tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-230916472024-03-14T21:27:28.125+09:00TETSUOLOGY「哲」学In Japanese, "Tetsu-gaku" means "philosophy", or the "study of tetsu". Kind'a like...TETSUOLOGY. 哲に関する情報や哲の考え方など書かれているこのブログは、「哲」学とも言えるでしょう。TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-11299722065801204712010-02-11T01:31:00.000+09:002010-02-11T01:31:14.512+09:00New Language Blog 新しい「言語ブログ」http://language-tetsu.blogspot.com/
Started a new blog on languages. Pls give it a look! Thank you!
新しい言語に特化したブログを始めたよ!是非見てあげてください!よろしくお願いします!
J'ai commence un nouveau blog sur les langues! Vos commentaires sont de bienvenus! Merci!
請来看我的新Blog!
Por favor, vengan ver mi nuevo blog sobre idiomas!TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-19454998973095964742009-01-02T03:04:00.013+09:002009-04-18T14:37:32.300+09:00Happy New Year 2009"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." Henry FordIn 2008, I only wrote 10 posts; not even 1 post per month. Hopefully I'll do better in 2009! No doubt, the highlight of the year is the end of my MBA. That was a BIG load of my shoulders. Of course, in April there was also the start of my new job, for which I feel extremely fortunate to get with my kind of TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-32995484055710374612008-10-02T22:40:00.000+09:002008-10-02T22:54:07.950+09:00Connie Talbot、コニー・タルボットSaw this some time ago and have been wanting to write about it since. Little girl, Connie Talbot, 6 years old. Absolutely amazing voice. It really gave me the goosebumps. And the missing front teeth! How cute is that!! And she dedicated the song to her dad for father's day! He must have been SOOOOOO proud.I thought it was pretty funny when Amanda (the lady judge who had tears rolling down her TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-92174836617175735242008-09-02T22:24:00.003+09:002008-09-02T22:51:18.663+09:00Feeling like Zidane、ジダンの真似So yesterday morning I was riding in the packed subway on my way to work. I was reading a book while standing closely behind a guy. Then suddenly... I sneezed. And I did a Zidane to the back of his head. Of course, he wasn't happy.昨日の朝、いつもの通り、満員電車に乗って会社に向いました。そこら辺のオッサンの後ろに立って、本を読んでいたら。。。「ハックション!」。。。と同時にジダンのように、オッサンの後頭部に頭突きを一発かました。勿論、凄い目で睨まれた。すんません、オッサン。TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-44398438947124239632008-08-25T01:16:00.004+09:002008-08-25T02:26:46.972+09:00テツママブログ不思議な世の中になりました。テレビのリモコンでエアコンをつけようとする位テクノロジーに弱いあの母ちゃんが、なあ〜んと!はい。ブログを始めました。確かに、e-mail始めた時も、相当ビックリしたけどね。http://tetsumama.blogspot.com何か、子供に言葉を身につけさせるいい方法を教えて下さいとか、本を書いて下さいとかよく訊かれるみたいで。友人のサクさんもそんな事訊いてましたしね。今んとこは本人の歴史を語っているところで、まだ子供の育て方に関する情報にまでは至っていないけど、そろそろかな?まあ、メール通知もありますし、RSSもありますので、皆さん、是非サポートしてあげて下さい。TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-89360846309350573392008-08-14T15:28:00.001+09:002008-08-14T15:35:17.900+09:00Harvey Mason and Steve GaddMy friend P contacts me the other day and goes: "wanna go see Harvey Mason tomorrow?" My answer, before he had time to finish his question, was: "Harvey Mason!! Of course!!" So the next day, I met up with P and we went to the concert hall together. At the entrance, we see the poster for the show and it said: "Harvey Mason Trio, Steve Gadd and the Crusaders, Dave Koz and friends." The first thing TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-1784552328343601112008-07-11T21:04:00.006+09:002008-07-12T14:55:09.828+09:00Language-associated personality、言葉によって変わる人格A Japanese friend once told me that she feels like a different person when she speaks English. I totally agreed with her! I guess that in order to speak a language well, it helps if you think in that language and incorporate the culture. At the same time, you probably take on a different personality accordingly.Then recently, I found this post on my friend David's site. It talks about personalityTETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-5613356256687191692008-06-29T23:56:00.004+09:002008-07-03T23:35:19.372+09:00Songs from my band RaiA、俺のバンドRaiAの曲Here are 3 songs from my last gig. Comments welcome!Not fair that nobody can see me, cuz the drummer's always in the back!!僕のバンドの曲。この前のライブから取ってきました。ご意見など大歓迎です。ドラムは何時も後ろだから、殆ど俺は映らねえし。不公平だ!v(^o^)7"Set Fire To My Heart Don't Say Good-bye Ring Hero TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-80516394629182963062008-06-19T21:20:00.007+09:002008-06-19T23:16:06.242+09:00MBA done. Finally. MBA終了。やっと。