Last saturday I went with some friends to see a Brazilian Samba parade here in Tokyo in the Asakusa area !
Here are the pictures. I made a public album with faces of shy friends removed. To do that I “copied” (it’s shortcut kind of feature) pictures from the private album into the public one. However PicasaWeb seems to lose the order of pictures when doing that, and so they are not in the proper chronological order. Not a big deal I guess !
By the end of September my duties at my current company will be over. I don’t have a next job yet, but there seem to be interest from the companies I was interested to. So far, so good !
I fear interviews as I will have to pull out my best Japanese.. of which I’m not particularly proud. Many times people ask “do you speak Japanese ?”. That’s such a broad question to someone that is struggling to do it. There are many levels and contexts that one has con consider to answer to that question.
On the coding side, I decided to give a try to Google’s project hosting. I’ve started gathering and fixing code that I’ve had laying around, to put it out as open source. That includes DSharingu and the related Pascalibs, a quick name I gave to my libraries for the occasion. I’ve grouped the whole OS coding thing under a new blog which I’m doing with Blogger beta.. just to make sure that I go the whole Google solution 8)
I don’t foresee much activity on this, but it’s nice to have something out there. Nowadays, personal code is hardly much of a trade secret. I’m more afraid to lose it on a system crash than risking to have someone rip off some pieces of my code… but who really wants to spend countless hours to understand somebody else’s code ?!
As far as “love life” goes.. well I remember now what relationships are all about. I remember as a kid I was somewhat forced by circumstances to watch those black and white love movies where the two protagonist are all happy and eventually break up out of some stupid situation and then get together again for good. Boring, but that’s one recurrent pattern. Relationships are a continuum of repeating patterns, an endless script.
My current state of things involves at least one quarrel per week. Spend one day fighting, a couple of days getting back on good terms and the rest is just waiting until the next fight. Most of the times it’s just a word a joke, a thing said with a different tone of voice. Sometimes I make some stupid mistakes.. but I hardly ever get any mercy. I basically have to admit being sole responsible of something and ask forgiveness as I whip my back in pain.
I think that I’m a very honest person but that’s not enough. Actually it’s not a good thing. To have a good relationship, I’m told, one is supposed to tell lies !
Language barrier is also a terrible thing. No matter how good of a thought you have, you are only as good as you can express yourself. But then again, even when language isn’t a barrier, there are so many issues with pride and different points of view.
ehhhhhh
Posted by Davide Pasca in Programming, Diary