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EDSの社人の飲み会

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Tokyo, 2007.10.19

I went to a reunion of former EDS people who had been stationed with the one client where I was on site when I arrived in Japan.

At previous gathering of the sort, back in the Spring, I was quite disappointed with my lack of progress with Japanese. On this occasion, I was pleasantly surprised at how much more I understood.

rand()m quote

It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row