MTVJapan

The ceremony for the 5th MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2006 took place in Tokyo on June 17th. The place was The First Yoyogi, National Sports Gymnasium, Shibuya, Tokyo (国立代々木競技場第一体育館（東京都渋谷区神南）).


The winners are:

Best Male Video
平井堅 - POP STAR

Best Female Video
倖田來未 - Butterfly

Best Group Video
Def Tech - KONOMAMA

Best New Artist Video
Rihanna - Pon De Replay

Best Video of the Year
倖田來未 - Sitting, Butterfly

Best Rock Video
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Best Pop Video
レミオロメン - 粉雪

Best R&B Video
AI - Story

Best Hip Hop Video
50 Cent feat. Mobb Deep - Outta Control

Best Reggae Video
湘南乃風 - カラス

Best Dance Video
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

Best Video from a Film
NANA starring Mika Nakashima "Glamorous sky" from 「NANA」

Best Collaboration Video
HOTEI vs RIP SLYME - Battle Funkastic

Best Album of the Year
ORANGE RANGE - 「NATURAL」

Best buzzAsia from Japan
倖田來未 - Trust you

Best buzzAsia from Korea
SE7EN - スタートライン

Best buzzAsia from Taiwan
JAY CHOU - Snow-like Hair

Legend Award
Michael Jackson

Inspiration Award
Destiny's Child

The Most Influential Songwriter Award
John Legend

Best Director
山口保幸

Best Special Effects in a Video
SOUL'd OUT 「イルカ」
（デイレクター：田中祐介）

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useful links:
MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2006 [日本語]
平井堅
倖田來未
Def Tech
Rihanna
Green Day
レミオロメン
AI
50 Cent
湘南乃風
Gorillaz
「NANA」 the movie - Mika Nakashima
ORANGE RANGE [読み方：「オレンジ レンジ」]
SE7EN
JAY CHOU
Michael Jackson's webpage
Destiny's Child
John Legend

[slogans] -Sony-

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2003 - It's not a trick, it's a Sony.
2003 - You make it a Sony.
2001 - Go create.1988 - It's a Sony.
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Sony was founded in 1946 by Masaru Ibuka (1908~1997) and Akio Morita (1921~1999). They started their business in a Tokyo department store with approximately 20 employees and initial capital of 190,000 yen.

They complemented each other with a unique blend of product innovation and marketing savvy. Ibuka was a practical visionary and Morita was a true marketing pioneer.

The company was named Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo KK (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation). In the beginning, the company produced radio parts and rice cookers, among other things. The rice cooker product was unreliable. Today Sony is the America's most respected brand. The company's consolidated sales and operation revenues reached 7,475,400 million yen and 158,500 employees worldwide (as of March 31st 2006).

In 1957 the company produced a pocket-sized radio and one year later was renamed as Sony (sonus in Latin means sound). In 1961 Sony Corporation of America was the first Japanese company to list in Wall Street.

Sony, among other Japanese companies, took active part in the rebirth of Japan as an industrial power. "We in the free world can do great things. We proved it in Japan by changing the image of ‘Made in Japan’ from something shoddy to something fine", said Morita. You should bear in mind that when Sony first attempted to enter the American market Japanese products were regarded as of the lowest quality.

Morita and Sony's attributes were to create new markets. Describing what he called Sony's "pioneer spirit", Morita said: "Sony is a pioneer and never intends to follow others. Through progress, Sony wants to serve the whole world. It shall be always a seeker of the unknown.... Sony has a principle of respecting and encouraging one's ability... and always tries to bring out the best in a person. This is the vital force of Sony".

useful links:
Sony Corporation
Sony USA


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Article in process.
Based on "The Management Century" by Stuart Crainer; and company information.

梅雨です。

It's been raining cats and dogs!

Today, the weather forecast announced the beginning of the rainy season in kansai area.

In early summer, most parts of Japan get visited by a rainy season, the so called tsuyu (梅雨), literally meaning "plum rain", because it coincides with the season of plums ripening.

The rainy season is caused by the collision of cold northerly and warm southerly air masses, which results in a relatively stable bad weather front over the Japanese archipelago for several weeks.

In most of Japan, the rainy season lasts from the beginning of June to mid July, while it affects the islands of Okinawa about one month earlier. Only Japan's northern most main island of Hokkaido gets barely affected by the rainy season.

I suppose the damp, sweltering summer will be officialy started after this rainy season... みんな頑張れ！！

IM

I live far from home. I also have friends scattered around the Globe. Communication is an issue.

