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  • A Party with High School Classmates

    One day, a postcard arrived at my flat inviting me to a party hosted by an old boys’ and girls’ association of the high school, to be held on 27 April this year in Takarazuka. I had never seen such a party with my high school classmates before, since the commencement ceremony 21 years before. I wanted to see how the people had changed their faces and figures from what they had been in high school, so I replied to the sender that I was going to attend and booked airline tickets.

    As the plane from Narita Airport to Osaka was scheduled to depart at 6.25 in the morning, and there were no trains to Narita from where I live that would have let me catch the plane, I drove to the airport at midnight. I parked it in the car park to sleep until the terminal building opened.

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  • British Hills in Spring

    Inside the Barracks

    I visited the British Hills for the first time this year because the snow melted and it became accessible by car.

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  • Festivals in Spring

    I went out and walked around various places during this year’s cherry blossom season. Here are some of the pics.

    Cherry blossoms
    Cherry blossoms
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  • Asterisk at Home

    I set up Asterisk 1.8 for my home phones in the old server once used to a file server. Registered an IP desk phone and IP softphone installed in my iPhone5 to the server, and successfully placed calls to each other, talked to each other, listened to voicemail while unregistered one party.

    It was tough to set up the outbound/inbound call configuration to/from the PSTN. I managed to do it, and now I can talk to anybody with my IP phones!

  • Changed a Garage

    I found an open-air car park near my flat and signed a contract for it at the real estate agency. I use a lift parking within my flat so far, but my car is supposed to be stowed underground, so it’s too much trouble to lift my car to the ground, bring my car out of the gondola and lift it down again every time I drive out. Besides, the monthly fee for the new garage is lower than the annoying automated garage!

    As the contract took effect on 1 March, I moved my car to the new garage. Now I can open the bonnet to check the engine oil level and brake fluid level before driving. I couldn’t do it at the old automated garage.

  • Korean Embassy with an Indian Friend

    I got acquainted with Mrinalini Ghosh at Badoo. She is an English teacher from India, living near Shinjuku. She invited me to the Korean Embassy in Japan, where there was a small exhibition on Korean Lunar New Year celebrations.

    A girl in chima jeogori and Mrinalini Ghosh

    Mrinalini is on the right, and on the left is a girl in a chima jeogori (Korean traditional dress).

    Dduk gook

    This is dduk gook (rice cake soup), eaten in Korea during the New Year.