It’s Christmas Day and it’s a normal working day. Actually, it’s not just normal because at around 1:30PM, we received an email informing us that we’d be having a code review at 3PM.
So much for Christmas mode, huh? We were grilled with questions not only on the portions we did, but on the whole system. […]

Merry Christmas to All!
All I wanted for Christmas is to spend it with my family. But since this is impossible, I’m so grateful that God gave me friends here in Osaka to help me forget about being extremely homesick. ^-^ Yesterday’s small Christmas gathering was warm and fun … it gave me a “taste” of […]

Idel and I were so “engrossed” with our coding tasks when a teammate approached us to immediately participate in a meeting that was never announced. When we entered the conference room, the meeting had already begun and there were four strangers conducting the meeting. I had no idea who those people were. They seem to […]

You better watch out, You better not cry
You better not pout I’m telling you why
Santa Claus is coming to town …
It’s December already! The choir at the church started singing Christmas carols last Sunday, making me more homesick. To hold back my tears and since I could strongly feel the Christmas spirit (receiving […]