Don't Think Again

It really impresses me just how seemingly unrelated facts connect somehow. I should start by expressing my lack of comfort with the corporative world, specially the whole corporate "culture and values" that come in the package. But somehow I know it's not going away anytime soon, and so I proceeded to a job interview in a not-so-big software company for one of their hamburger-flipping jobs as a translator or english checker.  Basically, I hate the fact that the corporate environment praises your money-making skills, and I dislike being both the commander and the commanded (or the interviewer and the interviewee, in this particular case). I'm not sure if I got the job, and I actually realized two things as I was leaving their office: I do want to experience that world to some extent (because so many people live in there); it's really important to keep your head up and your self-confidence in its place as you get turned down. My adventure was mostly about my Japane...

I like to write, and I do accept this fact, even though I would never give myself the title of "writer". And, by writing, I did pick up a weird concept (yet another one): when you're reading something it changes your writing. What I mean is that you get influenced by the author's style, vocabulary and sentence structures. Truth be said, nobody's ever creating something new when writing, because you're simply using words, and words have predetermined meanings. However, it is true that some writers (the real ones) actually warp and twist the words, and the language itself, for that matter. Right now I'm in a bus, on a short trip to a close by city, hoping tomorrow will be sunny, so I can go to a beach party. I'd never travel for two hours and pay the expensive ticket just to go to a beach party back in brazil. I'm not really a human being, but rather a conglomerate of loosely connected ideas, facts and body cells. If you look at the body ...

Interestingly enough, our friend Aso hasn't been doing well lately. It so happens, that the words and general impression you'd get from The Economist and The Japan Times is quite different...

Right now I'm not only out of ideas, but also out of people to exchange ideas with. Some of you might already be in "let me help you" mode, just because of this sentence, but I, most surely, do not need help. Anyway, how can I look you in the eyes with a straight face and say something like: I've nothing interesting to talk about with you. Is pointless. Of course, the best case scenario is to run into people who can communicate with you just by talking nonsense. People you can talk with without even talking. And that's when the talking begins... and, with the talk, so does the the fun. Probably I'm just talking about language again because of my endeavour in learning Japanese, but it so happens that language is yet another barrier, but not the one you should really worry about. Not me, at least.