spring 2012

eVISIONWe would like to thank you all who help
us during the making of this eVision
issue, students, teachers, and alumnis,
especially Dr. Werawan for her featurearticle and Dr. Richard for writing sucha good personal life note. We are looking forward to new good articles fromall of you in the next issue.

FRESH (p.02)
According to Japanese Students..
SNEAK PEEK (p.03)
See you again, friends!
April Newcomers
New IA Office
LIFE SKILL (p.05)
Networking at Conferences

p.07

Best regards,
Evision Task Groups
M. Rafiq Mirza Julaihi
Kuare Coggan Donald
Nina Yulianti Rebecca
Chen Siwei
Marco Armando

RECOMMENDATION (p.11)
Film

p.09

DAILY LIFE (p.13)
Cheaper Shopping in Sapporo

What is pulling ouruniversity down?

TRAVEl (p.15)
Kyoto: City of Temples and Shrines

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QUIZ (p.19)
Say Hello..
WINTER PHOTO CONTEST WINNERS(p.21)

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Kushida Takafumi
Since both Malaysian students in the lab are able to speak Japanese, there are no communication problems. If they cannot
speak Japanese, it would be hard to communicate; Japanese
students need a lot of time to think and form sentences in English. I do not mind the presence of non-Japanese lab mates.

By publishing this magazine, we want
to help e3 family increase their knowledge inside and outside e3. There areindeed mistakes of our own in this issue, but we hope to get responses andpositive criticism in order to improve
our e3 magazine.

Support For
The Syrian

FOOD CORNER (p.14)
Klepon: Indonesian Mochi

According to Japanese Students...

Life is a journey

FRESH

Editorial

Abe Hiroaki
Interaction with international
students influenced my decision to study abroad. I gained
a different viewpoint to theworld. So I began to look foropportunities to study outside Japan, now I am studying in the United States. I believe it is a good chance forJapanese students to communicate with international
students because of culture
exchange, improve language
abilities, and international
students can get new friends
through Japanese lab mates.
I’m sure that Hokudai labs will
also benefit from presenceof international students.
By the way, Japanese students would also like to join
e3 events, so please advertise e3 events to us as well.

Takayanagi Shinya
Before entering the lab in my fourth year, I had prior experience with
Korean and Chinese students who can already speak Japanese. I wasin the same class during undergraduate. Even if they cannot speak
Japanese, I still talk to them since they also have to participate ingroup discussions and experiments with other Japanese students.

1. Japanese students want to talk to non-Japanese students.
2. Proficiency of Japanese language in non-Japanese students does not matter
much, since Japanese students learnt how to speak English, but it would help
when communicating with Japanese students.
3. Non-Japanese students do not have to be afraid of talking with Japanese students, they are just as eager to talk with us but they are shy to start it.

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Every meeting always has its end. We bid
farewell to two of our friends in last March,
Ms. Misato and Ms. Makoto. Ms. Misato always helped us with the scholarship signing at the Academic Affairs Office and often came to e3 events. She is one of theemployees that we see often in the office.
Ms. Makoto presented a song as the manifestation of her lovely voice to us in several
e3 events. Her original song that we heard
is "Boku to Uchuu", and the translation she
picked is "Me and The Milky Way". The content of the song is very nice. Eventhough weare far away, we are always connected sothat we can always believe and do our best.

April
Newcomers

This April we have many newcomers to join oure3 family, either new students, new professors,or new employees. As for the students, we haveeight new faces, one from Pakistan, two from
China, one from Philippines, and four from Japan.
During the Welcome Party we held for them, theylooked very excited to start their life in e3. There
are Mr. Sugiyama and Ms. Kyoko in the new IAO,
who will be working here from now on. Also, we
have one new foreign professor, Assistant Professor Henry, who already lived in Japan for about 6
years. We believe this year will be merrier than
before because e3 is expanding fast. We can hopefor more number of newcomers in October later.

