Monday, March 27, 2006

Kaeritai...

I've been here in Japan for more than two months now (two months and 3 days to be exact.) It's not what I would actually call a dream come true, but I always wanted to go to the land of the rising sun, the place where a lot of anime, manga, and weird but delicious food come from. Sadly, my first stay here is not what would typically call a good one. I've have had a lot of trials and tribulations in the past two months, not that it's that serious (actually, it IS really serious)...

What can I say? The first month was a hell of a month. We were assigned to a project that was due only in a month, and we were to work for more than 13 hours a day, 6 days a week so that we could finish the project on time. Not only that, my productivity was not actually what you would call great, since most of the tasks that was assigned to me were nothing short of "strange". Yup. You heard it right. Strange. I really find it funny that most of the tasks given to me always had issues; even the 2 steps that I need to finish sometimes takes up a whole day because it had some problems or something of that sort. The only thing that kept me going is the company of my colleagues, and the few moments that we can spare to chat and laugh about the perilous predicament we were in.