This morning we had another earthquake.

This afternoon the typhoon arrived.

What's next, plague of locusts?

we just had an earthquake. it lasted for what seemed like ages. maybe only 20 seconds? i don't know.

edit: the principal at school today informed me that it lasted well over a minute.

scariest thing i've ever experienced.

apparently there was a tsunami down on the coast.

I got 26 mosquito bites between last night and this morning.

TWENTY SIX!

( N*E*R*D*S* )

Earlier this week, a school girl was found almost dead on the side of the road. She had been strangled and died soon after. The poor kid was only 16.

Here's what her school had to say about it:

"This is very sad, but try not to be disturbed," the school's principal, Yutaka Inaba, told about 340 pupils at the school who gathered and held a ( Read more... )

So I'm lying in bed this morning, wishing it was still the weekend. All of a sudden my JTE calls.

Schools cancelled!!!

Yay typhoons. :)

All we got here in Osaka was a little wind, a lot of rain and the WHOLE MORNING IN BED!

I would like to nominate 'I Want It That Way' by The Backstreet Boys as the crappest video in the history of the Universe. Ever.

That is all.

I love Japanese news. When everywhere else is full of doom, gloom and war, you can always count on the Mainichi Daily for a bit of a laugh.

Todays top stories include this classic:

"A 60-year-old woman who infiltrated a golf course at night and stole over 1,500 lost balls from the bottom of a lake wearing a wetsuit and swimming goggles has been ( Read more... )

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Spacetweek: here listen, put on fucking kerbdog there.