20st day - 23rd day

20th day 1stSep2007 Sat
What I learned:
1. I watched “Transporter 2”
I think it's better than the first one, but honestly I can't say it's excellent!
Luc Bessons' movie has something very unique. It works sometimes good but sometimes bad.

2. AutoCad2005 doesn't support Windows Vista.
3. Maya has Personal Learning Edition for free.
4. I read a book authored by Papanek
I found Papaneck's "Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change". He was one of designers who were interested in environment problems early.
What I was intested in was the part about education.
He(1st ed. 1971, 2nd ed. 1985: 286) says:

“Surely a student entering a design school of university in September of 1984 must be educated to operate effectively in a professional world starting in 1989, and foreseeably he will reach the height of his professional competence sometime around the year 2009.”

When I apply it to my schedule, I must be educated to operate effectively in a professional world starting in 2008 or 2009, and foreseeably he will reach the height of his professional competence sometime around the year 2028 or 2029.
2029!! What the world will be? But I should think about the future nad set my goal for the long term.

New vocabularies:
ergonomics
study of working conditions.
carnivore ( Cf. hernivore, insectivore, ominivore)
any animal that eats meat
(based by OALD)


21st day 02Sep2007 Sun
1.A struggle with Maya
I had to make some work for my oral assessment, so I tried to do it with Maya. My version is Personal Learning Version, so it has some limitation. For a beginner, it was too difficult to make a good work with it soon, it was good experience.
When I was a high school student, it is about 10 years ago, I had used 3D software called Strata. Maya had a extremely higher performance than that. The progression of Technology is Excellent. But I felt the basic concept of 3D modelling software had not been changed. There are some primitive models, some modelling tools and textures. I don’t know how important the skill of using such kinds of tools is for you, but I felt I will come to create my mages more freely if I master it,
http://www.strata.com/

2. I saw “Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason” for exercising listening British English.
It’s just for girls, so it’s not very interesting for me, but I thought a lot of things.
I had not thought about a gap of status seriously, but if I face the situation that I strongly feel it, what will I think? Embarrassment? In Japan, I had not met that situation, not because I’m in higher class, but the gap is not so important in Japan. (Of course, it may be just my opinion. Other people may have other thought.)
But if my girlfriend is a sort of Celebrity (it seems to hardly happen), what do I have to do?
And Colin Filth’s English is very British.

New Vocabularies:
Shag vt.
To have sex with sb.
At large
(used after a noun) a whole
(of a dangerous person or animal) not captured)
Seduce Cf. produce, deduce, induce, introduce, reduce)
To persuade sb to have sex with you, especially sb who is younger or who has less experience than you.

22nd day 03Sep2007 Mon
What I learned:
1. Preparing for the oral assessment
Today, I used most of time for preparing for the oral assessment. I planed how to use the 10 minutes of the presentation, focused on the main point, repeated rehearsals. You cannot do practices too much.
2. This list must be written as soon as possible.
Otherwise, your memories have vanished.
3. Common knowledge and specific knowledge
Thanks to listing up what I learned, I noticed one thing. That is, in knowledge, there are two types, common knowledge and specific knowledge. Of course, both of them are important, but if I can, I consciously acquire common knowledge.

23rd 04Sep2007 Tue
1. Do practice well and prepare enough for the presentation.
My presentation in the assessment was terrible…but it’s my first presentation in English, so it’ was natural that I became too nervous. The problem is ,that was expectable, so you had to prepare it more carefully.
-Good points:
-To use the example of my class mate as a great artist. He was just a little glad.
-Prepare for the structure and time schedule.
-Bad points:
-I became so nervous that I lost the room in my heart to check the note.
-I skipped some topics.
-At the stage, I changed my expression, but it was a mistake. I couldn’t say it correctly.
-Solution
-10 times rehearsal.
-Training to speech in front of many people in English. (It’s difficult to get chances though)
2. To remove scum before you eat beansprouts.

New vocabularies
lol
Lough out loud
combustion
the process of burning
congestion
the process of becoming crowded
erosion
the process of gradually being destroyed

Push up 380

English Pronunciation in Use 12