Tomorrow is my final Toeic Test Day

I am going to take the Toeic Test tomorrow. I have taken this exam more than ten times. And my best score of this is 870 points. This point is kind of good score. And this time, I'll get over 900 points.

To this test, I have prepared whatever I do. Getting over 900 points is, of course, difficult, but I swear I concentrate on achieving the goal tomorrow.


Thank you.

Dream Area - I once had a dream

I had a dream, which is that I join in Workthought, brilliant software company, someday. Martin Fowler, whom I respect the most, lead this company worldwide.

To do this, I have to master English and of course master information technology well. So I have learned English and that various skills. Time is nearly coming. The sun almost dawn.


The play is just beginning.

Movie Area - As Good As It Gets

One of my most favorite movies is 'As Good As It Gets', which is 'A writer of romance' in Japanese title. Jack Nicholson, Helen Hant, and Greg Kinnear are starring in this movie. Why I love this movie is that the actors and actresses do brilliant play and the dog who is starring too plays so good, as well as I feel that Melvin Udall, played by Jack Nicholson, is a little similar to me.

I completely understood Melvin's character at the first time. And I found same character in myself. That was strange or foolish that Melvin who has severe obsessive-complusive disorder is same to me. Everyone has Melvin's character. Everyone has a character in a movie. But especially I have same sence with Melvin. Ummm. I am odd, amn't I?

Anyway, I love this movie. And I bought the DVD for about five thousand yen. The dicision was not regret.


I am completely walking on my way. Thank you.

Investment Area

I have invested in the stock market. In Japan and China. The result is so far good. And I'll try to get more one million dollars in the stock market.


My challenge is just beginning.

My dream is...

What is my dream?


I am wondering what my dream is, as a 31-year-old man. People have dreams that push them up in their lives. People have dreams that were found when they were young. I once had a dream that I continue contributing "the world".

It was a vague dream. It was a unrealistic dream. Then, I have to have a dream that is concrete, or realize my real life. So let me think about this topic right now. "What is my dream?"


My dream is ...

1. Have knowledge or skills to teach younger people or my friends
2. Have enough property to make me happy and make the world happy
3. Have dreams to dream that my life has dream and I can make the world better


By the way, my dreams are still so vague completely. Thank you.

If

If I had had enough time, I would have been more valuable. I just want to use "if".


Thank you.

Never

I never give up. I continue looking upward forever.


It's just beginning.

Toeic Test

I'll get over 900 points next time.


Thank you.

"Speedo"

Speedo is a brand name of swimwares. Today, when I was taking English lesson with my teacher, Nichole, my friend R. emailed me that he asked me to ask Nichole about the word, "Speedo". I just asked her about this word, and her answer was "Speedo is just a brand name of swimwares."

However, "Speedo" means, too, man's explicit swimming trunks in slang. He intended to trap me into a kind of embarrassment that I talk to a young lady with that word. Anyway, the conversation was ended by a brand name matter, and we were naturally going on.


Even so, he is a really good man.

Thank you.

My favorite dinner

I write whatever I think, even though it's not a matter that I take trouble to mention that. It's because it must be useful for boosting my English ability, I suppose. Then, this time, I am thinking about writing about my favorite dinner that I usually cook for myself.

Name:
- Brown rice, avocados and fried eggplants and green peppers with miso

Ingredients:
- eggplant(2)
- green pepper(3)
- avocado(1)
- brown rice(one to two go)

How to cook:
1. Peel an avocado, slice it, and serve to the table
2. Slice eggplants and green peppers
3. Fry sliced eggplants and green peppers with the frying pan
4. Add miso, soybean paste, to being fried eggplans and green pepper
5. As it is fried well done, then turn it to the plate and serve to the table
6. turn boiled brown rise to a rice bowl, concurrently
7. That's it

How to eat:
1. Add soy source to the sliced avocados
2. Put the avocados on the brown rise
3. Put the fried eggplants and green peppers on the brown rise, too
4. Eat it


It's simple and very delicious for me. (But I suppose that it's somehow weird for somebody else.)

