The earth is full

　The earth is full　（地球はもう限界）

  

 Lately, I found a live streaming site named TED. Maybe you have already known or heard what they have done on internet. Basically, they are a global set of conference that evolves the annual presentation conference with a wide range of topics. You can go on its wiki for further details.  

 Anyway, recently I have spent my spare time to watch some videoes on TED. It's also possible to add subtitles on it if you need, so it might be useful  to use when you would study English with those videoes.

 This time I'd like to introduce one of those videoes to you, that the earth is full. As we already known, the earth has a lots of problems, and it tells us that we are stealing most of the resources on this planet from our future which is very unsustainable. And it also tells us that we need 50% more earth     than we've got if we would keep operating at our living level that we've lived on.  

 This is about a kinda dramatic and a bit negative story that we've faced on. but you can see various presentations on various fields by unrenowned to renowned name. 

 Have time to check it out.

 

 

 

  最近TEDというアメリカを中心に開催している講演会グループが、ネット上に無料配信してるサイトにはまってる。英語での配信だけど、日本語に変換できたりして英語の勉強にも役立ってる。

　TEDサイト

　その中でも興味深かったプレゼンを紹介。

　未来の資源までも食いつぶしてるとされる人間。この経済水準を今後も続けるためには、地球があともう半個分必要らしい。

　これは地球環境の話やけど、他にもデザイナーとかアーティスト、医者とか世界的に有名な人から無名の人まで色んなユニークなプレゼンが見れる。時間がある人は是非。

 

 The earth is full の動画

 

My everlasting hobby

 Hi, guys. Do you know how many countries in this planet it is?? It's about 200 hundreds. Wow!! - Japan officially admits 195 countries so far now.

 As for me, have ever been to only 9 countries in my life so far. Is it a small number or big one for you? When it comes to Japanese people, I think it's a big number because they are never active in traveling outside Japan　statistically in comparison with people in other advanced countries. Maybe the reason is that most of the japanese people who have never been to outside Japan are unbearable to stay in a uncomfortable circumstances that cannot communicate in Japanese as they are unbelievably bad at English!!

 Anyway, I'm thinking that I want to travel around the world some day, and want to visit at least more than half of the countries on this planet. I think this is like a bonus gift I got from last 4 years overseas experience. you know, traveling to a new country is like my everlasting hobby till I die. Maybe I wouldn't have got it, if I hadn't played soccer oversea after the graduation of University in Japan.

 

 I will take good care of it.　

 

 

 

  世界には２００近くの国があるらしい。（日本が国として承認しているのは１９５みたいだが・・。）

　そして自分が今まで訪れたといえる国の数はたった９か国。日本人はあまり国外に出たがらないと聞いたことがあるけど、そういえばうちのばあちゃんも「一度も海外に行ったことがない」とむしろ自慢気にいってたなぁ。それもそのはず、日本より便利で豊かな国を探す方が難しい。

  そう考えると、９か国でも多い方だと思うけど、実は遊びでいったのは高校の時に修学旅行で行った韓国くらい。あとはサッカー絡みばかりで、観光はほとんどしなかった。

　それでも世界にはまだ１９０近くの国と地域がある。全部とは言わないまでも、世界の半分以上は死ぬまでに見てみたい。毎回違う国に行く時は、すごく新鮮な気持ちになれる。そこには新たな出会いがいつもあって、訪れるだけで何かが自分の中で変わったんじゃないかと錯覚してしまう。もう半分趣味の感覚なのかな。

 一生楽しめることができる趣味、大切にしていきたい。

　

　

Sometimes, things don't go the way you want, but it's all right

Sometimes, things don't go the way you want. but it's all right.  

(物事ってうまくいかないときってあるよね、でも大丈夫。)

Hi, how's goin??

I'm not depressed at all, don't worry.

By the way, maybe some of you guys has already realized that I haven't kept you updated about myself on this blog recently. Of course there are some reasons, but the biggest one is that things don't go the way I want as the title above. As you know, we have some tools called social network especially on internet to let us feel smug in ourselves. For example, I have used my own blog and facebook at the moment, but I think its al about self- satisfaction. 

 So when things around me don't go well at all, I don't really feel like writing something on my page even if something small good things happen in the meantime. If you are the person who can keep updating about yourself in any cases, you must be a person who have a strong mind and a will that never get upset over anything. That's who I'm going to be some day.

 Anyway, I've been looking for a team who I can play next. in this end of the May, my last contract with a team in India was terminated, and I started a team hunting in the end of August again. Despite it has been nearly two months, I haven't found it yet. It's not that easy as I expected. I think almost professional soccer players forced to end their carrers because of their physical or mental problems which can hardly recover, some of them have different reasons, I think, that couldn't find a new team playing for the next season. In this case, they who couldn't overcome themselves are going to choose retirements after all.

