Hakone Shrine

Dill

Today, I had a dish with lightly saut d salmon with dill.

At first, I didn't realize that the herb was dill because mostly this herb is placed with smoked salmon, not saut d.

But that was absolutely good, in specific, the cool and light flavor of the herb made the taste of salmon so nice.

The elements of the dish was not different from usual one, but once the recipe changes, it becomes so different flavor, I realized today.

Eye of the typhoon

There is a tune named "Eye of the hurricane", composed by Herbie Hancock. This is one of my favorite tune wrote by him. This theme reminds me the speed of hurricane, and very cool one.

Today, I had a live and at the same time, one typhoon was approaching to the Tokyo metropolitan area.

I've played some tunes that can compete typhoon, and fortunately, the typhoon have changed the direction to the pacific sea. And the end of the live, it stopped raining.

By the way, at the eye of the typhoon, it becomes absolutely calm, and now, I wonder how about the hurricane.

Only thing I now about the hurricane is that the house of Dorothy have blow out in The Wizard of Oz.

Obligation and responsibility

Mostly, people can achieve rights with acquitting responsibility.

But these days, there are so many people who forget to accomplish responsibilities and just require his rights.

Obligation is one of the elements that people tend to avoid. Because accomplishing obligation occurs so much stress.

But I think, any things that is conduct in the society includes some one at least one person who takes responsibility.

Nothing can be accomplished without manager, and this is the most important part of any things.

This is the reason why I think the payment for the prime minister in Japan is too small.

PMBOK

I'm now joining a project and doing some tasks relevant to project management.

There are some structured and organized methodology for project management.

Also, there are so many best practice for project management, too.

One of the organized one is named PMBOK, stands for project management body of knowledge. This is one of the standards, and used for various kinds of project.

Now. I'm reading it and take it into the real project.

Actually, the element of the method is absolutely simple thing, but sometimes in a project, you tend to loose that simple things. This mean that even simple and fundamental thing, it is difficult to do it as described in text books.

I think that same thing can be mentioned for the management approach suggested by Peter Drucker. Each of his words are so simple and natural, but it is absolutely difficult to do this.

Chance

A chance, came up to myself today. This must be the trigger to increase level up with myself.

I know the situation now is better than ordinary ones, but also think that I must think of improving and developing current status.

I'm now wondering what is the best option. Staying current status is of course easy way for me. But I shouldn't select conservative one, and live aggressively, this is one of the solutions.

I'd like to find the best way for me, but it is not simple one...

Will

Where there is a will, there is a way.

This is one of my favorite quotes.

Having will and try, struggle to achieve your dream, there appears a way to success.

Try doing your best, and go the straight way. That should be the nearest approach to the goal.

Simple

In one of the book I read, there was a basic way of thinking.

Simplify everything

This makes efficiency, innovation, and the art.

Simplify means reducing the things not important things. And the essential thing remains. There the potential energy is to be dazzle with being simplified.

Now, I have so many, various things to do. But categorizing and reducing unimportant things, my work should be sharpen and the quality should increase, I believe.

Beatles

There are so many admirable artists, but my favorites are following 3; Stevie Wonder, the Beatles and Michael Jackson.

And sometimes, the tunes by Beatles are arranged to various genre. One of my favorite is Come Together. Many jazz musicians covers this tune, and most time, both the original one and arranged one are so cool.

Now, I'm thinking of purchasing the compilation of the Beatles' tunes. It must be filled with so Manu masterpieces.

Risk

Today, I went to a talk show of one of my favorite jazz musician.

In is words, there was a phrase, "take a risk".

Sometimes, we tend to think that we have to eliminate risks, but this is not always best option.

If you avoid risk, you may loose the chance to obtain some return.

Mostly the director or the board of directors of companies think of that, and they evaluate the loss which may caused with risk, and the lost chance avoiding risk.

Now, I'm taking very conservative ways, I think. And tend to think not to see the lost chance.

This is the time that I must think of the way of living, taking risks.

Egg plant and pumpkin

Game

These days, I'm doing various field of tasks; such as underwriting, investment, personal information, and system.

On the other hand, one of my colleague does just one genre of task, just the asset management.

I work through about 12 hours or more, and he works about 8 hours.

I'm always busy and scheduling even 5 minutes, and he manages the time so roughly.

Which is better for working environment? It depends.

Anyway, I like being busy and working, and learning.

I don't want to stop running.

So, I should be keen to the turbulence in front of myself, and sensitive to all the phenomena around me. I think, this is kind of game. And I'm enjoying the game called "life" beating weakness inside myself.

Bug or Specification

Today, I've revised a program that I've asked to implement.

At that time, I defined the spec and designed the structure, then implemented it.

Actually, the specification was very complexed, such as various input data and various exceptions.

Then, defined one input data, and implemented one procedure. Today, I was asked that the format of the input data was changed, and revise the program as following the change.

In particular, I implemented the procedure by abstracting, so the change was absolutely easy; just changed several parameters. But I found that the previous spec didn't match the previous test data. Is it the miss on design or implementation? I thought about it, but I couldn't find the reason, and of course, the program was approved by the user when I implemented it.

So amazing thing it is. Is it caused by midgets?

Japanese dinner

Today, I had a cup of miso soup and rice for a dinner. This relaxes me and it makes me feel at home.

Always when I have miso soup, it reminds me that I am so happy to be born in Japan. I think, the foods in Japan, even if it is foreign style dishes, is the best in the world; there are various tastes, the tastes are so delicate, and elaborating the taste of the components themselves.

Power

Today, one of the biggest event, committee, in my team was easily rescheduled. It was because the vice president of the parent company of our company, Japanese entity, is going to come and wanted to have a meeting.

I know that the value of the very important persons is so precious than ours, and the power of then is too.

But I wonder that these kind of occasion, the power is utilized like a weapon, is appropriate for a company, and liberal society.

tecona

Concert

Today, I had a concert of the orchestra that I belong to since March.

I was invited because the concert master was my friend in university and have been good friend for about ten years!

But just last month, it was decided that he was to move to Hong Kong. So he decided that he just continue to play until this concert, and then for a some years, he is going to leave from this orchestra.

Fortunately, I could be friend with most of the members in this orchestra and I could continue playing here without my original friend.

Now I'm thinking of two things; one is the connection between people. It is very interesting that the connection spread like a web, and sometimes, I can reach the one who I have already known.
And second is that things can easily change with just a little thing. Also, the "little" thing is becoming bigger than before, I think.

Things changes. Time passes. And also, we cannot be with no change, no, we mustn't be the same man as before.

Edge of cliff

Now I feel like running the edge of cliff.
This is because I have so many things to manage these days.
Most of them are to be completed in a month. But I afraid just one mistook leads me to failure.
Now, I'm running, but I must run concretely.

Lever

I scarcely eat organ, but today, I went to a restaurant, Kin-shita, golden tongue, this restaurant was famous for lever.
Mostly, lever smells and you cannot eat without spice or kind of flavor oil, such as sesame oil.
But the lever in this restaurant didn't smell at all, and we enjoyed it with light salted sauce. It was so amazing and precious experience.
Although it was absolutely different from usual ones, I don't want to go there to eat it. Because I don't like the lever so much and it was too expensive; actually, it was 1,400 yen for one plate, includes 6 pieces...

Electric Jar

Yesterday, electric jar in my house suddenly broke. That was the one I purchased five years ago.

Most of the electric tools were purchased about ten years ago; when I started to live in Tokyo. And most cases, the electric tools breaks in ten years, the only exception is PC. As the machines are simple in the perspective of electric structure, it becomes more sound and not breakable.

There is a famous quote, Sony timer; this means most of the Sony's products breaks three years after purchase, this is the timing that the guarantee term just terminated. But I think, this phenomena is caused with the series of products, most of them are applied complicated mechanism, sensitive sensors, etc.

Now, I'm considering about purchasing new jar or not. Actually, I can eat rice with some pans already I have, such as high pressure pan. Considering the taste of rice cooked with jar and pan, it is needless to say that the one cooked with pan is more delicious.

I'm going to put trial term if I can manage without jar for some weeks.

Practical thinking

Mostly, we think things following the one in front of us. This means that our thoughts are expanded from some seed, which is in our mind. This is to say, thinking based of nothing, sometimes this ability is called "the imagination", is absolutely difficult.

