It was time for a haircut so I went into one of the numerous barber shops around here. They've adopted the same same blue white red rotating spiral column I saw in the US. At home I usually get a 12mm machine haircut. Quick and clean. So I made a buzzing noise and shearing gesture. He understood, but I got the full program anyway, including shaving ( Read more... )

Two months here and the last reserves of my 750g Nutella jar that I brought from home have all but vanished. Luckily the captain of the soccer team who was living in Berlin for two years is a Nutella fan as well and knew which place is selling it in Sapporo. So I went on a salvage mission the other day and returned successfully with three minni ( Read more... )

do your own snacks.

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Today is a holiday in Japan, celebrating the Spring equinox. Three of my colleagues, me and some 10 more Japanese guys booked a gym hall for that occasion and we played soccer. For four hours. I am so dead now x.x . And these gyus are good, too. I am more like the late Lothar Matthaeus, receiving the ball, analysing the tactical situation and ( Read more... )

Some days ago I went out with a group of colleagues. There I saw a line of people and asked what these guys were queuing for at 12am. The answer - they were waiting for a new video game release. So, yesterday me and an Italian girl from the guest house passed by this shop again and I said I wanted to have a quick look. Turns out it is an Anime-porn ( Read more... )

headache, coughing, slowed vision, bobbly legs and skin hypersensitivity. Zzzzap. Got me some flu. As the saying goes "When in Sapporo, do as the Sapporeans", I bought a small pack of surgeon masks just in case. It feels strange. There was a small period in the ninties when it was hip to wear these for techno raves. Here you see them quite often as ( Read more... )

There is a chain of Bakeries here called Hokuo (slogan : Scandinavia's smell). Their cream donuts are quite good. Anyway, on the plastic bags you get with every purchase, there's a little story which goes like this :

Our little friend "TOM TE" use magical secret power for delicious BREAD that. Well enjoy in next morning. Children who living in ( Read more... )

Snowing snowing, always snowing. The highlight of my days has become going to the office toilet. Heated toilet seats. You have *no* idea how complaisant that is. I'm not talking somebody-sat-here-before-warm but Oh-my-god-cosy. The seat has it's own control panel that allows access to bidet functions like jet-strength and temperature. Maybe blow ( Read more... )

Yesterday Me and and Italian girl from the guesthouse went to Toyako a supposedly beautiful lake with a mountain island in the South-West of Hokkaido.

Google Maps linkOnly it was snowing all day. We had like 30-50cm fresh snow. So we didn't see much. Mark the name Toyako, though, and that you've heard it here first. This little town is going to ( Read more... )

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