Masaya's days: November 2009

30 November 2009

still in test week

I hoped that I could post an article on last Friday but I couldn't take much time to write article on that day. I'm not in the test week exactly but I have 2 tests in this week. I took one of them today but I will have another test on Friday. My test will be ended on that day, I hope.

These days, I'm worrying about job hunt. According to some sources, there are over 35% of university students who couldn't get job after their graduation. I heard that there are some 4th grade students in the companies' seminar with other 3rd grade students. These events are mostly hold for 3rd grade students but they are still working to get their job. I hope that I can get a job as soon as possible...

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

26 November 2009

Got a new WAVE?

In the morning, I always turn on the radio to listen J-WAVE that Tokyo based FM radio station. I love to listen that radio station especially on Friday. I might write about the radio but today I'm not going to write about this WAVE. I'm going to talk about "Google wave".

Today, I got an email message from google. According to that mail, I can use preview version of "Google wave". Of course, I tried to sign in into Google wave but I couldn't because I was accessing from my iPhone. They didn't accept me... lol

Anyway, I sign into the google wave but I don't know how to use it... There are some video that tell us how to use "Google wave" but I felt I don't have a much time to watch it right now... I have to make a presentation on Friday (tomorrow) so, I felt I should watch these videos after the presentation...

I may invite someone after I could understand how to use it... lol

Thank you.

Good day & Peace and Smile!

25 November 2009

when

I got a post card that from casual fashion retailer near my house. I sometimes buy clothes at that shop but according to that post card, the shop will be closed soon... This is not my first time to receive the post card from the store... I got another letter before this, at that time they said the same thing. At that time the shop didn't closed...

I think, the post that I got today is saying true thing. The store will be closed in a few days but I couldn't find the date of closing on the post card... I can use my old point card to discount but I don't know when the shop will be closed... I hope that I can go there until the store will be closed...

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

24 November 2009

2 hours

Last Saturday, I went to Shinjuku (新宿) by bicycle to see my friend's play. It took about 2 hours... I could enjoy my friend's play. After I watched my friend's play I went to Haneda airport(羽田空港) by accident... I've never been to Haneda airport(羽田空港) by bicycle, of course so this became my first experience to go to Haneda airport(羽田空港) by bicycle.

Haneda airport(羽田空港) is officially known as Tokyo International Airport(東京国際空港). Usually we use Haneda airport to go to other airports in Japan. (We use Narita airport(成田空港) to go abroad by plane.) We can go to some countries such as China and South Korea by plane from Haneda airport too but usually we use Narita airport to go abroad.

Anyway, I arrived at Haneda airport(羽田空港) evening so it was becoming dark... The photo on top is the photo that I took there at that time. I took about 2.5 hours to go home but if I can I wanna go there again...

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

20 November 2009

too cold

I felt that weather of yesterday was terrible. The highest temperature in Tokyo was only 9.4 degrees (Celsius), and the weather was rain... There's no such cold day in November for 17 years, I heard. On such days, I don't want to do anything... I wanted to just stay at home and read some books in front of heater... lol Of course, I couldn't do that... I had a class, and wrote paper for workshop. The workshop will be held in the college next week. I've already sent my paper and now I need to make PowerPoint for workshop but maybe it'll be ok... lol

Anyway, I ride new bicycle almost every day. I felt it's easy to increase the speed with new bicycle but it's really cold in such a cold day...

Yesterday was really cold even at noon, but today it's better than yesterday, I felt. It's nice weather. How about in your place?

Thank you.

Good day & Peace and Smile!

19 November 2009

NIKKEI trial week

From yesterday, I can read NIKKEI (“日本経済新聞”) at free in my house. NIKKEI is one of the major newspaper in Japan and they are focusing on economics. The free trial for a week. I can read NIKKEI (“日本経済新聞”) every morning in this week.

At the job fair that I joined last week, NIKKEI held the corner. At that corner, we can check our knowledge on current topics. I could answer correctly for 5 of 4 questions at that time. After I took a test there, I could subscribe the NIKKEI. Of course, we must pay for it.

My parents are subscribing another newspaper the Yomiuri Shimbun (“読売新聞”) the major Japanese newspaper but I’ve never read NIKKEI before and I wanted to read it... There’s another way to read NIKKEI and in that way, I don’t have to pay for it. That was “trial”. So, I ordered trial version of NIKKEI.

Yesterday the first trial version of NIKKEI arrived at my house. I will read NIKKEI a week but I might not subscribe after the trail week...

Thank you.

Good day & Peace and Smile!

