Japan

It has been awhile really. You can imagine how tired I am everyday after work that I don't have that last bit of energy to blog. But I am back tonight because I have so much to tell after one month. Tonight dinner was so exceptional and encouraging which push me even more to reinvigorate this dusted virtual diary.

"When you expect the least, 

you receive surprise." 

If you asked me to summarise my life in Japan for the past one month. I have to admit that I am more than reluctant to depart for Japan initially. Japan has nothing that I am fancy about, if you really want me to say one maybe anime like Bleach, Naruto or One Piece. Other than that nothing else, not even to touch on the red light area where most of my friends are hyped about - the unholy amount of pornography in Japan (yeah, I think I still prefer American and European pornography). But as soon as time elapsed, I find the Japanese culture is no far from German ones. Their open minded thinking and how they take responsibility of their assignment. When we say 8 o'clock, punctuality tops all of your agendas. When it comes to work, seriousness is virtue.

I feel like I am a real engineer here. I do not perform miscellaneous tasks like most of the internships are doing. The first task I was assigned to was to co-develop the cutting technology with a junior engineer and senior engineer (also our supervisor) for titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) using mild carbon steel (S48C) as baseline. I learnt to analyse material physical properties and comparing it to base material for tool and cutting parameter selection using radar chart. But the more challenging part is my current second task which is to research on selecting the most suitable parameters for milling the new stainless steel alloy (KHR35CT and another two which I forgot the codename). This project is a real industrial project by customer from Saudi Arabia. Customers want to check on the capability of JTEKT (Toyoda) machine capability to cut the hardened alloy for cutting petrol pump casting. If the test result turns out positively, customers will buy machine from JTEKT.

Living in Japan is basically of very high standard, probably the highest in the world. You pay premium for almost everything here except a handful of stuff which you can get it from 100 yen shop (Daiso and so). But paying more means you are receiving something of really high quality which leave you peace at mind. Basically you do not need to worry for anything you buy here, from food to goods to service almost everything is strictly inspected before it reaches to the customers. I am a person of little psycho which seek perfectionism for things I throw interest in so this might be the place best matches my attribute.

Miss home? Hrm maybe a little for Kuching. Keeping in touch with my family almost everyday means I am with them every moment. I feel their presence here which makes me feel more homy than ever. The only thing is I miss about Tail. Since she is taking her foot off in Kuching to London ten days later. That's all I have to lose. Singapore? Piece of shit if I ever could I would not even feel like returning to that hopeless land. Those people in NYP is making me losing my faith even once I thought of giving up because of you and you. My classmates, codename26, breakfast club, friends and juniors are all I am missing. If I could extend my stay in Japan, I would really love to. At least I am more focus on engineering interest rather than to whirl myself in the pool of politics.

Whatever it is I am starting to countdown to go back in a month time. And I cannot wait to touch down in KL to smell Malaysia in March. And then will fly off to Australia where I will reunion with most of my secondary classmates. 

(I am actually still regret why I did not take up my parents' decision for me to finish my foundation in Kuching and continue my degree in Melbourne. I was too impetuous to leave Kuching that time that I ended up here. But for the path I have taken, I will continue to march with His guidance.)