UNLV Rebels Basketball

Tonight I went to UNLV basketball game. UNLV vs New Mexico.

UNLV lost this game, but I could enjoy the game very much.

The local people here is excited about college sports, which is really nice thing.

American like watching many kind of sports.

Close of Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas

Ritz-Carlton released yesterday that the hotel will be closed by May. The property owner, the arm of Deutsche Bank, decide not to keep injecting money to the property any more. The Ritz-Carlton Lake Las Vegas operation must have been losing a lot of money.

This is very sad news. The developer of Lake Las Vegas was bankrupt. The Reflection Bay Golf Course was not open to public under bankruptcy procedure. What will happen to Loews hotel next?

Last December we went to Lake Las Vegas to enjoy the ice skating there on Saturday afternoon. Just a few people were seen on the Village close to Ritz-Carlton even on Saturday. I was a little concerned about the future of Lake Las Vegas as well as the future of Las Vegas. The property owner had to make a tough decision since the economy didn't come back early.

I really feel sorry for the residence here. I understand how sad they are.

English or Japanese

I am writing blog in English at least once a day. I listen to English as much as possible. I feel my listening skill gets better than before. I want to keep working hard. I don't have enough time to write ameba blog in Japanese and watch Ohmae Live in Japanese. I want to keep doing them but I don't want that to kill my precious time.

Roughly right is better than precisely wrong

Today I spent most of time on translating Japanese questions to English. Their questions are in details. Japanese like details. The more details it is, the more precise it looks. But that's not necessarily truth. Japanese should know the old saying that "roughly right is better than precisely wrong."

The person in charge in Japan is just one of department manager. What's important for him is to report what is going on here to his higher management. On the other hand, what the management here is doing is to manage the company, which includes so many things such as human resources, long term strategy and customers .... The priority here is totally different from that in Japan and I think that's right. I wouldn't a management, if he spends a lot of time on thinking of how to explain to a shareholder.The budget is not as important as what Japanease think of. But it doesn't mean their management is loose. They just focus on the more important issues.

Tsucany Golf Club

I played a golf with co-workers today. It has passed more than 4-5 months since my last play. My score is 56-53. It's as usual. First 2 holes are devastating.

Every time I play a golf, I really think I will practice for next time! But I did nothing so far. It may be a time to change my attitude for a golf. I will take a professional golf lesson to change something.

Rock Arts

I saw native american rock arts at Valley of Fire State Park first time. I was really impressed. Certainly it is hard to identify how many years ago that was drawn, but no doubt that was at least hundreds years ago. Such a old and precious rock arts can be seen everywhere. If that was found in Japan, the part of rock with rock arts would be covered by glass case or the rock would be cut and moved to the museum. Here I can see the sign saying vandalism should be reported. That's it?

I borrow rock arts book at the henderson library. I know there are so many rock arts in this country. It's historical and should be preserved, but it's not so rare. That's why rock arts is kept as it is. I know there is the place where I can see many rock arts near Laughlin. I want to go there somewhere!

Market Correction

I watched IBD video. This video summarize the day's market and analyze the daily pick-up stock. I can catch up with the daily stock market and I learned the public company one by one. This video suits me. Because so many stocks are listed in NYSE and NASDAQ. It is hard to pick up several stocks among them. I just know a very few US companies!

I learned one thing. I should not buy stocks in market correction. 3/4 stocks follows downward market trend. All right. I won't buy stocks right now. I keep watching a few stocks and wait and see in a couple of weeks !