show me the manual

the new laptop i bought comes with a very friendly, cutesie, easy on the eyes manual. the only problem is --everything is in japanese!

sure i can read hiragana and katakana but a LOT is written in kanji/chinese characters and that is not included in my brain's vocabs yet.

i tried to research for an english manual online, but all i find are those BORING conventional manuals unlike the one that i got that is printed in full color complete with drawings of people [japanese style].

though i'm not a manual fan, this time, i felt the need to know a lot about my laptop since it is running in vista [first time for me to use] plus it's a tablet pc! i really really want to optimize the touchscreen thing =D

got it

got approved on the uS tourist visa!

though i don't really plan to go there unless it an invitation from delta [as i said], it's still good to have it.

i even almost lost the chance for it. my interview time's at 1400 [manila time] and i got there at around half past one! hahaha. one guy who was up for the interview tried to be friends by starting a conversation. he asked: "so did you just arrived? or were here hours ago?" i said i just came and he was like "i just arrived too. did you get scared?" haha! he got me there. i did get scared. imagine, paying 6ooophp for that appointment and you fail not because of the interview but because you were late??? haha! but i said to him. "no. i'm just fine." wahehehe. i hope he got my message that i didn't want any talks *wink*

it was pretty scary at the interview area. you will be able to overhear some interview going on. sometimes the consul would sound irritated saying "what?? you dont have any jobs and you want to go to the uS?? how are you supposed to pay for your trip??"

when it was my turn, it was like scary but a was a bit confident that my job would get me that approval. and it did. =D

just a tip for those who plan to get a uS tourist visa. don't give the consul any hint that you won't be coming back or that you are broke. one applicant said she planned to stay there as tourist for six months and she got denied. another one is that she got more relatives in the uS than in manila and she's only applying for a tourist visa and that got her denied.

be confident and be true. that's all.

veinly lightnings

arriving at around 1845hr in narita [japan time], it was all dark clouds. in the bus on the way to the dormitory, i saw for the first time lightnings so veinly, stretching so widely i actually compared it to varicose veins =D but seriously, i kinda thought it was dramatic. i love it.

snow

i finally got my own laptop yesterday, and i named it YUKI. it's japanese for snow.

in the stars

Someone's giving you just enough information to keep you interested -- keep playing. ~yahoo! horoscopes

the key word there is keep playing. i have just been in a conversation with God knows i love her[she's my friend] but the scar[some college days academic issues] she left me is just too much it still affects my self esteem. and so my horoscope today says it all, right on. i had to half-play half sincerely make that talk.

it's sad. i don't want this. but it can't be helped.

the visa

just last night, i finally applied for a uS tourist visa. my scheduled interview date is on the 26th of august, though im not sure if i will be given work duty on that day and the days when my passport will be staying at the embassy...i'm saving up my allowable leaves for that uS vacation, so i gambled on not filing the leave for two weeks.

honestly, i don't have any concrete plans of going to the uS for pure pleasure. my thrifty self wouldn't allow it. if i had to go there, then i must receive the invitational call from delta which i've been waiting for six months now.

i had news that an acquaintance is ready and willing to provide me and a friend tickets and hotel accommodation to go there but...you know i'm not that kind of person to receive such gift immediately. besides, i don't my boyfriend to feel ill about it.

what'll i get????

i am aching for an mp4 player. or anything that could play music with quality sounds and most importantly, i want it to be able to read text files or better yet, a pdf file.

i'm torn between these:

an iriver clix gen2 or an ipod touch.

with all my research, an iriver brand far exceeds an ipod for sound quality. but it can only read text files. cheapest that i found is worth around 119usd.

with the ipod touch..well you might already know by now what it can do, plus you can install a pdf reader to it. cheapest find is worth 215usd in ebay [but my boyfriend doesn't trust online shopping, by the way].

so what will i do now???? arrrgggg

small town malls narita

in kouzu no mori, where we stay in narita, these are the nearest malls you can visit.

ito yokado [your elm] mall

this one's[picture above] so near to our dormitory it's like 5 minutes or less walk, but we always opt to ride a bicycle to get there. you can also get here via 200yen bus if you're staying in a hotel. we love the daiso "100yen shop" at the top floor. it's way bigger than the one in aeon mall. there's also the disney store at ground level. sometimes when you're lucky, they put up clothes, shoes, and trench coats for sale which are like only 240php in very good condition and quality.

bonbelta mall

bonbelta mall [above], which is accessible through the 200yen bus, is more like the mall for grown up people. most of their clothes are like for mothers and ages above. though they have a small children's clothes area at the top floor which sell more interesting stuff in the kid's section of ito yokado.


another one i've been to, is the aeon mall. very convenient if you're staying in a hotel in narita since almost all [if i correct] hotels have a free shuttle service to it.

adored

back from an 8day work pattern, i would usually fall straight to sleep having difficulty to even call my boyfriend due to obvious tiredness but, this time's different. recovering a left book at the aircraft on the way to sydney, my in-charge permitted me to read it knowing that when passengers leave their books, especially at the plane's own magazine rack, it probably meant that they don't want it anymore.

and as soon as i past about three chapters of it, i was not able to put the book down. can't believe i stayed up all night after my flight to read it. i got so hooked i can't explain. even now, after finishing it more than 13hours ago, i still can't get my minds off the events in the book. though it used a lot of profane words and a lot of obscene scenes, the deeper romantic side of the story really got my mind out of control. at one point i realize i was already crying for the protagonist's fate, and also i found myself screaming and begging for the character to know how much the other loves her at one scene. i even actually got scared the character might die!

i can't really find words to it. i'm just drawn to the characters in this story. i totally adore them!