mercedo wrote today at 7:12 PM
Thanks Karelle...I always appreciate that!

mercedo (1 second ago)
- tinklingjade:- mercedo:Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes Exerpt from ' The pleasure of text' Thanks for posting this. It is incredible. I shall look up Roland Barthes and "The Pleasure of Text". Ah ha! It was from ' A Lover's Discourse'. I had pretended to know the source! Sorry!!!

mercedo (1 second ago)
- kona_yuki_jp:- mercedo:Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes Exerpt from ' The pleasure of text' Wish I could get the chance to read his ' A Lover's Discourse' According to Google search, it was ' A Lover's Discourse' this passage is from. Whichever...this is nice. He left many beautiful passages. I like him!

mercedo (1 second ago)
- tinklingjade:Is this the core of the abacus? Japanese abacus is based on five notation system.

mercedo (1 second ago)
- tinklingjade:100070 and 100042..... i shall always think of that whenever i look at "scores".... puts things in perspective. Thanks...that's what I was driving at.

My world

My world
Monday October 20, @11:44PM

Everybody lives in 'my' world.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. – Roland Barthes

Exerpt from 'The pleasure of text'

mercedo wrote today at 9:49 PM
Many formulae can be drawn in different shapes that help us understand its meaning visually. Each number might have its own colour and shape in a similar way.

Our ancestor didn't know how to count numbers, probably the first step was one and two including more than two, reflecting singular and plural.Next step was one, two, and many, reflecting the first, second and the third person. The notion of three appears when first person noticed there are someone other than I and you.The concept of number has developed as times go by. We don't usually count 700 billion, 701 billion, but we will get accustomed to count numbers in unit billion if current economic crisis continues.

Chinese people created 5, 000 ideographic characters in ancient times and still they use in daily base. Japanese borrowed their characters but not all, that is 2, 000 Chinese characters.We spent tens of thousands of hours to learn by heart these Chinese characters. But it's clear those Chinese characters are very complicated, not easy for daily use, and obsolete. I just didn't want to think it was of no use I spent many hours in learning ideographic characters. Base 5,000 is possible and some genius might use this method probably intuitively, but we have to wait for another 150,000 years for the use of this notation.

Match fixing is called 'yaocho' in Japanese. Some people believe the word yaocho comes from sumo game, but it's untrue. Yaocho means Mr Cho of vegetable store, he often played go games with a sumo stablemaster. Cho lost go games on purpose in an attmpt to please a stabemaster. The stablemaster kept on buying vegetables in Mr Cho's store. That's where the etymology comes from. See nothing has to do with sumo world.

Deviation value was first inroduced when I was in the first grade of junior high school. 75 is highest and 25 is lowest, 50 is average. All the scores of test are not comparable so indicated after its deviation was mended. Since then as if everything is determined in deviation value. My deviation value was 67 when I entered a high school. It was more than 70 when I entered the university. I had a chance to look up the deviation value of high schools. My cohabitant merely graduated high school. She said she's interested in knowing whereabouts of her school, so I looked it up. My alma mater was 70, it rose up more than the days I attended. The ranking among 6, 000 high schools is 80. Hers is 42 and the ranking is 5,000. Deviation value or deviation standard index is from its origin starange term. It indicates how deviating from ordinary nomal standard. 70 means it is deviating +20 from average 50 index and 42 means -8 from average. Deviation value has been criticised as accelarating descrimination among people, and I agree with the opinion. Deviation value is as if deviding between one centimetre out of total length of one kilometre. Very useless notion indeed. Deviation value is deviated itself. Deviated and valueless.

It was already twenty years ago, one day in hot shinny summer I decided to go touring. After a lengthy riding I got to a very small peninsula. I put a bicycle there and started walking there. After a short time I was amazed to encounter a hunter with two dogs abruptly from bushes. I was chilled.

My cohabitant bought me a Japanese made chocolate. I have noticed the direction changed as just 'Store at a place in less than 28 centigrade degree'.
'Because it's high quality it melts in more than 28 centigrade degree'...was changed. Some one must have noticed it's strange or baseless.
Someone sometimes claims not very special but some feature is nothing but a criterion of excellence.

mercedo wrote today at 7:59 AM
Exactly. Sometimes very stupid bills are passed in Diet while people are beside themselves in watching popular baseball games. Later they start complaining about the bills.

mercedo wrote today at 7:30 AM
I think it's hard to remain names in history in general. Only those that evade being destroyed were left right now, many invaluable ones as well as trash must have lost in the past. Seeing only the present we cannot confirm there could have been nothing special in the past.

