Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Thầy


Thầy ra đi đột ngột khiến các học trò đau lòng, thảng thốt, và để lại dở dang những kế hoạch đầy tâm huyết với khoa học, với đất nước. Nhưng tấm gương về một trí thức chân chính, một nhà khoa học chân chính, và một con người tử tế sẽ vẫn còn trong lòng những lớp học trò của Thầy.


山内キャスター 第1回

こんにちは、山内あゆです!
小倉弘子キャスター産休にあたり、ピンチヒッターとしてニュースを担当することになり、はや2ヶ月・・・。
小倉さんは無事ママになり、私は少しニュースの空気に慣れ、東京の桜も咲きました。

  相変わらず各方面にご心配・ご迷惑をおかけしながらの放送ですが、春ですし、明るい気持ちでお仕事しよう!と思っている今日この頃です。

  さて、小倉さんにも家族が増えたということで、私も今日は家族の話をしようと思います。ターゲットは、父です。

 私の父はベトナム人です。母は日本人なので、私はいわゆる「ハーフ」ということになります。しかし、同じアジア人ゆえ顔つきはとってもジャパニーズ。苗字も名前も日本名なので、滝川クリステルさんや葉山エレーヌさんのようにパッとわかるはずもありません。お二人にならって改名すると・・・山内タイフォンです。なにかアイドル性にかけるような・・・。

 父は19歳の頃、ベトナムからの国費留学生として来日し、日本の大学に進みました。卒業後は帰国し、戦争で疲弊しきった祖国をよくしようという大志を抱いて、本当によく勉強したそうです。当時女子大生だった母とはダンスパーティで知り合い、大学院の時に結婚。まだベトナムは戦争中だったため、ふたりは帰国を断念し日本で新婚生活を始めました。それでも、祖国に平和が訪れたらすぐに帰国するつもりで、母はベトナム語を学び、サイゴンの気候にあった夏服をダンボールにまとめ、いつでも運び出せるようにしていました。
Photo

 そして1975年、ついにベトナム戦争は終結します。明くる年生まれる私を連れ、家族5人でベトナムへ帰国します、と父はサイゴンの祖父へ連絡しました。しかし、祖父は反対したのです。今はまだ戻るな、と。ベトナムは貧しく混乱した状態であり、日本で暮らすほうが家族が豊かに暮らせると。

  翌年生まれた私に、父はベトナム国籍を選びました。私は「あゆちゃん」と日本名で呼ばれていましたが、それは通称であり、戸籍にはベトナムの名のみが記されていました。それこそがタイフォンちゃんです。朝の食卓では父によるベトナム語ミニ講座が開かれていました。

  時は流れ、私は二重国籍を申請し、ベトナム行きのダンボールは片付けられ、ベトナム語講座もいつしか開かれなくなりました。それでもベトナムは豊かにはならず、父は日本の永住権を取りました。

 いつ、どんな話し合いがあってベトナムに戻らないことになったのか、私にはわかりません。でも、時々考えることがあります。あったかもしれない、ベトナムでのもうひとつの私の人生。白いアオザイで通学していたのかしら? 日本語は忘れてしまっていたかしら? それとも母の国に憧れて、日本へ行きたいと願っていたかしら? そして父にはどんな人生があったのかしら、と。

 いまでは日本のジョークもわかるようになった父は19歳の想いをいくらか実らせ、日本とベトナムを往復しながら医療や公害問題の共同研究をしています。そんな父のささやかな夢は、ホーチミンに小さな家を持つことです。祖父も叔父も亡くなり、父には帰るべき家がなくなってしまいました。川には巨大な食べられるエビがいて、庭にはマンゴスチンやパパイヤがたわわになる家。まだ建ててもいないその家の話をして、「あゆも自由に使っていいぞ!」という父は、なかなかいいと思います。

Sunday, January 20, 2008

'Coz it's once been said out

Last night coffee late; late sleep. Opened a hairdressing shop by renting the opposite house. It was a friend's house; he was specialized in drawing, painting. Your studio pix, seemed taken last year, appeared on shop signs and also used for illustrating steps of hairdressing in the shop, including one with uncovered front chest ;-). The friend said that he didn't know well about you, but the pix was sent by you as his group asked for pix over internet; and you knew the pix would be used for my hairdessing shop - that actually made you were willing to allow them to use your pix, but you didn't tell me anything about this before. Felt moved by your willing. However, i and my friend thought that the uncovered pix was not appropriately used. Woke up.

