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Club 4743 U, Japan
Toastmasters Council (JTC)
9 June, 1999:
Vol. 3, Issue 10
Writer / Editor:
Yuko Komata
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YOSAKOI SORAN festival; the most vivid and exciting festival in Sapporo starts tonight. It attracts over 2 million people. You cannot miss this!
Report of the 49th meeting;
Today's Guests;
Ms. Funahashi, Ms. Ota and Ms. Nashiki
Opening thought: by TM Tsukada
Table Topic session: by TM Komata
He introduces three books that he read in these days. Horrible story and adventure stories.
How about reading in your spare time?
"COLOR"
Children learn the name of each color using Origami.
Q: "What is your favorite color? And why you like that color?"
Answers:
Orange; Vivid and the color of the rising sun.
White; Snow white. Special color because it erases everything.
Blue and Yellow; I like sea and sky very much.
Green and Red; Color of the forests. Colors of Christmas.
Pastel color; It has soft image.
Gray and Black; Conservative color.
Q: "In the morning when changing your cloths, do you choose what to wear
every day by colors? "
Answers:
According to the feeling of my mind, I choose the color.
Every day I watch the horoscope TV program of STV, I decide the color of my cloth. That
program shows the "Today's Lucky Color". How about trying? (Two members are the fans of
this horoscope.)
Q: "Do you think the color affects your mind? If so, please tell your experience?"
TM Sato mentioned the color's psychological effects. In transportation systems, such as
traffic signals, ambulances and fire engines have special colors that the people can pay
attention to them. It seems that bright colors; red and yellow are widely used. In Japan,
ambulances are red and white. Fire engines are red. Police cars are black, white and red.
TM Komata introduced the phrases of the novel; " What I wear greatly affects to my mind,
If I'm wearing loud color cloth, I'll get excited and if I'm wearing the conservative colored
cloth, I become dark. But, not only to my mind, whether the happy accidents happens or
not depends on what I'm wearing."
According to the radio program this week, Japanese people like blue and white while
western people like conservative colors.
After 1945, Japan experienced 4 years of summer time. (8, June., Japan Times Press) At that period it was not successful, it had the bad reputation from the labor union. So the government decided to abolish it. Recently, MITI and Environmental Agency are calculating the positive effects of Daylight saving Time. In terms of saving energy or decelerating the global warming. Japanese people started talking about it. Guest Ms. Ota told her experience when visited Sweden in the middle of August. She felt the day time was very long and enjoyed the White Night in Sweden. She likes this system and hopes that in summer time, we are able to enjoy the marvelous summer in Japan! TM Kai also introduced his experience when living in Australia. He got confused, since he had to change so many things. TM Osaki imagined if the work starts earlier, people tend to work overtime a lot or probably many men go drinking after finished their jobs. Japan is long in North to South direction, so if we apply it to nation wide, it may causes some problems. In higher latitude areas like Hokkaido, we can enjoy the long day time, but in Okinawa and Kyushu where the sun rises latest in the country, are they able to adapt the changes? Guest Ms. Nashiki mentioned that Japanese people don't like change, so we're not trying the summer time. How about starting it? If it's good, we can continue, and if it doesn't fit in here just we quit.
TM Konishi gave her seventh speech; "Laugh". She circulated the newspaper article saying the good effects of laughing. Laughing activates the human body's control system. By listening the Rakugo ? one of Japanese comedy, the pains of the patients relieved. If you don't laugh, you might lose the sense of laugh. Mr. Inoue who visited Sapporo as a Debate Workshop instructor is an amateur Rakugo comedian. He's making efforts to laugh more and learned Rakugo to improve his skill as an debate instructor. She listed the three theories of laugh from one magazine. 1). Advantages in daily life especially when you succeed, the laugh may helps. 2). Effluent of discharge of psychological energy. 3). Cognitive contradiction, which pointed out by Sigmund Freud and Herbert Spencer. If some one made a mistake, he / she laughs. She said that one of her friend is very good at saying jokes and her nickname is "Mrs. Bean". She chats with her friends every week including "Mrs. Bean". It makes everyone health and happy.
TM Kai played his ice breaking speech; "Blowin' in the wind". He played a guitar and sang "Blowin' in the wind" by Bob Dylan. He interpreted the words of the song. Here is the verse of "Blowin' in the Wind", just to remind you what the song sounds like. How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man How many seas must a white dove sail before she sleeps in the sand Yes 'n how many times must the cannon balls fly before they're forever banned The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind the answer is blowin' in the wind Yes 'n how many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea How many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just doesn't see The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind the answer is blowin' in the wind Yes 'n how many times must a man look up before he can see the sky Yes 'n how many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry Yes 'n how many deaths will it take till he knows that too many people have died The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind the answer is blowin' in the wind Bob Dylan made this song in May, 1963. You are to set a window of your own, he created the phrase "Blowing out of the Wind", since the original title "Blowing in the Wind" has the passive image to him. Do you think so?