At the end of March 2012, we held a farewell party for them, it was very nice to
see them until the last moment. Ms. Makoto’s original song was also being sangat the party. As a farewell gift, we gave
Ms. Misato and Ms. Makoto each of them avideo containing farewell messages fromseveral e3 members. Right now Ms. Misato is working in the Entrance ExamDivision at Hokkai-Gakuen University in
Sapporo. Ms Makoto is also still in Sapporo with her son and doing fine. Let
us hope they will lead a good life andwe can see them again in the future!

SNEAK PEEKSNEAK PEEK

See you again,
friends!

Finally, our faculty has its own room of
the International Affairs Office! It started operating on April 2, 2012 and is located at the opposite of the Academic
Affairs Office. The new office was madeso that our faculty can focus on thework related to international affairs. The
establishment of this new office will help
the faculty communicate with international students and societies from overseas.
Now our faculty is the only faculty who
has its own International Affairs Office.

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by Marco Armando

The office is run by five persons, the head is
Mr. Sugiyama. Ms. Juri Tsushima from Academic Affairs and Mr. Fumiaki Saruhashi from
General Affairs will be also helping there.
Then, while we still have Ms. Yuki Tsuji, we
got one new employee as a replacementfor Ms. Misato Okamoto. She is Ms. Kyoko
Kawamura who started working here at the
beginning of April 2012. They will help us
gladly. If you also have problems, you canalways come to the office to ask anything.
They speak English well, do not hesitate
to drop by and have a chat with them!

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“When it came time to apply to Grad School, then, I had
more than enough Professors who were familiar with mywork, who respected me, and who were eager to write letters of recommendation for me. And this is what I always
thought of as “networking.” You work hard, you proveyourself, people who have similar goals and interests recognize that work, and they recommend you. You go places.” [Networking: Good vs. Evil by Christopher Luna]
But it is not all you cando. Nowadays people are crazy about networking. Any kindof networking actually: social,business and academic speaking. The thing is that when you
go to a conference you cannot introduce yourself throughthe recommendation letter ofyour entire previous professors. Instead, the only tangible
thing you have is your business card, maybe. But what
you definitely can do is to leave05

esting or helpful, it means thatyou have made he or she remember you. Sharing information can be so important as you
find it or produce it. It’s betterto have 5 people willing to help
you out than it is to have 500
that simply know your name.
Also try to become known as
a powerful resource for others. When you are known asa strong resource, people remember to turn to you for suggestions, ideas, names of otherpeople, etc. You don’t have toknow everything, but you haveto integrate your own knowledge and experience with all
the information surroundingus. In the other way around,when you need some help,
you must be able to articulate what you are looking forand how others may help you.

a remarkable impression, notjust a “good” one but something that when people think
about it, immediately remindthem of you. During a seminarcalled “How to make a goodpresentation” by Professor M.
Furusaka (Professor of the
Quantum Beam Measurement
and Application Laboratory in
the Graduate School of Engineering) and Lionel Sobehart(MC at the Graduate Schoolof Engineering in the DivisioneVisioneVisionby Kira Aguilar

when we meet someone in a
conference or any occasion.
You should keep in mind
that networking is not only
about meeting new people or
making new friends, collecting
phone numbers and emails but
also it is about building trust
and relationships, and seeing
how you can help others. Building bonds with the right people.
And this can sound selfish andempty but what it really meansis that the better and the closer
the reason for becoming acquaintance with somebody else,
the easier it will be to find somecommon points to help eachother in the future. This will
also make it easier to maintain a
fluid communication that is themain point of networking. For
example, if you met somebody
during a symposium and talked
about each other’s work, andone of you find something interLIFE SKILL

