First before I forget, visit a site called Overheard In New York... at the least it's worth a laugh or two ( Read more... )

In the states we consider Spring Break to be a huge monkey wrench in the semester - you're halfway through classes and then...wha... you forget everything over the weeklong break. In Japan there's a similar thing over New Years break - after about three weeks of classes we had a two week break over Christmas and the New Year, then one day of ( Read more... )

After Christmas Day, I had a few days to kill before the big holiday - the New Year. In Japan, New Year's Eve is freakin a huge deal so I had a few expectations. Some were fulfilled and some were not. On the 29th I met up with Darcy the canuck and we went with some other foreigners to Roppongi - the sleaze/foreigner/night life/hookup capital of ( Read more... )

here i am. tightly wound and tied in a small, neat package. by handwriting alone, my entire personality becomes unfolded before you...


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*=MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL ( Read more... )

After Oscar came back from Thailand, he stayed at my place for a week and a half because of obvious financial reasons. It was a pain a lot bc my new place is small and I want to keep it clean - but he's a really liberal Englishman and doesn't see the benefits of a clean apartment. Maybe I'm being just a little anal, but on top of wanting things ( Read more... )

I've been in my new apartment for two weeks to the day...almost to the hour. It's really starting to fill out and I'm really happy with it - despite it being freakin tiny. Probably the hardest thing is furnishing it with the limited funds I have but some other guys told me about a used furniture shop in the area called "Recycle Shop" with free ( Read more... )

Last night was pretty cool. To start, I woke up on my new apartment's wooden floor because...well I don't have any furniture yet. I then missed my friend's shamisen recital (weirdo 4 string japanese 'guitar') but that was alright bc I needed the extra time to move. My friend rented a car and we went to the furniture store with Oscar and I bought ( Read more... )

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from saigon to phnom pehn to bangkok ( Read more... )