Place Counts

After finishing final presentation for Panasonic, Kek and Cindy asked me to spend some of our last days as panasonic scholarship scholar (we are panasonic scholarship alumni now :-) ) in Osaka. It was all fun, but there was a quite funny fact about the hotel. For the first day, Seada who chose the hotel, and as usual, her choice was great - a good hotel in a good neigbourhood with good service (including wireless internet). However, in the second day it was Kek who chose the hotel. Well, the hotel was fine, and the service also good. The problem is the place. It located near red light district :-), and the hotel around the hotel where we stay even can be classified as love hotel (where the fee is per hour, not day).
Well, anyway, there something else to look at whan we walk around the hotel :-).

Faces...

Get this collage from Ana. click on the picture to get a bigger view.
Remember all of the laughter I shared with them...
Just realized that it's easy to spend all of your blue days crying alone, while it's almost nonsense to savor your golden days without your friends to rejoice the triumph together...

Valentine Chocolate

The end of the semester is getting near, which mean there a lot of report to submit and test to take, and also thesis defense if you about to graduate. So why everyone seems to still have time to prepare valentine chocolate?

Well I'm not complaining at all. Specially when my professor's wife gave us chocolate cake for three consecutive days ("she's doing experiment with the amount of chocolate in the cake", my professor said), Seada put chocolate in my mailbox, and I found another chocolate on my desk :-). But how come, after all of these chocolates, I still couldn't gain weight?

Koukan Nikki

The second book of my koukan nikki with Makii... (the first was so thin that it finished quickly :-) )

Ein Deutscher Engel

Received season greeting from Anette with cool picture, so I post it here...
Come to think of it, I got along well with her after she knew that I keep some Alphaville songs in my mp3 player... at that time, she didn't even know that they're german group...

Every Cloud has Silver Lining...

I was planning to go to Tokyo Tower on the new year eve, and due to my special ability to get lost :-), I mistook the street on my way there. Finally I was able to reach the tower, but I didn't stay long there, since it was cold and there were couples around while I'm on my own... :-) Anyway, on my way of getting lost :-), I accidentally went to Aoyama doori, and I found Haagen-dazs store there. Well, it was a good place to rest and try to reroute again my way...

Sushi Festa

After finishing my Ramadhan this year, Yanagita, Konishi, and Kurata invited me to have a dinner outside, in an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant. It was no ordinary restaurant, because if you don't reserve beforehand you can't dine there (Yanagita always knows special places to eat :-) ). And after eat my first sushi there, I quickly know why the place is special - the piece of sushi is half the normal one, but it really delicious...

When we had to pay the bill (different from most of the all-you-can-eat restaurant where you have to pay beforehand, we pay after we finished here), Kurata just dragged me outside and let Yanagita and Konishi paid. He said that this was a party for me for finishing Ramadhan so they treated me that night... really touching, specially when it came from non-moslem like them...