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Hello guys.
After almost 2 years I suddenly decided to revive my LiveJournal. It’s a pretty abrupt decision, and knowing myself I can’t assure that I will actually keep it up, but I guess I can give it a try.
The title is the translation of an Italian saying, “chi non muore si rivede”. I felt it was fitting.
First of all, a little update on my life, because I think I’ve been a bit vague on Facebook and stuff.
After one year studying in Tsukuba (September 2009~September 2010) I went back to Italy, graduated and applied for an internship program in Japan through my university. I started the internship at the end of February 2011 and then the big Tohoku earthquake happened.
I was in Tokyo, so it wasn’t that bad, but of course it affected the country in many ways. In the beginning everyone wanted me to go back to Italy because of the earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear plant, but I had no intention of leaving Japan. After 2 weeks my boss called to tell me that the office was resuming normal operations and to ask me if I wanted to continue the internship because they needed an extra person. I went back to work and since my university was paranoid and wasn’t going to send other interns I was asked to continue the internship beyond the initially planned 3 months.
In July, when the company moved to a newer, bigger and nicer office, I was finally told that I would be hired as a normal employee. I had been working there for 4 months and learned enough things, they seemed to like me (especially the bosses, which is good I guess) and they could use another person, since the company is already quite small. They’d rather hire someone they knew than some unknown person, hence my employment.
At the beginning of October we started the paperwork and I got my working visa 2 weeks ago. My contract as a normal employee started last Monday. So now I’m officially working full time for the forwarding company I’ve been at since February, with a permanent contract.
I can’t say that I’m unhappy, I’m of course quite glad that I could finally get a job and a visa that allows me to stay in Japan. Now I’m waiting to have enough money to get a house, hopefully that will happen in February. I do think that I deserved my employment, because I think I’ve been quite honest about my work, never complained about having to work the same as full time with half the pay for 8 months, and learned as much as I can. Also, I got the internship because of my university grades and after a phone interview, so in the end my useless graduation finally served a purpose...
By the way, I’m working at a freight forwarding company, something I’d never even thought about but that isn’t so bad in the end. I was already made in charge of a few things, since I’m not really a complete newbie anymore, and the presence of a new intern who came last week kind of made me feel like, yeah, I’m employed... (You know, the feeling you get when you’re not the one with the least knowledge anymore)
This is in short what I’ve been doing for the past 9 months. I haven’t really been on the internet a lot, I mean, not on LiveJournal at least. I’ve mostly been active on Twitter and Facebook, but I’m not gonna link them here because I feel it’s pointless to have 400 blogs/social networks and write the same things everywhere, so I’m using them in different ways and I have different people friended here and there. (My Twitter is completely in Japanese so most people wouldn’t even care I guess, and my Facebook is only for people I actually know in real life)
As for my fandoms (now this is something that feels more like my usual LJ, lol), I still love Kuroshitsuji and I look forward to the new chapters every month. I’m also doing some editing and quality check for the BB.net scanlation team and I wish I had the time to do more like I used to in the past... OTL
I’m quite annoyed at Naruto because it has been boring for at least the last 2 years but I think longer... Though I still read it weekly on Jump.
I’m of course still a Prince of Tennis fan, lol. That will never die, seriously... I’m not as rabid as years ago, but I do read the chapters on Square Jump and I’m looking forward to the new anime in January, obviously for the lolz.
My new major fandom is Tiger & Bunny. I still feel disturbed that I got into something this big because I’m not used to “new fad” fandoms.. (Indeed the reason I got into it is simply that I tried it and loved it, I didn’t even knew it was popular at the time) I’ve also never actually been in the fandom, I just watched it alone every week and got hyped alone and fangirled alone and bought a crapload of doujinshi alone and fangirled over them alone and so on, lol. I have no idea what the international fandom is like, honestly, and I’m too scared to get into it...
One of the reasons I decided to revive my LJ is that in the past I really used to do lots of translations, and it’s ironic that now that my Japanese is even better and so I’m supposed to be also faster when translating I’m actually doing nothing of the kind. I’ve encountered people’s ungratefulness over and over, but I still feel like I should do something. Well, I do like translating, I just need more time to get into the mood and get around to concretely doing it. There are so many things I’d like to translate... So I hope that writing a LiveJournal will get me in the mood of “writing” more, though mine is just a feeble hope.
I’ll apologize to all the people who wrote to me here or asked about my doujinshi sales. I’m sorry for not replying, I just haven’t used LJ at all and all the doujinshi I have listed in my already existing sales are in boxes in a warehouse that I can’t currently access, so I cannot sell them for at least another 2-3 months. I do plan on putting up a new sale shortly to sell some old Prince of Tennis doujinshi I had in Italy and some T&B djs I got hold of recently. (Also because I need money OTL)
Ok, I managed to write this one. Now let’s see how long I manage to keep it up without disappearing again... I’m not very confident but I will at least try. Also, I usually don’t really make overly personal posts, but I think many of my real life friends don’t really know what I’ve been doing since last year, especially after the employment offer, because I’ve been a bit secretive on the net, so I thought it would be a nice chance to update everybody (well mostly the ones who are interested) on my current situation.
