In a few weeks time, many ALTs whom won’t be re-contracting will be departing to different parts of the world. Before they all disappear, Warrick and I opted to go off on a last bit of adventure. Warrick, being the world traveler, we took off on Saturday for Yamagata (山形). A neighbouring prefecture to Niigata. [...]

If search engines and great online resources such as wikipedia didn’t exist, I’d surely spend less time online, and so-called get out more. But then again, as long as it’s here, I might as well use it and indulge my information addiction. Amazingly, when I’m travelling though, I don’t have the chance to read the [...]

Happy Birthday Warrick! Man, you’ve gotten OLD!
Well, last Wednesday night. Instead of our usual 100yen sushi night, we celebrated Warrick’s birthday by going out for some Yakiniku and Galbi. When things go well, many JETs and local Japanese like to go out for a cook your own meat session. Not really a [...]

Basic Japanese Keyboard
I’ve had my laptop for about 4 years now, close to 5 years in fact. And just last night, I finally discovered how to set up a Japanese keyboard layout on an English XP OS, on a Japanese laptop. Yeah, I know a bit confusing. My laptop was/is from Japan, [...]

It’s been a week since I’ve returned to Japan, and I’m still trying to figure out if my journey to Ireland was either a dream or reality.　Or is this current state of my duties, working in Japan the actual dream. Is it a nightmare? Well, during my short but ever so relaxing 2 week [...]

My original plan was to fly to Scotland on Thursday so I’d have 5 days in Scotland to catch up with a few friends. As things go, I ended up with a terrible fever and shivers when I got home from the Bridge of Ross a few days before, and my fever quickly resided [...]