
Why the clothes are red?
Saturday March 8 2008 I heard somewhere that someone had enough time on his hands to study the fact that team or players wearing red tends to win more often. ,if I mention Manchester United, Milan A.C., or Ferrari in Formula1, you can understand. But if I told you about the Cincinnati Reds, the Atlanta Falcons, or the Daemons Brugherio (which is my former American football team that went 0-6 last season) it’s a compromised theory, don’t you think?
Anyway here is an article that sums up the situations of the said research: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/19/science/19red.htm
Do you think this is a bad omen for my actual team? The Milano Rhinos. We do wear Orange and Black … let’s hope not.
As red is the theme I chose for this article, I’ll now speak about music now - just humour me here there is a [thin] connection. I really like when two worlds I love collide, what would happen if Otis Redding and Japan would meet? It gives us a nice video from Shinjuku. I therefore introduce you the FAVE RAVES at the Shinjuku’s RED CLOTH (I hope you see the connection now).
I think I’ll try to check out this location once I get a chance. Anyone know that place?
[UNIVERSITY SEARCH UPDATE]
I managed to set up a good connection with the Osaka Prefecture Univ. the only thing I’m worried about is there pretty uninteresting list of lectures and courses. Why is that most university are 100% research oriented in Japan? Can’t they have more practical subjects?
I got news from my inside men at the Shizuoka Rikoka Daigaku, now It’s up to me. Thanks R-G.
Now I know I’ll have to choose only 2 or 3 schools to apply for. Exams do cost 30.000 yens each and I won’t have enough money to take 10 of them. I already will have to get tickets, hotel’s room and the exams in France before coming to takes the entrance examinations. The sad fact is that I still didn’t find a way to pay for tuitions fees and any other fees if I ever get accepted.
Anyway, I made a list of the top priority criteria that I’ll apply to choose my 3 choices :
- Subjects and majors - I’ll see the one that interests me the most.
- Fees reduction, access to scholarship, or other help that foreign students can get.
- Reputations of the school. If it’s a 3rd rate school I’d better stay in France … right?
- Does it have an American Football club?
- What food can I eat there? (I might should have put that on top priority)
If anyone is an alumni of a college in Japan please do try to convince me to go to your former, or actual, school. Or at least speak up.
I’m still amazed at the fact that most Japanese try to go to college while the price for education is so high (30.000¥ for entrance exams + 282.000¥ for matriculation fees + 535.000¥ for tuition per year = 847.000¥ for the first year … more or less 6750€ almost 10.000$) . If you had to pay that much in France, 90% of the people wouldn’t go past middle school … IMHO. In the end I’ll have to find 1.385.000¥ for 2 years of masters, then add the lodging, food, and fun stuff; that’s 3.000.000¥ to 4.000.000¥, easily, for 2 years in Japan, my savings are along the 250.000¥ so far. It’s a harsh world we live in*sigh*.
Birth Date : 18th November 1982