How to WRITE in your blog Hamamatsu Style...

This story should explain the pictures of papers down there... I arrived at school got disgusted with how my desk and keyboard looked like... Should have started to finish my design chapter but instead I cleaned up my desk real good...

kedai bento...

my order, Ebi Fry Bento (Udang goreng)

Hungry Jacks...

Then I got hungry... I went to Honke-Kamadoya a shop selling 'bento' which is 'nasi bungkus 'japanese style. Not often I frequent this place, but I was extra hungry due to the cleaning... If not I'd just sit out my hunger and do work...

this will take me back to my lab...

new elevator, it talks Japanese fluently...

Bismillah... yum yum...

After having my meal, I managed to finish my design chapter except for... READ the PICTURES below...

my handwriting when I'm hungry again at 2am and tired...

and sleepy but still want to update my blog...

My handwiriting varies with what I use to write with. When I use a pencil it looks better. The best is when I write using a keyboard. It looks like THIS... Remember, always maintain what you have with all your might... Good night/morning...

-Physically writing my blog-

Yubinkyoku=Pejabat Pos :)

Today, before going to the lab I had to go to the post office accross the main road of our apartment/flat or what ever you want to call it. We call it home... Anyway, I had to send a picture to someone... Hope he gets it soon and likes it...

sink cum bath tub izz farish...

There's three counters and a lot of people working in the cute little post office near our home. Like in Malaysia, there's a place for you to lick your stamps, write and benches to sit on if you have to wait for your turn... I use to hate to go to the post office due to long lines. Here its different, they treat me and everyone else like a king and never had I been caught in a long line. I'll go to the post office in Hamamatsu anytime... Wake me up in the middle of the night, I'll go with a smile on my face, but its closed at midnight... heheh... The picture that I physically posted (as opposed to virtually posted) via Japans mail service today didnt have a return address as I was too lazy to bother to write it on the backside of the envelope. After leaving the letter with the clerk and on my journey out, he called out to me. "Man... what was wrong", I thought in Malay in my brain... He just wanted to tell me no return address was written and wanted to ask me if I wanted to write it down now. I said no thanks and smiled... He looked baffled, maybe its a crime not to write it down here in Hamamatsu... Talk about 1st class mail, this place got it...

luar pejabat pos... kalau tak nampak, pijaklah lantai berbonjol ini...

What can one do in a post office here??? The usual, buy stamps, post packages and things... The unusual, pay police summon tickets and pay medical insurance premiums... The post office here is really user friendly even thought you cant speak good Japanese. The clerk are all helpfull... They make sure you get what you came for. The Japanese have this saying 'Ganbatei-Kudasai', which means in Malay 'Kerja sampai jadi jo, tak jadi baik tak payah buat'. The post office is even user friendly for people who have bad vision or no vision at all. Not no vision as in 'tak ada wawasan'... It has a pavement for the people who cant see to walk on...

depan kaunter dalam pejabat pos...

When you're in one of these places in Hamamatsu, even on the buzziest day, you'd spend I'd say a maximum of 15 minutes that is if you had to wait for your turn...

inilah bukti saya ke pejabat pos hari ini...

I promised my self I have to finish the design chapter by the end of this month... Esok lusa la tu... grrrrr... What am I doing writing about post offices? Ada hikmahnya la mana-mana tuui... Insya-Allah tomowor the chapter will be done...

-this post is for the Post Office, heheh-

Research Institute of Electronics...

Patung siapakah ini? Kalau tak silap, namanya Kenjiro Takayanagi. Patung ini terletak di pintu masuk Shizuoka Unioversity betul2 dihadapan bangunan institusi saya la ni, yang juga bangunan tertua di universiti ini. Universiti Shiuoka kampus Hamamatsu ini dibangunkan atas dasar institusi ini... Dulu kala dia pernah bekerja di Insitusi ini dan orang jepun mengaku dialah sebenarnya pencipta 'cathode ray tube' (TV) pertama. Tapi disebabkan masa itu orang jepun belum pandai buat patent, maka mat salehlah yang ditulis dalam sejarah mencipta TV pertama...

takayanagi depan RIE...

Walaupun tak dapat jadi orang pertama mengikut sejarah dunia mencipta TV, tengoklah apa depa dah buat dengan TV zaman sekarang... TV plasma, TV dalam handphone, TV kat dinding bangunan... Tak lama lagi TV 3D pon ada nampak ura2 nak keluar... Berbalik kepada pak cik tadi, gambar TV pertama yang pak cik ini transmit adalah huruf jepun yang bunyi 'i'... ya 'i' untuk izhal...

dia terletak atas CRT...

la ni ada takanayagi kenji memorial symposium sempena nama pak cik ni. benda ni adalah majlis ilu setahun sekali di mana orang2 akan datang berkongsi pendapat dan hasil kajian baru... seronok juga kita layan benda ni...

tenungannya tajam... tenungannya jauh...

dia merenung pondok pak gad...

kadang2 saya duduk dalam makmal ni gerun jugalah memikirkan pak cik ini. bila dah lewat terfikir ada hantu ke sini... dia menjunguk saya buat apa dalam opis lamanya ke??? jepun ni percaya juga benda2 ni... depa ni mengamalkan Islam (bukan hadari ya) tapi tak mengucap saja... Bangun pagi, jaga keluarga, kebersihan bagus, sopan santun, hormat orang tua, jaga alam sekitar, berniaga cara baik, berpolitik cara betul dan banyak lagi yang kita tak buat... kalaulah jepun ni mengucap dua kalimah shahadat, depalah orang2 pertama masuk syurga kot... Allahualam...

