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  Slough

  01.28.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  This should be funny for anyone who has seen the British version of The Office. I’m applying for jobs in England from Japan which is pretty frustrating. So I was pretty happy when I saw this message urging me not to apply for a job in Slough.

• Japan, Misc

  Halloween can bite my arse

  11.01.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Halloween. It’s a festival I’ve never celebrated in England. A festival that is rarely undertaken in England. Yet it is one I am supposed to celebrate on multiple occasions with children and friends with glee when in Japan.
  A colleague asked me today if I was going to teach the kids [...]

• Misc

  Shanghai recommendations

  07.26.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  I’m off to Shanghai tomorrow until Monday. Any recommendations where to go?
  Cheers!

• Misc

  I’ve been

  01.22.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Teaching
  Reading my feeds
  Reading about how to be productive (instead of actually being productive)
  Surfing YouTube
  Searching for a new career
  Finishing the excellent Dark Tower by Stephen King
  Being a father

• Blogging, Japan, Misc

  Speed linking

  03.23.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I`m in between jobs undertaking training in all parts of Osaka city (mostly a near-two-hour train journey away) so forgive the lack of quality well thought out mutterings.
  In its absence can I recommend a few sites you might find of interest?
  Cosmic Buddha discusses the interesting phenomena of Mayoral election signbaords.
  Bloggers discuss Japan`s victory in the [...]

• Japanese Festival, Life in Japan, Misc

  Japanese folk songs

  12.31.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Those wishing to read about traditional Japanese New Year customs and the like and who find them lacking here should go visit the excellent blue lotus blog who has three good posts up at the moment about it.
  Two about New Year`s decorations and another about New Year Postcard`s
  I on the other hand am at home [...]

• Blogging, Life in Japan, Misc

  Omisoka

  12.30.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I decided to give my blog a little clean-up for the New Year as is traditional for Japanese households – See Omisoka. I hope you like it.
  With the coming of the New Year in Japan we`re all supposed to clean away the untidiness of the previous year in preparation for a new start.
  A good [...]

• Blogging, Misc

  Eight better posts of 2004

  12.26.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  It`s the end of the year and so I thought I`d do a best of Undercover in Japan. I didn`t do one last year so today`s is for the six months I blogged in 2004. I`ll have one for this year in the next few days:
  1: Nepalese pipe music
  My experience with a meeting [...]

• Japan, Life in Japan, Misc

  Merry Christmas

  12.24.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  Merry Christmas!
  I shall be turkeyless and marzipan and icing sugar-layered fruitcake-less this winter although I`ve been sent some Christmas puddings which is a small consolation.
  Reiko`s mother has gone to Fukuoka for the weekend to look after a sick relation which means that I have been left to walk the dog for his daily walk. [...]

• Japan, Life in Japan, Misc

  SMBC, Hong Kong and Tokyo

  12.22.05 | Permalink | Comment?

  I`m off to Hong Kong next year – January 22nd for a couple of days and I can`t wait. It was a close run thing though. The money minus the deposit had to be paid by today and with Reiko working it was left to me to pay it.
  “Find a Sumitomo Mitsui Bank [...]

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