18 November 2009

Chemistry exam

I had an examination today the subject of that exam was Chemistry. I'm not majoring Chemistry but we need to take this class and pass the exam. I'm not so interested in Chemistry because it's really complicated and need to remember a lot of words/formulas.

Of course, I studied these days for the exam that I took today but I couldn't get high marks, I felt. When I was studying for the exam I felt that "Chemistry is a little interesting subject". Maybe I won't to work for the chemical maker or medicine maker but I want to study a little bit about Chemistry if I have a chance.

The exam that I took today was "mid-term exam". Yeah, there are about 4 more months to study Chemistry in the college! I will study hard and get more knowledge on Chemistry maybe...

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

17 November 2009

"Free"

Last week, I found the book that we could read "free" online. The title of the book is "The future of a radical price". In Japanese "フリー<無料>からお金を生み出す新戦略". Now we can buy it or join the event that will be held in Tokyo.

Well, if you want to read it you must pay for it or rent it in the library but if you want to read it in the library you must wait until the book will be offered in the library. But I could read it online and I didn't have to pay for it.

For 10,000 people, they offered "free" online book but we must answer a few questions that about "free". I'll write about one of the question, "Will you use free online services such as google, mixi and twitter if they stopped their free offering?". For this question, 78% of answerers answered that they will use other "free" services. You can check other results on "http://www.freemium.jp/investigation", there are 5 questions but it's all in Japanese...

Until 18th December, I can read the book online but I'm just reading it... I hope that I could read it all until the limitation.

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

16 November 2009

Obama and Hatoyama

I felt the securities in many places were really high in these days. Usually, there are no police officer in the traffic intersection but these days there were too many police officers in my town. I think, they were working there because Barack Obama visited Japan on 13th November.

According to some news, Barack Obama and Yukio Hatoyama talked on 13th November but Yukio Hatoyama went to Singapore to join the APEC. On 14th November, Barack Obama made speech at Suntory hall in Tokyo. But Yukio Hatoyama was not in Japan. I felt a little weird.

Will you leave house when the guest is visiting your house? I think, this was due to the schedule but he should not do that. What do you think?

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

14 November 2009

Saturday but...

It's Saturday but I have class in my college today... Yesterday was Friday the 13th and there's no classes. Of course, this was not because yesterday was Friday the 13th. Yesterday was the makeup holiday so, I need to go to college today to take some classes.

According to the announcement, today is the day of class observation. I believed that the class observation day would hold on weekday because we don't have any classes on Saturday and Sunday but there's the problem... Most of people are working or studying on weekdays. So, many people can't visit college on class observation day if the college hold it on weekdays. This might be the reason that they hold class observation day on Saturday and this is why we need to go to college even today...My college is different from usual college in any view points, I think.

I believe that no one will observe the class that I'm going to take today. Now I'm 21 years old. Who want to observe the class that 21 years old students are studying? I think, no one will do it.

Thank you.

Good day & Peace and Smile!

13 November 2009

I bought a new bicycle

Last week, I posted an article that about new bicycle that I reserved. I went to the bicycle store to buy that bicycle, today. Today is Friday the 13th but today is also Taian (大安).

Taian (大安) is the luckiest day in Rokuyo (六曜) of Japanese calendar. Rokuyo (六曜) is the 6 day cycle in Japanese calendar. Japanese people still tend to buy or start something in Taian (大安). Especially, the most of Japanese want to hold wedding on Taian. I heard that Taian day is the most expensive day to hold wedding in the wedding centres in Japan.

Many want to get married on Taian but many don't want to get married on Butsumetsu (仏滅). Butsumetsu (仏滅) is the worst day in Rokuyo. I heard that the Rokuyo came from China and became popular in Edo era(江戸時代).

Anyway, today's weather was not so good... It was raining but when I bought bicycle, the weather was cloudy... So, I lost the chance to ride my bicycle today. I wished I could ride the bicycle much time today but I couldn't... I could ride a little bit today, but I hope I will be able to ride the bicycle on Monday.

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

12 November 2009

the cock fair

On the way back to my house, I found the people jam. There's many stalls on the street. Today is the day of the cock fair (Tori-no-ichi:"酉の市"). We have twice in this year.

We have the cock fair in every November and usually we have twice or three times in each year. The shrines in Kanto area hold the fair. In the cock fair, we buy good fortune goods there. I think, the luck rake (縁起熊手) is the most famous fortune goods.

Also, there's many stalls near the shrine that holding the cock fair. But most of them are not selling fortune goods, they are selling foods like pan-fried noodles (焼きそば), takoyaki (たこ焼き) and so on.

I didn't buy anything today in the fair but I may buy something in the next time. The shrine will hold the cock fair on 24th November again.

