a name of hunter was hunted 11 years ago

A year ago, when I was listening to BBC news with my ipod, I heard the following.

"It is the point to remember. The whole of the irony is about Diana, perhaps the greatest this is a girl given a name of the ancient goddess of hunting was in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age."

I realised that the 10th anniversary ceremony of Princess Diana's death was being held. I thought that the speaker of above was pulling up other's leg with strong irony or cracking a joke. However, he was Princess's brother. I was surprised at the phrase. Thinking about the prhase in Japanese, it sounds a little bit cynical or joking. Listeners could keep a straight face. A woman named after hunting was finally hunted. It was the moment that I learned that English people say such a phrase in such a situation.

Olympics and Politics

The modern olympics games have had to contend with protest, boycotts and even terrorism. Looking back at the notorious games, Nazi Germany was the first country to take advantage of the event as political propaganda in 1936. In 1972 the Olympics became a target of terrorism. I knew the event by watching a film of Spielberg's "Munich". In 1980 Moscow and in 1984 Los Angeles both games were a exchange of boycotts, which became a battle field of the cold war. These trends will continue to the next olympics. The controversial Beijing olympics has been held this year. Media criticises the Chinese government for its censorship on the internet and human right issues. The Chinese Premier Hu Jintao insisted in the runnup to the opening ceremony that politics should be kept out of sports. Indeed the olympics charter says that no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted. However, lots of people would consider the extent to which olympics has a political aspect. The Olympics always takes on a political aspect because athletes are chosen by countries. They always wear their national flags and national anthems are played during a prize giving ceremony. The audience cannot help feeling a sense of nationalism. It is the one that politics is seeking for. One impressive news report about olympics I watched on TV last year is that a Russian city Sochi was elected as the winter olympics 2014. The president Putin attended to a meeting to discuss the host city and gave a speech to help Sochi get elected. The highlight of his speech was not its contents, but the language. He did it in English and in French. I had never heard his English although I knew that he is good at foreign languages especially German. Sochi is located by the black sea near current disputing Georgia .It will be inevitable that the 2014 olympics has political content again. Politics and olympics are unlikely to go separate ways in the future as politics and religion do so.

Schnapszahl

Heute ist eine Schnapszahl.
08.08.08.
Ich weiß nicht, warum man Schnapszahl sagt. Vielleict trinkt man vielen Schnaps? Meine Kollegen gehen in die Kneipe. Aber ich gehe heute nicht.

Die Olympische Spielen biginnen in Peking.
Die Spielen sind umstritten.

The secret of happiness

Mr. Koizumi once said "As all lives are various, so are companies( that may employ a non-working individual such as young Koizumi.)" He managed to put his scandal away with this phrase. As to happiness, I would say, "As all lives are various, so is happiness." Happiness is often associated with daily circumstances such as family, love, money and religion. So it varies from person to person. I would like to find happines in society. In my daily life in Japan, It seems that there are loads of unhappy elements. For example, we have to work for a long time. Holiday is short and is not easy to be taken. Most of the Japanese who live in greater Tokyo spend more than 2 hours in a day on extremely crowded trains. I often feel as if we might be a herd of cattle. There could be no dignity. On the other hand, though I sometimes talk about these complaints with one of my colleagues, we are assured our life as far as we accept the complaints. When I look around foreign countries, it seems that our complaints would not be much of a problem. We are never in danger of life in Japan. There is plenty of food and clean water. Everytime I go abroad, I feel that I am living in one of the safest countries in the world. Our society is not perfect, but I am sure that we unconsciously enjoy the benefit to some extent. This may be happiness or a kind of happiness. I do not understand what happiness is exactly. Because it is intangible. I do not notice how I am happy. This may be the secret of happiness itself and it is certain that we should be sceptical about a tangible happiness such as Mcdonald's Happy Meals.