Sometimes the greatest wisdom lies in not knowing or pretending not to know. Baltasar Gracian y Morales-
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The flight from Florence and 'party with a few minutes late arriving in just over an hour in Monaco: we had not run for miss the connection with the Boeing direct to Tokyo Narita leaving the stomach the tasteless cheese sandwich that austere hostess Aryan us, with that sense of superiority, of which only the Germans are capable of, given.
Despite the rush was noted for not being in Italy because the strange silence of the crowd mixed with a meticulous cleaning made us understand clearly that we had landed in another state. However, no 'is never said that Italy and' worst in all: German boarded the airplane I noticed with regret the lack of mini TV plugged into the back of each passenger as normally happens in every international flight that respects. This means that for ten hours I could not help but listen to the speeches of a nearby group of over thirty German skinhead who is already a few moments after sitting in their seats drinking, in the up and the burp, cans of beer. These individuals who seemed interested only in magazines Harley style motorcycle rigorously cleaned by big woman naked have done nothing but bark all the time sounds very similar to those we hear barking in the famous film about the Third Reich or echo in another language especially in the South Peninsula Italica. The only satisfaction to see them all pass before the Japanese police intent on patrol every corner of their suitcases causing him to lose all the time that I was robbed poor Italian less sleep.
past controls the family we are Narita airport. We head quickly to the type involved in the shipment and storage deliver the heavy burdens that accompany us from Italy.
take the train on time and of course with some decrease, reaching Shibuya district of Tokyo where the young pavement is not visible due to the amount of contempt for the crowd.
We enter into a case of huge buildings and skyscrapers covered with bright lights and TV acting as a huge shopping malls and reached the ninth floor, the restaurants, there 'will be spoiled for choice: Italian, Japanese, specialized the fried (tempura), the ramen, etc. .. Choose the one that produces only soba dishes, a sort of spaghetti under cold water and passed soaked, but that 'our job, in a watery substance soy taste slightly salty.
eat greedy with our sticks and go home with a stopover in two or three underground stations.
The town where we're headed is more located in Kanagawa Prefecture, Yokohama and Tokyo, which is how I remembered it: a quiet, full of shops and big car of any kind.
About the cars in this part of Japan if they are of all brands, even the Italian ones, even of FIAT, but strictly above the € 50,000. Even the guys you see them turn in Porsche and all anyway The Japanese seem to prefer the style Jeeponi Cayenne or their counterparts in Asia and always fitted with satellite navigation. The reason for this and I 'unknown but probably' to be reported in the Japanese love of things mechanical and technological robottoni see the cartoon, Mazinger in the first place.
In this tangle of streets and people do not hear anyone scream, honk or anything else that is not in any Italian city 'than the norm.
Yeah I remember when I was in Rome and I found myself with the mother of Kanako in the same taxi as the driver, absolutely unable to speak without shouting, it joined with people who did not even know shouting phrases in strict Roman how was this beautiful chick or the car they drive or anything else had the excuse of some dialect to howl Meo Pattaca "On the Road." "Aciiiiiiiiiii" cried the screanzato, I later discovered to be a dialectal variant style ciccio ah "or" beautify "and being a true Roman bulla over generations. I explained to Ms. Fujimoto
that these cases are rare and although we really believe I was denied again after the third or fourth taxi driver (even one of Florence) with whom I was dealing with. Rome has made me feel in a third world country but not the way to do that may be, if we want to find an excuse, also characteristic the area, but for the conditions of extreme hardship locate especially near the station (each station, but Italian is not a receptacle of thieves and gypsies) but also in any other way: North Africans, Romanians, Albanians, junkies and all that There 'more disgusting can be found in the slums of a "metropolis" decadent and rotten like Rome. I'm not saying to beat these people in a beautiful ferry in some subtropical prison enclosed by crocodiles and killer whales, but certainly there is' something wrong when one has to travel with one hand on the portfolio as well, and the other is not sufficient to protect from this scum.
It 'possible that if you go to some other country civil, can not find this scum? It 'possible that in these countries, stations, airports, crowded public place, not in the hands of these people? It 'possible that the streets are clean, not because there are those who clean, but because people are not dirty? It 'possible that there are the usual smart you pass from the right, you are put in front when you're in the queue (of machines or people)? It
and 'possible and we Italians are in this situation because only our, our way of being: go to Naples and see the people throwing the dirt out of the window in Naples because the inside of your home and' a covered of holy (holy covered San Gennaro & C), neat and clean, but outside, who cares, not 'their stuff, but the State must clean.
