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30 minutes diary (11/24)

We went to Mitake last week. It is in the west of Tokyo, between Oume and Oku-tama. There is small canyon, Mitake-Keikoku (御岳渓谷) and Mitake mountain (御岳山). In the autumn, a lot of people visit there to see autumn leaves.

Although we went afternoon, we have enough time to enjoy them. They are near from Mitake station. It took 1 minutes walk from the station to Mitake station. And it took about 20 minutes by bus and cable car to Mitake mountain. Maybe this week is good timing for view autumn leaves in this area. I felt fantastic.

QotD: Under the Tree (30 minutes diary (11/19))

What gifts, big or small, are you hoping to find under your tree this year?
Sponsored by Best Buy.

I have nothing to write diary today. I find out QotD is very useful in this situation.

Anyway, Let's try to answer the question. Hopefully I want to get EOS 5d mark II, which is a full frame DSLR camera. I wrote on this post that I bought a new camera recently. I know I don't need to buy it. But I wish I could use it just once and feel quality of high-end DSLR.

30 minutes diary (11/18)

I went to the office very early today because of a maintenance work. It's still in the dark when I took on the train. There are a few people in the platform. It was chance to free to take photos

There are a few people in the office too. So I opened a window, and took photos.　早起きは三文の徳。In English, it's said, "The cow that's first up, gets the first of the dew." (I just only look up in the diction.

30 minutes diary (11/16)

http://www.jreast.co.jp/estation/stations/866.html

If you would meet someone at the Shinjuku station, you should be careful about exits. There are many exits at the Shinjuku station. West exit, east exit, center-east exit, southeast exit, south exit and new-south exit.

When you go out a wrong exit, It's hard to go to a correct one. Someday I went out the south exit although I wanted to go to the west one. It took about 15 or 20 minutes to go to the south exit.

One of the reasons is lack of my sense of direction. But I think the most confused thing is the opposite side of the south exit is named "west exit". West exit should be named "northwest". And the indicator is not indicated around the station what exits is. Only it indicates the station is over there.

30 minutes diary (11/14)

I talked with colleagues about generation gap again, which is only a topic of chat. But I think we should know seriously how far is our thinking from teenagers' thinking because they are a kind of symbol of future. We need to catch up with the future.

A few days ago, I watch the TV documentary, "Digital native". Digital native is a new generation. When they were born, the Internet is already existed. So they live with the Internet naturally. That is, General knowledge of teenage is different from that of our age. That's why we feel generation gap when we see their behavior.

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Anyway I got drunk too match tonight.  I can't come up with next sentence.

30 minutes diary (11/13)

My English teacher and I talked about Japanese traditional wedding ceremony because I had a it 3 weeks ago. It's very difficult to explain it because there are a lot of jargon in it. For example, A bride is wearing "Shiromku" during the ceremony. Shiromuku is a white kimono which is made of silks. Kimono is Japanese traditional clothes. A bloom is wearing "Montsuki" and "Hakama". Montsuki is tradional clothes in formal, I think. Hakama is .. blah-blah-blah.

In the ceremony, the bloom and the bride drink .. "Omiki". Omiki is an alcoholic drink which oracle prayed. Their parents are around them. They are drink Omiki also because it's is a kind of proof we are the same family.  And some "Miko" dance ..

It's a tough practice for me.

30 minutes diary (11/12)

さあ、才能(じぶん)に目覚めよう―あなたの5つの強みを見出し、活かす

I like to read books. One of the authors I respect is Marcus Buckingham. His books are usually written about building career or use strength of individuals because He used to work in Gallup. He always write very powerful messages in his books.

One of the favorite book is "さあ、才能に目覚めよう(now, discover your strength)". This book is co-authored by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton. The concept of it is that everyone have their original strength. They said we need to find out our own strength and use it because we can work effectively.

As a amenity of it, we can get a strengthfinder.com ID. strengthfinder.com helps finding our own strength. 

Here is my five strength.

1. Input
   You are inquisitive.
2. Intellection
   You like to think.
3. Learner
   You like to learn
4. Significance
   You want to be very significant in the eyes of other people.
5. Achiever
   Your Achiever theme helps explain your drive.
   

I guess they seem to be reflected my way of thinking. I recomend this test if you have not done it ever. It's very interesting.

30 minutes diary (11/11)

I continue writing about yesterday's topic.

時間とは何か

The second book is "時間とは何か(What is time)". I think it is written for teenager because the content of it is simple and easy to understand. I read it in about an hour.

To understand the concept of time, the author introduce sevral kinds of clocks, for example, solar clcok, water clock, sand clock and pendulum clock. I think clocks are visualized time.

And he introduce how to measure time on science. There are several ways to inspect when something is existed from. One way is to inspect carbon composition ratio. On the other words, we can also understand the period of time to inspect scientific feature.

And then, he explain the concept of the relative time. In a study, the animals have different feeling about time passage. Rats are feeling time elapse more quickly, but elephants are feeling time elapse more slowly than human. I have read the same topic in a book of "ねずみの時間 ぞうの時間". 

I can look at time with clock. I can measure time, and I can feel time elapse. But actually I'm not sure what time is. This question looks scientific and philosophical. It's very interesting thesis.

30 minutes diary (11/10)

I continue writing about yesterday's topic.

The author insists that the competition about pixel size does not produce a best quality one. One of the reason why the competition is caused is end-user does not know about real camera quality. So he suggests that they should choose low pixel size camera if the other spec is the same.

It's a short diary today. But I'd like to get sleep time because I will get up early tomorrow.

30 minutes diary (11/9)

Actually speaking, it takes over 1 hour to write a diary. "30 minutes diary" means that I would finish it in 30 minutes someday.

In Tokyo, especially, in Koganei, it's getting colder and colder. It's very cold today. So I stayed inside all the day. I watched TV show until early evening. And I went to a caffee house which I often go, and I read two books.

デジカメに1000万画素はいらない (講談社現代新書 1963)

The first book is "デジカメに1000万画素はいらない (We don't need 10 milion pixcel for a digital camera)". It's　based on a magazine serialization. The author said it is not worth to get higher pixcel size in a digital camera anymore because CCD size is not changed.

CCD has limitation to get light. If a digital camera is changed pixcel size from 5 milion to 10 milion, the light we can get in a one pixcel is less than previous.

... Unfortunately I get sleepy. I'd like to write the rest of it someday..