I use MSN Messenger, Yahoo messenger, Skype, and Google Talk (although I haven't download it to my new laptop yet).

Today I was introduced to a new application called　'damaka' (www.damaka.com). The person who told me about it states it's lot more powerful in terms of voice and video chat than regular IM chat. I've just downloaded it, but still don't have any contacts added...

Will let you know later in time about its performance ;)

A century of Slogans

Coca-Cola Advertising Slogans Through the Twentieth Century

1904 - Delicious and refreshing
1905 - Coca-Cola Revives and Sustains
1906 - The Great National Temperance Drnk
1917 - Three Million a Day
1922 - Thirst Knows no Season
1925 - Six Million a Day
1927 - Around the Corner from Everywhere
1929 - The Pause that Refreshes
1932 - Ice-cold Sunshine
1938 - The Best Friend Thirst Ever Had
1939 - Coca-Cola Goes Along
1942 - Wherever You Are, Whatever You Do, Wherever You May Be, When You Think of Refreshment, Think of Ice-Cold Coca-Cola
1948 - Where There's Coke, There's Hospitality
1949 - Coca-Cola... Along the Highway to Anywhere
1952 - What You Want is a Coke
1956 - Coca-Cola... Making Good Things Taste Better
1957 - Sign of Good Taste
1958 - The Cold, Crisp Taste of Coke
1959 - Be Really Refreshed
1963 - Things Go Better With Coke
1970 - It's The Real Thing
1971 - I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke
1975 - Look Up America
1976 - Coke Adds Life
1979 - Have a Coke and Smle
1982 - Coke is it!
1985 - We've Got a Taste for You
1986 - Catch the Wave
1989 - Can't Beat the Feeling
1990 - Can't Beat the Real Thing
1993 - Always Coca-Cola
1994 - Play Red Hot Summer.
1995 - Play Red Hot Summer again.
1996 - Enjoy
2001 - Life Is Good
2003 - Coca-Cola... Real
2005 - Make It Real
2006 - The Coke Side of Life

Brazil and the world cup

The world cup has started. I missed the open ceremony, but won't miss the final. Uruguay didn't make it this time, but this is the team I strongly support: 'a verde e amarela'. You can check the results on http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/

始めに

Hola a todos,

Hoy inauguro mi blog. Hoy, que decidi tomarme el dia... Al fin, no todo es estudio y responsabilidad. Decidi fingir demencia por un dia, y postergar un dia de fiebre y malestar en casa.

Si les parece que no hace sentido lo que escribo, es el proceso de maduracion de ideas en el que estoy.

Para mitigar un poco la abstraccion en la que vivo, voy a comenzar este blog con un poema de una escritora uruguaya. De mis pagos, mas concretamente. Juana de Ibarbourou, una de las poetas mas famosas de America Latina.

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Hello there,

Today I'm starting my blog. Today, that I decided to take the day off. In the end, not everything is about studies and responsibilities... I decided to "pretend I'm mad" for one day (which is not far from reality, hihi) and to continue a rest due to some mild health problems.

If you think I don't make sense in what I write, this's the result of an ideas maturation process I'm living in.

I'll start this blog with a poem of an Uruguayan writer, as to soften a little the abstraction in which I live in. Juana de Ibarbourou is one of the most famous Latin American women poets. She was venerated for her lyrical celebration of love and nature; and she's from my hometown. The only problem is that this beautiful poem is in Spanish. I have no translation to add. I'm sorry.


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-La Hora-
Tómame ahora que aun es temprano
y que llevo dalias nuevas en la mano.

Tómame ahora que aun es sombría
esta taciturna cabellera mía.

Ahora que tengo la carne olorosa
y los ojos limpios y la piel de rosa.

Ahora que calza mi planta ligera
la sandalia viva de la primavera.

Ahora que mis labios repica la risa
como una campana sacudida a prisa.

Después..., ¡ah, yo no sé
que ya nada de eso mas tarde tendré!

Que entonces inútil será tu deseo,
como ofrenda puesta sobre un mausoleo.

¡Tómame ahora que aun es temprano
y que tengo rica de nardos la mano!

Hoy, y no mas tarde. Antes que anochezca
y se vuelva mustia la corola fresca.

Hoy, y no mañana. ¡Oh amante! ¿no ves
que la enredadera crecerá ciprés?

Juana de Ibarbourou
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