Finished...!!(sort of...)

wow..that is one huge painting..couldnt really tell from the other pics, but now that you're standing in front of it..good job~
Posted 7/22/2003 at 11:48 pm by citydrifter



NICE drawings!! wow...

have a safe trip over here! doesn`t feel like the weather is as hot and humid as last year..you`re lucky!!
Posted 7/23/2003 at 12:01 pm by destinyz



do you ALWAYS look so worn out/stoned? or is it just that naturally asian thing with the eyes? HAHAHAHAHA. Okay, i'm being an ass. but hey, i never said i wasn't. :p

nice work.
i don't paint.
maybe i'll put up my sketches and chalk work up sometimes.

::taks::
Posted 7/23/2003 at 1:17 pm by takunishi79



i write..all those rambling thoughts in my head
i read..everything i can get my hands on
i do crazy stuff during the long hours at nite all because of my whacked sleeping habit as an arch student.. *sighs*
Posted 7/24/2003 at 1:50 am by citydrifter

Cleaning my room.

omg... you drop me just one eprop?! one right back at you
Posted 3/12/2003 at 7:42 pm by calyxscorner

M returns to Japan

awww.. i bet you're so happy she's back... at least you can call her and write email instead of faxing btw, i have pics of mina on my page
Posted 3/16/2003 at 9:48 am by calyxscorner

Roommates suck

Dude, thanks for checkin' out my mix. I'll be posting up a couple more sets over the next week or so.
Posted 3/25/2003 at 2:12 am by southern_sun



it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood
Posted 3/25/2003 at 2:51 pm by calyxscorner

Violin Trance

Very cool stuff! I wonder if PVD enjoyed his music?
Posted 3/26/2003 at 4:07 am by southern_sun

Blah blah

is that a toilet???
Posted 3/28/2003 at 9:01 pm by jadedseed



sure is :)
such are my feelings for macs. Beautiful, but frustrating to use!
Posted 3/28/2003 at 10:05 pm by michaelpanda

Placeholding

now... apparently tomorrow never comes... i want to hear more about ur space-cadet pot smoking roomie... lol... sounds interesting
Posted 3/28/2003 at 9:05 pm by jadedseed

STFU

breath... don't swear it too much... just take deep breathes...

hope everything works out... don't sweat it too much... but is ur roomate continues to be and ass... i say kick his ass... =P
Posted 4/2/2003 at 10:25 pm by jadedseed

Il faut souffrir pour d etre belle...

Wow, that was totally adding insult to injury on her part. You needed to give her a nice cup of STFU.
Posted 4/4/2003 at 3:24 am by southern_sun

Yatta!!

Congratulations to you!! ^_^

Unfortunately for me, I am an alternate .. so more waiting for me. Hopefully I'll get the chance to go this year, but I haven't heard anyone who's declining yet... :~(
Posted 4/7/2003 at 4:52 pm by siberian_miri



congrats. landed on ur page somehow.. i wish i can go to japan.. dammmmn! i will when i have the $$.. japan is like a must-go country!!! neways..later~
Posted 4/8/2003 at 12:18 am by JeANieW



OMFG!!!! congratz mikey!!!!!! i'm so happy for you!!!! i knew they couldn't deny you
Posted 4/9/2003 at 4:12 pm by calyxscorner

Careless whisper from a careless man...

Hey from Japan!

I`m assuming the great job is getting into JET? Congrats!! If not, congrats anyways..hahhha.

Sounds like it was a great day..
Posted 4/11/2003 at 9:21 am by destinyz



PM Dawn.i just downloaded that for old times sake. my cassingle is worn out.
Posted 4/11/2003 at 5:50 pm by southern_sun



congrats on the JET program, i hope we get placed well...
Posted 4/12/2003 at 9:39 am by jscottlee



epropz...

instead of givin me back go to my outwar and give me thugs just by visit it.. how hard is tat?? just visit.. please....
http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=739954 if it say 5 min later something like that then go 5 min later.. please!!!
Posted 4/12/2003 at 12:10 pm by unskillersGOHelper

16 reasons why Momo gets my first born child... and the $1339 phone bill

good job getting your phone bill down....I'm so scared of conflict I woulda just paid it....I think.

Yeah, I'm pretty much in the sticks of Japan.....ever heard of Fukushima?
Posted 4/14/2003 at 6:05 am by midori031



mikey!! omg... i couldn't believe that phone bill. so glad you were able to get it down to $200 after all that.. sux that it's still more than you owe.. but man.. that is SO much better than $1300+. anywayz.. so where in japan will you be for the JET program?
Posted 4/14/2003 at 9:53 am by calyxscorner

Mind-numbing boredom of working at a computer lab until midnight

hahahha..I remember having to go to the lab at 3 or 4 am...crazy! sometimes I`d have to go after clubbing to hand in an assignment..

the medical examination, at least it`s over with right? I had mine done w/my family doctor, luckily =)
Posted 4/18/2003 at 7:52 am by destinyz

Pissed off conversation partner

Yes, I can relate. Sometimes people here just don`t say what they mean....it`s all about smiling at all times. Gets annoying, but I can understand because the society is quite different from ours back in north america.

I guess u better get used to it...afterall, you`re going to be working in that type of environment!
Posted 4/22/2003 at 3:49 am by destinyz

TB Negative but still sick

hope u feel better soon!! =P
Posted 4/24/2003 at 10:09 am by midori031

Friday morning Ryoko Hirosue montage

I`m still amazed at how most Japanese gurls manage to look soooo cute! wonder if it`s natural or if its a chore..

(and im planning on taking international marketing or human resources in college....one year progs...2 terms school, 1 co-op..i figure, it can`t hurt)
Posted 4/26/2003 at 12:09 am by destinyz



I didn't realized that so many people were sick as in cold (I'm just barely getting over mine)! Hope you get better soon and thanks for the encouragement - I hope I hear from them soon! ^_^

When you're leaving, will you be in Group A or B?
Posted 4/26/2003 at 1:35 am by siberian_miri



mikey.. where's the group shot of asses?
Posted 4/26/2003 at 12:00 pm by calyxscorner

Happy Birthday Joe!

Nice pics! Joe must've been pretty drunk..hehehe..
Posted 4/28/2003 at 1:54 pm by destinyz



and I thought I partied hard.....
Posted 4/30/2003 at 5:52 am by midori031

The Crack and Panda quits the USDA

hahahha..that ass crack pic is hilarious!!
Posted 5/3/2003 at 12:56 am by destinyz

Workplace Hijinks

hahaha that video is soooo cool! goodness, a chem E major babe with a lust for alcohol? can i oil, erm, arm wrestle with her?
Posted 5/8/2003 at 8:41 pm by southern_sun



hahaha..sounds like it was very exciting!! good action pics.

bone thugz n harmony....hahahah...how did it go again? "get up get up getup, its the first of the month..." something like that? hahahha
Posted 5/9/2003 at 1:43 am by destinyz



love the commentary!!!!
Posted 5/9/2003 at 7:30 am by midori031

Xanga acting up...

Good luck on your finals!! ^_^

And try not to think too much about the partying afterwards (or about getting ready for Japan) - hehee.. that didn't help huh? ^-^;;

Still no word here yet...then again, I haven't heard much news from people in Cali in regards to alternates.....
Posted 5/8/2003 at 6:35 pm by siberian_miri

The power of panda poop...

hahahaha good idea, but my place smells bad enough without Panda shit powering it
Posted 5/12/2003 at 9:12 am by midori031

Jikoshokai

卒業、コングラッチェレーション！
I like the third-person narrative. :P hehe
glad you enjoyed the matrix' french guy's interpretation... ... hope the people who hadn't watched it yet, didn't lose anything from reading my ish... haha
そんなところで、俺は・・・仕事に戻る。ウッス。

タク
Posted 5/21/2003 at 10:03 pm by takunishi79



Did you get your placement for Japan yet? Where ya gonna be?

p.s. love the pics. so cute. Your have a true talent for realism.
Posted 5/22/2003 at 9:54 pm by midori031



1) cute pics! cute story. 2) thanks for the book suggestion 3) you write more than i do. unbelievable! 4) congrats on JET. i'm on kam on this one.. where in japan? 5) your "all your base are belong to us".. i took a pic of that posted on a wooden board in a Japanese shrine in Ueno for my geek friends back at home =) i'd share the pic w/ you but i lost it 6) i think i've commented way too much
Posted 5/23/2003 at 2:43 am by eggtakko



that was an unbelievably long entry...but omoshiro nontheless. have you ever been to Japan before???
Posted 5/24/2003 at 3:15 pm by apple_jax



OOｐｓ！間違った！This was meant for your entry before this one.　　Oh well! パンダが好きなー
Posted 5/24/2003 at 3:58 pm by apple_jax

Remote Mobile Blogging Panda...

actually, she wasn't flirting at all. her bf was sitting right next to her. but it was funny because she was just acting drunk and silly and i guess that's all it takes for an old man to blow that much cash on us. now, all i have to do is take lessons from her.
Posted 5/26/2003 at 8:04 am by akachan



yes, unfortunately I am sill going to school, but I hope to be finished with it soon. And YES, I will definitely go back to Japan. I intend to visit my "second" home at least once a year!

ジェットプログラムはがんばってね！
Posted 5/26/2003 at 9:12 am by apple_jax



wow..thats really nice!! don`t worry, I`m always broke too. =)
Posted 5/26/2003 at 10:06 am by destinyz



wow! That *is* nice! And yep, I'm somehow always broke too - I don't even want to begin to think about my school loans and credit card bills... -_-;;
Posted 5/27/2003 at 4:23 pm by siberian_miri

Random Pictures

interesting images.
as it turns out, this "Center" I speak of is... well... where I'm "working right now" but obviously, in reality I'm fumbling about the net. *hehe*

The Center = The Center for Pan Asian Community Services, Inc. (CPACS) who's site needs an obvious overhaul, but they haven't told me to do anything, so I haven't... YET. Until it gets to a point where I just can't stand it any longer (I just choose not to look)... I mean, seriously: www.cpacs.org <- it's really QUITE sad.

Glad someone took the time to read what I had to say. As it turns out, the last long entry RE:Matrix Reloaded wasn't a very "popular" piece either. People seem to enjoy more of... "oh i had this horrid day, and i'm here to share it so you can feel better about YOURself!" kinda things. :P hahahaha.

Okay. So, yeah. Umm. Gotta go to the dentist. *sighs*

::taks::
Posted 5/29/2003 at 2:52 pm by takunishi79

Insert clever title here...

it's too hot for me to read.. so i skimmed pics below. i like the..faces/icon one i cook.. doesn't mean i cook well. i have officially numbed/killed my taste buds where everything tastes the same. the nearest convenience store to me is.... a 10 min. drive. haha. when ppl from yokohama take trips to your town to "touch agriculture" (how the superintendent translated it to me today), you kno u're out in the boonies! but they have ready-made stuff at the market too. but it's the same stuff over n over. trust me, the one thing i'm dying for when i get home is all food.

... yeah, it's frustrating that u guys don't kno where u're placed yet. i wanna kno who's coming here after me! so i can warn 'em. j/k i like my town.
Posted 5/29/2003 at 8:21 pm by eggtakko



Races are sooooo fun!!! Well, now that I think about it, I`ve been to plenty, but never actually SEEN one. We always had to run from the cops. That`s when the fun begins......Are they legal in Chicago?
Posted 5/29/2003 at 8:32 pm by midori031

The Hood

good luck dude.
that's all i gots ta say about that.
as for Homie the Clown... werd... Homie DON'T play that... *bam!*... with 2 snaps... and... and... and... shit it's been too damn long.

but nah. really. i've heard the program is decent, and it'll probably more fun teaching at a school like that than some first-rate school... well, maybe except for an ojousma gakko well.. maybe not.

i'm out. ::tak::
Posted 5/30/2003 at 3:09 am by takunishi79



luckily, in japan, cars are dirt cheap. you could buy a good civic for $400USD and it'd be enough to transport you for a midnight rendezvous. you could probably buy a nice 180sx for a cheap price, too.

jet program must be exciting. just think, all the natto you can eat!
Posted 5/30/2003 at 3:43 am by southern_sun



Wow...congrats!! You must be so excited to find out your placement! Also, the school you`ll be working out sounds a bit out of the ordinary...might be pretty cool actually =)

and no, I`ve never been to the southern part of japan yet...someday soon.
Posted 5/30/2003 at 3:47 am by destinyz



aah! かなざわ！本当にきれいな町です！ラキーですね！While in かなざわYou should go and visit たてやま！I went in May, and it was beautiful!　　Everything was covered in snow!!!　　
Posted 5/30/2003 at 7:20 am by apple_jax



Congratz on your placement!! ^o^

I'm still waiting, but I found out from BD (although I should have stayed away cuz now I can't sit still at work =P) that LA alternates received their notifications via snail mail.....and I didn't check my mail yesterday!! But..... I'm trying very hard not to think about it so I don't fall flat on my face later! ^_^;; Thanks for the well-wishing!!
Posted 5/30/2003 at 11:34 am by siberian_miri



oh yeah... about the car...
if you're a driver it's your call. but, in terms of "just getting around", get a K <- kore ha "keisha" no ryaku ne. kogata-sha. 軽（けい）。軽いからそうなんだけど。結構カワイイし、乗り心地もいいし、何しろ燃費(nenpi)がスゲェいいんだよ！Nenpi = gas mileage.
that's all.

::tak::
Posted 5/30/2003 at 1:14 pm by takunishi79



Hey congratulations. Signed onto the JET ring a few weeks ago and just checking out pages. I'm going to Fukushima next year. Not sure of the city yet. My predecessor needs to get on that =p
Posted 5/30/2003 at 7:54 pm by kirinknight



"And it's not like it's way on the ass end of honshu"... excuse me a moment as i slap you for that reference.. 2 hours on the bullet train isn't bad; good time to catch up on sleep. congrats!
Posted 6/4/2003 at 2:28 am by eggtakko

Moving Melodies

okay, so that was hella long, and I honestly don't quite have the time to read every line--considering i'm at work, and a 4 month project coming to its closing on Monday... ... ... deadlines.

BUT, since my boss doesn't seem to be around... ... ...

SO~, yeah. ATB. Nothing against them, at all, but I don't know too many of their songs. I've heard of ATC, too... ... wonder if there's an ATA and ATD, at least in terms of music groups. *hehe*

AND as for the race tracks--i was only looking at the pictures.. hehe--looks pretty niiiice.

Uncle Sam Wants You!--I've always found that statement inherently wrong. But anyway. Truth be told, most high-ranking officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force & the likes, are actually very intelligent people... but we all know that. Had we an interest in the Army, wouldn't he think that we would have taken ourselves into Westpoint or somethin'? Oh well... I know a couple of army/navy people and the ones that are currently in it, seem to enjoy it, but the retired individuals are just full of pride and don't have much to offer in a conversation outside of the realm of being they've become all so accustomed to.

On top of which, many of their p.o.v. are so damn narrow, that it's difficult to carry on an actual "conversation" without it becoming a full out debate, which is completely skewed by their on-set and mentality. Again, I speak of veterans.

But anyway, boss is back. *sigh* Back to work I go.

peayce,

::taks::
Posted 6/4/2003 at 2:36 pm by takunishi79



hmm.. almost simultaneous reply entries? *heh*

so yeah, ヘルス・フェア is... a health fair. what can i say. *talking to the department of health services, cancer awareness and education people about it as i write...*

essentially what the fair is, as is with every "fair" of this type, much lies in educating the community & a certain public (usually divided by socio-economics or by ethnicity) in providing medical information. now, where i work (the center for pan asian community services) we are obviously catering more towards the asian american community, but we certainly don't limit ourselves. the data we are able to collect, of participants, go to use in providing that data (just numbers) when writing our grants and proposals to the state & national governments as well as larger organizations, in getting funding to run certain programs for the community.

the health fair, itself, is a product of such grants, so it's a circular thing... one begets one, begets the other, begets the original and so forth.

what we do at our health fair (2nd annual georgia asian american health fair) is while we provide information, we also provide health screenings, with a complete and holistic approach to health care--from acupuncture to every-day internal medicine stuff--as well as getting gov't agencies and national oraganizations (like American Cancer Society) to provide some of the more costly screenings.

and our target is generally the uninsured, under-insured, and under priviledged individuals in the community, and letting them know of the exisitng programs and facilities where they can recieve health care, to a certain extent, without having to worry about their insurance status.

okay. yeah. so that's that. whoo-hoo~! that was hella long, huh? but this is what i've been explaining to hella people for a few months. i just don't want this information in my head any more~!!!!! 4 more days!!! aaahhhhH~!!!!

::taks:: yet, again.
Posted 6/4/2003 at 2:50 pm by takunishi79

It aint easy being greasy...

Sorrie~~Im not actually from Monaco... bari bari no nihonhin desu!!
Posted 6/7/2003 at 7:20 am by Love_a_lot



What particularly disgusts me is there is a high chance that dude was touching himself at some point or other, then touching the fuckin' keyboard.

I use the public network at my university, it scares the hell out of me to think what the other people have been touching before they touched the keys....
Posted 6/7/2003 at 8:13 am by Paracetamol



A lot of Japanese guys look at porn at the public international center I work at. Shame in regards to porn is not something very prevaent in Japanese culture. Of course you have to lay the smackdown, but sometimes you end up looking like the bad guy and not them. Weird.
Posted 6/8/2003 at 10:01 pm by J_kun

mountain biking...

Just wanted to let you know that I've enjoyed reading your xanga, you seem to live an exciting life. I don't update much so don't mind me. Also, you have an awesome collection of all things japanese links on your page!
Posted 6/10/2003 at 10:34 pm by kirinknight

Nanimo...

dude... it's like you read my mind...
Posted 6/10/2003 at 11:46 pm by takunishi79

I don't wanna work! I just wanna bang on the drums all day!

E~!
Posted 6/16/2003 at 12:07 pm by takunishi79



I know who you're talking about! Man, if I see that pornhollio guy I'm going to have security's # at my beckon call
Posted 6/16/2003 at 5:01 pm by Fozzyuw



I'm starting to think it was a baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad idea studying for that IT degree
Posted 6/16/2003 at 7:50 pm by Paracetamol

Busting out the visa card..

interesting.. ... .. swanky.. werd. *hehe*

you think swanky establishments in the States are bad... (price wise)... you really don't want to mistakenly go into such an establishment in Japan. You can just file for bankruptcy right then and there. HAHAHA. but if I recall correctly, they do have cheap and really good food at the same time, too. so it's all gravy.

madison... had no idea it had that many restaurants:population... last time I was there (like 10 years ago) I just walked around UW-Madison--my dad's alma mater--and thought "hmm... too hot... not coming here for school." (it was obviously during the summer).

but that's my story. whoo-hoo~! ya~y!! *huh?*

::taks::
p.s. love how the picture turned out... with that... thing behind you (err, on you) hehehe
Posted 6/17/2003 at 4:07 pm by takunishi79

In honor of pornholio

ii paaji desu ne...
Posted 6/18/2003 at 7:50 pm by Kittos



haha! yep, I have come to enjoy playing Halo. Yep, am on Summer break right now...and being very lazy.
Posted 6/19/2003 at 8:23 am by apple_jax



yah..next step in life will be wishing u were a student again! good times =)
Posted 6/19/2003 at 10:31 am by destinyz

This is freaking cool.

heyy
just passin by..
kewl xanga
propz
hit me baq~
bye
Posted 6/19/2003 at 7:32 pm by HeartBreaker120



hah..that stick fighting game is awesome!
Posted 6/23/2003 at 7:34 pm by kirinknight

Home of the 15 dollar glass of scotch...

when i'm not so damn busy, i'll actually read this... really... cuz i want to know about this $15 glass Scotch... shit, I'll probably like it, too. Get me a bottle!! *MUWAHAHAHA-izzle* werd.

