Kakyo.basic.zip: 健康与保健

Funny how.

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Just realized that something said online, especially through IM where effort is minimal and intention is invisible, is worth less than a penny.
It nevertheless serves the receiver well if it happens in his/her time of need.

Stay alive yet stay in place, our distributed mercy....
before you leak around into the ocean of indifference and desire.

网络脑残临床症状

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:43:24 GMT

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网络脑残临床症状
从不许联想作者：带三个表

一、在博客、论坛看到一篇新帖子的第一个反应是抢沙发占板凳；
二、没有耐心去阅读完一篇文章，便急于去发表自己看法；
三、对不管是否能阅读明白的文字都想发表自己的看法；
四、对凡是不符合自己看法的文字都容易暴怒；
五、对参与的事情往往处于无意识状态；
六、喜欢排队、只有支持和反对两种反应；
七、从来都认为自己做的是对的；
八、没有羞耻感，这是童年不健全在成年的表现；
九、缺乏对事物细节的连贯分析和判断；
十、当对一件事情无力做出判断时，表达语无伦次，但坚决要表达；
十一、不会换位思考和反省自己；
十二、对一件事情不表达自己看法会感到很难受；
十三、容易盲目崇拜一个人，但却给自己找到无数理性的理由。

欢迎大家补充…………

sth out of nothing

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:09:44 GMT

Geniuses grow out of soil.
When there is no genius, be the soil.

今晚我教育我妈了

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:18:23 GMT

永远诚心诚意待人, 与人为善, 不会有错.
本人的信念.

以防万一

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:44:08 GMT

http://umeume0605nihao.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!423BF8F7664BF0EA!4031.entry

以防万一

日本是地震的国家，我们经历过很多大小地震。我住的地方也经历过比较大的地震。有关机关部门向国民经常呼吁要做好准备，以防万一。

比如说我们公司给每个职员「紧急袋子」。不知道用中文怎么说，是发生地震等紧急情况时，个人带着这个袋子尽快避难。袋子里有安全帽，工作手套，防尘口罩，三角巾，雨衣，哨子，压缩饼干，保存饮料水。大家都总是把这个「紧急袋子」放在桌子下。而且我们公司的这个大楼也保存，紧急食品，饮料水和特殊毯子等等。

幸亏我们没有使用过这个东西，不过每年一次确认里面的东西。当然在家里也有这种「紧急袋子」。

我们国家的经验可能会帮助这次的灾害区。我希望很多国家，很多人马上去灾区帮助受灾者。

在日本很多单位，组织等等开始募捐活动

日本如何应对地震

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:39:11 GMT

http://hi.baidu.com/hozukiakane/blog/item/03e5c435f812b91491ef3938.html
日本如何应对地震(特集)

2008年05月15日星期四 22:22

資料は2005ナンバー第33期『日本発見』より
地震に備える日本....
下面开始为大家简单介绍日本如何应对地震,只做简单介绍,中文与图片中的日本语不一致
图片点击放大
首先是地震时的必须用品:

1 非常用笛,以人耳最容易感觉的3kHz发出声音,可以在被困时吹响

2 紧急用避难时加热气炉,可以使用天然气火焰加热食品

3无须水冲洗的洗发水,可以在无水状态下进行头发的清洗,洗后只要用纸擦拭就可以了

4 一百小时蜡烛灯,可以连续点燃长达100小时

5 方便米饭,冷水浸泡60到70分钟,热水20到30分钟即可食用

6 冻干蔬菜,冷冻干燥产物,热水浸泡过后食用,补充必要维生素等营养

7 防灾软头盔,拉线后自动充气,膨胀,防割裂,放火焰和重物砸落

8 饮用水长期储存罐,光触媒技术制作,水在其中保存3年仍然可以完全不变质并且被饮用

9 非常袋,旅行或受灾时存放备用品的袋子

10 手摇式收音机,手电,转动充电,可作为收音机,手电和携带电话的外置电源设备

11 握力充电手电,1分钟充电约可使用8分钟,采用LED发光

12 压缩式内衣以及内衣盒,受灾时的清洁衣物

应对地震的活动:
1 地震车:模拟不同震级地震环境,如图中的电子灯显示的7就是模拟7级地震,学生轮流体会

2学校发放的软袋,可以携带物品,地震时有效保护头部

地震对应措施
1 赫赫有名的东京救援队

2 海上地震科学分析船

3 神户地震博物馆(因其经历多次地震完好而闻名)

4 内构造

5 地震救援探测机器人蒼竜(そうりゅう)

6 地震救援探测机器人雷鸟(サンダーバード)

7 东京天然气控制中心,地震发生时切断所在区域燃气供应,防止燃气泄露产生的火灾等次生灾害

8 地震监测站

9可动式堤坝,防止海啸或者在地震时收回避免损坏

暂时介绍到这里

an interesting update

Mon, 05 May 2008 19:30:24 GMT

Now I'm able to have a tight sleep without video or audio assistance (listening to music or watching TVs) again.
feels good.

Actually I'm not in the mood to write

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:54:26 GMT

It's a positive sign though, cuz I feel fully engaged in sth else.

Sth that consumes me whole right now.

The unexpected advent of an emotional summer.

But I'll try to tell my stories bit by bit, make them simple but solid.

停下来

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:13:35 GMT

说我更新太快, 仔细想了想, 确实.

现在更新的主要动力也就是英语写作. 鸡毛蒜皮也好统统变强迫症.

但刚才仔细想想, 其实已经很久没什么实质进步了(可恶啊!!).

