소녀시대 VS Wonder Girls

as you may know, my flat is no TV.

so it was really surprising for me to hear 소녀시대, girls generation in Korean Character, was hit on Japan.

in my memory, Korean Pop Star is Super kidd and Wonder Girls.

oh 소녀시대...

so I looked forward to listening to their music before that.

When I saw their faces, I understood they are pretty and cute.

but this is not what I expect for Korean Pop Star.

in Chinese and Japanese Celebrities, there are many baby faces.

I think people in both countries likes baby faces. so almost women like to be called "Cute".

on the other hand, I think Korean Celebrities is not Cute but beautiful.

their beauty came from inside of person.

ummm... but 소녀시대 is music star.

so I still have some expectation for them.

as you know, I really like Super Kidd, Korean Rock Band.

Korean Musicians have quite good voice and sense of music.

so this was the reason that I had high expectation to 소녀시대.

but... their voice is not more sexy than Wonder Girls.

their music looks like American Music like Janet Jackson and they were not better than Janet.

and more, their dance looks like Perfume, Japanese techno Girls Star.

FYI:love me naturally sung by Perfume

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edyARJq9sgM

ummm, where is Wonder Girls?

Model United Nations News!

Hi there,

although I am little tired of my job(I am working at International NGO), but I want to share MUN info.

because I believe the potential of MUN to promote global understandings.

today's info from Beijing, Hong Kong and Manipal.

(I joined AIMUN 2009. it was sooo amazing. I love to join again.)

MUN Summit Manipal 2010

http://manipalmun.com/

Place:Manipal, India

Date:October 22-24, 2010

the Chinese University of Hong Kong MUN Conference

http://www.cuhkmunc.org/

Place:Hong-Kong, PR China

Date:January 4-7, 2011

Asian International MUN

http://www.aimun.org.cn/en/index.php

Place:Beijing, PR China

Date:March 24-27, 2011

MUN information

I manage several Facebook Groups.

I just want to introduce one of them.

this is Asia-Pacific Model United Nations Network.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80860146194

when I find spare time, I collect and share information of MUN conference held in Asia-Pacific.

it is perfectly volunteer work.

but I strongly believe MUN activities can promote understanding of global agenda and provide the opportunity to think idea from other side if Organizing Committee set vision.

so I still keep my commitment on MUN although I am no longer student.

if you want to get some info on MUN in Asia-Pacific, you should join our network.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=80860146194

and I just share several MUN conference info below.

IITKMUN Kanpur, India

Date: October 21-24, 2010

http://antaragni.in/mun.html

TUMUN Patiala, India

Date: October 22-24, 2010

http://www.thaparmun.co.nr/

DUMUN Delhi, India

Date: October 22-24, 2010

http://cbsmun.com/

Indonesia MUN Depok, Indonesia

Date: October 23-27, 2010

http://indonesiamun.org/

SydMUN Sydney, Australia

Date: December 3-5, 2010

http://www.usydunsociety.org/?q=sydmun

AJMUN Tokyo, Japan

Date: December 26-29, 2010

http://jmun.org/ajmun/eng/indexeng.html

BITSMUN Pilani, India

Date: February 11-14, 2011

http://www.bitsmun.org/#/homepage/

MIMUN Moscow, Russia

Date: April 11-15, 2011

http://en.modelun.ru/

STAND UP TAKE ACTION

Could you stand, if your important person dies due to the lack of basic health service?

Could you stand, if your important person dies due to avoidable thing?

No, I could not!

But, there are over 1400 women and girls dies due to the pregnancy and childbirth.

Every day, 4,000 children die of diarrhea caused by dirty water.

if I lose my important person, I cannot stand.

International Society set Millennium Development Goals(MDGs) that shows global development goals that should be achieved by

2015, such as achieving universal access to primary education, halving the number who lives under 1.25$ per day, achieving the universal access to medicine, gender equality, global partnership and so on.

In MDGs, Poor Countries are demanded to put enough budget related with MDGs, and Rich Countries are demanded to show assistants to their effort.

Thanks to MDGs, more 30 million children got to school since 2000. but there are still over 72 million children out of school. although there is some outcome but the progress is too slow.

September of 2010, there will be United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit.

the leaders from over 100 countries will join it and discuss the outcome of past and future plan for achieving MDGs by 2015.

forward achieving MDGs, Civil Society set STAND UP TAKE ACTION, global action for ending poverty between 17th to 19th. This global action is so unique.

you just stand up and take photo as evidence of your participation. then you send this photo and tell the number of participants in your action.

last year, we got over 170 million participants who want to end poverty.

No one can decide the loving place before birth.

People in rich country enjoy health and education service. in other hand, people in poor countries dies due to lack of these service.

if there is enough resource to improve these injustice, why don`t we do?

if you want to join this global action, please see following website.

http://standagainstpoverty.org/suap/

or, just send your action to me during 17th - 19th.

I will upload your photo in our website.

Fan

at August, I went to speaking tour in Kansai that is west Japan.
I spoke something about Advocacy and the power we have for change.
I enjoyed talking with young people in these areas.


talking with these passionate people always encourages me to keep my commitment.
I also confirmed that human beings is the social creature, that develop their culture through meeting people and sharing idea.

by the way, I found some nice fan when I went to Kansai.
I like it.

Stereotype of CHARITY

there are much of stereotype in term of International Cooperation.

Is there lack of human resource in Poor Countries?
Young Japanese people tends to imagine the Japanese people's activities in poor countries when they listen to the term of International Cooperation.
But if you have the experience to talk with young people in Developing Countries, you can find there are enough human resource.

from The Report by Oxfam International and Water Aid, some donor institutes required to hire consultant from Rich Countries with higher salary, even though there are enough human resource in Developing Countries and these Salaries might be lower.

International Cooperation includes much money.
several actors gets benefit from these activities.
for the purpose of maximizing their benefit and justifying their activities, they uses media to increase the stereotype of International Cooperation, for example, Africa is always victim of Poverty and Conflict.

See the Reality(Structure) and think the solution.

Financial Gap

I also felt some financial gap in wedding party.
from several discussion, I felt their mind is totally upper class.
I cannot manage for it.

ummm.....