~tak~
Posted 6/25/2003 at 2:53 pm by takunishi79



a cows fur is called leather. :D
Posted 6/25/2003 at 8:10 pm by Fozzyuw

Racing Sushi

the hardest part about that website design is actually drawing the pictures. The flash they didn't isn't that hard... including that menu.


They did a wonderful job though. Flash can be hard to get to "look" right.
Posted 7/1/2003 at 2:40 pm by Fozzyuw



ok, with the exception of the actualy game you play. =) though, even that you can learn of online tutorials from flashguru and actionscripts.org
Posted 7/1/2003 at 2:42 pm by Fozzyuw



hey when are you coming to Japan and where r u gonna be?

Sorry.....random question i know.
Posted 7/2/2003 at 3:06 am by midori031

Website broken... maybe

this is unexcusable. you shall now burn in hell. MUWAHAHAHAHAHA~!!!! okay, so I kid... lemme know if I can help ya. peayce!
Posted 7/4/2003 at 1:35 am by takunishi79



ummm... seems fine here.
Posted 7/5/2003 at 7:38 pm by Fozzyuw

I am not Lance Armstrong

dude, I have on idea where you went but it's pretty funny considering how close Hilldale is. :D
Posted 7/6/2003 at 9:32 pm by Fozzyuw



Whew! What a journey! Glad to hear that you made it to the mall though! ^_~


Posted 7/8/2003 at 11:40 am by siberian_miri

To err is human. To really mess up requires a computer...

17 days...let me tell ya, it`s going to pass by super-fast. good luck packing!!
Posted 7/10/2003 at 11:16 am by destinyz



Gosh! I'm sooo excited for you!! :D *ish a little bit wistful, but it's ok ^_~ - maybe next year*

Have fun there and I'm looking forward to reading more of your entries!! :D Good luck!
Posted 7/11/2003 at 2:01 am by siberian_miri

Administrative note

the time's a coming, eh?
sounds great about the AC thing. I think countries throughout Asia just need one big AC system to cool out the entire freaking country. Screw ecology and how that would mess up the crops and all sorts of stuff... what'll it be all worth without people to consume them?! *hehehehe* so, i kid... but still, a nice little cool area to keep from over-heating and dying would be nice. ^_^

and don't hate on the french too much man... it's such a useful language in this country... ... ... ... ... ... what a waste of years in French class back in high school. hehehe. ooh, but some beautiful women! ^_^ and saying shit in french just sounds sexy, though i personally prefer English accents. lol.

::taks::
Posted 7/12/2003 at 1:08 am by takunishi79

Birdies are progressing...

the birdies..they're so cute~
Posted 7/16/2003 at 6:06 am by citydrifter

Screw the man...

hmm... i used that same book for my physics class? i remembered it was extremely expensive, and it's going for $10 now?? all those paper/ink probably cost moe than $10... you should've sold it on half.com or something. and physics is like math, they're not coming up with anything new, but new edition books just keep coming....
Posted 7/16/2003 at 12:58 pm by chillair



It's jacked up like that. Oh well. You'll get over it. hehe But, I kept all my physics books... i have this awkward taste for physics... but i hate math. *i dunno*

as for getting a day off... I passed out last Friday and missed work, and today... actually I just slept in today, and called in sick. LOL. So I DO get some time off every once in a while. But then, even as I take the day off today from WORK work, I gotta do Freelance work. Figures. I need a live-in assistant or something man.

::taks::
Posted 7/16/2003 at 3:12 pm by takunishi79



i know the feeling...senior year i only have xeroxed readers, in other words, nothing to re-sale....><..i havent sold my physic one..back in way freshman year...thinkin' why bother..i'd only get a pittance out of it...(plus i might need it for grad school...)..oh the joy..
Posted 7/16/2003 at 8:57 pm by citydrifter



oh almost forgot..i wont be in japan for like another 6 months or so..*sighs* mom & dad & me will probably spend our x'mas holiday/new year there..
Posted 7/16/2003 at 9:01 pm by citydrifter



I refuse to sell my books on for such pitiful amounts, if you keep them you can always use them as a tax right off
Posted 7/16/2003 at 11:19 pm by Paracetamol



*sigh* another person claimed by the university bookstore. At least they took it for $10, most of the time I can't sell them back because they don't need the god forsaken book anymore. Damn them! Damn them all to bloody hell! How's ur summer going btw?
Posted 7/17/2003 at 2:36 am by apple_jax



laughing so hard cuz it's so true. i actually have quite a few of my textbooks in a dusty box under my bed at home... cuz i didn't want to give 'em back for NOTHING. anybody need a doorstop?
Posted 7/18/2003 at 12:44 am by eggtakko

Painting...

the painting is coming along quite nicely~
are you doing the JET program?
Posted 7/20/2003 at 12:36 am by citydrifter

Wedding Time...!!

The photo caption where you say "Three generations indulging in a rare moment of nap-time on the floor." is wrong. You and your brother are the same generation... despite whatever gap you might feel is there. :D
Posted 7/20/2003 at 10:31 pm by Fozzyuw



Hate to burst your bubble, but I'm betting that course really was designed by Jack Nicklaus the old golf player. Jack Nicholson is the actor. =p

I like that painting you're working on! You're pretty talented.
Posted 7/21/2003 at 10:12 am by kirinknight

More wedding pictures

5 more days huh...u sould buy as much underwear as you possibly can. Can't have enough clean underwear...besides, they'll be cheaper than if you were to buy them in Japan.

Beware the underwear gnomes.
Posted 7/21/2003 at 11:01 pm by apple_jax

T-minus 1 day and counting...

I wouldn't sweat the omiyage too much. I didn't large items, which is to say I don't think I got anything particularly nice. Mostly postcards and a box of skittles and m&ms from costco. Dinky but still takes up a bit of space and hopefully appreciated! By the way, I'll be more north than you in Fukushima-ken. The coldness that will be the mountains in Aizu. G'luck packing!
Posted 7/24/2003 at 11:41 am by kirinknight



グッドラック！
あえて日本語で書くよ。
日本滞在中、色々とあるだろうけど、頑張ってくれ。その、「落ちこぼれ」の集まりの学校みたいな事言ってたけど、実際そう言う子達を教えて、一人でも良く出きると充実感が違うよ。マジで。遣り甲斐があると思う・・・俺も毎日そんな子達を教えたりカウンセリングしたりしてるから、良く分かる。辛いけど、その分絶対報われる物があるよ。

The time draws near, doesn't it. Good luck with everything. Gimme a hollar if there's anything I can help you with, once you're out there "on the field"... I deal with "troubled youths" on a daily basis... there might be a few things up my sleeves that could be of use to you, if you run into some problems. ^_^

Anyway, have a safe trip bro...

::taks::
Posted 7/24/2003 at 1:00 pm by takunishi79



Good luck and have fun there! In case you missed it, I just found out yesterday * late as it already is* that I got upgraded.. they better not be teasing me!! :P hehhe - so I hope to see you there after all! :)

Will be leaving LA on August 19 ^_^
Posted 7/25/2003 at 11:08 am by siberian_miri



you've probably boarded the plane already..anyways. bon voyage...Nippon here comes panda-san..
Posted 7/25/2003 at 10:56 pm by citydrifter

Some time...

I checked out some of the sites.

I like them <3

*
Love,

Carla
Posted 1/15/2005 at 2:10 pm by in_bed



At first I was impressed by the super-cuteness of Kittah, but then all the pandas.... Your description of rapture was perfect and hilarious. I like the vicious pandas. My boyfriend used to draw me lots of pandas. Tiny doodles like one I taped to my computer: It's a very sharp-toothed panda that says "I've come to eat your celery!" (I used to eat a lot of celery) - and I've decided to copy them and imprint them onto plain dishes. I won't bother explaining the method. If I get to it soon, I'll make sure you know about the pictures. I really want a panda costume too!
Posted 1/15/2005 at 6:56 pm by ClumsyPanda



you should check out www.2apes.com..
they have a very customizable "diary" script that works well with internet explorer, and is perfect for blogging.
(if you were wondering, i found your blog through momo's.. coincidentally i am also applying for JET!).
Posted 1/15/2005 at 11:03 pm by yaxl



i may suck at darts but i did win us the free beers! when you gonna send me those pictures from the trip! send to my gmail pls *whimper beg* don't forget you have to return that Nellie CD!! or i will go down to ishikawa and hurt your precious um... well you know what i'd hurt. i'll look into a panda costume for you ^_^ send me some keitai lovin!!
Posted 1/15/2005 at 11:10 pm by KittyinJapan

In Japan... again

I want to be in a nice ass hotel... searching for food... if it weren't SO GOD DAMNED EXPENSIVE!!! but what the hell, you're there to serve a purpose. Me in Japan would be like... like... like... me in Japan. wow. That's really fucking profound, eh?
Posted 7/27/2003 at 9:47 am by takunishi79



Congrats! I`m sure you`ll have a great time!
Posted 7/27/2003 at 11:22 pm by destinyz



Thanks sooo much!! :) Now, I have to wonder where I'm going... ^_~

Glad to hear things went smoothly and I'm sure you're going to have a great time too!! ^_^
Posted 7/28/2003 at 2:06 am by siberian_miri



good to hear you made it. I have your gift from Swetha you left in my car.

Email me an address and I'll mail it to you.
Posted 7/28/2003 at 10:14 am by Fozzyuw

"Nu-uh! According to my Japan p3n0s..."

i really had a good laugh at this one. I understand just what you're talking about. Have some fun. Good luck with everything.
Posted 7/28/2003 at 11:37 pm by KittyinJapan



dang. this is hilarious...i had my share of japanese for 4 yrs. and i'm still not gettin' anywhere..

yes the war for japan has begun. anywayz. ganbate...boy do you need it :)
Posted 7/29/2003 at 1:15 am by citydrifter

So this is Japan... again.

日本の田舎（いなか）はイイよ〜！！

ガンバ！

タク
Posted 7/31/2003 at 8:46 am by takunishi79



Totally what I thought when I first got to the inaka. No worries though, you will grow to love it!!
Posted 7/31/2003 at 12:22 pm by destinyz



You'll grow to love it just like destinyz said. I'm gonna be up in Sapporo. It's not even Japany there. It's more like.. Boston or something. But I love it, we've got excellent ramen and curry.
Posted 7/31/2003 at 12:49 pm by KittyinJapan



i cant believe the guy is acting like that, shaming us columbians...but did i mention ive seen utada hikaru as well. hahha. didnt mean to rub it in.

ive only visited tokyo, kyoto, and hokkaido. everytime i ask my dad to take the rokaru (local train) to some suburban area, similar to the place youve mentioned above. i get the rational voice telling me we wont get back in a day...

but i agree, you'll grow to love it!
Posted 8/1/2003 at 4:19 am by citydrifter

All about bicycles...

japan and bikes is messed up. have you seen the people who all pile up on one bike? people with bikes and umbrellas are just DANGEROUS. same with people who talk on their keitai and bike... it's good that you're not "too manly" for the basket. My bf refused to ride a bike with a basket. A few of my friends went out and stole the only 2 dirt bikes in the town just to avoid riding a bike with a basket.

Be safe!!
Posted 8/4/2003 at 11:24 pm by KittyinJapan



バカ？カバ。
ゲット・ア･スクーターね。Seriously... 源チャリ。いいよ〜！！！

タク
Posted 8/5/2003 at 12:04 am by takunishi79



Ahh the life of a サラリマン．．．日本の生活はどう?　慣れてきたでしょう？
Posted 8/5/2003 at 11:11 pm by apple_jax



yea. be safe. dont bump any people off the road..hehe
Posted 8/8/2003 at 2:20 am by citydrifter

A random business trip

Since you're near the hood, you should go and see Mt. Tateyama...in the winter. The windy road up the mountain is preee-tee scary but then again you can always take the cable car...! It was amazing! Lots of white white snow, so be sure to take some sunglasses and a マフラ！

じゃー元気でね！
Posted 8/8/2003 at 7:21 am by apple_jax



craaaaziness! somehow the thought of 100 screaming schoolgirls would initially sound pretty cool, but you make it soooo not what i would envision!
Posted 8/8/2003 at 10:37 am by southern_sun



ahh...those were the days, I miss the ol' keitai denwa! I'm jealous!
Posted 8/8/2003 at 1:38 pm by apple_jax



i luv reading your site too. your posts are sooo entertaining.

well. you can fill your days with jap books and by the time you come back, you'll be mouthing off nihongo like its your native lang~(those academic-speak HEAVY texts you mentioned..they make my head explode. after reading the damn line for a dozen times, i still have no idea what i just read)

getting up at 6:20am for 'fresh time'? *shaking my head* aaahh. i want your keitai denwa (you and your picture-taking thingamajig) urayamashiii. i still remember punching out alphabets zealously on the ol so tiny buttons to send out emails to my friends last year.. during study abroad

dragon ash is coming to the hood!! raaap.
Posted 8/8/2003 at 5:46 pm by citydrifter

Beach party

party in that weather? (hey, i saw the news & read the paper)... ... ... sound like the kinda fun i like to be involved in! hehehehe. sounds like things are off to a better start, now, than the very initial get-go of things! g'luck in the days to come.

::taks::
Posted 8/10/2003 at 2:21 am by takunishi79



hmm.. never tried that before - party in a typhoon. Sounds like you had a great time though! ^_^ hehe.. yep, good luck in the days to come!!
Posted 8/11/2003 at 11:44 am by siberian_miri

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Posted 8/16/2003 at 2:35 pm by takunishi79



I'm back from Cali and back in the Xanga loop....it's nice to hear more stories about our wonderful life in the Land of the Rising sun....keep it up! =P I need something to keep me entertained while I'm at work....
Posted 8/18/2003 at 2:53 am by midori031

Just an ordinary day...

thanks for subbing! :)

what a beautifully-descriptive entry. i love rain. and japan. i could completely picture myself in the images you created. while my "footsteps exist for one brief second in time in the moist gravel behind". ah, just beautiful! :)
Posted 8/18/2003 at 11:22 am by alleyesonkym



awww. nippon.

whoa..we subscribed to the same person..lol
Posted 8/19/2003 at 2:34 am by citydrifter



nah man.. nothing really to say after returning. i sit. jobhunt. sit some more. harass some jobless friends. sit. sit. and sit. so now.. i just live vicariously through u ppl.. so MAKE IT INTERESTING.
Posted 8/20/2003 at 4:11 am by eggtakko

Bored...

Electronics baby!!! Did you go to Akihabara yet?
Posted 8/21/2003 at 8:08 pm by midori031



U have Harvest? Me too!!! Bored? come visit me.
Posted 8/21/2003 at 8:37 pm by Rhythmic41

Another pictureless post...

"I'm on the outside, looking in.." and I have been for the past year. No matter how many times I try to knock on the window or ring the doorbell, my place is always on the front mat.

THe special treatment is nice sometimes tho, and you'd be amazed at how fast you can scare someone away by speaking harsh, fast English. If you wanna change your prestigious gaijin status, good luck to you!!
Posted 8/22/2003 at 3:16 am by midori031



Hey, funny thing... I get the same fucking treatment cuz I'm second generation... ... ... trust me, it makes a LOT LESS SENSE when they do that shit to me. 日本語喋れて当たり前だろ、コラ！！バカにすんのも程々にしとけよ・・・あさってきやがれ！！←This one's just an explanation. Ask your co-workers... or you can DEMAND IT of them, and they'll probably stop talking to you for a while... HAHAHAHAHA.

LAWSON'S... like there isn't one EVERY 10 FREAKING STEPS!!!

まぁ、頑張って。

タク
Posted 8/22/2003 at 7:31 am by takunishi79

Update tomorrow...

you owe us pictures ^_^ how'd you hair almost catch on fire????? I've never been to a festival :( They always happen while I'm in the US. *sniffles*
Posted 8/24/2003 at 2:41 pm by KittyinJapan



yea. we're not..but i still want to be a kid..no responsibility, being pampered by my parents, and just plain fun..dont. want. to. grow. up. yet.

BEACH! tommorrow! pictures, pictures~
sighs. works dragging me down lately to even log on to xanga..can you imagine that? :D at least, i'll have some fun at the big apple anime fest next sat..

i had my share of those nihong wa jyozu desu ne followed by the fervent denials. i agree completely. its hard to get integrated into the society..once i start speaking my broken..eeto..eeto nihongo, they change their attitudes immediately hovering over me like i am an invalid..

heading out now..gonna grab a can of royal milk tea too
Posted 8/24/2003 at 4:00 pm by citydrifter

I have lost my voice...

so i gather all this writing is to fill the void of losing your voice.. .. .. well, i'll read it while i work at the book store. :p hehe

taku
Posted 8/25/2003 at 12:47 pm by takunishi79



throat, uterus, same thing. is it the nasty powdered kind? ick. funny, i actually have some nice throat things from japan with me. my friends gave it to my parents as an omiyage.. drink some tea :)
Posted 8/25/2003 at 12:48 pm by KittyinJapan



Too bad about the voice. One of the JETs in our town lost his and it didn't come back for almost a year. In fact the cases sound strangely familiar. He also did a little too much karaoke for his own good. As for medicine look for the little spray bottles with a picture of a head and sharp pointy red arrows jabbing into the throat. It helps. Plus if you know how to say throat I am sure you can read it, its usually in kana on the package "no do" Good luck, hope you get your voice back.
Posted 8/26/2003 at 10:38 am by dlordcletus



hope your voice is coming back. cant imagine panda without one :D

kusuri o chanto nonde kudasai...
Posted 8/27/2003 at 10:14 pm by citydrifter

An auspicious start...

I usually find out what the lesson plan is gonna be as we walk down the hallway towards class.....I've gotten past the point of stressing anymore. =P
Posted 8/29/2003 at 8:19 am by midori031



midori`s right...I`ve gotten to a point where I`d almost rather NOT know ahead of time. There`s hardly ever any planning for me anyways...hahahha.
Posted 8/29/2003 at 10:47 pm by destinyz



aah your class sounds much like the class i had to sit through when i did exchange in high school. we had spit/tape wads thrown about, girls tweezing arm hair during class, and at least 10 kids passed out. but it was a school where most of the girls appeared in such magazines as Egg or Ego System (have you seen those?) Have fun getting smashed. Remember, don't keitai and drink at the same time. You might sent out some regretable mails.
Posted 8/30/2003 at 8:03 am by KittyinJapan



Hehe, you should get a copy of the tape "Stand and Deliver" :p
Posted 8/30/2003 at 11:55 am by Fozzyuw



given that youre taken off guard by this whole thing, its not a bad start actually...kids are never easy..
Posted 8/30/2003 at 11:40 pm by citydrifter

I am not a real teacher.

I'm so sorry to hear about what happened...your friend is lucky to have someone like you there for her.

About the kids, EVERY one of my friends, including myself, feels the way you do. The students don't care, so it makes you not want to care either...HOwever, what makes me happy? Reaching ONE student, whether it's just getting them to say "hello" to me or whatnot....it's such an amazing reward! I've learned not to expect to much....so I'll never be disappointed. =P
Posted 9/1/2003 at 5:57 am by midori031



It was so sweet of you to be there for your friend.

You're making me feel better about working for Nova when you talk about your class. All i had to work with today was 4 students who laughed at all my stupid jokes. But then again, they're paying big bucks to be entertained by my talking monkey self.
Posted 9/1/2003 at 9:50 am by KittyinJapan



I'm very sorry to hear about what happened... but as stated above, your friend is very lucky to have you be there for her.

About the school situation, sometimes, you just have to not expect too much so you don't stress yourself out. I can't relate to your situation as I have not even started classes yet (I don't know where all the English teachers went cuz I am left alone in the teacher's room right now)... but I try not to set any expectations so that the little things are more rewarding. :)
Posted 9/1/2003 at 9:42 pm by siberian_miri



yes. the dark side of japan..

i do hope both you and your friend are able to deal with the loss..

