Woohoo!

Meg and I hooked up. It was the quickest and yet most fullfilling single to "in-a-relationship" I've had in a long time. We're being monogamous and we're dating so that qualifies for a relationship in my terms.

She's great. I spent the weekend with her and I am completely satisfied. She has a wonderful personality and I think we match well in many ways. Today is Valentine's. I can't wait to see her again and show her off to my friends (as bad as that may sound).

Japanese test tomororw...Date vs. Books

So I met this incredible girl on craigslist the other day. She responded to my post and I was floored. Most of the people who have responded to my ad were either not what I wanted or were guys. Why is it that gay guys respond to an ad in the Men for Women category?

Anyhow this girl is creative, intelligent, gorgeous, tall, multi-lingual and Japanese. She grew up in Japan and later in South America. She speaks portueguese, italian, spanish, english and japanese fluently. That's enough to put me to shame for sure. She's everything I've wanted in a girl for some time.

On top of the language skills she rides a sport bike and loves science fiction. I keep thinking even though she saw my picture she won't like me or something like that. I will know after tonight. I have a Japanese test tomorrow but I am going to go on this date instead. I'll just speak to her in Japanese! That's it, it's like studying but the best of both worlds! Who am I kidding?

Anyhow I am nervous but resolved to just being myself and hoping for the best. Megumi-chan, boku no garufurendo ni naritai ka na?

Argh! Math test...

Hmm, had a math test last night. Everybody's been pretty supportive so far. "Hey Gabe, how'd it go?" and "Did you do well?" and so on and so forth. Not sure how I did to be honest. Truth of the matter is that I think I might have done "OK" but I know for sure I need to study harder...

Let everybody know the details later...

Cool quote!

Humans were invented by water so it could get up hills.

How complicated can I make my schedule?

Hmm, my first blog entry. Well it seems that I'm at it again. Not sure if I'll ever get around to graduating but I am trying again. For those of you who don't know the story, condensed version, goes something a bit like this...

I got the job I wanted, as a computer programmer, based solely on my endless hours sitting in a room with in front of various computers. Everybody always told me I needed a degree in order to get this job but as it turned out I simply needed to be both good at it and have a passion for it. I did/do so I got the job.

About two an half years ago I visited Japan. Whilst I was there I decided I wanted to work there and attended a job interview. The hiring company wanted me and my skills but much to my dismay I learned that I needed either 10 years of on the job experience or a bachelors degree to get a working visa.

Back to the present I am still working towards a working visa but doing so is proving to be difficult since I am not in a position where I can sacrifice my job in order to concentrate on school.

This semesters courses are:

• Japanese 4 (continuing study of the Japanese language)
• Chinese 16A/B/C (3 units of Chinese characters hanzi)
• College Algebra (yeah yeah I know; a programmer still in algebra!? long story)
• Java Programming for Micro Devices (aka cell phones, PDAs, etc...)

Thats all for now folks. :)