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Technolo-geez!

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Konichiwa!

Cyber M-O-N-D-A-Y! what did you get?

I didn’t get much except a very very awesome deal from tofugu to learn Japanese. It’s called textfugu and if you want to learn Japanese I suggest that you should check it out. Of course I am using some other sources to learn Japanese too and if you need help just let me know!

Tofugu offers some free lessons as well. Over the next few weeks I will do some reviews to help others. However, I think it’s going to be positive and no Tofugu isn’t paying me to do this.

There was a lot of stuff that I wanted to buy but I didn’t need it and hence I decided against it. One of my goals for this month and next year is to do my bit to reduce the crazy consumerism. While modern life has provided us with a lot of comforts (God bless the people who came up with the dishwasher and the laundry machine!) we need to minimize if not curb unnecessary consumerism.

Also, I got a call regarding a job interview today and yes I was delighted but before calling me the HR manager dropped me an email so that I could get in touch with her. However, when I tried to call her, the call kept getting transferred to the voicemail. The HR manager had explicitly stated in her email that if I don’t call her by today, then they won’t reschedule the interview (it was a telephonic interview). Since, I was unable to get through to her I dropped her an email asking her about what I should do in such a situation. She replied immediately and wrote a 2 page long email regarding the importance of leaving voice messages (which for the record i did). Hmmm did she really think that I didn’t know how to leave a message?

Not only that, she called me after an hour or so and lectured me on the importance of voice mail. GOD! I knew better than to argue but it was annoying!

Has this ever happened to you?

And if you are learning Japanese do get in touch with me, I am currently trying to find people I can learn with. Moreover, would you like me to start another sub section to help people learn Japanese? Let me know!

Oh and here is a list of things that put the geez in technology!

Day 3 and Poop Burgers

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Day 3 of NaNoWriMo was rather fruitful to be honest, i managed to type about 3000 words which isn’t too bad, given that i got zilch done during the first 2 days.

In other news, i read about Japanese poop burgers and for those of you who don’t know what they are you should check them out on tofugu.com which also happens to be my new favorite site. The reason behind that is that i have been looking into learning Japanese for quite sometime now, 4 months to be exact 😛 and tofugu seems like the perfect place to start and i will definitely recommend it to those of you who are looking into learning Japanese (No i don’t work for them. In fact i don’t work for anybody. Calm down Ria don’t make this a rant about your joblessness…Soooo…. moving on)

Even if you are not looking into learning Japanese, and are a self proclaimed Japan enthusiast like yours truly, you should check it out. They update almost every other day and it’s informative in a light hearted sort of way.

Well to be honest i am not happy about not having a job (who would be?) but all i can do is to keep trying since the economy has gone to the pooper. But i am not going to let this get me down and i am actually going to take this opportunity to write a book or do things that i like and maybe even take up a teaching certification.

If you are like me and don’t really have a job yet, what are you up to? Let me know:)

Potential job giving angels can you please contact me?

[Credits: Photo and quote is by my sister, Sadia.]