Stop the blink tags

I’ve noticed that there are an awful lot of bricks and mortar establishments using the equivalent of <blink> tags to catch people’s attention. I’m talking about flashing lights, some as “subtle” as emergency or road work rotating lamps stuck on top of signs. Some pachinko palours have bright and excessively powerful strobe like [...]

Living in Osaka

I’ve started a new blog called Living in Osaka. It isn’t quite ready for prime-time yet so I’ve only told a few friends. Have a look and tell me what you think. I’m busy writing content for it, at least I was until I got struck with a heavy cold. I [...]

Korean seaweed

Korean seaweed tastes so much better than Japanese seaweed!

Japanese Driving Licence

I got my Japanese Driving Licence earlier today. Yay! No car to drive though :p

The Story of Class 3 of the YWCA Summer Intensive Course 2006

On Friday we (Class 3) finished the Summer Intensive Course at the YWCA with a short play. For those who don’t understand Japanese it is the true story of what happened in class 3. この劇は実話に基づいていた

Arigatous go to Ed (the script-writer), Yamamoto-sensei who translated the script, and my fellow classmates Lisa, Romen, [...]