LIFE SKILL

Networking
at Conferencesof Human Mechanical Systems
and Design), Furusaka Sensei
told us something really helpful
to accomplish this: we should
do something outstanding thatreally catches the attention of
the audience in order to makean impact on them because inthis way it will be a lot easierfor them to remember the topic related to the presentation.
This also could help tobreak the ice when you’re meeting a person for the first time.
Although it is preferable not tomake elaborate jokes which we
can make another person feel
comfortable, being genuine andwarm could be a good start. It
is also important to call thoseyou meet who may benefit fromwhat you do and vice versa. Express that you enjoyed meeting them, and ask if you could
get together and share ideas I
think we can easily apply this06

For those coming fromplaces where we can speak ourmind, we don’t know how it is
to live with the fear of being
punished for saying what you
think and asking for your rights.
But this is how people in mostof the Arabian countries live.
So these revolutions they havebeen making through the lastmonths are just the result of
all the years of repression andliving under dictators who believe that they own the people
and they can stay in the power
for their whole life. I know we
don’t have the exact same situation in Venezuela, and may
God take care of all of us, how

07ever we’re having similar troubles as political prisoners; TV
channels and radio station are
shut down just because theygive information against the
government; people are getting fired without the opportunity to get a new one just because they don’t accept what
the president is doing with
our great country: destroying
it and giving away our profit
and natural resources while
the people is becoming poorand poorer as time goes by.
That’s why we have to keep
an eye on what’s happening in
Syria because we never know
when or how things change.

This march was organized by international studentsof Hokudai from different countries as Libya, Tunisia, Egypt,
Pakistan, Jordan, Colombia,
Venezuela, Mexico, and Russia
among others and supported
by Japanese activists for the
Arabian countries. It was beautiful to see how the police waswalking in front of the marchin order to control the traffic. The route was from themain gate of Hokudai till the
TV tower in Odori Park. People
were walking holding flags andsigns while shouting supporting
phrases for Syria and explaining what is happening there

and why we were marchingfor them. At the final spot, welight candles for all the deaths,
praying for the end of the killing. The Syrian people’s demands are not more that which
any country should be able toenjoy as intrinsically given: no
tortures, no impunity for theactions of the security forces,
no political prisoners and themost important thing, democracy and a free society where
every citizen can have his own
opinion and he can live in harmony with others with different opinions, where the people can raise their voices andbe heard by the government.

NEWS

SYRIANby Kira Aguilar“Thank you so much to my
Arabian friends for letting us
be part of this touching experience. My heart and my prayer
with all your great nations, theones that already could beat
the regimes and the ones whoare in their ways. It’s just a
matter of time.”(Kira Aguilar)

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On February 15th, 2012, when the Libyan Revolution was arriving at its 1st
anniversary, here in Sapporo we held a march as a support demonstration for
the Syrian people who have been living horrible moments due to the government repression for the past 11 months. At least, 8000 people have lost theirlife due to the open fire of the security forces basically because there is no
freedom of speech so the people cannot ask for what they want: democracy,
pluralism, FREEDOM.

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FOCUS

interesting topic, isn’t it?
Let me give you a brief background about our university. Hokkaido University was one of the national universities fully supportedby the government until 2004. During that time it had to abide by therules and regulations set by the government.
The government began
to think that perhaps its full support
coupled with strict rules and regulations created an uncompetitive environment among universities resulting
in Japanese universities being left behind in the global university ranking.
The government then madeall national universities autonomous
so that they could come up with theirown ideas that would suit them best.
Getting freedom comes with a pricethough. The government cuts the annual budget by a certain percentage
every year. To supplement for the reduced budget, the government invites
universities to compete for all kinds ofeducational and research grants. Our
university applied for such grants but
as far as I know, in some cases, wewere the only former imperial university whose application was not selected.
Now, let’s take a look at how
our university and most Japanese universities operate. To simply put it,
there are two companies operatingon campus, namely “Faculty.com” and“Admin.com”. FC is supposed to provide education and conduct research
while AC is supposed to provide services to FC and FC’s and AC’s common
clients - students. FC is free to recruit
any academic staff according to its
needs but FC cannot tell AC what kindof supporting staff it needs. When
staff sent by AC cannot perform thework required by FC, FC hires its own
supporting staff with its own budget
but under AC employment condition.
AC does not require any specific qualifications from its applicants who will become full-time andpermanent employees.
Applicants

