Could be worse
October 28, 2009
October 26, 2009
Was it worth it?
The Windows 7 burger. 7 beef paddies. Only in Japan, only available for one week. Can’t miss it. Just like an earthquake or some other natural disaster.
No. It wasn’t worth it.
Sorry guys! No videos yet. I got a new camera last week (Canon S90) but I don’t have video editing software for it yet. Chotto matte kudasai.
Really. It was disappointing. It started out fine, but after some bites it just became a huge, dense mass of gray matter, without any taste whatsoever. Except perhaps leather. That’s all I can say. You won’t see me at BK for quite some time from now..
October 24, 2009
We will fix it
Being an employee for a speech recognition company that, until recently, always hired a lot of interns from various countries, allows me to count a large variety of people as friends. I know people from all over the world, and I’ve kept in touch with a bunch of them after their internship here in Japan was over. Whenever we talk about what they’re doing now and how they feel about it I always get the same answer.
Life slows down after you get a full-time job. Life becomes more serious. We get our own apartment, we furnish it with nice new furniture, and we live our lives just like everybody else. We go to work every weekday, then we realize that work is not as much fun and a lot more stressful than university. Then we realize that we have to make new friends, cause all the people we knew from university have mostly disappeared or don’t have time for us anymore cause they are also starting their own full-time job.
It takes us time to get used to this. Some people adapt quickly and become content with their situation, perhaps because they are striving for something better in the future, and they’ve already decided their plan. Others might not be happy with it, but they have no choice, cause we all need money to survive. And an even different kind of person might not be happy with the kind of normal life, no matter how luxurious he can make it. But of all the friends I have made here, we all have one thing in common: we love the time that we spent in Japan during our time at AK speech solutions, and we miss it a lot.
If we all feel that this kind of situation is preferable over our current full-time job, shouldn’t the task fall to us to improve this society? We should work hard not to be a boring salary(wo)man, but to create a society where we can enjoy ourselves just like we did before. If it’s us, then I’m sure we can do it.
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October 22, 2009
The road goes ever onward
Ah, the view from work. I guess I can live with it. Click on the photo to see the original picture as it came out of the camera. Since I took it at work I wasn’t really in a position to turn off the lights, so the reflection was quite strong.
Pepsi Azuki
And on this lonesome night I ventured outside in search of some satisfaction for my ever rumbling stomach. Little did I know that this night would turn out to be so gruesome…
Pepsi Azuki. I am not surprised by the weirdness of this drink. I’ve seen all kinds of weird stuff in vending machines: hot coffee, instant pudding, you name it. What I’m surprised about is that renowned names like Pepsi and Coca Cola actually are joining in the mad craziness of putting random ingredients in their products and then selling it to unsuspecting customers like me. Despite the madness this Pepsi Azuki concoction is actually not that bad, and nowhere near as horrible as GODDAMN PEPSI SHISO.
(You can find more weird Japanese drinks here)
October 19, 2009
BAAAH NA NA
Damn Japanese bank still blocking my creditcard. I will give the asswhooping.
Also, I think the cold that I’ve been having for the past two months has finally disappeared. And on that note: my room really smells! Or rather, the roof next to my room smells, and now it’s infecting my room as well..
