Small Talks vol.61

The topic for today is about "Okuizome".

This is one of Japanese tradition which we celebrate a day when 100 days past from the birth oif new baby.  Then on that day, Japanese people make their baby imitate like he/she is eating these dishes even the 100 days baby is too small to eat anything.

The its origin is that we the Japanese wish the baby not being suffering from the food and meal thing.  We eat the red sea bream and festive red rice on that day.

Small Talks vol.60

My favorite manga animation is "Akira" which was created by Katsuhiro Otomo, he is a one of most famous Japanese creator.  

This is really awesome and I believe this is an masterpiece.  Akira receives many compliments not only Japanese but also people from all over the world.

The story is about the "Neo-Tokyo" which is Tokyo in the near future, and it is a kind of science fiction which is describing a run-down city.

The reason why this animation receives compliment is because of precise and realistic graphic depiction.  And also the motorcycle which the hero Kaneda rides is super cool, I want that bike too!!

Small Talks vol.59

Would like to continue the topic about music streaming servise.

Last time I mentioned about the charastalistic function of Apple Music, so today is for Spotify, AWA and LINE music.

Spotify has a unique function "Running" which is a service that Spotify can recommend musics according to the BPM when the consumer running with the same rythm.  This function is first ever all over the world, and many runners should be attracted all over the world.

AWA is characterized by having the function which all the AWA users can share their play list with other users, and also there are some influencers in AWA and many users are following these influencer's play lists.

As for LINE music, users can share the music on the chatting which they have a conversation with using text and stamps.  So that means music can be a part of conversation.

Small Talks vol.58

When I was talking to my English teacher who is from Phillipine, I have been asked that "where is the place worth to visit in Indonesia?".  She said she does not like so much about spending time at beach and being relaxed, rather she loves going outside to see the beautiful sight or meeting local people.

I was thinking, but I only know the place Bali island where is the popular beach resort, and price is more higher.

But I just got a text from a friend in Japan that he wants to go to Komodo Island and Rinca Island to see the Komodo Dragon.  That sounds really interesting and immidiately I googled it to seach informations regarding Komodo Island tours.

When I searched the information and I found that it is really exciting and should be fun for me.  Most of Komodo Island tours include:

• Ride on a private boat for a 2-hour cruise to Komodo National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site


• 2-hour hike on Rinca Island in search of Komodo dragons – the world’s largest lizards


• Swimming and diving with a snorkel and fins at Pink Beach

コモド島への行き方 アクセスと現地ツアー確保の方法

世界自然遺産！ジャカルタ発コモド島2泊3日 コモドドラゴンに会いに行こう！ジャカルタからコモド島へのご旅行はH.I.S.インドネシア | H.I.S.インドネシア（インドネシア発の格安航空券、格安海外ツアー）

2-Day Komodo National Park and Rinca Island Wildlife Adventure from Bali - Bali | Viator

That should a kind of the Jurassic Park World :)

I'm thrilled to bit!!

Small Talks vol.57

Apple has announced its music streaming service "Apple Music" at the conference the other day.  At the same timing, AVEX and Cyber Agent announced "AWA" and LINE annouced to launch "LINE Music".  Spotify is also progressing for their lanch nunder surface, Dentsu has announced their investment to the Spotify.

Each music streaming service has charactaristic.  For instance, Apple Music is a global platform service and this has a hybrid service function, they are combining "Connect" function which is the popular artist community and/or Live radio.  And they are emphasizing the curation service which is like the contents which popular radio DJ is curating and selecting the music for the listener audiences.

Small Talks vol.56

I watched a movie this weekend.

I saw this on Hulu which is On-demand Video service, so I have various title optioins.  Ther reason why I choose this title because I love musical movies as I mentioned before and I have never seen this title both movie and musical.

In short, this is a comedy movie and not bad I think.  We can enjoy the funny story and a lot of funny songs. and of course we can enjoy the upbeat rythm of "Dancing Queen" by ABBA.  If I compare with another musical movies, I am much more interested in other titles such as Phantom of the Opera because I really enjoyed its story.

The title which I want to see next time is a Chicago which theme is musical/show business, and it is said this title is a masterpiece.

Small Talks vol.55

I have read some books of Murakami Haruki.

When I had a chat with one colleague from Sigapore, he said he was reading a book of Murakami Haruki in the plaine, the book is "After Dark" which is a story of the world of underground.

The photo above is cover of a magazine which is an illustration of Murakami-san.  He is a runner, and in addition to his various materpice novels, he produces a essay about Running.  The title is "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running", his real story about running, he quit smoking and start running after he became 30 years old.