wishing to work at AC take the test without
knowing what kind of work they will perform. Except technician positions, all takethe same test. They have no idea which office they will be assigned to. Ms Bijin who
speaks good English may be sent to sit ata corner in the account department to chaton Facebook while Mr Kawaii who speaks no
English may be assigned to, for example, aninternational liaison office to use sign language communicating with foreign visitors.
Offices with budget may hire a temporary
bi-lingual staff to fill the gap. These contract workers are, from my observation, regarded as “second class citizen” and, as canbe expected, are not supposed to take partin any policy or decision making process.
Staff rotation policy that requires
regular staff to be transferred to anotheroffice every 2-3 years is a pride of many
Japanese organizations – private and public. Our university also prides itself forthis practice.
It takes months for any
new staff to be familiar with the routine
work, forget about essential knowledge
that can only be accumulated while on thejob. Let say, after a year both regular andtemporary staff have somewhat learned

about their work. Some may start thinking what can be done to make the work
flow more smoothly and efficiently.
“It
is easier to move a cemetery than tochange a (Japanese*) university”*inserted by the author.
So, unless that
staff is ready to spend time, be extremely
patient and persistent and does not mind
having more grey hair or losing some of
his hair, then he would make an attempt.
Then the third year comes around,regular staff knows that this is his last year
at the present office. Contract staff also
knows that it is time for him to look fora new job no matter how much effortshe
has put into the work and how distinguished his job performance is, he has toleave. And the whole vicious cycle begins.
Despite the fact that our university is
free to implement its own rules and regulations, except on academic matters which arelargely in the hands of FC, all other administrative rules are governed by AC. “The 3
strikes you are out”, the “generalist preference”, “don’t think, just follow the manual”
concepts are here to stay as long as two separate companies are operating on campus.
So, what is pulling our university down?

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What ispulling
ouruniversity
down?

Very

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Directed byAndrew Niccol
Produced byAndrew Niccol
Marc Abraham
Amy Israel
Kristel Laiblin
Eric Newman
Written by
Andrew Niccol
Main Starring
Justin Timberlake
Amanda SeyfriedMusic byCraig Armstrong
Cinematography
Roger Deakins
Editing by
Zach Staenberg
StudioRegency Enterprises
New Regency
Strike Entertainment
Distributed by
20th Century Fox
Release date(s)October 28, 2011

Not long ago in late March I,
accompanied by my boyfriend,watched a movie named In
Time on his seven-year-old laptop, taking nearly ten minutes
to start up, which had almost
driven me mad. However, thefilm itself is not as common
as my boyfriend’s never-concerned external appearance.
Frankly, it has something special, for example, romance ofpurity, justice with mercy, carein thoughtfulness and creativity
but not illusory, just like my boyfriend does in his inner spirit.
The story begins with astrange phenomenon, that is,
everybody in this world constructed by the movie will stop
getting old after he or she is 25
years old, so that a 70-yearold granny will appear as apretty smart young lady and a
100-year-old man will still remain handsome and strong.
Each person on his/her 25thbirthday will get a digital countdown clock on his/her left forearm, which runs as fast as thereal world. The person will live
as long as the time the clock
has, and dies when the timeruns up, unless he’s been murdered. The incredible rules, as
the movie said at the beginning,
no one knows why and no one
knows when, it just happened.
Amazingandwhatmakes the story interesting isthat the time of the clock could
be transferred from one person to another. So in the movie
people take the time as a kindof currency. Poor people who
usually have no more than 24hours’ life have to work for therich and then get paid by time
too. Then they can afford daily
necessities, such as 5 minutes
for a cigarette, 20 minutes fora cup of Long Island, and soon. In the slum area you canoften see dead bodies whose
clock don’t have any time left.
Inflation, discrimination, robbery crime filled the world. But

