2009年8月27日木曜日
2009年8月17日月曜日
heavy
In my department, I am assigned precision instruments for wireless communication emulation.
The instrument has a very heavy weight, that is 30kg! Today I often carried the instruments, so now my legs are aching a little.
(The aching is also because I did running exercise on last Sunday for the first time in two weeks. )
The instrument has a very heavy weight, that is 30kg! Today I often carried the instruments, so now my legs are aching a little.
(The aching is also because I did running exercise on last Sunday for the first time in two weeks. )
2009年8月13日木曜日
2009年8月8日土曜日
The Shawshank Redemption (DVD)
Today I bought a movie DVD whose title was The Shawshank Redemption", and watched it.
Japanese title is "ショーシャンクの空に" (translated literally, "To the sky of Shawshank"). Although I don't know why Japanese title was decided in this way, I think that probably it is because the word "redemption" ("贖罪" (Shokuzai) in Japanese) is unfamiliar and a little hard to underdtand for many Japanese.
This movie is Academy Award-winning one, and is also high-esteemed in Japan. For example, many Japanese celebrities says "The Shawshank Redemption is my favorite movie", such as Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル), Hitoshi Matsumoto (松本人志), etc..
Moreover, whenever it comes to a topic of hanky movie in 2ch (the most famous anonymous forum), "To the sky of Shawshank" is always quoted. (Ex1, 2)
Today I watched this movie in Japanese voice over. Tim Robbins (as Andy Dufresne) was dubbed by Hochu Otsuka (大塚芳忠), and Morgan Freeman (as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding) was dubbed by Masaru Ikeda (池田勝). Both are long-career-experts of voice-over for foreign movies, so their acting impressed me, of course.
By the way, in Japan, most of Japanese movie DVDs are more expensive than foreign movie one. So although I want to buy Japanese masterpiece movie such as Kurosawa or Mizoguchi, I should hesitate to buy them.
Japanese title is "ショーシャンクの空に" (translated literally, "To the sky of Shawshank"). Although I don't know why Japanese title was decided in this way, I think that probably it is because the word "redemption" ("贖罪" (Shokuzai) in Japanese) is unfamiliar and a little hard to underdtand for many Japanese.
This movie is Academy Award-winning one, and is also high-esteemed in Japan. For example, many Japanese celebrities says "The Shawshank Redemption is my favorite movie", such as Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル), Hitoshi Matsumoto (松本人志), etc..
Moreover, whenever it comes to a topic of hanky movie in 2ch (the most famous anonymous forum), "To the sky of Shawshank" is always quoted. (Ex1, 2)
Today I watched this movie in Japanese voice over. Tim Robbins (as Andy Dufresne) was dubbed by Hochu Otsuka (大塚芳忠), and Morgan Freeman (as Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding) was dubbed by Masaru Ikeda (池田勝). Both are long-career-experts of voice-over for foreign movies, so their acting impressed me, of course.
By the way, in Japan, most of Japanese movie DVDs are more expensive than foreign movie one. So although I want to buy Japanese masterpiece movie such as Kurosawa or Mizoguchi, I should hesitate to buy them.
2009年8月5日水曜日
diet
Last night I ate and drank with my uncle.
I respect him, because he gave me a good advice when I was a PhD candidate and wandered if I should go to academic area or company. As a result, I joined in this company according to his advice.
However, whenever I have a dish with my uncle, I come down to suffering from stomach ache because he always recommends me a number of dishes.
Although of course last night I suffered from stomach ache after the dinner, it was very enjoyable listening his interesting talking.
I respect him, because he gave me a good advice when I was a PhD candidate and wandered if I should go to academic area or company. As a result, I joined in this company according to his advice.
However, whenever I have a dish with my uncle, I come down to suffering from stomach ache because he always recommends me a number of dishes.
Although of course last night I suffered from stomach ache after the dinner, it was very enjoyable listening his interesting talking.
2009年8月2日日曜日
Too Tired to Karaoke
This morning, I was called from colleague to play table tennis together. Because I like playing table tennis, of course I accepted the offer.
Although playing table tennis itself was amusing, I got tired very much since I excised running before going table tennis.
Though my colleague invited karaoke after playing table tennis, I refused the offer because of tiredness.
Although playing table tennis itself was amusing, I got tired very much since I excised running before going table tennis.
Though my colleague invited karaoke after playing table tennis, I refused the offer because of tiredness.
2009年8月1日土曜日
My assignment result
Yesterday I was announced my assignment in my company. The result is my second choice of assignment.
The assigned department is the fourth section of technology department, which deals with maintenance and customer-support for measuring instruments for wireless networks.
The assigned department is the fourth section of technology department, which deals with maintenance and customer-support for measuring instruments for wireless networks.
Drink
Last night I drank with my colleagues, with whom I received my company's training course for last two months.
Now I feel a little sick because of hangover. Hangover is said in Japanese as 二日酔い (Futsukayoi), which means two-day buzz.
By the way, There are many Japanese who are weak at drinking genetically, compared with Europen or American. I heard that Japanese tend to be weaker at drinking than even other Asian such as Korean or Chinese etc. My mother was surprised that there were many heavy-drinking scene in Korean TV drama.
Now I feel a little sick because of hangover. Hangover is said in Japanese as 二日酔い (Futsukayoi), which means two-day buzz.
By the way, There are many Japanese who are weak at drinking genetically, compared with Europen or American. I heard that Japanese tend to be weaker at drinking than even other Asian such as Korean or Chinese etc. My mother was surprised that there were many heavy-drinking scene in Korean TV drama.
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