Monthly Archives: July 2004

Digital Dream Panda

Now sitting in Kansai airport with Tennis waiting to pick up her friend. In the ultimate geek wet-dream come reality, I am being a truely remote mobile blogging panda with my super sleek little computar connected to the wireless network here. The thing about living out this ultra sophisticated high tech digerati fantasy is that all the hardware in the world won't neccessarily help you if you have nothing to write about. I have writer's...

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Off to Osaka

The Umeda Sky Building Off to Osaka for 10 days to study Japanese. Hopefully my Japanese will improve. We'll see. Don't have much time to write, so enjoy the random pictars from this past weekend: Panda doing his best Johnny Depp impression and wielding his '9 whilst Yuki mugs for the camera Panda, a very drunk Nikki and Jenn shy from the camera flash. What JETs do in the inaka: Hold championship bowling tournaments....

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Party People

So not much has been happening recently, despite the fact that this is a very busy time of the year. Lots of seminars and presentations to prepare for, business trips to take, formalities to attend to (I'm switching schools, which requires a lot of "showing my face" to various assorted administrative individuals who will smile, shake my hand and then promptly call me "carl" or "fernando" or some other previous ALTs name for the rest...

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Summer Sunshine

While it may seem a little ridiculous, considering how much I whined and moaned just a few months about about how ungodly cold and snowy it was here in my little corner of Japan, I now find myself doing the complete opposite and cursing the very blasted existence of summer as I sweat my way through yet another "lesson" in what must surely be the hottest, muggiest place on earth. A beautiful waterfall hidden away...

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