chief actress’ father as a capitalist would not pay even a thousand years for his daughter’slife. So the chief actress follows
the chief actor and begins theirlife as a fugitive. Yet they are notjust running away. They begin
to rob her father’s bank which
stores time and distributes thetime to the poor. The story of

the rich live a luxury and dissipation life, totally ignoring thepeople at the bottom, dead or
alive. You van feel the importance of time fully in this movie.
The chief actor fromslum, who gets a gift of a century from a hundred years’ old
man in an accident, transferredfrom the poor area to the rich,where in the casino he meetsthe chief actress, whose father
is a millionaire of time, andsoon falls in love with her. However, the police don’t believe
the chief actor and considered
he murdered the old man andstole the century time from him.
The chief actor pretends to kidnap the chief actress and asksfor 1000 years as ransom. The

the play is not extraordinary
without the interesting timeclock rules, to some extent; it isjust a simple claim of revenge
to capitalism where rich people
exploit the poor. But throughthe film, I think one should reconsider the time schedule, how
to value and save your time.
This
109-minute-longfilm In Time is directed andwritten by Andrew Niccol. Justin
Timberlake acts as chief actor
Will Salas and Amanda Seyfried
act as chief actress Sylvia Weis.
The film is rated PG-13 for violence, some sexuality and partial nudity, and strong language.
You can find more bout thismovie on the following website.
http://www.intimecasino.com/

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by Nina Yulianti

Flet’s 100 Yen Shop

Address : Kita 12Jo Nishi3, Kita-ku Sapporo
Web : http://www.ontsu.co.jp/f_jigyo.html
Open : 9:00am to11:00pm
Item : Foods and household appliances
Price range: 105 to 140 Yen

Serving for 30-40 balls
Ingredient:
250gr glutinous rice powder
2 teaspoons pandan water or green
food coloring
175ml lukewarm water (optionallycoconut milk or fresh milk)
100gr dark brown sugar/palm
sugar
100gr fresh-grated coconut,
mixed with salt (you canchange with dry fruit or
chocolate)

Daiso

Address : *Minami2 Nishi2, Chuo-ku Odori Station**Kita6Jo Nishi5, Kita-ku, The Bridge 2F
Web : http://www.daiso-sangyo.co.jp/
Open : 10:00am to 9:00pm
Item : Foods and household appliances
Price range : 105 to 1,000 Yen

3CoinsAddress : *Minamijo Nishi3, Pole Town underground,
Odori Station**Kita5Jo, APIA B1F, Sapporo Station
Web : http://www.3coins.jp/
Open : 10:00am to 9:00pm
Item : Household appliances & Accessories
Price range : 315 Yen

Natural Kitchen

Address : Kita5Jo, APIA B1F, Sapporo Station
Web : http://www.natural-kitchen.jp/
Open : 10:00am to 9:00pm
Item : Kitchen tools & Accessories
Price range : 105 to 500 Yen

FOOD CORNERDAILY LIFE

Cheaper Shoppingin Sapporo

Direction to cooking:
1. Mix water, pandan water or green food coloring, andlukewater.
2. Add glutinous rice powder and mix into a firm but
flexible dought.
3. Pull off two teaspoon of the dough and shape it into
a ball4. Flatten, fill with a little brown sugar, round it off again.
5. Prepare a pot half filled with water and boil it.
6. Drops one by one rice ball and boil until the balls float.
7. Then, remove the balls with a spoon and drain them.
8. Roll the balls in the fresh-grated coconut
9. Serving in room temperature.

KLEPON(Indonesian Mochi)

by Nina Yulianti

Address : Kita10Jo Higashi5, Higashi-ku, Sapporo
Web : http://www.2ndstreet.jp/
Open : 10:00am to 10:00pm
Item : Household appliances, electronics, clothes, etc.
Price range : Varies depending on condition

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TRAVEL

Kyoto

Kyoto Sweets
you can find themalmost everywhere in
Kyoto
Toji
A dark black temple of
Heian period, but it has abeautiful garden. Locatedjust southwest of Kyoto
station, it only takes 5
minutes by walking.

