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2005-02-10 :: TAKOYAKI Thursday!

Octopus ball or what you call TAKOYAKI in Japanese term is one of many popular dumplings here in Japan. TAKO = means Octopus while YAKI = means to grill or to bake. That is how takoyaki is made of. While posting this blog entry I ate already 10 dumplings and there are 2 more left... anyone care to join me??? :P

I took a shot of it. The ingredients are: chopped boiled octopus, benishoga (pickled ginger), chopped negi (scallions), tenkasu (rice crispies). While the batter or toppings are: powdered katsuo-bushi (shaved dried bonito) and konbu (kelp). Plus a takoyaki sauce and mayonaise.

Some students here in Japan, especially the male high school students hangs out in takoyaki shops after school hours.

And talking about school hours, I'm back to school! I started my class course in KUMON just today. The japanese language class I attend to is from 7:00pm to 9:00pm (every Mon & Thu) kinda late, so when I came home tonight nothing for diner, so what did I have?! the picture above. ^_^

Happy eating!!!

This post is made “AS IS” without warranties, and confers no rights.

By JL at 10:08 PM | 0 comments

2005-02-07 :: Level 3 of Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT - 3Kyuu)

A call... last Sunday night when I got a phone call from a friend (Indonesian) I met in JLPT test site in Tokyo. He called to announce that the result of the JLPT is out already. He passed the exam and asked me this way "Joel san wa dou, goukaku shita?" ("So how about you? Did you passed?")... In silence I am not able to answer for a while... I wanted to answer yes... but... I answered no... He then asked "Doushite?" ("Why?")... I took a deep breath and aswered "Coz the result hasn't arrived yet...! " :P

My mailing address was in Tokyo and as I am working right now in Kyoto I didn't have any idea what my score or if I passed... But deep inside of me God has assured me that I passed... So this morning while checking my mails, unsurprisingly I got this email from my Boss written this way:

You passed the exam with 331/400 points. Congratulations! -- Yusuke

What!? I did not even have the opportunity to open the result myself... having those chills and thrills of excitement... :D Oh well, can't help it... So what I did is hold my breath for a while... and close my eyes uttering this words:

Thanks God for letting me pass this test, for assuring me that I'll have this. Amen.

Painted with happy face, I worked all day filled with energy. After work I called KUMON (Japanese Language Class Course) that I am ready to take the next step toward Level 2 (2-Kyuu)... I am ready to take the business level challenge the Japanese way!

This post is made “AS IS” without warranties, and confers no rights.

By JL at 7:28 PM | 0 comments

2005-02-05 :: Snow Drop!

Today I woke up late around 10:00am and to my surprise my supervisor in Software Dev. Team called me for an adventure up north Kyoto. What is it you may ask? A skii adventure in Kurama Skii Jyou =). So I quickly arranged my stuffs and around 10:30am we travel up north. Snows were really thick and flakes were dropping on our way to Kurama Skii Jyou and I was really amaze how strong the houses near the village as their roof were covered by big/thick amount of snow. And to add also the trees and hills of mountain surrounded by these white flakes. I imagined our car getting inside the freezer =).

So around 1:00am we finally arrived, and had some lunch for a couple of minutes and after that the adventure begins...

Lot of teenagers are into snowboarding especially this month until March, I did not had the chance to try it as I did not have my own stuff but I got the chance to slide using snowboat! :) I'll post the picture here later.

I had a great time with my Supervisor and his family. We also went shopping, where I bought a new telephone unit and then around 6:00pm I'm home.

I really wanna comeback and try snow boarding! ^_~

By JL at 6:09 PM | 0 comments

2005-02-03 :: ASDL + IP Phone

Hooraaayy!!! I got my Fujitsu W4 IP Telephone & ADSL Router!!! ^_^ Does it mean I will be able to surf online 24hours a week?? Yeah! In fact right now as I post my entry this is the connection I am using. I also tried downloading some big files around 180MB and it only takes me less than an hour yipppeee!!! And uh oh! I think I need to reformat my harddrive as the space really small I need to free unused files.

One great thing about shared ADSL and IP Telephone is that I got a 1mbps DL (download) and UL(upload) plus a free call anywhere here in Japan if the person also uses an IP Telephone =) . Right now I can't see any drawbacks from this package I subscribed into, but once there is I'll share it with you guys ^_~...

Happy surfing!!!

By JL at 6:29 PM | 0 comments

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