2008/04/17

Busy busy busy

Well, thought I'd just update on life :). No pictures... just life :)

First of all, my development team and I from work are moving to the clients (our software for for a client, not our own software) company to finish the project. It is a subsidiary of Canon Inc, you know, the big printer and such company. This company handles various inside working for Canon. And we are making something for them. Anyways, it's in Tamachi, very close to my current home! yay! No more looong ride to and from work :). It's a VERY Japanese and high quality business, so all suits, ties, etc... if you are in the meeting or manager side of things, or just nice dress shirt, etc... if regular employee.

However, I am becoming a bit more important in my job... and so I fall in to the first half of the kinds of people. Yup, today... I was in meetings the WHOLE day... First time experience for something like that for me. It was all in Japanese too, which of course, was kind of difficult, but apparently my Japanese is getting better, as I could understand most of what was being said, as goes for my huge note list......... *sigh *.

SO I've gone shopping already last weekend for business clothes and shoes, which I bought a couple of, BUT now I need to go buy more... THIS time a suit.... >.< Good bye Canadian money... :P

2008/04/12

Big update!

Ya... so I suck at keeping blogs up to date... But, this time I DO have an excuse...
When you wake up at 8:21 AM, leave for work at 8:40, travel on trains until 9:45, walk until 10:00, work until 7:00 PM (or sometimes until 8 or later), walk until 7:15 (of course, this depends on how late I work), train until 8:10 usually, hang out with girlfriend until 9:40ish, train back home at about 10:15 PM, find a place to eat (usually Ramen, or some sort of Don, or curry), then go home and get home at about 11:00ish, maybe a little bit earlier... AND then repeat the next day :).... well, you don't really feel like writing a blog :D haha.

But! It's the weekend, and I'm not doing a whole bunch this weekend... so here you go.
First of all, pictures!!! Lots of em! Go look in the Tokyo folder, and you'll find many new pics of Sakura Tree's blossoming (お花見, or ohanami). Next of all, Gunma! Yes! I went to Gunma a few weeks ago with my 2 good Japanese guy friends... or rather, I met them there... since that's there home place. Then we have Chiba, two new panoramic pics from my phone there. And then I've added a folder for Kanagawa prefecture. Which is just south of Tokyo, with Yokohama (and Ichigao, my work place ), along with many other beautiful places. Two pictures were added there.

So! お花見! ohanami. A time when millions and millions and millions of Japanese and 外国人 (gaikokujin, or foriengers) come and see the Cherry Blossoms (Sakura, 桜) bloom. It was a very nice and beautiful thing :). Everyone goes to big parks usually with their companies or friends for a 飲み会 (nomikai, which directly translates as Drinking Meeting, but really means drinking party.) Yes, you are allowed to drink in public anywhere in Japan. So that was fun :). We had some other foriegners from Holland join us. They were just visiting Japan.

In gunma, I was basically just showed around Gunma a bunch from Kohei and Kenta, my two best Japanese male friends. We went to an Onsen though! ahhhh, those are always wonderful. No pictures of the onsen.... which might be good... haha, but there are lots of pics from elsewhere. :)

My job is going very well. I am enjoying it very much and can see myself staying there and trying to advance myself a long way inside of it. I quite look forward to the future now :).