Yes, I officially received the grade for the last course of my MBA. It's all over now.Working full-time while studying, the last 2 years have probably made me age about 10. Especially the last 2.5 months, as I had to juggle the MBA and a new job, along with some carry-over work from the last job, in addition to moving. But all that is behind me now.Getting to the end of the MBA was pure hell. ButTETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-43613209778995956382008-03-15T16:40:00.006+09:002008-03-16T14:03:28.689+09:00FON、フォンEver since SKYPE came out a few years back, I've been telling many of my friends that I predict telephones and internet use will be free for everybody in the near future. I didn't quite know how such an infrastructure could be set up, but I proposed that the government set up and maintain such systems using tax money. Essentially, just set up free wireless stations everywhere (like cellular phoneTETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-77979792251542771262008-02-29T02:38:00.005+09:002008-02-29T02:40:45.812+09:00Stupid? Épais? 笨蛋?Tonto?バカ?I found this on Digg some time ago... I'm still laughing.J'ai trouvé ça sur Digg il y a quelque temps. Ca vaut d'l'or! J'ai encore des larmes aux yeux.好久以前在Digg上找到的。笑死人了。你不覺得怪怪的嗎?Encontré esto sobre Digg hace un rato... pero todavía estoy riendo.大分前にDiggで見つけたものだけど、ぬぬっ?なんかおかしくねえ?ゲヘへ。。。世の中には馬鹿な人がいるもんだ。笑いすぎて涙が止まらないよ。TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-4795839585392929602008-02-11T21:24:00.000+09:002008-02-11T21:45:36.637+09:00Title change、タイトル変更It's been 2 years since I started this blog in Feb. 2006, pretty much right after my birthday. So what better time than today, 2 birthdays later, to make a little title change. Of course, "2008: A new start for Tetsu" was out of the question, so I had to think about it for a while. Since I talk a lot about things I do and many of my philosophies on this blog, I decided on "Tetsuology" as this TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-50201541166708437232007-12-30T11:13:00.000+09:002007-12-30T11:33:24.982+09:002007 Last post, 2007年最後の記事Our 2006 year-end family trip to Las Vegas seems like yesterday, and here we are already done with 2007. Highlights this year for me include: 1) Publishing a paper in Molecular Cell, 2) the birth of Greg’s twins, Salomé and my God-daughter Oriana, 3) doing a wonderful summer MBA program in Montreal, and most recently 4) landing a job at a Japanese pharmaceutical company. Oh, yes, this is the TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-46652330182507899572007-11-20T01:40:00.000+09:002007-11-21T11:03:35.275+09:00Wayne Gretzky、ウェイン・グレツキーI've not strapped on my skates for quite a looooong time now.... I miss hockey! Must get back to it soon. Well, today I thought I'd write about s0me inspirational quotes from the Great One, Wayne Gretzky. Amazing people always have amazing philosophies to share.最後にスケートを履いたのはいつだろう。。。ホッケーやりてえ!んでもって、今日はカナダが誇る、アイスホッケーの天才ウェイン・グレツキーの名言を紹介しようかなと思って。"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." 「打たないTETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-88027721501467277512007-10-29T23:10:00.000+09:002007-10-29T23:15:10.354+09:00Learning languages? Dream on!? 言語習得は夢話?As you can see on the left side-bar, I recently set up a counter for the most popular posts on this blog, and it shows that the two most popular posts have been (and probably will continue to be) "Learning languages Tetsu's way" and "Pentalingual conversation with a linguist".The world is getting smaller and smaller, and clearly people are more and more (and more) interested in multilingualism. TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-5484814198195958222007-10-13T18:56:00.000+09:002007-10-13T00:41:51.400+09:00Greg's birthdaySo another year has gone by and it's a second birthday post for my buddy Greg! Appy Bird-day Greg! Every year I get ahead in February, and he always catches up with me in October. Well, this year is a little special as it is his first birthday as Dad of twins! You're way ahead here man! ...as I haven't even gotten to the starting line!Lately, Greg's finally started to explore the cyberspace more TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-73630757151921596242007-09-22T22:53:00.000+09:002007-09-22T23:44:56.615+09:00Gifts from friends、友達からのプレゼントI told you about my 3-week intensive program this summer. Not only did I learn a lot, but I also made great friends. Two of them gave me little gifts of friendship before I left. Friend A gave me the beautiful flute and Z gave me the nice McGill pen. It really touched me and so I just wanted to let my readers know... that to be my friend, you gotta give me gifts! Ha ha ha... just kidding. But I TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-55184090817986526832007-09-08T20:47:00.000+09:002007-09-08T21:30:48.792+09:00Jogging, ジョギングGoing back to Canada in July was great. Had a lot of fun seeing family and friends, doing the MBA program, and EATING. Big problem. I'm not the biggest guy around, but I got my little tire that I've always wanted to get rid of. Well, going back home only pumped more air (or grease) into my tire and I've had it. Must get it off! So I figured I could jog. Well, a few weeks ago, following my buddy TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-54764935082080832682007-08-11T11:56:00.000+09:002007-08-11T12:19:28.198+09:00The last month and a half、ここ一ヶ月半Yup, I’ve broken the record for the longest stretch without renewing my blog. One and a half month. And the whole month of July without a post. I’m sorry.Right now I am in Newark with my parents. I’ll be catching a flight from NY JFK in two days so my parents drove me down here. We’ll visit Ground Zero and the Statue of Liberty tomorrow.I just finished a painful but extremely rewarding intensive TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-61927216117875959952007-06-26T18:02:00.000+09:002007-06-26T20:03:09.234+09:00No one's perfect, 五体不満足A few years ago, my mother recommended that I read this story about a courageous man called Hirotada Ototake. I read the Japanese version (Gotai Fumanzoku) but the above photo is the cover of the English version (No one's perfect). As you may notice, this guy was born with no arms and no legs. But that didn't stop him from getting a degree from Waseda University (a top-notch university in Japan),TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-10757998514981667332007-06-14T21:23:00.001+09:002007-06-14T23:57:46.004+09:00Tetsu is not Japanese、Tetsu no es Japonés, テツは日本人じゃないOK, I'm apparently not the only one going through this. Going through what you ask? Well, go check it out here. This is a funny, but realistic, illustration of what a "half", or child of intercultural marriage, goes through in Japan. The first part is about Joe giving his name over the phone and is absolutely hilarious because it's so real! But I wonder how many people can "really" understand howTETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-40215334826525537602007-05-30T11:56:00.000+09:002007-05-31T22:39:56.328+09:00Blog Post in Chinese,用中文寫部落格、今日は中国語もMy chat with Steve Kaufmann and my post on my language acquisition techniques have spurred quite some activity on my blog since a few months back... and it continues! Thanks to those posts I was able to make many new friends. You can find many of their links in the side bar on the left, toward the bottom. In particular, I was contacted by David, who started a truly unique type of social network TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-59984980874379664342007-05-13T01:00:00.000+09:002007-05-13T00:22:41.268+09:00Mother's Day Present、母の日のプレゼントHey it's mother's day! Happy mother's day mom! Thanks for everything.My mother often complains about how she can't sleep. So when I read about this "sleep machine" shown above, I thought if this thing existed commercially, it would've been the best mother's day present. It basically stimulates the brain with magnetic pulses, which somehow triggers slow waves typical of deep sleep. Gees, wonder ifTETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-83858291758203203472007-04-30T16:34:00.000+09:002007-04-30T18:20:54.165+09:00Oriana and SaloméThey're here! Oriana and Salomé! Born on April 23! Father Grégoire and Mother Elsy. And most importantly, Godfather Tetsu! ha ha ha... Well, to be specific, Godfather of Oriana.Yup, my best buddy got married long before me AND now have kids, before I even had time to catch up in the first race! And two for the price of one! Slow down man... please? Now I guess my only goal is to get married TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23091647.post-18422400753262150342007-04-16T01:00:00.000+09:002007-04-16T15:34:05.874+09:00Happy B-day Dad、トッちゃん誕生日おめでとうThe man in the middle is my father. Today is his birthday, so I thought I'd write a little bit about him.真ん中のオッサンは俺のオヤジ。今日誕生日だから、ちょっとオヤジの話をしようかと思って。This was him some many many many years ago. He was in the movie industry in Hong Kong at the time. But actually he worked more as a stunt man than as the star. He used to tell me about all the different stunts he would do, such as jumping off a TETSUhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14837691506489315440noreply@blogger.com6