October this year I will be travelling to Japan, landing first in Tokyo and sightseeing around the country for three weeks. I am so excited, I can’t wait. I went to Japan in October 2010 and it’ll be on the anniversary of that trip that I will be going back!
This time should hopefully be more enjoyable having been there before and knowing what to expect. I will be aided by 8 weeks of Japanese language lessons also which will be a bonus. I will revisit Nagasaki, Miyajima (specifically to see Itsukushima Shrine again, Hiroshima, and Kyoto. Undecided on other areas yet.
I will also better prepare to bring back purchases. The first time we scrambled at the last minute to buy a dodgy suitcase to bring back all our anime merchandise. We were sure we would have some casualties but thankfully, everything was intact.
America’s ad for the new 2011 Toyota Corolla featuring…Hatsune Miku? This is odd and boring really.
This article is an awesome read on the misconceptions of users and improving customer and service culture!
Customer & Service Culture in IT? Not going to happen unless…!03.31.2011
I am always surprised…no amazed….in fact staggered. That is it. Literally staggered! At how poor we are in IT at being Customer and Service focused. I passed my ITIL V1 Service manager and seem to remember that ITIL has always!….always, ever been about Customers and Service. I remember David Wheeldon teaching me ITIL when I was a technogeek who thought that Users were something dangerous and contagious. I thought we should outsource the business as they got in the way of IT and were simply annoying. David taught me they were human after all just like us, and it was our job to provide services and value to them. I wasn’t convinced but I was willing to be open. That was about 20 years ago.
via Customer & Service Culture in IT? Not going to happen unless…!.
After watching Bamboo Blade I had an urge to try Kendo and after months of waiting I got my chance! Melbourne Budokai had an introduction course starting on the 8th of June, I attended my first lesson last night. But OMG I am so sore today. Every muscle in my legs ache and feel like jelly.
We learnt how to sit in Seiza and from this I have a bruise under each knee. :S
The instructors took us through bowing and also Mokuso which is meditating. We learnt one cutting strike and practiced footwork. In a two hour session, we did a fair bit! I can’t wait to go back on Sunday.
Here’s a question from a sample exam paper I had which I had a good chuckle at.
While it looks nice outside, in actual fact it’s freezing!
Heheee, I love this.
Source.
Um…not the best place for a power nap.
“Car on tracks causes train delays Megan Levy
June 6, 2011 – 10:04AM
Major delays and cancellations affected rail services into Melbourne during this morning’s peak hour after a car became stuck across rail tracks in the city’s south-east.
Emergency services were called to Clayton on the Pakenham-Cranbourne line just after 5am where a motorist had reportedly fallen asleep at the wheel and his vehicle was blocking the railway line.”
via Car on tracks causes train delays.
Here is my next work in progress. I think it’s head is too long, will take a second look later.
I’m starting to watch K-ON! I hear it’s good, seems to have once been popular.
June 13, 2011 10:52 am | 
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