Living abroad can be an exciting experience. Learning about new cultures and embracing a diverse and broad cultural universe can help one ponder about its own stance on the world. Together with it, learning a new language is also a rewarding experience. However, from my own understanding as an “expatriate” living in Japan for almost [...]
Category Archives: Opinion
Microsoft & Yahoo - Is it the answer?
February 3, 2008 – 8:58 pm
The giant Microsoft announced last Friday (February 3rd) its offer of $44.6bn on an unsolicited bid to buy the long runner and Internet veteran company Yahoo!.
For a long time both Yahoo! and Microsoft with its MSN Search have been struggling to break Google’s hegemony as the number 1 search engine on Internet. The two companies [...]
A Better Tomorrow Now
January 5, 2008 – 9:05 pm
Feeling and recognizing the meaning and implications of our feelings is what defines us as humans. However, overreacting impairs our faculty of rationalizing our behavior towards others, impoverishing the quality of our relations and wiping out the possibility of a balanced existence.
Is then, religion important for rectitude in life? Do we really think government [...]
30 Days of Night
December 25, 2007 – 4:11 pm
30 Days of Night is another film about vampires. It seems Hollywood never grows tired of the ‘undead’ for their flicks. However, another thing that Hollywood seems to be taking more and more seriously is the adaptation of graphic novels to the big screen and 30 Days of Night is another example, based on the [...]
Barbarella
June 4, 2007 – 12:30 pm
I had the chance to watch this weekend Barbarella, a film from 1968 directed by Roger Vadim (And God Created the Woman) and produced by Dino de Laurentiis (King Kong, Conan, etc). The storyline goes around Barbarella (Jane Fonda), an actress, that lives in a spaceship in a time in which ‘love’ reigns sovereign [...]
Scarier than Fiction
May 16, 2007 – 2:48 pm
I don’t know how many of you reading this have ever watched The Ring (Japanese) and The Phone (Korean). Together they introduced a totally new concept of horror movies. The stories were based on curses that were brought upon their victims not simply by evil spirits but also by the technology the victims were using.
In [...]
Brutally Honest
April 25, 2007 – 3:21 am
You Are 60% Brutally Honest
Honesty is important to you, but generally, you try not to be brutal about it.
You’ll sugar coat the truth when you need to… and tell a white lie when necessary.
How Brutally Honest Are You?
Dichotomy and Methods
April 20, 2007 – 4:38 pm
Is Social Science an exact science? Most part of the positivists out there are going to prove (and affirm) that it is.
As much as I know, trying to quantify everything and anything, including social acts, actors and factors is pretty much trying to simplify and generalize the whole human universe. Of course I am not [...]
フェレット虐待はダメ！
April 12, 2007 – 8:25 pm
僕は９ヶ月前から初めてフェレットの｢お父さん｣になってしまた。フェレットはイタズラが大好きけど非常に可愛くて優しい動物と思う。
家のフェロちゃんはいい仲間になって、手で食べたり僕の寝間着の足の中で寝たりすることも普通になった。だから、4月11日のニュースを読んで、腹が立った（エリカさんがニュースのことを教えてくれて本当に有難い！）
ニュースの映像はこちら(フェレット虐待)
先行研究
April 5, 2007 – 1:38 pm
自分自身では、研究が自らやらないと意味が無いと思う。でも、研究では一人でやると自分で全部をやると無理でしょう。
だけれど、私の研究に対して先行研究がほとんど無いので基本的なことから結論まで自分でやらないと行けない。したがって、そのことに考えると大変じゃないか？結局、早めに博士論文が書いて、終わりたい！
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