Amateur in Japan
Training in the land of the rising sun
Written on 28 December 1997
First of all, I would like to say thanks to Malaysian National Computer Confederation(MNCC) for informing all it's members about the scholarship on computer courses in Japan and for providing me the required application forms when I requested.
I am grateful and would like to say a million of thanks to the Japanese Government, Association for Overseas Technical Scholarship(AOTS), Center of the International Cooperation for Computerization(CICC) and Fujitsu Learning Media for giving me this once in a life time opportunity. I feel honoured to be selected to attend the two months Client/Server Application System Development course at CICC in Tokyo, Japan from 28 September 1997 to 18 December 1997.
The course has given me
an overall introduction to Client/Server application system development
from the fundamental to system and application design. But the most important
aspect is it has widen my views and knowledge on various technology trends,
such as networks, operating systems, database platforms, as well as developing
skills. Through the lectures given by professionals and personal experience
of visits to NTT Multimedia Center and Fujitsu Numazu Complex, we learned
about today's and tomorrow's technology like hardware, software, their
design, application and also the changing role of Information Technology,
from data processing to knowledge processing.
The new knowledge obtained from the course
enabled me to contribute more in my work. I have learned more than I expected.
Beside the course, I am happy to learn about Japan, it's people, it's culture
and it's places. This is something that I will not able to know and experience
through the normal holiday tour to Japan. I have noticed several very helpful
computerised systems in Japan. They are :
1. The bus information system at Azalea
shopping mall near Kawasaki station. The user can select their destination
and the system will print out the name of bus to take, the route and how
much the fare is.
2. The Japan Railway has also a similar
system for train inquiry in Tokyo station where it will print out suggested
line to take to go to specified place.
3. In a CD/Video shop in Osaka, I
have seen machines with touch screen menu that will let customer to do
inquiry about CD/album. Customer can choose by singer name or category.
The system can also print out information about the selected album.
We have 27 trainees from
14 different countries. We had a cross-cultural exchange and learned to
live and work together in harmony despite our differences in culture, language,
thinking, custom and etc. We enjoyed the friendship and experiences that
we shared.
As a conclusion, I would
like to say "I went, I saw, I experienced and learned".