I was kicked out of one site..because the number of journaller in that site was rather small. I tend to write nearly ten journals sometimes and as if the site were hijacked by one of Asian stupid guys. I keep on writing till the end of time interrupted by no one. I write therefore I am.

Match fixing

It was rather hard to write a journal first here in Netlog. But for some reason I must have found a site to write it. People here talk about match fixing by Sumo wrestlers. Some one revealed it and sumo wrestlers are denying. I think it's useless to talk about whether match fixings were done. I think it might be done or it might not be done. But I'm saying there's no importance in talking about it. Let's talk about more useful topics. People ought to know talking about match fixing of sumo wrestlers are a red herring.

mercedo wrote today at 10:11 PM
Hi, Karelle..Thanks for your message. I appreciate that.How's your holiday?Mer

My cohabitant is from Nagasaki, she is going to see her parents for the first time in three years. I am with her of course. It takes three hours to get there. Five hours will be needed in total from door to door.
I have visited the city two times in the past. But for the first time to see her parents. I am not enthusiastic to see her parents, you see we are not married. I would reply yes I marry her if her parents asked me what to do with their daughter. Her parents are already 72 or 3.
Aside from that we would enjoy having Chinese dishes in a famous China town. There are three China towns in Japan. Nagasaki, Kobe, and Yokohama. Most famous Chinese restaurant is Four Seas Watchtower. We plan to go there.

One day in summer
2008.10.03 20:45

One day in hot shinny summer I decided to be in touring. I went on a short trip by bicycle. I put a bicycle while I was in a very small peninsula and started walking there. After a short time I was amazed to encounter a hunter with two dogs abruptly from bushes.
I was chilled.

Nostalgia
2008.10.03 20:24

I lived in many cities after I left Kokura at age 20. I moved to Tokyo basically but changed my residence eight times including one year in Kyoto and in US. I lived in Tokyo till age 27. Basically I lived in Musashino and Setagaya.
Back in my home town I have lived in Kyushu area. Till now I changed my residence more than ten times.
Now I can have the similar feeling while I was in respective towns and cities in following satellite photos, that certainly satisfies my nostalgia to be there.

Chocolate II
2008.10.03 19:46

My cohabitant bought me a Japanese made chocolate. I have noticed the direction changed as just 'Store at a place in less than 28 centigrade degree'.
'Because it's high quality it melts in more than 28 centigrade degree'...was changed. Some one must have noticed it's strange or baseless.
Some one sometimes claims some feature is nothing but a criterion of excellency.

In memory of Professor Abe

I was about to be overwhelmed by a behemoth I created. I was a Dr Frankenstein. I really had a hunch so.
I was in extreme agony when I was just 20. I had held a couple of my writings that I wrote at age 17, 18, and 19 or more precisely in May 1978, in July 1978, in September 1980. I was born in June 1961.
I think I studied hard in my school days, but that did not certify the value of my writings. Simply it might have been a trash. But it was hard for me to judge only by myself whether it's a trash unless someone says it's nice. Someone must have been the one anyone admit he's somebody.
People surrounding me said they admit my talent but it was not enough to convince me what my writings are.
The role Professor Abe played in my life up until now was tremendous. I've got a confidence no one can easily break, but I must realise right now that he was gone and gone for ever.
Now it's me who must play an important role in a society, I know but it's hard to see how I do.
All my writings were written in Japanese, first of all I must worry whether Japanese language survive in a hundred years time. The number of Japanese speakers and English speakers was almost the same when Perry arrived in Japan in 1853 with four Black Ships. 150 years later English speakers are ten times more.
It was another story..

Re:Two things (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2008.10.02 17:26 (#25230377) Homepage Journal
Oh, I see. I had thought it is a colloquial expression of 'Lost Angels'
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In memory of Yoshio Abe
2008.10.01 22:46

It was one day in March. I met him for the first time at age 20 in front of the gate of university. I had sent him my writings beforehand. He replied to me with full of joy as if he were excited to find a young talented poet ie me.. He was then 50. It was just three years after he became an assistant professor of French language. We went to the coffee shop near the university. He glared at me once in his big glasses.
He said we must admit your talent in writing. You wrote a very theoretical one. I was amazed to read your text and my works remain in history though many others disappear.
It was one day in September. At age 30 I saw him at his study in the university. He was 60 just before the retirement. He said it was still not sure which university he would teach next. He was about to leave the university soon. He said it is very unusual for him to find a person like me in that I am very cheerful while I must have had a devastating event. At that time I was totally devastated by hearing the news of her marriage. He said he has two types of guests, one who went to the extreme and ..I forgot the another one.
This became the last time we saw.
Probably I had oppotunities to see him around he was 70. He was still teaching at another university.
Few days ago I knew he had been dead in January last year -2007. I lost already two doctors who recognised me in literary world, but he was the best teacher I ever had who understood me correctly.
I knew his wife was a granddaughter of the famous Akiko Yosano, tanka poet for the first time in Wiki. I was talking with her ordinarily.
Yoshio Abe died at age 74 in 2007. He was the only teacher who understood me.His word appears again and again after I knew his death. Word is immortal.
I wanted to say thank you just one time before he's dead. It is immeasurable the effect he made in my life.

