4 Pocari's Out of 5
The Mansion.
Am now fully settled into the new abode - and loving it. Place is a fcking palace compared to the initial lodgings. New roomate is a legend as well. This joint is awesome - Fernando has already setup wireless broadband - hence the blog! Typing this out from the comfort of the couch. So my overall rating of Japan has now been bumped from an initial rating of 1, to a massive 4 bottles of pocari, out of a possible 5.
Spent a bit of time today making our wireless connection a bit more secure. For the technically minded readers, you may not think that setting up a password for the router is a big deal, but try doing it when the config menu looks like this:
Bit of help from the google translation website and I was away.
It's funny how minor wins make you really happy. Like today I managed to track down some soap. Big win. Only took me four days, but a win none the less. Been cutting loose at the 100 Yen stores as well. They're basically shops with pretty much random stuff in them, all for $1 buck. People say Japan is super expensive, but some of the stuff is confusingly cheap. Today in the supermarket I noticed a 750 ml bottle of triple filtered smirnoff vodka for 13 hungy yen. That equals 15 Aussie dollars. Bargain.
Not heading out tonight, cos it seems that all the teachers were out pretty much every night last week and are having a night off. That said it's some girls going away party tomorrow night which Fernando is invited to, so I'm going to crash it. Sure, some of the more conservative thinkers might ask 'is it a good idea to go out to an all you can eat, all you can drink going away party the night before you start work?'. Well max danger says 'ppphhffffttt' to that.
That's enough for now, I haven't got a digi cam yet, but I'll get a phone next week (which is also going to have a camera and be able to play mp3's) and start posting up some pics. Feel free to post some comments, Max.
Am now fully settled into the new abode - and loving it. Place is a fcking palace compared to the initial lodgings. New roomate is a legend as well. This joint is awesome - Fernando has already setup wireless broadband - hence the blog! Typing this out from the comfort of the couch. So my overall rating of Japan has now been bumped from an initial rating of 1, to a massive 4 bottles of pocari, out of a possible 5.
Spent a bit of time today making our wireless connection a bit more secure. For the technically minded readers, you may not think that setting up a password for the router is a big deal, but try doing it when the config menu looks like this:
Bit of help from the google translation website and I was away.It's funny how minor wins make you really happy. Like today I managed to track down some soap. Big win. Only took me four days, but a win none the less. Been cutting loose at the 100 Yen stores as well. They're basically shops with pretty much random stuff in them, all for $1 buck. People say Japan is super expensive, but some of the stuff is confusingly cheap. Today in the supermarket I noticed a 750 ml bottle of triple filtered smirnoff vodka for 13 hungy yen. That equals 15 Aussie dollars. Bargain.
Not heading out tonight, cos it seems that all the teachers were out pretty much every night last week and are having a night off. That said it's some girls going away party tomorrow night which Fernando is invited to, so I'm going to crash it. Sure, some of the more conservative thinkers might ask 'is it a good idea to go out to an all you can eat, all you can drink going away party the night before you start work?'. Well max danger says 'ppphhffffttt' to that.
That's enough for now, I haven't got a digi cam yet, but I'll get a phone next week (which is also going to have a camera and be able to play mp3's) and start posting up some pics. Feel free to post some comments, Max.
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