thesis adventure over (hopefully)

Finally, my adventure in the thesis/final year project-world is over.

I did my thesis presentation yesterday, and although I didn’t have an easy time dealing with questions from the department professors, I am glad that I didn’t lose any of my vital organs and I am happy to announce here that I survived my dealings with those pack of vicious Japanese university professors!

I’m just joking; they’re actually quite nice compared to the other professors on other groups, as I was told.

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It has been a harsh 2 weeks for me.

I’ve not eaten very well, and have successfully lost about 3-4 kgs in body-weight during this 2 week period. That’s another proof that if you really work hard, you could actually lose weight, so to those who wants to lose weight fast, just work really, really hard, and constantly forget to eat properly for a better effect.

Not to forget to sleep just 4 hours a day. 6 hours maximum.

Then just watch your weight go down effectively!

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Anyways, I am now free from my thesis, and the only thing that I need to do right now that concerns my degree is to wait for the graduation day.

Yay and Alhamdulillah!

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Anyways, I am not totally free yet, because I got tons of things to do first before going back to Malaysia for a quick holiday.

First off tomorrow, I need to meet with the head department professor to discuss with him about who would be best as my guarantor in Japan when I start working here.

Then on the afternoon, I’m going to the immigration with syazi and syaira to renew/extend our visa. At the moment, my alien card described me as a ‘collage student’. I’m trying to change that label into ‘engineer’.

That’s going to be so cool.

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Then this coming weekend, us senpais (seniors) are going to held a simple makan-makan party to commemorate our coming graduation. We called it 送別会 (soubetsukai).

Then after that, starting from monday next week, I have just 3 days to excel in my Japanese driving license's test and finally get a damn Japanese driving license already!, before my flight to Malaysia this 19th of Feb.

I hope my plans went smooth.

as smooth as akiyama rina's ***.

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Right now, I felt very weird to NOT have to think about my thesis.

It is a good, weird feeling.

I’m pretty happy at the moment.

:)

sikit je lagi

yesterday i finished writing my thesis (finalized draft).

at last.

today i ate the hokke-shio-yaki bento as lunch.

i'm also planning to send my thesis draft to my professor today.

i hope my japanese grammar on that paper would be fine.

i hope he would OK'ed the paper, and let me start to really focus on doing slides for the presentation and also notes on what to speak.

the day after tomorrow, i'm sending the final version of my thesis paper to the department office.

1 year worth of work.

i'm feeling the heat of the end here.

i'm exhausted.

but i just have to push myself.

just little bit more.
GRAVURE SPOILER

Akiyama Rina is tired of standing, and we want her to be tired

thesis writing and old japanese nurses

At last, my professor is satisfied with the results of the latest experimental addition to my research material, and finally approved of me to go ahead and finalize all the experiment data accumulated, so that I could wrap my mind around my thesis and start writing it.

At last, I didn’t have to go through those repetitively tedious experiments anymore, and focus more on what is important; that is critical thinking and constructed assumption through proven data.

At last, I could start harvesting fruits from my efforts.

I know I’m going to be busier the next 11 days, but this is not a time to whine.

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Anyways, yesterday I went to Nakatsu Health Clinic to go through a required medical check up that my (future) company asked all their 新人社員 (new employees) to go through.

I arrived at the clinic 15 minutes earlier than my appointment, and I went straight to the 受付カウンター (reception counter).

“ Ah, Muhamado Taufikku Ari San, we have been expecting you. Now take this cup and piss in it, please…”

I hate urine test, but I got no other choice.

The urine cup they gave me is actually quite interesting though, because at the bottom of the cup, it had blue marks, like a bull’s-eye, so that the pisser could target his piss into the cup correctly.

Anyways, I pissed long and hard that even the big cup couldn’t hold all of my piss together, and some of it got spilled and the cup got messy. I pity the nurse that’s going to take my cup, because it is all wet… and warm.

