Oceanshaft

Visited a friend's home on Saturday, took a route that I've never been along before. It's always fun to drive a new route, so long as you're not pressed for time and the traffic is not too bad. Have not yet bought a city map, mainly rely on some tourist maps I happen to have, printed maps from Yahoo! and hand-drawn maps. I find printing out the whole route to be a waste of paper, so I just draw a map which usually consists of a line (the route) and the names of road intersections where I must turn. A few additional lines are added in for alternatives if I miss a turning. Go over the route on Yahoo! a few times, print a detailed map of the final destination and I'm set.

Of course, this only works for trips involving getting from point A to point B. And I still hate driving in really crowded downtown areas.

Had a good time on Saturday, although playing with my friend's kids took up a lot of talktime. Was fun though.

Sometimes, even a little can go a small way.

Last Saturday (8th October) went on a day trip to Unzen and Shimabara. そうですね。仁田峠に行ったけどその日は曇っているから景色はよく見えない。雲仙地獄も見回った。面白いけど、あっちこっちに走っている水管はあまりにも目立つことで、自然の雰囲気は失われている。なんか人口的な感じやね。島原に行って、平成大噴火などを記念する雲仙岳災害記念館に行った。良かったけど、何かちょっと物足りない感じで終った。福岡に帰って晩ご飯を食べ、解散。

Yes, we went to Unzen and didn't go to an onsen. Hahaha. Well, we were too tired and wanted to head back in time for dinner.

Lessons start tomorrow.

Finally some nice weather after a few days of cloud and rain. Went for 飲み会 last night with the other M1s followed by roughly 5 hours of karaoke. Am feeling slightly light-headed right now, but well within tolerance limits. Too bad I have a lecture to attend today. Just finished the morning session, will head for the afternoon session soon.

It's such nice weather, I want to go out!

Bought my first digital camera today. あいかわらず、高い買い物すると時間かかるね、私。ビックカメラからカタログを取って、じっくり見た。そして、店にもどり、また本体を見る。選択が三つになった。それからまた時間かかったな。まあ、でも結局決めて、買った。Finally, I can get back to taking photographs after a hiatus of a few months since my camera got spoilt.

Hope I won't be too lazy to go and print out photographs after I take them. That's one of the reasons why I preferred film cameras - I was forced to get prints.