what I see during blackout

Suddenly, the electricity is off. Well, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) informed us about this several days ago, but in fact there was no black out yesterday and the day before. I didn’t prepare anything for today’s but, well.. it’s happened. 仕様がない (“shiyouganai”, means: it is inevitable or can’t be helped).

Well, right now I can see nothing beside my 11 inch netbook, hence I decided to write something I learned during this crisis (if I may say so):

1. Facebook and twitter are the only two things you can access during a disaster. It connects you with your family, friends, embassy, etc., even it enables you to know what is actually happening at the moment. Please give Mr. Zuckerberg and the twitter founder noble prices.
2. Gadgets with long battery-life are priceless. Normally I prefer to use my old pc with bigger monitor for daily use, but somehow right now I love my little and cheap pc since it has 8 hours battery-life. So anyone, please buy Macbook Pro. It has big screen yet it has 8 hours battery-life.
3. I learned how to cook delicious soba and pasta! Well, the key for cooking pasta and soba or noodle is actually to keep the pasta/soba/noodle not too hard nor too soft. It’s simple actually. Stop being arrogant by thinking that you know everything and follow the instructions written on the cover. (The information you need is only about how long (duration) you need to boil them. No matter it’s written in English/Japanese/Indonesian, the duration will always be written in numbers).
4. Staying home all days make you extremely sleepy. Call me sleeping handsome. These last three days I have slept 7-8 hours in the night and 3-4 hours in the afternoon. Normally I slept only around 6-7 hours in the night. Well.., this is a good research topic for anyone who is interested with my snoring side.
5. You will know who have hated you so much until know during a disaster like this. It’s simple, if some persons didn’t contact you for a really long time but only during this time he contacts you say something inappropriate, well he is the guy.
6. When you get worried to the max about the situation, no joke sounds funny. Please give any joke you think funny to any one in Tokyo right now, you’ll get a punch on your nose.
7. Japanese buildings have strong structure. The reason why there’s only small number of victims in Tokyo is because no building collapse even though the earthquake was so strong. I really thank GOD for saving me and I really thank Japanese civil engineers for being so smart.
8. Japanese people have great mental character. The people who get worried to much here are only the foreigners. All Japanese in Tokyo do their daily work as if nothing has happened. Even my friend went to Shibuya for a walk on Tuesday. They are well-trained for this kind of situation. Salute for them!
9. I learned that actually in normal life we received radiation from sun, foods, hot spring, taking flights, health-check. That’s why I don’t worry about the minimum radiation level in Tokyo right now. Last year I took CT-scan which actually gave me 6900 micro Sievert, but right now I received 0.04 microSievert per hour. Even YOU who read this actually received 2400 microSievert per year no matter you want it or not. Recently I have been wondering if eating too much wasabi, karashi (mustard) and togarashi (chilli pepper) also give much radiation… Well, better not thinking about, I love them too much.
10. I have the best girl-friend in the world. You may protest, but first let me tell you this. When I got worried and was so stressful, my temper becomes worse. During that time, Jessica always shows her patience. When I worried about the radiation, she told me the information on number 9 above. When some Indonesian friends spread some hoax(-es?), and I became so upset, she made me calm. She called my parents several time to make them not panic. She helped me make my decisions so far. From this I am sure that she’ll be a great wife. And honestly, recently I think I have been a not-that-good-future-hubby.
11. Both calm and panic are contagious. One people from the church became panic and all decided to go back home. My Professor is so relax working in the laboratory and none of my lab. mates worries about anything.
12. Watching news the whole days and you’ll get paranoid in three days. Listening one nice song for three minutes and it’ll ease your nerves. Really, music has a great healing power.

I think that’s all for now. I still have two more hours to wait until the electricity ‘back to life’ again. No specific thing to do after this but hey.. why don’t I just listen to the music

To persist, to persist and to persist…, even in uncomfortable condition like this.

 

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