In Japan, when a child is one month old, you can take them to a shrine for the miyamairi (宮参り) event. This is essentially a […] Read More
Of late I’ve become somewhat more aware of the fact that we don’t have an Earthquake Kit in our apartment, so I’ve decided over the […] Read More
Yup, I’m very happy to say that today I got rid of the ‘chalk marks’ on the tyres of my bike on my first real […] Read More
I’m in Singapore right now on a bit of business, staying in the Fullerton Hotel, but that’s not what this post is about. I got […] Read More
I like to think in the time I’m been in Japan I’ve thrown myself at a fairly decent variety of oddness, and overall done a […] Read More
It seems this morning that Tokyo had it’s biggest power outage ever – potentially 800,000 households according to the BBC. Unfortunately, yours truly here (somewhat […] Read More
Just a reminder that the Kamakura Beach Party ’06 will be this Saturday (19th). It ‘s a great day at the beach with live music, […] Read More
After a couple of years on my old faithful 50cc Zoomer, last Friday I took delivery of a new Honda CB400 Super Four bike, and […] Read More
An odd title to a post, but tonight we went out to have a bit of shabu shabu for the first time in a while. […] Read More
As they undoubtedly prepare to come home, a few people will be asking, ‘What went wrong?‘ In a group where on paper they could get […] Read More