In the last few weeks we’ve looked for an apartment, last week we signed a Korean document, which is, in all likelihood, a lease.

Today we moved in.

As promised, the first pictures. I’ll do more when there’s light outside.

When I get a mouse tomorrow and I figure out how to show dimensions I’ll finetune the layout. But for now:

Main room + Kitchen:

Room 1:

Room 2:

Master bedroom:

And some views from the roof terrace which may or may not be ours to use:

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Quote of the day:

I think it’s fair to conclude that a sport store in Korea means either a Golf store or Hiking store

- Raphaëlle

Obviously the counter ran out
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Quote of the day:

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

- Mark Twain

LOTSA SNOW

Oh man, it’s gorgeous outside. Absolutely breathtaking.
Sure, it’s cold. And with the wind the way it tends to be it’s worse than that, fucking freezing comes to mind. But in the right light it’s breathtaking.

And lets face it, what is more fun than snow. I felt like a little schoolboy outside today. And I know that doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that I was going to school. It all has to do with what I saw and what I felt.

It started fairly tame yesterday with only the white view . . .

Today was worse though . . . snow flying about quite vigorously withe impressive wind speeds

snow was coming into my arboretum as well


Now, considering that has a roof over it I knew outside would be worse


You can even see the snowsweeps on the ice

Not easily deterred it was ON TO SCHOOL
You can tell the snow was having fun by the way it strove to represent a racewheel

and when it stopped trying

School was suffering equal onslaught though



and getting through the untouched snow of the last few meters where noone in their right mind would be (though there were at least 4 other people at school later in the afternoon)

Now follows a slower part of my day. It included noodles, 6 cups of hot cocoa (and a trip to the bathroom to pee)- and can I just say “Thank you for the free cocoa machines” to my school- and 5-6 hours of crunching numbers. So I won’t bore you with that. I certainly didn’t photograph any of it.

On the way back I picked a time with no snow falling to head back. And karma rewarded me with a grand total of 10 snow-free seconds before starting the rain, hail and after 30-or-so seconds: Snow.

The trip back also had me pausing for pictures:

and after a bit more snow tried to force itself through my derailleur

You can see the poor thing being detached. I had to lug the thing back the rest of the way


my own snowangel (though not very visible)


And finally

Eventhough I had nothing to do with that one.

For more pictures go here

Bonus picture:

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Quote of the day:

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottory

- Bill Watterson

That’s that over with. May his noodely appendage forgive my lack of enthusiasm

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Quote of the day:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day

More interesting stories, trip descriptions and stuff later

Hmmmmm, the doors. Infinitely better than “T is weer voorbij, die mooie zomer” don’t you think.

I am at the office, where I have been working my butt off eversince that eventfull holiday in Hokkaido. I won’t say that I wasn’t busy before then, and I won’t deny a certain slacking at times but the last week has been hectic. I stayed after my nominal leaving time on every single day.
Granted, twice was for a party.

But as of 14:14 I have finished the last of what I had to do.

All projects have been closed or handed over
Continuation manuals have been written (In english AND Japanese)
Regrouped all data into a more understandable structure for those that come after me (I have 103 subdirectories and over 4 gigs of raw data)
Wrote a manual for the data structure
Wrote and delivered 1 presentation
Wrote another presentation which I will deliver on wednesday
Re-wrote said presentation twice on the whims of my boss and the Confidentiality agreement
Said goodbye to people in 3 labs
Wrote and delivered my goodbye speech and the safety announcement of the day (日本にいる背が高い人、ご注意下さい）
Dragged the replacement 白人 to the volleyball game
Copied my Presentation to the USB stick
Cleaned up my desk (also a remarkably big job)
Found out I had one more souvenir and handed my (used for 1 year) Dutch Football (very orange) Mug over to a happy Japanese coworker (who knew the names of the entire team of Holland vs my . . . 3)

Now I just have to worry about getting those things outside of work done. Like finding out what my damn flight number is from London-Amsterdam

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Procrastination isn’t the problem, it’s the solution. So procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

- Ellen DeGeneres