Northern Korea's ballistic missile......

I just saw an article about 'north Korea's ballistic missile' on the Net. It is a controversial and an important issue, nowadays. And I'm a little bit interested in the problems of north Korea because I'm from the same country. Such behavior in North Korea can lead to conflict or trouble. North Korea launched the Taepodong-1 at the end of August, 1998. At that time, they asserted it was just a satelite. But nobody believed it. NHK annnounced this is a planned scheme, that they are trying to threathen to the U.S.A. Because they compain to the U.S.A about pressure with north Korea and 6-nation conferences. But nobody can be sure. I think it's just an assumption. Think about it. What if it will begin a war? There's no people to imagine how miserable it will be. As you know, such a dangerous action of North Korea could be the cause world-war 3. We should know that is extremely dangerous.

About Jurg.....

He has worked in Unitec for 6 years . Now he is a teacher for learning innovation. When he came here at first, he taught in the B.A. in German.
He has a wife and 3 children. He met her a long time ago. She worked in Genova a part of U.N at that time and the oldest boy likes computer. That is an important thing for him. Nowadays, he lives in Australia. The Older sister is also working in Sydney. The youngest girl is studying in political science in Auckland university.
He's crazy about sports such as rugby, football, soccer and so on. He thinks that most people of Switzerland are punctual but not as serious. He can speaks lots of foreign language. For example he can speak English, Germany, French, Italian as well as Swiss. But, he is not good at speaking Italian because he just learned it for a while. Before he came here, he worked as an air traffic controller for 11years in Switzerland. He used to like his job.
He knows some stories about his country such as 'The sound of music' 'Willhelm Tell' 'Hyde'. He told us a story about 'Willhelm Tell' who is a boy who resisted autocracy in Austria. And then he thinks the most important things in the life are a wife, health, happiness, money, friends, and studies. He asserted "Never stop studying! Keep doing it!"
Millitary service in Switzerland is compulsory like Korea. All of them get a Swiss army knife. He has traveled lots of places of Europe including America, Hongkong and Singapore. He has also been to the Alps but not very often. Because that places are quite far from his hometown.
Ohterwise his country has distinct 4 seasons. There are spring, summer, autumn and winter like Korea. His favorite season is summer.
Nowadays he doesn't have any pets. He had had dogs and cats before. But they had already died.
One of the world famous festival in Switzerland is called 'Carival'. It has held at the end of winter. People in the festival wear a funny mask and then scare and frighten each other. And the national day is 1st of August.
He thinks his personality is friendly because he likes meeting a lot of people. Besides he told us the main foods of Switzerland are sausages, cheeses and meats. But meat is very expensive. Pork and chickens are much cheaper than beafs. He thinks most of products are quite expensive compared to N.Z. And Switzerland's currency is the 'Swiss-france'. The population is about 6.5 million.
He is proud of well-developed train of Europe and well fare. There is nearly no unemployment with only about 3%. The rate of Employment in Switzerland is quite high. If you had had good education, you could get a great of opportunities for jobs. If you are unemployed, you might feel shamed. He thinks those people look very unhappy. Finally, he told us he thinks Mark is very helpful person to everybody.

Clench your teeth if you want to be a successful life!!!

I'm writing about some blog which I read. Thear are two blog. One thing is a story about a plan for future. The author emphasized the most important thing to do is to have a plan. I totally agree with that word. I think that there's no meaning to live without plans(or purposes or dreams) . I believe that a plan makes a purpose, a purpose makes a dream. When you devote yourself to do something with your plans and purpose, you'll finally achieve your dream. If you want success you should make a your own plan about your dream before everything else. The other thing which I read tells us that before you create a business plan, create a life plan. She asserted how important the life plan is to us. So, I'd like to ask you, "What do you think about these things? What are you planning to get these things?"

♠ Where you live
♠ What kind of home you have
♠ Who you are working with
♠ What kind of work you do
♠ How you spend your day
♠ How much money you make
♠ The state of your physical and emotional health
♠ Life priorities such as amount of time working vs. spending time with family vs. community involvement

At the same time, we should realise that the time is really valuable. I know it seems like an arrow. So, if you want to be a successful life you should make up your mind for your plans, purpose, and dreams. Furthermore I have been prepared many things for my success since I was young. Actually I really want to be a famous international architect.

