Blog #6 Something important which we can notice after illness

Long time no see, everyone!
I`m really sorry I couldn`t write any blog recently :( Actually I`m suffering from hair-loss and took blood test at doctor office. And I may have collagen disease...So I have to visit bigger hospital on next Tuesday. I`ll try to catch up with you as much as possible!!!

I don`t have any news to tell you sadly so I`m writing now what I felt after I got illness.
As we are young, it may be natural for all of us to be healthy. Being heavy sick must be rare for young people. I was also thinking that being healthy is very natural for me. But after I started suffering from hair-loss, I noticed something important. Being healthy everytime isn`t natural at all. So we must appreciate everything which compose us. I was very depressed at first. But I think I`ve stronger a bit after I noticed that :)

Have you had any illness except cold? If you have, how did you feel then? or did you learn something from illness?

Asami

Blog#7 inter college negotiation competition

 I joined “negotiation and laws seminar,” and in December, 3 and 4, our seminar joined Inter College Negotiation Competition. The purpose of this competition is that students get negotiation skill which is useful in business scenes through imaginary problem. This competition was 10^th anniversary, and 19 universities including 上海交通大学 and Australia team joined it. Therefore, it seems that this year was bigger than before.

     In Inter College Negotiation Competition, on the first day, we tried the arbitration problem. On the second day, we tried the negotiation problem. There are 2 types of teams, Japanese team and English team. I joined English team. The problems are here.

     I would like to explain the summary of problems. In the arbitration, there are 2 disputes and each dispute has 2 issues. In the first dispute, Red corporation contracted Blue corporation in order to develop the system in a factory. However, some problems happened. Therefore, the launch day was delayed by the problems. Also, Red corporation bought “Blue tester” from Blue, but the ability was not good as Red expected.

     In the second dispute, Blue and Red made contract with Brown corporation to develop the lithium-ion battery satisfying Brown. However, Red and Blue failed to supply the lithium-ion battery due to failing to procure electrolyte. Therefore, Red and Blue couldn’t get profit and cost for developing the batteries was wasteful. In both disputes, Red and Blue sued each other for asking the other party to compensate damage.              

     In the second day, we tried the negotiation problem. In this problem, Red and Blue was trying to make the join company to get the contract with a nation for developing the water management system.

Our seminar took a long time in order to prepare this competition, but we could not win a prize. However, I could get a good experience. Therefore, I want to make the most of this experience for next year competition.

Motoki 

#7 Thinking about the Japanese pension plan

    As every Japanese knows, Japanese must have paid some money for the pension once a month since they become 20 years old. If he has paid that, he gets the right to get the disability pension. If a breadwinner has paid that and dies, his family can receive the pension for a bereaved family. Then, when he has already paid that for 25 years, he get the right to get the old-age pension. The system should become a relief for us to live.
However, it is an anxiety about our life and future now, because there is no positive proof that we can receive the old-age pension. The pension which the old people receive is what we paid. The birthrate in Japan is seriously dwindling. Though business is so slow, the money we have to pay goes up every year. Somehow, the finance of the system is hard now and we feel the crisis over collapsing the system.
   Should we, the students pay that? I became 20 years old this year and I also worried about and was so interested in the system, so I studied about that. The Social Insurance Agency insists on the advantage in the system but I couldn't get any positive proof that it can last soundly. However, I pay the pention now because I persuaded myself that it was for expressing my gratitude to those who brought up me  (I think those are all old people.) and it's not for my old age. To tell the truth, the money (it is 14660 yen once a month now.) is heavy for me. You may think that we should pay that because we may have a chance to receive the disability pension. Yes, we may get a terrible accident or sick, but we also has insured and paid the social insurance premium. The disability pension isn't so important, isn't it?
What do you think about the pension plan?

Hoh

#6 My favorite book

    I forgot to post on the blog!! My mind has already been in the winter vacation xp
It is so cold, isn't it?
I know a right book in winter. The book is The Makioka Sisters written by Junichiro Tanizaki.
It is so famous and called Sasameyuki in Japan and it means light snow.

    In the novel, there are four beautiful sisters and their family.
It is a good old family and we can know how the people in the Meiji Era lived. They always kept up appearances. For example, when Yukiko, the third daughter received an offer of marriage, she dislike the man but she couldnot decline the offer easily, because the impression of her on the society might get bad. They managed to keep the impression of the main branch of their family good.
Getting along well with neighbors were thought to be important to live in old Japan. Now, we have many lifestyles and don't have to mind the society like old people.

    I like the book very much, because the mood is beautiful and lively. I think you should read it in Japanese to enjoy the mood fully. It is because the expression of the all scenes are so beautiful and we must find the beauty of Japanese, the language. Then, the characters are from Osaka and they speak in the dialect called Osakaben. I like the expressions peculiar to Osakaben.
Then, I am interested in the movie now! The novel was made into a movie and judging from the amazon site, the movie is also good! 
 Have you ever watched it or read it? ...Or do you know any other good novel?
I am going to read many books in the winter vacation. (Now, I am reading "Crime and Punishment" written by Dostoyevsky. The story is very crazy and my mind may get to be crazy!)

Hoh

thanksgiving

  last month, one the thanksgiving day, we had a thanksgiving party on my friend's home. I met a lots of friend there. nearly 25 people come to this party so the tiny living room beacome very crowed. but we still have a lot of fun.

  the roasted turkey is the star of the show of this thanksgiving dinner. we stuff it with bread cubes, veggies, nuts, etc..

  we also made kind of gravy whih potatoes as sauce and I poured tons of this gravy on the turkey, the taste was very good.

  

here is the turkey. 

shengjie sun