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Old Photos (1) ~ With Mark Obama Ndesandjio

My mother sent me an old photo album. It's full of nostalgic pictures. I'd like to share them little by little. Here's the first one! That's me playing the flute as a high school student. I think it was 1983. It's the Amphitheater at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). (KICC was one of the ISO/IEC JTC1 last year…)

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safari.com M-PESA

Mobile payments are actually quite popular in East Africa. The Safari.com SIM I used this time also uses it. It is provided as a SIM application. The communication protocol(?) they use is called USSD. It's a kind of secure SMS. It's strange that it's hardly used in Japan.

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New Year's in the first year of high school

I was lounging around during the New Year's holiday when I suddenly decided to open an old diary. It was from New Year's Eve to New Year's Day when I was a first-year high school student. The reason I'm mentioning my first year of high school is because my daughter is a first-year high school student now. Reading it back... I was living right on the edge of terrorism. Comparing that environment to the current environment in Japan... Japan is peaceful, and dulled. It's understandable that I feel a sense of inadequacy. 198...

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Interview with Jakub Barua

I found an interview article with my friend here ↓ Ziff Festival Director Speaks to Cinema-Minima He's a film director. His older brother, Stan, was my closest classmate. He's mentioned in the article. Stan's wife, Cecilia, was the idol of the girls' school next door.