Last year, I didn't write any New Year card.

There were a lot of reasons, for example, I had to help my daughter's illustrations, write my wife's address to the post cards, and carry my daughter to emergency hospital.

Even then I think that I had a time to write New Year’s card.

In conclusion, I felt bad for the end of last year.

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I have decided to leave for my country home, and put something to my bag. And as soon as I took a road,

The strained back was coming.

It came incoherent suddenly

I was crying with heavy pain in my house alone.

It is 14 years since I did it in Colorado in 2001.

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Here, all plans are usually returned. It is going to be cancellation.

But I have a reason not to do that this year.

Nobody could prepare for household affairs in my country home without me.

"My father will starve for the New Year holidays"

I got in the Shinkansen with bearing scream, and carried rice and miso with screaming.

Now, I am crying whenever I move

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I thought "this is a voice of God".

"You don't write insolent things anytime."

"Do experience a little part of "old-old care" with your body, this guy!"

It seems to be said that.

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I hope that it should not be over in "one year when I continue hearing a voice of God".

I sent a mail to my second daughter from my country house.

- From Ebata to daughter

Some web site has release the animation ranking in 2014.

If you win work of from the third to the first prize, I will give you the book coupon of three thousand yen. Even if you lose the turn, one thousand yen is going to be yours.

[Clues]

(1)We have already watched the animation program in last year.

(2)I became enthusiastic one of them

[Condition]

You never search the information from the internet.

If you break the above, I will stop buying the book of Monogatari series

Send your answer in twenty minutes.

- From daughter to Ebata

The third Steins;Gate.

The second Madoka-Magika

The first Bakemonogatari

-From Ebata to daughter

The animation had already been released in 2014. We should target this year's animations only. The lists you showed me are before 2014.

I allow you to vote again.

-From daughter to Ebata

The third Madoka-Magika

The second We don't know a name of the flower I have seen at the day.

The first Steins;Gate.

-From Ebata to daughter

I said "in 2014"

-From daughter to Ebata

The third Tsuki-monogatari

The second Your lie in April

The first PSYCHO-PASS 2

-From Ebata to daughter

We are very sorry, but we lost all.

The third Nozaki-kun, monthly girl's comic.

The second Ping-Pong

The first Barakamon

See you next year.

Papa.

Yesterday, I watched a NHK New Year special program "Next world" a little.

From the last year, though I have watched the programs of "Big Data" "Super Computer", "Artificial Intelligent (AI), I always thought

"Is that really?"

"This story is not about technology, for example, Big Data, AI. Some (stupid) person had not noticed the data trend, and this time they finally noticed that luckily. "

I have stopped speaking above phrases since last year,

Nothing is uglier than an engineer who knows some technologies and talk about them.

I also know that.

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But,

I wonder why the futurology drama that NHK makes becomes "stereo type".

I think that NHK wants to make a drama of the social menace that computers control us, but in my opinion,

"How soon computers control our society?"

I want computers to say that "Control us as soon as possible", and I illiterate the computer's low-performance.

If AI is really useful, I hope that AI works for politics and diplomacy.

At least one future of "we choose one artificial intelligence among plural artificial intelligence by national election" should be designed.

I want to hear a street speech of the artificial intelligence.

I don't care about the avatar. Hatsune Miku or others are O.K.

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If NHK spend money on this futurology drama, it become very good to ask the production company that produced "the PSYCHO-PASS to make an animation program.

I believe that

"Sibyl System" is all right.

I came from my parent's home just now.

It was New Year holidays when I continued preparing meals all the time at the parents' house. Thanks to the cooking, I could learn get how to make zoni (soup containing rice cakes and vegetables) completely.

(Step.1)Throw vegetables and a slice of the chicken into the pan and bring it to a boil. When carrot becomes soften, it is finished.

(Step.2)Pour a commercial broth out in large amounts. Taste with a spoon and stop it when it becomes your favorite taste.

(Step.3)After cutting fire, Throw the rice cake like dice shape (to avoid rice cake accident), and leave it for around five minutes.

Unfortunately, this zoni was the most delicious in the past life.

I gave up the effort with no regrets, that I make the broth by myself

(To be continued)

When I want sukiyaki, using "sauce of the sukiyaki" is tasty and reliable. The pan is similar, too. Other sauces of pot are same too.

Furthermore, the side dish for New Year holidays of the supermarket becomes surprisingly delicious. Besides, they are cheap.

