2012년 3월 31일 토요일

Devil's Dictionary by Hiromi

This page is written to answer the task 11. 1 in ICT course I enrolled.


Read the following two definitions, and could you guess his/her occupation?  Both describes the same
occupation, but define the meaning from different perspective.  The second defintion comes from website, the Devil's dictionary http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/l.html.  Their definition is very cynical, but
points out the nature of the work from differnet angle. 


someone whose job is to give advice to people about the law and speak for them in court
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/


One skilled in circumvention of the law.
http://www.alcyone.com/max/lit/devils/l.html

2012년 3월 30일 금요일

Young millionares share their secret

The video I would like to share today is

Young Millionaires share their Secrets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGbt00ms7dQ

In Korea, five out of 10 university graduates cannot find full time employment.
They end up delaying graduation and go to private instiute to get certification
 (Toeic, computer so on) or working partime.  Graudation certificate does
not garanteen emloyment. 

Considering current slaggish economy, it is very important to develop
ability to creat own job. This vide teachers us what skills we need to know
to secure our jobs and increase our income.





The secret to become billionaeirs is
1) find what you love to do, and work towards you goal
2) tell the price which you believe you deserve
1:52-2:30
A: So how did you go from drawing beautiful pictures that anyone could do turn into incredible industry?
B: You know, I was really blessed for that because so many artists couldn’t start it.  I can say I do love being paid for. 
A: You first started one painting. (You were) paid 50 dollars for it.
(Many kids would say) 5 or 6 dollars for the first time (but you said) I am a professional. But you were once you started to be paid.
B: It built confidence and I started do all levels of shows at 10 (such) as art festibals and art fairs, and there amazing.
A: What put you out?
B: Publicity always helps things like that.  It is just word of mouse.  Meeting people makes that kind of connection.



4:12
A:Since I was young, I knew I wanted to be in kitchen and make sweets for family and friends.  Baking with my mom was such a passion. I knew something I wanted to do.   You know hobby, you know, turned into my passion, that turned into Wonderland. 
B: How did you make transition from something you love to
something lucrative.
A: I think for me it was just such a drive, I knew
something I wanted to do so I worked for the goal, and you know, I created those great products, we had great customers who came in. So it is like a word of mouth.

2012년 3월 17일 토요일

John Maxwell's speech what is your strength?


Watch this video.  His speech is so impressive!!

My hobby

My hobby is reading books.  Resently, I am really interested to read books related successful person, enhanfe happiness and motivation.  

Recenlty, I am interested in watching John Maxwell's video.  He is a leading figures for leaderships, but he has several best seller for personal and skills developments. 


other video collection could be seen in
My family
My parents live in Kyoto.  My father retired, and now he enjoys studing English.  (He might become interested in English because of me).  As he enjoys so much, he flied to Philipine to study English
two times.  Now he enjoys learning English at online English school and investing onine stock market.

My mother still works.  She is intered in gardening, and she raise vegitables.  She learns how to wear Kimono and flower arrangement. 

I have two young brothers.  One brother like fishing and now he works for fish trading company.  My another brother works for Coffee distributors.  He has one daughter and he really loves his daughter.


My home town

My home town, Kameoka, is famous toursit spots.   Long time ago, our area was food supplier for Kyoto people and we used to carried our crops by boat.   The river was sharrow and narrow, and difficult to travel by boat.  Therefore, Ryoi Suiminokura lanched river development so that big boat could travel to Kyoto. 
Now the river is used for boating and rafting.  We have romantic train to enjoy the beauty of the gorge.


Hello, I am Hiromi Nishioka.  I am a Japanese language teacher, currently I teach at Busan Institute of Science and Technology.  My research interest is Computer-Assoicated Langauge Learning, especially Digital Storytelling and online collaborative language learning.

My another interest is to learn how to success, how to become billionaries, and how to be happy.  In this blog, I would like to share what I learned about the above topics.