An account of my brother in law's trip...

I remember that time was middle of January this year. He visited N.Z. for his migration. Before he came here, he prepared lots of packages for me from my mother. Most of them were kinds of food. For example there were Kim-chee, Kim-chee of picked young radishes, chilly sauce, soy-bean sauce, and some dried side dishes etc. As you might be aware, Kim-chee is an essential food for Koreans. It weighed about 30kg more than his own baggage.

When he was entering into this country, he was unfortunately caught by the customs inspection. The reason was overweight, carrying in food, and some drinks. At that time, a customs officer told him, "Why did you carry them?" "Why did you come here?" "Where are you going?" "What's that stuff?" "What's your occupation?"...etc. But, he couldn't say anything because he cannot speak English. "..........." He was silent and made no response at all. Just then they gradually had doubts about him. They were wondering what that food is used for. They started to test them one by one. They left him with one word, "Hang on, please." These behaviors continued again and again. After about 5 minutes, they came back and left him with one saying again, "Just a moment." "I'll be back in a jiffy." These kind of repeated actions made him crazy. I think that such an inspection took us about 3 hours. At that time, I had to wait for my brother in law in the waiting room. I was going to mad because the waiting was extremely boring.

After the inspection finished, we finally met each other. As soon as he saw me and then told me, " I really wanted to drink a Soju furiously." I understood his feelings. 'What a poor guy' I think that they thought him as a peddler who carries his wares on his back because he carried lots of baggage about food. Anyway, I was so glad because I met my brother in law as well as took all those stuff.

About my best bro......

I'd like to talk about my best friend. He is really a bosom friend from my childhood. I first met him through another friend's introduction when I was 9 years old. I guess it was fate that we'd met each other. He was a naughty guy, pure and kind. When I think about him nowadays, maybe he has a magical power of fascinating people.

He has an extraordinary appearance. He is a kind of idol who is manly, tall in stature, handsome, attractive, dark eyeblows, white skin, near attire. Because of such things most women used to have a impression when they met him at first. He wears the latest fashion style, too.

He also has merits and demerits because of being human. He is hilarious, sensitive, socialable, active and positive. Besides he has a great leadership. He usually plays a leading role for us when we meet him. And he is very popular to whoever, whenever. That's why everybody loves him. Otherwise he is a little bit narrow minded. He sometimes used to lose his temper about trivial things. Futhermore, the worst thing is that he's easily manipulated by womanHe is assertive at times. When I compare my personality with his, we're quite contrary to each other. But, we have in common to be glad to be see friends.

He is superior to me in every aspects. He can manage everything. For example he is good at singing, doing an exercise, even drinking. I think he is definately an awesome guy. I envy him and I'm proud of him at the same time. He encouuages me and makes me pleased sometimes he gives me solace when I'm having a hard time. We've known each other for 17 years including another some friends.

I hope our relationship will keep going on. We feel like sworn brothers to each other. I think that the most important thing among friends is 'trust' and 'respect'. We've never fallen out or betrayed each other up to now. So I'm really proud of all my friends. We've never forger each other.

When I felt a rush of adrenalin.....

If I have enough time, I'd like to scubadive as a hobby. It was my first time when I went to Australlia for traveling a few months ago. I needed a break for my soul and body because I was extremely exhausted in my life at that time. So I decided to go to Australlia and then I went to a lot of interesting places such as Sydney, Melboune, Coffs harbor, Blue mountain, Fraser island, and Griffith etc.

One day, I just saw a leaflet about 'scubadiving' in the newspaper. At that time, I was interested in it. So the following day, I made a reservation for my first trial. I was put on the waitinglist and I had to wait some days. The days came and went. I was really excited. Before we went to the sea, we practised a few days in the swimming-pool with our equipment. Finally, the day came to go under the sea. But I felt a little bit nervous and anxious about it. After we went to the middle of the sea on a boat, we started to dive into the water. However as I anticipated it was deadly freezing. And the worst thing is that as I was going down my ears felt uncomfortable. It seemed like my ears were killing me. - Because water pressure was going up - I realised how to equalize after a while. After that time I enjoyed myself. I ventured through hidden underwater caverns, stared at fascinating species of fishes. It was awesome, fantastic and marvelous.

