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The basics of japanese mails are super simple.
First -- There can only be one sentence per line -- for easy reading.
Second -- Every paragraph is ended by a Kaomoji that expresses the feeling the paragraph tried to conway.
For example: today I feelt like crying!
(;>_<;)
The next part is a global rant about how much work one has at the moment.
(@_@;)
The only good thing seems to be that the drawings that are due at the end of the week are easy enough to do.
Basically just install Windows and work for half an hour.
(#^_^#)
But no matter how hard I search I just can't find my Windows install CD.
(x_x)
Well sometimes one is lucky and the brother still has an old one lying around
(^_-)--☆
End with a happy note!
(^_^)/
And for all of you that are wondering how to start a reply to such a mail.
Either -- if you didn't understand a thing I was saying -- with:
(._. )( ･･)(･･ )( ･_･)
or one of the following:
(^.^)(-.-)(_ )
_(..)_
<(_ )>
m( )m
f(^^;
If someone was to ask me:"How was you last month?" I think I'd answer:"I can now understand the allure of living like an eremite."
How come? Well out of the three consumer electronics devices I own two died within that timeframe. First was my iPhone that decided this world was too crule and consequently threw itself into a constant reboot nirvana. From this I learned that leaving one's phone lying on the table for too long is not a good idea. They need the excitement of constant usage.
I managed to revive the iPhone, to a state where I can still use WiFi, but the phone part is gone for good. Not having mobile internet access hurts a lot! Well at least it still was a good music player -- at least until a week later, when the headphone jack died too!
So now I basically have a sixhundred Euro alarmclock.
But loosing a phone is really no big deal. I just told my (shockingly few) friends to contact me per mail and everything was good. Right up until the day I booted my computer and could not enter the password.
After the first keypress it started to choose random key combinations for me -- favourites seemed to be screen brightness and shutdown. Apparently the controller chip for the keyboard died over night while the computer was switched off!
So now I hope my friend will bend over again and learn to contact me with smoke signals. On clear and sunny days they might be more reliable that what I used up until now.
PS: This post has no picture and probably funny spelling, since I had to write it on my iPhone's tiny screen -- half of which is used but the keyboard.