oops ... already end of January !

Where did this month go ? really ...

Anyway, I was super busy at work, then working on my second-last Journal and some more work.

Out of that above mentioned Journal, I did achieve a couple of things:

• register for 2007 UoL exams (and pay for the Tokyo British Council fees)
• unlock/unfreeze my Penn Foster account (by waiting for, filling in, scanning and emailing the agreement form without which nothing happens)
• check UST Boniface's translation admission exam dates and realize that the old version is GONE. The two-and-half pages newspaper article is MANAGEABLE. Just have to work on it and send it by mid March
• buy some more DS Nitendo "games" and discover a new fun game called hanzie in French (one of the versions in Japanese is Picross)
  
• increase my collection of Japanese textbooks
  

New Year's holidays

I will admit that I was very lazy during our 5 days holiday, but I did achieve some aims: finished sewing two pairs of trousers (pants), did send out the baby caps (see below) and started working on the February AFWJ Journal (my second last).

Creativity for a (good) purpose

Not quite "mikka bozu", but creativity related. Which is a good part of my life anyway.

Just before the holidays, we received an email at work reminding us of a campaign my company is supporting: knitting caps for new born babies (http://www.savethechildren.org/campaigns/caps-to-the-capital/ and http://www.warmupamerica.org/home.html).

An information had originally been posted on the company's Intranet, but I did not see it (it was just before my short trip back home earlier in December).

I was able to knit six little caps in a couple of days. The caps are so small that I barely needed two hours to finish one.

This campaign is now over (deadline for sending the caps is today---I will be going to the main post office 24 hours window after posting this).

Here are pics of the caps:




Warm up America Foundation is doing other campaigns, if you are interested in using your creativity skills for a good purpose. Check http://www.warmupamerica.org/home.html for more information.