My Diary
I'll try to write everyday.
November 22, 1998
Time flies so quick. In about 13 months, this century ends.
By the way, did the zeroth century exist? May be not.But, very
few nanoseconds in between B.C. and A.C., the zeroth century
must have existed.Why I'm thinking this kind of foolish thing?
I'm thinking that the present time should be connected,with a continuous time string which you can't cut, to the zeroth century when many human beings lived in a life style very different from the present. But the way of thinking may not
have changed since then.To this end of the string comes the voice of the other end, the zeroth century: the voice quite the same as present.As men at the other end loved somebody, Clinton loves somebody. So do I. Oh, no my w**e in my case.So, the string has a meaning, otherwise no one could see the string.
Well, what am I really talking?
September 10, 1998
Hi! It's been a long since I talked about the old women. I donno whathappened. The police wrote down my name, age, address, and the phone number, but he didn't call me
back, she was OK or something. I asked, "Why you need
my age, too?" He said, "I just need." I didn't want to argue
with the police, so I just told him my age. I should have asked his name and phone number so that I can ask if she could finally get back to her home safely.
By the way, My sweet bird died a month ago. I sometimes miss her. I believe she is singing in a tree located somewhere far away and away up above the earth.
12: 20, July 11, 1998
I met a woman suffering from senile dementia this morning.
As I was on my way home from the *** Station early this morning, I was approached by a women of around 70 who
asked me the way to the *** bridge. Since the *** bridge was only a quarter mile from my home and in the same direction I was walking to, I said it's OK and started walking at a slow pace with her.
While following me, she said "I'm now going back home near the *** bridge." So, turning around, I asked her, "Then, where did you stay last night?" She said something which I couldn't comprehend. She was surely saying something, but putting her words together didn't make sence. I thought she was hard of hearing, then. We walked on the road leading to my condo.
In fornt of the condo, I said to her "Bye, bye. You go straight on this road, then you'll find the bridge, OK?" She nodded. I went into the condo and she kept walking.
That was not the end of a story.
As I felt something strange about her, I went outside again, a few minutes after we said bye bye, to see if she was OK on the road. I thought she might not have walked so far away because she was walking so slowly. Then, outside the condo, I found myself standing facing her. She was there, talking with a girl. "Oh! What happened? You lost?", I said. "I'll take you to the bridge, OK?" Now , I was sure that she was a sort of demented, but took her to the bridge.
After all, I found that she could not even remember her name. She told me that the house she was visiting was her mother's house and her mother was around 50.
At a gas station, I called 110 equivelent to **** in the USA. A policeman soon came to us by bicycle.
The policeman took her to the central police office.
I don't know if the police finally found her identity and took her home.
July 11, 1998
Hi! I'm back to say my excuse of being away form here
for weeks. I was deeply involved in updating a Japanese corner dedicated to Japanese professionals in the English language who published their books on E-J translation. The corner talks about mistranslation unbelievably made by professionals in English who have been studying English so many years and published many Japanese translations. Some are colledge professors; some are translators.
Whenever I find an erroneously translated passage in those books, I send the publishing company a fax telling them that this should be that and that should be this.
By the way, my little birds are now doing fine, although
Miss Budgie had some trouble under her wing.
June 21, 1998
Every Sunday, The Japan Times carries a story written by Mrs Chavez, an American who lives in Japan. One day, I sent her an e-mail asking how many potential topics she usually has and how quickly she selects one from the sources. She quickly responded:
"I have a huge file of topics in my brain. I usually have an idea of the topic I want to write about when I sit down to type, but I have no idea what I will say exactly. That happens spontaneously. It seems to be the only way for me." (May be she would say OK about citing her reply here.)
May 11, 1998
I found a piece of funny article in the Journal, Chemical engineering. It goes as bellow:
PROOF POSITIVE
Engineers and scientists will never make as much as business executives. now a rigorous mathematical proof explains why this is true.
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power. (is assumed.:kaoki)
Postulate 2: Time is Money.
As every engineer knows: Work/Time = Power
Since: Knowledge = Power and Time = Money
we have:
Work/Money = Knowledge
Solving for Money, we get:
Work/Knowledge = Money
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity, regardless of the Work done.
Conclusion: the less you Know, the more money you make. Q.E.D.
By Mr. Alexander Lillian
Note: "/" means "divided by". (kaoki)
May 5, 1998
This corner may not be called "my diary" because I'm skipping the diary for several days. According to the Collins Cobild English Dictionary, "A diary is a book which has a separate space for each day of the year. You use a diary to write down things you plan to do, or to record what happens in your life day by day." meriam-Webster Dictionary says "A diary is a record of events, transactions kept daily or at frequent intervals." "At frequent intervals". That's it. I'm relieved. This is a good excuse, isn't it? However, those of you who visited and enjoyed my diary, I still try to write down may diary at regular frequent intervals, or everyday.
