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Graves problemas financieros en Vueling (actualizado 14/04)

Mi novia compró un billete en Enero para ir a Madrid el fin de semana que viene (Abril). A las pocas semanas se pusieron en contacto con ella desde la compañía, Vueling, y le dicen que han cancelado el vuelo. … Sigue leyendo

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JapShake

I have tried sushi, sake, karaoke, teriyaki and all the well-known Japanese stuff. I was still missing something, but I couldn’t do anything to arrange it. When I thought that I was coming back to Nederland, it came: my first … Sigue leyendo

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Telephone in the train

You might think that there is a lot of people sending and receiving phone calls in the metro or the train because Japanese people love their mobiles so much… No. It was the case some years ago, when the mobile … Sigue leyendo

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Number 2

What you see in the photo is not an advance remote controller for a Home Cinema device but the toilet control. There are three kind of toilets in this country, the plain European one, the traditional Japanese (mainly a hole … Sigue leyendo

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Buzzword

During the last three weeks I have attended many presentations. Some of them are full of buzz-words and I want to summarize them in a new definition for Smart Surroundings: A new innovative high-speed seamless customised semantic context-aware user-centric face/pattern/image/emotion-recognition-capable … Sigue leyendo

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Communication issues

A lot of people warned me beforehand about the level of English spoken in Japan. It is not as bad as in my home country, but still. Ordering food in the restaurant is an adventure and asking a price in … Sigue leyendo

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Five minutes

Time goes fast around this corner of the world and I wanted to mention some small thingies about our trip to Japan: The temperature in Japanes offices is terrible. In most places we have seen the airco working at 25 … Sigue leyendo

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The Dutch Factor

We arrived at the station at 17:30 and the panels were showing that trains were scheduled at 16:06 and 16:30. Time travel? No… the Dutch Factor. The Shinkansen, the worldwide famous bullet train was once again delayed, as if it … Sigue leyendo

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Say it with a smile

I have see all kind of presentations around here. I might say that presentations in big companies are mostly really good. Today we went to NTT DoCoMo and the movies there where amazing. On the other hand, the first presentation, … Sigue leyendo

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A-Day in Hiroshima

People don’t work usually here on Sundays, so we didn’t have any company visit on the program. We started the day with a nice buffet breakfast, including some unhealthy but delicious meat stuff. Later we took the once more delayed … Sigue leyendo

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