~Lost in translation~

My hols started on 19th of July,today is the 20th..And I have yet to rest. I have gone to school yesterday to do experiment from 10am only returned to my room at 8pm. After that,I start working on my new job, which was introduced by Sawada sensei.To translate 8pages of thesis from Japanese to English...It wouldn't have been so difficult if its normal English,but no..This is about Improvement of Water Adsorptivity of Activated Carbon for Adsorption Heat Pump by Hydrophilic Treatment...Try translating that...Sigh..For the time being I have worked for 13 hours,6 yesterday and 7today, and I only manage to get half done.Deadlline? TOMORROW...

Good luck to myself...

On a happier note,I'm really grateful to Tomizawa Sensei.Remember the strict sensei I mentioned earlier?Well,I remembered him telling me that Kok-sempai installed a Eng-Jap or Jap-Eng traslation program in the pc in his room.So I asked if I could take a look at it.He actually agreed to take the whole hard drive out from his cupboard (he changed a new hard drive recently) and asked another sensei to lend me a monitor to set up the pc.Then using his mouse and keyboard,I set up the PC and was amazed by the existance of the ever-so convenient program.

The catch is,though,the program cannot fully translate everything correctly so you have to made changes here and there.But I was throughly amused by it.The thing that really suprised me was,Tomizawa sensei actually helped me scan my work to his PC so that I can copy-paste the Jap thesis to the program to translate faster.(imagine if I were to type line by line,pages by pages..)Not only that,he helped me correct the Japanese errors after the scanning because some words were not right/different after scanning..for 2hours..He worked on 2 pages,while I did 3..Both of us worked for 2hours from 6pm til 8pm....for MY part time job..Is this sensei nice or what?!?!?!?Best thing of all,he lend me the whole PC and helped me move the PC to the hostel by his car..

The PC is now with me and I can have it for the week..Imagine if I don't have the program,I doubt I can finish 3pages within 13hours.I might just finish half a page.These thesis is damn difficult......Anyway,that's how I'll spend my time up to Sunday,before I leave for China..I really need a break right now..Else I could just die of over-working..5hours of sleep during holidays,and its for work???Unbelievable...24hours more,18hours of work...sighhh

3 comments:

gaL 7/21/2007 2:49 PM  

seems like a tough job translating the thesis from jap to english. moreover, something that is strongly related to engineering. I caN imagine all the terms that you have to figure out. Hope u'll complete the work wonderfully. :) take care.

Phooi Fun 7/22/2007 5:08 AM  

wau,anyway, u must take care of urself ya gal! dun over stress k? take a good rest after ur hard work ya!!! all the best!!

Anonymous 7/22/2007 9:50 AM  

fighting fighting.. now that u got the engine heated up, time to go full steam! good luck with the deadline.. =D

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