In Naples, the Japanese do not make them get off the bus but the visit as a safari with the windows tightly closed. And I imagine as the Neapolitans to raise rice to see these groups of Japanese locked in their bunkers, while not aware, the Neapolitans, to be zebra, gazelle and antelope.
The blame for this tragic situation can be found in Italian history, reading how the disaster and 'pulled forward over the last thousand years now. Of course, the guilt and 'also of the politicians, gang of mobsters, that amongst all there is not' one, not even on the horizon, capable of being a Zapatero, that is' not a saint, but one that does what it says before being elected and he does and pursues it as a duty, not as a pleasure to be eaten between us and the other
However
and I rambled and I'm sorry, but after all this, and 'a diary and I write what comes to mind.
Returning to the main line, we finally reach the home and between greetings, exchanges of gifts and bows Kanako and I go out to go to buy a cell phone.
I die from sleep, while the officer politely explains the endless range of mobile phones and many times the risk of them falling asleep in front of her, however, between a brick "I Mode" ultra-equipped and a fair radiotelephone clamshell camera for the price of 3150 yen (24 €, in Italy there is the smell in that figure) I choose the latter. I note with irony that, apparently, has not yet arrived here in Japan, but the Bluetooth to share data should still use the archaic infrared. It may not come because there would be such a mess of links to be unable to send a picture in the middle of the jungle and there are already signs that there would be.
Whatever the truth as I see the bullies sister Kanako cursing because the two phones are not well aligned and therefore does not pass the signal, which in Italy are much more advanced. I
This brings to mind when years ago in Tunisia guide told us, proud that his country was at the forefront of medicine as the bus passed, strictly with the windows closed, not too safe areas.
finished the day with a nice Japanese dinner around the table made from exquisite sashimi (raw fish) and other delicacies that I can not describe to you at the time.
Goodnight everyone.
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The fourth floor of the building
thinkers are divided into two schools and those who know each other.
-Gino Zappa
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I get up at 8 and after breakfast with coffee and a fruit that reminds me of melapera, are preparing to go see his sister Kanako Today's competitions of gymnastics with the school. She is 15 years old and a kind of high school for nurses to whom I did not understand the name. In Japan, all high schools last 3 years and the sport and 'considered a very important matter.
As I look at the evidence of the boys I start to think, for a change, to the Italian situation of the school: a tragedy. There are so many good examples to be taken but governments are bent on making "reforms" that have only a different name or catchy slogans such as false as the school of the three i. The high school in 3 years I find it a good thing, we unnecessarily harsh in more than two years: Whereas it takes to make the universe, the more the argument (there is something more appropriate) the more "fantastic" CoCoCo, more apprenticeships, we can begin a graduate to have a decent job and if in 30 years' lucky. If you have had the courage to choose medicine then we talk about 40 years, I believe that then the doctors even though they are always hungry for money overpaid.
In Japan, people are graduating at age 21 if they graduate and find good work now in important positions, being relatively quiet for a lifetime.
Coming back to the school and sport: beginning of the year each child chooses his practice in the after-school sports.
Each school lasts from 9 to 15, has a uniform and there is' the prohibition of dyeing their hair or wear makeup: it kills the individuality focusing on the community, the strength of the group rather than the individual, but out of school and not working when people dress, the makeup, is painted in the worst ways: some really outlandish, others stylish, other metalheads, but most As is normal as in Italy, except for the boots, especially young women, put them above all else. Each student and
'also avid supporter of his school which has a team known more for each sport (including judo and karate) and a flag that represents it.
fact, there is a regional and even national tournament between the schools and you can win prizes as well as substantial scholarships to major universities (with the difference that in Japan an athlete must, a fortiori, also cultivate his mental qualities) Kanako
won some tournaments race remaining unbeaten for several years in a minimum reached in the 100 meters, his name and 'still etched into a slab to' entered his school with its time. In our two hours per week of physical education are used to review for a practice match or a football at best.
