SEIKO

My native language, Japanese, many times has more than one meaning in a same pronunciation. For example, "hashi" means bridge, chopsticks, and edge. Situation and accent are resources for us to distinguish from other meanings.


My mom sent me a watch in the last week. The brand is SEIKO which I was always willing to have. I wonder if you know about them, but they are regarded as one of the most reliable watch/clock makers in the world. You see their name at Olympic games. The pronunciation SEIKO means "accurate" in Japanese. As Japanese production is usually outstanding in terms of reliability and durability, yes their products last so long.


My watch is a solar watch, and I wanted to have only SEIKO's solar watch because I was looking one which lasts longer than my life. Since SEIKO is super reliable and high tech, my watch keeps ticking the as long as sun rises up!! I would like to work and live for even something I can't see in the future. When I purchased this watch online, I believed that this watch would remind me to work for not only myself and family, but also people in the future. "Did you know, this watch is used to be own by Chuji?" I hope someone in the future will say like this just as now we say the same thing like when we talk about an antique guitar used to be own by John Lennon or a baseball bat used to be used by Babe Roth.


So, now I need to let you know another meaning of SEIKO in Japanese. The word "seiko" has "accurate", and the other one is "success". Actually success is used in our conversation more often than accurate as we do in English too. By the way, Seiko is also name of my high school. So, the story I thought about when I ordered this one online was like this..."Chuji ,who graduated Seiko high school in more than 100 years ago, made huge huge seikos (success) with the SEIKO watch, which still ticks now, for people in our generation." Don't you think it would be so cool if it happened!?


Since my success is already guaranteed, I have to be careful so this watch wouldn't be broken:)


As more than 100 years are composed many days, my seiko (success) is also composed of daily seicos. I will have to seico tomorrow at the first. Otherwise, my great picture in the future will be ended just as a picture.


Oh I can't wait to work with this watch. So nice.

Go for it!! Chuji,