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| Courtesy of Stockvault The sun, the moon, the stars, the twilight The wind, a breath of life in our heart so soft Can life be so beautiful now Peace is in the air So why, oh why, am I so much in despair The light won't reach my heart and I'm torn apart I don't know if I could smile anymore Won't you please tell me what was lost inside of me that day I cry out in dark dismay I'm covering the tears in rain Red memories remain You're the key that stops the rain You're the vision still the same But deep inside I know Without I'm left alone, in a cage called life You're the one that stops the pain Your love is in my veins Forever you will live inside My temple of Soul The smile, the wound, the sand, the heart inside Wind blows life within our heart so slow Yes, nothing to be afraid, of now Peace is in the air. But why do I feel, the world is so so unfair Your touch is lost, oblivion darkness and I cannot stand the solitaire Tell me why I was left instead of you Please talk to me Can I stand up when it rains Tears penetrate my heart with pain red memories still stay - Temple of Soul - Kazuhiro Watanabe - |
Showing posts with label japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label japan. Show all posts
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Repeat Mode: Temple of Soul
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Tokyo Crossing in Shanghai
Around Huai Hai Lu, the expensivo street of Shanghai filled with brands that are beyond my purchasing ability, stood a junction. What I hadn't noticed before was the junction was very similar to the crowded Tokyo junction. Given it was broad daylight, you could see the crowds moving in all 4 directions and diagonally as well. What completed the picture was the traffic police who was doing his dance in the middle of the junction. Ok maybe not dance dance, but signalling for the vehicles to pass and the pedestrian to stay could very well be a dance.
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| Tokyo Crossing by Duncan McKenzie |
Now the junction at Huai Hai Lu was almost the same, except you will have to imagine the streets to be much narrower, a lot more people, (I barely saw the black and white zebra line), and in the middle; instead of an empty square stood a "dancing" traffic policeman. :-)
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Be Happy...Live Long...
Shigeaki Hanohara; world's longest serving Doctor and Academician. His physical body is 97 years and 4 months old. However, his enthusiasm towards service and life is brimming with youthful vibrance. He has been rendering his service at St. Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo since 1941.
And this what he had to say on living a long and happy life :
Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!
Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.
When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether, the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a prodcedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctor's can't cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery? I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.
To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.
My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler." My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.
Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.
Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't know when your umber is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.
Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St.... Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyosubway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.
Science alone can't cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.
Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.
Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at DukeUniversity in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.
Its wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achive one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.
And this what he had to say on living a long and happy life :
Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot. We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It's best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime.
All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender share one thing in common: None are overweight. For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work.. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat..
Always plan ahead. My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!
There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.The current retirement age was set at 65 half a century ago, when the average life-expectancy in Japan was 68 years and only 125 Japanese were over 100 years old. Today, Japanese women live to be around 86 and men 80, and we have 36,000 centenarians in our country. In 20 years we will have about 50,000 people over the age of 100...
Share what you know. I give 150 lectures a year, some for 100 elementary-school children, others for 4,500 business people. I usually speak for 60 to 90 minutes, standing, to stay strong.
When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether, the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a prodcedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctor's can't cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery? I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine.
To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.
My inspiration is Robert Browning's poem "Abt Vogler." My father used to read it to me. It encourages us to make big art, not small scribbles. It says to try to draw a circle so huge that there is no way we can finish it while we are alive. All we see is an arch; the rest is beyond our vision but it is there in the distance.
Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.
Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't know when your umber is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.
Hospitals must be designed and prepared for major disasters, and they must accept every patient who appears at their doors. We designed St.... Luke's so we can operate anywhere: in the basement, in the corridors, in the chapel. Most people thought I was crazy to prepare for a catastrophe, but on March 20, 1995, I was unfortunately proven right when members of the Aum Shinrikyu religious cult launched a terrorist attack in the Tokyosubway. We accepted 740 victims and in two hours figured out that it was sarin gas that had hit them. Sadly we lost one person, but we saved 739 lives.
Science alone can't cure or help people. Science lumps us all together, but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and visual arts, not just medical ones.
Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old, I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in a crisis.
Find a role model and aim to achieve even more than they could ever do. My father went to the United States in 1900 to study at DukeUniversity in North Carolina. He was a pioneer and one of my heroes. Later I found a few more life guides, and when I am stuck, I ask myself how they would deal with the problem.
Its wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work for one's family and to achive one's goals. But in our later years, we should strive to contribute to society. Since the age of 65, I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week and love every minute of it.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Gang Rape Revenge Game??!!!
A computer game that lets players gang rape a mother and her two young daughters before forcing them to have an abortion is available to download in Australia, even though it is prohibited from being distributed here.
RapeLay was blacklisted on online shopping giants eBay and Amazon.com two weeks ago after several "as new" copies were listed by a seller specialising in hentai — sexually explicit Japanese animation.
The Japan-based maker of the 3D game, Illusion, also put a ban on its distribution outside of Japan.
But ninemsn has uncovered at least a dozen websites — including some linked to illegal file-sharing networks and others which are based in the US — offering the full version of the software to download.
One such site describes RapeLay as "a new type [of] molesting game with more beautiful 3D images."
"Reactions of heroines are more erotic than real … players can get the new excitement like never before."
According to reviews of the game, players are to hunt down a woman and her two daughters after being falsely accused of sexual assault.
The object of the game is to make all three female characters "sex slaves" without getting them pregnant.
If any of the virtual victims fall pregnant, players must force them to have an abortion or risk being thrown under a train and killed.
Descriptions of what players can do to their "prey" are too violent and graphic to write here.
Leading psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg has warned that some teenagers playing games like RapeLay may be prone to carrying out violent, copy-cat attacks.
"If the circumstances are right — say their psyche predisposes them to this behaviour — there's no question that they could be encouraged to do the same thing," Dr Carr-Gregg said.
The option to play RapeLay in multi-player mode — used mainly for the horrific gang-rape sequences — could have a dangerous bonding effect, he said.
"Playing [the game with others] would encourage a group mores and there's no question that this would normalise, sanitise and glamorise this type of behaviour," he said.
The game's distributor, Illusion, includes several other sex games in its plethora of titles, such as Battle Raper and Artificial Girl.
Like RapeLay, those games aren't meant for distribution outside of Japan, the company has said.
- ninemsn.au
I AM BEGINNING TO WONDER WHERE JAPANESE DRAW THEIR INSPIRATION FROM! PERHAPS A JAPANESE TERM FOR MORALITY IS NONEXISTENT!
THERE WAS A POINT IN TIME WHEN THE DOCUMENTARY BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE CLAIMED THAT VIOLENCE IN VIDEO GAMES WERE ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THE SHOOTINGS!
NOW...WHAT ARE THESE RECENT ENTRIES GONNA SHOCK US WITH?? (Perhaps nothing much since gang rapes are still prevalent with the absence of these games...but still.....)
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