Archive for January, 2010
In this blog, I try not to (and will not) write about my work in Vienna (by work, I mean the one I’m paid for). Some of my colleagues are reading this blog, I noticed (oh, I should perhaps note that I’m not writing anything about my work in Japanese either ;-). One colleague asked [...]
As much as I use emails everyday, I use something called Instant Messenger (hereafter IM) as well. Probably the most popular one among all (from my daily life) is the Skype (yes, it is a VoIP software, but it also has a chat feature).
So I do communicate using the chat feature. Sometimes with friends, [...]
There was an incoming messages from one of my colleagues. It was about the ball (where well dressed-up people dance in a rather formal way), taking place in “Rathaus” (meaning city administrative office in German). She happened to obtain a pair of tickets to the ball, and looking for someone to come with.
Even before [...]
Having written about a scale and weight, I remembered a talk held with a friend of mine more than a year ago.
I : Why is it that there’s a weight limit of your luggage(s) onto the airplane and not to your own (body) weight, even though it’s the same thing?
F : Umm. [...]
Apart from the first half of the time when I was in the US, my weight has been (almost) constantly being added. It was around 58 kg, when I was in undergraduate, and around 62 kg in graduate school.
From the BMI aspect, I should (still) be at the edge of “normal”. But it still [...]
It’s been more than a month since I came to Vienna. I still sometimes get this kind of question (like tonight, by a friend of mine). I decided to write about it while I still have gut to do so.
To first come to the conclusion,
I do not miss Japan tiny a bit.
Well, I [...]
I’ve been using MacOSX for more than 7 years (already!) and, of course, I am well aware what one can do with iPhone. Because my family (in Japan) was all using the NTT (the biggest telecommunication company in Japan, used to government-owned) as mobile career and I used to work for a NTT spin-off, iPhone [...]
I’ve been asked by multiple persons the same question : “Do you prefer <PLACEHOLDER> girls?” (substitute <PLACEHOLDER> by any country name you like). Well, first of all, I don’t want a “girl”, I want a woman, who could potentially be my future partner ;-) Interestingly, it’s not only the guys who rose this [...]
Personally I do not have good experience in this time of the year : Christmas. That’s because of what happened around the one in 2007.
At that time, I was in Germany, living in a house with my friend. Like some normal students do in Western culture, he went back to his home town during [...]