When ya'll get the chance, check out Tri's new Project Pink
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Woke up at: 0700
Mood: Aching
Listening to: Silly Puddy by Zion i feat. The Grouch
Weather Report: ima ame futteru
Japanese Word/Phrase of the Day: minna = everyone
Japan News: A woman was arrested Wednesday for selling illegal copies of educational CD-ROMs used by a leading cram school, police said.
Satomi Tsuji, an elementary school clerk from Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, is accused of violating copyrights.
Police said the 37-year-old woman made illegal copies of CD-ROMs produced by Tokyo Legal Mind Co., a major operator of cram schools for would-be lawyers, using her own computer and sold them via the Internet to three people, including a 21-year-old Tokyo university student, for a total of 110,000 yen.
The CD-ROMs contained material the cram school used in its preparations for the national bar examination.
Tsuji reportedly purchased the original CD-ROMs for 30,000 yen from an online auction site.
Tokyo Legal Mind is no stranger to illegally copied CD-ROMs.
In 2001, the Tokyo District Court ordered Tokyo Legal Mind pay total of 85 million yen in damages to Microsoft Corp., Apple Computer, Inc., and Adobe Systems, Inc. after ruling that the cram school operator breached their copyrights by installing pirated computer software at one of its institutions.
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Fantasy Football Update (as of 09.24.03):
Record: 2-1
Okay...I'm not makin' any excuses, but both Culpepper and Henry got hurt. Picked up J. Blake as a replacement if Dante can't play.
Week 1 matchup: Spam Jam (Tri)
Sakamoto Samurais: 62
Spam Jam: 37
Week 2 matchup: Macs Silver & Black (Jim)
Sakamoto Samurais: 62
Macs Silver & Black: 42
Week 3 matchup: Fleas & Ninjas (Paul)
Sakamoto Samurais: 45
Fleas & Ninjas: 58
Week 4 matchup: Feo Football (Marc)
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Fantasy Baseball Update (as of 09.24.03):
Okay...I think it's officially over. With the last series startin' up, I have over a 700pt. lead. Thanks for a great season! :)
| Rank | Manager | Season | Last |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanshin Tigers | 5234 | 177 |
| 2 | Border Jumpers | 4499 | 62 |
| 3 | Jookies | 4476 | 82 |
| 4 | Dodger Dogs | 4060 | 67 |
| 5 | Fleas & Ninjas | 3477 | 41 |
Helpin' Mama move in, JAL, School and BBall
Sorry for the lack of updates...just haven't really been in the mood lately.
09.23.03:
Happy Birthday Hayame!
Yesterday headed to Tokyo to exchange my ticket to Seoul for my flight home in November. If the sales associate wasn't so cute...I might have been way more upset. But the whole thing revolved around hearing back from SFO to see if it's okay to reimburse the ticket to Seoul and use it towards the purchase of my ticket to SFO. They're supposed to call me back...but haven't done so yet...oh well...
Since Mama was goin' to make us (Ezure-san, Kohiyama-san, Muraguchi-san, Sensei and me) lunch/dinner @ 1500.
I got there around 1503 with Ezure-san giving me props for coming on time. We had some grubbin' food which consisted of: sashimi, karaage, ebi tempura, sweet & sour pork, kuri gohan, ohsinko and of course Mama's famous miso shiru. Ezure-san is so funny when he drinks. I still can't believe he's Chi Mama's husband. They have personalities that are on the total opposites sides of the spectrum...I guess opposites do attract, huh?
Came home and took a nap hoping to be refreshed to watch my favorite tv programs...but for some darn reason, they weren't on. So I went back to my nap. Woke up and was just surfin' when I saw on TV this show that had all these girls bowling with their eyes censored out. I found out it's this battle between swimsuit and nude models. Since it was broadcast tv, they didn't show any nudity, but what started as strip bowling, then went to wrestling with the loser getting a cream pie thrown in their face. The final event was a swimming medley relay. While this is going on, they have these hosts putting in their 2 cents which was quite amusing. I guess ya'll would have to have seen to get it. Since I was a little wired from waking up from my nap, I put in Tomb Raider 2: Cradle of Life. If I didn't like Angelina Jolie, this movie would've sucked @$$! Don't waste your time if you're not a AJolie fan.
09.24.03:
Happy Birthday Dana!
Got a call today @ lunch which Oguro san delivered to me. It was from Morimasa san. She's the lady who has an English class that I will giving a speech to this Saturday. From her emails (all in English), I assumed that she can speak English. Boy was I wrong when I called her back. She spoke nothing but Japanese to me...which kinda makes me wonder how this speech I'm going to give go. The past 2 speeches I gave, the leaders had really good English. Well...shoganai.
Taught the 8th grade class today. I had to make these question cards using "How long...." Since the class that I taught was after lunch, almost all of the students were in food coma. So I ordered them to stand up in Japanese which caught them all off guard. Hearing "bikkuri shita!", "eeeeehhh!!!" and "Kebin, sugoi nihongo shaberu" made me smile. It's a lot different teaching the 8th graders compared to the 7th graders because the 8th graders complain so much more. Plus, Takeuchi sensei let's the students control him.
Played bball for 3 1/2 hours today. Slowly gettin' back into shape. The bball teams now consist of only 7th and 8th graders because the bball season is over. But some 9th graders still come out to practice to help the teams out.
Mika-chan (the girls' team captain and also my pops and her mom are friends) was complaining like crazy cuz she doesn't like to run. I volunteered to run with the girls if she would stop moku-ing (complainin'). She then challenged me in sprints around the half court. Let's just say that I lapped her...yeah yeah...ya'll are saying that I'm a big bully, but she's one of the fastest girls on the team. After the sprints, worked out with the boys, running 2-man and 3-man weave drills. We then scrimmaged, I started @ point, but then later moved to center...hmmm...explain that one? When the scrimmaging was over, the boys ran this shooting drill but Abiru sensei sends all the weaker 7th graders to me to teach them how to shoot. I was a little caught off guard, but I was able to teach the basic fundamentals starting off by: feet, leg, shoulder, arm, elbow & wrist position along with the crucial follow through location. Unfortunately they weren't able to take that many shots because the team started to do they're cool down. Oh well...there's always next week.
The interesting thing about many Japanese programs which I don't see as much back home, is the extensive use of guest shows. Most programs, which aren't doramas (dramas), all in involve quite a few popular guests such as actors/actresses, sports people, singers, comedians, etc. When you see one on one show, you can expect to see them on at least 3 other shows in the same week. It's always appealing to see the various chemistry between the panelists. I'm still a little bitter that my programs weren't on last night.
There's another interesting program on right now. Domoto Tsuyoshi from this music group called Kinki Kids, for 24 hours. He gets to go on a date with all these well known girls. First up, Koike Eiko. Then, Becky. Then, Uchiyama Rina. Then Sonin.
Wellz...I'm gonna call it a night...pretty darn tired.
Kaz out...
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