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by OQ-Roman

About job

Hello!!

I`m very happy to show this picture. My clinic is front page on a very tinny magazine about shops and restaurants at the Kyoto city.
Hehe, the idea of this photo was mine, but I didn`t took it. So, I`m happy to see this photo as front page!
I think it will help us to grow our activity, which is osteopathy and manual treatments. We take care of pains, aches, structural problems... and many many other things that everyone can suffer. To know more about what, where, when and how we do, please visit our hp www.o-q.jp and feel free to ask whatever you want.

Oh! notice that at the English version there are a lot of promotions!!!!
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# by OQ-Roman | 2009-05-09 16:13 | Efimera Apoptosis

NoriNara

Or a day in heaven.

Nara, a nice place to be. A nice place to visit.
But it becomes GREAT when someone who know the city guide you.

I arrived to the Kintetsu Nara Station at 10 am,
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there I met my special guide. We went to the Women Normal University, where we visited the ancient building that now is fixed and in use. There I play (without permision) an 100 years old piano!!! Just few notes, but it was great. I didn't know about its age! Hehehe...
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Then we start walking to the famous place for
deers and "deersfeeders" (mainly tourists), but after a short visit to the temple we just head up, climbing a hill.
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In the top is an Emperor "2 meters under the ground", and when we finally reach the top, after 150cc of sweat and some trembling muscles, we had a small luch beside a rock, and I think the Emperor was there down the rock.
Duringg the lunch we had some ants and a very nice chat.

This is a very interesting fire combat system... of course is not enough for big big fires, but it can help with small one. (Very small one)
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After that... going down to walk on the very populous shops street in Nara. We saw nice things but we was hungry. So we get a very niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice meal in a very traditional small restaurant. Here the map, but I don't remember the name... and I didn't take any photo... Next time.
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I had katsudon with soba, it was very nice. One of the waiters sit down at he table beside of us to had her lunch, we asked to sit with us, and we chat for a while. She had some pain on her hands, and I massaged for few minutes. Too much years holding wheight... We didn't know she was the owner's wife, it was a nice surprise!! We had good time there.


It was time to go back home, and I almost fall asleep on the train... easy...


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AH, yes... the identity of my guide is a secret. But maybe in the future I will say who is.
# by OQ-Roman | 2009-05-05 02:33 | Bitacora

The beginning.

I

In 2006 I took the decission to change my life. I wanted to do something more.

I went to Mongolia where I joined a summer camp for orphaned children. I arrived there one week before the start of the camp, this allow me to know the city and the people there.
The flight I took was Valencia-Madrid, Madrid-Moscow, Moscow-Ulaan Baatar.
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A lot of hours on the airplane. And also a lot of time in Moscow waiting for the next flight.




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At the Moscow airport the workers are weird, if you ask them smileing they react with anger, but if you looks angry they smile to you... I experienced this a lot of times because the scale was 13 hours. There I met some Spanish guys who was going to ride their bicicles from Ulaan Baatar to Beijin. I was astonished with them. A real team of adventurers just in front of me!. Great!. We spend almost all the time together, and it was very nice.
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Once in Mongolia I met them several times before they leave the city, but a couple of days later I met them again because one of the team member had an accident. I visited him several days and cured his injuries. Their objective was in danger, but they decide to folllow the plan with some changes. Instead to do all the trip only with bicicles, they rent a van for the injured memeber and also to act as support. After their second departure I didn't got news from them until I receive a mail with a photo of them in Tiannamen Square with their bicicles and much more dirty on their bodies than I could remember.

Going back to the trip, I selected Aeroflot because it was convenient for me about time and price, but when I get inside the plane from Moscow to Ulaan Baatar I started to be worry.
I like planes since I can remember, and I always feel more safe in an airplane than in a building, but this time it was different. The plane was a Tupolev, old, very old, and it takes several minutes to start the engines. The heater was just beside me and I spend a lot of hours with my legs burning and my arms frozen.
The landing was terrible: a big impact against the ground and a lot of pepple clapping their hands as signal of happynes to be alive (I guess). For me was very nice to see the airplane stop with no more incidents.
My friends, the adventurers also was a bit afraid. Hehe... very soon we start doing jokes about the pilot and his mother. (hehe)


"End of chapter one"
I'm sleepy...
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II


The city of Ulaan Baatar.
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It was raining when the plane land on the lonly Chinghis Khan Airport, and also was raining when I reach the city. A member of the local organization was waiting for me to drive me to the flat where I will spend some days. At the car I met my 2 first friends from Japan in this story, they are Aki and Moe. They was volunteers too, but at the farm. This day was their day off and really need a shower and some rest.
After we leave our luggage at the small and empty flat, no forniture but a tv and several futon for the volunteers, we deide to take a walk on UB (Ulaan Baatar from now).
I was tired because the flight, but I really wanted to see this city and its people.