首先, 依然无法在短时间内完成零错误(不提地道不地道)的文章, 甚至长时间也不行, 每篇都要修改2+次(当然也包括"地道化"处理), 我这人又比较变态, 想起来就去修改, 不管几年前完成的, 想起来有bug就会去debug. 如果写了这么久还做不到零错误的话, 我需要仔细考虑方法问题. 我想大概还是要追溯到倒行逆施的"法笔口"学习顺序吧. 正确的写作应该是口语的书面化, 因此, 写作误差的本质是口语误差. 当然写作系统论会说写作是一个递归流程.

其次, 缺乏短平快的基本素质, 修改的主要功夫都是在剪刀, 剪得一地猫毛. 什么时候一句话能够实现最大压缩比就成功了; 写的时候无时间观念, 我很想要自己5分钟写完什么也不改, 做不到. 我可能有点不适合写blog, 太较真了.

最后, 内容单调, 顺笔滑, 这是电力问题了, 静下来全力充电固然好, 但比起终日无语而言, 写blog还是舒服一点, 虽然强迫症令该过程不太轻松.

话说自己内心的某一维还是有点位于<るろうに剣心>濑田宗次郎和<EVA>明日香之间的方向

不管怎么说, 不要做无用功, 没有进步的话就释放时间吧. 不会停止就无法向前.

生日前严禁更新.

Tempo change.

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:12:42 GMT

No computer work other than reading and note taking is allowed at home anymore.

I hereby declare that my home desktop be moved to the lab.

Done and go home again.

Introspection

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:49:33 GMT

Time flies so fast that our souls hardly catch up.

Science can only go so far ....

and the rest is left for personal god.

I'm glad that today I asked my soul a question ...

before making a blind move.

I need to make it a daily rule.

Irony

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:38:48 GMT

I'm sick finally, while tons of stuff on the table is waiting for me ... and I really wanna do it. With my cotton head, nothing but sleep is what I can do.

first aid

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:48:12 GMT

Beep. Got plenty of things on my plan tonight and I've been anxious to do them. But suddenly I felt I'm gonna get sick in a minute. No choice but to go to bed then...

Confession (2) - Local Minima

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:53:37 GMT

I think my Sin #2 is the OSD on local minima. Whenever I got stuck in what I do, I became so short-sighted and couldn't let go, i.e., the local minima, for quite a while until my physical condition started to degrade, e.g., feeling hungry or nauseous. It goes all the way back to my middle-school math assignments. I still remember the inferno burning in my mind when I got stuck; even though my brain cycle was already on hold, my eyes were still locked to the paper, shackled to the meaningless pieces in the question. Never did I ask myself: what have I done so far? why did I do all that? where was wrong with the very step I'm taking now? why am I feeling nauseous?

Like the practical case, same thing applied to my emotional local minima. Music, movies, parties, and other such external stimulations/painkillers were often summoned as vacation islands. Lack of an real-time analysis or a question-and-answer session at finest granularity sets up new time bomb for the future.

My problem is that I need to set up a clock to synchronize my behaviors, constantly checking whether I'm doing the right thing, at the highest sampling rate; no jitter is allowed.

In many of my former local minima, all I had to do was to confirm to myself "This is not right", "This does not make sense to me", "I'm not functioning at all", "My brain cycles are totally at a waste", "I'm burning my calories for nothing"; then I need to ask "what should've been right", "what the right result/feedback should look like".

The threshold should be placed upon time, i.e., the synchronization clock. A time-out leads to a complete drop of session, with necessary clean-up.

私は、私のSin#2というのが地方のminimaの上のOSDであると思います。私がすることで立ち往生したときはいつも、私はとても近視になりました、そして、私の物理的な状態が例えば空腹であるか不快であると感じながら退行し始めるとき、初めて、長い間、minimaにすなわち、碁、地方をさせることができました。それは私の中学校数学課題にはるばる戻ります。立ち往生したとき、私はまだ私の心で重大な地獄を覚えています; 私の脳のサイクルは既に保留されていましたが、私の目はまだ質問における無意味な断片につながる紙にロックされていました。自分で尋ねられたIを決してしませんでした: どんなIは今までのところ、そうしましたか?私はなぜそのすべてをしましたか?悪事がどこに私が現在取っているまさしくその方法でありましたか?私はなぜむかついていますか?

実用的なケースのように、同じものは感情的な地元のminimaに適用されました。音楽、映画、パーティー、および他のそのような外部のstimulations/鎮痛剤は休暇島としてしばしば呼び出されました。リアルタイムの分析の不足か最もすばらしい粒状における質疑応答セッションが未来の新期間爆弾をセットアップします。

私の問題は私が、私の振舞いを同時にさせるために時計をセットアップする必要があるということです、絶えず私が正しいことをしているかどうかチェックして、最も高い標本抽出率で; ジターは全く許容されていません。

元地元のminimaの多くでは、私がしなければならなかったすべてがそうであった、確認する、自分には「これは正しくない」、「これは私に理解できない」「私は全く機能していない」「完全に浪費に私の脳のサイクルがある」「私は無駄にカロリーを燃やしています」; そして、私は、「ことは正しくあるべきであった」「正しい結果/フィードバックが似るべきであること」を尋ねる必要があります。

