Friendship

Friendship is something that cannot be changed by any outside force. Anytime, anywhere, once friendship has been made, it cannot change forever. This is how what I call friends are, and I cannot tell you how important they are to me. What I know is I'm not the way I am without them.

After the painful exams, my fun fun easter holiday started. Especially, I'd been looking forward to two things.

My best friend Ayaka came over to Dublin just for 5 days to see me before she enters the hectic Japanese labour force. It must have been a hard trip in such short days with long distance, but she came to see me, which made me so happy. We are so different, but ever since we knew each other, we have been great friends. We had some fights when we were younger, but our friendship is what it has been since it was made first time we met.

We went around Dublin; went to the Guinness factory, Howth, Pubs, The Dublin Zoo, went for a walk, went for tea in a nice french cafe...Greg invited us to dinner, which was really really nice, and we also had so much fun on the Paddy's day. The time indeed fries. It has been four years since we graduated the same high school. It had been such a long while after we spent much time together. It was a great fun to have her here, and I really thank Ayaka for coming to see me in Dublin.

And another important friendship here. I went to Berlin with four lads from the class, and we all met up with Deirdre there. The coolest thing we did there was we went to a massive techno club in the east Berlin! It was fantastic!!!!!

They are the friends who made me forget the barrier of language and culture. We are different nationalities, and we all are pround of what we are, the way we are, but friends are friends. This is the fact that nobody can change! Wherever you are from, it does not matter to make friendship. I still think that it is a difficult thing to do for someone from a different country to get into a group of a different nationality, but my Irish friends here broke this barrier that I was putting up first of all and taught me how to make real friendship. This trip made me re-realize how important they are to me. Great friends.

I thank everybody who is supporting me every time I am in need of help, and I also appreciate all the friendship I have with you.

Kx

Oh man!

The pain is still present...one pain has gone, yes I'm done with the project! Finally!!! Another pain will be there from Tuesday...hmmmmm.... I really can't wait for this to be over! EXAMS!

My laptop is totally dead now, and it's even making weird noise...! I'll wait until I go home for summer to buy a new laptop but whenever I lose technology, like mobile phone or laptop, I feel, something is missing, which really tells me how much I depend on technology in everyday life! But this is not only the case for me, I think to a great extent, it's a social problem; well for those industrial economies at least. I think dependency on mobile phones in Japan is even worse than anywhere else.
I do think improvement in technology is necessary for our society to grow, but on the other hand, too much dependency makes people so boring.

Well well well, I should be studying more..!!!

KAOPAIN

In the last economist, Japan was depicted as "Japain" becuase of its present economic disorder...


At present, the amout of Kaopain exceeds that of Japain in that, I'm already in recession (hehe) whereas my country is just about to go into...(Some say it's already been, but as a Japanese, let's hope not!).Kaopain is definitely caused by this project that is more painful than Japain!!!!! Oh man, Kaopain is sick! I really want to finish this up ASAP! To make things worse, thinking about having to study for the exam for the whole week adds extra pain to Kaopain!


But after the exams, my best best best best best friend is coming over from Japan! Whoooooooooop! AND! I have a trip to Berlin with my boys;^) These will be a good cure for this bloooooody Kaopain!

Only medicine now is goooood food! hmmm,,,, I wish my mummy were here though!

Hope everyone had a gooood craic over the weekend!

kx