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So here we are then. It has been a long last few days since we last met, wouldn’t you agree? Gosh and how am I supposed to get to posting and telling about it all with internet only being available here at work? Golly, what a predicament. But let’s not sew old buttons on toContinue reading “what kind of curry would you like to be?”

(above, Tim Allen and his son ‘Charlie’ look for a way out of their winter work in The Santa Clause, 1994) Okay, so let me get right to that good bit of information. The story that I promised you last time.. Did you know that thunderstorms have fingers? Let alone that they are ambidexterous? Okay,Continue reading “wish you were here,”

I want to say more about these things. I want to say more about all the things that I am seeing and doing here. But I will not submit. I don’t and won’t take up instant message-something posting. Even blogging is something different compared to letter-writing. I mean the real slow thing that they callContinue reading “something from nothing,”

(above, Schwarzenegger on how to make a cold place cold in Batman & Robin) Yup, no doubts there, it is definitely becoming a colder and colder place yet ! Just a few weeks ago I remember thinking to myself, well, gosh, it really might be getting cold here.. Well, it is. It is ! SoContinue reading “the iceman.. cometh !!”

I have to apologize if you’ve waited this long for another post/update. Somehow I have the creeping feeling that this might happen more than once. That is me missing a post due to a busy work lifestyle. But hey, who isn’t busy, right? And again, I tumble back to the internet situation. That is somethingContinue reading “you’re waiting for a train to come..”

I think I am having one of those days, times, moments where I have totally lost track of what I wanted to talk about and/or say here.But that’s okay. Nothing’s worth worrying about after all. It’s all just small stuff (props goes out to Carlson’s Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff for that quote). Okay, butContinue reading “sunset action”

I used to both fear and dread Mondays. When I was working part-time back at home I would have to either wake up extremely early to get primped and ready to serve coffee to caffeine-needy people, or just.. well, work. That has changed. I no longer dread nor even fear Mondays. I suppose that isContinue reading “taken by surprise!”

One of my many joys of being here in Japan to live and work includes food. Japanese food. Food of whatever sort, in fact!I love convenience store food, food from vendor-stalls, markets, restaurants. All of it! I don’t consider it odd that I can find gourmet tastes in every variet of food I eat. EvenContinue reading “Eat this and run”

Many a thing continues to surprise me while I’ve been here in Japan. I am slowly realizing that my perfectionist personality can be both a help. . and a hinderance.Anything from blowing my nose in the restroom, to trying to walk the corridors here at work quiety, I am trying not to send too manContinue reading “The Silence of the. . office workers?”

Well, I was in for quite the weekend just this last week! Here in Japan we were forewarned about a typhoon coming up and around our way. Even to Hokkaido. Had I more time and if I knew which resources to check, aside from television and the odd web page, I would have been betterContinue reading “If you give a mouse a cookie..”