-TV good or bad?-

Living on a chip...

Semalam ada seroang pakcik dari Swiss (Prof Henry) datang bagi penerangan pasal bio-CMOS chips... Dia punya penerangan memang semua orang boleh faham, gempak pakcik ni... Benda complicated dia terangkan macam cerita labu-labi... Berkenaan bio-CMOS technology ni, pernah la juga saya dengar benda2 ni dalam documentari dan filem2 propaganda hollywood tapi semalam perghhh...

pakcik tengah story...

Di negara dia, ada satu kajian untuk membela sel jantung tikur atas litar bersepadu CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor). CMOS ni adalah teknology untuk buat chip2 dan image sensor... La ni pakcik tu dah extend untuk membela benda2 hidup atas CMOS chip. Ye lah, sel2 dan litar2 CMOS saiznya lebih kurang... Jadi pulak tu kajian dia. Sel2 tersebut boleh hidaup sampai 9 bulan atas chip tu...

adik dan abang kat tepi...

Ada juga kajian sel neuron tulang belakang ayam depa bubuh atas chip. Sel ni lagi hebat, dia boleh berinteraksi dngan chip tapi depa belum tahu apa yang sel2 ni sembang dengan chip tersebut... Yang saya suka, dia punya kajian tak payah cucuk sel tu. komunikasi hanya melalui membrane sel (kulit sel).

dari dalam tingkap... tingkap...

benda hidup...

Objektif mereka adalah untuk buat Bio-CMOS chip untuk testing kesan2 ubat-ubatan baru terhadap sel2 hidup. Kalau jadi, tak lama lagi tak payahlah pakai tikus putih yang comel untuk test shampoo atau ubat2an lagi dah... Saya punya idea pula, nak buat CMOS image sensor pakai sel mata harimau, sebab harimau malam2 pun nampak jelas... Amacam???

-Would you like to live on a chip???-

Hamamatsu Sakura Time!!!

Our bedroom window during spring has a view that gradually gets beautiful. There's a tree that we always see. Early spring the tree looks dead. As spring progresses we see buds and finally during spring climax we see flowers. Sakura flowers...

bedroom window...

parking lot rumah...

We decided to go sakura picture hunting. Mr. Effendy tagged along. Shot a few pictures at a nearby park... Strange thing that full bloom happens before april this year... Hmmm...

sakura tree...

sakura Wajiyama park...



nampak tak saya dan sakura kat belakang???

Pokok sakura yang bunganya semua kembang, waktu malam cantik sangat. tambah2 kalau bulan mengambang. nampak batang hitam legam dan bunga putih2... Sakura is everywhere now...

sakura in the car...

sakura at the soccer field...

sakura in the house...

sakura outside the window...

sakura at the park...

Theres also some late bloomers. I'll be keeping an eye on these late bloomers, photographing their progress from time to time for my fotopages...

late bloomers...


when they bloom...

...sakura in shcool, sakura at downtown Hamamatsu, sakura in TV... sakura in Hamamatsu... dalam pertengahan bulan 4, semua bunga-bunga ni akan gugur... sakura no more... entah bila lagi kami semua dapat tengok sakura lagi...

Insya-Allah this is not my last sakura posting yet...

-Sakura-

Hamamatsu to Tokyo to Hamamatsu!!!

sakura Hamamatsu (24 March 2006)

sakura tokyo (25 March 2006)

i woke up at 6.30am, got ready and found my self at the international student house at 6.50am. two of my freinds Mr. Suhaidi and Mr. Yun were waiting for me... heheh... we took the bus and headed for Hamamatsu station...

breakfast at Hamamatsu station...

distorted images from shinkansen due to HIKARI speed

in our HIKARI cabin...

used panning to get undistorted image here...

after breakfast at 7.45am in a coffee shop in the station, we rushed into the closing doors of the HIKARI bullet train (shinkansen), which is the middle speed version of the three types of bullet trains that dart across the landscape of Japan every day. it lest precisely on time at 7.47am if i remember it correctly. The fastest is the NOZOMI and the slowest travelling at a slow speed of 150kmh is the KODAMA. The bullet trains timetable is right on the dot... All of these trains have an average error time estimate per anum of only 30seconds... We arrived at Shinagawa station exactly at 8.16am as promised... Shinagawa station is wow, compared to the laid back Hamamatsu station... From there we took a normal train to the conference venue which was to my surprise beside Tokyo Tower... Alhamdulillah...

these people walk like the shinkansen...

