Doctor808 Plastic Surgeon Honolulu Hawaii

I read a lot of blogs about Plastic Surgery for many reasons. First ,  I like to keep in touch with the public opinions, what is hot and what is not in the field of plastic surgery and plastic surgeons. Second, I have a web design company and SEO  firm .In simple terms it is an Internet marketing/advertising company to promote business on the Internet. We handle  from design to promotion at 3d-plasticsurgery.com . So I need to know as much about blogging as is possible. How can I advise my clients if I  don’t know? The third reason is that I enjoy many of these blogs purely as entertainment.

Since I am an nternational plastic surgeon and my internet company is international,  in that we have capability for  multiple languages both in my plastic surgery office,  as well as web company ,  I read blogs in other languages.  Yet as my readers know, I barely can read some Romaji Japanese at this point, so how do I do that?  Well I use translations software.  On my Mac , I have a button on the browser that if for example I am reading  this blog:

「ハワイ美容整形外科」　豊胸・二重・脂肪吸引・フェイスリフト・フォトフェイシャル・レーザー脱毛・スキンケア

Which says something to the effect of Hawaii Cosmetic Surgery I click on my translate button and whoopee— its in english!  It is not accurate in Japanese , but I get the idea what the author is talking about. It works much better for simplified Chinese and European languages these are clearly translated . Unfortunately Nihongo is not so easy.

The blog to the left is about various aspects of Plastic Surgery in Hawaii, notably my practice. The  interesting issues about these Japanese Blogs is the bloggers. The culture it seems takes a more ” diary “approach to their blogs. They are heavily scattered with a lot of insight into the bloggers mind. I wonder if this is due to the nature of Japanese culture,  where there is the public face and then the face which is hidden. That means that there has been pressure on Japanese society to all stay within some very confined limits. The nail that sticks out,  gets hammered down so to speak. So the blog especially if anonymous or a written in psuedo-name. allows for greater freedom of expression.

On the other hand the American Blogs are more expressive of individualism it seems and its about the author and what he or she thinks should be said and DIRECTLY. As example , I will tell you I am the best plastic surgeon in Hawaii and perhaps the world (said with tonque in cheek) but the Japanese are more subtle and have a certain humble aspect so they would not say that.

If this is good or not,  you have to judge for your self , but I believe this is what I see when comparing the blogs by Japanese writers and American Writers about Plastic Surgery or other topics such as Hawaii vacations and the like.

Another aspect I note about American Blogs is they are usually very commercial, as many blogs are becoming. In my case of www.doctor808.com which is a mixed plate of Web stuff , Plastic Surgery, Travel and Muay Thai I tend to simply bring the reader into various aspects of my life so they can perhaps figure some of these things out how they help. I also enjoy entertaining and as my readership continues to grow I get more comments to my email.

Yet there is a commercial aspect to this blog as well. It is one I have discovered indirectly which does help with my internet company. That is the value of blogs to help gain ranking in google. This is pure advertising but it works great. Some SEO blogs really give the reader nothing in return meaning that their purpose is to gain rank or clicks and earn accordingly. It is well documented that this adds to how well a web site will rank in google. As mentioned in an earlier post about ethics of some these internet companies I strongly disagree with the making your blog for pure commercial benifits as does google. So I think of it more as two way street. I try ot bring good information, written by me as well as entertainment to my readers. In return my blog becomes valuble and the commercial aspect comes with that. That is difference between my blog and the blogs my company promotes and the borderline fraud of some blogs out there who write nothing but keywords and seek to try and obtain rank only. They are rather ruthless with no redeeming value.

At any rate, I suppose my point is lets keep the internet clean to some degree and in doing so we can have our own interest in mind as well. You have to give to get I suppose and I dont think there is anything wrong with that. Yet taking all the time is another story I will save for another blog. Seems many Americans are turning into takers more than givers these days. It gets back to the golden rule of treat others as you would be treated.

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Japanese Study

                     A quite morning of study  for Doctor808 ???

This morning I was up at the crack of dawn determined to get in my Japanese study time. I left the house early after  I spoke with my significant other and did the morning dog routine. I jumped  into  my hummer, drove to Starbucks and then sit down for an hour of study before work.  It was going very well, I had two pages of lesson completed both spoken and written. THEN THEY CAME……

A Gang Of Cantonese!!!

I have nothing against Chinese people , in fact my significant other is Chinese. Yet here I am trying to study,  enjoy in a  nice tropical breeze, the peaceful quite with my favorite coffee. This is all  very  conducive to study. All of sudden an Asian man walks up and starts pulling outside tables together near me.  He not only pulled one but then two and then a total of five tables and 15 chairs.   He lined them up all in nice neat row , next to me.  A t first I thought he was crazy as sometimes homeless people come around there and do strange meaningless things such as that. Then I realized —OH MY GOD –NO NO NO, it was evident he was preparing for a crowd and getting chairs and tables together for THEM. 

 I am not against Chinese per se,  but when you are trying to study a gang of Chinese having  social event next to you  is not a great idea. To make matters worse they were not just any Chinese,  but CANTONESE speakers. The difference is huge when compared to the  main land Chinese who speak Mandarin. Cantonese speakers when in a group sound like a major fight is going on as they talk. Its not that they are fighting , but it is the nature of the dialect. This is much different than Chinese Mandarin dialect which actually  is very calm , sweet and like a song. Chinese are much like Italians, my ancestry, they are very loud when being social.

I had to end my study as the loud sound of Cantonese chatter was overwhelming. First one person yakking then another  then all talking at the same time. It appears as if there is strong competition for talking!! I found  myself thinking back when I worked in China Town in New York City and the words I had learned in Catonese  from those days were entering my head without permission.

No longer could I think to myself “Genki Desu KA? ” but now I was thinking ” Ne Ho Ma ?“  My thoughts were taking a beating , my blocks to the environmental distraction were failing and had failed. As the cloud of asian languages were confusing, overwhelming and non stop swirling about in my brain—I was having second thoughts about learning Japanese , maybe I should learn french.

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