CJ: December 2006 Archives
My friend who belongs to MSF (Medicin Sans Frontieres) rung me and asked me to set something with her PC. Since she is supposed to be in Sudan in the early January, she wants to bring her PC with her, but she couldn't install some applications.
This kind of thing sometimes happen to me, from the people who work at day care, friends, colleagues. I like to see the people who are satisfied or happy with my help, and it makes me happy.
It's not so difficult for me to fix PC usually, so they expect me to find out the problems and fix them quickly. But sometimes there are some serious problems with PC, and when I explain the things which I can't fix it to them, most of the time, they're deeply disappointed with it.
Of course, not with me, with the result which they have to pay to fix them or buy a new PC.
As one of the way of brushing up my English, I sometimes try to watch films in English without Japanese subtitles. The first film which I saw without Japanese subtitles and could understand was Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, starring with Gene Wilder. I haven't watched new one yet, some friends of mine told me that they preferred old one.
Anyway when I watched the film the first time, I guess I could understand 80% of it. I could tell German English, American English, of course I could understand main stream, but precise things were a sort of mystery. Recently on Cable TV, they aired Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and I watched it in English again, yes, of course no subtitles. Since I watched this film, it has passed nearly three years, so I hadn't remembered all of them, but while I was watching this film, I realized I improved my listening comprehension a little, because I learned this time several things which I didn't know last time. And I learned what happened at the end of this film. Last time, I couldn't catch what happened to him. It was he, Charlie, got all of the factory.
That made me happy.
It's very difficult to know what is happening on myself.