Sorry :p

Then I went through the usual routines, blood tests, height and weight, hearing and seeing ability, lung capacity, cardio-magna-electric test etc.

Anyways, if you haven’t known already, I have a weird fetish for Japanese nurses; and I can’t tell you how excited I am to meet real life nurses.

But through yesterday’s experience, I have found something else about my fetish for Japanese nurses; it only applies to ‘young and pretty’ nurses only.

The nurses in the clinic are mostly in their late 30s or 40s, and I didn’t felt the same excitement that I have with nurses in their 20s.

Anyways, I don’t know whether I’m exaggerating the situation or not, but I think this one old nurse (maybe in her late 40s) who is taking care of me through out the whole process, tries her every chance to touch me.

I am dead serious.

Like when I need to take off my clothes for the cardiovascular routine, she tries to do it for me, kinda in a forceful way. I was like “hey I can take my clothes off by myself!” but she insisted to do it.

And as I lie half-naked on the bed exposed to the dangerous eyes and wrinkly hands of the old Japanese nurse, she keeps tapping my chest, stomach, arms and legs; saying that she is trying to find the right ‘spot’ to stick the sensors.

I know I might be exaggerating this, but I seriously think that the touching is overly done, because I actually felt uncomfortable.

Then when I went to see the doctor to check my lungs, once again she lifts up my shirt, like I can’t do it by myself!

Well, of course, if the nurse is a pretty young nurse with an innocent smile, I won’t mind the excessive touching, at all. In fact, I would even pay her to touch my other body-parts… but this is an old lady with a make-up like a geisha that I’m referring to here.

Anyways, these kinds of traumatic experiences could have a dire effect on one's emotional stability, as being proven by studies performed on those sexually abused in the past. So to prevent such horrible acts of inhumanity to ever be forced upon my helpless body (and mind) ever again, next time I'm getting a medical check-up, I will make it my utmost priority to make sure that the clinic that I chose to have the medical check-up routine, would have an ample supply of young, pretty and hot nurses.

I’m a sensitive person.

:)

NURSE GRAVURE 18YRS AND UP ONLY

thesis crisis in the lab

But Prof, this is madness!

Total madness!

I’ve finished all of my experiments and simulations required to start writing my thesis because I have all the data that I need, so I went to see the Prof. to inform him about my research status, and this is basically what he said.

O you finished earlier than expected, but I think you can add more to the thesis by researching this OTHER stuff etc. Now go on and if you can, please try to finish it up before Monday.

I was like… ok…. WHAT???

Suddenly, my work load is HIGH again.

Damn it, this means I won’t be having enough sleep this weekend.


Heck, I might as well be sleeping in the LAB.

But I guess this is better than slacking off without any important things to do.

頑張れ、俺！

GRAVURE SPOILER

busy mizzy

don't really have the time to write.

or made any update to this blog.

i'm pretty busy with finishing up my final year project.

k tanks ;)

*it started to snow like it's the end of the world here in Akita.

i'm cold...

of breaking locks, japanese kids and UNIX

Today I went to the nearest bicycle shop near the university to get help in cutting the locks on my bike. Yes, I lost the darn keys and the only solution to the problem is to get the locks cut at a bike shop because that is the only place where they have the special cutting tools to get the job done.

The bike shop is owned by an old war veteran who used to serve in the pacific battles of World War 2. While he works on my bike, he told me a little bit about the war.

He served in Saipan as a combat personnel and he told me that he was considered lucky to have survived Saipan because a lot of his buddies died serving there. He also has friends who served in Malaya and he told me that a lot of the guys who served in Malaya survived; unlike in other battles.

I didn’t have the courage to ask him「鬼畜米兵を殺したことある？」

- Have you killed any Kichiku Beihei?

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As I was looking at him working on my locks while telling stories about the war, this one little boy, maybe around 2-3 years old, come up to me, and asked 「ママどこ？」

Mama, doko? = Where’s Mommy?

