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I got Valentine’s day Chocolate from my Girlfriend!  I’m so happy. :-)  It’s a box from Kobe Morozoff.  The company that brought Valentine’s Day to Japan.

I need to work double hard now to work off the calories.  f^_^;

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The EM D01NE is a (I think) HSDPA PCMCIA card. The driver for the modem comes with Ubuntu 7.04 (Maybe before). I get about 2Mbps from it (max is 3.8).

Getting this setup in Ubuntu is easier than getting it setup with Windows. The only gotcha is that you have to install Gnome-PPP ( Read more... )

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For the benefit of the Internet, the key combination Control+Shift+Hiragana_Katakana puts the keyboard to and from the qwerty layout. Unfortunately the story doesn’t end there. Control+Shift+Hiragana_Katakana actually alternates between half-width katakana layout and qwerty layout ( Read more... )

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Well, it’s been a really long time since I’ve written an entry but I’ll try to get everyone up to speed about what I’ve been up to in the last few months.

The biggest news is that I’ve been accepted to do an internship at Matsushita (The parent company of Panasonic) for 6 months. It ( Read more... )

Today I made myself a chicken curry rice so good I nearly had a Yakitate Japan style reaction!

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This post is all in Japanese this time.


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This post is all in Japanese this time.

Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Miss Japan Chibana Kurara今日ミス ユーニバスというビューティ パーゲント行われた。今度のMiss Japan （知花くらら）がめっちゃ美人です。 結果はMiss Puerto Rico（Zuleyka Rivera)が勝って、二番目が知花さんでした。日本の方がもっときれいで、頭よくて（スペイン語、フランス語，英語も話せる）、ドレスも素敵だと思い ます。 何点でPuerto Ricoが勝ったか分からない。（＞＿ ( Read more... )

Today I went to the mall for lunch because I can only stand Subway for so long.  The mall in Carolina had a Little Tokyo restaurant in it.  The signs showed a really good looking Chicken Katsu and Sukiyaki combo, but when I went to order all they had was Chicken Teriyaki and other staple Chinese foods. :( I was so dissapointed!  I want sukiyaki ( Read more... )

Well, since I've finally found some free time I've decided to post some results (of one of those personality tests) that I stumbled upon when I was reading Haruna's blog. You can take it at Love type check!Here are my results ( Read more... )

It's no secret that people compliment your misrable attempts to speak their language all the time. Usually these compliments are straight forward, like "お上手ですね" ("Your Japanese is really good!"), which usually means more like "Hang in there!". There's also the surprise comment where you are better at their language than they expected these are ( Read more... )