Monday, July 21, 2008

Initials

I'm not in Mihara but in seven sleeps time...no...like ten sleeps, I will be.

Naturally, it is an adventure into the unknown. But one thing is certain: I will have an Inkan.
My supervisor, Kaneshima-san, known only to me via gmail (Chatter anyone?) is having it made right now. Probably. No...in like four hours maybe. The Inkan maker is still asleep. In four hours time he will be awake, my Inkan will be ordered and in the pipeline...

'What is an Inkan?' they cried.
'Who are they?' I cried.
'We asked first!' they cried.
'Very well,' I said...

An Inkan, as far as I know, is a stamp that you use instead of a signature on official documents. My friend Darryl showed me his Chinese equivalent and my god, what a beautiful thing! Mine will be my name - Jemma - in Katakana - Japanese script for foreign words. If I'm not wrong, it'll look something like this:

cool hey?
'yes', they said




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