Archive for May, 2006

The Zero Hour

I was watching an old episode of the Simpsons, and there was a brief, cameo, whatever you call it,… an appearance of Tokyo Rose, working at a diner. For many people especially in the US, you hear of the name, Tokyo Rose, but do you actually know who this person was/is? A while back, I [...]

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Hibachi? 火鉢? Mottainai? もったいない?

During my Language Salon gathering last night, a couple of words came up that were discussed. There are various English terms and Japanese terms that don’t possess a direct translation or how certain words may mean something else. There are plenty of cases of that in every bloody language. Sure, there were plenty of cuss [...]

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The Last Ninja?

Last night during my weekly Language Salon (a gather of youths that wish to interact, meet, and share each others cultures. Not really a place to learn English, an what not, but a place to make friends, and for local Japanese to make foreign friends. It’s NOT a freak’n dating service) gathering at the Soliel [...]

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The Code and Hollywood?

I recently went to go see “The DaVinci Code” here in Japan. I read the book last year while living in Ireland just to see what the whole hype is/was about. While reading this book, I was taking back to my highschool days of when I was a bit into the whole conspiracy theories and [...]

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Thoughts for the moment.

As June soon approaches my mind is constantly on the go with various thoughts. Not only will I be heading off to Ireland, but I’ve got a few things I’ll have to plan. At times like these, I find myself constantly online, checking up on flight schedules, fares, trains, buses and you know what? It’s [...]

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Switch-a-roo!

Well, as you can see I’ve started another bloody blog! The only reason for this change is because my Yahoo 360° blog was sorta a pain in the arse. Only allowing single photos per entry, limiting it’s size and with not much option with altering the format and layout of your actual blog. So, here [...]

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