Been a while since I have added to here

but there is no need to fear,

on holiday i have been

may new things i have seen

 

Down to dorset we did travel,

next to a beach almost made of gravel

Caravan in where we stayed

of the floor my bed was made

 

all in all a not bad week,

i worked hard on my sun bathing technique

next time i travel on such a holiday

I will stay once again by a bay.

 

I am off to oxford now,

so i must take my bow

write again soon I will

something something sill

 

 

 

 

lacking in additions I ave been,

due to the lack of me being seen,

offf to foreing lands to explore,

please forgive me i implore.

 

since we last spoke I have been to japan,

i must say coming back I am a fan

the trip was good and inslightful,

the culture is quite delightful.

 

an example of what would be said by me,

if not in poem i be telling thee,

you see anll this reason and rhyme,

doth take a bit of time;

 

"Breif summary of my trip to japan;

The flight out was pretty good for me really, turned out that the person sitting between me and Fritz (insurance broker from London) had cancelled at the last minute which meant that I had a bit of extra space for the take of, we then offered the seat to the pretty J girl in front of us who would have otherwise had to have shared the row with a screaming baby and its parents. As it turned out the baby ended up being pretty good and wasnt too noisy. Bonus.

Didn't really get much jet lag flying out, I think it was a combination of getting some sleep on the plane and going to bed early ish on Sunday night.

Monday we met the Yanks, they were not as brash or loud as I was expecting and that in itself was a good thing. The reason for them not being stereotypical americans was found out on that first day; they were all seriously clever people. Only a few years older than me and havign only 6 months to a year more experience at Hamamatsu  than me they seemed to be much more proffesional than us Brits. I foudn out that they had a slightly diffrerent sense of humnour to me but we all got on well.

On the first day lunch was at a revolving sushi place, as is coming into style iun the UK. Eash plate only got 50p so we all ate our fill without worrying about the cost. I only found one thing that I didn't particullary like, and it was a fruit, whats up with that?

In the afternoon we came across a video of a product we are due to realese soon and its application. The product is a camera capable of 1000 frames a second (40 time faster than the human eye I believe) and it was attached to a robotic arm that was capable of cathing a soft ball perfectly everytime that it was dropped near it. Cool to watch, we also saw some of the more run of the mill products; blood oxygen monitoring stuff, dark boxes, holohraphs for developmental optical memory storage etc.

That night we went out to what can only be described as an indoor BBQ grilll. It was good to eat and the atomsphere was good. The establishment had the menu all other the walls, but it was more a case of point at the thing you wanted cooking, then watch it being cooked on the grill in front of you.

Tuesday found us at Systems, this is not my real area of concern however I am privlidged that if the rest of the Sys department is off I get to answer thier enquiries if I can. So the day found us not really having to concentrate too hard, which was nice. We also got to see some familar products for me.

We were taken out to a Shabou Shabou restraunt, that if you have recieved my little report will know, is a place where you boil thinly sliced beef in boiling water. This was a really good meal, helped a lot by the two lovely ladies sitting around me who asked about my Japanese vocabulary and found it amusing (highly) that I know how to call someone a pervet in 3 different ways, but couldn't grasp that the way you say thank you was dependant entirely of the situation. Weridos.

Wednesday to friday was ETD time. I would very much like to take my career down the path of working soley for ETD (two reason; the people in the UK who sell them and I undestand the products implicitly) Traingi was cool, the better bit was getting to see the products being made, by hand, indicvidually - Cool.

Going out with ETd was an adventure, they like to drink, unfortuneatly for them they are lacking the lymphocytes (or something) that help resist the effects of alcohol, which means I can see them drink for drink and still be fine. The poor fools.

The weekedn found us at Kyoto staying at a Ryokan hotel. This is the traditional paper wall affairs, where you sleep on a futon and everythign like that. I think this was wasted on us as we didn't really take advatage of the situation (might be due to the fact that someone lost the name of the hotel). None of us took advatage of the natural spring baths at the hotel, and I sleep on a futon normally, so the whole experience amounted to us having to share a room.

We went for a tour of the shrines around Kyoto which was nice, but doing a whole day of them was a touch excesive as there is onlyl so much variation to the theme as it were. (Some pictures will be put up).

We went back to Hamamatsu on the sunday and spent the afternoon walking about having a look at the shops etc. Theres not much to it for what amounts to the city centre of one of the most commercially important regions of Japan (Yamaha, suzuki, toyota and honda are all based around the area).

Mon to wednesday was spent with solid state, I thought the lectures were abit boring and there was a lack of much else to do. Altough we did get to go in a clean room and take some non working samples (which are now at work to be used in displays).

Going out with SSd was fun, they are not as heavy drinking as ETD but we still had a good time and we went to kareoke twice with them. I only sang a couple of numbers, Hakuna matata and Superman (counting crows) which required no actual tune, being as I can't sing.

There is something disturbing about the karake bars, they are chaperoned by middle aged women who constantly top up your drink, I don't find this to be that nice as its slightly concerning to think that someone is deliberatly trying to get you drunk so that you spend more money. Meh, the money wasn;t mine, and as I cottoned onto what they were doing I switched to coke pretty early on. Just in case they didn't wan't us leaving...

Breif meeting on thursday, then I travelled to the airport and stayed in a near by hotel overnight before leaving on the Firday.

Perfect flight back, again there was no one in the seat next to me, the seat next to that was filled by the kind of girl that you see walking down the plane aisle and think "I hope she is next to me!" - result. The issue was that she started to cry as we were taking off, logic predicted she had left someone special at the gate, best not to interfere. Eye candy is still always good.

Watched films all the way back, including the ever amazing Robin wIlliams in RV. Thats going to be a classic one day. Shortly after hell has frozen over. Luck number slevin was a good film with lots of clever witty dialogues and I really enjoyed it. I will buy a copy of it when I find it somewhere. Davinci code was ok, not great, but nevermind cant have them all. X men 3 was good as always, Famke almost distracted me from the girl next to me, close run thing.

Then I was back to sunny old england, the trips weather had been somewhat overcast, and there had only been a couple of times when I had to wear my sunnies.

Saturday I was doing my bit on the beaver fun day by helping to run the assult xourse. Everything went well. Jet lag kicked in at 9 when I pretty much passed out in my bed fully clothed.

Sunday I went to the gym to do the first bit of exercise in two weeks and found that I was trying to hard too fast and had to admit defeat after 40mins of running. I will start again soon.

Then off to Leeds. I gave a presentation on X-ray products on the monday, I took roughly 5 mintues ot give my ten minute presentation, my first proffesional one. I had no clue as to what I was meant to be talking about and giving the audience wasn't even sure I should have been giving one. All very strange. I will do better next time - whats important is that I know I wasn't that good and need to improve.

This week has flown by at work, I havne't been too busy as Kelly has been an absolute star whilst I was away and pretty much done everything I had to do. Well worth getting the extra presents for her.

Off to Weymought next week for an actual holiday."

 

So if I were not to rhyme

this would be my crime

hope you reas it alll

and have had a ball

 

Peace out