Minimalism - Online Income - ESL - Japan
I’m a skeptic. I never used to be, but the whole “war on terror” episode has made me very suspicious about what the media tells us. It’s a point that Jason brings up in his article When Will We Stop Being Scared? He gives a few examples of how we are encouraged, tricked or brainwashed into doing or believing something that is either wrong, unnecessary or exaggerated. Whether it is a disease like SARS, the threat of terrorism […]
I’ve been in Japan for over a decade and I’m still not used to Japanese bugs. Insects in England, perhaps with the exception of wasps, are pretty tame to what Japan has. Actually, Japanese mushi aren’t really dangerous, they are just different to what I grew up with, and that makes them an unknown quantity. Perhaps my Australian readers will laugh at these examples, but even the little guys in these […]
After a long absence from ballroom dancing, Mami joined me this week and brought Rikuto with her. Although, I previously described him as a “cry bug“, he actually slept through most of our lesson. I wasn’t going to let him go home without a dance though, so here I am dancing with my son in glorious technicolor, minus any music or style. If you like, you can find me on Twitter […]
The virtual reality world of Second Life is full of clubs, bars, beaches and bedrooms in which people interact in all manner of virtual ways and even positions, but there is more to Second Life than its “in your face” seedy side. I decided to go searching for some of Japan’s famous landmarks to see if they had been recreated in the 3D world. Here are a few pictures of […]
Lately, my wife has been referring to Rikuto as a nakimushi because he keeps crying. Sure enough, if he’s not being held or given a tour of the house, he’s crying. The word nakimushi comes from the words naku, which means to cry, and mushi, which means bug or insect. In English, we commonly refer to someone who cries a lot as a cry baby, because that’s what babies do. […]
Out of the blue, I received an email from Wendy Nelson Tokunaga, the author of the novel Midori by Moonlight. While I had never heard of it before, the description in Wendy’s email made it sound like the reverse of this blog. Mine is a story of a handsome (!) young Englishman who followed his heart to the land of the rising sun in search of an asian bride and a […]
For six months of this year, I was blogging on another site of mine, Nice4Rice, but eventually gave it up for various reasons. Before I closed the site, I had promised my readers that I would write a post for Blog Action Day, but since I wrapped that blog up, it’s only appropriate that I make that post here instead. What is Blog Action Day? On October 15th, over 8,000 bloggers across the globe will, […]
Japan, like most developed countries, has so many laws and rules to abide by that I find it all quite suffocating. I previously wrote about the ridiculous number of traffic lights in Japan, and since I’m driving for an hour and a half every day I can’t help but get frustrated, and a frustrated driver is not a safe driver. So let me get this straight. Traffic lights are there to prevent […]