I was like woo where does this boy came from? So I asked him about his mother, and he replied 「じてんしゃ」

Jitensha = Bicycle

Probably his mom brought him somewhere around here by bike, but I can’t really help. The war vet is also clueless. So he called his wife to deal with it. I don’t know where his wife took that little boy, but I hope he found his mom safely.

Anyways, that boy is so freaking cute. Japanese kids are very cute! That made me want to have my own Japanese kids hehehe.

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鬼畜米兵　- Kichiku Beihei is what the Japanese used to call the American Army during the war. It means ' The Fucking American Army Devils/Demons'. But now, people don't really have a strong sentiment against the American Army, except in Okinawa of course. The Americans have a huge military base in Okinawa, and there is a lot of activists in Okinawa who opposes the base because of the many rape and murder cases commited against innocent school girls there. These animals rape and killed its victims, then quickly return to base to hide from Japanese law.

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Moving on, I now have to try to get used to this new unix operating system that I have to use for the next 3-4 months.

The reason for this is because the theme of my thesis has changed dramatically, the machines that I’m going to work on has also changed and the new simulation software that I’m going to use is only going to work on Unix systems.

The simulations that I’m going to perform are going to be pretty processor heavy, because it requires the system to perform mathematical calculations while trying to display the results in real-time graphics.

That means the system depends a lot of graphic processors to help the CPU. The problem is, I try to update the drivers for the graphic processors to the latest ones so that when I was not working or just taking a break, I could surf the media-heavy internet and also watch videos in a smoother fashion. The real problem is that when I updated the drivers, it interferes with the simulation program, fucking up the real-time graphics simulation.

So this means that when I want to work, I have to boot up Unix using the default drivers that won’t support the recent video playbacks and the media-heavy internet.

When I want to take a break, surf the net or maybe watch some videos, I have to re-boot to Windows with the new driver that support multi-media features.

This going back and forth between operating systems is freaking me out! I want to be able to watch Akiyama Rina’s gravure DVDs while I work on my simulations!!!

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Eikura Nana

interim-presentation done (^.^)

It’s November the 20th, the morning sun is shining brightly, and yes, I’m still breathing.

I did the interim-presentation yesterday, and thankfully, I could walk out of that presentation room without any physical or mental injury.

It was not as bad as I expected.

Of course, I could’ve done it better if I was not sniffing all the time and not stutter when presenting; but in the end I’m so glad that it was over.

And I even took a video while I was presenting.

A note about the video: The first minute of it is in total darkness because I forgot to take it out from my pocket. I took the video just so that I could review my own presentation and hopefully improve upon my presentation skills.

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And I don’t think anyone should look at it because, who wants to hear me talk about a subject as boring as molecular kinetics in phase transition (分子動力学による相転移)?

Anyways, with the presentation done, now I have a little freedom to do what I like this weekend. I’d probably spend the whole weekend indoors because it’s already snowing and I don’t want to be outside in the cold.

I can finally start reading the Idiot’s Guide to Street Magic that I bought some time ago at a bargain price from Amazon.

I can also try to finish playing Dead Space and hopefully Rainbow Six Vegas 2. Or I can start a new Fallout 3 game and this time, maybe I’ll try something new by playing an evil female character with maximum strength and minimum intelligence.

I got tons and tons of new movies to play catch up with. It’s been a week since I’ve watched any movies, and that is rare because I normally watch one movie a day.

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Alhamdulillah, satu masalah dah selesai. Baik aku berenti menulis untuk hari ini, pegi solat Zohor kat umah Faiz, pastu tolong jadi bahan experiment Shazy. Chiao!

Reveal Gravure Of The Day

interim-presentation morning (*.*)

Today is going to be the day that I do the interim-presentation that I mentioned in my previous post. I really don’t know how this will turn out, but I guess I should just be prepared for the worst.

