I got back to my workland in the end of December after a brief sojourn in my homeland only to be surprised by the enormity of chilly, snowy but eye-catching views of scenic beauty as I rode from Nagoya to Fukui....I had heard from the news channels in India beaming about the record snowfall happening in Japan this year...I was visibly awestruck to see the snow pile-up on the landscapes spanning all across from the Chubu airport till the Fukui station as I traveled in the Inter-city bus. A cold air mass blew hard as i got out of the bus at the station.....just realised for a moment that I have to sustain and survive in this chilly world for the next 3 months to come...
Yeah, those were the days of last month still afresh in memories forcing me to pen few comments on it....The ensuing Christmas and New year was celebrated indoors with snowy splendor all around...
During this new season a lot happened --
- Distributing "homiyage = souvenirs" to all my near and dear ones in fukui including the BOSS, dept. colleagues, apartment colleagues-kin, godfrey; oba-chan and takashima-san..
- Small dispute with a close friend, which really took a long time to reconcile than expected
- Got net connection (thanks to Nakakoji-san) to my room in the dormitory..had to settle with ISDN conxn after knowing that only my dormitory in our lane cannot get broadband ADSL or Hikari network due to metal-fibre incompatability in the vicinity....never thought such drawbacks can occur in developed nation!!!
- Weekly grocery shopping was done in new way....boarding the university bus on a weekday, get down at Bunkyo campus and shop at Mitsuwa...
- My fortune--in spite of ISDN conxn, voice chat through Skype or yahoo msgr works..my joy knew no bounds when I spoke to my family and friends in Singapore and USA
- I set my japanese OS computer (which was idle on my desk for a long time) to use...thanks to Kathy for sending her japanese presentation to be converted into english...a challenging task, but got inspired by her accuracy in composition, clarity and the grammar..way to go...
- Lastly, I decided finally to publish happenings of my life in the BLOG....the motivation came from a newspaper article on blogging....ready, set bloggooooooo