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Temples (Buddhism)••

Sanjuusangendo
the temple with 33 intervals (spaces between
columns), and also 1000
kannon statues and 28
statues of guardian deities.
However, you cannot takephotos inside the temple.

Behold Kyoto, an old and famous city in Kansai prefecture in Japan! Everybody must have
known this city, especially because of its temples and shrines. Despite being dwarfed bymany major cities in Japan, Kyoto has its own
attractiveness as an old city that has many cultural heritages. There are a temple or a shrine
almost in every street. It explains why we canspot foreign tourists easily in Kyoto. Moreover, the shape of the city is the same as Sapporo, everywhere is square, so you don't haveto be scared of being lost in Kyoto. The only
difference is Kyoto doesn't use number like
Sapporo, for example Kita, Higashi, Nishi, andMinami with numbers. Instead, every street
has its own name, and the name of an intersection is made by combining of the name of
the two intersecting streets. Let's take an example of an intersection between Karasuma
and Imadegawa street, that intersection isnamed Karasuma-Imadegawa. With that said,
it is very easy to navigate yourself in Kyoto.

Do you know
the differences?

••
Kiyomizu-deraGreat view from hills to
Kyoto city. Located southof Gion-machi, just two
bus stops away from
Gion bus stop.

Shrines (Shinto)•••

Good Deal!
City Bus Pass

Price: 500 yen, unlimited use of city
buses in one day
Subways and trains are not included

Kyoto Sightseeing Pass

Price: 1200 yen (1-day-pass), 2000
yen (2-day-pass)
Unlimited use of city buses and city
subways (Karasuma and Tozai Line)
Private railways are not included (JRLine, Hankyu Line, Keihan Line)

Heian-jingu
a great shrine with awide park, it’s free toenter the shrine surrounding, but you haveto pay to enter thegarden.

Buddhist temples use the suffix
ji in their name.
A Buddhist temple always houses an image of the Buddha.
A large incense burner is usually that the front of a temple.
The smoke created by the burning of incense is said to havehealing properties.
There is often a pagoda on thepremises of a Buddhist temple.

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You always enter a Shinto
shrine through a torii gate.
Shinto shrines use the suffix
jingu, as in Meiji Jingu.
A pair of guardian dogs or lions,called shisa or komainu, often
sit on each side of the entrance
to a Shinto Shrine
There is a purification fountainnear the entrance to a Shinto
shrine where you cleanse yourmouth and hands before prayer.

Kinkakuji
The famous golden temple of Kyoto. It
is far in the northwestern part of Kyoto.
You can walk around the temple andget nice views.
Ginkakuji
The silver temple, twins of Kinkakuji,
but not as beautiful as Kinkakuji. However, you can walk through Tetsugaku
no Michi (The Philosopher’s Walk) justoutside Ginkakuji to pass a beautiful
view of sakura during spring.

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16Note: Dr. Richard Diaz Alorro joined EGPSEE as a masteral student in 2005. He finished his Master of Engineering in 2007 and pursued a PhD degree under the re-structured English program (e3), which he earned in 2010. He served as the president of
the EGPSEE-Student Union in 2006-2007. His supervisor was Prof. Naoki Hiroyoshi of
the Laboratory of Mineral Processing and Resources Recycling. Dr. Alorro now works as ametallurgist at the Department of Metals and Mineral Resources of Toyota Tsusho Corporation in Nagoya City. He got married to Miss Eileen Belle Blanco Fesalboni on May 5,2012 in the Philippines. Dr. Werawan Manakul-Ueda is one of their godparents.

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I was born and raised ina humble town in the island of
Mindanao in Southern Philippines. This small yet lovely town
has witnessed the prime of mychildhood and the first 16 yearsof my existence. Life was simple
back then. I had simple joys but
I dreamt of big things. After finishing high school, I went to auniversity in Iligan City, locatedin the north part of Mindanao,
about 150 kilometers from myhometown. College was a social laboratory for the comingof age, an advent of adulthood.

