Recently, two things have kind of struck me.

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Let's say you want to learn Jujitsu, and you ask me to teach you.

I sit you down and make you study books about position, transition, and submission, but i only ever let you on the mat maybe once a week, and we never do any sparring (rolling). We just drill positions and transitions in a nice controlled ( Read more... )

I remember watching an episode of the guitar show once on ABC, where one of my favourite guitarists (Martin Taylor) said that the songs he writes are often dependant on the guitar he plays. Because each guitar has a different kind of sound, he said there are certain guitars that lend themselves to a certain kind of music. I have to say that ( Read more... )

So i think i should put a warning at the start of this.

I'm about to geek out a bit over a video game, so you might have no interest in the following entry.

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So yesterday i bought the DS Chrono Trigger re-release.

It has long been sort of a goal of mine to play it in the original Japanese.

But the game started up in English. Shock.

It turns out the ( Read more... )

So last week my second year english teacher did a little research by handing the students a questionaire regarding how they felt about english. The second year students are, from my experience thus far, the least interested in English classes. I've been working with the teacher to introduce a few new games and things to make English less of a chore ( Read more... )

School so far has been an interesting experience. Most of the kids have gotten into the habit of saying 'hello' instead of 'konnichiwa' when they see me around school, and i'm slowly beginning to settle into the school rhythm ( Read more... )

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'and in the end, we lie awake and dream of making our escape'

He gets home late. Or early. It kind of depends on how you look at it ( Read more... )

When i first read the letter that in a nicer (and more professional) way, essentially said,

'dear kenshin03, you didn't win the prize but here's a second chance draw, kind regards'

the first thing i thought was 'perhaps it really would have been a better idea to wear a tie to the job interview'

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Everyone expected me to be crushed, broken, or ( Read more... )

Because i'm not working a whole lot, and i don't have uni anymore, my sleeping pattern is slowly but surely, getting kind of out of whack.

I'll kind of play guitar or read or play DS or watch something until around 2am these days, and get up kind of latish, around 10, 10:30.

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Anyway, i find myself feeling suspiciously genki recently.

I guess because ( Read more... )

Until today, i hadn't really thought much about going to japan.

I took the job interview for teaching over there, but i never thought to deeply about it.

I simply thought to myself, 'i want to go to japan.'

Today, i found myself thinking 'do i really want to go?'

And although i know the answer is, 'of course i do', it's like there are all these things ( Read more... )