my life as a medical student, with technology or culture in Japan.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

The series of exams was over!

This term's final exams was over! Summer vacation is coming up soon.

I am going to visit Cambosia with my friend. I 'm looking forward to sight-seeing Angkor Wat temple complex.

Saturday, July 01, 2006

Playing CASHFLOW Board Game by Robert Kiyosaki

Today I went to the seminar to play CASHFLOW Board Game by Robert Kiyosaki with my friend though I have the biochem's exam next Tuesday.

Robert Kiyosaki developed this game to make people understood his idea discribed in Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!.

The idea is "Don't work for money, Have money work for you". I had read his books and thought his idea was so common for me because my father had run his own business.

But After finish the game, I found that I didn't understand his idea enough. To understand an idea in my mind and to put the idea into practice is two different things.

Now I want to put the idea into practice, for example investment in stock. I will create stock where my cash flow into.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

How interesting biochemistry is!


I have studied biochemistry hard today too and gradually realized how exciting biochemistry is.

I have reviewed the energy metabolism network consists of glucose, lipid, protein metabolism and found the interaction of them. Energy can be made of both Glucose, lipid and protein. If glucose in the body is not enough, the body use lipid to generate energy.

a metabolic cycle which I had studied is linked to another cycle. Our body have so many metabolic systems which are linked to each other that we can live.

Now I can understand what's going on in my body partially through studying biochemistry. It's very interesting. I get more interested in the reactions in my body. I want to know more. The more I understand the system of life, The more curious about it.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Hard work for the biochemistry exam


I got home just now. I have reviewed the biochemistry class since 30 minutes before after I finished today's class.

I reviewed energy metabolism today, especially carbohydrate metabolism. Glycolysis and the TCA cycle are really complicated for me.

It's very difficult to understand whole factors and their interaction but I memorized almost all of them.

We human forget 70% of what we once memorized yesterday, so I have to review several times what I reviewed today.

I will walk on the long and winding road to be a good doctor.

Friday, June 23, 2006

Exams is coming...


Final exams is coming, though not so many. I will have two exams about histology and biochemistry.

It's not so difficult to pass the histology exam because the professor showed us the questions to be asked in the exam. But I have to study very hard for the biochemistry exam.

I believe I will pass both of the exams but feel a little anxiety. So It's high time to begin the preparation for them. Good-by :-)

Today's Histology class, observed the structure of a brain, especially how nerves go

We have histology class on every Friday. Today, we observed the structure of a brain, especially how nerves go in it. I could see neurons but couldn't see their axons.

I'm so poor at looking on tissues by microscope that I can't tell certain tissue or cell by others. I respect those who are able to do well.

Web tutorials about symfony


I'm struggling with Web tutorilas about symfony. I have to construct some web-based system on my private business and learn how to construct with symfony.
About symfony

Symfony is a web application framework for PHP5 projects.

It aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.
This framework is very good and I believe it shorten the time to construct a web-based system. I recommend it.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

A Japanese famous snowboarded faced a problem by the SNS


I haven't heard the case same as Publishing 2.0 » Why the Social Networking Backlash WILL Happen says yet. But in last winter, a snowborder was in trouble from his post on mixi , most popular SNS in Japan.

He was so famous and selected as a member of the national team of Japan but he couldn't meet our expectation. Then some people found his diary about his private life with his steady on mixi and posted the adress of his diary on very famous bbs 2ch.

In the result of this, many people knew his diary and began to speak ill of his attitude. Though there are many blogs by famous athletes, most of them don't have such a trouble. This is because they don't thoroughly post their private life on their own blogs. The snowborder should know better than that as others.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Happy Birthday, Kazuo!!!

Today, we had our friend's birthday party until now.

Kazuo, the friend we celebrated today, said to us he felt very happy. Listening to this, we felt same as he did.

We gave him a wok which was a Chinese-style pan because he is very good cooker and often cooks for us.

I hope he cooks better by use of the wok. He promised to cook delicious fried rice for us. I look forward very much to having it.