Blog#5 Money Ball

I watched the film “money ball” yesterday. This movie’s main actor is Brad Pitt. I wanted to watch this film when I found it in TV CM, because I like both Brad Pitt and baseball.

I would like to explain the summary about money ball.

The main theme is how to reconstruct the player of Athletics, which is baseball team. And it is necessary for Athletics to do it, because three star players resigned Athletics and join Yankees. Further Athletics didn’t have enough money to get talented players in order to fill them.

Therefore the general manager, who is acted by Brad Pitt, tried to find new solution. That is the new baseball style based on statistic . He met a fat man who graduated from Yale University and was good at economics. His logic of baseball convinced GM, so GM tried to do that.

But their idea was not common in traditional baseball idea. So the director and the headhunters complained his way, and didn’t follow GM. Sometimes he tried to solve it by firing headhunters and player who had great ability based on traditional idea and was liked by director. Finally he succeeded to make good mood team and win the league by new way.

After the season, the GM became very famous as a great GM, and was scouted with really high pay by the Redsocks. But he rejected that offer because he could not achieve World Champion, he would try to do it.     

I would like you to watch this movie. Because it is a movie for not only baseball but also business like how to manage a team and to solve problem.  

Further Brad Pitt is very cool. If you have spare time, why don’t you watch it?

Motoki

Blog #?: running a Age ice store

  In the beginner of this month, during our university festival, my circle are running a store to sale fried ice-cream which they called Age ice.

this is my circle store↓↓↓↓↓↓↓ 

 This is so called Age ice↓↓↓↓↓↓.   the cup seems much bigger then itself..

After 3 days operation, the total sale are about 150,000 yen but the final profit are only 1800 yen? so we can buy a hot pot for our circle.

 I just do not get it. How is that possible？

Shengjie Sun

Blog #4 P-phone

According to Sankei newspaper on the 9^th of November, P-phone, which is developed for police officers, flourished in 8^th of this month in order to arrest a swindler. http://news24.jp/articles/2011/11/09/07194117.html

This swindler tried to earn money by deceiving old lady. He approached her by pretend his son. And then he told her that he was being suspected of tax evasion and he needed money to clear the doubt. The next day he also said her “I cannot go to receive money because I’m busy now, so my friend will go to receive it instead of me.” When she tried to give this swindler money, her husband doubted him and took a photo of him. Soon after her husband took the photo, the swindler ran away without receiving money. This couple called the police and gave this photo to them. The police officer sent the other policemen by P-phone and finally the swindler was arrested.

This is the summary of that article. According to this article, P-phone is good at sending mails and images quickly and together and GPS function tells where the police officer. In the big earthquake in the last march, P-phone was useful in order to rescue people under the debris by sending images.

In my opinion, this P-phone maybe useful in the disaster like this March, because in that time we could not use cellular-phone due to the huge access simultaneously. But about the case of this article, is it really needed? I think normal mobile phone is enough to solve this swindler’s case. It seems that P-phone is spread in the local area. But I doubt how much it is and how much it costs to develop. In my view, the Japanese officers waste money to buy such products. Anyway I’m glad about not cheating money from a old couple!

Motoki Ono      

Blog #4 Letter, old way to communicate?

   Hello everyone :)
This time, I want to write about a way of communication.
   Some of my friends would already know that I have many pen friends in foreign countries. In last autumn, I started using the website  japan guide for making pen friends in foreign countries. To explain about the website a little, you can meet foreigners from all over the world who are interested in Japan. You can post your own ad on which you`ve written your personal date like name, hobby and so on. And to see your ad, foreing people who are interested in you send you message. And same like, you can send messages to people who you`re interested in.
Well, the reason I started using this website is that I was just interested in having pen friends and wanted to exchange emails or letters with them for long time. I hoped to find real friends in foreign countries.
   Actually I have a German friend who have kept in touch with me for more than 4 years. But she is doctor and sometimes too busy to write me backs soon. Though she is very good friend of mine and I love her, I wanted to have more pen friends who can talk with me often. That`s also a reason why I started using Japan Guide. After I started using Japan Guide, I`ve got so many messages from people in all over the world. As my major is German, many German people contact me :) I can`t count how many people I`ve met exactly on this website. But real friends are just some of them, I think. I hope I can keep in touch with many of them!
   Now I`m exchanging letters with almost all of my pen friends. I can contact on emails,too. But letters are more personal way to communicate, I think. It`s really nice feeling to find letters in my mail box when I came home :) haha
   Some people say to me that "Wow! You are exchanging letters. Not emails?"
   I can understand what these people think. They think that letters are a kind of old tradition to communicate in the times. Emails are more common, you know.
   What do you think about letters? Is it just an old tradition. Or should this way of communication exist in email-times?

Sorry, it`s Asami who wrote it.

#4 The school festival!

    From 4th to 6th November, the university festival was held. I belong to the Rakugo club and Tokyo Hole Project (a new comic club), so I told rakugo stories and did a comic dialogue in the festival. It was so enjoyable!
    On the eve, I took part in a costume parade. We disguised as the girls who boys disliked or were afraid of. They were a horrible ghost, a Japanese girl in 2000 has a tanned face and a white lip called Yamanba, a retiring grind, a modern girl who believed herself as a princess in the animation world, a hoodlum, and a Japanese ghastly apparition called Hanako in a toilet. I disguised as a woman at the Japanese disco in 90s. I wore a jacket with padded shoulders, swelled my hair like a crest, and danced enthusiastically. We walked around the Mejiro street. Of course, no boys talked to us! haha

    On the second day and the third day, we performed a comic show in front of the Hojin hall. We didn't only do a comic dialogue but also did a gymnastics show. Can you find me in the picture? I am the left person with a giraffe mask. On the show, we finally became  animals and danced wildly. The dance was so hard and we might look crasy. haha

I was so shy but I learned to get into my role during the shows. The festival got to be a valuable experience for me.
What were you doing during the festival? Did you enjoy it?

Hoh Saito

plan for next trip

After watch that documentary which I mentioned before, I feel that I really want to do such things like travel across a lots of countries. because I will back to China next year，when I come back to Japan, I don't wanna go directly, I will try another route, 

go south。。

like this

China>Vietnam>Laos>Cambodia>Vietnam>South Korea>Japan.

and I think I will try to get a free ride if it's possible.lol