Well then, see ya?
After almost 2 years I suddenly decided to revive my LiveJournal. It’s a pretty abrupt decision, and knowing myself I can’t assure that I will actually keep it up, but I guess I can give it a try.
The title is the translation of an Italian saying, “chi non muore si rivede”. I felt it was fitting.
First of all, a little update on my life, because I think I’ve been a bit vague on Facebook and stuff.
After one year studying in Tsukuba (September 2009~September 2010) I went back to Italy, graduated and applied for an internship program in Japan through my university. I started the internship at the end of February 2011 and then the big Tohoku earthquake happened.
I was in Tokyo, so it wasn’t that bad, but of course it affected the country in many ways. In the beginning everyone wanted me to go back to Italy because of the earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear plant, but I had no intention of leaving Japan. After 2 weeks my boss called to tell me that the office was resuming normal operations and to ask me if I wanted to continue the internship because they needed an extra person. I went back to work and since my university was paranoid and wasn’t going to send other interns I was asked to continue the internship beyond the initially planned 3 months.
In July, when the company moved to a newer, bigger and nicer office, I was finally told that I would be hired as a normal employee. I had been working there for 4 months and learned enough things, they seemed to like me (especially the bosses, which is good I guess) and they could use another person, since the company is already quite small. They’d rather hire someone they knew than some unknown person, hence my employment.
At the beginning of October we started the paperwork and I got my working visa 2 weeks ago. My contract as a normal employee started last Monday. So now I’m officially working full time for the forwarding company I’ve been at since February, with a permanent contract.
I can’t say that I’m unhappy, I’m of course quite glad that I could finally get a job and a visa that allows me to stay in Japan. Now I’m waiting to have enough money to get a house, hopefully that will happen in February. I do think that I deserved my employment, because I think I’ve been quite honest about my work, never complained about having to work the same as full time with half the pay for 8 months, and learned as much as I can. Also, I got the internship because of my university grades and after a phone interview, so in the end my useless graduation finally served a purpose...
By the way, I’m working at a freight forwarding company, something I’d never even thought about but that isn’t so bad in the end. I was already made in charge of a few things, since I’m not really a complete newbie anymore, and the presence of a new intern who came last week kind of made me feel like, yeah, I’m employed... (You know, the feeling you get when you’re not the one with the least knowledge anymore)
This is in short what I’ve been doing for the past 9 months. I haven’t really been on the internet a lot, I mean, not on LiveJournal at least. I’ve mostly been active on Twitter and Facebook, but I’m not gonna link them here because I feel it’s pointless to have 400 blogs/social networks and write the same things everywhere, so I’m using them in different ways and I have different people friended here and there. (My Twitter is completely in Japanese so most people wouldn’t even care I guess, and my Facebook is only for people I actually know in real life)
As for my fandoms (now this is something that feels more like my usual LJ, lol), I still love Kuroshitsuji and I look forward to the new chapters every month. I’m also doing some editing and quality check for the BB.net scanlation team and I wish I had the time to do more like I used to in the past... OTL
I’m quite annoyed at Naruto because it has been boring for at least the last 2 years but I think longer... Though I still read it weekly on Jump.
I’m of course still a Prince of Tennis fan, lol. That will never die, seriously... I’m not as rabid as years ago, but I do read the chapters on Square Jump and I’m looking forward to the new anime in January, obviously for the lolz.
My new major fandom is Tiger & Bunny. I still feel disturbed that I got into something this big because I’m not used to “new fad” fandoms.. (Indeed the reason I got into it is simply that I tried it and loved it, I didn’t even knew it was popular at the time) I’ve also never actually been in the fandom, I just watched it alone every week and got hyped alone and fangirled alone and bought a crapload of doujinshi alone and fangirled over them alone and so on, lol. I have no idea what the international fandom is like, honestly, and I’m too scared to get into it...
One of the reasons I decided to revive my LJ is that in the past I really used to do lots of translations, and it’s ironic that now that my Japanese is even better and so I’m supposed to be also faster when translating I’m actually doing nothing of the kind. I’ve encountered people’s ungratefulness over and over, but I still feel like I should do something. Well, I do like translating, I just need more time to get into the mood and get around to concretely doing it. There are so many things I’d like to translate... So I hope that writing a LiveJournal will get me in the mood of “writing” more, though mine is just a feeble hope.
I’ll apologize to all the people who wrote to me here or asked about my doujinshi sales. I’m sorry for not replying, I just haven’t used LJ at all and all the doujinshi I have listed in my already existing sales are in boxes in a warehouse that I can’t currently access, so I cannot sell them for at least another 2-3 months. I do plan on putting up a new sale shortly to sell some old Prince of Tennis doujinshi I had in Italy and some T&B djs I got hold of recently. (Also because I need money OTL)
Ok, I managed to write this one. Now let’s see how long I manage to keep it up without disappearing again... I’m not very confident but I will at least try. Also, I usually don’t really make overly personal posts, but I think many of my real life friends don’t really know what I’ve been doing since last year, especially after the employment offer, because I’ve been a bit secretive on the net, so I thought it would be a nice chance to update everybody (well mostly the ones who are interested) on my current situation.
Well then, see ya?