America has it’s Lollapalooza Canada has Edgefest, Australia has Big Day Out, England has Glastonbury, Scotland has T in The Park, and Japan has FujiRock. I was fortunate enough to be living in Niigata Japan, where the biggest Japanese & international 3 day music festival takes place.
The day started nice and early with me [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]