Merry Christmas!

I wish you all Merry Christmas and a Colorful Happy New Year!

New year postcard sent to Isayama sensei
Vercy|ÜD, pencil, original design by .Farbrausch

The first semester has ended meaning that some of my friends are leaving Yamasa. Departures are always sad, though we tried to make them as cheerful as we could. The left picture is of the G class. The right picture is the gang I used to hang out with most of the time. I already miss you all!

 

Thanks to Yui (right picture, first row, first girl on the right) I was introduced to the Takada family that she visited during her Japanese home visit. I am really grateful for this. I think they are what we call good people.

Lately I was busy with installing the components that I bought myself as a Christmas present. I set my network wireless once again. If there was a statistics for "How many network routers do you buy a year?" I think I would finish at a fairly good position. The only difference for now is that it I am running on 302.11n (300MBps WIFI) because that was the cheapest! Yeah I know ... this is Japan.

I hacked a reading lamp for my top bunk so that I do not annoy my roommate if I happen to read till late. Not like it is a realistic situation that I go to bed later than him. He usually goes to bed well after 2 AM ;) The thing is that my territory begins to resemble the typical Vercy-ish look: lots of wires everywhere.

I received a lot of complaints about my voice and video quality in Skype. This was the courtesy of the built-in camera and mic of my new laptop. I am happy to inform you that I moved to the next level with a 3MP camera and a decent mic. So now it is really up to your bandwidth :P

At the moment I am spending the winter break which is 3 weeks at Yamasa. The dormitory is very quite providing a perfect chance for improving my skills undisturbed. Having the WIFI and the bunk lamp installed I can really focus on learning. Let's hope my enthusiasm won't fade before the end of the break...

... and again. Merry Christmas to you all!

Long time no see! - Updated picasa album

It has been a while since my last post. Lots of things were happening lately and I simply did not have the time to put them into words. My life is getting complicated as usually. This should be familiar to people who actually know me ;)

I apologize for not been available the week before. The theory of lower quality technological goods being sold in Europe seems to have reached me. My Dell XPS 1330 had been malfunctioning ever since coming to Japan so it was not as surprising as inconvenient that it eventually stopped working for good (the video chip is fried). I bought a new machine to able to continue my life. Acer Aspire 1410 Asian model - same price double speed. Thanks Santa!

Last weekend I finally took my exam. I usually only remember the parts that I screwed up so there is no telling of the results until they actually arrive which is going to be next February. This does not mean that I will decrease the learning time but quite the contrary. I feel like I have to get through the learning period as quickly as possible so that I can actually get advantage of the knowledge.

I am also nearing the end of my first term here in Okazaki. It has been fun! I have a class full of interesting and funny people to hang out with. Although it is somewhat sad I really do plan to keep in touch with the people I have met. I am also proud to present the article that I wrote in the school's newspaper.

As a final accord I present the pictures taken last week at the Eastern park of Okazaki.