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• Culture Shock, Japan, Life in Japan

  Japan Newbie

  09.30.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I`m a relative newbie in Japan. I count my time here in months (15) rather than in years like a child who says he is 7 3/4 rather than just seven in order to prove how mature he is. Technorati Tags: Japan, Osaka, Asia, Quaisi, Kansai, Expat, English, Newbie

• Baseball, Life in Japan

  Hanshin Tigers 2005 Victory

  09.29.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  The very mighty Hanshin Tigers Baseball Team have just won the 2005 Japanese League in their 70th anniversary year by beating their hated rivals the Tokyo Giants. Here`s a picture of the yet mightier team member Akahoshi. They did this by overcoming the curse of Colonel Sanders described in the Mainichi News below: Hanshin’s winning [...]

• Blogging, Misc

  Cult of Blog

  09.29.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Partly inspired by this post at www.thisiswhatwedonow.com. I LOVE TO BLOG. At home I will spend happy hours scouring the updates on my favourite blogs and on writing my own posts. I will spend the day thinking about them or on how I can recraft the day`s events into an interesting, amusing or thought-provoking read. [...]

• Life in Japan

  Women in Japan and the purse

  09.28.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Japanese women are the mistresses of the purse in Japan, controlling the family budget with a ferocity only equalled by their love for their kin. She will dole out a pitiful “okozukai” or insultingly enough “pocket money” to her salaryman husband who has spent the past month working away his soul 15 hour shifts at [...]

• Blogging, Japanese, Misc

  The wonderful green tea guru Shannon

  09.27.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Thanks to the all-knowledgeable green tea pundit Shannon, I have been put in my place about the levels of caffeine in green tea and more importantly after reading his blog, become aware that the sumo wrestler who beat yokozuna Asashoryu has his own blog. Now if I could only read Japanese. Well off to babelfish [...]

• Japanese, Life in Japan

  Japanese titles.

  09.27.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Simon AKA Simon-san AKA Si-san AKA Simon-chan AKA Si-chan AKA Si-samma AKA Simon-kun AKA Simon-sensei These are all titles I go under in Japan. San and Samma being roughly akin to Mr, chan is like dear, kun (pronounced koon) refers to myself being a young boy and Sensei as any Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle fan [...]

• Photo

  Lomo Simon

  09.26.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I think this is the last in the Lomo series for the meantime. This is a self portrait meaning you can always have me close (perhaps necessary for the post below?) Taken with the flash set to red, this is perhaps my favourite lomo photo taken so far. Technorati Tags: Japan, Osaka, Asia, Quaisi, Kansai, [...]

• Japan, Life in Japan

  The panda rears its ugly head

  09.26.05 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Some of Reiko`s friends and family make her very sad because they constantly talk and ask questions about me leaving her feeling unloved and inferior. Many of her friends who didn`t talk to her before she left for England, now call or email her repeatedly and ask how Simon is or would Simon like to [...]

• Misc, Odd

  Vending machine gallery

  09.25.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Link to a man who travelled Japan, shooting photos of odd, elaborate or improbable coin/card-operated self-service machines, from porn vending to egg vending. Found via Boing Boing Technorati Tags: Japan, Osaka, Asia, Quaisi, Kansai, Expat, English, Vending machine

• Japan, Osaka, Photo

  Lomo shop

  09.25.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Continuing the Lomo series, this is a clothes shop in the market-like arcades which snake out around Osaka centre. Technorati Tags: Japan, Osaka, Asia, Quaisi, Kansai, Expat, English, Lomo, English

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