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Ok, so I shut down my laptop and forgot that i needed to post on my blog… but i am dangerously close to late for my train - see how much i care? so this post is a post about how i need to post but i dont have time to post… how meta is […]

Woohoo! Last Friday I traveled to the immigration office to pick up my shiny new visa. A three year visa to be exact. I won’t have to travel back to the immigration office for anything - until I want to leave the country for any reason (Now that I have permission to stay, I […]

So, Sunday I watched a short spot on TV about manners in Japan. Here are 3 things I didn’t know and thought were interesting but dont think they are necessarily all that important (although the TV show made them out to be).
#3: Never give an apron to an older lady as a present (even […]

Last night I exhibited 3 interesting characteristics.
I talked a lot more than normal, in a much louder voice than usual, and I may have been a bit more daft than expected.
Could it have been these great new Nagoya style chicken wings I ate?

They were very delicious, but no - I dont think they are the […]

One thing I was a bit surprised to see when I first moved to Tokyo was the amount of clothes, sheets, and futon mattresses that people hang out to dry. In a city like Tokyo I never expected to see clotheslines or clothespins. In fact, I often thought it was a bit revolting to […]

Here it is, a birthday present I received from my basketball team members. Basketball shorts that match my uniform with my name in kanji sewn in.

These 4 kanji, when read correctly, give the same pronunciation as my name (as far as Japanese people are concerned). The first kanji is “cha” the second is […]

2 quick photos for the picture post friday:

A Wendy’s store and advertisement outside. Unfortunately, Wendys is hard to find in Japan (not many stores), and this particular one closed about a week after I took the photo

Cheap all you can drink restaurant, notice it is 50% off on certain nights.

So on the train today I studied my book of Japanese idioms. There were a few that stood out and made an impression on me - enough so that by the end of the day I had used them in casual conversation at least once each.
The first is “takoashi haisen” which translates to “octopus […]

So, this weekend was my birthday, I turned another digit To celebrate, Ayako and I went to watch a movie. It just so happened that a particular movie of note was released to the theaters this weekend here in Japan (probably only released in Japan). It is based on a famous manga […]

I wrote this post about this time last year, but I never published it. Blast from the past, here it is, in all its short glory.

This Saturday I rode the Yamanote Line around Tokyo while listening to JapanesePod101.com lessons on my iPhone.  I also used my DS to lookup Kanji that I saw on […]