At the end of the year of more than 15 years ago, my wife fell down by a cold, the side dish for New Year holidays of the supermarket which I bought for the first time was really terrible taste. After having eaten five shares in couples in total, we all threw it away.

In addition, this time, I tried to buy the dish whose name is "the magic plate” that enable fish grill with only microwave (around 1,000 yen).

Though I thought I could not be completely satisfied with the "grilling", it was very helpful for me not to use frying pan at all.

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I generalize the above.

"The commercial dish and seasoning are delicious enough. The combinations of the materials give us high-quality dishes"

In addition,

At these days when superior ingredients and convenient kitchen utensils are fully lined up, what persons, who cannot prepare for meals, seek the partners of their life, is

"How shameless you are!"

I think that there is no help for being blamed.

This New Year holiday, I tried to make a controller program for DI/DO control with cooking for my father at my parent's house.

I used a middleware API that a product maker has provided, but I could not make the program start up well, I have been annoying in front of my PC.

"I should give up it now."

I make the thorough report that I wrote all my trials about the program, and sent it to the maker. After that, I suspended the PC.

I thought

"The calling will come at the first day of work after New Year's"

But a mail came to me from a salesperson of the maker on the day.

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Thank you for your help.

I am John Smith, the salesperson of my company.

According to today’s your mail, we are very sorry, but our first work day is going to at the fifty.

Unfortunately, I am going to contact you at the day. Please wait for a while.

We are terribly sorry for your inconvenience.

Best regards,

John Smith, the salesperson of the company.

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For just this short mail, the favorable impression of this company became growing exponentially.

Even it was the period of the New Year's holiday, giving me the mail made me happy.

But I was afraid that this typical Japanese service will make companies, so called "black", as a remote cause.

(To be continued)

(Continued from yesterday)

I think that I also one of accomplices of "Black", because I expect such an extreme service, as a consumer.

If someone asks me who the worst guy is in this case, I should answer that

"It is me, who make the controller program for DI/DO during New Year holiday.

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If I continue the chase of the responsibility,

- Broadcasting companies that make a lot of bore TV programs using entertainers who are not popular,

- Internet service provider that keeps providing the access services during New Year holidays.

- Japanese New Year holiday system is wrong.

If I continue the chase, the result becomes "anybody and anything is wrong".

As a result,

"To keep working even in during the first three days of the New Year, makes profits"

I can generate the above "black" conclusion.

Recently, I wrote that I have taken charge of the head office of a project, and now I work as a head of the secretariat.

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Today, I reviewed the organization chart of this project, and I noticed that my job title was described in the secretariat column, as

"Kyoku-cho" (the head)

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How to say, I wanted to patrol with my team member in the laboratory, with wearing pale yellow striped uniforms.

I am feeling to be "Isami Kondou" of "Shinsen-gumi".

Yahoo!

I could succeed in making the project of SOEM(Simple Open EtherCAT Master) for Visual Studio 2010, just now.

So I can start the trace and debug of the SOEM source code !!

Once it works well, success is mine!

Now I work for the secretariat of a project, but originally, I am a software engineer for communication devices and controller equipment.

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For that matter,

According to "Kyoku-cho" (the head) of yesterday's diary, my wife said "it's cool"

I like it, so, I think that it is no problem that you call me "Kyoku-cho" instead of "Ebata-san".

"I want to meet Ebata-san's daughters."

I think that he doesn't have sexual abnormality and is not portraying children in an erotic style. He might be just a father of one infant boy.

Ebata:"What are you thinking on earth?"

Younger:"Well, I want to observe the children under the singularity environment."

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The singular point means the point that the standard cannot apply under a certain standard.

Concretely, it is a point of x=0,when you integrate f(x) = 1/x via 0 points, and appears (so-called "broken by zero").In this case it is necessary to perform an integral calculation detouring around x=0.

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Ebata:"Say. Who is the singularity?"

He ignored my saying and continued the following.

Younger:"I think that your senior daughter is going well. She could understand the secrets of human nature well.”

Ebata:"..."

Younger:"But I am worried about your junior daughter. It is almost as if she is one of Ebata-san's clones.

Ebata:"..."

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"Well, this is that "none of your business" so-called."

I came to think of it in spite of myself.

I wrote about a make sent me a email about their product during the first three days of the New Year,

But I came to think of it again, the reason was "the unclear manual".

There was no explanation and figure of the whole product, relationships between another tools, and setting for another tool.

In fact, almost of the manuals for engineers are unclear.

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There are a lot of people who become to get angry with the product which does not work, without reading the manual.

