Earth Shaking
Since my mother always calls me whenever there is the slighliest shake wherever in Japan, I might as well just start posing quake reports on my Blog, like Luis does.
We just had a degree 4 here in Kashiwa. The center was a 5- in east Ibaraki. No tsunami warning.It was quite long, but nothing out of the ordinary for me. The folks in the lab stopped a little to check the news on the TV, but that was that.
Besides that, today I found out that there is a Gym in the Solid State Physics Bldg, just besides mine. I’m planning to start using it from this week (went there today already), but I need a good excercise plan.
Lastly, I found one number for making collect calls from japan to Brazil. It is the “Brasil Direto” service by Embratel. The prices are somewhat steep, 1,87R$ the minute, plus 25% tax, so I’m still on the lookout for a cheaper service.
That’s it for today.
October 20th, 2005 at 1:36 am
I miss earthquakes…I used to place a glass of water in my room and when there was an earthquake there will be ripples in the water. Feels like Jurassic Park huh.
October 20th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Po, esse ano Kanto ta levando terremoto ate nao querer mais… Mas pelo menos sao em pequena escala… Pelo que vi na TV, eh o segundo essa semana, nao??? Se cuida…
A 1,78R$ o min mais taxa? Hmm…, eu tenho uns numeros aqui que fazem ligacao direta a cobrar Brasil-Japao, deve ser o mesmo, pelo preco… Tem varias empresas que ligam via embratel.
Minha familia me liga por R$ 1,00/min. Eles se cadastraram no Brasil TElecom, e se eu quero ligar, dou o famoso toque e eles retornam.
Se quiser depois eu te passo o numero!!
October 28th, 2005 at 9:18 am
I think these natural events which are so normal in Japan like earth quakes and typhons are the most scaring things about there. I hope you are already accustomed with it.
Did you try Skype or Google Talk to call to Brazil, yet? I think it’s a nice option to oversea people.
October 28th, 2005 at 11:08 am
Hey Reginaldo,
I don’t really think earthquakes and typhoons to be scary. Maybe because of my personality, but since I can’t do anything about them, I shouldn’t really be worrying myself.
I have tried Skype, and it work wonders. I haven’t tried the google talk voice messaging yet, though. Want to try. MSN’s voice messaging sucks.
But I have moved recently, and haven’t put net on my apartment yet, so no chatting for a little while.