Raamenchan

I had a look at my tourist visa, and it expires by July 27, 2009. And since yesterday marks the date that this determination began, I thought I would start a countdown beginning yesterday as well.

That gives me 70 days to make my dreams come true.

So what do I want to achieve by the end of these 70 days?

I took the first step today! I went out to style people! Talk about guts. Even I’m not immune to the butterflies that you get before you do something big. I spend the last couple of days working through my next actions list (the GTD version of a to-do list) in order to free my [...]

Now that I’m back in Japan, it’s also time to focus and move forward. So while I was in Hong Kong, I got news from English OK that things didn’t work out. In at nutshell, it was the visa. As Cecil put it, “basically there’s you, and then sitting right next to you is you [...]

I’m back! And I’ve actually been back for a week, but haven’t and won’t have internet working until 10th. So until then, I won’t have much of an online presence. But for now, I’m at Sako-san’s place, and I can use it all I want! (This is part 1 of a 2-part update, the other [...]

Today and yesterday, we got a refrigerator, washing machine, microwave oven, futon (the actual Japanese you put on top of tatami and sleep on), hangers, and cookware. And when we get back from Hong Kong, we should have our workspace and chairs to be ready for anything! Sure took a lot of time researching to [...]

My itinerary is set! I’ll be leaving for Hong Kong Sunday night and returning eaaaaarly morning on Monday, the 27th. Anyone need anything from Hong Kong? Thought I’d do a preemptive blog post because I know I won’t have time later tonight. I’m going to go see Mami sing at work tonight! (And wow does [...]

No word from Cecil or English OK yet. We’ll see about tomorrow. Spent most of today doing research about things Mami and I need to buy for the apartment. We also went to the 100 yen stores to get some basic items as well. Gotta keep up the blogging momentum. It’s 3:37am though, and Mami [...]

Thanks to Katie, Sally, and Shota for the encouragement to get back to blogging. Once I lost the momentum, I found it pretty hard to get started again… except for the fact that it’s fun blogging and sharing the excitement that I feel every day. So, I figured I would do a quick post to [...]

ESPECIALLY since missing tomorrow’s interview is not an option! お休み！ Good night!

Wow am I excited! I hadn’t received any correspondence from Dave at all until earlier today, so I was really wondering how things would turn out. Although from my brief impression of Dave, he didn’t seem like the type of person to ignore emails, so I was also expecting at least some sort of response [...]