敷居はすなわち、時間、同期時計に置かれるべきです。タイムアウトは必要なクリーンアップとのセッションの完全な低下に通じます。

How to Release Your Anger the Right Way

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:06:54 GMT

If anger is a completely normal and natural human emotion, it is however important to learn and understand how to release anger the right way because you don't want it to turn hurtful or, even worse, deadly. Anger can be felt in the form of tension or pain in your jaws, forehead, temples, cheeks, hands, arms and in the center of your back.
How to Release Anger the Right Way
You can release anger the right or the wrong way. Regardless of whether you have an anger problem yourself or not, it is important for everyone to understand what the right ways of releasing anger are. One of the best ways to release anger is to give yourself the permission to express anger.
In other words, just because you are taught or raised to suppress your anger doesn't mean that this is necessary the way you should go. In fact, it is quite healthy to express your anger as long as you do it correctly. There's nothing wrong with expressing fear, rage, anger or sadness although many people are taught otherwise when they grow up.
Remember that anger management relies both on mental and physical effort. Although mental therapy alone will helpful you tremendously for releasing your anger, it can only take you so far. The same applies for exercise too. However, if you combine both mental therapy and exercising, you will then have access to an incredible positive and life-altering solution. How to apply both? Do a particular physical activity along with the mental intention of releasing your anger.
It might be obvious but the most important things of all to remember is to never hurt others when you release your anger. Make sure you give yourself the opportunity to express safely your anger, without hurting anyone else in the process. Your main goal here is to express your negative emotion without someone receiving the backlash of the anger itself.
Finally, if you feel the need to express yourself in any of these ways, make sure that you are either totally alone so that you don't feel uncomfortable or otherwise inhibited , or that you are surrounded with people who are supportive of this type of activity and of you as a whole.
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How to Release Your Anger the Right Way

A terribly correct psych-test result

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:37:06 GMT

第六型忠诚型

六号特性：忠诚者

基本恐惧：得不到支援及引导，单凭一已的能力没法生存

基本欲望：得到支援及安全感

内在声音：如果我能够达到他人对我的期望，我就 OKAY 了。

特质：认同及服从权威，有责任感；面对异已者时，容易陷入强忍 / 攻击的矛盾中，因而变得优柔寡断，及过分谨慎。

顺境 ( 得到支持时 ) ：自我肯定；信赖别人和自己；容易与人有亲密的关系，对待家人，朋友及所属的团体有持久的忠诚及承诺。

逆境 ( 没有支持时 ) 缺乏安全感，极度焦虑；自我贬抑，有被虐的倾向

处理感情的方法；恐惧被遗弃，无人支援，对人太过依赖；对人有承诺感，值得信赖，同时保持独立，而防卫性颇强。

六号有两： P6 惶恐 6 ； CP6 先发制人 6

身体语言： ( P6) 肌肉拉紧，双肩向前弯；面部表情；慌张，避免眼神接触讲话方式 / 语调；声线微带颤抖，游花园，久久不入正题。

(CP6) 肌肉拉紧，刻意挺起胸膛；面部表情；瞪起眼睛盯着人；讲话方式 / 语调；故意粗声粗气，兜兜转转，不入正题。

常用词汇：慢着；等等；让我想一想；不知道；唔 …… ；或者可以的；怎么办

工作环境；

(P6) ：选择做打工仔，需要规条及操作标准，容许自由发展，有时间追求自己的兴趣及嗜好。

(CP6) ：希望能够掌有实权，愿意跟从规条及操作标准，容许自由发展。

不能处理逆境时出现的特征：妄想狂性格；

恐惧犯错、未知、敌意、欺诈、不能生存、孤独、被出卖、去爱、应付不来、放手；缺乏安全感；迟疑；无决断力；妥协；过度谨慎；懦弱。

六号的警钟：找寻外在的指引及支持；对将来充满焦虑；找寻安全感；婚姻、工作、信仰、朋友网络、未雨绸缪、投资将来、建立安全网；谨慎前进、降低期望；死人寻旧路。

座右铭：伴君如伴虎

典型冲突点：过多焦虑不断发问，令人（尤其三及七号）生厌

优点：对盟友忠心耿耿，不遗余力保护自己人

缺点：对人抱着质疑的态度

最适合工作环境：有清楚的权力架构，大家忠于找出真相

不适合的工作环境：工作指引含糊

管理方式：以解问题及克服障碍为中心思想

令人舒服地方：是逆境中可信赖的盟友

令人不安地方：顺境时显得过分谨慎

沟通要点：六号采取行动前需要得到大量及清晰的指引，并知道前路的危机何在；支持六号见步行步，望得太远产生不必要的焦虑感　；六号感觉环境不清晰时会有焦虑，不时与他倾谈；不要一意孤行转变游戏规则，给予六号足够的时间去适应。

激发要点：以身作则＼真诚＼一贯的动作；称赞及动用六号的分析能力；主动指出可能发生的问题，去赢取六号对你的信任；被六号质问时，保持友善的态度，帮助他找到答案；鼓励六号对你的忠心及承诺。

时间管理：轨道式时间；解救方案；　六号在开始行动前及完成计划前会拖延，帮助他克服内心的困扰；支持六号将内心的问题讲出来要求六号与你一起订立程序，工作不会因为规则　不清晰而停顿下来；六号在没有压力时会拖慢　脚步，帮助他将焦点放在最终目标；提醒六号作息有时。

达成协议：六号对人性充满疑惑，会视协议为被占便宜，所以必须首先赢取他的信任及尊重

常见问题：推缷责任，框框人

解救方法：清楚的职权分配；建议另类处事方式

quote

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:02:08 GMT

A little bit craziness keeps you from going insane.

Activators and Deactivators

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 06:17:10 GMT

If your mental behavior is comparable to an electrical current constantly looping through numerous gates, the external influences and your own motivations play the activators and deactivators.

Excessive suggestions about self-development are seen in all philosophy books to date. Plausible enough, they all ask us to soften our frequent defensive postures/gestures because acceptance is considered an ultimate and global solution to all problems in life. It is expected that in this state of mind, the dichotomy of activation and deactivation would cease to exist and a pleasant unity would emerge.

While we are still on our way to such an ultimate realm, we will have our daily encounters with all kinds of activators and deactivators. They usually show themselves as information, mostly artificial, and more often than not, personal opinions from human-beings around us. We tend to loosen our critical judgement to people in the physical vicinity, parents, roomies, close friends, etc. Because a lie between two truths is the most delusive of all, it becomes so easy to absorb or reject their ideas without careful evaluation. "Reality is as subjective as truth." Thus our personal reality was frequently distorted without notice.