Today's news from The Japan times:
Japan's oldest official UFO sighting dates back to 682 on the Western calendar which is described in "Nihon-shoki", Japan's oldest official history. Far older than the official sighting claimed by Kenneth Arnold, the USA in 1947. The Nihon-shoki says that on some autumn nights, a strange fire appeared halfway up Mount Nishi, gradually moving from east to west over the mountainside. The fire, said to resemble a burning disc, was called "sohachibon" or "chuhachibon" - both words refer to a musical instrument, similar to cymbals, used in Buddhist rituals.
The site, Hakui, Noto peninsula, Ishikawa-ken, Japan is said to become known to people as the UFO town where a large UFO-shaped musium building is standing. I didn't know this as I'm not intersted in UFO. The paper says that to promote a UFO project, the town has organized two international conferences on space and UFOs, inviting scientists from the U.S., Russia, Taiwan and Japan, among others. It seems that people in Japan are now enjoying life ,forgetting working hard and exporting goods for more money. Good!
April 26, 1998
Since the new PC came in, I'm very busy working on removing some initial bugs if they are called so. Several softwares were put into the computer, causing unexpected troubles including frozen screens, a sudden printer activation with outputting strange characters, and others I have not experienced before. Huh....... I'm exhausted. I still have trouble starting up the PC; always need to go through the safe mode to reach the normal start-up. I have tried to contact, many times, a DELL free dial helper , with repeated answesr, " The line is now very busy, please call us again later." You experienced the same thing, didn't you? Huh......... The birds are fine anyway.
April 13, 1998
She laid an egg again: the bird I mentioned previously.
She is now looking at me, surely thinking something about me. I have no way of knowing what she is thinking about. Perhaps, she wants more food or something. More space in the cage?
April 11, 1998
I got the 300MHz today. I spent quite some time hooking up cables and connectors, putting CD-ROM dictionaries into the virtual CD-ROMs (CD-革命). Finally, I'm writing this, you know. I'll write about the birds tomorrow.
April 4, 1998
I have ordered Pentium 300MHz Dell computer. As soon as the computer has come in, I again start writing my diary everyday.
Until then bye bye! I'll answer the questions asked by those who wrote comments on my guest book. Please be patient. Thank you.
March 20, 1998
Hi! I have come back to my diary. Perhaps, I start writing my diary again from mid April. Utill then, bye, bye.
March 1, 1998
Come to think of it, posting his own diary everyday expecting someone would read it is really a funny thing. Normally, nobody wants his diary to be read by anybody. Right? In may case, I consider this practice to be useful for improving my English writing, because I have to be very carefull not to use some wrong expression.
Feburary 28, 1998
It's very fine today, so take a look at the view I mentioned yesterday. PFBC pressure vessels we made have been transported to a ship which is expected to carry the vessels to a plant site in March.
Feburary 27, 1998
Hi! I'm back. I've added a new link page where you have views of Hiroshima City every an hour. The pictures are being taken from the top of a hotel in front of the Japan Railway's Hiroshima Station. Please enjoy yourself with the views.
Feburary 22, 1998
It's rather cool today but very fine day with some clouds in the sky. I scent spring coming soon in the air. (Is this expression all right?) Maybe, we gonna have a few cold days before spring, but the spring scent is sure to be growing; nobody can stop it.
The three birds I mentioned before are doing fine. I have found that the budgeriger seldom drinks water unlike the Java sparrows. So, I sometimes forget to fill her water feeder. Whenever I bring her the fresh water, she, without wasting any time, sticks her head - yes really whole her head - into the water for a few seconds and that's all. She then cares nothing about the water at all until I bring the fresh water next time. I wonder if anybody reading this diary have felt the same way.
Feburary 21, 1998
I'm back. Let me introduce you to my English translation.
"This trolley car No. 653 now carrying you was running near the town of Enami when the first atomic bomb in human history exploded over Hiroshima City at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945. Of the 123 trolley cars the city owned at that time, twenty two cars were completely destroyed by fire and 3 partially burned, 83 were partly damaged with only 15 cars situated far enough from the epicenter that they escaped without any damage. Of the 15 cars, only 3 were operational at that time.
In the afternoon of the same day, the city, without wasting any time, started to work on putting the trolley cars back into service on the streets of the scorched city of Hiroshima. With a very limited work force and few material resources for the restoration, the city's extensive efforts finally made trolley service partially available again, with the undamaged cars, between Koi and Nishi-Tennma stations on August 9, just three days after the bombing.
This car, No. 653, put back into service a bit later, in December the same year, because of its heavier damage, played an important role in providing citizens in Hiroshima with a badly-needed means of transportation.
Of the 123 cars involved in the bombing, four 650-type cars are still running today."
