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Solar Eclipse

Today, in some part of Asia, we had Solar Eclipse. Starting from India in the morning, it ends up in the Pacific Ocean. In Tokyo, we had 2/3 eclipse, but it was raining in this morning.

Some people went to southern island to see it, but I and most of our fellow employees work at the office, as usual. In Tokyo, it was around 11 o'clock in the morning, so about 20 of us went out and looked at the sky. Really curious guys here.

Very fortunately, the rain stopped, and the clouds sometimes became thinner, so time to time we could see the crescent-like sun amongst the clouds! Happily enough, we did not have to use eye glasses, or something like that, because of thick clouds, which we should thank the weather, in a sense.

In the building where our office is, there are several companies, but only our employees went out and look at the sky:)

The below video is shot at Iwojima, or Iohtoh, where none expect officials stay now.

Summer, summer, summer

Rainy season has finished. Summer has come to Tokyo. July, August and September, we will have tropical days, the lowest temp. is 25 in C, max. 35 (terrible) in this part of Japan.
How can I survive this season? I have been living on this hot islands for many years, so don't worry :wink:

This morning, I got up at 5 and got on train at 5:30. It's not very hot in the morning, and the famous Japanese traffic jam doesn't crash me before 7. I arrived at the office before 7, opened the lock of the front door, then started working in the early morning. Working alone in the quite office is comfortable indeed.
Took lunch at half past 11 (we have no canteen in Tokyo!), then leave there before 5. 7 to 5 means I work for 10 hours. Oh, my... Don't blame me.
I can leave office at 4 in the afternoon. But in this Japanese company, we have to work for 8 hours and take at least 1 hour's rest. So I have to stay there for 9 hours, not like the office in Norway.

There is no use for crying over Japanese system at the moment. If I did not know the foreign systems, I didn't envy the people there. OK, I will work. Thank you.

"Tropical Night"

In summer, some people want to go to tropical resort. Tropical island, that sounds great, but not to our people living in the city.

Yesterday night was so terrible. The minimum temperature was 25 degrees in Centigrade. It's not maximum, but minimum. Damn, global warmings, and so called "heat island" phenomenon.
The night whose minimum temperature was above 25 is called "Tropical Night" here in Japan, but it is not academic term, so you can't find it at Wikipedia, except CJK's.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/熱帯夜

Oh, the Heat island is listed at Wikipedia, which I did not know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island

It's still July, you know. So probably until the middle of September, we have to endure and contrive to survive in such a tremendous heat, hi.
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