Although without any guidance and revision from my professor, I hope I’ve prepared a decent presentation that won’t get me killed by the other vicious department professors attending the presentation.

Anyways, one of my lab partners, who also didn’t get the opportunity to have his preparation for the presentation checked by the professor, is going nuts at the moment. He’s like o shit what should I be doing now!?

He is freaking out more than I do, and that kinda irks me.

He is a NATIVE JAPANESE speaker, so it’s going to be so much easier for him to do the presentation than me. I’m the foreign student here dude, and I don’t speak Japanese as awesome as you!

At times like these, I really feel that doing engineering in Japanese is kinda hard compared to doing it in English; I am once more being faced with a language barrier.

But I’ve walk over that barrier many, many times, so why should this be any harder? 

My lab partner should really chill the fuck down though, ‘coz him being nervous is making ME nervous. Ok, I'm really contradicting my self here but I’m not trying to say that he is having it easier than me, with him being Japanese and all, but come on! Sometimes shit are fucked up and didn’t go exactly as planned, so just deal with it like a man.

I got 5 more hours to go . . . . . 

and oh, it started to snow this morning. so begin the winter season. i'm already getting cold feet.

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Akiyama Rina trying to seduce herself

Thesis Crisis of The Weekend

I woke up this morning to the sound of my cellphone buzzing.

YOU GOT MAIL

受信メールが届いています

It was from my research professor, so I know that this will be an important one because he normally sends emails ONLY when there is something really necessary to be informed; but this time I was not prepared at all for this particular email.

My professor’s father died last night, and today he is going back to his hometown in Kyoto to take care of it. Rest In Peace.

He also said in the mail that he is taking a brief break and probably will not be in Akita until next week.

I was really sad to hear this, but then I realized that I should be more shocked, worried and sad even more:

I was supposed to meet him tomorrow (Monday) so that I could present him my preparations for the coming thesis interim-presentation on Wednesday. The objective of the meeting is to make sure that the decisions and choices that I made in preparation for the presentation is in-line with his visions about the thesis; and also to check the flow of the whole presentation, confirm the data and simulation method, and also my Japanese grammar.

But now with him not being able to make the meeting, I am left to check and fool-proof my own work, which is very difficult for me to do at this point because I just got the theme of the thesis 2 weeks ago, therefore not acquiring enough knowledge and intellectual skills to do it myself.

I’m kinda fucked here.

Ok, it might not be as bad, but what worries me is not the presentation, but the ‘questioning time’ AFTER the presentation. I’m worried that the other professors, who are going to attend the presentation, are going to torture me with sarcastic critics on how half-assed my ideas were and how terrible the presentation was.

Having to do the presentation without first consulting with my research professor, I really have lost confidence to perform well, presenting and answering questions correctly. Japanese professors are pretty vicious when it comes to criticizing student’s presentations. They will rip and tear you apart if you make a dumb mistake, and that will really make you ‘down’.

Ah! Enough with the whining! I can do this! I've been in worse conditions before so bring it on bitches!

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On the other hand, I’m so disappointed in myself at how bad I handle the death of the people of the people that I know. I really have a problem on what to say to them at these sad times. I really want them to know that I felt sorry for them, but I lack the proper social skills to tell them my feeling. This is because I’m always concerned that I might have a slip of the tongue and totally make it worse for him/her.

I really don’t know about what is the proper response that I should give my research professor. If anyone out there has an idea, please share it with me. Should I call him? Should I just send my condolences through email? What should I say? I'm really clueless and lost here

:(

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After thinking carefully about what I'm going to write, finally I have decided to send the professor something simple. This is what I sent him:

突然の訃報にただ驚いています。心より御冥福をお祈りいたします。中間発表は頑張ってやりますので、心配しないで下さい。それでは失礼します。

At first, I was going to sent him something that I later realized as being too 'formal and native' for a foreigner to write. Something like this:

突然の訃報にただ驚いております。どうかご遺族の皆様 もお気持ちを強く持って、お力をお落としになりません よう、ご自愛下さいませ。心より御冥福をお祈りいたし ます。

I hope everything will be fine with his family.