IMHO, our mental state, however, is the most functional compass of life. The activator's input may hurt in the beginning, but once it takes effect on your mind, it dwells upon it until you make your move under its guidance. On the other hand, although the sweetness of the deactivating MEMEs may slow you down, reduce your blood pressure, and probably turn off your clock, but deep down, you could clearly feel that you have been disarmed. Some gates are closed. And I bet that more often than not, you would taste the bitter core of such deactivators' tricks soon after the sweetness dissolves. Yes, the mental gates are more experienced than our top-level consciousness.

Far-reaching networking in life makes information literacy a prerequisite diploma for all survival games. Until the ultimate acceptance kicks in, I do think we need to keep ourselves alerted to the activators and deactivators. There were a bunch of Chinese people who I trusted for a while. But as the time spent with them increased, the feel of getting deactivated grew as the space was silently filled with their pollutive ideas, such as money omnisciency, science is useless, a "realistic" woman is THE perfect wife and you can play the game your way after they pass their thirties because they knew there is no point for divorce, being absolute realistic..., and so on and so on. Living together, or routinely spending time together is not a passport for mental deactivation. The true deactivators, who can release convincing MEME, have their own complete value system, making it hard for you to resist the delusive offense. But, these worms are either indifferent to your fundamental interests, afraid of seeing your determined personal develepment, or jealous about something you possess but somehow has been underestimated by yourself, in short, 不怀好意. Once you recognize the deactivators, leave them behind ASAP or adjust the distance between you and them with art. More important, mark them as DISTRUSTED in your contact list. There was this person I had trusted most until a word came out: "If I were you, I'd fail my comprehensive exam and transfer to a Master program and leave school right away." It was this blatant and ruthless attempt of deactivation that activated my judgement. On the delightful contrary, another distant friend of mine always supplied me with courage and resolution on the road. Just those limited number of activations can immediately lighten up your horizon, erode the shackles of fears, and unleash your inner power. Those activators are the true life savers.

This whole story applies to relationships as well. Priceless relationships are the ones in which both partners feel themselves activated to a higher level than without each other. Statistically there is no such thing as smoothness in relationships. No matter how physical or personality attraction may lead to a mutual approaching, how irresistible the emotional reliance arising from causes other than the harmony of both value systems may appear at the very beginning, a deactivating relationship will deactivate at least one of the partners and eventually the link between them. It'll end in tears if the attendees find themselves in constant melancholy. This is a lively display of the idea.

After all, the activators and deactivators are IDEAS. They are invisible. Leaving or staying with a physical human-being or a cultivated addiction is not the absolute solution.

"Fools find reasons. Wise men never try." Don't let anybody or anything deactivate you and don't miss anything, anyone, any relationship that could activate you for maybe only a minute, no matter what they are, where they are, and how you are.

-- Kakyo

PHD comic

Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:18:29 GMT

06/25/07 PHD comic: 'The Internet'

from PHD Comics

Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham
www.phdcomics.com

title: "The Internet" - originally published 6/25/2007

Source: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=878

Confession (1)

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:28:32 GMT

Restlessness was growing like weeds for the last few days. One must be aware of the fundamental issues when this happens. However, it's a challenge to make a systematic summary with the time budget for a blog post. So, what I would do is to let it flow with my thoughts.

1. Conversation.

During a conversation, especially when it's 1 on 1, I have this craving to talk about myself without frequent breaks as openings for the other person, whether the conversation is done orally or text-based. This reaches its extremity if the conversation was initialized after long work, an exciting event, or some active mental activities. In other words, this tendency of "pseudo-communication" is a signal of self-absorption. Honestly speaking, it's frequently seen among people who work individually or whose private life holds the stronger proportion of the overall life. For one of the fundamental reasons behind this, maybe 兔八爱 is right. Witnessing the skyrocketing demand from society for individuals, we rate the result of our every single effort based on increasingly strict metrics. The intrinsic desire for acknowledgement drives us more ambitious than decades before (even though we tend to deny it, claiming "I want VERY LITTLE", often for fear of getting perceived as competitive or demanding, or avoiding making any insecure promise.) and believe that the amount of effort deserves equivalent rewards, or at the very least, sufficient exposure. Hikikomori is the shock therapy in response to the highly demanding modern life, while self-absorption could be the more ordinary yet popular excrement we produce from the values we inhale everyday, spreading across the gray area. Since it's a disease and a chronic one, it has to be cured through conscious yet gradual therapy. There are other more low-level causes behind this specific case of mine, ....to be continued .....

For the syndrome of my bad conversation habit, my self-discipline would then be:

Never speak twice in a roll, if it's about myself.
If others are listening, finish my talk ASAP.
Don't forget "and you?" in any case.
Listen carefully, think twice, and slow down.

All in all, conversation is a ball game: serve your ball nicely and friendly, and enjoy the fruitful hitting-back loop.