 That's why I think I'm now standing on a huge tuning point in my life.　I feel like being tested on the edge.　I really want to get over it. I must make it!!

 

 

 

　別に病んでるわけではないですよ。笑

　最近このブログを前から読んでくれている人はわかると思うけど、更新頻度が落ちています。色々理由はあるけど、根本はやっぱり何かがうまくいってないときってブログも書けなくなっていく。ブログやFACEBOOKなんかのソーシャルネットワークって言われるモノの根本は自己満足なのがこういう状況になってよくわかる。良いモノ＝薄っすら他人にも自慢したいこと、モノがあると、更新もしたくなるよね。けど、逆もまたある。

　けど、うまくいってないときほど、その事を正直に書ける人、他人に恥ずかしげもなく話せる人って逆にすごい強い人やとも思う。それこそ、そんな感情さえも超越してて、絶対に良い事がまたあると自分を信じられる人なんやろうね。そういう人間にいつかはなりたい。何があってもブレないみたいなね。

　現在は「蹴活中」といえばいいんかな。今年の５月いっぱいで前所属チームとの契約が切れ、当初はインドでもう１年と思ってはいたものの、日本に戻って、さぁここからインドでもう１年という気持ちにどうしてもなれなかった。自分にしかできない武器があるなら、それを使って挑戦したいと。そう思って動き出してから約２か月。やっぱり甘くはないよね。サッカーの部分ではない色んな自分の知らない壁がそこにあって、踏み込む地、踏み込む地に簡単に跳ね返されてる。けどそれもおもしろい。

　なんとか今年中には次の所属先を決めたい。恐らく、こうやって所属先がずっと決まらず、最後は自分の根気が負けてしまって引退・・・　ってのが大半だと思う。今、結構自分の人生の中でも大きな分岐点に立ってる気がする。

　今は単純に思うよね、この壁乗り越えてぇ！って。そしたらどんなけ気持ち良いやろうなぁって。

Philippine 2

 Hi,

 Let me talk about what I did about football in Philippine during the short stay. Simply speaking, I didn't kick a ball around with anyone for any team even touch a ball at all. As a matter of course, I wanted to pull off a trial and play in Philippine, but I couldn't actually even get an opportunity for that, unfortunately..

 When I flied over there, most of the trials that I was looking to had just finished or they had just signed with other players already. But of course I didn't give it up, so I asked a mate to introduce me another team who needs a foreign player for the season, and I made a promise for that.

 However, the training didn't start on course at all, and just kept me wait for another week, but you know... it seemed never to start on the day they said.  I expected that it would be a matter of time, but I asked one of a mate who playing for the team when it would get started, but he didn't even know when...

 Constitutionally, I really hate to await something or someone without doing anything. so I just decided to fly over another country on a day, and then packed all my stuffs up, looked into the football of the country and basic information to enter and stay for a while, and a flight ticket as well. I did all of  them as quick as I could, and I already landed the new country at the end of the day.

 I believe a quick decision could make a big opportunity to change your life.

 Just awaition something is too boring man!!

 Don't you think so?? 

 

 

　と、まぁここまで色々とフィリピンの悪いところばかり書いてしまったけど（まぁ実際の体験談だが・・）、いい所ももちろんある。フィリピンは何千もの島でなってて（人が住んでいるのは１０００島ほど）、その中にはセブ島って有名なリゾート地もあるし、マニラだって町の中心までいけばオシャレなカフェやショッピングセンターなんかも多い。

　まだまだ発展途上なところも多いけど、それもその国の特徴だと考えればいい。そもそも日本より安全で整っている国なんてアジアにはないのだから。いや、世界を見渡しても・・・。

　まぁノラ犬が多いので、狂犬病にはご注意。自分もランニング中に狂った犬がいて、速攻退散した。地元の人でも必死に逃げるくらいやから、発症率も半端なさそう・・・。

　そして、肝心のサッカーやけど、正直この国で一度もボールを触れていない。そもそもトライアル中ってのを知ってすぐいったけど、結局はその期間も終盤の終盤だったみたい。確実に確認しなかった自分の落ち度やし、けど終われないってことで違うチームを紹介してもらえることに。だけど、そのチームの練習が待てど暮らせど始まらない。１週間待っても何も音沙汰がないので、当人基本的に待つのが大嫌い。ってことで、いつか行こうと思っていた国へ舵を取ることに。

　そう決めたのが、その日の１５時ごろ。そこから大急ぎで荷物をまとめ、チケットを探し、その国の基本的なこととサッカーのことを調べて、その日の夜中には到着していた。何事も「行くか迷えば行ってみる、やるか迷えばやってみる、会うか迷えば会ってみる」。とりあえず、待って様子を見てたって良い事なんかあった試しがない。

　これ、大事だと思うのは自分だけかなぁ？

Philippine 1

 Hi, guys. How have you been?? 