And also my interim-presentation.

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setsumeikai in tokiyo

i'm going to tokyo again tonight to attend yet another company briefing.

the headquarter of the company is in kanagawa prefecture but they choose to do the briefing in tokyo because the company just bought a huge space in the japanese times building at tamachi.

there is going to be yet another aptitude and creativity test after the briefing. i gotta be sharp for that.

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today at the lab, we set up login accounts into the university's mathematica workstation, and for the first time were able to test the codes that we wrote before to test wether the computer understands our amateurish coding skills.

i just don't understand why should we go through all the hassle of using unix just to operate a fortran calculation. that operating system is super user-UNfriendly!

bunken happyou

alhamdulillah the presentation went smooth.

well... maybe it did not went exactly like i wanted it to ran.

i happened to forgot to set the stupid automatic progress function off; so the program changes the slides automatically after a short period of time. that was so clumsy of me.

at least i didn't get scolded as bad as okada-kun did.

man, i pity him. he made a little mistake for not using the pointer effectively, and got scolded big time by this one particularly cranky professor.

the very second the ruthless scolding moment stopped, everybody in the room went silent. probably the professor had a bad day, and lashed out on something so small.

he's just out of luck, i guess.

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ok, now i got more time to focus on doing the mathematica programming language fortran. i think i'm kinda left behind in progress compared to the other kids in the research lab. i used to do C++ before, so i guess it wouldn't be that hard to play catch up.

i also have to prepare for the coming job-interview. this time i will have to sit for an aptitude test (適性試験） plus a 'weird' imagination test　（想像力試験）. anything they'd to to make an interviewee's life a little bit more nervous.

cheeky bastards.

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lunch menu for the day: 六条麦茶（rokujyou mugi cha - rokujyo barley tea), さば弁当 (saba bentou - mackerel lunch set), 野菜生活１００紫の野菜 (murasaki no yasai - purple veggie drink), glico's とろーりクリームプリン (torori kurimu purin - thick creamy pudding).

itadakimashita! (gochisousamadeshita - nagano style)

praktis present

aku start buat slide untuk presentation dari pukul 10:00 a.m.

garu sana, garu sini.

siap pukul 7:00 p.m.

so aku ajak la memba2 satu lab untuk tengok presentation punya rehearsal.

10 minit 32 saat. takde la terlebih limit masa pon.

pastu aku tanya diaorg: so, ada apa2 kesalahan? atau nak komen apa2?

" ok, nak start dari mana dulu. mula2 kan, ada penggunaan kanji yg tak betul. bukan tak betul, cuma bunyi tak best aje. pastu kat bahagian isotope tu, baik jangan pakai kanji, pakai katakana aje, lagi senang org faham. bla bla bla "

seribu satu komen, pembetulan, idea di lontarkan.

ooo nampak nya diaorg nih memang betul2 tengok ngan teliti la presentation aku nih. ingatkan tengok - tengok ayam aje. org jepun nih memang semangat aje all the time.

" bercakap pon kena practice lagi, biar bagi lancar sket. biar bunyi macam org jepun. pronunciation dah ok dah, cuma kelancaran aje yg masih bunyi mcam foreigner "

allo, aku memang foreigner pon.

kulit sawo matang.

hitam manis, kalo ikut kata peminat aku time form 3 dulu.

hehehehe.

pastu pegi panggil prof plak, untuk last check.

" hmmm..... banyak gak kena betul kan nih. lagi penting drpd tu, kamu faham tak teori yg sum frequency generation spectroscopy nih pakai? contact-mode atomic force microscopy nih penah pakai? continuum mechanics ada faham? "

aku geleng kepala. toleh tengok memba2 aku yg sedap aje mengomen aku tadi, diaorg pon geleng kepala.

