small matter

One thing that amazed ne during my brief stay here is the working culture of the japanese. The japanese is very serious with their work. It is amazing how meticulous they are to their task, however small it is.

In the train station, I can see the middle-aged men picking up litter that were accidentally dropped by commuters. I can see the train machinist is very serious with his duty. I can see my colleague could sit on the chair and analyse everything carefully. I can see everyone do their jobs well. virtue!!…

I think it is a calibre that is hard to find and hard to bit. They are polite and never think there is any task too small. I speak for the majority here, off course not all are like that.

That is also one thing I am learning here. Nothing is actually too small!

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errr.. so today is just another day…

Yeah.. this is life. Today is my birthday, errr do I have to repeat that? anyway, it is just another ordinary day, I go to work and struggling to keep awake. Arrgghhh… I really need to find out the reason for my drowsiness. Is it in the gene? All my family members fall asleep easily…  hmmm

Work is ok, but I think I have started to feel the stress. After a month here, it seems I have come to a steady state, the damping has come to a minimum. Unlike the last few weeks  where I was energetic, now I am thinking to settle in and live a normal life. It is gonna be hard as friends would love to travel all over Japan. I am not that much into travelling, I love to join clubs, know other people and learn new things. I need some balance.

This month, november, we are already planning to visit Nikko and Hakone that means, 2 weekends are taken. The other few, I will use them to meet friends who come to japan for biz trip and holiday.,., arrrgghhh.. I need more time…

Ok, back to the life here. I need to work harder actually. Despite I do the work well, it is still not enough. Sigh…. Definitely, I need to spend more time to read technical stuff, otherwise my design skills and exposure will not suffice to meet the demand of today’s market. The issue here is, do I need to go all out? It takes time… or should I use the time for other important matter?…

Err,, I side-tracked again. Today, I spent sometime to fill in the form to order electronic dictionary online. I can’t read kanji, thus, I use google translate to figure out the requirements. Gosh.. it takes hours… Finally, I made it. However, I have yet pressed the confirm button when my friend is suggesting another PDA which is multi-functional but it comes at a higher cost. Arrggghh.. confused again. Which one I should buy? I am giving myself another week to think.

Tonight, I skipped my japanese class as I went out with friends to celebrate my birthday. It is strange as we are new friends. =)… But I guess, in the foreign land, we need to care for each other as we do not have anyone else.. Anyway, I am thankful for them, my birthday is not that lonely… …

I also received some greetings from other friends in spore and my brother and sis… heheh.. long time have not heard from him.. Yeah,,.. we do not really keep in touch.. errr… but welll… we still talk much whenever we met.. =)…

ok, that is all..