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I finished my college degreewith flying colors, a bittersweet
victory for an education painstakingly-earned with meager
resources. Iligan City has been
my home for 8 years - 5 years
as a university student and 3
years as a young professional.
Hungry for more learning, I applied for a graduate
scholarship through the English Graduate Program in Socio-Environmental
Engineering (EGPSEE), currently called
English Engineering Education (e3), of Hokkaido Uni

versity, after about 3 yearsof
working in the university anda steel company. I set foot on
the Japanese soil in October
2005, ecstatic and anxious, yet
expectant of the many wonderful things that are yet tocome. Hokkaido University has
given me the passport to see
the other parts of the world to learn, to make friends, andto experience the wonders ofnature, old and modern civilizations. Sapporo provided mea warm and friendly abodeamidst the chills of harsh winter.

Life is a

Journey

short-lived happiness and contentment and sometimes heartaches and tears. They may go
and could never come back but
certainly, they will bring a lasting effect in our lives that wewill treasure forever. During
these difficult times we learn
the most important lessons
in life. It is by these encoun

ters that we get the chance tolearn more about strengths;
our weaknesses and ourselves.
People will come andgo into our lives quickly, butsometimes we are lucky tomeet that one special personthat will stay in our hearts forever no matter what. Someone
who will make us realize weare a treasure, a special person. Someone who will carry
our heart and is willing to takeus wherever he or she may go– a partner, a friend, a confidant, an inspiration in life. One
special person that helps us tolook inside ourselves and find awhole different person that wenever knew existed. Our eyes
are suddenly opened to a newworld - a world where time isso precious and moments never seem to last long enough.
When this moment comes, bebrave and face it with a dedicated heart. Share wonderful
dreams and precious momentswith that person.
Memories
arepriceless treasures that we cancherish foreverin our hearts.
I am glad that I
have met thatspecial someone
and I have committed myself to
our journey toforever. Wherever fate may takeme, I will continue with a courageous heart. I may find solace
in another home, somewhere,
but it will always be with delight,
for I have someone with me
now to start, celebrate, cherishand share it with. Our journey
together, for life, has begun.

ALUMNI

the one very rewarding part,and that is along the way, wemeet different kinds of people.
Our parents, brothers, sisters,
childhood playmates, friends,
classmates,
teachers,colleagues, or ordinary strangers
we meet by chance, are thepeople that we are destined
to meet. Each person we meethas reasons and purposes forcoming into our lives. Sometimes we do not always know
their purposes until it’s toolate. Sometimes we have early
discernments and enjoy theircompany and the relationships
we build. Some of them staywith us for a lifetime. Somejust stay for a short while.
Occasionally, the people
who keep us company for a shortwhile end up making a lasting
impression not only in our lives
but also in our hearts. They may
touch and change our lives in a
way we never could imagine.
Sometimes they may bring us

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Richard
Diaz Alorro

Leaving Sapporo after
5 years was never easy. But
pockets have to be filled, career
has to advance, and life has
to go on. I am now nestling in
the hustle and bustle of a corporate world in Nagoya City. I
still have the chance to see theworld (more frequent now),
but now in a more serious way.
Sooner or later, Nagoya will be
another place I’ll call home,where a piece of my heart
will be consumed and memories will forever be cherished.
I still don’t know what tomorrow may bring or where fatewould transport me. But one
thing is certain; I will be in aconstant journey, through life.
Life is a journey. We are
all scattered around terminals
and airports where each one ofus go and take our flights, buses, or trains that would take us
to destinations of our choice orplaces where we are asked togo. We travel in different destinations to achievedifferent goals. One
moment we may be
pursuing graduate
studies, then moveon to finding a job forcareer advancement,or follow the cycleof procreation andbuild a family. During the course of thisjourney, we sometimes encounter delays, turbulence or
bumpy rides. Often,
we are caught on the crossroads, giving us time to sit backand ponder upon which direction to take or choice to make.
We are all passengers in
the voyage of life. As we marvel
at the velocity, and sometimes
the complexities of our mobility, we must always remember

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Hello (to our English friends) Fill in the gaps!

