野菜の神様！

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So i've started a non-profit IT consultation cooperation. Well, not really but I may as well have! The reason for this is that quite a few people in my accommodation have bought internet only sims from B-mobile. These take a bit of a faff to set up. A faff of which I am experienced having set up my own sim a week prior to this day.

Yes there has even been an incident of this:

And also yes, the restart did work. Just think how much money I would have got if I charged an upfront fee. *dreams of grandure and yen*

I apparently also deal with hardware issues and, along with a girl here, have spent a great deal of time recently traversing the streets of Tokyo between media and phone companies trying to get them to un-screw the back of a phone. This they would not do and not even the kindly old lady who owned the local screwdriver shop could provide us the tools we needed to accomplish the dismantling ourselves.  (the reason she needed the phone opening in the first place is she shoved a micro-sim into a normal phone and it got a bit jammed inside. -____- )


However finally after many days with the aid of a paperclip or 70 the sim came free and my companies name remained untarnished.

In the real world.....

I actually had a really busy day. It was not only the day of the internet usage presentation (otherwise know as 'normal person's common sense presentation' / 'waste of my time'), but also the dreaded speaking-test-interview-scary-talk-exam. dun dun duurrrrr!!

So essentially this HIGHLY informative presentation regarding the internet was just a video of a man dressed as a stereotypical burglar stealing everybody's internet passwords. It told us generous nuggets of information such as 'don't give your password to random people who ask you for it'. <--- Bit annoying really... I had to quickly run and cancel my print-job of 1000 copies of my password I was planning to hand out next week :/

The speaking test on the other hand, despite being shoddily run, actually went OK. I managed to say words in an order somewhat even resembling a real life sentence, instead of just spouting nouns every few seconds!!  The most difficult bits was the text part. We had to read a passage out loud and then answer questions on it. Sounds easy right? Except for when you forget the first line by the time you reach the last, and the examiner asks you the most simple child-level question regarding it but all you can do it sit starting at them with a facial expression that can only be described by the word 'DURRRRRRRRR'. Aside from that it was good, the two exam ladies looked happy enough with it anyway, got some swanky grammar in there too.

In other news...

I found a broccoli! Oh lovely broccoli, I will cook you in a pan and use you in many dishes. I haven't seen another shop that sells my favourite green floret bunch since so I must go back!

I'm so happy.

I also got mail today, from my Mum back home in England :) I was surprised she managed to get the letter here with her tiny minuscule knowledge of the japanese language and address system but its here and its Buddah shape adds a bit of zen to the organised chaos of my desk 

Thanks Rigglington :D