I’ve been pretty busy recently. Also partially because I had a guest, and it’s hard to sit down and write something when there is a friend around to talk to !
The past weekend was rather busy too. Friday night I went out but without much expectations, as I was tired from the week of work anyway. Saturday I went to the swimming pool, got a vague shade of redness, thanks to the usual sun-screen protection 20 ! In the evening I went with some friend to watch the hanabi (花火: fireworks, the first kanji, hana (花) means flower. The second kanji, read as bi (火) means fire… simple !). In summer there are several fireworks displays in Tokyo (and all over Japan I guess). They are very good, I think Japan actually has the best fireworks technology. I did some research about Japanese fireworks when I had to make a simple fireworks particle system for TGM3.
A technology that instead failed on me, was the cell phones’ one ! I got to the station with my friend. Then I proceeded to call my other friend, which was already in a place where we were supposed to meet him. He had tickets to a large space in a driving school, for people to sit outside without any structure obfuscating the view… however, I couldn’t not reach him by phone ! There was an overload of calls for that area. I managed to get to talk to him once, set a place to meet, but we failed to meet. We only met again half an hour later.. in time to see the last half hour of fireworks. Woo !
Troubles aside, the spectacle was very good. I tried to take pics and short video clips, but there is little one can do with a standard digital camera.
After the fireworks, we all went to my friends’ home. There we watched Enter the Dragon, very good movie. Was actually the first time for me, even though I’m a Bruce Lee’s fan. I’ve basically seen it in all shapes because so many other movies and parodies derived form that single movie, so, finally I closed the circle by watching the original 8)
After the movie, we all went to a club, but I somewhat regret the move, as the club was crowded as it usually is on Saturday, plus the air conditioning was worse than usual. Truly a sweatshop ! (if one considers that, us, the poor customers, actually go there to spill their guts making the rich even richer !).
Sunday I went to the gym and then to a matsuri. A matsuri is a gathering of make-shift stands where all sorts of typical foods are sold. Many girls wear the yukata (simpler dress than kimono), some may wear a kimono. Some guys wear some typical clothes too. Sounds fun, if not for the damning heat and the amazing crowd.. woo.. too much for me.

Coding, I haven’t been doing that outside work. I need to start again however, fack this social bullshit. There is a lot of code to be written out there. Every day a new tool or application comes out, I could have done something too, but, no ! I’m doing social stuff. This is not good.

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