Actresses as a job

I was at a photo shooting session as one of the staffers last week for a commercial for my client’s next spring and summer campaign. The model of this commercial is a famous actress and she was beautiful as usual.

I always think that being actresses and models are tough jobs because they are always required to be fit and beautiful. Moreover, they have to work for long hours from early in the morning till late at night but their physical and skin conditions should still be good. Conversely, only the tough and beautiful is cut out for the jobs.

I know a woman who used to be a promising model. She was a tad sensitive and her face sometimes kept breaking out especially when she had to go through hard work. As a result, she left the industry before long.

We are likely to be deceived into the image of actress. Even though an actress has an evanescent beauty, she must be super strong inside more than we imagine.

They are women who are gifted with both toughness and beauty.

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Q-pot.’s wonderland

There is a small house decorated with all kind of cookies, ice cream and chocolate shaped objects behind the Aoyama street in Tokyo. It’s so hard to resist that a friend of mine and I went into it. This three storied house is the Q-pot. flag shop.

Even people who don’t know Q-pot. might know a chocolate like mobile handset that docomo released. Tadaaki Wakamatsu, the designer of this jewelry brand turns every sweet motif into stylish wearable things.

People are likely to show off how much gold, platinum and precious stones their jewelry has but most Q-pot.s’materials are PVC, brass, starling silver. In terms of materials, Q-pot.’s items seem to be less valuable but its real value is just how they are sweet, fun, unique and make people feel happy. I think that it’s the core of Tokyo style.

Macaron charms, cocky necklaces, hamburger rings. They look quite tasty as if they were real food. Besides, Wakamatsu created a good brand atmosphere by developing a variety of gift boxes, wrapping paper, uniforms and shops. It’s a kind of amusement park in jewelry.

It’s worth visiting.

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Ghost mental arithmetic or ゴースト暗算

Are you good at math? If so, can you do this by mental arithmetic?

62×7=

I was surprised to see that some kids answered this very quickly in a study room at a juku, cram school in Tokyo. An instructor of this juku is Kuniaki Iwanami, a medical school student at Tokyo University. Kuniaki invented his original “ghost anzan” method that enables you to get the answer fast and now he has set up an education company. It was reported by NHK.

Kuniaki emphasizes that with his method you can also do 2-digits ×２-digits multiplication until 99×99 by mental arithmetic.

Speaking of 2-digit multiplication, it is widely known that many kids in India memorized the multiplication table all the way to 19 × 19 as part of math education at school. The reason why India has become such an IT expert country is supposed to be their high arithmetic ability trained from their childhood.

“I think that a basic ability of calculating is one of backgrounds to raise resources like IT engineers. I’m convinced this when I worked at a juku as a part-time instructor. There were a lot of kids who said they didn’t like math, and if we leave the situation as it is, it would surely cause a crisis in the advancing technology nation.” Kuniaki added.

Kuniaki provides us with two courses to master “ghost mental arithmetic” for both kids and senior. I hope it’s not too late to activate my brains.

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