In Memory of Uncle Kazuo

Today, one of my uncles, Kazuo, past away.

He was the first boy of my mother's family and he stayed with my grandma, his mother, all his life through at his birthplace which is famous for the summer festival.

Since his school days, he was a very good runner and got good results at track and field meets.

I remember well that when I was a kid he showed me medals he won at various competitions and I was proud of him.

My grandma past away last November at the age of 100 and we had the first lantern festival ceremony in this July. It's the most important milestone after a person past away in Japan.

He took care of grandma for years, thus, I thought he can enjoy his own life henceforth.

I hope he enjoys his next life with grandma and grandpa in heaven.

RIP, uncle Kazuo.

Day 1998: Bicycle (Again)

Looks like now my daughter does not need training wheels. :)

TOEIC '13 Winter

Today, I received the result of TOEIC test I had two weeks ago.

Since last April, I didn't have almost any chances to speak in English,
but I think I did enough well. :)

In Memory of Yone-cha

Today, my grand mother, Yone-cha, past away finally.
She completed 100 years of her life calmly.

Roughly 50 years ago, she lost her husband (my grand father) suddenly.
In those days, she had 1 girl and 4 boys, and the eldest one was just
a junior highschool student. Thus, she had to work very hard.
But, anyway she brought up all the kids successfully, and eventually she got 7 grand
children and 4 great grand children.

Her home town is well known for its Summer Festival around the area. It attracts
lots of people including relatives of course. Thus, she looked very happy (and busy :o)
during the festival season of September. It reminds me of lots of memories with gramma.

Now, she can see her husband after 50 years interval, and I would like to say
good-bye and take a rest with your darling in the heaven. :)

TOEIC '12 Winter

Today, I received the result of TOEIC test which I had just after getting back from
a business trip to USA. As you can see, my score has been decreasing
for these two years, but this time it looks like I did well. :)

  

Day 1483 : Bicycle

My daughter got a bicycle finally! :)

Day 1462 : Happy Birthday!

4 Years Old!

Day 1303 : the Youngest Stacker!?

Haha, my daughter could be the youngest stacker! :o

Day 1301 : Portrait !?

Seems to be my portrait...drew by my daughter. :o

Day 1097 : Happy Birthday!

3 Years Old! :)

TOEIC '10 Summer

Again, I had a TOEIC test on August 1, and today I found the score report in my mail box after summer vacation in my home town.

At first, I thought that the score was better than the last time slightly, but it turned out I got 10 points down. :(
Actually, from this year, I decided to have TOEIC exam once a year, not biannually, and this time I could make no spare when I took the exam. In short, it's important how one is used to answering the questions. So, it's better taking it as a reasonable result anyway.

Day 1007 : No Thank You!?

Now, my daughter is staying at her grandma's house with my wife.

Today, I asked my wife sending some pictures of my daughter, and I got the following:



Well, my wife said, "Let's take a picture for papa!", and my daughter looked like that she didn't like it...orz :ob

Day 972 : Rock'n Roll !

This evening, we went to Ito Yokado @ Musashi Koganei, and the above is a snapshot there.
I think there is no need to explain. :)

De'Longhi

Recently, my wife bought a dehumidifier.
I didn't know which manufacturer she chose, but today I recognized she loves brand things.
It's a De'Longhi, DC125ECO, and here my point is that it's huge and noisy. :(

日本人の英語

日本人の英語 (English of Japanese People)
マーク・ピーターセン(Mark Petersen)
ISBN 4-00-430018-5

Well, I thought I should write about this book in Japanese, my mother tongue.

この本は初版が1988年、まだ僕が大学生の頃に出版されている。
なんで出た当時に、せめて大学院の頃に気づいて読まなかったのだろう。
このblogも、思うところあって英語で書いているわけだけれど、この本を読んでいて、正直、冷や汗が出たというのが正直なところだ。
マーク・ピーターセンの本は、他にも「続日本人の英語」「心にとどく英語」とあるのでどちらも順次読んでみよう。

しかし、それにしても、見事な「日本語」だとしかいいようがない。
最近は日本語の通じない／書けない日本人も多いことだし…

Day 958 : Pretending to be asleep

Recently our daughter pretends to be asleep when we say something she does not like.
I'm not sure whom she learned it from, but anyway the above picture is an example. :o

Twitter 503

Ha ha, I see this screen for the first time.
There must be a storm of tweets in the world. :)

Cloud Computing Expo #1

Today, I went to the 1st Cloud Computing Expo (Cloud Japan) to listen to a talk given by Yuji Chino of NicoNico Video(ニコニコ動画).
Actually, it was the keynote speech of the Data Storage Expo which was joint hosted with that.
That's why, his talk was mainly focusing on storage subsystem perspective of their system.

Here are my notes:
- Nico Video has about 140TB of data in total. Individual video file has 2 or 3 copies including the original.
- At this moment, Nico Video supports only 2 levels of resolution. This is one trade off decision.
- At this moment, Nico Video does not preserve the original uploaded data. This is another trade off decision.
- Nico Video's system uses 3-tier model, edge servers(400), origin servers(100) and storage subsystem(3).
- I'm not sure what is the origin server, but it looks like a kind of cache server.
- Because of their load balancing and multi-tier cache architecture, there is no significant I/O traffic for the storage subsystem even they are using NFS, not FC fabric.
- The edge servers utilizes fast I/O throughput of SSD, for other servers capacity is primarily important.

Sun Intel Net !?

I've been interested in a company named "SUN INTELNET" Corporation which has a big building by the wayside of Tomei Express Way close to Atsugi Interchange.
Today, I succeeded to take a photo of their building finally. :)

Of course, it's because I felt funny the combination of words Sun and Intel, but anyway they look like a logistic related company...

Day 938 : Funny Face?

Haha, recently my daughter wears a funny face when we say something she doesn't like.
The above is a snapshot which my little brother took today. :)