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 [...]

Posted on February 14th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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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, [...]

Posted on August 12th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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開いた口が塞がらない
This is a Japanese expression meaning “jaw-dropping”. Which is how I felt when I asked a small Japanese language school if I could come down and talk to someone and look at the texts etc. I told them that I would only take up maybe 20 minutes of their time at most [...]

Posted on July 26th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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Some photos taken at the Jazz Concert I mentioned in a post a few weeks ago.
It was simply fantastic and totally packed. Both the crowd and the performers had a lot of fun. It took a while for me to find some good shooting positions and I still [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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There’s going to be a great free jazz concert in Osaka on the 26th March (Sunday). How do I know this? One of my classmates, Tony Spruill, told me. Tony plays alt sax with the Harvey Thompson Society Jazz Orchestra, who will be playing. This is the Jazz Festival’s 10th year [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2006 by Ian Cheung
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