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Working backwards:
Sunday was a day of rest, after I played 4 hours of basketball nearly non-stop full court games. 8:30am - 12:30pm, I felt really good after all that exercise, and tired. Rest was required and I ended up snoozing part of the day away.
Saturday we went to finally purchase a phone for […]

Here it is… 4 nice photos for you to enjoy. The first three come from a small corner museum inside a busy subway station. When they were building this station in Tokyo they found a lot of artifacts from old “Edo” which is old Tokyo. So they made a map of […]

There is one asset that all of us share, it is finite, unequally distributed, and although it is the most valuable resource we have - it is often nonchalantly discarded as expendable. Businesses often try to maximize its input at the ultimate expense of its employees, but do they ever think about whether this […]

Today on the train ride I learned about kakushi aji and the tasty dish of curry and rice. Kakushi aji means secret ingredient, and there are some interesting secrent ingredients for Japanese curry.
Some secret flavors are made by adding different kakushi aji such as:
1) apple
2) honey
3) chocolate
4) and even a pinch of coffee!
Interesting flavors […]

So here I am with another picture post friday. What happened on Friday?

What is becoming a routine (this being the 3rd time) I walked 15 minutes to a local Burger King for lunch and to spend some time in study. Additionally I use this opportunity to test my Japanese when ordering food. […]

Ok, not sure if I’ve written about this before, or if I just have thought about it before. There is a store nearby called Seiyu. It is a pretty big grocery store / department store, bigger than most stores I’ve been to in Japan. But the most surprising thing I saw while […]

Rain fell, and keys were pressed; everything in the universe kept spinning. Another day slipped into the pages of history; my life the unwritten story.
I met a co-worker from Korea for the second time today. Last we met was in 2007, and it was quite nice to chat at lunch. I learned […]

After the reception we stood outside in the nice weather speaking with Shindo-sensei, one of Ayako’s elementary school teachers that happened to attend. Not only did I get to practice my nihongo with him (he was a willing candidate), but he also got to practice his english on me (in fact it was quite […]

So the reception for our friends’ wedding was a bit different from American style receptions that I have been to. The event was mostly a sit down 5-course meal, but with speeches, slideshows, presentations, candle lighting, toasts, and dress changing.
When the reception started one of the staff members of the wedding company introduced the […]

This weekend I went to attend the mariage (kekkon) ceremony of two friends. I consider them both friends, just because we have all hung out and had fun on a few occasions. Their wedding ceremony was western style, with only the groom’s and bride’s mothers standing out as Japanese by wearing kimonos. […]