'what makes you happy'..sometimes a change of perspective can do the trick..
Posted 9/2/2003 at 3:42 am by citydrifter

Pictures...!

wow..the mobile blog is a really great idea! i see you're posting pics from a real camera again too..
Posted 9/4/2003 at 11:26 am by destinyz



all the drinking, eating, and singin'..glad youre back on the track :D
Posted 9/4/2003 at 8:10 pm by citydrifter

Rainy days

hi. you don't know me but i'll be going to japan in about a month to teach english. thanks for your insight. This particular entry was interesting. Esp about Emi who doesn't even blink an eye when introducing herself as a hostess. I'm eager to unravel the mystery that is japan.
Posted 9/6/2003 at 3:56 pm by midori_lotus



oh my..

japan has like the worst influx of pornography & host/hostess clubs..in the us, one might see a store like that at a seedy or some designated area in the city..but one can easily bump into those part-time flier distributer handing out, ahem, naked images brandishing their just-around-the-corner mise
Posted 9/7/2003 at 6:38 pm by citydrifter



too bad for you....now you gotta be selective as to which hostess bars you go to. =P hmmmm...actually this might work to your advantage. Next class, ask Emi if she gives discounts!
Posted 9/7/2003 at 11:10 pm by midori031

Goblin goods

There's this thing about Clancy novels, where the 1000+ pages aren't anything of a difficulty to get through. It's really quite wicked. Oh, and if you get to marry that daughter of a rich-assed industrialist, that would be called "gyaku-tama" or "gyaku-tama-no-koshi".

玉の輿（たまのこし）refers to a situation when a woman marries into a rich ass family. 逆玉の輿, as it is insighted in the term, is the opposite (gyaku)... hence; man marrying into a rich family. Figures, huh? Oh, and when you do... throw the sister my way, so I can have my gyaku-tama! hehehe.

And in case I forget (which I likely will... what with all this "I can't find a fucking job" stint...) Happy Birthday, dude. I'll be 24 in December... damn... we're almost at that QUARTER CENTURY MARK. How fucking exciting *sarcasm*.

::taks::
Posted 9/8/2003 at 5:27 pm by takunishi79



if there were no xangas what would us JETs do to kill the time?
Posted 9/9/2003 at 11:00 pm by coolnahalf



its always a joy to read about your adventures in Japan. I almost always feel a pang of jealousy...you lucky person you! Aahh...the life of a nihonjin. I, too, considered a career in foreign service. I even paid a visit to the U.S. Embassy in Osaka. Although, it seems promising...the military life still has kept my interest..so far. がんばって！
Posted 9/9/2003 at 11:04 pm by apple_jax

Nothing interesting at all

dang baller. you're busting nenkyuu like you got a million of them. I'm pretty shady with my nenkyuu--gotta save 'em up for Thailand and what not. Anyhow, you don't need vacation time to spell the boredom, just read random JET xangas or learn how to meditate while pretending to study Japanese. Serious, all the teachers keep giving me the "sugoi, atama ga ii", and the "majime, ne!"

Happy b-day.
Posted 9/10/2003 at 10:19 pm by coolnahalf



taking days off already? hahaha...i guess it's all good since it's for your bday (technically). have a good one!!
Posted 9/10/2003 at 11:47 pm by destinyz



happy bday man! have an asahi or two or three for me.
Posted 9/11/2003 at 3:17 am by southern_sun



happy bday..otanjyobi ometetou~

life away from internet this week has proved to be both disconcerting and productive at the same time :)
Posted 9/13/2003 at 3:46 pm by citydrifter



お誕生日おめでとう!　
Posted 9/15/2003 at 12:44 am by apple_jax

Maintaining

our phone is just kool. i got it for 2000 yen off, which was good enough for me. i almost got a strap at comme ca too but i got free straps first. everyone loves faye wong yo
Posted 9/15/2003 at 9:17 am by KittyinJapan



ahh..beautiful the hood. Your passage makes me feel as if I am also there.
Posted 9/15/2003 at 11:07 pm by apple_jax

All your bandwidth is mine.

I love that drawing of pikachu...a great representation of us all.

Happy Belated!!! Looks like you had a good time!
Posted 9/17/2003 at 1:10 am by midori031



that video clip looks all too familiar...road trip during Golden Week!
Posted 9/17/2003 at 4:14 am by apple_jax

Enkai and all that.

宴会〜！！！！
Posted 9/19/2003 at 9:24 am by takunishi79

Suubun no hi (special megamix)

yea. the time spent...away from the metal box has been quite refreshing; you must be intoxicated when you wrote that analogy :)

looks like you are enjoying yourself in the hood~
i was just reading the previous posts and the one on the tea house is really descriptive, i can fully imagine myself strolling down the same path..
Posted 9/23/2003 at 9:56 pm by citydrifter



that's an amazing picture!!

hope you enjoyed your day off =)
Posted 9/24/2003 at 11:08 am by destinyz

The proverbial **** hits the fan.

evil evil punks!! i had a tough time explaining my middle name as well. it took several tries. it's kind of weird considering my name in katakana form is Bento.. hey next time you're in the koban can you steal me those slippers?? sound so cute ^_^ You're lucky you have hanko, I had to finger print everything in place of hanko. i felt like a criminal!! My host sister had to finger print too cause she forgot her hanko. She forgot her underwear too in her rush. Poor girl felt so miserable for 3 hours in a koban with no undies..
Posted 9/25/2003 at 11:58 am by KittyinJapan



what a week indeed!

apparently, japan is not as safe as we assumed it to be..but it must be a 'sight' to see those policemen with the slippers. so its not likely you are gonna get your jidensha back? that sucks..

btw, you have quite an interesting collection of links on your site AND i should be working instead of slacking off..oops~
Posted 9/25/2003 at 5:53 pm by citydrifter



Oh man....rough week. Take it easy and get some rest....you're gonna need it so you can chase down the punk that stole your bike. Be nice though! =P
Posted 9/25/2003 at 9:50 pm by midori031

Deep breath.. and relax.

glad you got your bike back!! hope it stays safe!
Posted 9/29/2003 at 10:03 am by destinyz



wow that's a pretty nice looking drag queen but I can tell she's a he though. you seem to go out a lot. are there any decent dance clubs anywhere in Japan? Or is it just a drink and eat type of venues that are found in Japan?

since I found out i'm going to nagoya instead of kyoto, you got any places you can suggest for me? thanks.

-anna s.
Posted 9/30/2003 at 5:58 pm by midori_lotus



Hey Mikey!

I'm sorry to hear about your bike, if you need any Italian style assistance let me know. I'm a phone call, long international flight, train ride, taxi cab, and walk away.

But I got to admit, I laughted pretty hard reading about the riot slippers in your previous post.
Posted 10/1/2003 at 1:16 pm by Fozzyuw



maimai!

i gots a blog up. maybe it'll mean i will update more....
Posted 10/5/2003 at 4:33 am by momolo



Thanks for visiting my site. So you know Jenny? Did she steer you to my site? I am waiting for her to update her site.
Posted 10/9/2003 at 4:03 am by fiver

A is for apple

な・・・なんでそんなに難しい漢字なの？！
あ、そうそうマイケルさぁ〜俺、仕事見付かったよぉ〜！！！イエーイ！日系企業（にっけいきぎょう）の「極東貿易（きょくとうぼうえき）」って言う会社。小さい商社だけど、雇って（やとって）もらいました！すごくねぇ？ハハハ。

日本への出張（しゅっちょう）はないと思うけど、もしかしたらもしかして行けるかも！I might have midwest business trips, so when you get back to the States, and I get a nice b-trip out to the midwest, we'll grab a drink ネ。

お仕事ご苦労様〜！

タク
Posted 10/2/2003 at 3:15 pm by takunishi79



not the kanji..noooo..i think just one summer without touching any jap books has wiped out my four year's of learning..

its so hilarious to read the amazon reviews left by unsatisfied customers..they can be quite scathing..

glad you found your bike and yes, when you party, you party hard :)
Posted 10/4/2003 at 10:37 pm by citydrifter



i love bandwidth-eating multimedia!!

i am taking stats right now and it reminds me of physics, cause we had an exam today that i did not study for!

woohoo, go not studying!
Posted 10/9/2003 at 12:27 pm by momolo

Shag tag

and amazingly after all that you're more than halfway comprehensible... though I'm still trying to figure, why the Real World?! I'm sure you could have come up with a better analogy than THAT. *hmm* Par chance, non?

Anyway, sounds like JET isn't a half-bad job, if it pays to do jack shit (as you would probably say) and even get to go out as often as all of you do. Perhaps I should finish school--at some fucking point--and give this JET thing a whirl... And hopefully somewhere near my work's office... so I can take on 2 bull shit jobs! ^_^ *hehehe*

Wonder if the company will send me to Japan to do anything... ... ... that'd be kind of nice. Haven't been back in a good while. :p

Well, don't drink too much... ... ... ... ... fuck that. Drink to your heart's desire. Just make sure you can get yourself up to do the more important stuff in life... like that great sale thing you've mentioned here.

::ƒ^ƒN::
Posted 10/5/2003 at 4:06 am by takunishi79



being on JET feels like being on the Real World? I totally agree. It won't get any better than this...hahahah
Posted 10/5/2003 at 6:17 am by destinyz



love the gallery of pictures you got up there. only thing i gotta question is that last picture of the guy in the see-through shirt. what was he thinking?!?!?

by the way, how do you get around here? I dont' think i'm able to get a JR rail pass cuz I don't even know what kind of visa i have issued to me. I already feel lost and i'm not even there yet. help squash my nerves.

also, there is such thing as a guy who doesn't like dogs like my two-timing ex. i should've listened when my friends thought he looked kinda gay.
Posted 10/5/2003 at 4:33 pm by midori_lotus



the video is waaay cool~
not to mention we are getting an inside look on a reality show here :)

yup..and i tend to philosophize too much but xanga is a great outlet for those rambling thoughts..of course, i dont want to scare my subscribers away nor do i want to join those 'all the words i wish you could feel' blah blah blogrings and torture myself with more random and depressing words..so usually i made the entries private and talk about other incidentals..the more cheery stuff. i hope.

as for the renaming of eprops/comments..my xanga buddy gave me the codes, i can email you the javascripts if you want them..
Posted 10/5/2003 at 7:45 pm by citydrifter

Lack of updates

momotaro...momo....is there a link?

i think so!
Posted 10/16/2003 at 1:55 am by momolo



lack of updates means you're livin' the real life and not the virtual one..so its good :D

PLUS, momotaro has three awesome sidekicks! no wonder he's the quintessential Japanese hero...lol

btw, its a tomato~
so what's in your fridge?
Posted 10/16/2003 at 10:44 pm by citydrifter

Ken roku roku

Wow! Looks like you had a nice time! And the food looks delicious!!! :)

Is it getting cold where you are? It's not too bad here yet... but it is getting cold as I'm turning into an icicle as I'm sitting here in front of my computer. (Hope your new computer gets to you soon!) ^_^


Posted 10/18/2003 at 12:47 am by siberian_miri



when i first saw the food pic, i was like..ah kaiseki ryouri..then i read the caption. chef panda..you are amazing~

what. are. the. kids. learning. nowadays?! this is really scary.

we are in a transition..heading towards sighs, adulthood..
Posted 10/18/2003 at 9:48 pm by citydrifter



did you know that you're a great story teller? haha..i always get a kick out of reading your experience. it's pretty close to my experience too, but as you can tell by my lack of updates, i'm not so great at putting them into words. odd for an english teacher huh? =p
Posted 10/19/2003 at 3:25 am by kirinknight



gah!!! i sympathize dear panda! I have found myself as maybe uh.. an adult. But i must admit, suits are kind of sexy.. not on those old guys on the subway, but on cute people like us. :) so.. can we have a little taste of just how sexy and adult looking you look at work? mm???
Posted 10/20/2003 at 7:54 am by KittyinJapan



inviting a friend to join the yakuza? hahaha..you definitely have a creative side!! i have feeling if i used that idea in class, the principal wouldnt approve..even though he looks like he's a member himself.
Posted 10/20/2003 at 1:05 pm by destinyz

Dragon Ash

最近はTMC All Starsを聴いてる・・・On constant REPEAT。
Posted 10/23/2003 at 12:00 pm by takunishi79

Best part of waking up I

アハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハ！！！！！！！！！！！！！！

ゴメン。共感（きょうかん）できるんだけど、可笑しかった（おかしかった）！

Reminds me of being back in my first year at UCLA, when they were doing reconstruction on Dykstra Hall.... ... ... ... consequently the very fucking dorm I lived in!! 7AM... sharp.... POUNDING OF CONCRETE FOUNDATION. You know, I kept wondering if it was actually safe for me to be on the 8th floor of a 10 floor building, of which the foundation was being cracked by some pounding machinery... Hey, at least it would have given me an excuse for scale diving... ... ... but it would probably hurt without the parachute huh? hahaha.

タクでした。
P.S. no worries on the unposted comments. I just rant about my pseudo-busy schedule... or a life that's full of chaos... ordered chaos... like the Mandelbrot set. Ooh, I haven't played around with calculating that bullshit for a while... ... ... ... ... maybe my next post will be a lecture on the Chaos Theory of Physics. Oh yeah, people will really enjoy that one, huh?
Posted 10/28/2003 at 1:03 pm by takunishi79



haha! now you know how i felt this semester, as they were totally RECONSTRUCTING THE STREET I LIVED ON!

the early starting time is definitely not a japanese thing; that's the time the workers started here too.

at least they are almost done though!
Posted 10/28/2003 at 6:21 pm by momolo



Reminds me of how I am now living across from a baseball stadium and hear "When you Wish Upon a Star" over the loud speakers at 8am on a Saturday morning ... hehehe...

By the way, the construction looks like what they're doing on this tv show I saw awhile ago... ^_^

And of course, you may link it to the new site! :)
Posted 10/29/2003 at 2:48 am by siberian_miri

More bike troubles

Okay, I'd laugh at you--as always--but I did that last time, so I'll contain myself today. *hehe*
Alright, so your stolen-constantly-tipped-thrown-into-bushes-by-mysterious-Japanese-men bikes (yours and your friend's)... this experience is what we typically call ‚¢‚₪‚点. You don't have to have pissed anyone off, as it's probably being done by someone who already has a distaste for non-Japanese people... ... ... even people like me. <-(as in that individual or group of them wouldn't like people like me, rather than I have this certain distaste towards certain people... not true... I hate everyone equally... I don't discriminate, I'd do all women if they'd let me... wait, where did that come from??)

So anyway, beyond the tedium of having to bring it up every day... ... ... just bring the damn bike up to your room every day, man. Problem solved. Or beat the shit out of whomever is doing this, get it reported, and guess who wins? Yeah, that fucking Nipponese with the grin on his fucking face, fool! MUWAHAHAHAHA~! (am i beginning to sound like an asshole yet?)

But if you're going to do this whole stakeout thing, let's do this ish right man! Military style, infrared cameras, assault rifle (BB will do), rope, duck tape, something to gag a number of people with, and just for kicks, let's get a parachute pack. Get the evidence, and then shoot him/them (even her), gag 'em, tie 'em, ducktape 'em to the wall... and shoot them some more. And start talking like them professional wresters and stuff... that'll freak them out. From my childhood memories, I can only remember Macho Man (something Savage).. .. .. and the Ultimate Warrior (oh, I met Hulk Hogan once... that dude's huuuuuge!). And if you can, do it in ebonics... it'll be fucking great! make sure you get it on tape, so you can send me a copy and we'll stream it on my server!! lol

Okay, obviously too much time on my hands at work.. ... ... ... no no, I already had a 30 minute conversation with a potential client in Nashville, so I'm pretty much through for the day, ya heard?! And I'm-a-bum around tomorrow and not deal with Halloween traffic, and go out with this one girl... :p hehehe.

Yes, I write a shit load to say something so little, but you have to understand, when there are other people in the office, having a stern look on your face and typing like a maniac makes you look like you're being busy... ... ... then again, being in sales, if I'm not on the phone, it doesn't make me look busy at all! *That's what my boss tells me, at least*

My secretary just bought me lunch. Nice! I'll let you ponder about my ideas on how to get this mysetrious culprate! :p

::taku::
Posted 10/30/2003 at 12:43 pm by takunishi79



Looks like someone has a secret admirer!!

I agree with taku...keep the bike upstairs for awhile, whoevevers messing with you will hopefully get over their issue with you. Besides, beating the shit outta someone after being here for only three months IS NOT a good idea.
Posted 10/30/2003 at 7:59 pm by midori031



I say plant a trap for the rat bastards. The one(s) doing it are doing it in behind your back, which is a full sign of cowardice.

Simply the big bully theory. You see him/her doing it, confront them, maybe have a throw down and then it's over.

Better yet, use your dig. camera and snap a few shots of them doing it first. Now you have hard evidence. Remember what G.I. Joe says "Knowing is half the battle!"

It would be important to get in their face though, coming off polite and jovial will just make them feel that you can be pushed around. If they keep it up, then you can live up to your word and toss them around a few times until they learn.

That seems fair.
Posted 10/31/2003 at 7:10 am by Fozzyuw

Best part of waking up II

talk about overcrowding..this is it..
Posted 11/2/2003 at 9:45 pm by citydrifter

Copy and paste quiz

Liar...You won't do it "...in a bit". You'll do it when you feel like it. ハハハ。＊だからどうした＊って事なんだけどね・・・（−＿−；）
Posted 11/2/2003 at 4:44 pm by takunishi79

Bunka no hi

man, the trees are awesome! the fact that people take good care of them makes me happy!
Posted 11/7/2003 at 11:32 am by momolo

pandadoodles

How did the cultural festival go? ^_^

Hope you are feeling better! Although it's been a week since I got sick, I'm still feeling the effects of it.. and lucky me, the BOE is coming to my school tomorow to watch me "team teach"... -_-;; (did I mention that I don't really team teach at my school?)

at least I'm not as sick as I was last week... :P
Posted 11/8/2003 at 11:42 pm by siberian_miri



i actually like photoshop pics!! concepts are pretty interesting....

as for your profile pic, looking good!
Posted 11/9/2003 at 10:42 am by destinyz



the weather here is awful..freaking cold..i have a sore throat too..

i luv the doodles (so mechanical and robotic-like) and the pshopped images..(they look really cool..i want to type kanji in photoshop, how do you do that?)wow..'grass' brush..i only have ps 6..humph

sunshine city..is that the one in ikebukuro?
Posted 11/9/2003 at 9:08 pm by citydrifter



wow! hidden talent i never knew about...i really like the first one, maimai!
Posted 11/9/2003 at 9:35 pm by momolo



that schoolgirl pic rocks!
Posted 11/13/2003 at 11:29 am by southern_sun

Panda Plague

seems like the cold's just going around. good thing i already had mine's. and yes I got a docomo keitai. That's where i got my pics. from my keitai. I will be going to studio zoo tonite so if i see anything interesting i'll take a pic.
Posted 11/10/2003 at 10:45 pm by midori_lotus



oh, come come... the movie wasn't that bad. Much better than Reloaded, I think.

But they should of stopped after the first film.
Posted 11/11/2003 at 6:12 am by Fozzyuw

Dead panda walking

アハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハハ！！！！！！！！ウケすぎ！
Posted 11/12/2003 at 11:06 am by takunishi79



tanks for the article! i don't have time to read it now but i will soon!

grag, doing so shitty in school right now....
Posted 11/12/2003 at 12:09 pm by momolo

Busy night

FOB... I have my own clothing company and so I make my own shirts and hats.. including the FOB line.
Posted 11/16/2003 at 2:35 pm by BiteSizeThis



You have a Christmas tree?! You have a Christmas tree complete with a panda on top?!! :O

I'm jealoush... XD
Posted 11/17/2003 at 5:55 am by siberian_miri



hmm LV for my dog? I dunno. She's a biter. Hehe she's never even worn clothes but she's very obedient with her collar. I would love to find a cute dog tag though. keheh. Aren't you in tokyo? Don't they have tokyu hands? I haven't found Loft but I'll ask around. Hehe nice portrayal of androgyny.
Posted 11/17/2003 at 8:38 am by midori_lotus



Hey! You pinky swore! No one will ever want to be my Friendster with a pic like that *sobs*

And why does everyone feel the need to put bad pics of me on their website. But don't you worry, I shall return the favor.

May I add that I take offense at the comments on my makeup skills - my aim was not to be subtle. I think I achieved that goal wonderfully.
Posted 11/17/2003 at 10:03 am by cajumee



now i really do hope you come up here for the yuki matsuri, only cause i have this makeup that would accent your (ass)cheeks nicely. teehee. i'm grey today
Posted 11/17/2003 at 11:41 am by KittyinJapan



Ahhhh just when i thought i had washed myself of this evil xanga, you pull me back in....
I was looking up how to say with love in japanese, ended up at PolyKarbon (somehow) and your life just had to be interesting didn't it??
One question though, How did all the panda/animal japanese club meet?
PS: my xanga was severely old until i updated for the first time in 3 months today
Posted 11/17/2003 at 5:21 pm by jubeichan00



Z's are so cool, they're like the X for the new millennium. I've been trying to think up ways to insert Z's into my racial description, but the best I can come up with is "Werd! Pazty CauCazn's reprazent!" But I feel this is just derivative of other idiots work, and not really my own.

Incidently, what the hell is friendster? Do you get free photoshopped sunglasses when you join? Cos I wanna be a photoshop God too!
Posted 11/17/2003 at 7:03 pm by Paracetamol


Saturday, November 15, 2003



It's like this and like that and like this and uh...

hey wow, xanga is working again.

It's Jo's birthday today. I am so dead positively broke right now, I'm afraid I'm going to have to beg cute girls to buy me drinks at the bar. It would be a lot more successful, I'm sure, if I was a cute girl myself. *sigh* We'll see. Maybe if I wear the panda mask...


Ninja panda poses on my (currently spartan) christmas tree.

By the way, Kitty, today is black (I tend to like the dark colors, in case you hadn't noticed). Should I start making this a daily feature on my entries? And for god sakes dear, what about carrying that alarm your mom sent you?

(Don't you just love it when people on blogs start addressing others you've never heard of in the first person as if they're having a personal conversation with them? Sorry folks. Won't happen again.)

Hopefully I'll post something interesting when I get back.

Now listening to: "Eddie Money - Take me home tonight"
(I like the 80's. Oh yeah. Uh... *breaks out his best Michael Nouri-flashdance look*)
6:48 am

Humpday

Damn, you're such a blog tease, you floozy about giving us all glimpses of a totally cool story involving hurled cow feces, then you go all coy and refuse to give it up? Pfft. Also, I've decided to finish the rest of my comment in traditional news reporter format:

This just in: A local panda today was arrested outside the CNN offices apparently trying to give our very own Rudi Bakhtiar a pair of stained, signed panties. Initial reports indicated the panda was drunk and covered in his own feces, but it was later discovered the panda was merely burned out from study overload and covered in cow feces, not his own. Here's Tom with the weather...
Posted 11/19/2003 at 7:37 pm by Paracetamol



It's the weather....maybe once it starts snowing everything will be pretty so you'll feel better?
Posted 11/20/2003 at 4:16 am by midori031

Site update

Just browsin'

Sorry but that panda is just kawaii! ^^

Cool Xanga u have here!
Posted 11/20/2003 at 5:51 pm by anjuliet



mmm. burn out is imminent.

life is never completely the way we want it...but why is it so damn hard!

i feel for you, man.

at least it is the weekend!
Posted 11/21/2003 at 12:30 pm by momolo


Thursday, November 20, 2003



8:17 am

Coming along

Nice random pix of Japan... reminds me of my time in Japan.... natsukashii...
Posted 11/21/2003 at 11:55 am by Kittos



Me too.....how nostalgic
Posted 11/21/2003 at 2:53 pm by Kuroyume41



Thanks for the little tour ^^ and thanks for subbing! ^_~
Posted 11/22/2003 at 4:09 pm by anjuliet



hmmm i guess i will miss japan after i get struck by lightning while simultaneously being hit with 15 other lightning bolts and i actually get off my lazy ass and get there somehow....bad sentence.
That's my worst nightmare btw, saying one thing and meaning something else as i'm trying to buy the latest final fantasy...:D
Quick question: Where do i go after i learn hiragana and katakana??? FRUSTRATION!!!!
Posted 11/22/2003 at 7:36 pm by jubeichan00



hey im not sure if i know you or you now me, but just returning the favor before i leave. thanks for that wonderful comment you left on my page ^^. how did you get to my xanga?

arTail
Posted 11/22/2003 at 11:44 pm by artail



Argh, I was gonna make a comment here, but I have a feeling I'm about to start ranting, better that I waste my blog space than your comment box.

Preach on my brother, hypocrisy is everywhere...
Posted 11/23/2003 at 10:27 pm by Paracetamol

Japans a blast...

im not sure how...but somehow, u just get used to random, spontaneous events happening here in japan. sometimes good, some bad..take it for what its worth!
Posted 11/12/2003 at 11:14 pm by destinyz



Give the crappiest presentation possible. It guarantees that you'll never be asked to do a presentation ever again!! It works, I promise.
Posted 11/13/2003 at 5:52 am by midori031



wow...can they do that to you?

i say start a union!!
Posted 11/13/2003 at 7:58 am by momolo



you are so cute.. oh my goodness.. i just wanna take you home. I LOVE PANDAS.
Posted 11/13/2003 at 5:39 pm by BiteSizeThis

Cold day

In such instances, it's best to follow with a *boke* ボケ and a *tsukkomi* ツッコミ。
Per example:
Bさん：「いや〜そんな事ないよ。だって脂肪分があるもの・・・」
マイマイ：「そうなんですよぉ〜、熊（くま）みたいに暖かい（あたたかい）んですよぉ〜・・・　・・・　・・・ってなんでやねん！！」

Sort of in that context... Take an instance of criticism and turn it into a joke. Hey, you can make a sort of come back this way too, if teacher B is a 貧乳（ひんにゅう）←Look it up.

マイマイ：「いやぁ〜、けどこれだけ脂肪分がると、先生より胸がある見たいで申し訳ないですよねぇ〜・・・アハハ・・・ハハハ」
Bさん：＊激怒＊

Ah~, it's the beginning of a beautiful relationship! (-_-;)

enjoy.
Posted 11/24/2003 at 1:49 am by takunishi79



Oh no wot u need is a warm body beside ya *get ur girlfriend*

It's freezing over here too *sigh*

lol @ the conversation. That was rude of them-- ha, good you told them off! *hehehe Im learning some Japanese here from ya!*

Uh, I think Id be scared to have one of those beside me in bed *ahhhh! -_-;!*
Posted 11/24/2003 at 2:44 am by anjuliet



hehe aww u look like an eskimo. is it really that cold? It's cold but I'm still waiting for the brrrrrr cold. Hey im' from socal. It's pretty cold but i'm going to nagano next month! motto samui desu ne!!!! Hey u anywhere near nagano? And that's sad that the teachers can't even acknowledge a "gomen nasai". I've seen that ad b4 too. My friend sends me quirky stuff. Ooh I'll post one up on my sight. it's pretty hilarious.
Posted 11/24/2003 at 8:36 am by midori_lotus



your text and links are still a little too dark!!! use some light blues instead of grays, like cornflowers, sky, etc. :)

heehee, i am glad to have heard that "fat" story first...

dottie's dumplign dowry opened up a few months ago. i heard it was super popular back then? anyway, i ate there a few weeks ago with R when I was CRAVING a hamburger. they were ok, though. a little too on the lean side, if you ask me.

do you want me to come to japan? i think that we could be "fatties" together. :)

also, the photo of you cuddled in blankets is so cute!!
Posted 11/24/2003 at 4:12 pm by momolo



hmmmm the age old question: which is a better position, teacher or student?? I'd have to go with neither
Posted 11/25/2003 at 1:22 am by jubeichan00



Here in xanga, the land of rotating skull anime gif backgrounds and fuschia text we should applaud the panda for his elegant web design skills. I for one happen to like this scheme as it is. But that's just me, easily satisfied by legibility...

You should have fun with your bilingual nature by making cryptic, confusing statements to people making fun of you. For instance, when you busted those teachers making fun of your weight, the correct response would have been "I maintain this robust physique by eating the souls of unbelievers!" or "I just can't turn down ham!" It may not make you any friends, but it should keep things interesting down at the old learnin' hole
Posted 11/25/2003 at 7:02 pm by Paracetamol



damn it's F*@#@ing cold here! can you believe that they don't have central heating? i now wear 2 fleece pants and at least 2 fleece tops or more in my apartment now...

i've got the air conditioner turned heater going, but like you said, there's no insulation!! got the electric rug & blanket going too...think it's time to move my tv & dvd back in my room so i can be warm...

i feel you pain panda! brrrrrrrrrrr
Posted 11/26/2003 at 8:37 am by laughterhere

Strange day at the office

ahahahaha sorry but that was just too funny! Maybe wear a pink office shirt *I mean men do wear that color now isnt it?*
Posted 11/26/2003 at 1:23 pm by anjuliet



Allusion to the simpsons: your name shoulda been rock strongo or lance uppercut...lol simpsons...
Posted 11/26/2003 at 4:54 pm by jubeichan00



Pandas rule!!! Black and white = Yin & Yang XD sweeeet eProps for you!
Posted 11/27/2003 at 12:40 am by MangaKa101686



I had to relate this story to my housemate, we both laughed and felt very sorry for you at the same time.

Personally, you should keep up with the Alexander Von persona, you can pretend you're a deposed European count in exile, reading your pink newspaper for news that the civil war has ended and you can return home once more...
Posted 11/30/2003 at 12:32 am by Paracetamol



more gender(ed) fun!

according to this website - http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html - , the writing style of your blog indicates you are MALE!
Posted 12/5/2003 at 6:26 pm by momolo



SNEAKY PANDAS!
Posted 4/23/2003 at 3:03 am by LoNG_BeaCh

Sorry

and what were you busy "doing"?
Posted 12/2/2003 at 7:58 am by KittyinJapan

Back, finally

bananas hate you too.

i'm glad you're not in a cult :)
Posted 12/7/2003 at 9:05 am by KittyinJapan



that is insanity! glad you made it back alive!
Posted 12/7/2003 at 9:54 am by kirinknight



wow my week pales in comparison to yours. What a strange and spiraling week you've had. Haha what were u thinking w/ amerian pie??!!? LOL
Posted 12/7/2003 at 10:58 am by midori_lotus



holy shit! that is freaky! (you never told me about the cult story...)

what are you going to do? is scamming gaijin a common thing?! hilarious retelling, i think you should write a book. i would have peed in my pants if i were you. it sounds like a movie or something. unreal!
Posted 12/7/2003 at 6:19 pm by momolo



plus, that creperie has close now.
Posted 12/7/2003 at 6:21 pm by momolo



That is sooooo crazy!!! You're Japanese must be pretty good if you can say all that stuff. Glad you're okay.
Posted 12/7/2003 at 6:35 pm by midori031



Pfft, I'm not gonna feel sorry for you, you're kicking ass and winning showdowns with shady Japanese organizations. Hell, they should base an action TV series on your exploits. You could ride around on a motorbike from town to town solving mysteries, busting up drug rings and generally kicking ass.
Some titles I've been working with:
Panda: The Legendary Journies
Bamboo Vengeance
and: Bad as I wanna be: The Dennis Rodman story.
There might be some copyright issues with that last one though...
Posted 12/7/2003 at 8:04 pm by Paracetamol



I told you it was my guilty pleasure, I never actually said it was a good song. But I still love it.

Blech, I hate bananas. I'm allergic to them actually so my hate beats yours. Booyah!
Posted 12/8/2003 at 4:28 am by cajumee



preparation h? something that i would put on my ass on my eyes? ...even though i consider you a close friend, let's check out what the internet says....

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990305.html

agh! :D

i'm leaving for hk on the 22nd and coming back the 2 of january. not that much time, but maybe better since i'll prolly blow all my hard earned cash. :)
Posted 12/8/2003 at 8:41 am by momolo



keep those pics coming.... keep those pics coming...
Posted 12/8/2003 at 8:43 am by Kittos



take me to the pond one day....
Posted 12/8/2003 at 1:07 pm by BiteSizeThis



Someone has to make a mini-series of your life bro. It's just far to interesting!
Posted 12/9/2003 at 6:20 pm by Fozzyuw



logic, survival skills, AND severe beatings were avoided that day, a good time was had by all!
UGH that American Pie story made me want to die
Posted 12/9/2003 at 11:35 pm by jubeichan00

Off to Tokyo

while i would like to think i pack light, i don't. :(

what size timbuk2 is that? the xl? is it comfortable?

chrome bags look cooler becuase they have that seatbelt buckle strap, but hella $$.

i was thinking of getting a timbuk2 bag for school, but decided not to. i am so sick of backpacks. and my dickies messenger. uncomfortable. and only holds like 850 cubic inches. not enough room for laptop!
Posted 12/11/2003 at 4:47 pm by momolo



have fun in Tokyo!! :)

hahah - I don't know who that is on the bill either - but I learned of Soseki's picture on the 1000 yen note after playing "Guess Who" with my students. :P
Posted 12/12/2003 at 4:40 am by siberian_miri



Once again, you've made me terrify my housemates with insane cackling, did you ever find out why she wanted you to lug all that crazy shit for her?

Incidently, I'm down with the House Of Panda. I'd suggest we get cool phat pants, learn some break dance moves and hit the streets. But it occured to me that I'm very lazy and uncoordinated which would make being badass quite hard. I guess I'll just have to be happy reading your blog in my ordinary, non be-phatted pants....

oh well...
Posted 12/13/2003 at 7:08 am by Paracetamol

Screw the magic kingdom

wow! that Panda is so cool!
O-daiji ni!
Posted 12/16/2003 at 12:17 pm by Kittos



He returned from Iraq no longer Saddam the grey... He is no Saddam the Grimey...

Shit man, what were you doing eating a mouse shaped anything, let alone a burger?? Still, I hope you're feeling better soon, if not, I'm sure the autopsy will reveal something
Posted 12/21/2003 at 10:58 pm by Paracetamol



wow...crazy...so busy...it was considerably quieter in november when i went...did i send you my private webpage address? if not - send me a sky message and i'll send you my web page addie and you can see what it looks like with less people at disney... ;)
Posted 1/8/2003 at 2:42 am by laughterhere

Born in the USA

it could still kick your ass! go panda!! kick panda's ass!! roar~!!!!... ... ... k~~~.... i'll just leave now.
Posted 12/17/2003 at 12:18 pm by takunishi79



I love the panda... I love the Panda...

Thanks sweetie for the luck.. I think it's just a hard time right now. Everyone thinks Im stupid for taking him back... but I dont think it can get any worse then it was.. so Im not exactly losing anything. If anything...We're growing together.

I miss Japan..... I miss my family. :(
Posted 12/17/2003 at 4:27 pm by BiteSizeThis



i am glad you're feeling better!!!

i went to hobby lobby today with the intention of buying magnets and ended up with $28 worth of stuff...dammit.

what is your addy in japan? i should send you a housewarming gift.
Posted 12/18/2003 at 12:11 am by momolo



I CAN'T FIGURE OUT THE JAPAN THING!
Posted 12/18/2003 at 1:12 pm by SHABOY



just wondering.... you have Chinese heritage?
Posted 12/18/2003 at 8:58 pm by Kittos



baby panda cuuuuute. michaelpanda ha??.....panda mating is funny.
Posted 12/20/2003 at 9:38 am by KittyinJapan



Man panda's in captivity have it so sweet. They have loads of people adoring them, all the bamboo they can eat, and an entire staff of people devoted to getting them laid...

*sigh* I wish I were a panda
Posted 12/21/2003 at 10:51 pm by Paracetamol



Awwwww! I gotta show this panda pic to Emily! Theyre just sooooo kawaii!!!

I hope you got most of your Christmas shopping done?

Ill post those pictures of them plates soon!
Posted 12/22/2003 at 9:00 pm by anjuliet

New Year cards

俺の年賀状どこだ？！
ハハハ！
年賀状ぉ〜！年賀状ぉ〜！←俺は出した事がな〜〜〜〜い！！

タク
Posted 12/28/2003 at 10:58 am by takunishi79



I love your drawing! Heh I wish I can draw like that!

I think I know what youre talking about *sending out New Year's Day cards* cos I think Ive seen that from Card Captor Sakura! *the anime* ahahaha
Posted 12/28/2003 at 11:14 am by anjuliet



what is it called, nigyocho?

i am in japan now too...
Posted 12/28/2003 at 12:25 pm by costoso



oh nengajyo!
Posted 12/28/2003 at 12:27 pm by costoso



hey... what prefecture are you in again?
Posted 12/28/2003 at 2:25 pm by akachan



Send Ninja a card too!!! ^__^

Thank you for your comments...

I wish we lived closer mister panda.
Posted 12/28/2003 at 2:43 pm by BiteSizeThis



hey ^_^ panddda. ewww! thats so gross! i would have been freaking out everyday and night if i had all those bugs on my legs!! i lived in a apt once with cockroaches and let me tell you.. i did not get a good nights rest when we lived there! which was for a long time but im glad we moved. ewwwwwwwww. x.x; im dieing right now. your story with those bugs and gecko on your leg scared me! x.x;

heyyy do you think i could use that one picture you took of the panda you wrapped in a blanket? ^_^ for a layout pic. its okay if i cannot. thanks! ^_^ btw i enjoy your site! cause i love to learn of japan since i plan on going there someday! and what better way to learn about it from someone who is living there now! ^_^
Posted 12/28/2003 at 10:30 pm by chiriyuku



forget about using that picture! ~.~
Posted 12/29/2003 at 7:17 am by chiriyuku



ughh..I bought my nengajyous and they were EXPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!! And they weren`t even nice.. 5 pieces for 550 yen! TAKAI! And I wrote dumb phrases like `yoi o toshi wo` blah blah with a pen, no shuuji brush for me! saaa... btw, u draw really well.

ciao!
Posted 12/30/2003 at 9:45 pm by yunnermeier

Happy Emperor B-day.

Hey!! Youre so cute.. I love reading your xanga. Your ramen experience... Loved it. Thanks for brighting up my morning Mr. Panda. You're the greatest. When I go to Japan again... I wanna come hang out with you.
Posted 12/23/2003 at 1:08 pm by BiteSizeThis



最高！
日清ラ王、すごく好きなんだけど・・・

簡単だよ・・・順序（じゅんじょ）を理解（りかい）してれば。１分半位で出来るって！！マジで。

日本は寒いようだけど・・・it's gotta be better than WI, no?

~tak~
Posted 12/23/2003 at 1:28 pm by takunishi79



Wow I really love your site! Its funny though that you mention the ingredients of Purina puppy chow. Purina actually uses tranquilizers and other dead dogs in its ingredients.
Posted 12/23/2003 at 6:37 pm by ddsb2000



Poor panda, you work in the fifth circle of hell, but I suspec you live far beyond the Malebolge, deep inside Cocytus (God, that sounds vaguely sexual) on the river of ice, right next to Satan's huge legs and chilly testicles...

Don't go down the path of eating the fancy instant noodles. I developed a taste for them and only choose to buy the outrageously priced 50 cent brand (that being the price of the noodle, not an endorsement by shitty rappers), and always take shit for it... I know it's just more expensive shit, but it's my shit, so back off!
Posted 12/23/2003 at 6:37 pm by Paracetamol



Love your blog! Im hungry now, with your mention of ramen! That panda is soooo cute!!! What the panda character name, onegai?

Happy Holidays!
Posted 12/24/2003 at 1:01 am by anjuliet



feliz cumpleanos, maimai!!

i will always gladly send you food packages so send me your snail mail addy!
Posted 12/24/2003 at 6:49 pm by momolo

Panda love

Arigato gozaimasu for all that info about Tarepanda! *Suama, is that some kind of rice dessert??? Or am I getting it confused with another thing? Need to read more Japanese stuff then ^_^*

My daughter's here with me and now shes telling me to get her the PANDA

See u later! Enjoy your Christmas ^^
Posted 12/24/2003 at 8:48 am by anjuliet



Ehhhh!!! Sugoii Kawaii!! Hoshii yo. *whine*

I didnt know there was a Tarepanda Store in Japan... Well I havent been back home in ages.. that probally explains it.

You seriously are the best. I love long comments and you left me the best detailed interesting comment.. in the history of Miss Ninja. Thank you... Hontoni Arigato. ^__^

Would you really hang out with me if I went to Japan?
Posted 12/24/2003 at 2:58 pm by BiteSizeThis



aww ^^; kawaii desune! meri kurisumasu ~
your page looks so interesting ne! are you living in japan right now? ^^
Posted 12/24/2003 at 4:39 pm by chiriyuku



i wish i could crochet that good.

but alas, i only have patience for large yarn and large hooks.

merry christmas to the pagans (you and me and most everyone else celebrating this year -.0)!!
Posted 12/24/2003 at 6:52 pm by momolo



hai hai merry x-mas in japan someone out there deserves it if I didn't get it
now if only you could translate the kanji....and katakana
Posted 12/26/2003 at 3:41 pm by jubeichan00

Orbital

I love that song! Isnt that from Mortal Kombat soundtrack or something?

Anyway, I tend to think about those things sometimes, but hey, live and learn eh? *sigh*

Hope youre having a good weekend! ^^ Ja!
Posted 12/27/2003 at 11:22 am by anjuliet



Hey if you have aim.. im me sometime.. I gotta ask you something.
Posted 12/27/2003 at 3:58 pm by BiteSizeThis



The picture of Shibuya is nice! No blur... so professional ;)

Thanks for enjoying my archived file :)
I like your adventures too! Makes me wanna go back to Japan... haha
Posted 12/28/2003 at 3:11 pm by Kittos

Pandabread

haha japanese ATMs... when i stopped over in tokyo last (last?) summer ('02) for a couple of days on my way to hk, i was yen-less. everyone was telling me to just use my credit card (better exchange rates) and even when i tried to exchange some green bills for some yen, the bank told me i had to pre-order it! so here i come to japan with no money, thinking that maybe i can just get some money from the ATM there, but nooo.. those ATMs are very selective and didn't warm up to my Bank of America card... but it was all good in the end- my japanese friend took care of me so i was well clothed, fed, and roofed. blesss him.
Posted 12/30/2003 at 5:36 am by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Posted 12/30/2003 at 5:37 am by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



hey, I have to same phone. Mine is silver :)

If you have a good method to swing back to the correct sleep pattern, don't hesistate to tell me. I have the same problem with sleeping -.-'
Posted 12/30/2003 at 9:36 am by Kittos



My sleep pattern's totally messed up! -_-;;

Love Tarepanda! Kawaii! ^^

Awww, did ya make me a Panda nengajyo? j/k

After doing some searching, I finally found some cute... panda icons!!!
Posted 12/30/2003 at 2:34 pm by anjuliet



Any bank stupid enough to put a doddering old man in charge of the ATM (assuming theft of one is possible), probably isn't smart enough to keep the fucking thing stocked with cash, or so the criminal mind thinks. And that is the true security that the old man brings... That and he has super powers... Or so I assume
Posted 12/30/2003 at 8:29 pm by Paracetamol



on my first golden week here, i almost starved. i didnt realize atms here dont work during those holidays as ef-practically scraped every food in the fridge-how can i forget!

anyways, thanks for sbscribing back and even joining TOKYO! it's an honor to have you there

yuroshiku! now ill do my osuji- a bit late actually!
Posted 12/31/2003 at 6:20 pm by costoso



waa! you always have the cutes pictures ^_^ that bread looks very good! im watching spirited away again -_-. Yes i did make the xanga layout ^^; I want to watch lily chou chou. have you seen that? its very cheap right now! so i think i will buy it!

What do you teach? English? ^_^ I couldn't dream of teaching.. those horrible kids. im one of them! pauahaha. maybe in japan its different?

happy new years!
Posted 12/31/2003 at 9:06 pm by chiriyuku



you know, i was in kyoto a couple weeks ago and noticed that in one intersection, there were only three traffic signals...surely that doesn't make sense because you need 4 traffic signals for a 4 way intersection...well, they had employed 2 traffic guys for the 4th signal - go figure...employment for all, eh?

yeah, the ATM thing really gets me. PLUS didja know that they charge you 105 yen to take money out on the weekends?

the other day, i took out 450,000 yen ($5500 cnd, $4200 US) FROM THE BANK MACHINE - ALL AT ONCE! don't think the 100 year old guard will be much help if someone robs me...
Posted 1/8/2003 at 2:35 am by laughterhere

Akemashite, omedeto

Happy New Year to you too! *I still need to practice how to say Happy New Year in Japanese ^_~*

OMG! Pray for good sex??? Well, I dont mind! I hate "bad" sex!

I love that Tarepanda calendar and your kawaii stuff and the food!!! Gimme some!

Ive found your cute panda icons! Ive posted them on my site ^^
Posted 1/1/2004 at 9:41 am by anjuliet



Here's the post I wrote after I found them! They are cute! ^^

^__^

Ive put the link on my site where I got them from *it was a Japanese site too lol*
Posted 1/1/2004 at 9:49 am by anjuliet



Oops!

http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=anjuliet&tab=weblogs&uid=52937723
Posted 1/1/2004 at 9:50 am by anjuliet



i like mochi and i do not worry being choked because im still young BUT do not make me eat those colorful tasteless things which japanese prepare forever - i just wont, i also heard they themselves dont like to eat those because it takes several days to consume all of it bwhahaah

last year i went to asakusa to do the temple thing but this year im to lazy so i stayed home and cooked all kinds of filipino food, yehey!
Posted 1/1/2004 at 10:16 am by costoso



Youre amazing. Honestly... I love reading about Mister Panda's life.

I wanna send you good instant ramen.... Give me the address.
Posted 1/1/2004 at 11:55 am by BiteSizeThis



Happy New Year! Ahhh, another JET. Is this your first year? Looks like you've got a nice place. Where you at?
Posted 1/1/2004 at 9:01 pm by Mr_Mephisto



おせち料理＝保存（ほぞん）のいい食べ物。
決しておいしくはないと俺も思う。と言うより、マズイ。*Shakes hand, in agreement*

でも、納豆（なっとう）は好き！ハハハ！

遅れ申し上げます。
新年明けましておめでとう御座います。
今年もどうぞ宜しくお願い致します。
Hope you had a good one for new year's day!

タク
Posted 1/1/2004 at 9:18 pm by takunishi79



oops don't have enough time to read everything but i have a quick question-- how does one put up one of those pics that change into another pick that change into another pic etc etc etc... i'm bad with words.. like those flip-book comics? a video, not quite like a video? i hope i make a lot of sense...
Posted 1/1/2004 at 10:54 pm by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



oh. had a little more time than i thought to read everything since my dad hadn't even changed yet...
what's up with the 5 yen?
do they have good sex charms? o_O
Posted 1/1/2004 at 11:01 pm by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



What would be worse would be dying before you could eat the sticky dumpling/vacuum it from your throat, and having all the paraphernalia strewn about your corpse, it'd certainly make for an interesting photo shoot for the police photographer at any rate...

Incidently, you have now become my sole source of entertaining AND informative writing. Once I'm done listening about Japan, I'm going to need you to inflitrate the infamous piracy rings of south east asia. It all sounds pretty cool, plus I think an eye patch, fake beard and parrot would really help you with the ladies
Posted 1/2/2004 at 1:38 am by Paracetamol



wahaha. your stories are funny ^_^ your new years was much better than mines! choaking to death on a rice dumpling! puahaha. ^^;

I wish you well this new year on teaching your students^^ I never thought they would have a problem with creativity. ｬｬ My japanese teacher at my high school thinks so highly of japanese. He's always talking about how japanese students are very well taught and so polite. I dont know what to think. But I still wish to go to japan someday! ^_^
Posted 1/2/2004 at 2:24 am by chiriyuku



damn, that food looks really tasty! *jealous*

i'm coming to japan for the tokyo auto salon, a big car show at the makuhari messe. gonna be a blast! are you anywhere near that area?
Posted 1/2/2004 at 1:49 pm by southern_sun



hey.. thanks for subscribing =] i went looking for a calendar like urs today.. but couldnt find one. id be so happy if i could find a tare one.. *bah* but imma keep lookin. =] i'll be back..
Posted 1/2/2004 at 11:22 pm by schapagurl



Man looking at those pictures make me want to go back Japan.... Yeah I gotta say New Years it gots to be in Japan... big time..

Sean (Tadafumi)
Posted 1/3/2004 at 12:29 am by Tadafumi



あけおめ、ことよろ。
Your site is one of the best I have visited.
Keep it up fellah.　-HdO
Posted 1/3/2004 at 6:34 am by hors_d_oeuvre



How is christmas in Japan do they party on Christmas there and hang out w/ fam on New Years?
Posted 1/3/2004 at 6:49 pm by ddsb2000



so nice to get those new years card, eh? i was so happy to get a few from my students...all waiting for me after my long journey back to japan...
Posted 1/8/2004 at 2:27 am by laughterhere

A tragic turn...

oh wow!! @_@!! I am terribley sorry for your loss. That so sad-- It really makes you think. You know, make you think about taking things for granted or think about life more.. i don't know. I just know when I first found out my friend was going to commit suicide I was shocked and thought it over.. all those signs. like you, i brushed them off. usually i dont do that to my friends but she wasn't really someone close to me at the time. but later i talked to her all the time and just let her vent out her things to me.. and end of the year she told me thanks and that she wouldn't be here if it wasnt for me. i thought that was giving me too much credit. but it just made me realize some things.

thanks for the insight on turning 18. ahaha really i just think of it as a really big number. i didn't realize i was turning 18 x.x; im scared cause i don't know what i will be doing by then. i dont want to stay here in alaska anylonger but i dont know if i will make it outside of this house. bleh.

oh, i changed the layout x.x; because of some difficulities involving some other's person's layout. if you read the comments under that entry about 'eating a soda' lols. ~.~ i dislike having the same layout.. and someone happen to have the same background and things.. and everyone even said it looked like mine. and im just a layout obessesor so i needed to change it quick! ^_^ and thats the story.

vatttt.. you don't like miyavisan? ^^; do you listen to j-rock? aha now i must head off and get ready for school =[ didn't get one bit of sleep. zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Posted 1/5/2004 at 9:01 am by chiriyuku



That was a lovely story about J. I am sorry it ended that way. But you keep chuggin on, you are "hardcore," for there is no way I could deal with the mere smell of cows, let alone their creepy eyes.
Posted 1/5/2004 at 9:15 am by Mr_Mephisto



kewl pics...+)
Posted 1/5/2004 at 9:23 am by JohnnyCake8



Im really sorry to hear about your friend reminds me of when I found out one of my best friends had committed suicide *back in college* i guess we'll never really know their reasons why theyve done something like this to themselves...

(((((((hugs)))))))))

glad u found my site kawaii! thanks for sharing the pix-- ^_^

ja ne!
Posted 1/5/2004 at 9:42 am by anjuliet



I am so sorry to hear about your friend. May his soul rest in peace in the hands of our Lord.

ともかく、頑張ろう. Yours is life to make. Waste not the short time for it never does come back.
Posted 1/5/2004 at 9:57 am by hors_d_oeuvre



when someone passes away it reminds me how ephemeral we all are....

life goes...get up and make up for things you missed with the living ones

hugs from a friend

when u get back to my xanga youll find the story about my sink
Posted 1/5/2004 at 10:23 am by costoso



also you've said it well so dont worry. i even started to ponder again
Posted 1/5/2004 at 10:39 am by costoso



emm...wow. you are very articulate.

....and you used the word 'panacea.' niiiice.

....and your final comment reminded me of that line towards the end of The Shawshank Redemption after Andy escapes.

i'm sorry for you had to go through losing your friend. best of luck in the future.
Posted 1/5/2004 at 11:27 am by imthedriver



*hug* Im sorry sweetie. I hope you still keep your panda head high and smile.

I didnt get your email... So.. I cant send you ramen.. And I have another surprise to send you. NEEEHEHEHEHe... ^___^ email email email... RAWR.
Posted 1/5/2004 at 1:51 pm by BiteSizeThis



Sorry to hear about your friend. My sympathies.

About the FOMA. No, I didn't had a FOMA phone. I had a regular J-Phone account with a Toshiba phone. My friend had a FOMA phone. I've played with the phone for a while. It's impressive technology! Dual camera so that you are actually able to do 'netmeeting' on the move. The phone itself is a bit bulky, but good quality. I say... take a FOMA phone if your friends/colleagues are using one too, so that you can use the video conference. Or wait till I made my move to Japan ;)
Posted 1/5/2004 at 4:55 pm by Kittos



A similar thing happened to one of my old friends this year. Your probably right about the double standard between men and women in today's society. Things like "take your daughter to work day" just don't exist for guys. Anyway, your entry was very well written and Im sorry for your loss.
Posted 1/5/2004 at 4:58 pm by ddsb2000



mm.. sorry to hear that.. its never sth someone should experience..

thanx for the link btw.. i did take a look.. and i came across another site.. www.kawaiigifts.com yes i was bored. hehe.
Posted 1/6/2004 at 4:18 am by schapagurl



It's natural to feel as if you could have done more, and that may or may not be true, but it's one thing to want to help someone and actually being able to.

Even though you couldn't save him, you were a positive influence in his life. And in this day and age, when that kind of thing is a rarity for even the most stable of people, that kind of thing is a greater gift than you realise.

On the topic of web/image hosting, I can host some stuff for you for a while until you set everything back up again. Drop me a line if you need it


Posted 1/6/2004 at 6:22 am by Paracetamol



I'm glad you were able to feel that Buddha Vibe... It's my pleasure haha. Man you have nice pictures everytime I come here... No Buddha Pictures?? haha
Posted 1/6/2004 at 12:27 pm by Tadafumi



My condolenses Mike. *hug*
Posted 1/8/2004 at 2:16 am by laughterhere

Another day

She is very cute, but not my type. =) Thats awesome how you put that video up on your thing...thats YOU??!!?? Nice to meet you!
Posted 1/7/2004 at 9:54 am by Mr_Mephisto



heya panda-san! lol do you get to use the net when you`re suppose to be `working`? BTW, not sure about the `job offer`. Could it possibly be a hoax? I lovee your picturess and yes, she`s hot.
Posted 1/7/2004 at 7:23 pm by yunnermeier



Ohayoo gozaimasu!

lol! Well ur right, I dont think I can stay away from Xanga too long! ^^

It's cool on how u put that vid up! *Thank goodness for broadband *

So many things I want to do, so little time, but ok, take things one day at a time, ne? ^_^
Posted 1/7/2004 at 9:28 pm by anjuliet



You should be awarded this year's prestigious "Golden babyface award" for your effort to rid that poor man of his fu manchu moustache extravaganza...

Bad facial hair, along with our such hair faux pas' as the Mullet have plagued mankind since the dawn of time. With your help, we can see an end to people with ugly heads in our lifetime!

Incidently, if that's the rocking chair of the future, sign me up for the old folks home...
Posted 1/7/2004 at 11:51 pm by Paracetamol



Its good that you told that guy that his mustache looked bad. Also that you did it in a clever way (americans tend to be fairly blunt)
Posted 1/8/2004 at 1:09 am by ddsb2000



she is definitely hot! :D *drool*

i agree with you regarding asian men and facial hair - they just shouldn't do it. i try to talk my best friend out of it...and if he happens to read this comment, sorry darling, it just doesn't suit you...

great way of going about telling the teacher to trim it a bit...should have told him that less facial hair makes men look young and attractive!
Posted 1/8/2004 at 2:10 am by laughterhere



man, public displays of lewdness at the grocery? :)
Posted 1/8/2004 at 5:49 am by momolo



Alizee is one pretty lady indeed. You have good taste!

Of course I have a bigger resolution of the Mt. Fuji picture. You want it?
Posted 1/8/2004 at 9:32 am by Kittos



wow what a long entry. funny stuff though. thanks for the constant input. happy new yr. here's a link to the song:

http://soompi.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=19&t=145085

It's song #7 on the cd list. enjoy!
Posted 1/8/2004 at 9:52 am by midori_lotus



my bet on that contraption is that it elevates the pressure on back muscles while providing an increase of blood flow. that's why there's a back and forth swaying motion...hahahha..yah.

i love electronics stores here. if i could live in yodobashi, i would. i wanna new phone toooooooo....will prob look for a gsm one to take home home.
Posted 1/8/2004 at 12:03 pm by destinyz



glad you've been able to move on... as for myself i find the drinking myself to death in tokyo quite enjoyable myself
Posted 1/8/2004 at 11:15 pm by jubeichan00

Students learn a naughty word

this blog is funny! yes japanese can talk like that and sound so naive and v funny. i watched in cartoon network this series called once upon a time in japan-the girl kept saying there, tonari no kaka daio-because the guy keeps going to her house mistaking it for his-and of course kaka means wife right? and it looked so funny but i know that for us gaijins it would put a totally new meaning.

hey we have the same camera except mine is colored silver :-d

awww so you know what to provide m now when she visits!
Posted 1/10/2004 at 10:13 am by costoso



must be hilarious at that time!
Posted 1/10/2004 at 11:30 am by Kittos



I LOVE VELVETA CHEESE!!!!!!!



cant post much have to go to work...


but...............