Mirita (to our __________ friends)(answers below)

Ahalan (to our __________ friends)

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Dia dhuit (to our Irish friends)
Salve / Ciao (to our __________ friends)
Kon-nichiwa (to our __________ friends)
An-nyong Ha-se-yo (to our __________ friends)
Salve (to our __________ friends)
Ni hao (to our __________ friends)
Hallo (to our __________ friends)
Dzien' dobry (to our __________ friends)
Ol (to our __________ friends)
Ziua (to our __________ friends)
Zdravstvuyte (to our __________ friends)
Hola (to our __________ friends)
Jambo / Hujambo (to our __________ friends)
Hej (to our __________ friends)
Sa-wat-dee (to our __________ friends)
Merhaba / Selam (to our __________ friends)
Vitayu (to our __________ friends)
Xin ch (to our __________ friends)
Hylo; Sut Mae? (to our __________ friends)
Sholem Aleychem (to our __________ friends)
Sawubona (to our __________friends)

Mir-ita (to our Albanian friends) Ahalan (to our Arabic speaking friends) Parev (to our Armenian friends) Zdravei / Zdrasti (to our Bulgarian friends) Nei Ho (to our Cantonese speaking Chinese friends) Dobr den / Ahoj (to ourCzech friends) Goddag (to our Danish friends) Goede dag, Hallo (to our Dutch friends) Hello (to our English friends) Saluton (to our Esperanto speaking friends) Hei (to our Finnish friends) Bonjour (to our French friends) GutenTag (to our German friends) Gia'sou (to our Greek friends) Aloha (to our Hawaiian friends) Shalom (to our Hebrew speaking friends) Namaste (to our Hindi speaking friends) napot (to our Hungarian friends) Gan daginn (toour Icelandic friends) Halo (to our Indonesian friends) Aksunai / Qanuipit? (to our Inuit friends) Dia dhuit (to our Irish friends) Salve / Ciao (to our Italian friends) Kon-nichiwa (to our Japanese friends) An-nyong Ha-se-yo (to our
Korean friends) Salve / Salv・e (to our Latin speaking ancient Roman friends) Ni hao (to our Mandarin speaking Chinese friends) Hallo (to our Norwegian friends) Dzien' dobry (to our Polish friends) Ol (to our Portuguese friends)
ziua (to our Romanian friends) Zdravstvuyte (to our Russian friends) Hola (to our Spanish speaking friends) Jambo / Hujambo (to our Swahili friends) Hej (to our Swedish friends) Sa-wat-dee (to our Thai friends) Merhaba / Selam(to our Turkish friends) Vitayu (to our Ukrainian friends) Xin ch (to our Vietnamese friends) Hylo; Sut Mae? (to our Welsh friends) Sholem Aleychem (to our Yiddish speaking friends) Sawubona (to our Zulu speaking friends)

eVisionParev (to our __________ friends)
Zdravei / Zdrasti (to our __________ friends)
Nei Ho (to our __________ friends)
Dobr den / Ahoj (to our __________ friends)
Goddag (to our __________ friends)
Goede dag, Hallo (to our __________ friends)
Saluton (to our __________ friends)
Hei (to our __________ friends)
Bonjour (to our __________ friends)
Guten Tag (to our __________ friends)
Gia'sou (to our __________ friends)
Aloha (to our __________ friends)
Shalom (to our __________ friends)
Namaste (to our __________ friends)
Napot (to our __________ friends)
Gan daginn (to our __________ friends)
Halo (to our __________ friends)
Aksunai / Qanuipit? (to our __________ friends)

QUIZ

SAY HELLO!

...to all of y(our) new & old friends from allover the great e3 world!

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