My Family Visited Japan

 My father including my 2 sisters have spent 10 days to experience Japan. From 29-Feb-2008 to 10-Mar-2008, ely and I have brought them to various places in Tokyo, Honjo and Niigata. While staying here, we have been enjoy eating some Japanese foods that some of them cannot taste well. Our transportations are train, bus, taxi and walking. We have tried to ride bike altogether one time but it wasn’t comfort especially for my father.

Visiting Odaiba

Eating Sukiyaki

 

In front of Kappa sushi @ Honjo

 

On the way to dormitory

 

Having udon, soba, ramen, kyudon and kazudon

 

@ Tokyo Dome

 

In front of Tokyo Dome

 

Enjoy seeing and touching snow @Niigata

 

Having Nabee Soup 

 

Riding bicycle around Waseda Honjo Campus

 

In front of Government Metropolitan @ Shinjuku

 

Walking to Odakyu

 

In front of main gate of Meiji Shrine @Harajuku 

Our holiday in Yokohama

From 20 to 22 Feb 2008, we’ve been to Yokohama for holiday after first semester. It’s so attractive to see the port, sea, the tallest building in Japan and china town. On the first day we arrived Yokohama, one Khmer and two Myanmar friends had brought us to visit some shopping malls around Yokohama station and introduced some big sale shops for ending of winter. After that, we took subway to National Yokohama University. We’ve spent our dinner at Pasta & Pizza restaurant, Italian restaurant, which looked similar to Saizeriya. Then we walked to the hill of Yokohama dormitory where we slept there. Yokohama dormitory is quite old and each room does not provide a bath tube. We’ve to go to common place for having bath and cost 100yen for 10mn if we want to access hot water. Moreover, shared kitchen in common room also needs 10yen for cooking with limit amount of gas usage.

Day2, in the morning we walked around National Yokohama University campus and spent lunch in cafeteria. From afternoon, we started visiting Sakuragicho, Motomachi and China town. Tabehodai, eat free for 2500yen with 90mn was our dinner at a restaurant in China town. 5 persons in total, have eaten 61 dishes including desserts. And then we went back to dormitory.

Day3, we went back to Tokyo and visited Ueno straight away. And later on we come back our home sweet home, Honjo dormitory by school bus. These were what we’ve done while trip to Yokohama. Thanks for our friends in Yokohama who shared time for us.

Surprising lycog birthday

My friends just not to be named give me a shock with an unexpected birthday event. First, I think possibly my fiancee and friends should celebrate for me because they did the same for others. But it is different from what I thought because everybody prepares a good scene. My fiancee is one of the main actor who make me believe that they are eventually busy and of course not to celebrate for me tonight. In the morning, I have asked her to eat RAMEN SUMORY for dinner and she also agreed. So I cannot think that she will have a chance to do anything for me besides eating out with me. Moreover, a night before my birthday, I went out to make a snowman with Pink coat lady and she also told me that she was busy. With these information, I decided to go to labs to finish my tomorrow dead-line assignment and celebrate my birthday with my fiancee as usual. Second, in the labs, my Cambodian senior was there. This is another information to tell me to forget about birthday party with friends. Anyway, about 6:30PM, 3 of us went back dormitory and my fiancee prepared for dinner because we are lazy to ride bicycle for dining out. When it was about 8:00PM my fiancee asked me to throw garbage into the dump and she also went along with me. After returning, she asked me to go to lounge A where I realized everything. They prepared for surprising me.

Now I know that a tallest man among us with Rire went to supermarket to buy stuff and family of my senior helps to cook and Pink coat lady is a chef. They all worked cooperatively to make this event happen.

The story and scene have been well-prepared. I can say that again.

Thanks so much to my fiancee and my friends just not to name.

My Dell XPS M1330

Not a commercial break, nor is it a marketing. 

I have bought Dell XPS-M1330 since July 2007. According to CNET, it used to be the most-popular laptop with a stylish design ever seen before. Recently, its descendant is Dell XPS-M1530 which also receives TrustedReviews Award 2007. Regarding design of M1530, Dell takes the superb M1330 chassis and expands it to a 15.4 in frame. The purpose of using this laptop is versatilely ranking from mobility and performance. Moreover, as of January 24 2008, Dell is expanding its open-source offerings. The XPS M1330 laptop is now available with Ubuntu in Germany, the U.K, France and Spain.

It’s not bad!!!

Below is my Dell XPS M1330’s specification:

• CPU: Intel Core Duo T7200 / 2GHz
• L2 Cache: 4MB
• RAM: 2GB
• HDD: 160GB Serial ATA 7200rpm
• Display: 13.3′ TFT active matrix
• VGA: NVIDIA GeForce 8400M 128MB
• Optical Storage: DVD+/- RW Integrated
• Webcam: 2Megapixels Integrated
• WLAN: 802.11 abgn (MIMO)
• Bluetooth: Integrated with WLAN
• Card reader: 8 in 1 card reader
• Fingerprint
• HDMI port for high definition video plug into TV

It’s cooooooooooooooooooooooooool!

Present for Chinese New Year!

This Chinese New Year 2008, ely and I have no chance to join the event in Cambodia. However, we also celebrate a small one while our intensive class is started. Moreover, red packet or “ang pao” is not given to us but instead we get a big of “happiness” and “good fortune” as shown respectively from left to right.

This year is the year of rat. For those who have watched Ratatouille movie will enjoy the cleverness of a rat who later become a famous cook in Paris. Rat sometimes represents a cleverness and hardworking. So may I wish you to have a new revolution to success in all matters.

Happy Lunar New Year!