October 17th, 2004 (3.53am)

I have just finished watching many episodes of the Simpsons, and there was an earthquake about 3 seconds ago and the apartment is still shaking as i am typing this... It's kind of eerie to be up at the middle of the night and then everything start to shake all of the sudden, mostly in a quiet manner as the sofa sways under you. For a moment you pause and wonder if this is "The Big One" as the swaying increases in strength but then let out a nervous sigh as it

October 14th, 2004 (8:33pm)

Today is my 2 year anniversary of coming to Japan. I am not so sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. Originally the plan was for me to get back to the US around now, and that I can have my driver's license (expiring in a month) renewed, get my low insurance rate as I hit 25, and go forward with whatever the road of life takes me. Spending the 2 year anniversary here in Japan, though, means that a lot of plans made back in the days are no longer meeting

October 4th, 2004 (4:21pm)

Urgh! I am so busy these days.

September 27th, 2004 (9:24pm)

I havn't wrote anything for so long. One reason is that I was in Hawaii for the majority of last week.

September 13th, 2004 (22:36)

It seems that updating this journal has became an luxury rather than a daily fact. I am not quite sure what is attributing to this. Are there still 24 hours in each day for me?

September 10th, 2004 (0:21)

I was thinking recently about all the friends I made in the past few monthes. Not that I am gossiping about them or whatever - just that they generally share something very common: almost everyone are gaijin like me.

Sept 06, 2004 (4:44pm)

Maybe not the most tasteful subject. Proceed with caution.

September 3rd, 2004 (0:33am)

Recently Japan seems to the target of large scale natural disasters all at once. First we had flooding in Niigata (a couple monthes ago), then we had various typhoon bombard various parts of japan, causing localized flooding in kagoshima just last week. Adding onto that, yesterday we had a mild earthquake during the day and then at night Mt. Asama in Gunma prefecture (not too far from where I am - in fact on a clear day we can see the mountain) erupted; spew

September 2nd, 2004 (0:03am)

Actually I have no intention to be doing journal at such an unbelievable hour... but it seems to have becomming the norm as of late...

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Sept 1st, 2004 (0:49am)

This week I had reserved to used the test system from the time slots 5am to 10am monday morning, because for some reason the customer trusts the TDS8000 oscilloscope and it would be darn near impossible to get that scope during normal hours. I have no idea why they really "NEED" the data to be taken with a 20GHz sampling scope, when there is a perfectly good 3GHz scope that is already much more than what the setup calls for - especially since this was probably go

August 28th, 2004 (9:04pm)

I am getting so late these days...

Yesterday I was reminded of a story from a long time ago (for me, not in a "age of the universe" scale), I figure I might as well write it down here, though I doubt I will forget it.

August 25th, 2004 (2:38am)

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August 24th, 2004 (0:56am)

It seems that this few days my schedule has became somewhat in a condition of fubar. Saturday night I did not sleep and instead slept from 9am - 2pm and 4pm - 7pm on sunday, and then proceeded to go to work at about 1am sunday night, going to sleep again from 9:30am until 12:30am (at work, with the boss's permission), and have been up since. Curiously (or, not so curiously) I am quite awake at this moment - maybe the sound of monotonous typing will get me to l

August 19, 2004 (12:12am)

Kinda late...

-- continuing, though --

The afternoon after diving with the whale shark, we wore this smile and went to the beach. Going to the beach after diving always seems kind of... lackluster, especially since we didn't even have snorkel gear. After seeing all the glory under water, the above-water-only scenery seems like something is missing, because you know all the beauty that lies beneath and it's quite irksome to not be able to see them.

August 17th, 2004 (7:02pm)

I have been staying here way too these days...

But darnit - I can feel my memories of the trip fading and I have to catch up on them; but yet a lot (well, not like a LOT, but a reasonable amount) has been happening in my normal life that I have not even begun on elaborating those...

So, in a summary mode: