Since yesterday, I have been reading the website of Newsweek. As I imagined, most articles are about the earthquakes in Japan. Also, I have read Time and looked up words by English-English dictionary on the website. I found that there are differences among Longman, Oxford, Cambridge, and other dictionaries.
I have solved listening problems last night and I have done reading questions today. I used the text that is Eiken 1 Grade Reading Problems 120.
I felt that there are some science topics in Eiken so that I need to read science magazines. Therefore, I decided to read Scientific Magazine online.
On Scientific American, there are also articles about the earthquake and problems of nuclear facilities. I have been watching movies by DVD now. I watched Cove and Mammoth.
In Cove, the small town in Japan is focused, because of the killing of dolphins. People are strongly against fishing the dolphins on the movie. They want Japanese to stop eating dolphins (in this case, they are whales), but it is our costume that has been continuing for a long time.
Young Japanese who were born after WWII would not eat whales, but people who were born before have eaten whales, it was because whales were served at school lunch.
One of the reasons that I do not like working for IT industry is that they have long overtime work. It is famous that IT engineers work endlessly and they are often burn out. It is also true that when IT engineers get older they can not catch up with the new technology. So, IT technology is good for young people, but not for older people.
Apple Corporation began to sell iPad2 and some people are interested. One day, I went to Apple shop at Tokyo Midtown and touched iPad. It looked interesting and I thought that I wanted to read digital books by iPad.
I like reading books so that in the future, most books will be digitalized and people read books by iPad or other things that are similar to iPad.