Takumi's Blog

So last night, I finished studying for the day (at like 1 am lol), and I decided I wanted to see if I could get my old iBook to work. You know, the one that “blew out” on me a while back, which forced me to get my MacBook earlier than expected?

Well, it turns out, that the iBook still works. I did a PRAM reset (one that isn’t written anywhere), and that just happened to make it work again!

Now I just have to find that Tiger install disc that my uncle bought me a while ago… Then I can have a cleanly installed iBook! (And I need to reinstall the OS on my mom’s computer back home… I kinda messed it up before I left).

Well, must go study now

Wowza, all my friends (or nearly all) from Portland at least said hi to me by email, chat, or MySpace today… that’s sooo awsome.

I can’t wait to go back to Portland and see them all, this is going to be a fun summer, I can already tell.

Well, the Sempai from school will have stopped soccer by the end of August I think (so they can study for their college entrance exams I guess).

Well, my midnight news was: PayPal doesn’t accept Google Checkout as one of their 40+ payment options! Now this obviously means they take Google Checkout as a competitor (though, I personally like PayPal better, they already have a brand thing going)

I’m a long-time Apple fan, and constantly getting Apple new customers, but I can’t wait for their Leopard release.

The Unversal version of Tiger is just too buggy. On my old PowerPC Mac’s, the computer would never freeze, and only occasionally would a program crash.

But now that I’m on a Mactel, it seems to happen quite often. Every time though, I send in the error report so that if Apple does read it, maybe they can fix it!

I’m not a programmer, so I don’t exactly know what’s going on to make them crash… I did watch some of Apple Developers’ “how to convert your application to a universal binary” videos. And I kind of got that the bits are switched (instead of x01234 on a powerpc, it’s like x43210 on an intel chip)…. Meh, I just lost myself in that. You get my point

So, I have the default homepage set for firefox (you know, the Firefox search powered by google one), and today it had a link to something called Joga. At first I thought it was just a small add-on module to keep up to date with the World Cup, but it’s actually quite different.

It works pretty similarly to Orkut, but instead of social relationships as the main theme, it’s soccer (or known to the rest of the world as: football).

It’s actually pretty cool, and you don’t need an invite like you do for Orkut to get in. Here’s a link to my profile. Add me if you join Joga!

Wired News has an article that talks about Second Life users being dissappointed with Flickr’s photo policy. They were complaining about Flickr’s policy to stop showing images from accounts with over half of them being non-photographic images on public searches.

I think Flickr is definately a site for users who are serious about photography. (Err… at least who take real pictures and put them up). It’s a beautiful place to go looking for pictures and finding actual photographs. Instead of looking for pictures and finding a mix of photographs, CG, etc.

Oh, and by the way, I’d LOVE a gift Pro account!

So, Aki posted something I thought was pretty interesting…

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” (We all were asked this some point in our childhood):

When I was a kid I was obsessed with space (outer space). I loved space shuttles, and I was facinated by rockets. I dreamed of becoming an astronaut.

One of my relatives worked at the Florida launch site (cape canaveral? i forgot how to spell it), and I got tons of free stuff from there. Though, I think all of it has been thrown away by now, and I don’t really remember what it was.

Over time my dreams changed, and I thought it was too dangerous to be an astronaut. I considered being the engineer creating the shuttle is safter than being the astronaut flying it…

We had like 4 games today. 3 of them were with International Christian University High School (ICU High School…. i guess is what it’s called). We either won the games or tied…
1 was with some other school i don’t know. We tied against this team.

I got tired after the 2nd game, so I didn’t really pay attention to the other ones, but everyone has improved a lot (teamwork wise also) since soccer started this year.

Some people left early to study for the english exams tomorrow. It’s called Eiken here, and there’s different levels. I guess it’s like taking Japanese proficiency levels in America (lol, like my short explenation of it?).

Back when I was at Grant, someone from ICU came to show us what the University offered, and scholarships, etc. It seemed like some preppy christian school with christ things everywhere. But it really didn’t, in fact if it didn’t say ICU you would have never guessed it was a christian university.