熬夜加班者的“健康参考”

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:24:24 GMT

熬夜加班者的“健康参考”
　　尽管我们提倡在工作时间内完成工作任务，但是在重要工作或突击性任务来临时，晚上加班往往是不可避免的。在这里，军医为时常“赶夜车”的参谋、干事、助理员们提出几条“健康参考”。
　　不要半夜吃方便面，最好以水果、面包、清粥小菜来充饥，以免火气太大；切忌吃得太油腻、太生冷，以免食淤腹中。补充水分，最好以绿茶为主，可以提神，又可以消除体内
　　多余的自由基，让您神清气爽。但是胃肠不好或睡眠不好的人，则可以改喝一些枸杞泡的热茶，可以明目，而且不会引起胃肠反应以及加班后持续兴奋不能入眠的现象。
　　加班后即使再晚，也应当留出一点时间清理卫生，不要回到宿舍倒头便睡，最好能用热水烫一烫脚，让紧绷的神经得到放松。用过化妆品或护肤品的女同志，熬夜前一定要记得把脸洗干净，以免粉层或油渍在熬夜的煎熬下，引发满脸痘痘。
　　熬夜之后，第二天中午时千万记得打个小盹。夜里1:00以后不睡觉，人体的代谢作用由内分泌燃烧，会产生很多毒素，通常熬夜的人得慢性疾病的几率比抽烟或喝酒的人都来得高。所以每天尽量在22：00至24:00以前睡觉，不要常熬夜，若需要熬夜加班，一星期最好不要超过一次。

Source: 百度_邹城吧_熬夜加班者的“健康参考”

差点犯政治错误

Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:17:29 GMT

亡羊补牢.

relax

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:17:48 GMT

昨晚在搭档simon家玩, 教了我一点DJ打碟技术; 后又跟他jamming着好玩, 我bass, 他guitar; 还合了一下sting的englishman in NY.

Hikikomori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:23:20 GMT

It's everywhere now.

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Hikikomori (ひきこもり or 引き篭り lit. "pulling away, being confined," i.e., "acute social withdrawal") is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents and young adults who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives. The term "hikikomori" refers to both the sociological phenomenon in general as well as to individuals belonging to this societal group.
Contents
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1 Definition
2 Situation

2.1 Japan
2.2 Worldwide

3 Causes

3.1 General causes
3.2 The Education System

4 Symptoms
5 Effects

5.1 On the individual
5.2 On the family

6 Controversy
7 Reaction

7.1 Treatment
7.2 Acceptance

8 References in pop culture
9 See also

9.1 Related Japanese topics
9.2 Medical diagnoses for hikikomori behaviors
9.3 See also

10 External links

[edit] Definition

The Japanese Ministry of Health defines hikikomori as individuals who refuse to leave their parents' house, and isolate themselves away from society and family in a single room for a period exceeding six months. While the distinctiveness of the phenomenon varies depending on the individual, some youths remain in isolation for years, or in rare cases, decades. Often hikikomori start out as school refusals, or tōkōkyohi (登校拒否) in Japanese.

[edit] Situation

[edit] Japan

According to estimates by psychologist Tamaki Saito, who first coined the phrase, there may be one million hikikomori in Japan, twenty percent of all male adolescents in Japan, or one percent of the total Japanese population. Saito later admitted in his autobiography (Hakushi no kimyo na shishunki) that he made up this number to draw attention to the problem and that it had no factual basis. After the syndrome was officially recognized, the number of reported cases turned out to be in the low thousands.^{[citation needed]}
Though acute social withdrawal in Japan appears to affect both genders equally, due to differing societal expectations for maturing boys and girls, the most widely reported cases of hikikomori are from Japanese families with male children who seek outside intervention when a son, usually the eldest, refuses to leave the family home.

[edit] Worldwide

While total social withdrawal has been claimed to be mainly a Japanese phenomenon, there are reports of similar phenomena developing in South Korea, Taiwan and China.^{[citation needed]} When a BBC program claiming that hikikomori was a Japanese phenomenon was aired in Britain, the BBC home page received numerous messages from viewers in the United Kingdom saying that they had personal experience with hikikomori and that it was hardly a phenomenon particular to Japan. Even the most casual search of English language materials will show that essentially the same phenomenon is found in the United States, Australia, Canada, Britain, etc.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Causes

[edit] General causes

Sometimes referred to as a kind of social problem in Japanese discourse, the hikikomori phenomenon has a number of possible contributing factors. Young adults may feel overwhelmed by modern Japanese society, or be unable to fulfill their expected social roles as they have not yet formulated a sense of personal tatemae (the public facade) and honne (the "true self") – both of which are needed to cope with the daily paradoxes of adulthood.
The dominant nexus of the hikikomori issue centers on the transformation from young life to the responsibilities and expectations of adult life — indications are that advanced capitalist societies such as modern Japan are unable to provide sufficient meaningful transformation rituals for promoting certain susceptible types of youth into mature roles within society.
As with many advanced capitalist meritocracies, there exists a great deal of pressure on adolescents in Japan to be successful and perpetuate the existing social status-quo. A traditionally strong emphasis on complex social conduct, rigid hierarchies and the resulting, potentially intimidating multitude of social expectations, responsibilities and duties in Japanese society contribute to this pressure on young adults. Historically, Confucian teachings de-emphasizing the individual and favoring a conformist stance to ensure social harmony in a rigidly hierarchized society have shaped much of the Sinosphere, possibly explaining the emergence of the hikikomori phenomenon in other East-Asian countries.
In general, the prevalence of hikikomori tendencies in Japan may be encouraged and facilitated by three primary factors:

Middle class affluence in a post-industrial society such as Japan allows parents to support and feed an adult child indefinitely in the home. Lower income families do not have hikikomori children because a socially withdrawing youth is forced to work outside the home if he cannot finish school, and for this reason isolation in the room stops at an early stage.
The inability of Japanese parents to recognize and act upon the youth's slide into isolation, soft parenting, or even a codependent collusion between mother and son known as amae in Japanese. When a youth withdraws from life, parents can act or respond in such a way that causes the child to become even more seclusionary.
A decade of flat economic indicators and a shaky job market in Japan makes the pre-existing system requiring years of competitive schooling for elite jobs a pointless effort. While Japanese fathers of the current generation of youth still enjoy lifetime employment at multinational corporations, incoming employees in Japan enjoy no such job guarantees in today's job market (See Freeters and NEET for more on this). Young Japanese people are savvy enough to see that the system in place for their grandfathers and fathers no longer works, and for some the lack of a clear life goal makes them susceptible to social withdrawal as a hikikomori.

