Journal lingqi's Journal: August 19th, 2003 5
August 19th, 2003 (6:22pm)
No Journal entry yesterday...
Yesterday was a busy day. I spent about the whole day in the engineering lab cleaning up a circuit board (the thicker-than-pig-skin one) that has derelict vestiges of prior circuits. It is obvious that this board has went through many such seasons.
Three hours cleaning up all the nastiness that was left over...
The rest of the day was spent soldering some measurement points at various places on the board so that an alligator clip can go onto it easily. This took some time, until 10pm or thereabouts. I found out that smelling soldering fume for the whole day it not a particularly fun activity.
In any case, I figured that I would write the journal entry from home, and post from there.
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So, as one may imagine, the "writing at home" thing didn't quite happen.
In any case - This weekend was semi-productive.
1) Added two extra cell-phones to my account, and will be sub-leasing them to Christian and his wife. Their baby daughter will be collateral if they don't pay the bill on time.
2) Watched the kumagaya fireworks thing.
3) Watched Terminator 3 at Christian's home. (Gotta love them DVDs you can get from China)
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Actually the original idea was to do family plan and pretend that we are brothers. haha. The guy at the shop gave us (me, mostly, as I was doing the talking) the most amused look - if people really had thought bubbles pop up beside them, the area surrounding him would be pullulating with bubbles of "you can't be serious." So, we instead went for the I add everything onto my plan and ask him for money later thing.
Anyhow. Actually I get something out of this too. Family plan ensures that every one in the said family gets a 30% (maybe 30% - i forgot) discount on the phone bill. Pretty good deal, I think. So for the little extra work of compiling every month's bill, I can save a good 1,000 yen every month. w00t!
The cellphone shop was having a sale where if you are getting a new phone, you can get 3,000 yen off the phone price if you are under 29 years of age. This means that the cheapest phones (usually 3,000 yen) would come out free. Pretty good deal since that nowadays that particular price range actually have phones with cameras and such. I was extremely tempted to change my phone to one with a camera (and one without a stupid disney theme) for 5,000 yen or so, but eventually decided against it. While a new phone can be used nearly right away (2 hours waiting), changing the phone means that you cannot use it until the next day at 11:30am. Of course, there are ways around this - by going to an official Docomo shop (i.e. ran by docomo directly), but their phone are usually 3x the price, so don't do it unless you have too much money.
The procedure was not particularly difficult. select phone and fill out some forms. hanko + ID + alien registration are needed. Since all there phones are under my name, Christian actually didn't have to be there at all...
The last thing (about this) is that the store is named "moshi-moshi monkey," which I found to be extremely... strange. Why would you name your store "hello monkey"?
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I have to go back to do some more soldering, so I will stop here.
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Update 8:17am... erm... I really didn't mean to put up that portion of what I wrote. It was more of a reference for myself;
big, big oops... Guess those soldering fumes do get to the head.
Sorry dude.. (Score:1)
What's with these screwy women? Can't they just be content?
Re:Sorry dude.. (Score:1)
Long distance (Score:2)
-molo
hello kitty? (Score:1)
Thankfully I no longer run with the crowd that's into Hello Kitty, but given that title the Hello Monkey just seems more "adult" than anything, and not quite so strange.