We rely on the things almost exist, and as a result, there are so many similar things.

Of course, abstraction from actual things is sometimes required ability, and congestion is too. These two process is the way of accelerating things; especially thinking. Sometimes this is called knowledge management.

But referring something is different from making the same things without thinking of the basic purpose of sone action.

There are so many knowledge that others have experienced, and we can enjoy them with little effort. But as the knowledge increases, it comes to be more important to recognize the base point of the things.

Chopsticks pillow

Pumpkin and Maron

Being

Now I'm reading a book written about Heidegger. In this book, the very famous book, Being and Time, is discussed in this book.
Existence of something, this has been one of the biggest issue to be discussed for a long time, and so many philosopher have had many quote. One of the most famous one is, cogito ergo sum, in Latin; I think therefore I am, in English, by Descartes.
No one can argue that he or she exists for 100 percent, because the reason or the probe is placed based on our existence.
Some years ago, there was a movie that deals the perception of existence, named The Matrix. The concept is absolutely interesting.
Anyway, proving our existence is one of the biggest issue for us and philosophy.

Kick off

Today, I had a kick off meeting of new project.

Actually, this one is the continuous one from last 3 months. During this project, I have learned so many, management, English, due diligence and many other things.

And this time, I was pointed to be the secretariat of our business function, risk management. This project continues until December of next year. I have hope, but also a bit nervous feeling, because of the increase of my workload. Simply thinking, my task will become doubled. So I have to manage my time more efficient than now.

Yesterday, I've read a book written by one famous designer. He developed the skill of ordering, clearing and restructuring, by breaking down things to small units and deduct needless things. Now, this is the skill that is required to myself.

I'd like to read the book again and remind it to myself.

Dungeon

Subway is like a web under the ground.

And the station is sometimes like a dungeon. I always think like this when I transfer at Otemachi station.

The mysterious feeling, as if in the dungeon, search for treasure, must be caused with the atmosphere and the darkness of under ground world.

Generally speaking, most creatures are living on the ground. And of course, we human beings are so. We feel scared when we are in the dark or narrow room. But also, we expect something mysterious, amazing to the darkness. I think one of the reason is that we are still unknown about the under ground world. There should be so many unveiled things under the sea, or near center of the earth.

We tend to look up the sky, and look for new discovery to the space, universe; macro perspective. But I think there should be so many amazing things remain around us, under us.

Kagurazaka

Test

Test is the thing that I dislike the most.

I dislike the sounding, and the procedure, and many things relevant to this.

But actually, testing is one of the most important things for doing everything.

Today, I tested some software that I have designed spending long time. It was not easy, actually very complicated, and many cases for testing.

Finally I could complete it. My eyes are so tired that I could hardly read any more documents.

Still I dislike test...

Colleagues

Actually, I have some friends, colleagues in the office, that is because I have joined to this company interimly, not soon after graduating the university, but changed job.

Today, I went to hang out with some of my colleagues. I have been familiar with them because we took the same training in the same term. And we have talked about many things, including the things related to jobs and not relevant things.

Bur during the time, the topic that we spent more time for discussing is about family. Actually, at there, about 5 of 7 was married, and 2 have children.

Making family, and planning family is very difficult, and depends on the sense of worth of two. And mostly, the sense is similar for each males and females, but they are never shared. The one good thing in this discussion was that I could realize, recognize the sense as female, and as mother.

Grape

Grape is one of my favorite food. Once I start to eat it, I can't stop eating it until I finish all of them on the dish.

I really appreciate that I was born in the world that grape exist.

Romi-Unie Confiture

Romi-Unie Confiture @ Kamakura

You can purchase so delicious, actually you can enjoy the pot, jam here.

Reconcile

Reconciling something seems to be boring, sometimes. But the procedure requires understanding on the things; it means that if you don't have sufficient knowledge for the thing, you cannot find the correspondence between two things.

Also, this procedure requires the ability of concentration. Reconciling more than a hundred items in two different list is absolutely tough.

As a result, I mean that the one who can reconcile something have the ability higher than some level. That is to say that you mustn't ask this procedure to someone who don't have the abilities.