Lastly, it should be noted that the hikikomori phenomenon is similar to the symptoms exhibited by people with Pervasive Developmental Disorders in western cultures. Japan has the highest incidence of Pervasive Developmental Disorders, a group of disorders including autism and Asperger’s syndrome, in the developed world. In Japan, PDDs are some 2.95 times more common than in western countries. Some 3.3% of Japanese males have PDD compared with approximately 1% in Europe and the US. This has led some western commentators to suggest that people with hikikomori are affected by PDDs or disorders that affect social competence, but that their disorders are altered from their typical western presentation by the social and cultural pressures unique to Japan.

[edit] The Education System

The Japanese education system, like those found in China, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea, and similar to the school systems in India, puts great demands upon youth. A multitude of expectations, high emphasis on competition, and the rote memorization of facts and figures for the purpose of passing entrance exams into the next tier of education in what could be termed a rigid pass-or-fail ideology, induce a high level of stress. Echoing the traditional Confucian values of society, the educational system is still viewed as playing an important part in society's overall productivity and success. In this social frame, students often face significant pressure from parents and the society in general to conform to its dictates and doctrines. These doctrines, while part of modern Japanese society, are increasingly being rejected by Japanese youth in varying ways such as hikikomori, freeter, NEET, and parasite singles.
Beginning in the 1960s, the pressure on Japanese youth to succeed began successively earlier in their lives, sometimes starting before pre-school, where even toddlers had to compete through an entrance exam for the privilege of attending one of the best pre-schools. This was said to prepare children for the entrance exam of the best kindergarten, which in turn prepared the child for the entrance exam of the best primary school, junior high school, high school, and eventually for their university entrance exam. Many adolescents take one year off after high school to study exclusively for the university entrance exam. The higher the prestige of the university, the more difficult the exam, the most prestigious university with the most difficult exam being the University of Tokyo.
Since 1996, the Japanese Ministry of Education has taken steps to address this 'pressure-cooker' educational environment and instill greater creative thought in Japanese youth by significantly relaxing the school schedule from six day weeks to five day weeks and dropping two subjects from the daily schedule, with new academic curricula more comparable to Western educational models. However this may be too little too late, as highly competitive Japanese parents are sending their children to private cram schools to 'make up' for the newly lax curricula in the Japanese public schools.
After graduating from high school or university, Japanese youth also have to face a very difficult job market in Japan, often finding only part-time employment and ending up as freeters with little income, unable to start a family.
Another source of pressure is from their co-students, who may harass and bully some students for a variety of reasons, including physical appearance (especially if they are overweight or have severe acne problems), wealth, educational or athletic performance, or even having lived overseas for a short period. Some have been punished for bullying or truancy, bringing shame to their families.

[edit] Symptoms

While many people feel the pressure of the outside world, and may feel uncomfortable in public (or "social anxiety"), a hikikomori reacts by complete social withdrawal to avoid all outside pressure. In some cases, they may lock themselves into their bedroom or another room of their parent's house for prolonged periods of time, sometimes measured in years. They usually have few, or no friends. A hikikomori's days are characterized by long spells of sleeping, while their nighttime hours are often spent watching TV, extensively playing computer games, surfing the Internet, reading, or other non-social activities.
This refusal to participate in society and fulfill their expected roles makes hikikomori an extreme subset of a much larger group of the younger Japanese generation that includes parasite singles and freeters. All three groups seem to be rejecting the current social norms society has placed upon them in their own unique ways, with lifestyles considered deviant by society at large.
The withdrawal from society usually starts gradually. Affected individuals may appear unhappy, lose their friends, become insecure, shy, and talk less. Those in their teen ages may be bullied at school, which, atop the already high pressures of school and family, may be the final trigger for the withdrawal.
Hikikomori often set their own sleep schedule, typically waking in the afternoon and going to bed in the early morning. While they are awake, they may engage in a variety of activities shared with other people of their age, including listening to music, surfing the Internet or actively posting in Internet forums like 2channel, which has become famous for its hikikomori population. While hikikomori favor indoor activities, most of them do venture outdoors on occasion, though they may prefer to do that at night.

[edit] Effects

[edit] On the individual

The lack of social contact and prolonged solitude has a profound effect on the mentality of the hikikomori, who gradually lose their social skills and the social references and mores necessary to interact with the outside world. They may immerse themselves into the fantasy worlds of manga, television or computer games, which in turn become their only frame of reference. Due to a lack of interpersonal stimulus the hikikomori may developmentally stagnate into routine behaviors as time passes, sleeping all day and staying up all night only to sneak out into the kitchen for food when the family is asleep. In extreme cases, the hikikomori eventually abandons all diversions of books and TV and simply stares into space for hours at a time.^{[citation needed]}
Should a hikikomori decide to give up his seclusion, whether on his own or through the aid of a care worker, they may face the problem of lacking social skills and years of education that their peers already possess through normal daily interaction with society. Also making reentry into society difficult is the recent social stigma that has come to be attached to the condition due to mass media attention since 1998. As a result, some former hikikomori might be afraid that others will discover their past, adding to their feeling of insecurity around people, especially strangers, in how they should act. Also detrimental is the fact they lack a work history, making anything beyond menial jobs difficult to acquire.