Especially, about the household electrical appliance such as vacuum cleaners, washing machines, and refrigerators, they are apt to do it.

Even if a maker blame them with saying "You are wrong because you don't read the manual”, the make is going to the end.

Indeed, human being hates machines, and moreover they hate reading manual for their history.

In spite of it, PC and Smartphone have spread generally. I think that this is a great achievement of the human history, called, "the miracle".

This is a win of the industrial engineers who have continued studying about refined GUIs that can provide services independently.

(To be continued)

(Continued from yesterday)

In that air, the manual for the dedicated device and software that engineer use is awful unclear.

There is no attitude to have understood the contents, with malicious intentions.

Why does it happen?

The reason is that the developer of the product makes the manual.

They make the manuals to depend on the Pareto principle faithfully.

The explanation of 20% of functions that we never use, occupies 80% of the whole of manuals.

Besides, the developer cannot explain only the simplest usage, and she/he is going to list them without leaking all exception matters.

(For the developer, there is no help for trying to explain all of the function of the products.)

As a result, the manual not to make understand even simplest work is completed.

Why is it like that?

This is because there is little number of the users.

There is not tens of millions of user in the whole world. 。

For less than one hundred users in Japan, the cost of user's objections, become lower than making splendid manuals.

In addition, the manner of "you are an engineer, so you can do something by yourself" seems to be confirmed.

In conclusion, the manuals for the dedicated device and software that engineer use, becomes awful unclear.

(To be continued)

(Continued from yesterday)

Whenever I write "readme.txt" about my original software, I make the chapter of

"Firstly, make what I tell, as I tell you"

I ignore what the user want to make, for the first time.

An engineer can work something only one time. She/he might have the capability of change it to what she/he wants.

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Unfortunately, this approach seems not to be acceptable for many people, thought I think that it is the best way to start working something.

The manuals for engineers are also the same.

Japanese English teaching is also the same.

Though somebody hammers some ways of manuals or textbooks into our head, the products or English conversation does not start.

I think if we make one thing to work, it might be easy for us to expand it.

This morning, the conversation of couple at the entrance.

Wife:"Today's maximum temperature is going to be six degree."

Ebata:"It is too cold."

Wife:"Flurry of snow might be coming."

Ebata:"That's troubling."

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In fact, my house is located near the higher ridgeline that is hit by land breeze. So snow lies on the ground easier.

In the case of heavy snow of the last year, I went to a super-market on foot, with carrying a backpack on my back.

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Ebata:"Snowing annoys me. I ask you to do anything for me."

My wife:"Understood. I will do something"

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If it is not snowing today, it is for my wife's power.

Some time ago, when I looked on the subjects on the mailer, and I found the phase 賞」

"Mr. Tomoichi Ebata. According to the 152nd Akutagawa prize and Naoki prize"

at that moment,

"Errr!, which work (column) of mine get the prize !?"

I think that even I, who could come to think of the above, am

"a really happy man".

"I doubted whether I had become useful when I had participated in the volunteer of the Hanshin Awaji great earthquake disaster.

I think, "nothing to had been done" after all.

However, I think that it is sure that the volunteer was useful for me.

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"All the private houses collapsed without keeping the original form."

"The stairs of the apartment were separated halfway and dropped on the body of the car, and did not see a roof."

"The water pipe which became bare was torn, and the cut end was left vividly."

"The wall of the block fell down and dispersed in the road side, and spread through the whole road."

"The apartment fell, and the entrance door split open and flied, I saw the sky of the sunset through the window of the living room."

The telephone pole was broken to several folds, and a torn electric wire fell into the step. The house collapsed of the wall, the whole of the room is with circle vanity. In debris of furniture and the tableware, only a calendar put on the wall was safe.

The concrete block of the embankment collapsed, and soil was exposed. In addition, they stopped as the form whenever it collapsed.

A poster, that was put on the house of both sides of one way where the wreckage was removed, was written just "Akiko died", and her some information.

There were no people.

The wind didn't blow, and nothing moved.

The ruined town stopped like one piece of photograph without time going by. In the scenery in the view, I saw only the ruined town and the sunset sky.

I stood alone in the town where nobody was with carrying a mountain climbing rucksack on my back.

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I think that this scene make me,

- keep emergency foods

- fix all furniture of the my and parents house by L metal fittings,

- keep the place of talks about the use case of the action of the family at the time of the outbreak disaster.

From the station to the home, I come back through the path of a thicket approximately 25 minutes on foot.

I enjoy walking in winter's clear air with watching a winter constellation, but it is cold.

