2002-10-16
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Non-Stop Learning...
I was supposed to get my suit/tuxedo today, but unfortunately no one is available to come with this day so I decided to get it tomorrow... I spend much my time today in the house, self-studying about IBM's websphere I am reading an online book right now that is quite long, imagine 1144 pages!? wahhh, and i'm on the 50th page now ^_^ ehehe, you don't expect me to read the whole book page-by-page do you? Anyways, it is quite fun for me and I'm enjoying coz I am learning new stuffz again ^_^. Hmm so what else, oh! I watched Pokemon Japanese series just this afternoon, its quite great coz the opening and ending songs are both in Japanese soundtracks and the dubbing in Japanese language really gives the Pokemon much expressive in a battle, the episode is about the grand tournament of all Pokemon trainers.
Okay, GTG I'll catch up on this later ^_^...
By JL at 7:10 PM
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2002-10-15
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DJ me!
Ho hum... same as yesterday, I stayed the whole day and late afternoon when I fall asleep -_- I was kinda tired and need to have a rest... just this night I talked to my younger brother together with our parents in YM, cool thing I enabled the voice conference so they had a great time listening to my voice, wehe! its like I'm a DJ on a FM radio station ^_^ silly me. I am the only one that have the headset so its a one-way call, I just read there response through chat... And yes! I remembered I cooked for lunch and dinner a salmon fish that I just recently bought from Jusco, its quite big so I saved some for tomorrow and next, next day ^_^... okay its gettin' late now, time to sleep... goodnight! ZzZzZz...
By JL at 11:50 PM
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2002-10-14
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Ondokai!!!
Not much happened for today, its holiday here, official Ondokai day and my employer together with his family visit their parents somewhere here in Oita, its a 1 hour and 45 minutes drive, a province in their description. What I did is just continue with the website prototype, and I cleaned the house ^_^ pretty good for me, coz I need some exercise. After that I take a bit of rest late afternoon and now here I am watching Detective Conan while writing this one... well I won't make my notes long for now, need to watch carefully here the Detective Conan series, its quite difficult for me to understand coz its Nihonggo, but the series here are up-to-date, I also watched Inuyasha before Detective Conan... well that's it for now. Good night!
By JL at 7:49 PM
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2002-10-13
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Homesick?! Nahh...
Its been a week now that I'd stayed here in Japan, ^_^ I'm happy that I never felt homesick thanks GOD. Okay so I forgot to write about what happened yesterday, hmmm.. okay let me refresh my memory, oh, alright early morning yesterday nephew of mr. Fujimura (sorry forgot his name, I guess "Nishi"?) and Noda-san visited the house to talk about the project, I didn't participate much but I think they are doing good at their projects.
Late afternoon when we go to NTT DoCoMO to look for some keitai, all we just did was inquired for keitai that can be used for international calls specifically in asia & Philippines, all things goes well and after that I bought some uniform, and waaahhh its really too expensive, don't wanna talk about the price but em glad that I have one pair of suite to use now, i.e., Tuxedo and Pants ^_^.
Okay so what happened for today, okay early morning when we went to Yukari's school to attend "Odokai" it was there Sports Day in school so I have a great time watching the programs/events in the school, it end-up before lunch then we proceed to Joyfull Restaurant to take our lunch, nice lunch we have there ^_^ (*bloated*) hehehe. We went home afterwards to take a rest. And btw we visited some stores that sells CD, VCDs, and DVDs, I saw some anime and hentai ^_^ but it was expensive for me so I just ended up staring at them hehehe ^_^.
Well that's all for today, its already very late at night, again for tomorrow... ja ne!
Words I recall for today and yesterday:
- Akeru = Open
- Shimeru = Close
- Kuruma = Car
- Inu = Dog
- Ondokai = Sports Day
- Ie = House
By JL at 11:10 PM
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2002-10-12
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I'm an Alien!!!
Again I missed writing what happened yesterday so I'll make it up by writing it today... ^_^ yesterday when Mr. Fujimara came in to my house we went first to Japanese Government to arrange my Alien Card, imagine!? I'm an alien!!! wehehe... kidding aside we went to Kitakyushu to arrange my medicare and after that we went to Nakatsu to visit Mr. Fujimura's brother and at the same time the office there, I came in to his brother's house who welcomed me warmly together with his wife. They have this business of cooking and delivering sashimi, they insisted me to eat but we are catching time so instead I just drink there Japanese version of Yakult ^_^... after that we went home. And btw, as we were travelling we passed by Beppu City which is known for their popular hot springs, from there I've been able to see smokes coming out on every mountain we passed by, cool! I mean hot isn't it? ^_^... well that's it for yesterday I'll try to write again this evening before I go to sleep about today... c yah!
Words I recall for today:
By JL at 2:54 PM
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2002-10-11
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And that's the way it is...