 

 I had been in Manila, Philippine for two weeks. Actually I've already been in another country now, but of course I just went to see what's Philippine football like cuz I heard the new league which is the professional league has been set up in the country nationwide, so I got interested in it.

 By the way, let me talk about the Philippine life which I had been in before going into the main issue. 

 As I told you before, I was in Philippine for twe weeks, and I stayed in three different hotels in the meantime. All of them were budget cheap hotels which have very untidy and disgusting rooms like only TV and bed in a small room...    

 In addition, it was so humid like a tropical island with a continual squall. Maybe you can feel it so easily with full of sweat once you land there. The last hotel I stayed in was the worst hotel ever!! The room was a bit gloomy, and I couldn't sleep very well with full of mozzies. And there is a toilet and shower conbined in a small room for all visitors which is unpalatble to me.. It was so stink and dirty to use, and what I got was only a cold water for shower.

 Moreover, I spent most of the days in Philippine at ERMITA where was a  so dangerous area.. I didn't know what's it like before... I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have gone there if I had known it...  ERMITA where I stayed about 10 days from the first day of Philippine was like a red-light area..

 In particular, you would know what's the town like when you stick around on weekend. You can see so many glaring neon signs and boards on shops where bait you all around... What I was surprised at most there was that a prostitute who were standing on a street to tempt someone privately approached me when I was in taxi at that time... Once the taxi pulled over on red light, the prostitute came straight to the taxi, and she said to me over the window 'Com'on Com'on, Massage, Massage on your bed, ok??' ... 

 The moment I glanced at her face, I said 'Sod off!!'.. lol　But her impact was enough to frighten me.. I was actuall about to shit my pants, man.

 Anyway, it was so dangerous. I heard the people there even kids have guns to rip you off on streets. But What I have seen in Philippine this time was an only tiny part of it. It's not necessarily appropriate to suggest that all parts of Manila is dangerous of course.. You better see it for yourself  haha

 

 

 

 どもです。

 

  急ですが、香港でのトライアルから今度はフィリピンへ。実はすでに今違う国にいるんですが、その話を。フィリピンでの滞在日数はおよそ２週間。もちろんサッカーをしに行ったのですが、その前にフィリピンでの生活を少し。

　延べ２週間の滞在中、ホテルを変えること２回、計３つのホテルに泊まった。そのどれもが格安ホテル。１泊１０００円～２０００円の間。フィリピンはもちろん気候も高温多湿。雨もやたらと降るし、常にジメジメと蒸し暑い状態。ホテル内はクーラーとベッドだけの独房みたいなところから、それにプラスでテレビが付いたり。最後に泊まったホテルは、テレビとベットと扇風機だけで、モノを置くスペースもない狭い部屋。おまけに、トイレとシャワーがユニットになってて、宿泊者全員が共同で使う。臭いし、水しかでないし、誰が使ったか、用を足した後かもわからないところ。

　思わず思ってしまった。「おれ、こんなとこでなにやってんねやろ」と。

　安い宿を選んだの自分やし、それは仕方ないというのはわかっているけれど、さすがにそう思わずにはいられなかった。笑　そして、自分がこの滞在中の大部分をすごしたのがERMITAという日本でいう夜の繁華街のど真ん中にあった安宿。フィリピン女性が日本に出稼ぎで風俗系の店で働いているというのは知ってたけど、ネットの情報だけで安宿が集まってる地域にいったら、こんなところにきてしまった。（始めからわかってたら絶対にきていない・・・。）

　それだけ治安も悪いし、少し細い道に入るだけで襲われてしまうんじゃないかと思ったくらい・・・。一番危ないのはもちろん夜。道を見渡せば、ホームレスの人達が大量に路上の端っこで寝てるし、中には家族４人で路上で寝てるのも結構みかけた。コンビニで買った食べ物を持ってると、すぐに子どもが寄ってくるし、お金もせがんでくる。　

　拳銃も表面上は所持には許可が必要みたいやけど、密輸で出回ってるし、子どもが銃で旅行者を恐喝なんてこともあると聞いた。

　週末になるとさらにすごい。平日よりさらに活気？が溢れ、風俗系や（怪しい）飲み屋などが所狭しとあって、路上には客引きの女性が否応なしに声をかけてくる。中には自分が日本人とわかったのか、いきなり日本語で話しかけられることも。一番びっくりしたのは、すっげぇ化粧の濃いおばさんが、自分がタクシーに乗ってるときに外から色仕掛けで誘ってきたこと・・・。もうこれには小便ちびりそうになるくらい恐かった・・・。

　もちろん、自分が見たのはフィリピンの一部分だけです。もっといいところたくさんある・・ハズ。ただ、ERMITAという地域は気をつけたほうがいいです。笑