I was really satisfied with my experience. In fact I had a great time at that time and realised that the world is really wide and enormous. I'd like to do it again someday. If even you try to do it, you'll love it.

After reading a book 'Dogs at work'...

'Dogs at work' was written by Robyn O'Sullivan. It is a documentary story about how dogs help the people at work. It says there are so many kinds of dogs. They are good friends to us. Many people have pet dogs at home but some dogs are trained to help people. We can usually call these kinds of dogs 'Working dogs'.

The dogs are classified into some groups. There are guide dogs, service dogs, customs dogs, herding dogs, search and rescue dogs etc. First, guide dogs help people who are visually impared. Many guide dogs are Labrador retrievers. They are suited to guiding their host because they are calm, quiet and intelligent. And secondary, service dogs help people who are unable to do some things for themselves. Most service dogs are golden retrievers or Labradors. Customs dogs work at customs checkpoints with customs officers at airport and seaports. They are generally looking for things such as fruit, vegetable and meat using their sense of smell. Spanish, Labradors and beagles make good customs dogs. Herding dogs work to help farmers to look after their livestock. They can herd livestock into a group and then the dogs move the animals into a new pasture or field. Border collies, sheepdogs, and blue healers can be used. Finally, search and rescue dogs work to find people who are lost or in danger or trapped in wreckage after earthquakes or disasters. The best kinds of dogs for this job are golden retrievers, Labradors, terriers, bloodhounds and German shephered.

These kinds of dogs have something in common. They are very clever and intelligent. They also have very good sense of smell or hearing. I love dogs, too. If you are interested in dogs, this book will be great for you.

What I am thinking about Miss.right...

Most young people in the modern times are looking forward to meet their Mr./Miss. right. They never know that there's nowhere for their Mr./Miss. right in the world. But as they are getting older, they'll recognize that fact.

When I was a young, I was looking forward to meet Miss. right too. But, I don't believe it now. I absolutely agree with that there's no perfect person in the world. When you meet a somebody at the first time, you can talk about their informations. After that time, if you felt any good impression about him or her, you might keep in touch with him or her. As increasing the number of meeting you will be touched with humanity. Eventually, I think that humanity is the most important factor between man and woman. So I agree that even love can be lead to by the heart of people. Sometimes people say like that 'I fell in love at the first sight.' But I imagine there is very rare case.

So, in the end I don't believe in Mr./Miss. right. I merely think the most important thing between lovers is personalities and hearts.

When I was in the army......

When I was in the army, I was an instructor for the rookies at training school. They used to be trained by us. They must overcome severe trainings such as singing a song in the biochemical room, falling plumb down at 11m above the ground, defeating one by one, shooting, throwing a hand grenade, jump over a lake, an overnight march carrying over 40kg. Even though it might rain or snow at that time, we have to do it. The weights include all items such as a canteen, spare millitary boots, a handy shovel, combat uniform, some blanket as well as a rifle. It may take about over 12 hours. What I'm telling you, it's an extremely part a tale. That place is really hard time for men. So most men don't like millitary service. But as time goes on, that place becomes more fun, convenient and comfortable. That is to say, they are getting adapted with new circumstance. Sometimes a maladjusted person used to run away from the training center as well as commit suicide, mutiny.

Do you know 'G.M.P'...?

'G.M.P' means 'Good Manufacturing pratice'. This word is a special word related to something about chemistry, pharmaceutic, semiconductor production, and oil refinery companies. My company was a minor enterprise related to making construction and drawing up plans. We usually built phamaceutic companies or factories. Those places must be very clear and pure. For example, a dust particle in the atmosphere is under 1,000 class. The 'class' is just unit that are occasionally called. As soon as you take a sip of refined water, you'll have the runs. Because its water is pure H2O of asepsis.
So, if you want to go inside, you must put on a hat, mask, gown, glove, and boots. When I worked for that company, I saw a lot of mice and rabbits. Those animals are always used for medical experiment.
Anyway a profound learning, experience and skill are essential to doing work related to phamaceutic companies or factories. Although I've just worked for 2 years, I know that the method of construction is quite different from common buildings