So I will come home by a jacket with the black hood, a baseball cap, and the mask, as a protection against the cold.

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The other day, when I entered the home with the style, the second daughter who looked back, was unable to stand up on a floor and screamed.

When I looked at her face, she was filled with tears for fear.

"What's happen?"

I asked her putting my mask off.

"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh"

She seemed to cry in a low voice, and was repeated.

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I thought that "Is this too pitiful for her?"

Though I didn't know the background, this morning I stepped down to the living room, I found that my senior daughter and wife looked face to face with becoming red eyes.

The daughter seemed to be exhausted and, not be able to move even one her finger.

From the end of last year, she has repeated paroxysm of coughing and breathing difficulty, and has gone to hospital again and again.

But I was sure that

"This is no way"

I sent the message that I had to cancel the regular meeting (I am going to be a toast master), and I got my arms around and went to a specialty clinic.

Needless to say, and any guardians could agree to the following, they feel more painful to watch what their children suffer from diseases, than what they suffer.

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A few days ago, she sprained, and tumbled down from a step for the reason, she had to use crutch in her daily life. So I carried her to clinic by car.

In front of the clinic, I have to wait the time to open the room, I kept lining on, leaving my daughter in the car.

In the winter morning air, I tried to forget the cold with talking with a lady, (81 years old).

I heard her stories, for example,

- She has suffered asthma for long her life.

- Many people cannot understand her suffering quite.

However , she said to me,

"But I believe that my life has been not so bad"

I was near to tears for her interpreting her life approvingly.

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Lady:"But you cannot save her for her whole life"

Ebata:"You are right. What do you think what I should do?"

Lady:"I hope that your daughter is going to meet a good marriage partners, who can save her, eternally"

Ebata:"Now, I can agree with you"

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There was something heavy in her phrase, and I could not discard her words, even if it is "an old concept".

After the long time, I work for a network communication middleware, as a weekend researcher.

In order for this work, I tried to change my note PC to a HUB who has network packet monitoring function, but I thought

"It is annoying"

So I tried to check the prices of some commercial HUB with mirroring port.

I knew that Amazon sold the HUB with five gigabit Ethernet ports and mirroring port for 4000 yen.

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When I asked the request for proposal of HUB, the HUB was a big metallic frame, and it cost more than 200,000 yen. Of course, it was impossible to buy it privately.

Now, it is going to be a small box in my hand, it cost 4000 yen.

After three seconds, I put the button for purchase down.

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It is worth for me, but I am not satisfied with the fact.

Somehow, I become to feel that my job (IT engineer) seemed to be looked down.

"My job might be not important for the first time, and it might be me, who have mistaken for the long time."

I am now sick of a slight persecution complex.

This New Year day, I went back to my country house, and kept household chores (and programming).

On New Year's Day, I decided to go to a small shrine nearby for the first visit of the year with my father.

Though it was snowy cold at the day, my father, who has no opportunities to go out, didn't have his own overcoat.

So I helped him into my overcoat that I had bought at UNIQLO, and made him go out.

The overcoat was too big and was not fit for him, though, he seemed to be warm.

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The next day, I went to the UNIQLO in the supermarket near our house, and got the same but smaller type of my overcoat.

Now, the company has been censured, but it is very helpful for us, because we can get an overcoat without hesitating to buy it.

At the cash desk, I asked the casher to remove the price tag, and both the father and the son went out the shop wearing same overcoat.

My father didn't say anything, but he looked happy.

And I was happy.

As a manager, I work for safety and health of my company.

So I am asked to keep safety of my office, even if they are food in the shared refrigerator.

I have to complete the mission against risks of my life, because it is my task.

I have to remove dangerous food, or confirm their safety even if I have to be a testing bench.

It is a hard duty.

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(Extracted messages from mail of yesterday)

Now I can find a lot of food in the refrigerator. I think that you all know well the following rule.

"Food without name is Mr.Ebata's"

Please confirm that.

(End of the messages)

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It is a very hard duty.

A few days ago, when I go to lunch with my senior daughter, she asked me

"Papa. Have you read "Faust" before?"

Ebata: "Not yet. I don't like a book of drama, because of many exaggerated statements and hard to read. But why do you ask me that?"

Daughter:" Even "Kanbaru" read "Faust""

Ebata: "It means "Kanbaru Suruga"?"

Daughter: "Yes"

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"Kanbaru Suruga" is a female high school student, a character of "Monogatari-serise" written by Mr.Nishio Ishin.