" ok la kita start dari basic. high school physics. dulu penah buat experiment pecah kan cahaya pakai slit kan? wavelength berbeza ... friction nih kena kira sampai scala nano ... zarah2 nih serap cahaya, tukar kepada tenaga translational kinetic pastu pantul balik jadi haba ... perbezaan friction bole dikesan diantara berlian yg disaluti layer hydrogen ngan deuterium ... bla bla bla "

aku rasa tak penah aku dapat sebanyak ini ilmu dalam masa 3 jam. memang power la prof aku! senang2 aje dia citer subject yg major dalam materials enggineering, sedang kan dia mechanical enggineering punya prof. berasap gak otak aku nak proses sumer information nih.

dah la aku rasa kena tipu ngan cikgu fizik dulu2. teori nak cari friction yg diajar time skolah dulu tak tepat rupanya, kalo nak ambik kira luas dalam skala nano. aku makin faham sekarang kenapa dulu kita kena terima aje result yg padat ngan ralat.

3 jam jugak aku tahan berak. fuuh memang mencabar.

tengok jam kat dinding. pukul 10:30 malam. gilak ah.

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makan tengahari untuk hari ni: 黒豆黒茶(kuromame kurocha - black bean's black tea), Kagome 紫の野菜(murasaki no yasai - purple veggie), 鮭弁当(shake bento - salmon set), クリームカニコロッケ(kuri-mu kani korokke - creamy crab croquette)

uwaa banyok kijo la pulok

- my presentation for the thesis-translation is next week. i'm scratching my head trying to decide on which portion of the thesis that are going to the chopping block department, because it's humanly impossible to present each and everything in 10 minutes. some parts of the stupid thesis must go into the digital dustbin and never be spoken of during presentation day.

- i'm making powerpoint slides for the presentation like crazy! my head is burning.

- today is the due date for the ロボット工学 (robotic engineering) assignment.

- tomorrow is the due date for the 制御工学 (system engineering) assignment.

- the day after tomorrow is the due date for the 環境科学 (environmental science) assignment.

- the day after the day after tomorrow is the due date for me to find the guy who invented the idea of assignments in universities. At first I would extend my hand for a friendly handshake, then when he turns his back on me, I’ll bash his head with a crowbar after i slit his throat. Then I’ll go to his house carrying his decapitated head so that he could see me abusing her 16 years old daughter with an oven-heated banana and 3 sticks of japanese cucumber (キュウリ-kyuri). I’ll sell his young wife as a sex slave to rich pak arabs. Or maybe as sweatshop slaves in China, making nike shoes in poor working environment. I am an opportunist, so I’ll sell his 4 and 10 years old sons to american christian priests, or micheal jackson; the highest bidder wins.

- inappropriately sick jokes aside, you can see i'm pretty busy this week. Next week i got several seminars to attend to, and also the 固体力学 (solid-mass mechanics?) assignment to be delivered.

- although i thought it was over-rated, i bought the 2008 akiyama rina calender. got it yesterday. now i know that i'm so easily deceived by women with beautiful skin plus a nice set of buns. damn it! i remember talking to Tazz about the importance of the quality of cost-effectiveness when considering a product to purchase. this shows that i'm a hypocrite. what a shame. 1300yen down the drain. but i still think oshirina has nice skin complexion and her momo fruit is just juicy to look at.

- i better get back to the powerpoint slides. time is gold. and i'm pissing blood.

- i'm sleeping in the research lab for 7 days straight, starting from today. its inevitable.

the adventure of the job hunter continues

After failing the Alpine interview, I know that I don’t have much time to be disappointed and all; I have to move on to the next step!

So without wasting time, I went to K. Sensei once again to ask for his recommendation to my next target: Daihatsu Motors located in Osaka. I already promised Tsubasa to try for a Daihatsu interview IF I flunked Alpine.