However after a good half hour trains and subways come to the sports hall that the school year book for this event: and 'huge, nine floors of most of them contain a large hall the size of three basketball camps.
the 4th floor the whole school uniform class needs to do a trial of exercise that are more fun than an exercise in itself: the track with obstacles of every kind (military stuff) and make a ping pong ball on a spoon without dropping it, etc..
Nao, the name of his sister, in after-school football practice and then 'a racing, and running fast from what I saw. His team 'came first and not' was a surprise in the family. Nao
Considering that in that school and 'a freshman, that' the first year, and for me it 'was.
After a couple of hours I go with Kanako shopping in a neighborhood near shopping malls full of (what a surprise) but I find nothing interesting to me except a dvd of karate kid but that does not include: DVDs in Japan cost a lot more than here. Kanako
you buy a skirt and we go to the restaurant for dinner.
I eat my tempura and even today the day and 'over.
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Tuesday, 11/10/2005
In the heart of Tokyo's two photos of this beautiful park.
must eat to live, not live to eat.
-Socrates
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Today I was at the restaurant where she works Kanako's brother, Key. She works in an elegant French restaurant but not too much. The menu 'consists of lunch and dinner B respectively 1500 and 2000 yen (10 and 15eu approximately). We chose the lunch that allows you the choice of an appetizer plate a "central" and dessert. Dishes are very accurate but, as the infamous nouvelle teaches, very small quantities, mild flavor, pleasant, but not much. After three or four sandwiches with butter (the only thing that kept the door once finished) I feel much better. Key
is my age and worked for a couple of years in this restaurant which is located about forty minutes by train / metro from the house. His day starts at six, have breakfast, prepared in suits (even the most menial provides for "uniform") and goes to the restaurant where he stayed until midnight. A house falls into each. Even has a day off on Sundays is considered lucky because usually on Sundays and 'the day when there is' more work, and instead he is sitting at rest.
It seems that these rhythms are normal in Japan. I do not know how much and 'paid but I hope so.
After lunch we walk a bit between webs of streets and buildings and turning a corner as if by magic we find ourselves in another era: a forest with its temples and lakes. We walk in the peace of the wind rustling through the leaves, but the city reminds us that this place 'there, by hammering away with its noise and its buildings in the background beyond the trees, touching the sky their peaks of cement.
arrive in the area of \u200b\u200bthe temple in which, by paying 500 yen (about 3 €), you can leave a tag of wood with writing your desire or anything you've wanted to write. So many people have hung signs in their proper containers and scrolling with the look of me understand the writing (mostly British ones but there were also two or three in Italian) which are all known only wishes. In any religion or any custom (who said the fountain or well) there is' always the classic wish come true with a little sacrifice (often money is always in favor of those with practice, we earn). Reading all the wishes of the people I realize how similar people are even thousands of miles away: health, money, happiness. No one has written
nothing different, just like, only requests, only hopes.
I believe that man can never realize their desires because desires are like cheese in the mouse. The mouse manages to get brave and lucky to its cheese but then what? Once eaten, and not 'at the beginning of a new search to find a new cheese.
And so the man. Will always have a desire to achieve and will never be satisfied. It can not be otherwise his life would be pointless and would ultimately commit suicide. A man without desire, without a goal can not be a happy man and so it 'a contradiction. What 'your desire? What 'your target? Follow only the instinct or have a clear plan to achieve it?
ask questions and 'important. Fatevele.
Looking at these signs so I wonder, why not write something different instead of the usual required, the usual hopes on deaf ears.
So I guess a good sign hanging that says: NO WISH (no desire), or a nice DEiTY NO, NO PRIEST, NO TRASH MONEY (no god, no priest, no money down), or I am the architect of MY WISH, phrases like that, different from the crowd.
These cards are taken each year and burned in a way, by tradition, that their ashes to be able to reach the deity so fulfill the wishes of us lowly mortals (insegnamogli to use the emails that you before) ... we hope that you burn.
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Wednesday, 12/10/2005
The inclination to trade, barter, exchange one thing to another is common to all men and is not found in any other race of animals. -Adam Smith
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We woke up pretty late and we had lunch in a restaurant close to home really delicious: 5 square meters will be great and kitchen and 'as a storage room where the owner / chef cooking the food and then waiting tables (5 in all over the counter that will be 7 other places I think).
ventilate the room where the food is classical music that eliminates any stress on an LCD screen and slide images of sunny beaches and heavenly warm tropical waters.
home, relaxing atmosphere.