Recently, I declared the whole volume collection of the series, and the junior daughter continues reading by great force.

The senior daughter also seemed to begin to read under the influence.

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Ebata: "You don't have to care, what a kind of book the character in the fiction read"

Daughter:" Do you think that Kanbaru is a special female high school student?"

Ebata: "No. I think some female ... not only female but male students read "Faust""

Daughter:" I was right after all"

Ebata: "But I think that there is a question whether they read the book happily"

Daughter:"?"

(To be continued)

(It is a continuation from yesterday)

Ebata: "The main purpose of the reading books of the great writer of domestic and foreign, is vanity. Who think the books are interesting."

Daughter: "Excuse me?"

Ebata: "For example, when you are asked from someone "Have you read Faust?" which do you think cooler "What is it?" or "Yes, but I didn't understand what Mephistopheles wants to say in the book""

Daughter: "Well, it is obvious"

Ebata: "You'd say that? The most important action is reading through the book one time, and it is enough to remember the three character's names in the book"

Daughter: "If it is true, what for the reading?"

Ebata: "One is younger's vanity I said, and the second is a preparation for re-reading the book for the adult period. But it is a rare case, I believe"

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To tell you the truth, there are three point of the reading for great writer's book.

It is "upbringing of the distrust of authority", with saying "something is wrong with the person who appreciating such a book".

However, I think I should speak this story to my daughter a little latter.

For example, from a man to a woman, when he said

"You gained weight"

He is going to be accused of sexual harassment with a criminal case and the fact becomes the grounds that only maintain trial.

In short, we all can understand mutually that the phrase should not be used as a human being under normal social conventions.

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Even if he is a specialist doctor at the medical examination.

Yesterday, I went into a hospital for a complete physical examination, and I was called to come to another room after lunch.

As expected, the results were not good, so I was offered to get the medical check observation program against lifestyle disease.

I had rejected such offers every time, but I am going to write about "diet" with numbers in my series column.

I thought "this might be a change to get some tips of the column", so I accept the offer this time.

I was said that "for the present, let you reduce drinking milk"

Others, I got the following advice.

The snack named "SOY-JOY" is good against your hunger.

Japanese sweets are better than western sweets.

Soba is better than Udon (Colored food is better).

From now on, I decided that I am going to mail to the doctor about my weight information, and go to the hospital three months later.

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But, I am doing

- having meal regularly.

- walking on commute as much as I can

- finishing dinner before six P.M.

To tell you the truth, I wanted to say "what should I do more?"

(To be continued)

(Continued from yesterday)

To tell you the truth, I have tried an experiment with the medical examination. 。

I had started close to the fasting for two weeks, and I have lost several kilos of my weight.

My diet theory is based on physical law, and very simple.

"I don't eat."

Above all, it is easy to lose weight even if you don't say "with beauty" or "with healthy" luxury.

But several problems might happen.

In my case, I become insomnia, and am able to move parts of my body. The worst case is to catch cold.

In the above cases, I cannot continue the strategy of "I don't eat". I get my priorities wrong.

The diet operation is difficult to control minutely.

That aside,

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Though I was looked pale, after the extreme diet, I could pass against the all kinds of warning.

"The exam is a cinch."

I came to think that this was not a severe issue, even if I tried to the extreme diet in order to pass the problem.

(To be continued)

I thought that this was a good chance to ask them my several questions in my daily life.

"Above all, I am not satisfied with the logic that decides whether I am good or bad based on the universal threshold for all men or women.

"I think that if this wrong numeric is fixed for this several years, it is my respectable personality of mine, as my original numeric. "

The counselor seemed to be stuck for an answer.

I know well at first.

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"You looks ugly. Be good!" "You have a very somber personality. Be cheerful!"

Though the above phrases are obviously violent and harassment,

"You are fat. Lose weight!"

is an admissibility order in our society.

Well, it is true that the life-style related diseases puts pressure on our national budget, so I want to join the health care project without complaining.

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I think that our target in present, is

"To die without spending money for the next generation"

I have no faculty to memorize of people's name.

My wife said "you are not interested in people", and I can agree with her.

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It would seem that I remember people as sharps of product, like

"Oh, she is a person of M2M gateway", "He is a person of digital LCX"

I could replace the faces with one of a device sharp.

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This is not inconvenience for me, at my office.

When I start the conversation with the following phases,

"According to M2M gateway, could you sell for them overseas?"

"About the bandwidth, is the band limit less than 4Mbps?"

I can break through such a critical situation.