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Toru Mar 12, 2015Jan 06, 2024 annual report, apartment, article, blogs, conjunctive words, correct, differences, English, entrance examination, hence, institution, laboratory, national universities, short English paper, study, therefore, thus, understanding

University Entrance Examination Day

 Today is an entrance examination day of all national universities in Japan. Since I couldn’t go to my laboratory, I Read More
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Toru Mar 11, 2015Jan 06, 2024 charity event, donation, earthquake, nuclear crisis, participate, search, Tohoku region, tsunami, upper limit, Yahoo! Japan

Charity of Yahoo! Japan

 Yahoo! Japan is conducting a charity event that the company will donate 10 yen per every person who search for Read More
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Toru Mar 10, 2015Jan 06, 2024 abandoned, assemble a PC, broken, bulky trash day, cables, equipments, furniture, life-size dolls, PC components, PC monitor, PC rack, printer, projectors, researchers, treasure day, useful trash

Day for Discarding Bulky Trash

 Today was bulky trash day for our university. Actually, my boss and I describe this day as “treasure day” because Read More
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Toru Mar 09, 2015Jan 06, 2024 arrangement, concentration, considering caps, desk, laboratory, motivation, offices, opinions, partitions, PC displays, problems, productivity, rearrangement

Makeover

 Today, I and my juniors rearranged our laboratory so that we can accept new faces. We printed out a sketch Read More
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Toru Mar 08, 2015Jan 06, 2024 AdMob, advertisement, Android, app development, earning money, giant leap, information technology, Play store, qualification tests, revenue, small step

Earned 2 yen

 About a year ago, I registered myself as a Android developer to sign up for the Play store. And few Read More
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Toru Mar 07, 2015Jan 06, 2024 boss, classmate, company, lonely, lunch, recruiter, students, university

Friend that one had been to school with

 Yesterday, I met my friend from university. He came my university as a recruiter of a company and introduced his Read More
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Toru Mar 06, 2015Jan 06, 2024 accordion representation, css file, keywords, post title, previous posts, re-design, search, web page

Create Post Archive

 Today, I created a web page that summarizes my previous posts. Actually, I had created a similar web page, but Read More
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Toru Mar 05, 2015Jan 06, 2024 'so', comma, connective words, English-speaking school, logical, mental capacity, therefore

Connective Words

 Today, I learned that there are a lot of “therefore” in sentences which Japanese wrote and it should not be Read More
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Toru Mar 04, 2015Jan 06, 2024 cheap meats, delicious, expensive meats, foie gras bowl, juniors, ramen shop, rice bowl, slice of foie gras

Foie Gras

 Today, I went to a ramen shop with my juniors. Surprisingly, foie gras bowl was sold at the ramen shop. Read More
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