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    memories carved at the back of my brain

    Saturday, March 10, 2012

    march..
    mixture of the old and new, near the tokyo tower during the new year period where you can see the stores selling food =)


    finally its the last week (or rather 6 days!) that im going to be here after a long and tiring 90 days. daily madness of work, especially during the last month where i had to do a lot of catalytic reactions, working at least 11 hours a day (scientist actually say working >11 hours a day causes higher chance of depression haha). but its a norm here for them to work long here, or rather for certain profs all over the world. though i wish to say long hours does not equal to efficiency, yet their publications are rather quick and they get through projects rather quickly, showing that they do work long hours with efficiency. now you can understand why a lot of high quality publications come from them, and certain amount of respect must be given for that (though i still disagree with the long hours), and to date they have at least 10 nobel laurettes from Japan in Science.

    though im not mainly working on my own project due to a lot of problems being met and doing their work, at least part of the burden to come back and rush for the QE in july is gone as they agreed to let me include in my QE report and presentation (with restrictions of course). nevertheless, its already a surprise given that some groups protect their work furiously, or even individuals guard their own "area" and will argue within the group to not cause a so-called "clash" in case they want to do that, as even seen within my own group sadly. this point is still to date something that i cannot rationale out as it slows down work progress and efficiency. collaboration is what we need to learn, even within our own group. theres no point doing an overseas collaboration we do not know its application to our daily work. selfish human nature showing huh. but anyway hopefully i can have enough results to at least get through QE first.

    and its probably the 1st time that im quite excited to pack my luggage to go home! though i think it will be excessively overweight given that i've overbought stuff (food) here haha. hopefully i wouldn't have to pay that much for luggage excess! cant wait to reach home on friday! though i'm having a bit of mixed feelings as Japan is a nice place to travel and live in, just minus the work ethnic which was the main reason for my unhappiness here. though you can't speak their language, at least they treat everyone with respect and still try to help you in whatever way you can. best part is you can actually don't lock your main door at night! its quite safe here and you don't have to worry even when going back home at night, where street lamps are distanced further apart here. but still home is where the heart is =) and i've not been sleeping and eating well here since i came, so its finally a relief to get to go back home and rest better =)

    yay! looking forward to my flight on friday! as well as my korea trip in april! another marathon again (daegu international marathon) and hopefully it'll be a nice nice to run with good atmosphere! of course, hopefully my timing is within their cutoff time of 1.5h for 10km, even that i've not been running much since i came over! time to catch up on some training! tada~ =)


    9:17 PM //