Thank you.

I am reading ST

I am subscribing ST, which published by The Japan Time weekly. This newspaper's selling point is that you can read this English articles without a dictionary. At first I didn't read this seriously, but during Golden Week I appreciate the value that ST has.

I read this all over and memorize unknown words, and after that, I read same articles again. This method is valuable for me concerning learning English efficiently.


I am thinking I keep reading ST.

Thank you.

Physical area

I am attempting to make my physical ability maximum. I tried to rock-climb and someday I will try to run a marathon. On holidays I go jogging around the Inogashira Park, and there I am trying to stand my hands and chin myself by one hand.

Starting to rock-climb makes me eager to train myself. The possibility of human being is infinite. It was surprised that I could climb steep rocks at Izu Peninsula. A man can overcome his limits by intending to overcome that.

Someday, I can stand my own hands to everywhere.

Someday, I can do chin-up by my one hand.

Someday, I can climb the steepest rock around the world.


Thank you.

Think about my teens and twenties

I am in thirties now. And I have to utilize my teens and twenties for my thirties or forties. What are things that I had done at teens and twenty? I start to think this topic right now.

In my teens I struggled to get my identity. I was indulging nonsense matters, and did ridiculous things, but I was thinking that I want to do more valuable things for me and the world. I had read tons books, which covered various topics, and shaped my thought into my society and circumstances.

In my twenties I was out to the society and I learned the various topics. I learned IT, business management, finance, and English. I hoped that I was able to give the world more value. I concentrated myself to change myself and change the world. I actually intented to make me more valuable and more sophisticated.


My preparation had done. I just do it.

Thank you.

My strategic areas

I decided eight strategic areas of my life. These are things below.

1. IT (Information Technology)
2. Management or Finance
3. Language (now English)
4. Family and Friends
5. Rock-climbing or Physical
6. Entrepreneurship
7. Traveling all the world
8. Integrity, Confucianism or something


First of all, I have to get over 900 points on the next Toeic Test.

Thank you.

The Golden Week has started

In this Golden Week, I fully intend to study English every day. I have to proceed to my goal step by step. The thing that I should do first is to master English thoroughly.

Every day I am doing these things;

1. Read "Werther" out loud
2. Solve TOEIC listening questions
3. Listen to CNN News by my iPod


Reading out loud is very good practice for learning English. I always read several passage in my favorite book at least at five times. This makes me ready to learn English efficiently. And also makes me be more good speaker probably.


Thank you.

He finds his way at his thirty, confirms his way at his forty.

Confucius, the most famous Chinese philosopher, said in his book that a man has to find his way at thirty and confirm his way at forty. I entirely agree with this statement.

One of my favorite authors, Nanami Shiono, made reference to this statement in her essays, which is my recent favorite book. She said that a man who still don't find his way by his forty is a misery person. His unhappiness makes us awake that he is unhappy.

Her keen eye for humanity is admitted by myself and the world. Then, I was shocked that her sentence. I was shocked that I was at thirty and the time to forty is short.


I have to live on my own way at thirty eagerly.

Thank you,

Happiness is not from present.

Happiness is not from present, much less from past. Happiness is from our own process. Living our own best lives makes us happy. The notion of happy is coming from how we are living right now.

I am thinking that this sense is very important for us. Huge property or high prestige make no sense. More important thing is an ability producing huge property and high prestige, or rather, living his own life at just the right now.


We have to find ourselves to live our lives.

Be a genius.

We all were geniuses when we were children. As I look at a child playing at a park, this sense is always coming to me. They, children, are pure, natural, and very talented.

We grown-ups are same. When we are pure, natural, and instinctive, we are all geniuses. A few years ago, I felt a genius in myself. At that time, I was eager to concentrate all my efforts on getting my goals, such as a qualification or an incisive mind.

To be a genius, I have to do the following things:

1. Sleep well
2. Eat a proper diet
3. Concentrate on my goals


My challenge is just beginning. Let's play!