A Medical Student's Life in Japan

The series of exams was over!

2006-07-08T03:38:00.000-07:00

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.

Playing CASHFLOW Board Game by Robert Kiyosaki

2006-07-01T09:15:00.000-07:00

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.

How interesting biochemistry is!

2006-06-28T11:30:00.000-07:00

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.

Hard work for the biochemistry exam

2006-06-27T05:41:00.000-07:00

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.

Exams is coming...

2006-06-23T11:08:00.000-07:00

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

2006-06-23T07:23:00.000-07:00

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

2006-06-23T05:59:00.000-07:00

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.

A Japanese famous snowboarded faced a problem by the SNS

2006-06-21T04:53:00.001-07:00

I haven't heard the case same as Publishing 2.0 Â» 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.

Happy Birthday, Kazuo!!!

2006-06-20T11:30:00.000-07:00

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.

Some Rules are very important I think.

2006-06-19T12:16:00.000-07:00

I belong to ESS (It stands for English Speaking Society, a kind of circle to practice & improve English speaking). The circle was created by ourself about a month ago, so we have few rule to manage the activity.

In the last meeting, we discussed for relatively long time. Some member said discussing for a long time was meaningless and he wanted to practice speaking English itself. I quite agree with the second but disagree with the first.

Though I hate a rule which is too strict & spoils activity, We should have some rules to manage the circle smoothly because too freedom also spoils activity in the long term.

I know what he and I want is essencially same. We want to run our circle better to improve our English. So I will explain the importance of rules and discussion again and again. I don't only complain but act as I wrote on the last post(Che Guevara's poster, its use of color is really good).

Che Guevara's poster, its use of color is really good

2006-06-18T02:17:00.000-07:00

I bought CHE Guevara's poster at a book store in Kobe. Though I went to the store to shop a birthday present for my mother, I saw his face and the use of color on the wall and impulsively bought it by 2000 YEN (about $18).

As the poster says, CHE Guevara was the revolutionary in Cuba & is icon still now. He lived much more actively than ordinary people.

I put the poster on the wall. Maybe I will feel
that he says "Try to change the world around you" every time I see his face.

I want to be the one who not to only complain but to try to change or solve it.

Dancing all night with MONDO GROSSO's play.

2006-06-17T08:24:00.000-07:00

In the last post, I say I'm going to bed but I have smothing more to post.

Last night, I went to watch Shinichi Osawa's play, he is also called MONDO GROSSO (Amazon.com: Shinichi Osawa Mondo Grosso), and dance all night. I had not listen to his music so much, but I felt his play was really COOL! He made allmost all audience at the floor hot.

The event was held in Kobe, my hometown. People often say that there are many fashionable people in Kobe. It's true. Many of the audience last night is very stylish. I wonder where such stylish people are during the day. Guess where they are during the day.

I got the answer today. Some of them are clothes shopper. I could understand why they are such a stylish people if so.

I was dancing all night and didn't sleep enough so that I am very sleepy, ain't I? So I really say good-by today. Thanks for visiting and reading.

I study medical at Mie University in Japan

2006-06-17T07:29:00.000-07:00

This is my first post in English.

I am a Japanese and study medical at Mie University in Japan. I'm in second grade now and it takes 6 years to graduate the school and become a doctor.

The is my photograph portrate. I ask the barber to cut my hair like Hidetoshi Nakata, very famous and good soccer player in Japan. (view Nakata's photos by Google). Many of my friends said I looked like him. Even strangers who I passed by on the street yelled "Oh! Nakata is here!" I'm a little embarrassed to be said that but I like this hairstyle because I feel I looks good with this hairstyle.

I will post about my daily school life as a medical student or what I am interested in. Please don' t hesitate to comment on my blog. I hope you enjoy this.

Now, It's about mid-night in Japan so I want to shut down my laptop and go to bed...zzz. good night.