Also I have read "Norweigian Wood" and "1Q84".  Norwegian Wood is a love story and it is unique among Murakami-san`s titles. People says the description of this title is realistic, it makes us to imagine about Japan of 1960's.

I like the "1Q84" which is kind of suspense, the story was created based on the novel "1984" by Geroge Owell.  Owell wrote the novel as near future, but Murakami-san wrote this novel as a past even he refer to the novel as motif.  1Q84 is serious but sometimes fashionable and romantic.

Small Talks vol.54

Here is my notes for the question "What is your biggest success case study and also biggest mistake".

My biggest success was, I think, I got the new position on overseas office i.e. Jarta Office here.  I have been stating my intent to work aborad, work at overseas office for a long time.  In the meantime, I also kept learning English both in private and also on the job training.

Then I cound have handled some client which I need to communicate with colleagues in regional team and aslo convicen my client about our plan proposal.  In the result my boss and management decided to let me got to Jakarta office.  So I moved to.

On the other hand, speaking of my biggest mistake I have ever done is, I send the wrong information of my client's TVC campaign to TV station. I found that on Friday night 9pm even the campaign will be starting on next week.  I could recover this over the weekend by asking to my partner buying agency and also TV station with my sincere aplogies.  In the end, we could start the campaign as it was planned.

My learnings from this mistake are;

• We should bave the process with Double checking or Triple checking procedure especially for media buying related task.  


• As for myself, I learned my lesson that I need to be careful especially for when I am super-busy. 

Small Talks vol.53

It's been 6 month from when I started Jakarta life.

I love my apartment so far because of many reasons like;

1. I can go to office by walk, it takes 15 mins so I do not need to be annoyed from the terrible traffic jam every morning


2. There are some nice restaurants near my apartment. The one is nice Mexican restsurant and the other one is fancy casual Bistro.  


3. Gym and pool are in the apartment


4. I can also walk to bigger Shopping mall so that we can go out for dinner sometimes

Small Talks vol.52

This is things about my family. In my family I have my wife and my little kid, and then we will have a second baby because my wife is a pregnant and she will give birth on next month.  She is a girl.

Now I'm obsessed about the name of her.  We have some criteria when we name new child.  My critetia is maninly 2 ponts;

1. We can call his/her name easily, or we can call his/her as shorter name


2. The name should be a sort of Japanese traditional one, in terms of its Chinese character and its sounds.  

We have had some candidates already, so I will choose the finalist from these shortly.

Small Talks vol.51

I did not use the Google Picasa for managing my photos on my PC.  But new Google Photo Apps is really attractive for me to use as main photo managing software.

Google announced their new photo managing software at their conference on 5/28.  The new Google "Photos" allows us to use it as Free as long as the photos are untill 16M px and the videos are 1080p formats.

I think this is great to use as Free even the file size is limited, especially for the person who do no use iClould because of its cost.  I will try to use this software immediately.

Small Talks vol.50

I am really into Golfing in these days.

On this week, I went golfing on Sunday and Tuesday because it was a National Holiday on Tuesday, twice a week... kind of crazy frequecny, but for present myself, it is a natural thing.

As I wrote that my objective is to improve my score to 100-110.  On Sunday I played so bad and my score ended up with 129, but on Tuesday, I could have been improving especially for the Driver and long-distance shot, and then came up with 116.

I think I can achieve my target score untill the end of this year.

Small Talks vol.49

I love technology stuff, and I got surprised on this awesome new technology which has been created by the collaboration between Google and Levi's.

ATAP who is the R&D project team in Google, annouced this project "Jacquard" at the Google Developer conference on May 29th.  This project has pushed forward with research and development of the fiber which has ability to conduct electricity.  And then, this fiber now can be a raw material of our clothes so that we can control all the digital device by tapping or swiping the surface of clothes.

Looking forward to see the funky clothes with this crazy technology ;)

Small Talks vol.48

I have been watching the series TV drama which is called "WHITE COLLAR".

This is a kind of suspense drama and I think it's not bad.  A genius criminal Neal Caffrey was arrested by FBI, but he proposed a big deal with FBI team that FBI team will make his jail term more short if he help the criminai investigation.  and then Neal and FBI guy crack the white collar ciriminal in NYC.

The swings of the conversation between Neal and Park who is the buddy of Neal and an investigator officer of FBI, is really interesting and funny.  People say it sounds like a Homes and Watson in the Sherlock Holmes.  That's why I'm really into this drama.