The conference was held in a small room that had a capacity of i'd say 50people... The number that turned out was nearly 200. melimpah2 orang terkeluar dari bilik kecil kami... unexpected... hahaha... for the 2nd session after lunch, we were moved to a bigger hall... my team member Mr. Sawada presented our chip, and the response was great. Sakura in tokyo is nearly full blossom...

penghuni kota... orang2 tokyo...

tokyo tower...

OK, ni kena guna BM pasal takut orang faham... Tinggal lagi dua presentation yang tak syok, saya dan En. Suhaidi cabut... Kami pergi ke Roponggi kot lepas tu ke Shinjuku kot (tapi memang pergi le kat beberapa tempat, nama Jepun ni belit bagi saya...) sebab ada satu surau orang myanmar kat sana... lepas tu kami pi makan dekat satu kedai bollywood... dia masak kari depan kita... saya pekena garlic nan and beef curry with mushrooms dengan air teh apa entah sedap je... En. Suhaidi pekena fish curry and nasi pulut kuning... burp, Alhamdulillah...

bilik konferens kecik... bilik besar, atas pentas EN. Sawada tengah problem set up pc...
biasa la our group buat hal sebelum present... sampai terpaksa rehat 30minit...

en. sawada close up, pandai dia ni jawab soalan...

pintu masuk surau myanmar...

surau myanmar dan nama orang2 ala man bai...

heheh...


kedai bollywood... ada plasma tv besar tunjuk cerita bollywood...

Lepas itu kami nak cari kedai buku Kinokuniya kat mana entah... Koran pon ada jual... Saya follow saja En. Suhaidi, sebab dia ni dulu dok tokyo... Pakar tokyo/Yakuza tokyo dia ni... heheh...

densha di shinjuku ke mana entah... jalan kueh lapis...

kinokuniya book store...

kinokuniya ni di tingkat 7 satu bangunan. naik lift pon bersesak macam naik train... Alhamdulillah saya ni duduk di Hamamatsu, bukan kat tokyo sewel ni... sempat jugaklah nampak kapsul hotel iaitu penginapan termurah di tokyo. sewa katil saja dalam hotl jenis ni. lepas tu ada love hotel, tempat nak buat ehem ehem... layout bilik dia macam futuristic... ni semua ada kat red light district tokyo yang namanya saya tak ingat...

pachinko and memoirs of geisha tokyo...

capsule hotel dan love hotel...

red light district...

shinjuku...

mari jalan laju2... kalahkan orang Hamamastu...

Masa ni kami berdua dah letih, tapi alang2 dah sampai kami pi la tengok2 sikit barang2 elektrik. Tapi tak pi Akihabara pasal jauh, main dekat2 Shinjuku station saja... Ada kedai handphone, kedai kamera, kedai video kamera, kedai baju, kedai makanan halal dan sebagainya...

handphone(MUPA) dan HDTV video camera...
handphone murah tak ingat, benda lain mahal beringat...

mahal, baik design dari beli... heheh...



jangan ditanya kenapa tak beli kalau duit tidak diberi...

Banyak2 barang hebat ni, tau apa saya beli sepanjang dok tokyo??? Ondomie 5 bungkus dan 1 peket rokok orang daun Myanmar... Habislah dalam 700 yen kot...

psychedellic suhaidi-san

Lepas tu kami ambil train biasa balik ke Shinagawa. Dari situ kami ambil HIKARI sekali lagi dan berdiri sampai 45 minit ke Shizuoka. Time tu kami rasa macam mana ibu2 mengandung rasa sebab berdiri dan berjalan sudah hampir 3 jam. Sampai Shizuoka dapat duduk, tapi kejap saja, pasal 20 minit lepas tu kami tiba balik ke Hamamatsu!!! Yattaaaa!!! Jumpa pula En. Sawada dan EN. Isobe... Depa pon ambil kesempatan rewang2 kat tokyo la ni... hahaha...

ekor hikari yang menghantar kami pulang ke Hamamatsu... (shot panning penat)

Hamamatsu caught by very tired person...

Bye-bye tokyo, hello again my beloved Hamamastu!!! Tapi tak lama lagi nak kena pi tokyo ngan Puan Fara, Izz Farish dan Faiq... Nak buat passport dan surat beranak Izz Farish, the baby made in Hamamatsu... That will be a different story... For now, penat tak habis2 lagi tapi Alhamdulillah boleh sampai lagi tempat2 ngarut camni...

shawn, otoi dan... pen

Ikwan-san dan Pyan-san... Faiq-chan dan Nik-san...

salzy-san, effendi-san dan... afiq-san

faiq-chan again...

Sampai rumah dalam pukul 10 malam... ramai orang dalam rumah sebab semua nak tengok En. Sufian sebelum beliau pulang ke tanah air esok... Kami semua keluar makan... Oh ahli baru Hamamatsu Now, 3 orang indergraduate baru sampai, Shawn, Pen dan Otoi (disyaki bukan nama sebenar)... Semuanya mengkhusus dalam bidang kejuruteraan mekanikal...

-Bye-bye Tokyo, Hamamatsu Now!!!-