Not really the best office etiquette, but I’ve begun to take my socks off a work because of the temperature. The location where I’ve been moved to in the office is closer to the windows… That part, I really appreciate since before I was pretty close to the center of the building, and would only [...]

Well, I’ve never been one to do much programming, for I reckoned that it’d be bad for me health. Spending all that time in front of a computer monitor, trying to figure out what you’re doing and troubleshooting all those little bugs. Eck! bugs! Ack, ack!Anyways, for the past month I’ve been doing plenty of [...]

Well, as you can see my blog comes in spurts. To the untrained mind, my previous comment can be taken as something filthy, but it’s not. Well, much has happened since my last entry… Heck, it’s been almost 1/2 a year. I flew back to Canada for a little bit back in March, (I know [...]

Another slightly lazy morning, but the air was full of moisture and rain clouds occasionally dumping their allotment of wetness onto the whole island. Within the Haha-jima youth hostel, most of the guests were busy packing their bags for their long trip back to Tokyo, or to Chichi-jima. At the ferry terminal, much of the [...]

A very Happy New Year to you all. I hope that you were able to celebrate it in style, with family or friends. I myself had a pretty good time on the island of Haha-jima with the locals and other travellers. My 4 nights were spent at the Anna Beach Youth Hostel, a very picturesque [...]

Soon after my last day of work I ventured off to my 忘年会 (Bonenkai – End of year work party) with my whole department. Wasn’t really in the mood to do a do with my colleagues but what can you do? Last years gathering felt a bit stiff, and I really wasn’t in the mood [...]

As one could probably imagine, Christmas in Japan is not an event which is followed by in the traditional western Xmas sense. Here in Japan, Xmas is viewed more like a reason to date a girl than to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. (or as Kevin Smith would put it, Buddy Christ) Here are [...]

A while back, I had the opportunity to work as an interpreter for the biannual (not biennial) 削ろう会(Kezuro-kai) . Now, when you hear planing, I’m sure that you’re first thinking that I said “planning” or something to do with “planes”. The “plane” I mean is the woodworkers tool which has a blade set in a [...]

Back in the first weekend of September I took a quick trip down to Kagoshima to a surprise visit to my grandmother’s. My mother and sister were there for quite a while, and my father was also visiting for a week. I had some days in lieu so I popped over for a few days [...]

Argh, have been busy the last couple of months, so instead of a long and deep update, I’m just gonna quickly blurt out,… write what I’ve done during the months of August to October. Well, during the month of August, I was quite busy meeting, greeting and showing around the new ALTs to Sanjo. On [...]