Densha Otoko [Train Man]

Shocked by the paper yesterday, Proteomics. So many questions i didnt expect to appear during the exams, and it did. And its a good thing. Coz its easy!!!

Personally i thought i wouldnt do well in this paper, but now that ive done it, i think i might do quite alright! The questions were straightforward, from the notes, and even questions from the first chapter came out for the paper! Unfortunately ididnt really study in detail the front parts of the lecture, but fortunately i remembered them 🙂

Its over anyway. Gotta study for the final paper and that is… Essentials in business management. Should be a problem. tips are clear cut, concise, as sharp as a knife, all listed down and ready to be referred. (thank you Mr Hang!!!!)

Oh yeah, before i forgot, on my way home, i bought this really good book that ive been waiting for it to be translated, and after many years, i finally got hold of this book. Its entitled, Train Man, or Densha Otoko in Japanese.

This is a true story that happened in 2004 about a geek guy who happens to save this young lady from being harrassed by a drunken fart while they were in the train together. They were complete strangers. So a few days later, he recieved a thank you gift from the same lady whom he saved back then.

But being a geek, he has no clue on how to respond to her thank you gift, should he call her, or ask her out. So he sought help from this popular forum and discussion board and told him his story happened. Soon swarms of people replied and helped him and advised himonline through the discussion board on all manners, like how to strike a conversation, ask her out on a date, what to wear and all those kinda stuff. So basically you see this geek, introvert and always getting the jitters when talking to girls transformed to a gentleman, confident and demure with the help of total strangers and it was truly a success! They get to know each other and fell for each other. They went on dates and stuff.

I dont usually read romance novels but i wanted to read this book so bad because firstly, its a true story and secondly its not a novel at all. The book actually compiles original forum posts of train man and the people who responded to him. there are thousands of posts compiled into a book, unedited, unscripted. So basically you get to see a series for response through a series of posts and some of them can be quite funny.

You can see a sample page here. This page accounts what happened on his first date with the girl. The date, time of posts are unedited except being anonymous. Till this date, on one knows the real identity of Train Man.