Recalled the time we went more than 66 km by separate 'honda om'. On the way I was always afraid that you would be taken to other place for bad behaviour.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Installing Debian on Acer TravelMate 3010-3012WTMi

- Install Partition Magic 8.0 on C:, resize C:, create D: (hd(0,4),vfat32), create swap partition (hd(0,5), 512 MB), create ext3 partition (hd(0,6).

- Make a grub loader by using Puppy Linux program at http://puppyfiles.org/dotpupsde/files/setup-puppy2installer-XP.exe (option 3 in that program). Now it can boot into grub command line (at grub, we can use, for example, configfile (hd0,4)/boot/menu.lst to enter graphic interface). I did it by chance. It may be better to use a more simple way to install grub on a windows partition.

- From http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/, download debian image netinst and files initrd.gz and vmlinuz in hd-media directory of other images. Save in D:\soft.

- Boot to grub, run
kernel (hd0,4)/soft/vmlinuz
initrd (hd0,4)/soft/initrd.gz
and boot.

- The installer will automatically find the cd image and do the installation.

- To use ethernet device, add to /etc/network/interfaces (if the installer didn't do this)
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

- To use wireless device (see update below for kernel >=2.6.24), apt-get install ipw3945-modules-`uname -r` ipw3945d firmware-ipw3945, run iwconfig to check the name of the device (for example, eth1). If all are ok, run these command (or create a script for this):
ifconfig eth1 up
iwconfig eth1 mode Managed
iwconfig eth1 key key-of-the-net
iwconfig eth1 essid "Wireless-nm"
dhclient eth1

May need to disable eth0 (in /etc/network/interfaces) to use eth1.

If the wireless hardware is inactivated with dmesg saying that
ipw3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work. (See http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/README.ipw3945)

activate the hardware by pressing the wireless button (near the headphone jack phone) (or booting into Windows ;-) ).

- Install 915resolution (to setting the screen resolution to 1280x800). UPDATE: 915resolution package has been obsoleted since my dist-upgrade on Feb 2009; to use that screen resolution, change the driver of "Generic Video Card" from "vesa" to "intel".

- Install alsa sound driver: alasa-base, alsa-oss, alsa-utils, alsamixergui. Run alsaconf.

- Linux may recognize the bios timezone is UTC, and then change the clock to ICT (Indochina timezone). tzconfig is now obsolete, use dpkg-reconfigure tzdata (or run ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Saigon /etc/localtime. Check the option "UTC=no" in /etc/default/rcS. Run hwclock --hctosys --localtime; if the error "select() to /dev/rtc to wait for clock tick timed out" exists, append --directisa to it (if then this command work fine, open /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh, change the line HWCLOCKPARS= to HWCLOCKPARS="--directisa"). /etc/adjtime records the last time hwclock is used to set the clock.

- Check battery status: cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state. A code for battery monitoring: http://swicked.net/code/bat_mon.sh.

- Install Japanese font: apt-get install ttf-kochi-mincho.

Ref
- http://www.linlap.com/wiki/Acer+TravelMate+3010-3012WTMi
- http://user.interface.org.nz/~gringer/hacking/acer_3012wtmi.html
- http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html

Update (18 Jan 2009): just upgraded the system to kernel 2.6.26

- Wireless: iwl-wifi drivers, built in the kernel, are used to replace the older ipw3945. Just need to install firmware-iwlwifi (see http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi)

- Huawei EG162G EDGE/GPRS USB stick (used with Mobifone): install wvdial package; then run wvdialconf and in /etc/wvdial.conf, add

Username = mms
Password = mms
Phone = *99#

Run wvdial to start the modem.

Sunday, November 04, 2007

Ta không còn tóc rối bồng bềnh

Khi chuyện đời nặng trĩu đôi vai...

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

太遙遠、夢已經不夠

Đường quá xa xôi, mộng thì chẳng đủ...

Saturday, April 14, 2007

A hanami season passed

Just received from Keiko the cup made on my last traveling trip in Japan.

A hanami season has just passed. Please allow me to put this year's picture here, as a reminder. There, I used to walk around, used to sit, used to drink, used to see the whole sight by my own eyes...

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

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