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

11 November 2009

One shot or two shot?

I heard the news that about vaccine against H1N1 flu. The government announced that we don't have to take two vaccine shot to prevent H1N1 flu. They are now trying to gather vaccines against H1N1 flu as many as possible, I felt. But some say we need more vaccines against H1N1 flu.

A little week ago, the government promoted that we should take 2 shot of vaccine against H1N1 flu. But they changed their plan. They announced that it's enough to prevent H1N1 flu even if we took only one shot of vaccine against H1N1 flu.

Now some people can take vaccine shot in hospital but I cannot take that vaccine right now. Because there's not enough vaccines in the hospitals. I don't know the vaccine is really effective against H1N1 flu but if I can, I wanna take the vaccine shot. I hope that the H1N1 flu will lose its influence very very soon.

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

10 November 2009

non alcohol beer?

Have you ever tried non-alcohol beer? I had never tried it until yesterday. Yesterday, I tried it first time. 4 major breweries in Japan Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo is now selling "non-alcohol beer" in Japan.

"Asahi point zero", "Kirin free", "Suntory fine zero" and "Sapporo super clear". These are the "non-alcohol beer" that they are selling. We can drive car even if we drink this beer.

I needed to ride bicycle yesterday, so I couldn't drink alcohol drink. Then I chose "Asahi point zero". It looks like beer and its taste is like a beer. But something different. But I like it. If you have a chance, you should try it.

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

06 November 2009

A week

I wanted to buy new bicycle and I planned to buy new bicycle until the end of this year. On Tuesday, I went to some bicycle shops near my house to check some bicycles there. I was not going to buy the bicycle at that time I was going to “check” these ones there.

But...

I reserved it there... I was planning to buy it in mid-November. I think, last Tuesday is not mid-November but it’s ok. In fact, I didn’t pay for it yet and I didn’t get it yet...

I need to wait a week. I can get the bicycle next Friday. At that time I will pay for it. “Friday the 13th”. I think, this is not good day to do something on “Friday the 13th” but I’m going to get new bicycle.

Anyway, the photo on top is the bicycle that I will get on “Friday the 13th”. I will post some other photos that I took when I get it.

Thank you.

Good day & Peace and Smile!

05 November 2009

Something weird

My father came back from Shanghai yesterday. And he bought some souvenirs for me. The photo on top is one of the souvenirs that he bought.

Yes, this is KitKat but I've never seen such a package. I felt something weird. I've seen similar package in stores before. Of course, this is not faked one. This is truly "KitKat" but this is selling in Shanghai.

I felt the taste of this KitKat is not so different from the KitKat I've eaten before in Japan. Also there's Meiji's chocolate. When I watched it first time, I felt this is the new taste of Meiji's chocolate. But I felt something weird.

"Meiji (明治)" is not different from original one but other kanji is different. I've never seen such a package that fulfilled with Kanji.

Thank you.

Good day & Peace and Smile!

04 November 2009

Already winter?

These days the weather changed rapidly. The highest temperature on Sunday was about 25 degree (Celsius). But on Monday it became about 13 degree (Celsius) and on Tuesday, it became about 12 degree (Celsius). The temperature changed over 10 degrees in a few days.

How about today? I checked it now. According to Japanese weather service company Weathernews, the highest temperature was 17 degree (Celsius). I think, it's too fast to change the season. How about in your place?

We must take care of our health. H1-N1 is now spreading in many countries including Japan.

Thank you.
Good day & Peace and Smile!

02 November 2009

I started job hunting

I used to check some companies’ employment opportunity page using the Internet but from last Saturday I started to job hunt in my actual life.

On Saturday and Sunday, Japan’s major job assistance service “MYNAVI” organized job fair called “Job hunt EXPO(就職EXPO)” in Tokyo Big Sight. Then I went their on Saturday.

I could book only one seminar before I go there. I wanted to use my time more efficiently then I went there a little bit early. I was planning to check some booths there.

BUT

When I reached “Kokusaitenjijo-seimon station(国際展示場正門駅)” of Yurikamome(ゆりかもめ), there were too many people that were waiting for opening of the job fair. When I first saw that, I felt that “Should I go back?”. lol

Of course, I didn’t go back at that time and waited about an hour to get in the job fair.

I believe that I’m student in science course then I entered the side of “Navi for Science course student(理系ナビ)”. I have about an hour to the seminar, then I started to check some booths. I visited some booths there until the seminar start.

The seminar was about “manner” and I felt that I didn’t have to join the seminar because I’ve already known most of things that I heard on the seminar... But I think, this was good for me to check the “manner” that I know.

Thank you.

Good day & Peace and Smile!

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