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Keitai ChessToday, I downloaded a Chess game software for my mobile phone.　Unfortunately, there is one defect that I found. (FYI, Chess is not widely played in Japan, though they have this board game called Shogi which is very similar to Chess.)

I needed to call my bank in the Philippines. Fortunately, the bank has a toll-free number so I can call them without worrying much about the cost. I checked the toll-free number from the website of the bank and this is what is written:

In Tokyo, and in most Japanese cities that I've been to, there are no widely-circulated local newspapers and only national dailies such as the Asahi, Yomiuri or Mainichi Shinbun are being sold. As the circulation of these national dailies usually reach millions, the advertising rate naturally goes high and this makes it very expensive for small establishments to advertise in newspapers.

Last Sunday, members of our Church in Tokyo held a bowling tournament . I don't know what happened but I got the highest score! Yay! I think I just got lucky. Anyway, it was fun and I took home the first prize - a free trip for two to Europe. Hehehe. Just kidding, the prize was a state-of-the-art electric fan. Cool!!!

If you try to install and open the NetBeans IDE in a Japanese environment, you'll get your menus and messages in Japanese. This is true even if you chose English in the Netbeans download page. The reason for this is that Netbeans is multilingual and will start with the locale of your system -- which is usually set to Japanese Locale for people like me who use Japanese Windows OS.