He immediately called the human resource department of the company, but I’m already out of luck: they have closed the opening because they have already filled up all the available positions for (future) fresh graduates.

So I kinda freaked out for a second, and then move on to do research on other available companies. Two went straight into my line of sights: Isuzu and TCM. Isuzu is a bus, jeep, big-ass-vehicles maker while TCM makes industrial vehicles.

Out of the two, I decided to go with TCM because they don’t have pre-exams in their interview process, unlike Isuzu. The other reason is because I think making industrial vehicles like HUGE tractors are way cooler than making buses.

I’m out of luck again. By the telephone call that K. Sensei made, they’re really skeptical about taking in a foreigner. Of course they don’t say that they don’t want foreigners, but you can just feel the vibe of not-welcome-ness to gaijins. After exchanging opinions with K. Sensei, both of us have agreed that TCM is not for me. I better find other Japanese companies that are more gaijin friendly.

So I went home with a bunch of lists of Japanese companies that has a more open policy to foreign workers. Man, it’s really hard to choose. Went home, and I got a FedEx document from Malaysia. I never got a FedEx before. Opened the documents and I was kinda surprised: it’s from P*r*d*a, the Daihatsu-backed Ma*a*sian car maker! And I was offered a job as an engineer!

I forgot. I still got Konica-Minolta and P*r*d*a as backup!

So I took a deep breath, and look at the lists more carefully. Then I have decided to try this plastic parts maker located in Kanagawa. The pay was quite good (210000yen), they have a manufacturing plant in Malaysia, and they’re very open to foreigners!

So the next day, I went to K. Sensei again, and asked him to write a recommendation letter. I posted all the necessary documents to the company (that I’m not going to say its name here, for a lot of reasons) yesterday, and all I gotta to do now is wait for an answer, and practice the SPI tests and do some math exercises.
I’m also busy doing the 外国文献 (gaikokubunken – foreign thesis?), translating English journal/thesis made by foreign researchers (I got the thesis from a team of researchers from Swiss) to Japanese. The original English thesis is already extremely hard to understand, how in the world would I be able to translate such mind-numbing journals into perfect Japanese?

Thank God I have the Japanese-English digital dictionary/translator Fujitsu’s ATLAS; the software really helped me a LOT. I only wished that the Swiss team would write their thesis using more grammatically correct English. Well, they’re not native English speakers, so I guess it cannot be helped.

I’m scheduled to present the translated thesis next week (2nd July). I’ve already finished translating; right now I’m doing the powerpoint slides and the presentation’s text-aide. I also have presentation practices to prepare. But most of all, I have to read the thesis over and over and over again, because I still don’t understand what kind of experiments the Swiss team has done and what are the benefits of their boring research. Not a slightest fucking idea. Nanoscale Friction Varied by Isotopic Shifting of Surface Vibrational Frequencies. What the fuck is that?

Changing topic.

Today I ate the 390yen shake bento from grandmart, again; accompanied with the new okinawa vitamin water drink and the oh so rich and creamy glico's torori cream pudding. awesome.
footnote:

1) Alpine does not involve in any production of paper. Alpine makes audio-visual electronics for consumer cars, and also GPS-based navigational system. So, Syazi, Alpine nih bukan nya kilang buat kertas. Mahu pun kilang buat jagung bakar. Ataupon air soya.

2) Gaijin (外人) is an abbreviation of gaikokujin (外国人) which means foreigner; or an outsider. In recent times, the word has become regarded by some as exclusionary or derogatory and thus offensive; most japanese tv broadcasters avoided using this word and prompt to use the full 'gaikokujin' phrase instead. Common Japanese people though, would use this word widely to refer to foreigners, but only behind their backs. So if you're not Japanese and a Japanese is calling you a 'gaijin', that means he/she have no respect for you and is verbally assaulting your sorry gaijin ass.