I and Fun outside the lab

#1 What both of you doing there?

One way to relax from the stressful lab works.

Baseball in front of the lab.



By the way, it is 8pm. Senpais will be staying overnight to continue their work. There are no rules on staying for the night. I was once told that one of the senpai did not went back home for 3 days focus into his thesis. I might be like him by next year.

Biochemistry work. Long waiting hours.

Oh yes, I did join the game.

They better not find out about this blog. Especially our prof. We played after he left.

I and the SEAL

#1 A seal inside its peaceful box

No, No, No...

I do not meant that the armies are after me now.

A seal is a tool we used to stamp our names on official papers be it in business or official duties. The hand-written signatures are rarely used in Japan. In Japanese, we called it `inkan`, 印鑑.

My inkan has lost its quality. It is already 3 years old. I would not complaint much since I got it for 1000yen. Expected that it would not last long enough with its cheap quality. I realized that the end of year is near and I will need a clean and new inkan for sorts of documents.

#2 The perfect tool?

So I went to the nearest home center to make my order. Of course, the home center will not be making for me but will be getting somebody to do it for me. Normally it will take around a week.

The price of ordering a good and affordable seal? 3,500yen (RM132!?).

#3 An inkan

Since I am a gaijin, things get complicated.

A Chinese-Malaysian myself and obviously have my own Chinese name. But the kanji name of mine does not match my English name in my passport which I need to choose between Katakana or alphabet.

Since I have a 4 letter alphabet English surname while my name should exceed the area of the seal, I would loved to use my surname in alphabets. But most manufacturers could only insert three letters inside the area.

In the first place, I ordered the Katakana style.

After making my order and telling them my requests, they took my order. To make things easier for them, I drew a few sketches of the inkan i wished for. I expected that there will be difficulties in making my inkan.

They gave me calls as expected.

1st call,
"Do you want it in alphabets? We found somebody who could insert alphabets into your inkan and he could could insert 4 alphabet letters into your inkan, interested?"

2nd call,
"Do you want it to be arranged in horizontal or vertical with the 4 letter alphabet you told us before this?"

I should admit that the person in charge should get everything in order before making a call to me.

Let us make a point here...

For many reasons, Japanese service.

Salute!

I got my desired inkan in a week.

Oh yes, anybody want my autograph?

I and the Rain

#1 Cold Rain

It's raining men.

Hallejulah.

It's raining men.

Amen.

Ok, enough with the singing. I just could not sing it in winter. Worst, I hate karaokes.

It has been raining in these few days and thanks to it, it is getting brrrr..... coldddddd.

Now the temperature dropped to 8℃. Brrrr... colddddddd... freeezzzziiiinggg....

The autumn leaves has been swept away by the rain. Leaving the leafless trees. Snow has started to fall in Hokkaido. Some OL I know in Sapporo told me about it. A little jealous about the place she is living now.

Back there, I will never hold a umbrella even if it rains. The reason, troublesome. I would never hold an umbrella even if it rains while cycling 5km to school(those days). Its normal and standard.

But here, if you do not hold one, they will look at you soaking yourself under the rain as seem as you are from the house of retarded.

But seriously it is a trouble to have so much stuffs to bring with me. The Japanese girls here have much more heavier bags and some are over 3kg.

I wonder if it will snow in Tokyo this December. It only snow in Tokyo by early February.