My boyfriend is in the army. He got sent off to germany for two years so its not exactly a long distance relationship. I cant see him, I cant talk to him on the phone... letters are about the only option we have. So.. Ya. ^__^ Thanks for the advice MichaelPanda...Your ramen is coming soon.
Posted 1/10/2004 at 3:15 pm by BiteSizeThis



THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING I HAVE EVER HEARD! Japanese people are always saying funny stuff like that. I remember I was talking to this girl who use to tutor me in japanese. I was telling her about how I used to be a heavy ciggarette smoker. I asked her if she ever smoked a ciggarette and she said only when she is constipated. I told her I couldnt believe she just said that to me and she turned red and started mumbling to herself.
Posted 1/10/2004 at 11:49 pm by ddsb2000



ahahaha that is so funnny. cheese is gooooooooood. x.x; my obsession. puahaha. gyaaa i would hate to be in that position. bill clinton aaaaaahaha

why do you have nothing to do till febuary? do they get a month off? >_>

well its sad. while the teachers just expect answers out of the smart students, the not as qualified ones are sitting there not having any one giving them a "hand" into improving their skills. wahtever! i hate school =] gluck with your teaching! aaahhahaa that story up there is just too funny ^_^
Posted 1/10/2004 at 11:51 pm by chiriyuku



good god mike. i'm so glad i don't have this problem with my junior high kids...i feel for you! next time - don't squirm and answer the question with a straight face and matter of fact. i think this jte likes to see you squirm...

i couldn't stop laughing...i can just see this happening...i hope this will never happen to me - but maybe the junior high kids know all this already...
Posted 1/11/2004 at 8:06 am by laughterhere



good god mike. i'm so glad i don't have this problem with my junior high kids...i feel for you! next time - don't squirm and answer the question with a straight face and matter of fact. i think this jte likes to see you squirm...

i couldn't stop laughing...i can just see this happening...i hope this will never happen to me - but maybe the junior high kids know all this already...
Posted 1/11/2004 at 8:06 am by laughterhere



even as a us citizen, i've never had velveeta as far as i've know.

maybe you could start importing it and marketing it as aphrodisiac or something! a good way to supplement your funds. :)
Posted 1/11/2004 at 2:11 pm by momolo



I'm really hoping i never ever utter these words, "And that is how my students learned the word "cock" today."
God that was a good story though and now i'm typing in your font for some mysterious reason. I like that word j-bird, a british-japanese hyrbrid.... but me being a gaijin i need no tips the women shall flock to me like... pidgeons to... some... food?
Posted 1/12/2004 at 1:56 am by jubeichan00



Hahahahah I almost just pissed myself.
That's wonderful. I love it.
Posted 1/12/2004 at 9:57 pm by irisetofall



see at least you squirmed.. my friend on the other hand willingly explained those words to japanese ppl trying to learn english.. the horrors of listening to my friend explain, and the ppl repeat the words over and over again.. lol
Posted 1/13/2004 at 12:20 am by schapagurl



hahaha sorry to say but your students will be screaming that word every single time you see them. Trust me.. my Japanese friends still haven`t stopped saying and I quote the wretched AET `POON TANG` til today... lol

What`s Velveta Cheese anyway...
Posted 1/13/2004 at 6:38 am by yunnermeier

Random babblings

how is the muji toilet paper anyways?? how does it compare to the supermarket brands? im asking cuz i love muji..hahaha..wouldnt mind tryin the toilet paper out i guess
Posted 1/13/2004 at 10:54 am by destinyz



no the best cheese is swiss. ;)

pretty fountain.

ahahaha you teach english right? thats a funny convo. I would be laughing my head off if i was the teacher x.x;
Posted 1/13/2004 at 12:05 pm by chiriyuku



チャット大歓迎（だいかんげい）だよ。週末にでも話すか！イエーイ！AIMはXangaと同じ。MSNはASIANBOYEE@HOTMAIL.COMだよ。君の日本語強化（きょうか）にもちょうどいいでしょ。Unless you have other people who do the Japanese AND English at once.ハハハ。ムハハハハハ！

タク
Posted 1/13/2004 at 6:35 pm by takunishi79



We have Kraft but no Velveeta cheese lol
Posted 1/14/2004 at 2:21 am by yunnermeier



sounded like that person was talkin in their sleep
Posted 1/14/2004 at 4:29 am by ddsb2000



two comments:

1. i still don't know what velveeta cheese is

2. glad to see that my junior high kids aren't the only ones that can't answer "how are you?".
Posted 1/14/2004 at 4:46 am by laughterhere



I gave up trying to teach my kids English....I've moved on to Spanish, and the results are amazing!!! They remember EVERYTHING now!
Posted 1/14/2004 at 5:49 am by midori031



Ha ha, I second that, Midori031. BTW the pic of me with flowers and green was from Sanya, the southern most island of China, around Vietnam. Its a crazy blizzard here in Yamagata 24/7 I tell ya. No lie.
Posted 1/14/2004 at 11:03 am by Mr_Mephisto



Send me LOVE
Posted 1/14/2004 at 4:27 pm by BiteSizeThis



i finally understand www.engrish.com now....
Posted 1/15/2004 at 2:31 am by jubeichan00



okonomiyaki wa daisuke!

ive been meaning to use moss as skin for my xanga, cant find the material

i love moss so much and i even am intending to keep moss here in my apartment, its so takai to buy here though
Posted 1/17/2004 at 10:44 am by costoso

The last panda

mm.. i personally like sanada hiroyuki and nakamura shichinosuke (the emperor) more.. but yea.. gotta admit watanabe ken is good. my mom went to see it for him.. i went to see it for the other 2.. needless to say, both of us were pretty happy ^^
Posted 1/18/2004 at 5:50 am by schapagurl



wait a second...the girl in the last photo on the right...I KNOW HER!!!! she was in the japanese culture class i took last spring with that crazy short professor!! i forgot her name, is she teaching? ask if she remembers me from prof. onuhki-tierney's seminar. crazy scary coincidences.
Posted 1/18/2004 at 6:46 am by momolo



I'd just like to say that I think you have lovely curly hair! How do you keep it so soft and manageable?
Posted 1/18/2004 at 5:47 pm by pookybearcheung



thats sad about utter commercialized state that japan is in. anyway panthers are going to the superbowl!
Posted 1/18/2004 at 11:08 pm by ddsb2000



Hey Panda! ^_~

Im not sure if Ill go see The Last Samurai. For some reason, I dont see Tom Cruise as a "samurai" :-Þ but Ill go check out that Watanabe Ken guy! ^^ *but Im still a Karasawa Toshiaki fan *

I apologize for not visiting lately, but I think Im ready to leave my "Xanga vacation" behind
Posted 1/19/2004 at 6:58 am by anjuliet



oh gord...Gifu JETS?please don`t tell me you know a JET called Jon(might be short for Jonathan) from England. He`smy school`s AET and I never talk to him. so if you DO know him, please for lawd`s sake, don`t mention about my blog(not that you would but IF),ne? btw, what state are you living in?
Posted 1/19/2004 at 6:59 am by yunnermeier



Panda, ninja's can never be gratuitous, and they don't have to make sense, ninja's kick too much ass to have to make sense...
Posted 1/19/2004 at 11:21 am by Paracetamol



uh-oh i agree with paracetamol....
heyzeus don't mention dogs and demons, i had a helluva time reading that which i *slightly* ironically picked up in hawaii, although i did find that old lady zodiac scam quite funny.... forgive my horrible memory
Posted 1/20/2004 at 3:38 am by jubeichan00



you look like you're having so much fun!
Posted 1/20/2004 at 10:56 am by costoso



arghhhhh...get rid of that pic of me! hahahah ;) too much to drink! i look FUNNY (funnier than usual) hahaha!

*wonders what other pics mike has*

i really liked the last samurai...
Posted 1/20/2004 at 10:27 pm by laughterhere

Snow falling on pandas

Snow!!! Send some over here! Wouldve liked to see the snow panda!

Ugh! Geometry wasnt so bad back in high school, but I could never do proofs *yuck!*, no matter how hard I tried.

Toilet roll paper in the classroom??? Hmmm... mysterious indeed! *hehehe*
Posted 1/21/2004 at 10:50 am by anjuliet



thanks for the link! It's really cool! lol
Posted 1/21/2004 at 10:54 am by anjuliet



Proofs! eek!
They were horrifying.
Heh, I like your proof better. It makes more sense.
Posted 1/21/2004 at 4:55 pm by irisetofall



curious..do you speak english with an english or an american accent?no snow here last night but probably tonight! love snow.. hope it snows one last time before i leave japan.
Posted 1/21/2004 at 10:25 pm by yunnermeier



mmm snowpandas. is thay different than a creamcicle?
Posted 1/21/2004 at 10:34 pm by KittyinJapan



toilet rolls? hmmmmmm....don't think i've seen that here...

i also hated proofs...

IT'S SNOWING TOO MUCH! why haven't they closed down the schools yet and sent everyone home? it's too miserable out there (hehehe - we're such whiners, us west coaster canadians)...you thought last night was bad...today is HORRIBLE...
Posted 1/21/2004 at 11:16 pm by laughterhere



Dang...you lost me at triangle...
Posted 1/22/2004 at 12:18 am by ddsb2000



it snowed tonight in nagoya too! FREAKIN' COLD! um math makes me dumb. kehehe. ooh getting a digicam this wkend. soon, hopefully, you'll see nice pics of my life here.
Posted 1/22/2004 at 9:34 am by midori_lotus



Geometry is useless anyway, I mean how often do find yourself using geometry anyway? No, schools are wasting kids time these days with useless subjects like English, Science and "How not to blow yourself up 101", when they could be teaching them stuff that they really need.
It's not until "Pandology" is taught in every classroom that we will see any kind of change for the better...
Posted 1/22/2004 at 10:41 pm by Paracetamol

Diary of mistar yukipanda

i have to mention that you very dashing in your previous entry's photo, despite the snow!

today, the wind chill was WAY below zero...luckily global warming has prevented it from snowing very much so i just froze a lot.

biking in the winter sucks. i just seem to get so much slower!!

haha, good luck on your TPR mysteries. maybe you should just take them home "for a rainy day." :)
Posted 1/23/2004 at 1:30 am by momolo



Hah, shared a similar bike and snow incident myself this morning. Let me try to help you with the TP problem. I noticed the same thing at my school but it seemed rather plausible to me that it was used for runny noses and of course cleaning makeup. I noticed kids have them in their bag too and I've seen them wipe their noses a lot with it(of course not actually blow, meaning lots of tissue is used repeatedly). That or it's a new form of getting high that I'm completely in the dark on, but need to know soon =)
Posted 1/23/2004 at 7:03 am by kirinknight



darn! we don`t get that much snow in gifu! I really want it to snow lots but it hasn`t so far hmmph. It snowed last night but... that`s it. i wish i live in kanazawa........eh? that`s where you`re from right?
Posted 1/23/2004 at 8:02 am by yunnermeier



I'd watch my back if I were you. (O_O)
Haha, you're adorable.
Posted 1/23/2004 at 6:36 pm by irisetofall



"While it's true that I could be sucking down a couple of Asahi's and stuffing my face with Takoyaki in a warm and cozy izakaya in the middle of downtown Osaka..."

*Almost busting out in tears* I can almost picture myself doing that! Kanpai!!
Posted 1/23/2004 at 9:02 pm by Kittos



First, I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to give me some input on my situation. I really appreciate it!! ^_^

I've heard (at least that's what I heard) it's been snowing everywhere in Japan except here in Ibaraki - the sun is actually out today for some strange reason, but it's still quite cold (guess at least during the afternoon, we're not in the negatives) - but I hope the *blizzard* will be over soon!

And well, about the TP issue... heheh... ^_~


Posted 1/23/2004 at 10:28 pm by siberian_miri



wahhh so funny ^_^ so many toliet paper. ahaha and waahh thats so much snow! yesturday we had a mild blizzard but that was nothing compared to what you have. >_> hee hee i like blizzards and wind gusts. well anyways good luck! ^_^
Posted 1/24/2004 at 12:04 am by chiriyuku



Wow! All that snow! How wonderful! It feels so Christmassy.

Oh, and I luff the toilet paper saga .... how intriguing.
Posted 1/25/2004 at 10:41 am by pookybearcheung



You take cool pictures. I just started taking photography. Its pretty complex I think. Anyway looks cold there
Posted 1/25/2004 at 5:57 pm by ddsb2000

GETS panda!

Hey! That panda is from the green tea commercial!
Posted 1/26/2004 at 12:04 pm by Kittos



M is so lucky!! I want one!! THey are sooo cute!!!! Ne Ne... Who is.. "M" Is she a girlfriend??Q??!??!?!?!@?!~?@??@!??!@
Posted 1/26/2004 at 1:24 pm by BiteSizeThis



That's amazing. I suck at those games...haha.
Posted 1/26/2004 at 5:14 pm by irisetofall



Im starting to get the feeling that you might like pandas. jk. Oh yeah and the sketch of that women was condensed charchoal and charchoal. Conte is expensive and I dont really like it that much.
Posted 1/27/2004 at 1:10 am by ddsb2000



I hate UFO Catchers! I never get anything.. I usually get all my stuff from the roulette game(I`ve won a yukata, countless soft toys, 10 boxes of Pringles. Waste so much money on that junk...

I really like that panda though and the commercial made me laugh(the first kiss one)
Posted 1/27/2004 at 7:09 am by yunnermeier



i have one of those too!! just curious, what is your infatuation with pandas? they ARE cute but...hmm?
Posted 1/27/2004 at 9:40 am by destinyz



so how much did you spend on winning this animal? it's VERY cute, to be sure, though. is it a puppet?
Posted 1/27/2004 at 10:09 am by momolo



wow i gotta say u got a true panda obsession. Hehe. You can't seem to leave it out can u? JP
Posted 1/27/2004 at 10:58 am by midori_lotus



its freezing here in tokyo too brrrrr!

where r u in japan again?
Posted 1/27/2004 at 11:10 am by costoso



Oooh! Cool panda! I've never seen a panda toy with it's mouth wide open though.
Posted 1/27/2004 at 3:30 pm by pookybearcheung



I want one!!!!
Posted 1/27/2004 at 7:35 pm by anjuliet



no.. iwant one! lets all get one, what is your opinion on tare panda? email me back~ i would like to discuss this, is he to mainstream for your kind? or just 2 cute! ~ backseats are for panda toys, kiro bearos gO!~
Posted 1/28/2004 at 2:16 am by miSsinG_fOurcSan

Business trip

Pedro the pedophile panda.
Posted 1/28/2004 at 9:33 pm by BiteSizeThis



Handpanda.....Handa?
Posted 1/29/2004 at 1:18 am by momolo



Dang I wish I was going somewhere to get drunk and have fun. School stinks
Posted 1/29/2004 at 1:46 am by ddsb2000



KAWAII HANDPANDA!!! ^_^ I wanted one of those before Christmas, but it was so popular during that time that everywhere was sold out of it (at least the places around where I live, I think)!
Posted 1/29/2004 at 7:25 am by siberian_miri



SENOR PANDA DE LOS MANOS!!!
*pretend there's a down arrow here*
M es muy kawaii!
Posted 1/30/2004 at 7:00 am by jubeichan00



I love your photo gallery. Keep adding pictures!
Posted 1/30/2004 at 4:33 pm by irisetofall



osewa ne narimasu
Posted 1/31/2004 at 7:27 am by tonari_no_kaka



Hehe, we'll just have to deface YOUR comments page while you're away...
Posted 2/1/2004 at 12:52 am by Paracetamol

For pookiebear!

gosh you sound like you got a world of fun. your blog is so interesting and you pics are nice and small. How do I make my digicam pics look that small? well, i can resize it but yours all look the same size unlike mine.
Posted 2/2/2004 at 9:46 am by midori_lotus



Yum, that food looks sooooo good.
Posted 2/2/2004 at 10:01 am by pookybearcheung



I want some of that food! >_< ahahaha @ that last photo!

Ill still be around muahahaha maybe ill be back with more panda stuff! XD
Posted 2/2/2004 at 10:21 am by anjuliet



You know, last time I bought Asahi beer out here in Aus, it came in these nifty, bottle sized bottles. Not those teeny tiny cans of yours. What the hells going on? Does Japan keep the good stuff at home and portion it out in tiny sips and send the swill oversea's for us foreign devils to choke down? Cos I'm OK with that if that's what they're doing.

You and your buddies seem so damn clean cut when you drink. Sure you're having a good time and all, but where is the dude with vomit on his chin? Where's the photo of the girl who's fallen out of her top and hasn't noticed yet?

You should be commended for your coherent drunkenness, it is a rare talent indeed
Posted 2/2/2004 at 6:01 pm by Paracetamol



you bastard. can't even send me an "i miss you" message. im gonna have to find myself another panda to love!!! btw, can we switch jobs? i wanna seduce japanese high school boys and do nothing and you can have my job of talking to housewives who are itching for some deep panda ********* meow :)
Posted 2/2/2004 at 9:45 pm by KittyinJapan



mm.. the food looks good. ^^ thanks for the comment! sadly, havent decided what to do with my car situation yet.. decisions decisions..
Posted 2/3/2004 at 5:11 am by schapagurl



one of the best things about japan is definitely the food!!! im gonna miss it....wonder how japanese food back home will taste after actually living here?
Posted 2/3/2004 at 9:42 am by destinyz



wow enjoyed the pix
Posted 2/3/2004 at 11:40 am by costoso



^_^ looks like so much fun! hee hee. oh to uh show only 2 posts or however you like all you need to do is go edit the post and press private. and viola! ^_^ that way it only shows the post to you but to others its how ever many you put visable. okay. gbye!
Posted 2/3/2004 at 11:54 pm by chiriyuku



muahahaha! your life pales in comparison to mine! My blog is an aphrodisiac whereas yours is a pitiful tranquilizer!! ..... wait a sec....
Posted 2/4/2004 at 12:19 am by jubeichan00

Life goes on

The extending-faucet you were talking about is actually pretty common, innit? I have one at home. But the rest... ! Amazing. : ) The water dispenser and, um, the item below it are especially impressive.

Sigh, we are so behind...
Posted 2/4/2004 at 9:59 am by tchamster



Wow thats so cool!
Posted 2/4/2004 at 2:55 pm by Coaley



Shit, that's awesome!
Posted 2/4/2004 at 4:51 pm by irisetofall



cool tour through the Japanese kitchen. so funny... I'm requesting that the next tour will be karaoke :P
Posted 2/4/2004 at 6:00 pm by Kittos



Wow those are cool innovations. speaking of Japanese innovations last night i watched lost in translation and there was this part where this guy pulled out a gun that shot what looked like lasers or taser things. What the heck was that thing. Oh yeah and yes i am a studio art major.
Posted 2/4/2004 at 6:01 pm by ddsb2000



mike...those things are pretty cool BUT NOTHING BEATS CENTRAL HEATING and NOT smelling all those frigging fumes that come outta the heaters...my point - they can come up with all those cool gadgets BUT can't put in insulation, double glazing or central air and central heating... *sigh*
Posted 2/4/2004 at 6:27 pm by laughterhere



you forgot to take pictures of the toilet seat warmer thingee that also shoots water up your ass.

i dig mirrors in japanese hotel bathrooms as they never fog up in the middle section.
Posted 2/6/2004 at 1:30 am by southern_sun

For Paracetamol!

Cool pics! I always want to post some of my debaucherous party pics but my pics tend to be very debaucherous. I think some of the girls might get offended haha.
Posted 2/9/2004 at 1:45 pm by ddsb2000



kinda late (or maybe i already did this but i forgot?) but thanks for the slideshowish link.. i got lazy, didn't xanga much, and lost all novelness feeling of my digicam and its wonders. nothing beats being able to watch my dad spit out bamboo shoots in slow motion and then making him eating it again. and appropriately, shitsumon ga arimusu: what's the deal with valentine's day and white day? seems like a cop-out for guys...
Posted 2/9/2004 at 3:45 pm by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



Your hair is looking so good! What shampoo are you using?

Careful with the orange smiles, they can totally be swallowed!


Posted 2/9/2004 at 8:07 pm by momolo



Posted 2/9/2004 at 10:06 pm by anjuliet



is your hair naturally curly or did you get it curled,you vainpot!?

you do realise how lucky you are to still be in japan, don't you? I sometimes wish I'm still there. Now,that I'm back home, I have to face reality and that really sucks!

is it still snowing?
Posted 2/10/2004 at 12:03 pm by yunnermeier



wow how long has it been since i visited this place :-o
Posted 2/11/2004 at 2:32 am by costoso



Once again, it is the gentle panda that shows us the way... You keep your evil photo's, saving them for a time when they can do the most damage... You truly are a king among panda's my friend.

Also: "The drunkening" is about the coolest thing I've ever heard, I plan to use it in casual conversation as possible...

The time of the drunkening draws near
Posted 2/11/2004 at 6:48 pm by Paracetamol

Mochi made with hate

haha I love that song! But anyway those Uyoku dudes sound pretty rough. Is that pic of the girl your work?? If so its really cool.
Posted 2/12/2004 at 11:28 pm by ddsb2000



Your choice in stuffed toy pandas is excellent!