[edit] On the family

Having a hikikomori in the family is often considered embarrassing, so usually it is acknowledged as an internal private matter of the family, and many parents wait for a long time before seeking help from a third party within the hikikomori support industry. Also, in Japan the education of the children is traditionally done by the mother, and the father may leave the problem of a hikikomori to the mother, who feels very protective of her child. Initially, most parents simply wait and hope that the child will eventually overcome his problems and return to society by his own will. They see it as a phase the child has to overcome. Also, many parents are uncertain about what to do with a hikikomori, and wait simply due to lack of other options. An aggressive approach by the parents forcing the child back into society is usually not taken or only after a considerable waiting period.
In some cases, school homeroom teachers and social workers make inquiries, but usually do not get involved with the situation. In recent years, due to widespread media attention, having a family member who is a hikikomori has come to have a social stigma attached to the condition akin to mental illness. Due to this stigma and the resultant shame, many families strive to keep their child's hikikomori condition a secret from those in the community, thus further delaying parents from seeking outside intervention for their child.

[edit] Controversy

Hikikomori gained increased worldwide attention when the media attributed a number of high profile crimes to it a few years ago. In 2000, a 17-year-old labeled as a hikikomori by the press hijacked a bus and killed one passenger. In fact, it was discovered later that the hijacker had originally been a hikikomori, but his parents, in frustration, had committed him to a mental hospital for two months of observation. Allegedly, the boy felt betrayed by his parents as a result of his hospital admission, and some argue that the violence during the bus hijacking was directed at his mother by proxy. In the ensuing days, the media characterized other extremely violent crimes as having been perpetrated by hikikomori, such as one man who kidnapped nine-year-old Sano Fusako and held her captive for nine years and two months, or Tsutomu Miyazaki, who in 1989 killed four young girls. As a result of this negative media attention, hikikomori acquired a social stigma of being violent and mentally ill that persists to this day.
In 2004, 29-year-old Japanese-Dutch film school student Danyael Sugawara[1] made a film based on hikikomori called “Tamago" ("Egg"). IMDB page of "Tamago"
The hikikomoris' fear of social pressure and concurrent inability to effect change in their situation may turn into frustration or even anger. Some hikikomori have physically attacked their parents, though most of the time anger manifests in other ways, such as nightly harassment by banging on walls while the rest of the family sleeps.
This hostility often arises when parents continue to exert pressure on the hikikomori to come out of their rooms after many months of isolation, despite the fact that a status quo has been allowed to develop between the parents, usually the mother, and the hikikomori. This status quo, called the Strange Peace, occurs because parents passively allow their child to stay withdrawn. It can have many causes but mostly centers on an amae relationship between mother and son, the fear and social stigma of the local community knowing the family has a hikikomori, and the notion that it is better to have the child in the house even in isolation than as a runaway.
When hikikomori came into the public spotlight, mass media sources initially argued that the loss of a social frame of reference might lead hikikomori to commit violent or criminal acts. However, hikikomori experts maintain that true hikikomori are too socially withdrawn and timid to venture outside of their rooms, let alone go outside the home and attack someone. If hikikomori physically attack anyone, it is usually family members.

[edit] Reaction

[edit] Treatment

There are different opinions about the treatment of a hikikomori, and the opinions often split into a Japanese and a western point of view. Japanese experts usually suggest waiting until the hikikomori reemerges, whereas western doctors suggest dragging the hikikomori back into society, by force if necessary.
While there are a growing number of doctors and clinics specialized in helping hikikomori, many hikikomori and their parents still feel a lack of support for their problems on an institutional level and feel that society at large has been slow to react to the hikikomori crisis. In the last several years, a hikikomori support industry has sprung up in Japan, each with its own style or philosophy in treating hikikomori cases. Despite this diversity, there seem to be two general camps for treatment:

The psychological approach suggests psychological help is needed for these isolated young people, as many parents are overwhelmed with the problems of a hikikomori child whom they don’t understand. The standard psychological approach to hikikomori behavior in a youth is to treat the condition as a behavioral or mental disorder and so admit the child to a hospital ward in order to administer counseling, observation, and drug therapy using standard institutional procedures.
The socialization approach to hikikomori treatment views the problem as one of socialization rather than mental illness. Instead of clinical treatment in a hospital, the hikikomori is removed from the original environment of the home into a shared living environment and encouraged to reintegrate into social groups through daily activities with other hikikomori who are already in various states of recovery; this approach shows the person that they are not alone in their condition and appears to be successful for most cases.

[edit] Acceptance

In contrast to the approach of treatment, some may argue that the Hikikomori status is a personal personality style or choice of living to be accepted, or resolved, within the respective families, as long as this choice is not leading to criminal or violent behaviour affecting others. As there is a certain tendency in societies, especially traditionally conformist ones like the Japanese society, to label individuals or minority groups deviating from the perceived norm, be it physical, social, psychological or sexual, "pathologically ill" and calling for their cure, i.e. re-alignment with the mainstream, there must be a careful examination regarding the actual wishes of the individual in comparison to the alleged harm to society (also see Asperger Syndrome and Schizoid Personality Disorder regarding the treatment vs. acceptance issue).
In some cases a Hikikomori partially or completely recovers in time when given a free house or apartment of his own.

[edit] References in pop culture

The light novel and manga (recently made into an anime series) Welcome to the NHK! created by Tatsuhiko Takimoto and illustrated by Kenji Oiwa, currently serialized in the magazine Monthly Shōnen Ace deals with hikikomori as a central theme.
In the manga and anime, Rozen Maiden, the main character, Jun Sakurada, suffers from hikikomori after cracking under the pressure of entrance exams.
Episode 2 of the live action TV series Jigoku Shōjo (based on the popular anime series of the same name) tells a short story of a hikikomori who exacts revenge against the person who led his father to commit suicide.
Endrance, one of the major characters of .hack//G.U., is a hikikomori outside of the game, spending most of his time playing it.
The 2004 film Hikikomori: Tokyo Plastic by director Adario Strange.
2004 film The Quiet One by Danyael Sugawara
In the film Densha Otoko, the main character is given advice over the Internet by a hikikomori.
In the 2006 South Korean horror film APT.