It was one day in March. I met him for the first time at age 20 in front of the gate of university. I had sent him my writings beforehand. He replied to me with full of joy as if he were excited to find a young talented poet ie me.. He was then 50. It was just three years after he became an assistant professor of French language. We went to the coffee shop near the university. He glared at me once in his big glasses.
He said we must admit your talent in writing. You wrote a very theoretical one. I was amazed to read your text and my works remain in history though many others disappear.
It was one day in September. At age 30 I saw him at his study in the university. He was 60 just before the retirement. He said it has not yet decided which university he would teach. He was about to leave the university soon. He said it is very unusual for me to find a person like me in that I am very cheerful while I must have had a devastating event. At that time I was totally devastated by hearing the news of her marriage. He said he has two types of guests, one who went to the extreme and ..I forgot the another one.
This became the last time we saw.
Probably I had oppotunities to see him around he was 70. He was still teaching at another university.
Few days ago I knew he had been dead in January last year -2007. I lost already two doctors who recognised me in literary world, but he was the best teacher I ever had who understood me correctly.
I knew his wife was a granddaughter of the famous Akiko Yosano, tanka poet for the first time in Wiki. I was talking with her ordinarily.
Yoshio Abe died at age 74 in 2007. He was the only teacher who understood me. His word appears again and again after I knew his death. Word is immortal.

Re:Live on credit for 40 years (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2008.10.01 21:42 (#25216977) Homepage Journal
In 1297 etc., there were a couple of cancellations of debt. Warrior class had barrowed a lot of money from rich merchants. Their loan was banished. Non performing debts are rescued by government. The collapse of securities company is never rescued. Subprime loan never disappears for forty years. Ah! I'm not well versed in economy. General rule never found.
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Re:Two things (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2008.10.01 19:33 (#25216079) Homepage Journal
I think it was already more than 20 years ago theis incident occurred. Mr and Ms Miura visited Los Angeles in their honey moon. Both were shot by someone. Ms Miura was shot dead, Mr Miura was wounded.
He was arrested in Japan after he came back. It was obvious he was not the person who shot her. He was charged in conspirating the crime with the third person who shot them actually.
After a lengthy trial, Mr Miura was finally found not guilty, then he was released.
Time goes by he visited Saipan for sightseeing, then arrested by US authority.
US court said arrest is just because in Japan even if he was not guilty in murder charges, his case was not discussed about conspiring the crime.
What I was pointing out is this point. He was not extradited, and I don't know whether US had demanded Japanese authority hand over him after the incident.
But an incident occurred in Los Angeles, not in Japan. Investigation by Japanese authority had its limitation form the beginning. US court says anyone won't be put to trial for the same crime twice. But he is about to put to trial for the same crime in the US. US court said it was not discussed as to conspiring the killing with the third person who committed the murder actually although he was not guilty in murder charges.
The reality is all his charges about murder and conspiring the plot was examined in Japanese court. He was not guilty in the end.
But that does not stop putting him to another trial in the US. He was arrested in Saipan, not in Japan. Statute of limitations must have stopped at a time he left US more than 20 years ago. US said anyone won't to put to trial for the same crime again in an attempt to probably appeace the pride of Japanese court or more simply I think it's just from the unnecessary consideration to a Japanese court.
He was arrested because US investigators thought there remains rational doubt about the conspiracy and murder by the third person thereafter.
Crime was taken place in the US. US has the solemn right to judge the crime.
There are many agreements in extradition. US military personels who committed a serious crime as murder, rape are extradited. Other minor crimes, no.
Many years ago one South American man killed his Japanese girlfriend and left Japan for his country. There was no extradition agreement between two countries. Then Japanese police asked to arrest and investigate him in his country.
He was shot dead before arrest. There's different rule in different countries.
By the way...why you put 'e' at the end of the English word 'angel', thanks for pointing out but it was so confusing..
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