Glad the nationalists were only giving out poisoned mochi and not waving pitchforks, burning stakes, etc!!
Posted 2/13/2004 at 12:06 am by momolo



The Uyoku's motives in giving your friends "right-wing moshi" are certainly questionable... :D

Happy v-day!
Posted 2/13/2004 at 10:08 am by tchamster



how you know so much about Japan and to think that i still havent started my kanas
Posted 2/13/2004 at 11:09 am by costoso



gosh ur life sounds so interesting. so jealous! in a singles-only depression mode. blehz
Posted 2/13/2004 at 12:25 pm by midori_lotus



Happy Valentines day to you too, Mr. Panda! and thank for the, um, chocolates

Im doing all right, thanks for asking! How about you?

I agree with costoso, you know a lot of stuff!

So, wheres my kawaii panda then? hehe
Posted 2/13/2004 at 1:02 pm by anjuliet



Hahaha, you're so funny. I love it.
Happy Valentine's day!
Posted 2/13/2004 at 6:01 pm by irisetofall



Hey,

I really appreciate your long comments . Shows that you read my entries or at least you PRETEND to read my entries;P

Hmmphh..I wish I got to celebrate V-day and White Day in Japan! Hmm but well maybe in a few years I'll go and asoubu in Japan and perhaps someone will pour chocolates at my feet and worship me;P

p/s; Love monjyuu! Hate mochi!
Posted 2/13/2004 at 11:55 pm by yunnermeier



my camera actually really sucks. it's one of those mini cybershots. but it's small. =)
Posted 2/14/2004 at 2:20 am by akachan



hahahaha i didnt ever expect the topic of uyoku to show up on xanga. lol.. thats pretty funny tho. mochi made of hate. ^__^ better not taste any different!
Posted 2/14/2004 at 5:39 am by schapagurl



dang dude! I didnt even know you did artwork. Its really awesome and very stylistic. I also really like the photo of that schoolgirl standing in the grass. Its HOt!
Posted 2/14/2004 at 3:23 pm by ddsb2000



okay okay, you can see my new layout. ahaha =_= but i think you'll be still bored.

my japanese teacher likes to talk of japan so highlyyy! ~ i guess its cause he loves it so much, he says theyre all so polite and nice. ~_~ japanese people who know beg to differ. mmmmmmmmmm mmmmm i wonder what would happen if my teacher visited that part of town. ahaha

i still want to visit though! =_= one day...
Posted 2/15/2004 at 6:35 am by chiriyuku



first off, hope you had an enjoyable valentine's day!

i liked how you described your students.."less than pleasant creatures and things"...hahahha. so true so true.

also, the panda eating the mochi so cute!! man, im sounding japanese-sey..but i couldnt resist =)
Posted 2/15/2004 at 10:06 am by destinyz



oh yah, i forgot. love actually was excellent. definitely a feel-good movie! i'd even pay full admission to watch it a second time. now thats saying a lot, isnt it..being in japan..hhahah.
Posted 2/15/2004 at 10:13 am by destinyz



I LOVE your site ... I'm so glad I've stumbled across it ... my friend has just moved out to Japan so I get to hear about it from an English girl abroad too!
Posted 2/16/2004 at 1:53 am by BooBooKittyFk



Dude, your panda ate a panda. He is a panda cannibalanda!
Posted 2/23/2004 at 8:41 am by Mr_Mephisto

Chocolate

ah, a student of chaos theory... welcome my child, into the fucked up realm that is of CHAOS!! no... really... it's quite fascinating, isn't it?!
Posted 2/17/2004 at 10:10 am by takunishi79



Mind sharing some of the choccie? ^_~
Posted 2/17/2004 at 10:39 am by anjuliet



I wish I could celebrate V day in Japan! So much more interesting! I spent my V day buying a KDK fan with my dad for the living room!!! hahaha

So watcha planning to give your gf for White Day?;p

Well..I'm not sure what hemp beads are... but we make use of a lot of semi-precious stuff stuff(most popular and most expensive hahaha), alphabet beads, fimo beads, bone beads,metal beads,porcelain, swarovski crystal, glass,clay,wooden..tons..you get the idea. haha I 've practically never done any necklace-making whatsoever (materials are expensive and I guess I was plain lazy hahaha) but hey, I like my job. I actually get to sit down ,sure my hands are moving and my eyes feel a little tired but it's so much better than standing up and folding and refolding clothes(as is done in clothing shops). And we don't even have to check stock or anything. LoL

Long comment,aye?;D
Posted 2/17/2004 at 12:59 pm by yunnermeier



Funny to see that choco panda shrink haha... I would crave for it if my throat didn't hurt. *tickling cough*
Interessting point about the OL's *hand claps*
Posted 2/17/2004 at 2:43 pm by Kittos



hahaha your so funny. that panda looks funny. mauhaha. your gifts are so nice =_=

mm my japanese teacher is american. =_=

g2g school!
Posted 2/17/2004 at 3:01 pm by chiriyuku



Man, it sounds like you got a pretty sweet deal out of this years Valentine's day. Panda shaped chocolate? No one's ever given me panda shaped chocolate before... Although once I received a giant chocolate monkey, which is about the coolest thing in the world...

I've read a book entitled "Chaos" which was oddly enough, about chaos theory and possibly the book that you yourself read. What captivated me about chaos theory (bearing in mind before any concept remotely to do with mathematics served as a cheap tranquiliser) was the simple notion that approximately accurate data didn't always lead to approximately accurate results. It doesn't seem like much, but the implications of the idea really captivated me...
Posted 2/17/2004 at 7:17 pm by Paracetamol



Panda chocolate = adorable. : ) Rah! Another bio/genetics person. Did you have to take chemistry in college? I love bio, but hate chem with equal passion.

Um... "Subjunctive"? Whassat? The only grammar terms I know are "verb", "noun", "adjective" and "present/past/future tense". I could take you up on your offer, but your students would probably end up speaking even worse English than they do now. ^^U

ps: Just out of curiosity -- why are you teaching English in Japan with a bio/genetics major? ::blur look::

pps: You've never heard Song 2 before this?! Shockhorrorgasp. :D
Posted 2/18/2004 at 5:09 am by tchamster



wow a more detailed info of the choco thing-thanks about the giri choco- inever gave those only from the heart-awww wait i did with 1 person

love actually is on my list!
Posted 2/18/2004 at 10:34 am by costoso



Lucky!! That panda-shaped chocolate is cool and you ate it!! ^_~ lol!

And congrats on the web position!! About the AJET thing, yea, I'm in the same position as you and well, guess I'll have to get to that too... XD
Posted 2/19/2004 at 8:05 am by siberian_miri



When you were talking about that I was thinking about the whole giri thing. I bet giri is outa control there.
Posted 2/19/2004 at 2:47 pm by ddsb2000



Hello I was just propping around an I came across your site... See I have nostaigic feeling for Japan... I can't beleive that I spent time reading the whole post O.o I hunger for chocolate now... Prop me back some time

isangtao
Posted 2/19/2004 at 7:29 pm by isangtao



That panda chocolate was sooo cute. I can't believe you ate it! I would have saved it forever. And you have a Hello Kitty too! I got some heart shaped chocolates filled with champagne truffle. I didn't like the champagne truffle .... I just ate the chocolate.
Posted 2/20/2004 at 10:23 am by pookybearcheung



hahaha "giri-choco".. i like that idea of breaking the chocolate into pieces. but how about leaving it out in the sun before you give it to the person.. when its all nice & mushy.. kekeke =]
Posted 2/22/2004 at 10:56 pm by schapagurl

Gum, taxis and confused panda

Looked like u guys had a fab time!

That was a really strange way the other teachers decided to handle that student who passed out. I hope he or she is now all right Hmmm... interesting.
Posted 2/24/2004 at 10:41 am by anjuliet



Those teachers are the product of the Japanese education system... they really don't know how to deal with shit. Seriously. They don't. It's really quite sad. Their concerns are with rules and regulations... it's the only way they know how to function--especially in small towns, I've found.

Then again, what the fuck can I say... I'm not Japanese, per se. I understand them, but I don't... their utter disregards for certain things... it annoys the hell out of me. And they keep wondering why the world has negative views on them... it's not all bad, certainly, but good lord... have some sense!! As I'm certain you were thinking as well.

Ain't life grand?!

Okay, back to studying.. .. .. I'm really not back to getting in habit of studying.........
Posted 2/24/2004 at 6:35 pm by takunishi79



the sad thing is my dad once lectured me on defenestrate... i believe to fenestrate means to install windows. bah..

i'm jealous of your partying. have you talked to saitama tomodachi about crashing?

i thought more about the taxi thing. i remember being told by my japanese prof that taxi drivers (and other public transportation drivers) are not supposed to wake a person that has passed out inside their vehicle, but instead wait until that person has woken up on their own. so what if said parental figure wasn't home? that poor kid would be dying inthat taxi cab with a driver just standing there! to be honest i'd be absolutely more freaked out to be home/in taxi then in a hospital when i woke. at least i knew that someone was properly caring for me after whatever happened. rar... this is too long of a comment. i should've just called.
Posted 2/26/2004 at 1:17 pm by KittyinJapan



Haha, I love the second photo!
Posted 2/26/2004 at 5:10 pm by momolo



i would've done some CPR on the poor kid and order one of the teachers to administer mouth to mouth resuscitation!
Posted 2/26/2004 at 5:42 pm by HighWindNY



What the FUCK?? First of all when the hell did gum become magical?? And how is it a good idea to send a passed oul little girl all alone with a strange taxi driver. I am seriously hoping that they sent someone with the little girl. Anyway good party pics sha!
Posted 2/26/2004 at 10:13 pm by ddsb2000



Hehe, be thankful they didn't just hand her a stick of gum and send her on her way...

I think avoiding medical attention transcends nationalities. After a rather huge night drinking, a friend of mine noticed traces of blood in his vomit. Rather than let us take him to the hospital he decided somehow that chicken noodle soup would help him. When his girlfriend decided to call an ambulance without his permission, he had the gall to tell her off.

Also: gum has a laxative effect. Chewing too much of it while sick is liable to send you lunging for the toilet bowl. Which is something you don't want to be doing if you've got dizzy spells, I can assure you.


Posted 2/27/2004 at 2:42 am by Paracetamol



i like reading your entries..and i'm a sucker for long entries. I know.. Japanese teachers are so weird! BTW, I don't understand why you have such voluminous, curly hair...
Posted 2/27/2004 at 7:22 am by yunnermeier



luv your photos~ a fab time indeed...
Posted 2/27/2004 at 11:53 pm by citydrifter



YES ... you should have your own pancake day ... regardless of the country ... pancakes are gooooooood ... esp with brown sugar and lemon juice ... YUMBLE
Posted 2/29/2004 at 1:46 am by BooBooKittyFk



Oh my what a strange day at work. I wonder how the passed out girl was.

Take care,

Angie
Posted 3/1/2004 at 11:12 am by grumpybear



i just spent FAR too much of my day reading your blogs and of course the only comment i'm coming up with at the moment is....

i'm so glad you like "dance with the devil" i think it's the greatest song.
Posted 3/1/2004 at 6:36 pm by amelie_mello

Risapie

Thats really great! ^^ It's always nice to see old friends
Posted 3/3/2004 at 8:49 am by anjuliet



Finally, an update! :) I thought you had been mugged and left for dead by disgruntled students or something :)

I'm glad that's not the case and that you had the chance to reconnect with her!
Posted 3/3/2004 at 10:15 am by momolo



love the samurai housing pics!

this caught my eye.. "marry Sandra Bullock"..hahahaha
Posted 3/3/2004 at 11:14 am by destinyz



catching up with friends is something thats always thought about, but always put aside. i dont know why. and then when i actually do, i always wonder why i didnt do it sooner. im digging the panda sign. so damn cute!
Posted 3/3/2004 at 7:27 pm by schapagurl



cute pandas ...

and 'yay' for old friendships being rekindled ... you've reminded me ... I MUST email my friend who's teaching English in Japan ... I have been desserting her ...
Posted 3/4/2004 at 12:10 am by BooBooKittyFk



Jeez I don't get how you stay so sharp on your english vocabulary while your in japan! You must read quite a bit. Or you just got a knack for it. But whats this? Sandra Bullock?? You like them really skinny girls dont ya. Yeah you do. That risa girl is skinny too. Haha skinny girls are alright but I really like short busty blond haired girls with high pitched voices. Haha.

But I know how You feel about people coming in and out of your life and how it feels when someone you really click with leaves.

Anyway luckily my dog is only gonna be in the kennel for like 2 days so it should be alright.
Posted 3/4/2004 at 2:47 am by ddsb2000



yes i have noticed that blond and blue eye thing in the ads for conversational partner too and it made me smile

i wonder what your principal thinks of that pix in my xanga heheh
Posted 3/4/2004 at 4:04 am by costoso



Oooh I love the panda pic on the panda pic! How cute. I think if I were to drive in Japan, I'd probably crash my cute pink Hello Kitty jeep if they have all these cute panda pics in the road!

Awwww, it's soooo nice to make good friends with them and continue keeping in touch with them. Special friends like that matter. Some friends you just know you'll always end up keeping in touch with and knowing forever......
Posted 3/4/2004 at 4:07 am by pookybearcheung



Hahaha thanks for cheering me up! For that, Ill post another panda icon I found

Dont worry my hubby said the same thing when he tried to say the word Tagalog! ahahahaha

*I wasnt laughing at you-- I swear! *
Posted 3/4/2004 at 9:38 am by anjuliet



while the panda thing is cute, i also find it a bit...strange. are they siamese twin pandas?!?!

*heading off to look at the emo site you sent me*

this should be fun!!!
Posted 3/4/2004 at 1:23 pm by amelie_mello



oh the emo site was fun. sadly, i found that i dress a bit like that. hahaha. nerdy glasses and all. no studded belt yet, but i've been eyeing them for a long time.

i'm so glad that you also have had occassion to use the "douche". haha not literally, of course. it's bad for women, i can only imagine what it would be for men. EEP!

ok...since it said in my blog today that i was hungry, i'm DEFINITELY hungry now because i haven't left to eat yet. gah. *mumbles and runs off*
Posted 3/4/2004 at 2:03 pm by amelie_mello



Currently your pictures aren't working, so I sadly, I've been deprived of the pictorial that went along with this blog. Instead, I had to imagine what pictures you might have deemed appropriate to post, and if you were doing what I suspect you were doing in those pictures... don't...

On a serious note, I can understand a little of the feeling you're talking about here. People's lives have a way of twisting and turning when you least expect it, and if you somehow manage to reconnect with old friends, your confronted with old feelings of camaraderie but in (sometimes) vastly different settings. It's like you have one foot in both worlds: the past and the present. No wonder your brain hurts: Playing perceptual twister is bound to split your pants sooner or later
Posted 3/5/2004 at 12:49 am by Paracetamol



I've been a sleepy bear too! I think it's the change in seasons.

Anywhere is good for spring break!

For your malaise and discontent, I would take a step back. Just teach to teach. If you think of what it means, it's going to pull you down. Being lost is ok, as long as you know that you will pull out of it somehow.
Posted 3/8/2004 at 10:25 am by momolo

Sorry.

me first me first. :laughs:

I'm kind of disturbed that this was posted at 11:01PM on Wednesday...seeing as it's only 8:25AM on Wednesday here. These things never cease to disturb and amaze me. I know, I know...I'm a goof and a simpleton.

However, what is more disturbing is the fact that I'm awake, functioning, and not even at my house at this moment. *sigh* Meetings with professors at 8:45 are horrible and I don't recommend them to anyone (especially on your day off )
Posted 3/17/2004 at 9:28 am by amelie_mello



p.s. i'm still jealous that you're in japan and i'm not.
Posted 3/17/2004 at 9:29 am by amelie_mello



sweet to see Osaka and Kyoto again
Posted 3/17/2004 at 9:41 am by Kittos



Mm nice pictures. :)
Good luck with your things. I look forward to more updates!
Posted 3/17/2004 at 3:59 pm by irisetofall



I want to go there so bad!!! lol

Id love to paint that first photo! It's beautiful!

Glad to hear things are starting to work out!
Posted 3/17/2004 at 6:06 pm by anjuliet



so am i -really busy but hey your pictures here are so nice...u must have a really good camera too...
Posted 3/18/2004 at 10:33 am by costoso



Welcome back Panda! I've missed ya!
Posted 3/18/2004 at 1:26 pm by pookybearcheung



Man your so luck to be in japan and gettin paid like that. Im so freakin envious of you.
Posted 3/19/2004 at 12:32 am by ddsb2000



very cool photos! the lensflare on the second shot rocks.
Posted 3/22/2004 at 6:22 pm by southern_sun

Breaking up.

There's rarely any advice that can be offered to lessen the pain when things fall apart. Itcan only be so much harder for you, stuck in a city that feels slightly less than welcoming.

Things are different between Japanese people and westerners, but you're a great person man, a fucking rarity in any culture. If your girl let the weight of society force you apart she made a big mistake. It's probably no comfort to you now, but you're much better being with someone who can handle such superficial, socially cosmetic differences...
Posted 3/23/2004 at 6:09 am by Paracetamol



I can't wait for my student days to be over; but like you, I think I will miss the (false?) sense of routine and progression that the lifestyle has lured me into.

This is a fantastic piece of writing. I hope you manage to find some peace.
Posted 3/23/2004 at 7:01 am by random_pixie



Wow. That was just...beautiful. :( I'm so very sorry for your loss. It's hard...
Posted 3/23/2004 at 4:45 pm by irisetofall



~hug~
Posted 3/23/2004 at 9:54 pm by anjuliet



i think i already annoyed u enough with my phone calls. but remember, soon genki will arrive, and you will shit yourself ;)
Posted 3/24/2004 at 11:28 am by KittyinJapan



Bzzzzzt. Bzzzzzzt. That's the sound of my heart travelling long distance to Japan. You've got lots of love from Madison, Maimai!

630 346 2618
Posted 3/24/2004 at 2:32 pm by momolo



i know what you mean. I love filling my day with classes and spending my entire day on campus and not come home till ten. It really does make you feel like your accomplishing alot.
Posted 3/25/2004 at 10:56 pm by ddsb2000



Tokyo-it is crazy cold and it keeps raining I cant seem to understand the weather now
Posted 3/26/2004 at 10:30 am by costoso



I know how that is-you kill yourself with "busy" that you just hope you can drop to your bed and be very sleepy at the end of the day because sleeping is the hardest thing to do at these times...when love is just starting or should I say a relationship is just starting, we see all the good things in it-it's all enlarged and when its ending or when we want it to end we see all the bad things in it enlarged....cest la vie
Posted 3/26/2004 at 10:43 am by costoso



awesome site, I like how you write, and I like your pictures!!
Posted 3/26/2004 at 12:03 pm by AmJ03



*hugs*

I know what the 'busy' feels like ... I don't think I exist as anyone other than a student teacher at the moment.
Posted 3/27/2004 at 3:44 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



your lil elevator video made me feel so stupid... i watched and watched and watched, and waited (til the end of time) for you to get to the bottom floor, and then i realized you were just replaying it... -_-"
anything i say will probably sound corny, so... take care through this rough time and look at all those ppl above me who love you!
Posted 3/27/2004 at 4:02 am by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



It's not much, but you've always given me advice and encouragement when my world was turned upside down ... *hugs*

I know how it feels to keep "busy".. think I'm doing a bit of that myself as well. ^^;
Posted 3/27/2004 at 6:20 am by siberian_miri



you deserve a big *hug*
Posted 3/28/2004 at 2:31 am by yunnermeier

Hokkaido Kittah

domo arigatou mr. panda
Posted 3/30/2004 at 2:19 am by KittyinJapan



Money sucks. It's the cause of all evil, I tell you. But none of that matters now that you've got an inverse panda!