I often have a chance to take the 650-type car with the notice above in Japanese. I have asked Hiroshima Trolley Service Co. to provide the English version for the people from overseas.
Feburary 17, 1998
Thanks Mr. Ahiru (Mr. drake) for visiting this site and left your comment in my Gestbook in Japanese version.
I'm now responsible for encouraging people in the company I work for to invent new technologies and prepare documents for possible patent application. Under the recent cometetive environment in boiler business, we really need good ideas to improve our technologies for expanded marketing overseas.
Feburary 15, 1998
I have been a bit busy working on my page in Japanese. It's cloudy today in Hiroshima with around 10 deg. C. Nothing new today. Bye! Bye!
Feburary 11, 1998
I have changed the color of my home page. How about the color? Not good? Appropriate combination of the color of the body and that of the text for the viewers is quite difficult to find. Black and white combination is simple and clear, but not so attractive. There may be a theory on this color combination.
Feburary 8, 1998
Welcome to my site, Porkland citizens! My page has not yet well-organized, but let me take some time to prepare for the better page. If you have anything to ask about Japan, I'm glad to answer your questions at this site. Please leave any message in the Guestbook. Are you enjoying the Nagano Olympic Games in the middle of the night?
Feburary 5, 1998
The bird laid another egg again yesterday. It's like a hen. The pronunciation of "hen" sounds like Japanese word HEN (peculiar, strange). So, the bird is like a hen and somewhat HEN. I don't know if it's actually HEN. I'll check a book on birds.
I have another home page writen in Japanese where examples of HEN E-to-J translations I found in the books I've read are provided. If you have a good command of Japanese, please visit the site' which is in the link corner of my page.
Feburary 3, 1998
The budgerigar laid an egg again yesterday. She has forgotton her egg and left it in the corner of the floor. She used to sit on her egg, in vain. During this time, she allows me to stroke her head.
I have heard nothing so far about the incident which Alice53 mentioned in my gestbook. It sometimes happens that an event in Japan is first reported outside Japan and then Japanese reporters import it later on. Presently, many reporters from the US are busy finding any events at Nagano in Japan which might be interesting to Americans. I don't know how the incident in Nagano was reported in the US, but I feel that the media tend to be crazy in finding interesting story like possible Clinton's affair with Ms somebady. It may not be a good example, though.
The Jan. 26, '98 issue of TIME carries an article introducing the Olympic Games in Nagano on page 5. Let me cite some of the contents.
Nagano is only 90 minutes from Tokyo on the Asama bullet train, and round-trip fare from the capital is a modest $130.
While Western-style hotels are booked solid, the dozens of traditional inns, or ryokan(a very Japanese hotel), that dot Nagano prefecture are still reporting vacancies. The thick futons and steaming soba noodles served up in these homey pensions more than make up for shared baths and occasional language barriers.
English-speaking stuff at the Hakuba, tourism Information Center at 81-261-72-2279 or the Yamanouchi Tourism Information Center at 81-269-33-2138 can suggest suitable accomodations.
Feburary 2, 1998
The budgerigar has laid 15 eggs since last September. I found another one yesterday. I see some kind of a cyclic change in her behavior before and after she lays an egg.
When I stroke her head or chin with my fingers (actually with my forefinger), she normally shut her eyes with a seemingly comfortable manner. It's like a cat or a dog. But, when the time approaches for her to lay an egg, she bites my fingers, not allowing me to stroke her head. Sometimes, I jump with pain. Anyhow, during the time, she is busy preparing a kind of the nest by toring a sheet of paper used as a mat into pieces and puting the pieces at a certain part of the floor. Unfortunately, all the 15 eggs came to nothing. The Java sparrows are male and not like cats and dogs.
This is all for today.
January 31, 1998
Nothing new today. I have three birds, two Java sparrows and a budgerigar. I'll talk about the birds next week.
January 30, 1998
I have another home page in Geocities Japan Co. it contains examples of mistranslated texts which I have come across in reading books and documents. It's written in Japanese. But, some examples are written in English, so please visit the site.
January 29, 1998.
I left Hiroshima on business on January 26 and returned Hiroshima on January 27. I visited Prof, Horio's lab, The Tokyo University of Engineering and Agricalture on Monday. We discussed on a computer simulation model developed by him for studying the motion of particles in fluidized neds. The next day, I visited Dr. Hatano, National Institute for Resources and Environmet located in Tsukuba, about 100km north of Tokyo, to talk about applications of fluidized bed technologies to new processes. I took a flight leaving Haneda for Hiroshima in the evening and came back home at 20:30. That's all for today.
January 25, 1998.
Yesterday, we had a first snowfall of a few centimeter in Hiroshima city. A cold air mass below -30 degree C came down from the Chinese continent through Japan sea, covering the whole Japanese Islands.
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