It took very few time to start feeling really comfortable at UB. The people in Mongolia is quite interesting. They have traditions deeply rooted on the years, and hey are proud of it. Of course, Mongolia is a touristic destination, and many things has that "unreal" smell of "made in propose" for the tourists.
Is easy to find the real UB walking a bit.
For me, the most interesting is the people. How they dress, how they walk, how they talk, how they live... Is not enought to eat their food or ride a camel at the Gobi dessert. Is necessary to get into their lives to understand a culture. This was also one of my aims to go to Mongolia. It was amazong for me even before I been there.

I was the first of the volunteers on my team to arrive to UB, and like a light rain they drop themselves one by one in the next days. Lukas, from germany, become one of the most important person for me very quickly. Of course, much of the volunteers become special people to me. And we make a nice team.
We went shoping, dinning, walking, wandering on the city, having fun... It was nice time.
At the city I was impressed by the people. Their faces, their movements, their behavior.
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We saw "street kids" who ask for money to the tourists. They are who live at the heater conection "rooms" underground during the winter (from October to May). UB has a central heating system based on steam which comes from several power plants at the surroundings of UB. This huge tubs need to be divided to distribute the heat, and the kids live there because is obviously warm. This is not a safe place anyway, and each year some kids die during the extremely hard winter. We saw traditional clothes, we didn't saw a single PET bottle in all the city. It is money, so there is people who pick them up and take some money for it.



Sleepy again...

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# by OQ-Roman | 2009-04-28 00:31 | Orphan in Mongolia

Why?

I was impressed with the meaning of apoptosis:

Is the process of programmed cell death (PCD) that may occur in multicellular organisms.
In contrast to necrosis, which is a form of traumatic cell death that results from acute cellular injury, apoptosis, in general, confers advantages during an organism's life cycle. For example, the differentiation of fingers and toes in a developing human embryo occurs because cells between the fingers apoptose; the result is that the digits are separate.
Apoptosis occurs when a cell is damaged beyond repair, infected with a virus, or undergoing stressful conditions such as starvation. Damage to DNA from ionizing radiation or toxic chemicals can also induce apoptosis via the actions of the tumour-suppressing gene p53. The "decision" for apoptosis can come from the cell itself, from the surrounding tissue, or from a cell that is part of the immune system. In these cases apoptosis functions to remove the damaged cell, preventing it from sapping further nutrients from the organism, or halting further spread of viral infection.

Apoptosis also plays a role in preventing cancer. If a cell is able to undergo apoptosis because of mutation or biochemical inhibition, it continues to divide and develop into a tumour. For example, infection by papillomaviruses causes a viral gene to interfere with the cell's p53 protein, an important member of the apoptotic pathway. This interference in the apoptotic capability of the cell plays a role in the development of cervical cancer.


I copied from wikipedia because is a very nice way to explain.

Well, from this point I was playing with the "apoptosis concept" and transfering upto the society, to the conscious life, to our lifes...
I'm still in the process to find links and knots, like an anthropologist (of course amateur).
Then I remembered one of my friends who on his last mail to me just said "life is ephemeral" then I linked both concepts.

EPHEMERAL APOPTOSIS

The result is more powerful than the both words separately. The new concept is meaningful and deep. And provide a new positivist point of view of our existences. But I still want to put me away from "death" as a concept in this topic. Apoptosis can beused enytime we decide to stop an action for the benefit of others or ourselves. But is not pasivity, is not lazyness...
It can be also induces by ourselves or by others when ask us to do a "social apoptosis".

Let me dream with this concepts and play with it.

You are invited to do it as well and write here your thoughts.

Roman
Finde me here and here.
# by OQ-Roman | 2009-04-26 23:44 | Efimera Apoptosis

Hello excite!

Hahaha, I just deleted my first post by mistake!!!
I have to write it down again.
Well, it happens because I cannot read enough Japanese yet, and I thought I was cliking on "edit" when I was cliking on "delete".
Good lesson.

My name is Roman, I'm from Spain, and I'm working in Japan as Osteopath. I'm working in Kyoto, where is a nice small new clinic ruled by my partner. He is japanese, and now we are international team, so it has been a nice idea to add "International" to the clinic's name.

I opened this blog to write down about me and my life. I will try to do it as frecuently as possible. Now I am learning Japanese in Osaka, in a very nice school, that's why I will do not have much free time.

I would like to write about my experiences and travels, and also about my hobbies and activities. About what I like in Japan (almost everything) and what I want to do here.

I will upload photos, because this has been one of my activities, photography. I had held 3 exhibitions, 2 in Shanghai and 1 in Spain. If you want to take a look to my works you can visit my web site www.photoromands.com There you will see the photos that I like, not only for its visual beauty, but because the meaning they have. So some of them are not very nice, for me they are meaningful.
I will be very happy to receive comments and critics, this helps to improve.

Actually is possible to find me at OQ International Treatment Office where I practice Osteopathy, Swedish massage and more techniques. Take a look to the web site, there are some interesting discount surprises there...

See you!!
# by OQ-Roman | 2009-04-26 22:43 | Bitacora