Source: Hikikomori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

厕所 2008

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:51:48 GMT

多年前就想说了, 厕所洗手池设在门口只算是撑门面, 主要功能根本没实现,

更准确的说, 洗手设备只能和大小便池近距离集成,

不然完事之后实际上第一道都抹到裤子/裙子/拉链等等上面去了.

不过... 既然千把年都无人过问, 难道有什么必杀技能绕过?

手纸肯定不够吧..

收到Sennheiser HD477

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:12:04 GMT

新形势新需求, 屋里要敞气音箱就不能嚣张,

eBay上2x刀拿下这个全新, 虽然低频上色很重,

但中段, 高端都很清晰,

听时所有软EQ的低端压下去就成,

ergonomic设计本来还不错,

可惜我头尺寸大了点, 时间长了稍紧,

也好, 警钟长鸣.

最大的毛病...不知道算不算问题....

胃口很大, 所有128kbps的失真都变得无比突出....

P.S. 发现其低频响应比想象中来得动态, 似乎只会对有夸张Attack的低频内容有刺激, 喜欢.

head in the clouds

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:46:06 GMT

fall back.

休息

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:50:52 GMT

以前一直以为休息就是做工作之外想做的事.

现在发现没有不耗能的事情,

必须清空内存, 或体育锻炼或啥事不做,

否则元器件降不了温.

窗窗

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:56:05 GMT

抓了张<欢迎来到N.H.K.>的图做桌面,

每天到家也差不多是这时候,

显示器就成了窗.

Proud of you

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:38:16 GMT

Tasha这孩子跟我真的挺像的,

太喜欢她了.

頑張で!

保佑rulala

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:23:15 GMT

惊闻友达rulala近况,

保佑他和家人度过难关,

否极泰来!

好意

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:28:59 GMT

绝地反击过关, 对oral表现很满意.

承蒙小楼鬼使代笔, 原来想发的怒火也可雪藏了.

太多诱惑, 不予理睬.

很欣慰,

认清不怀好意的assholes,

亲近德高之人.

crazy

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:01:00 GMT

人生最后一次考试?

算结束了吧.

这两礼拜史上最疯狂.

1) 时间扭曲

疯狂学习了两个礼拜...

周二如火如茶跑到学校meeting,

老板不在, 蹊跷.

打电话+email,

半小时, 老板来了,

"what were u thinking?

today is WEDNESDAY!!!"

老板很高兴, "good sign!!"

疯了.

2) 时间继续扭曲

接着疯狂学习,

周日学到下午5点

感觉击穿了,

心想还有晚上三小时了,

出去走一圈,

发现门口居然没有每周flyer.

赶紧回房间看windows日历,

md, 本日不是周日居然是周6!!

一周内两次time warping....

还是反向的.

3) micro-sleep

前面两周, 每天睡3-4小时 (5am - 8/9am).

最后三天, 没有睡觉, 只有micro-sleep, 方法:

坐在椅子上, 头戴耳机, 放kotoko, 音量60%,

觉得不行了就闭目, 立马失去知觉,

但因kotoko是trance为主, 大约10分钟自动醒,

每日3次.

顺便也爱上kotoko了.

好了, 结束了, 今天好好睡一觉.

假若明天来临.

我的悬梁刺股与反悬梁刺股

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:40:01 GMT

最近大量看论文, 长了时有瞌睡,

以前是开背景音乐或者背景视频之类提神, 但单位时间太长, 不好控制甚至适得其反. 后来下了一些日本声优系统音, 每个文件大约都是<1秒到4秒长的小短语, 写了个小python脚本停在内存里不定时随机播放一下, 非常有效. 今天是折笠富美子清脆的"頑張て"救了我好几次~

另外也有开着Break Reminder设定每隔20分钟提醒休息5秒的micropause, 屏幕自动黑掉, 这时不得不扭头望远5秒休息眼睛....

睡觉!

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:07:37 GMT

决定了, 要好好睡觉.
缺乏睡眠乃万恶之源.
毛当年要是每天睡足12小时
肯定不会头脑发热搞哪些dd.

决定了!

多线程

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 07:16:42 GMT

中午写paper如火如茶差5分钟才想起有个监考shift,
午饭没吃狼狈逃出实验室. 还好准时赶到, 我运气总是
倒数第二. 没想到下午是3个监10个, 老大穆罕默得来得最晚.
老二Rebecca是个长得酷似Enya的mm (妈呀, 太像了), 而且经验丰富.
我就轻松地陪了几次洗手间, 还写了两页paper出来.
中间被两个轮班的换break出去楼下学生餐厅买了点dd吃, 好吃,
从此决定不再去地铁一楼吃salad, 不过一顿搞掉了3/4小时工钱.

三个deadline, 搞定一个, 还有一个估计问题不大, 最麻烦的是IFT那个,
还没coding, 明天要动作起来. 我已经等不及想休息了, 憧憬29号, 一定要
出去转转.

这个月不在机器前的时候都在水树奈奈的至阳中度过, 声优歌手里
跟坂本真绫的至阴遥遥相对, 都很中意.
实在是很喜欢水树CV的伊贺胧,
外柔内刚在短语级别就表现得印象深刻.
歌艺方面看了武道馆现场更是超级喜欢,
泪流满面对声音仍有精确控制, 太酷了.
1米5的个子能闹哄哄地如此能量,
就连续两次武道馆Live的经历说她是史上最幸福的声优也不为过.
很巧和相川7濑都是水瓶座的哦, 一个1.26一个2.16, 呵呵, 8G8G..