The power of subconscious

I thought of a mistake I made when I was a student and took a part-time job at a department store.
I gave a customer a wrong credit bill.

And today I happened to think about it and I made the same mistake.
I couldn't believe it.

The subconscious can lead you both right and wrong way.
So, be careful not to think about negative things.

I want to know

the song of David Byrne which was played in the movie "The secret life of words".

I hope you understand how much you took from me.

You still try to take something.
But I will never give you anything.

I want freedom.
Set me free.

Working at home

I made a document for my work.
It took me four hours.
The music from "Hedwig and the angry inch" inspires me something.

I feel the pain.

As long as you have a sense of purpose you continue to thrive in your life.

Lift up your hands!

Now I understand how much I took from you.

The Origin of Love

I saw the rock musical "Hedwig and the angry inch".

We used to be children of the sun or the earth or the moon.
We are torn apart.

Now we are lonely two-legged creatures.

Hedwig looks for the other half.

Figure skating and soccer

There are two TV programs I want to see tonight.
One is World Figure Skating Championships and the other is Kirin Challenge Cup.

But I have to work tonight...

At the free skating, Miki Ando may try quadruple salchow.
I hope Mao Asada will catch up.

At Kirin Challenge Cup, Peru and Japan play soccer match in Yokohama.
GT is going to see it by bus.
I want to go ,too.

The weather looks terrible.
Will the match go all right?

short program

Mao Asada couldn't succeed in combination jump.
She is at the fifth place after the short program.
Will she be able to upset the ranking?

Kim Yu-na stands at the first place.
I missed her performance.
Her score is over 70.
The performance must have been nice.

Miki Ando is at the second place.
She seems to be in a good condition.

Emily Hughes from America is plump and cute.
Her smile is nice.

The last skater of today was a Russian girl.
They say she is mature.
She is 27 years old.
Other skaters are late teens or early twenties.

In the world of figure skating the age 27 is already old.
But the Russian girl was cute.

I can't see the free skating tomorrow.
It's a pity.

The land price is going up in Japan after 16 years of decline.

Keep being a big mouth

And you will be big someday.

You have to work your fingers to the bone

You are between jobs again.
It must have been hard to work on the night shift.
And you have your own small business.

I hope you will be successful.

Synchronized swimming and figure skating

Both of them are on TV now.
They are wonderful.

How could I be so immature?

I go to my apartment about three times a week.
Still I can't leave my parents completely.

My brother isn't working.
My aunt is single.
What will become of them?

I'm crossing my fingers that nothing scary happens.

Free as a bird

Move as swift as a wind,

stay as silent as forest,

attack fierce like fire,

immovable defence like a mountain.

White-collar exemption

It means "work efficiently".
You must not expect to get paid by working overtime.

White-collar workers should not be evaluated by the amount of working hours.
They should get more money by work of high quality.

Home and dry

Where is my home?

In Akashi?
In Himeji?
In Sakai?

I want to feel comfortable at home.

Employee satisfaction

Employees used to be called human resources.
They are no more resources.
They are human assets.

And human assets become human capital.

We have to cherish our employees.

Today was the last day of the job training for the student.
It was a good experience.

Color Me Kubrick

It sounds stimulating.
Like "Being John Malkovich"?

I like weird movies.
Like "Clockwork Orange".

What are you going to choose?

Get headhunted?
Get independent?
Get promoted?

I'm interested in import business.
And I want to start up a business like Grameen Bank.
I want to establish a bank for poor foreigners by microcredit.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

A mail from Multiply introduced me this movie.
The title is so beautiful and the story seems wonderful.
I want to see it.

In my workplace a student from a pharmaceutical college is getting a job training.
It's good for us to teach a student because we can review our work.

Anxiety seems to be gone.

But it never disappears.

Shakespeare said something like that.
I agree.

dry spring

Serious problems

I watched two DVDs today.
One is "Vera Drake" and the other is " Dirty Pretty Things".

Vera Drake practices abortion illegally.
She just wants to help young girls in trouble.
But she gets arrested and goes to jail.
The happy family goes down to hell.

In "Dirty Pretty Things" the refugees and illegal immigrants live tough lives.
Some of them sell their kidney in return for a visa.

Both of them are too serious.

A brief encounter

I happened to chat with one of my ex-husband's friends in Peru.
He asked me if I was M.K.

WHO'S THAT GIRL?
I know, but I pretended I didn't know.
The friend A. pretended he took it wrong.

No, I shouldn't get mad.

Now that the girl and the baby are no more with him...

At the bottom of society

Freeters,NEETs,homeless and non-Japanese workers!
Let's get together and get out of working poor.
The vender of BIG ISSUE said "good luck".

Good luck to you,too.

The professional

I watched a TV program about a woman executive.
She runs an IT venture business.

She says it's not a person but work that makes a worker progress.

The top executive doesn't need to be most intelligent.
She doesn't has to be the toughest,either.
But she has to be the most cheerful person.

Even if she is in trouble deep,she steps forward.

Balanced scorecard

As a leader I must make a strategy thinking of these perspectives.

1. financial perspective
2. customer perspective
3. business process perspective
4. Learning and growth perspective

So we study more about medicine, disease and system of health insurance.
We perform custom-made pharmaceutical care.
We produce a clean, bright and comfortable pharmacy.

Now, how are we going to make more profit?

Is Tamiful really dangerous?

Some teenagers who took Tamiful died from strange behavior like jumping from a window or bumping into a car.
Is it a side effect of the medicine?
They may have had brain damage from influenza.

Now doctors avoid prescribing Tamiful.
They use Relenza instead.
So Relenza is in short supply .

Spring is coming but influenza patients are increasing.
The weather is strange.

An inconvenient truth

They say Al Gore's consumption of electricity for one month is almost as much as an ordinary family's consumption for one year.

How can he waste that much electricity?
He wrote the book on global warming.
What is this all about?

It's very funny and ironic.

Utada got divorced

She says she got divorced because of lack of communication.
The couple was too busy to stay together.

When we get married, do we have to live together?
If we are far from each other, is it funny to say " we are married"?

I'm scared of reading the comment

I get cold feet at such tiny things.

My wife is going to have an affair this weekend

I may have been too selfish.

I believed she didn't understand me
and I forced her to understand me.

If I respect her I should let her go.

I must not think I am always right.
I must say what I have in mind in front of her.

It seems easy but I easily forget the basic rules of life.

surrogate mother

Why can she be so kind?
She is willing to give.

It's wonderful to share the happiness of having children.

surrogate mother

The tough get going

If I wasn't hard, I wouldn't be alive.
If I couldn't ever be gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be alive.

Philip Marlowe

I haven't read novels of Raymond Chandler, but I like this phrase.

A woman says;
If a woman wasn't tougher than a man, she wouldn't be alive.
If a woman couldn't be gentle and pretty, she wouldn't deserve to alive.