Rain, Rain...Day 12

Day 12 - Monday, Apr 12

Ugh. Monday. The weather today was obviously holding the same opinion, as it decided to rain continuously. The only thing I do like about the rain here is that everyone busts out their umbrellas. Basically, you get this sea of umbrellas moving down sidewalks and pathways. Factor in the fact that these umbrellas are different colors and designs and you have awesomeness. Sadly, walking in the sea of umbrellas sucks. You can't appreciate its beauty and there is a lot of umbrella snaggage (yeah, I just made that a word).

Rain. Rain. Yes. I got to school early, because I was supposed to have a telephone conference with my boss for this summer. I say 'was supposed to' because it failed and the reasons are twofold. Firstly, I couldn't figure out how to dial out the number. I even had the office lady help me and it didn't work. Secondly, My boss probably failed to realize that my javascript:void(0)Monday morning is his Sunday night. Oh, you silly dateline, you.

And just in case you are interested, this is the job description I was given for my work this summer:
As an engineering intern for the Invasive Cardiology group in GE Healthcare-Clinical Systems, you will be become a team member in the new product development team working on a product that gets used by physicians to diagonse and treat patients that suffer coronary heart disease. As part of this team, you will learn the various aspects of releasing a product to market from an engineering standpoint (e.g. requirements definition, detailed design and implementation, and design verification and validation) as well as in acquiring clinical knowledge in the area of Invasive Cardiology (e.g. Hemodynamics and Electrophysiology). The assignment will consist of: Hands-on work with hardware engineers assembling board prototypes, testing prototype boards, reworking circuit boards, cables, connectors, creating test jigs. This contributions are essential to the hardware development efforts towards the design and development of the PANDORA Physiological Waveform simlator and the next generation PARADOX signal amplifier.
Sounds cool. Hopefully I'll learn enough in E40 to be able to do this stuff. Haha.

Then class, then food. Ramen to be exact. Kenny, Kevin, Rachel and I (the four Hawaii kids in the program (no we're not elitist)) went to the same ramen place that Kenny and I had eaten at before. We actually tried to eat at this small curry dive, but it was so small (I'm talking about only 10 stools available total small) that our group of four was not going to get in during lunch rush hour. But it was cold outside so the ramen was a good runner up to the the curry option.


I don't smoke, but I make an exception for Pocky.

After the ramen I made my way home early. I was on a mission, again, but this time to get the right papers so I can get a cell phone. The major problem being I was doing this by myself. Yeah, to be honest, my Japanese is not that good enough to facilitate me obtaining this thing on my own, and my sense of direction (which barely gets me around Prince Kuhio Plaza, Hilo's dinky mall (so dinky it's called a Plaza)) to get there. By some miracle I find City Hall and even get to the right desk, but the guy they send to help me spoke the most slurred mumbled Japanese I have heard in my life. I had to ask him again and again to repeat himself. But I got the paperwork done and now have my gaikokujin-toroku-genpyo-kisai-jiko-shomeisho. Yeah, that's what the paper is called. I think it's some kind of joke they have, like, "let's give this thing the most ridiculous name ever and make non native speakers seek it out". Twittering laughter ensues. Actually, I'm sure if I actually knew what all those words meant, it'd make more sense.

Bottom line: I'm all set to get my cell phone tomorrow. I think I'm going to get the one with an HD video (yeah, HD) and camera, seeing as my camera is small kine broken. Also I'll be able to email as much as I want with my phone. Hooray!

Time for work or maybe a nap. Yes, a nap sounds good.

Also, I was almost eaten by the biggest spider EVER! Okay, so it was about two inches and I'm a fan of Charlotte's Web so I know what's up, but even so, scary.