We’ve recently moved our office to a new building and I have to agree that the new location is definitely better. It’s bigger, has a conference room, its own male and female restrooms and its across several food establishments, including Starbucks! ^^

The crowning point that cinched it was something that made me wince in chagrin. The new office is right across the building where I used to take my Japanese classes! And I mean, literally, across the street, a mere 3 meters from the entrance of our building.

Is this the universe’s way of telling me that I should continue with my nihonggo classes? ^_^

After the less than enjoyable experience of migrating to another server and losing sight of this site for days, we’re now finally back. Let’s just hope I never have to experience anything like that again.

The moment I woke up on Saturday morning, I saw a message on my cellphone informing me that my female friend’s father has just died.

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My paranoia has finally backfired on me. A few years back, I wrote some stories and poems during a burst of inspiration. Being paranoid that someone from my household will read them, I sealed them in a password protected document in Word. One can’t open them if they didn’t know the password.

I left the written works for a few years and now that I have found them again, I wanted to read them again and possibly post them here. There’s only one problem.

I forgot the password myself.

Dang. So now I’m in a quandary on how to open them. Does anyone know how to open password-protected documents in MS Word?