Japan Blog
The Second Semester Starts Now! ~ Connor Perrin
10th April 2017, 10:38 amAs you probably guessed, my second semester starts today :)
Taking nine modules again this semester so this should be fun. Unfortunately I have two, three module days so that's going to be a pain but that does mean I have three, one module days, tit for tat I guess.
Oh and Granny and Norman will be pleased to hear that I now have my host family address :)
Not sure I like the new 'menu' section ~ Connor Perrin
5th April 2017, 11:26 pmAfter spending some time just looking at the menu section... I'm not sure I actually like it lol, I think I'll keep it for practical reasons but I think I'll hide it from the general public.
Anyway! Today has been very uneventful, I went for a walk through the wonderfully pretty sakura blossoms, I took lots of videos so expect some 'arty' video soon :)
Oh and finally got some kind of approval for my final year project, just need to get it... approved lol.
New Section ~ Connor Perrin
4th April 2017, 1:31 pmI've recently been working on a new section of the website, currently called 'Menu', it's currently in Alpha testing and what not.
Louise and I will ponder what we should have for dinner most nights and often we can't remember what we can actually cook, so I thought I'd make a new section on the website helping us remember lol and then it occurred to me, why not add a 'suggestion' page, letting you (the reader) suggest food for us to cook :D
I'm expecting great things from Granny and Norman :D
Currently I've got 9 things my 'todo' list and so far I've done, one second, let me count... none :( I think I'll stop programming after lunch :D
We played badminton for a second time!! ~ Connor Perrin
31st March 2017, 4:43 pmFor the first time in Japan, Louise and I played the same sporting activity for the second time!
So far we've played:
Badminton
Table Tennis
Ice Skating
Baseball
Golf
Up until today, we've failed at trying to do any of these for a second time and we nearly failed again today. Louise took a day off work today so we could play badminton in the morning and then she could work on getting another internship for when she returns to China (sometime in August). So we got up early, left for the gym and.... full, we we're too late, yet again. So we went home and decided to try again at 12:30 (The next session) and we were in luck!! We played!! It was great fun :)
I had planned to take a picture in the hall but forgot, so the icon is a bit random lol.
Worst Lunch EVER! ~ Connor Perrin
30th March 2017, 4:46 pmJust finished cleaning the house and I thought it's about time for lunch, now I normally have a 'don' which pretty much means a bowl of rice and some meat. Unfortunately I don't have enough rice, so it was time to be... creative...
Yes, I could have just walked down to the shop at the end of the road but that's too easy, I decided to raid the fridge and found some noodles, so ramen? Well after cooking the noodles I realised something wasn't right as it was covered in some kind of ooze, the best way to describe it is the mucus that slugs produce. Either way, I pressed on and plated up my new meal... After about 5 minutes I released my mistake and stopped eating it and decided to have a couple of apples instead.
End of the story? No, it gets worse. So I couldn't just leave a bowl full of... noodles and slug mucus, I attempted to bin it without touching it... unfortunately I missed the bin and.... SPLAT!... oh dear :( I think I'll just stick to rice...
Hacked? ~ Connor Perrin
29th March 2017, 11:16 pmSo someone logged into my account and posted a picture and made some posts, not sure why but no damage was done :)
Changed some things here and there, so the you'll need to re-login for the cookies to be set :)
Expect more picture content tomorrow
Back in action! ~ Connor Perrin
24th March 2017, 2:26 pmAfter a couple weeks of traveling with the family, it's time to add some pictures to the website :)
I would give a you a run down of our adventure, but that would take a long time, so I've decided to make a video.
Unfortunately I didn't take any videos on the GoPro, so it'll be more of a slide show video.
Expect it some time in the next week or so.
Getting everything ready ~ Connor Perrin
28th February 2017, 10:24 pmSo, Boris and Sister Child are due to arrive in Tokyo in less than a week!! Amazing! Have we got everything ready? No... That's my bad.
We've nearly got everything ready, just need to clean the house, book the bullet train and get another pillow for Sunday night (as Boris and Sister Child are staying with us).
Louise has been amazing! She has found wonderful places to eat, visit and even things to do; and to top it all of, she has done all this whilst working so hard; today she came home an hour late, the poor girl works so hard sometimes. For a treat we had a curry.. DELIVERED!! It was very nice. We also watched the end of The Parent Trap, which Louise rated NyanNyan/10 :D
Oh and the picture was taken in Yamagata before we jumped in the Onsen.
Updating the website ~ Connor Perrin
15th February 2017, 2:07 pmI haven't really been uploading to the website recently, however I have been working on the website everyday.
So not an awful lot to talk about.
Things I've updated:
A new image viewer as the old one was horrible.
On the front page, comments are automatically added without needing to refresh the page.
On the map page, you can click 'Show Locations' and it will list all the locations we've been to. I intend to have it so that you can click them and it'll show you where they are in Japan (but that's a bit hard lol - EDIT, scrap that, just did it lol, )
The order in which comments are seen has been flipped (Newest at the top).
The comment box has been placed above the comments.
Comments on the 'Pictures' page are defaulted to 'closed', simply click 'show comments' to see the comments
Oh and I've got an ANNOYING story. So I went to the ATM machine as I needed some quick cash, I wanted to withdraw about 3,000 yen (~£20). Now in Japan, you can select the language you want, normally I just select Japanese, now in Japanese they have two characters ? (sen, meaning thousand) ? (man, meaning Ten's of thousands). Now for some reason I clicked English, so these characters were replaced with (0,000 and 000). Now I was in a rush so typed '3' then pressed '0,000' assuming that was the thousands button... it wasn't, so instead of withdrawing £20... I withdraw £200.... ARRRRGGHHHHH... very annoying.
An Amazing Weekend! ~ Connor Perrin
12th February 2017, 10:55 pmThis weekend has been simply wonderful!
As this Valentines days falls on a Tuesday, we decided to have a Valentine weekend.
I'm not going to give anything away here, but be sure to keep your eye out for a new video, just know that it was amazing!!
In terms of the lack of content, that's mainly my fault as the for last couple of days I've been working on some new code that will improve the image viewing experience, unfortunately I run into several problems, this met I spend about 6 hours putting everything pack (hence why you can't tell the difference lol). I plan to work on it some more tomorrow.
Anyway, it's late here and I've got to get up early tomorrow to have a chat with an old friend.
Night all