The owner, a tall standard for Japanese cuisine all by yourself and make some of the dishes that are a mix of all cuisines in the world: for example, I got the chicken and noodles were in the same dish, chicken crispy fried and soy sauce and mayonnaise. Really good, too good spaghetti.
I wonder why in Italy someone can not do such a thing, a quiet, small and exquisite in which the costs are small but not more revenue dopottutto. Perhaps because here the gain is based on the arc and not the day from 12:30 to 14:00 and from 19:30 to 22:00 hours in Italy where there is' full house while in Japan, remaining open, they have moments when I am very busy (even those clearly in the hours here and there 's all good in the rooms full, but being open all day this is noted otherwise). We would see Francis
well in such a place. Sure and 'a difficult choice ...
Since Kanako's parents know the owner and she has already' worked here In the past, asking if she can still work as a waitress here (besides, there is no room for another cook) and he accepts. From Thursday to 18 up to 23 will work in this small, quiet little place half an hour from home (on foot, by car 3 minutes, but nobody uses it here: you prefer to use their legs or public transportation). The
Kanako pay should be about € 10 per hour. Japan
In any job, even cleaning toilets in shopping centers, is paid up to € 10 per hour. We believe that 's all clean (in fact there is' little to clean, people are not dirty, as I explained in previous post).
Another thing I noticed ' that for every job there are lots of employees, more than necessary. For example for every car there are three (sometimes four) guys out with all accessories (sticks, gloves, uniforms) each with a different function: the first ringranzia and invites you to enter the second directs the hand to the parking lot, the third directs the hand to the empty seat, or in a building / house / road under construction, there are people in every corner of the neighborhood for hours indicate the presence of ongoing work and often obviously do not have to do is go up and Down the road until you pass someone and then they can give the best.
late last night began riasfalatare Azamino a highway (the town where we are) and when this morning I rehearsed for that was the whole street was riasfalatata (type 2 km) in a few hours at night and took a job in Italy it takes five days by blocking traffic at any time.
Surplus And I see this in everything.
Counting this and who are paid much more than here, Kanako ask how much tax you pay in Japan because we have these "waste" does not exist. He replies that are high but does not know for sure.
Now I wonder if it depends only on the Italian mentality, the quality of work that is provided. If everything in Italy there were 5 employees in more than paid twice maybe things would be different from us. But where did the Japanese take the money to pay all these people? I think that here there is less corruption as well as a sense of duty towards those who commit any type of work, in the sense that the Italian businessman wants to earn as much as possible and takes fewer people as possible by giving as little as possible. So in my pocket finds himself having spent a little more but providing a worse service (but he earns, the other who cares, I think).
In Japan even if you do a job or humble you are the last wheel of the cart you get paid very well (and let's not forget that here the cost of living 'like ours and no less. Example: I saw the rents of houses, leaving from 300 € to 600 ones with 3 bedrooms kitchen + bath), you have better conditions and depending on where you work a number of options which allow you to save on everything (drugs, transport, etc.).
This means that in Japan there is no need to strike (has no knowledge of things) because entrepreneurs do not only think about their own personal gain but to a community growing.
What they say in the short and secular theories of Adam Smith? What if the worker earns more than his wealth will be redistributed and eventually entrepreneurs earn more money.
But when he said these things? Centuries ago, when there were still slaves and workers were not paid nearly this person (but in fact there was already a form of movement of enlightenment, but I digress even if this ends up writing a book) began to think and say that perhaps if a worker to pay him more in the top pocket of the owner is less in the long run the workman will buy more and will create more demand = more profits for entrepreneurs.
In Japan I do not know if they know Adam Smith but, generally, follow these maxims.
In Italy they are all underpaid, all work in squalid conditions (as in performing a job for two or five similar cases) and it 'clear that in the end everything worked badly. I
in Italy I have the nokia 6210, six years ago and worked for 3 and a half in a wholesaler that sells phones. Why I did not buy the new phone? If the Lords
Developers would pay more, perhaps I would have liked to spend to buy a new phone every 3 months, if everyone did so in the end would be a huge gain for the Italian industry of mobile phones (and all others).
But this does not happen because maybe Adam Smith and 'was stopped at customs.
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