The campus is actually wayyy too big. All the students have bicycles just to get from class to class! And like the Tokyo Gakugei University, ICU also has an attached elementary, middle, and high school. (I’m in the TGU High School, and we were against the ICU High School today).

This past month or so we’ve been doing volleyball in P.E. Never really liked it, but it’s pretty “big” in high schools here. Every year the school has a volleyball tournament, and these past two days have been it. Yesterday (I’m not really sure what yesterday was for) we had matches all day. My team lost all of them.

Today was the actual tournament. We went to a different GYM (the place we went to could fit 4 courts instead of 2!). And instead of ending a bit before 3pm, we ended at around 4:30pm!

The way it works is, the guys and girls are in seperate leagues. And then within that, there are two different ‘level’ leagues. If your team wins in the first match, you go to the 1st league, but if you loose in the first match, you go to the 2nd league. After that you just keep going up the ladder till there’s only one leader.

My team, unfortunately, lost our first match. But with an awesome me comeback, we became the #1 team in the 2nd league!!! Hurray! XD

All of the teams had also made their own uniforms (which could be anything, coloring faces, makeup, skirts, etc.) Our team put on random ties and colored our faces. My tie was yellow with blue stripes and my face was half white half blue with red lips and eyes… unfortunately no picture, sorry!

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I got a MacBook (black), and a 300GB HDD! The MB is actually better than I expected it to be, (I don’t really know what I expected though!)

Since I bought it in Japan, there was actually a 7-10 day wait for my model. (I’m using a US keyboard, which isn’t standard in Japan). But the store I was at had one in stock! (I originally wanted a 120gb hd, but i didnt want to wait, so mine has a 80gb hd. So instead I got a 300GB external hd. We also bought a seperate 1gb ram (which was like $150, the same model and company in america costs $170)…

Hm… I am a happy man this week (so far)

Well, how should I say this. I had a good, but long day.

The main thing for me that ALWAYS sticks out about Japanese guys is that they’re shy to talk about and/or with girls. I don’t mean like brag or anything but like, it’s like back in middle school where the girls hung out with the girls and the guys hung out with the guys. You know? (There’s always the couple who get along REAL well )

I got both my train passes, and now just a bus pass to get left. The ride is about 1:45 long one way, which SUCKS. I can’t wait ’till my dad comes back from South Africa so we can get a place closer!

For each year of your life, you write a sentence. It can be of all shapes and sizes.

1. Was born in Tokyo
2. Moved to Nepal
3. Living in Nepal
4. Sister born
5. Moved back to Nepal
6. Nothing exciting happened
7. Dad moved away from Nepal
8. Stayed in India for half a year
9. Moved to America
10. Moved to Malaysia for a year
11. Moved back to America
12. Nothing exciting happened
13. Nothing exciting happened
14. Went out with Jovan for like 4 months (uh, time is off a little)
15. Start high school, with a weird ending of middle school
16. End high school in the US, move to Japan. and… it’s right now!

Hope you enjoyed me life sentences…..

PS. Sorry Dawn, i didn’t feel like spending as much time as it seemed you spent on urs

Well, I’ve moved to Japan. Sorta. My luggage is still being delivered, other than that, I’m here!…

Exciting.

I have no idea what to do with my life.

I love Japan. I love Apple. I love a girl.

They just don’t go together.

It feels like…

I’ve already made my decision.

I’m just loosing sight of what I had in sight.

I need to believe things will turn out okay in the end.

I don’t know what else to do.

Friends, they’re good to have. From not having any friends when I first came to the JMP, to having so many I forget that I had them… well, it’s a great feeling.
Love, it should be a simple thing. But it’s something that is hard to keep simple.

Relationships, they intertwine with friends and love. And they’re even more complicated.

Well, I guess that’s all I feel like saying now. Oh, and I’m going to miss everyone. And also, I have so many stories, I need to write them all down!