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Baby Belle has a cold of mythical proportions. When she sleeps, snot bubbles expand and deflate from her nostrils. So we bought a phlegm extractor. There are two ends. You put one end into the nostril. The other in your mouth. You suck on one end and the mucus flies from the nose into a [...]
Part of blogging is that you are supposed to keep posting new stuff. It’s a newsy medium which is why blogs that focus on current events are so popular. They can get the news out before the TV Bulletin and the Japan Times. As I’ve said before a team of blind and deaf rats could [...]
I like to write posts denouncing Japan. I have drafts of several in my drafts’ folder. But the truth is I like a lot of things about Japan. And there are many things in England I’m glad aren’t around me anymore. 1: Chavs. There are many excellent photos there which I’m not allowed to link [...]
The cherry blossom has mostly gone here in Osaka. There are a few brave stragglers refusing to die. But when the cherry blossom trees were in full bloom it was a glorious sight.
I’m trying to better myself by studying Japanese further past level three and I’ve come across a big hurdle. When I studied for level three, all the grammar textbooks had English explanations. Now for level 2, every single textbook I can find has EVERYTHING in Japanese. This includes meanings and explanations. This seems crazy to [...]
3,000 cherry blossom trees an hour away from my house and nobody told me? via the novel Keeping Pace in Japan
Whilst walking through the narrow passageways under Umeda train station which I like to call Salaryman Central, I came across this takoyaki shop which bills itself as the smallest takoyaki shop in Japan. It had newspaper cuttings to prove its point. Takoyaki is fried octopus pancake balls and is a speciality of the Kansai region [...]
I was at Costco the other day and I heard a girl scream, “Kawaii” (cute) at a plain white beer cooler. In Japan it’s impossible to escape the glare of Hello Kitty or the various wide-eyed manga characters. With this in mind, I read an excellent article in the Japan Times about the kawaii phenomenon [...]