Archive for the ‘Misc’ Category
Yesterday was the day of TEDxVienna 2011. It was more than 12 hours conference in total. While my memory is still fresh and while I’m feeling my excitement, I’ll try to write down what I thought.
As stated in the previous post, this was my first face-to-face TED conference. Unlike watching individual movies on digital [...]
Just like last year, we had a public chakai (tea ceremony) in Vienna. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as prepared as previous year; the week before this tea ceremony was an absolute zoo, and I was constantly rushed by my assignments from the MBA program.
Shortly after I submitted my 6-weeks assignment, I got a call from my [...]
After getting an iPad, I’ve been trying out various news browsing applications. The iPhone is great in a sense that it could connect to the Internet almost at any places (where the mobile phone data signal can reach). But iPad can show you much more information at glance.
I’ve tried one application available in Japanese, [...]
While I was being online in one evening (as usual), I got a chat message from an old friend of mine (looking back, it’s been almost 10 years!). There was someone who wanted to contact to me, but this person couldn’t reach me, for some reason.
After I got the Skype name of this person, [...]
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 [...]
It’s been almost 3 weeks since I started my job in Austria. Here, as long as you’re employed by a company, and earn more than a certain amount (323.46 euro per month, at Dec. 2009), you’re automatically included into a social security. Well, it’s part of a compulsory things you’d have to go through (meaning [...]
First of all, I am not a Christian (and am not planning to convert myself into it), and I wonder sometimes, why they celebrate Christmas more than Easter, which (I think) I’ve seen more in the drawings in the museum.
My answer (or rather my understanding) to this question is that the weather in Europe [...]
As a person from rather south (or rather from closer to the equator), I think I’m used to warm weather by nature. Yes, I’ve been to some cold place(s) in the previous life, but I (at least so far) never liked the time when the temperature hits below 5 Celsius degrees. It’s just me..
I have [...]
I already feel a bit ashamed to write something like this as second post after addressing “I am now in a different country!”. With a relatively high probability, I would be flying to Brazil for my private purpose.
When? That should be next (2010) March. Why? To visit my relatives over there. I don’t think I [...]
After going through relatively many processes, I’ve arrived in Vienna, Austria. The amount of the work I had to do in Japan, in fact, wasn’t as much as expected (from my personal experience in Germany, I thought I know a bit about how things work around here).
I caught a flu, which was likely type H1N1, [...]