maiko-san

I was a salesman at a medical appliance company more than 10 years ago. I relocated to Niigata from Tokyo. I dealt with oxygeon concentrator machine, which is as big as a refrigerator. I took care of doctors, nurses and patients. I realized two things. First, I must stop thinking like a salesman and not do any kind of pushy selling.Second, despite doctors knowing more than I did, I needed to find out specific things about gadgets that they didn't know which might be useful to them. In that way I'd become useful. Incidentlly, while attemtping all that, I discovered something else. Doctors learn a lot about disease, but they're not well informed about the instruments. Then there was something else. I realized I must always tell doctors the exact truth, and never exaggerate, never conceal. And if I was asked about a competitor's product and it was better than ours, I'd say so. What differentiates us from  medical representatives is that we were allowed enter the hos...

I went to German Culture Centre earlier this month to see a movie. A decent woman at the front desk ushered us into the hall. which accomodates as many as 100 people. The movie portrays the story of an Italian family that emigrated into Germany  in 1971. The family consists of Romano (father) and Rosa (mother) and their two sons. It's also about the brotherly love and hatred between Giancarlo (elder brother) and Gigi (younger brother). Romano deserted the idea of becoming a coal-miner in the Ruhr district. Instead he decided to open a pizzeria. Many German customers came to the Italian restaurant. His businnes was thriving. In the meantime Giancarlo always flirted with German girls, held a wild party while Gigi was big into making documentary films with the help of his pretty girlfriend, Jo. One day Romano cheated on his wife. She caught him with his pants down! She was so shocked and eventually suffered from an incurable disease, leukemia. The doctor suggested that s...

One month ago I started reading a book entitled "Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone." in German. In Germany they call it "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen." I bought this book, because I wanted to read Harry Potter series in German once for all and test my German reading ability at the same time. My Skype friend from Germany told me he read every novel of Harry Potter series. So I understand that the book is very popular among the Germans. Last not but least the title is the first novel written by Joanne K. Rowling and published in 1997. The book describes how Harry Potter,  a young wizard, makes close friends and a few enemies at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and with the help of his friends and thwarts an attempted comeback by the evil wizard, Lord Voldemort, who killed Harry's parents when he was one year old. It's interesting to know that Harry was an orphan and adopted by the Dursley family. Due to his wizardry he was a...