Ohayou! Minasan... hehehe i forgot to write about the happenings yesterday, ^_^ silly me... niway here is a quick pick... yesterday (Oct. 10, 2002) I got the chance to ride the bus here, of course it wasn't my first time to ride a bus but it my first time to encounter their process of payment and how to get the ticket, plus knowing which number of bus to ride in a bus station, it's quite amazing knowing that each bus here having there own destinations have there scheduled time for that day, there schedules can be seen at the bus station, so I need to be very careful in choosing which bus to ride on, but it was really easy and I think I'll be able to learn it in no time. Their process here in riding a bus goes this way, first you'll enter at the back door of the bus and there is a slot-machine where I could get my ticket and then at every station of the bus we encounter, a recording machine tells all the passenger that we are reaching this destination, etc. now if I were to go down at that station there is a button beside my seat that I'll be able to push on to initiate that I am going down on that station ^_^ cool isn't it? Then I'll walk towards the front of the bus paying the exact amount displayed in the LCDs of the bus (the basis of the amount that will be payed is based from the ticket that I hold, there's a number on it and I'll be able to see from the LCD my number, plus the exact amount to be payed), then exit the front door... I just always remembered things this way when riding the bus... entrance = back door, exit = front door ^^;
Okay so I am thru with the bus, so where I am heading? Weee!!! to Oita Central, I got the chance to go to CentPorta (pronounced as CentoPorta) one of the shopping districts here in Oita, visit this website to see some of its highlights http://www.city.oita.oita.jp/en/tourism/kanko_aruku_shoteng_c.html, I also visit some other malls have my lunch in one of its food chain, then look for some "keitai" (pronounced as "keitay"), this is there term for cellphones, I haven't seen Nokia models but its kinda different coz what they have here are JPHONE, AU, etc... I think there system of receiving and sending calls here are quite different plus the services providers also has a certain radius. The ketai looks good and they are colorful as if they look like toys, the screen also is colored and they are compact ^_^. Oh btw, I met a Japanese Girl at the perfume stall and she asks me what I can say about there country, I say that it was great, and then asked me how about the girls? Hehe I answered KAWAII!!! hihihi the Japanese girl really smiles and clapped her hands because of what she heard... she's very kind, she even let me try there perfume, and she is the one who sprayed it to my arms, cool! Oops! someone is ringing the bell outside, I think Mr. Fujimura is already here, got to go!
Words I recall for today:
- Keitai = Cellphone/mobilephone
By JL at 9:11 PM
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2002-10-09
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Nihon School? Cool!
Konbanwa!!! ^_^ waiii... I had a great time today, first we went to Yukari's school (Hanagishi Oita), its so nice to see that all the kids here are well-disciplined and btw Yukari is my employer's daughter who is in kindergarden level... Yukari's school wasn't that big though but beside it you'll be able to see the elementary school with the medium-sized big-clock at the center (imagine the anime highschools) of the building, we walked Yukari home but before that we went to the park, its called ____ and the place was really pretty :) seeing all the birds (doves) walking towards us to ask for food, gee they are really lovely... the park is quite long and at the center of the park there was this shrine-like figure that displays a clock (its like a small-tower clock) and the interesting part is that when it reaches 2:00pm its like a robot that will pull-out some dolls out of it and let them dance ^_^ its kinda hard to explain but lucky me hihihi I got a souvenir pic that timely it was 2pm so I catched the dolls dancing within that small-tower, the dolls are dressed in kimono, etc... I'll post the pic here as soon as I developed it ^_^. After that we track and walk our way home, I got the chance to visit some of Oita's shops/stores, this includes Sega World, Olympus, etc... before we go straight home, we dropped by to McDonalds to buy some snacks and saw some Jap Girls again wahihihi, there uniform are really so short O_o and I like it ^_^ hehehe jk! (*grins*) I also got the chance to meet one Filipina there her name was Emilie, I got her number and she told me that if I wanted to attend to a mass in a catholic church, I just give her a call and she'll show me the way and give me a ride ^^; (*whew*), so generous, I wonder why ^_^. Okay so we got home, and from here I ate the burger and what else oh yeah, get back to my work ^_^. Its already late at night, I enjoyed designing our web page, ho hum... time to sleep, that's all for now... ja matane!
Words I recall for today:
- Wakarimasen = I don't understand.
- Nihongo wakaranai = I don't understand Nihonggo.
- Otoko = Man
By JL at 10:02 PM
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2002-10-08
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Garbage Collection
Not so much to write for today, except that I learned that every tuesday and friday I need to take out my trashes because the garbage truck is scheduled at this days. I stayed all day here at the staff house creating some draft logo designs for the company. I'm getting dizzy now, so maybe I'll take a rest for a while, bye... :)
By JL at 7:49 PM
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2002-10-07
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Japan! Japan!
Wow! There are so much to write for today... I am watching Detective Conan while writing this one ^_^. This morning when I woke-up the gentle and cool breeze really makes me feel like its already christmas here (*hehehe*). At the veranda of our staff house, I just observed that all Japanese girls and gals really do ride bikes as they go to school, and here is the interesting part, most of their bikes are modelled like the old-one chinese era ^_^, but basically it really looks like it is built for girls, they really look-like girl type bikes ^^;... and smile! wehehe, I'm also going to ride the same-type of bike ^^; bwahahaha!
For today I enjoyed setting-up my workstation and in the late afternoon we just dropped by to Jusco (a Japanese Department Stores here in Oita) for me to learn to buy some stuffs like food to cook, drinks, etc. Cool, they really are very friendly, plus seeing all the junior highs Japanese Girls playing around the arcades ^_^.
I just bought Omochi (rice cake), that I am now eating and Taiyaki (fished-style bread). When I am at the Jusco Games and CDs department I just saw the prices of XBOX, PS2 and GameCube ewww... I just can't take away my eyes staring at them, if I wont control myself I'm going home empty handed of my yens... good for me that its getting late at night by that time so my employer and I went home. Oops! and btw I also been standing for a long time there staring at the huge models of Gundam Suites... arrrrggghhh I want to buy them!!!!
Oh, its 8:17pm already, 3 D.Conan episodes had passed... I am getting starvin' need to cook, I'll try to sneak peak some of my experiences yesterday upon my arrival here in Japan... of course after I have my dinner ^_^ so bye for now. ja!
By JL at 7:55 PM
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