You are in a jungle now. There are many kinds of wild animals around you. There is a fridge here.
Now I have a question for you.
How do you put an elephant in the fridge by three (3) steps?
Then how to put a giraffe in the fridge by four (4) steps?
Please enjoy yourself.
This is not the theory of relativity by Dr. Albert Einstein.
Pleasant hours fly past. Sometimes time goes by so slow when you do not enjoy much. Different people have different ways of feeling on time passage. There must be perception gap in time.
Let’s see one (1) year time objectively for each generation.
How long does one (1) year take up for one (1) year-old person? = 1/1 =100%
How about for two (2) year-old person ? = 1/2 =50%
How about for ten (10) year-old person ? = 1/10 = 10% How about for twenty (20) year-old person ? = 1/20 = 5% Then how about for fifty (50) year-old person ? = 1/50 = 2% I am 64 years old, that means 1/64 = 1.56%. One (1) year is 1.56% time length of life so far. No wonder I feel one year goes by so fast year by year recently.
New Year 2021 is near. I would like to present a calendar of the earth. By way of experiment, let me change time length, 46 Hundred Million Years to 1 year to see how the mother planet has been growing and when our human being was born.
January 1: (46 Hundred Million Years ago) A Happy New Year – Birth of primeval earth in gaseous proto solar system / January 12: Separation of the earth and the moon by the impact of huge meteorite / January 16 : Beginning of earth crust formation
February 9: (41 HMY ago) Coming up land and sea after earth crust formation / February 17: Birth of material of life such as protein and nucleic acid through some chemical reaction in primordial ocean/ February 25: (39 HMY ago) Birth of the first primitive life – protobiont
March 29: (35 HMY ago) Birth of light energy absorbing bacteria
May 31: (27 HMY ago) Forming of a strong magnetic field in the earth / Photosynthesizing cyanobacteria came up on stage, colonized and expelled oxygen, which prevented harmful particles from space.
June 8: Volcanic activities and continent formation / June 28: Whole earth covered with ice and frozen
July 10: (22 HMY ago) Arrival of Eukaryotic life / July 18: Increasing oxygen in air
August 3: (19 HMY ago) Formation and gradual cleavage of the first supercontinent “Neuna”
September 3: (15 HMY ago) Gathering of cleaved continents / September 11: (14 HMY ago) Reformation and gradual cleavage of supercontinent / September 27: Arrival of multicellular creatures
October 13: (10 HMY ago) Formation of supercontinent “Rodiana”
November 6: (7 HMY ago) Repetition of global warming and freezing / November 14: Formation of ozone layer / November 17: Cleavage of supercontinent “Gondwana” into North and South / November 20: Arrival of fish / November 27: Around 4 a.m. mass extinction of life / movement of algae to white water (ocean) and river mouth area / movement of bryophyte (moss) to moist place / November 28: movement of plant and arthropod to land / November 29: movement of amphibian – diverged from fish – to land / November 30: (4 HMY ago) Cleavage of supercontinent “Gondwana”
December 2: Around 10 a.m. Mass extinction of life / December 3: (3 HMY ago) Large scale forest formation / Arrival of reptilian diverged from amphibian / December 10: Glacial age / December 11: Formation of supercontinent “Pangaea” by gathering of cleaved continents / December 12: Decreasing of oxygen in ocean / Around 2 a.m. Mass extinction of life / December 13: (2 HMY ago) Jurassic period / Arrival of the earliest mammal/ December 15: Cleavage of supercontinent “Pangaea” / Around noon mass extinction of life / December 19: Arrival of Avex (bird) / December 21: Cleavage of supercontinent “Pangaea” to North and South / December 24: (1 HMY ago) Global warming / December 26: Around 8:17 a.m. Dinosaur extinction by the impact of gigantic meteorite / Massive extinction of other species as well / Arrival of primitive primate from the survivors / December 29: Around 6 a.m. Arrival of anthropoid ancestor “Catarrhini” (narrow space between two nasal cavities ) / December 31: Around 10:40 a.m. Arrival of the first ape-man, “Sahelanthrops” diverged from anthropoid ape. / Around 11:37 p.m. Arrival of modern humankind – home sapiens
We all are newborn babies! Our life just began! Let’s see what we can do in the future!
インドは民主的
インド人は非常に民主的。とにかくよく喋る様に見える。インド人が３人居れば姦しい。 国際的な会議で司会者を困らせるのはインド人と日本人らしい。 どうやってインド人を黙らせるか、そしてどうやって日本人に喋らせるかが悩みの種らしい。
ビジネス以外での私の経験ではあまり人の話を聞いていない様に思える。 ある時レストランで室温の水を所望したら、ガンガンに冷えた水を持ってきた。 私はあまり腹の調子が良くないので室温の水が欲しいと言うと、ウェイターは「No, problem!」と言う。 私は「Yes, problem!」は言い何故室温の水が出せないか聞くと、要は冷えた水しかなかったとのこと。 インドに駐在していると色々な面白悲しい出来事が沢山あります。
日本からの輸出契約での注意点は金額にもよりますが、出来ればL/C（輸出信用状）決済が望ましい。 契約書や注文書は何の効力も無いとは言わないが、ただの紙に近い。インドに限らず基本的に納期設定は注文書発行後何か月とする様 Irrevocable L/C (取消不能信用状）受領後何か月とかにするべきでしょう。