ダニエルの冒険

I went to the au shop again today and started going through all the forms to get a phone sorted out, but in the end they wouldn’t give me one as my alien registration has “short term” on it. This means I’ll be leaving some time within the next 90 days, and au won’t issue a contract to anyone who is here for less than 90 days. I left the shop a little deflated and decided to head right, instead of left towards home to burn some time. I knew the cinema was more or less that direction too so I wanted to find that, so I used the time for a walk in that general direction. I passed an enormous bookshop and headed in and walked around a bit. They had games, stationery, books, and books and more books. I exited through another door and entered into the open area of a very spacious mall. I walked past an au/DoCoMo/Softbank stand and decided to try my luck with the young girl there. (That sounds dodgy. I mean try my luck getting a phone). (more…)

I went to Zig Zag about 30 minutes before the ceremony started and ate a delicious ham and cheese toasted sandwich, prepared for me by the lovely Junko-san. Yumi-san, a lady working in the Student Services office was with her, chatting at the bar. Zig Zag itself is tiny, but has an impressively sizeable bar, a large plasma TV, and a few guitars. It’s also really really warm inside, but that didn’t stop Junko complain about it being cold. Japanese are always cold! (more…)

The subject of this entry refers to Japan’s most well-known haiku. It’s the last line and simply means “the sound of water”. The objective of a haiku is to present a prose photograph of an instance in time. I guess you could call this post a haiku, focusing on sound. (more…)

I’m not using “clearing out the closet” in the metaphorical sense here but I can literally clear out the closet next to my door which has started to stink. The second-most difficult thing to comprehend in this country (after mobile phone contracts for someone in my situation) is sorting out the rubbish and I finally got the information I needed at orientation. (more…)