Oh, and thanks for your comment - sorry I'm so slow in getting back to you. I haven't seen Malena, but the storyline sounds similar to Y Tu Mama. I too need to brush up on my cultured-ness .
Posted 3/30/2004 at 3:43 am by random_pixie



Aiiiii! You have a lot of kawaii stuff over there! I wanna go and get lost in all those kawaii goodies you guys have there! ^_^

Sorry your trip got cancelled they better not take out another $600 next month! Mind you, my mom said that most of the apartments in L.A.-- they would want something like almost $2000 upfront -first and last month's rent what I like about it is most of the time the basic utilities are free
Posted 3/30/2004 at 4:49 am by anjuliet



Hey Mistar Panda!

Sorry to hear about your cancelled trip and your school trying to rob you of your golden nuggets.

I am impressed with your panda collection! Very cute and cuddy.

You sound a lot happier now, that's good.

Pooky-in-a-box
Posted 3/30/2004 at 6:26 am by pookybearcheung



な・・・・長いから・・・（汗）＊タジタジ＊
あいかわらずだね。

タク
Posted 3/30/2004 at 1:25 pm by takunishi79



Wouldn't the inverse be ADNAP? I like Dapan though. Can you show us a more throurough series of photos of its transformation? I still don't understand how it works....

Man, I might be coming to Japan. MIGHT MIGHT. Arg.
Posted 3/30/2004 at 1:44 pm by momolo



man that money thing would drive me crazy.
Posted 4/2/2004 at 12:23 am by ddsb2000



I'm using someone else's computer at the moment and your font is TINY so I can't read a damned thing!

But I have a Dapan too!!!!!!!!! I won it from the roulette machine . I wanted a Pooh-san but accidently pressed the start button a little too early and at the 2 round, I got Dapan. So my Dapan only cost me 100 yen LoL
Posted 4/3/2004 at 6:49 am by yunnermeier



hey there! u might want to check out http://namachapanda.blogspot.com which is updated by some really nutter of a japanese panda
Posted 4/8/2004 at 1:39 am by wasabepasta

Point Cards

Ahh haha hey. Good stuff ! So funny! I want a point card ^^:I love to read about stuff in japan. Well the students and my teacher came back from Japan..And they didn't seem too happy. They said it was an "interesting trip" :/ whatever that means.. but I think its cause they had so little time and my teacher went to go see all this historical buildings, so they had to do alot of walking. They said Tokyo is amazing though *_* haha With all they're high tech items &_& And they said they have vending machines lined up whereever you go...wonderful *gleams* lol. Where are you located right now? Well you better save up those point cards! Baii~
Posted 4/2/2004 at 12:12 pm by chiriyuku



relax and try this test out!

http://www.idealpartner.org.uk/ipbi/WhatJob.asp

[not yet another one of those online crap]

its interesting numerically speaking...
Posted 4/2/2004 at 1:31 pm by HighWindNY



haha, Japan... you got tha love the insane, but effective marketing. Yodobashi kamera point card is definately a good deal!
Posted 4/2/2004 at 1:31 pm by Kittos



hmmm no point card machines here, but i believe sapporo does have drink vending machines with tvs that *supposivly* are like tv phones that connect you with someone who can give you advice about things/places to see in the city... i also remember an article in japanese class about vending machines that you could order drinks from using your phone and the money was charged to your phone bill or something whacky like that.. but alas.. in my experience i've only had the regular vending machine of drinks/booze/and panties.
Posted 4/3/2004 at 10:29 am by KittyinJapan



that beats my nectar card hands down!
Posted 4/4/2004 at 3:07 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



haha, a super mario tea pot? That's the greatest invention ever!
Posted 4/5/2004 at 4:52 am by Paracetamol



oh man....i have sooo many point cards that i have to leave some at home. they make my wallet too fat. of course, when i actually need the card, i dont remember to bring it, thus making the point system useless. yes, i know some stores will still give u the points if u bring the receipt back to them, but im too damn lazy =)
Posted 4/6/2004 at 12:03 pm by destinyz



I really like the layout I have now! Hehehe it may not be that kawaii but Ive lost of kawaii stuff on the side menu! ahahaha

Oh Ive sorted out that trial software and decided to get it! *Windows Media Player is a frickin pain in the u know where! lol* Thanks for the tip!
Posted 4/6/2004 at 10:33 pm by anjuliet



i have one wallet just for the point cards and i put the frequently used point cards in my actual wallet. i also suggested to my boss this point card thing might work for us too.
Posted 4/7/2004 at 12:01 pm by costoso



thank you for the compliment on my skin- i intend to design it to make people relax because i noticed that like me most xangans are insomniac
Posted 4/7/2004 at 12:02 pm by costoso



hey u want the song? hit me up at jiwongrl (AIM). I can give ya the song easily. u got ur own laptop? pasucomp? hehe. engrish.
Posted 4/7/2004 at 12:07 pm by midori_lotus



wow, you write a lot...cool how you put all the pics in with it. So you live in Japan...What part is the cold part?
Posted 4/7/2004 at 4:36 pm by AmJ03



ill tell ya what it means it means were all whores. every last one of us. Slutty point card totin whores.haha wow I cant believe how crazy that country is! I cant even keep up with my subway stamps.
Posted 4/7/2004 at 10:48 pm by ddsb2000



never knew that was what those thingies at the drink machines were! Now I know LoL

my mid-sem sucked. uggh
Posted 4/8/2004 at 2:14 am by yunnermeier



Ah, point cards! I've got a few -- from Starbucks, Coffee Bean and some other F&B outlets. Have never (in the several years I've been hanging on to the stuff) redeemed anything though. I always seem to start a new card before finishing the old one... ^^U

p.s. -- Yup, I studied Chinese throughout primary and secondary school. Ironically, of all the languages I speak, Chinese - Mandarin - is my weakest. (._.U)
Posted 4/8/2004 at 10:24 am by tchamster

Cherry Blossoms

Ahhhh ... Panda Panda Panda, I could read you forever! I'm going to approach my friend about this one now ... she's forever regaling me with tales of Japanese strangeness
Posted 4/9/2004 at 2:08 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



wow talk about depressing can't you let me have my revelations the old fashioned way? well not depressing more realistic ;)
Posted 4/9/2004 at 5:06 am by jubeichan00



I've played around with the idea of teaching English in Japan after I graduate. I've heard so much about the stages that foreigners usually go through in Japan. I know I'd be completely amazed and overawed if I ever made it there. And if I got to the stage of seeing past the facade as you have, I don't know if I'd have the guts to point it out to people. I think it's a really important thing to do and I admire you for it, but people hate having their cosy illusions shattered. And especially in Japan, it seems.

I sort of feel aimless too at the moment, but like you I'm trying to see it as a positive thing - "my own personal spring" - I like that .
Posted 4/9/2004 at 6:34 am by random_pixie



I would love to see all those sakura! I think theyre so kawaii and kirei We only have two sakura trees on our street and my daughter loves them! She calls them "pretty flower trees"
Posted 4/9/2004 at 8:13 pm by anjuliet



I havent been to church for so long, Ive forgotten how it is to go through Mass! Ill be attending Mass tomorrow, so thatll be something hahaha!
Posted 4/10/2004 at 8:46 am by anjuliet



Fleeting, beautiful blossoms poorly concealing the jagged scars of concrete and steel in the sky. Maybe the soul of Japan is laid bare in those blossoms a little more than you might think.

Such stalwart, unshakeable xenophobia must be terrible to deal with, but I find it so hard to believe that even the most rigid of cultures would blind people so.

At the end of the day, anyone unable to see you for the kind of great person you are, regardless of the cultural barriers they face are weak and blind, end of story.

I hope you feel better again soon man, because quite often it's not enough just to avoid sadness
Posted 4/10/2004 at 11:45 am by Paracetamol



thank you for the picture, i really love it.

and now i'm a bit disillusioned about japan. i have the opportunity and a great offer to teach in japan next year but i'm a bit scared for many reasons...most dominately, i don't speak japanese...except i learned how to say "noodles" about 12 years ago when my best friend's brother went to japan for some sort of baseball tournament.

*sigh* things are better on my end though. i'm coming out of my little "funk" if you will. my mom is coming to visit me today (on her way right now) and we're going to the lake and maybe to grandma's house. i'm just glad to get out of my little college town and forget about university and all of its hellish ways.
Posted 4/10/2004 at 1:37 pm by amelie_mello



Err hi, you dont know me but ^^;;, the first time I went to Japan I guess I was into that first phase, but by the third visit I hated going out unless I was with friends. I look 99.9% Japanese but when I tell someone that im actually a gaikokujin, the change that comes over them was at first amusing and remarkable...yet now annoys the hell outta me.
They just keep smiling serenely but its easy to tell they want to get away as fast as possible. Sometimes I get this deep urge to just shake them and tell me what exactly their thinking so at least that way we can actually move on? We wont be stuck in this state of "Im Japanese and your not we're too different from you, so end of conversation". I love Japan and I actually enjoy being around people that dont take notice of me all the time, because of my different coloured skin or whatever, since I was raised in a city where the ratio of "white" to asian was about 13:1.
I always took the multi-culturism in North America for granted, but im appreciating it like hell now.
hmm I think I typed a lil' too much -_______- neways ciao _ _V
Posted 4/10/2004 at 4:35 pm by Ryutatsu



Awesome
Posted 4/11/2004 at 5:10 pm by Tokyo41



"Eventually moving past the disillusionment and resolving the disjunction between reality and pretense in a healthy fashion."

Very well written! At this point, I feel that I am enjoying my time here to the fullest and if that means having more than a few hanamis....I'm all for it =) heheeh
Posted 4/11/2004 at 8:47 pm by destinyz



Dude! You listen to Nil Laura!

I had totally forgotten that there must be other people who do so.

Very well thought-out post. Isn't it ironic how you start by denying the religious revelation of the cherry blossoms, and conclude by surrendering to the phenomenon? It does seem that way.
Posted 4/12/2004 at 1:08 am by moritheil



panda-chan i am so jealous of your pictures of the sakura!!! how many mega pixels do you have in your digi cam? hayaku tell me
Posted 4/12/2004 at 8:22 am by costoso



ejwgyrl at MSN
Posted 4/12/2004 at 11:21 am by midori_lotus



well hotmail but u get the pic
Posted 4/12/2004 at 11:22 am by midori_lotus



those cherry blossoms are so pretty! I wish we had them. You take really good pics, you took them right?> you should go into photography or something. I wanna take pics like that but everything is dead around here. yick!
Posted 4/13/2004 at 12:35 am by AmJ03



man it really does look beautiful there. how often does the sky look that blue?
Posted 4/14/2004 at 1:47 am by ddsb2000

Mortality

are you WaiKit(Kittos)'s friend? he was Ryuugakusei of my school last year~!

anata mo zutto Nihon ni sunderu?watashimo konokurai takusan eigode blog dekiruyouni naritai~!
Posted 4/14/2004 at 11:23 am by mipo



it's so...depressing to think about getting old. 18 year olds are now telling me that they "like older women". what's up with that? i am NOT an older woman...let's reserve that comment for the 30+ women out there.

i wish i could wait until 30 to get married as well...but it just isn't socially acceptable for a woman to wait that long. *sigh* AND, apparently they're less desirable. men of the same age are still looking for that 25 year old (or younger). i'm destined to get married before then, but i will NOT have children until 30 (at the earliest!!).

your panda mane still seems plentiful to me, i would never think that you were balding in any way shape or form.
Posted 4/14/2004 at 1:49 pm by amelie_mello



p.s. is "mane" even the correct term for a panda?
Posted 4/14/2004 at 1:50 pm by amelie_mello



Wow. First of all, I've always been obsessed by hands, and didn't really know why. Maybe the way you've described them is part of the reason. Secondly, there have been several times when I've had that feeling: the recognition of my mortality; although I am still far too scared of that thought to write about it as you have (although I obviously wouldn't use the losing-hair thing to write about it. And also, not all men go bald!) And thirdly: this post is poignant and very thought-provoking. Thank you for writing it .

Re. your comments: the tree photo is a digital camera photo which was taken from behind a window, so it's not of the best quality, and has some window frame in the shot. But if you want me to try and email it to you or whatever, you're welcome to have it . And re. 24 - I haven't watched the 2nd series yet, but I think the concept is that it carries on for a second day, the next 24 hours following the first series. It's a brilliant show (and very addictive) .
Posted 4/14/2004 at 5:11 pm by random_pixie



な・が・す・ぎ・るぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅぅ〜！！！！
Posted 4/14/2004 at 5:56 pm by takunishi79



I like this piece very much. Perhaps in part because it strikes a cord in me. After all, who doesn't occasionally look forward, and see the inevitable?

I don't know how women realise that they're getting older (yet, eh?). Perhaps you realise that those in-between-meals snacks are going somewhere. Perhaps your relatives start talking about some "biological clock" ticking away. Then again, perhaps its as simple as seeing younger women and thinking, "That used to be me."

I suppose we'll have to wait and find out, eh?

How horrible.
Posted 4/14/2004 at 10:47 pm by tchamster



wow... よく書きますね~O -O
is this all straight from your thoughts?
さすが先生だな~！!

Posted 4/14/2004 at 11:34 pm by Ryutatsu



Boo.

Brilliantly accurate.
Posted 4/15/2004 at 2:28 am by moritheil



"I wonder how it must be like when you grow to the age when rather than postponing personal goals, you have to start accepting that you will never accomplish such things before you die?"

25 isn't that old! Stop paying attention to statistics. They contain SOME truth but not all.

I definitely get angry though, when I hear people say that they're too old to do something. My mom says it sometimes and she's not even 50! It's definitely a societal thing where people panic and feel useless after certain points in their lives, becuase I don't think it's true. Everyone can do something and learn something new if they want. The point is that you're not learning it to be a new person, but to learn it becuase you WANT to. There is no "Learn english : ages 0-30" or anything official like that.

I like the way your hair is looking of late. Pretty cool!

Posted 4/15/2004 at 9:06 am by momolo



Wow, you must be a writer because you write with such detail, and pizaaz! very cool! when i have more time, Ill read the whole thing
Posted 4/15/2004 at 9:45 pm by AmJ03



How beautifully written...I really enjoyed your entry :) Getting old hasn't quite hit me yet, but when it does, I hope i'll be as artistically inspired as you
Take care,
Lillie
Posted 5/1/2004 at 5:49 pm by tooflypinay

Panda gets run over by a car

oh Michael, oh daijine...

before I forget, silly me we have same digicam, now I must admit you got more talent :O

and hey I'm glad I dont get errors in your site anymore

take care ok?
Posted 4/20/2004 at 11:10 am by costoso



i'm truly sorry for laughing throughout your blog. you write with such whimsy about being struck by a car. mine would be a rambling mess of self-pity and would undoubtedly cause a tear in the eye of my readers. hehehe. ok, not really. i'm sorry about your bike though and your panda head. i hope you're recovering quite nicely!! by the by, it really messes me up that it's not even noon on tuesday here and your blog says it's wednesday. i think i've mentioned that before....ok, i really need to do some homework here. ta ta for now!
Posted 4/20/2004 at 12:39 pm by amelie_mello



OMG! Accident! OMG! Glad you weren't too hurt. Hope you're feeling ok. Perhaps you should go to the hospital and・・in case you have concussion?・・Poor Panda.
Posted 4/20/2004 at 4:54 pm by pookybearcheung



Eek, how dramatic! Glad you're not injured .

Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite writers so I rushed out and bought Oryx and Crake as soon as it was realised - and absolutely loved it. I was really frustrated though, because I had no one to talk about it to. I have since coerced several of my friends into reading it to solve that problem
Posted 4/20/2004 at 4:55 pm by random_pixie



Heal quickly.
Posted 4/20/2004 at 5:23 pm by moritheil



Aiks. How are you doing now?

Have never actually been in an accident, but have been in a number of near-accidents. My bad, usually, for not paying proper attention when crossing roads. Ahaha. ^^U

Have you gotten a new bike yet? It must be quite inconvenient without one. I can't ride a bicycle myself, so I know! Sad, sad. (._.)
Posted 4/21/2004 at 1:46 am by tchamster



wow man thats messed up that those girls didnt even give you a ride home. that stinks man. well at least know you got a good story to tell the next time you get drunk. good luck with your transportation. if i were you i would get those girls to buy a new bike.
Posted 4/21/2004 at 2:01 am by ddsb2000



i got hit by a car 3 times during my time here in japan. it seems like every jet i know got hit by a car sometime during their time here. it must be in our contracts that we're required to have that happen at least once.
Posted 4/21/2004 at 4:50 am by akachan



omg...you seem to be taking it so well! I love your animation by the way....you definitely have skills.
Posted 4/21/2004 at 6:31 am by midori031



you write about your adventures and demises with such wit!

feel better soon
Posted 4/21/2004 at 1:56 pm by zmmmm



Aww that's horrible. You tell such great stories, though. :P I enjoyed it.
Posted 4/21/2004 at 4:41 pm by irisetofall



OMG! I hope you went to the hospital and got checked out for concussions and other stuff that even youre not aware of???

Poor Mr. Panda. Hope you feel better soon!

*Even more poor Tarepanda for getting hit with that white car *
Posted 4/21/2004 at 7:37 pm by anjuliet



This really happened? WHOA! That would be pretty freaky... You write so well...are you a writer or something...and I love that pic with the car and bike. Cool entry!
Posted 4/22/2004 at 12:00 am by AmJ03



((((hugs))))

hmm, I might get that Margaret Atwood book
Posted 4/22/2004 at 12:15 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



That animation is sooo funny :)
Posted 4/22/2004 at 9:41 am by Kittos



Oh my freaking god! You got HIT BY A CAR! Were you wearing helmet? Holy shit, you just lost like a million brain cells...BUY A HELMET BECUASE I BET YOU WEREN"T WEARING ONE!

But I am glad that you're ok for the most part. And nice movie thing! What did you do that on?
Posted 4/22/2004 at 1:14 pm by momolo



glad you're OK. Since you're OK , I found your little accident really funny! hahaha. I heard that in Japan, when someone hits you, you apparently HAVE to go to the police station and the guy who hit you'll have to buy you a new bike (according to friend who was hit by a van LoL). At least you get a new bike

I was involved in only one accident ,some dumb van didn't see moi and my bike was retarded (imagine cycling all over Japan squeking like a rubber toy). And then the other time...I actually fell down a drain..the drain accident was really all my fault. Sometimes I wonder how dumb I can be (who other than myself would try to cycle over a small drain? ) baka deshou?

sore de owarimasu:D ganbarre
Posted 4/22/2004 at 9:16 pm by yunnermeier



ur cool, cuz u live in japan...and u like pandas :D www.xanga.com/sneakypanda *i am the sneaky panda*
Posted 4/23/2004 at 3:09 am by LoNG_BeaCh



hey this time i read ur story :D
Posted 4/23/2004 at 3:22 am by LoNG_BeaCh



pandas rock..
Posted 4/23/2004 at 3:32 am by Prtssguy



damn mike! should talk to Jen M. about this. she was hit twice by cars on two separate incidents. managed to get some money out of the lady...hope you're feeling better *hugs*
Posted 4/28/2004 at 1:33 am by laughterhere

At the beach

What do u mean u have nothing interesting to write? U just did!

Glad youre feeling better and that your bike is all fixed up!

I miss going to the beach *sigh* the beaches are a bit too far away from where I live at the mo. Id give anything to be back in SoCal and having nice weather all year round!
Posted 4/26/2004 at 10:31 am by anjuliet



writing for the sake of writing- just the way it should be man. don't ever sell out rice rocket style
Posted 4/26/2004 at 4:43 pm by HighWindNY



good news about the bike.
Posted 4/27/2004 at 3:46 am by Prtssguy



i made an effort to read this time, but i only got through 50%. can you make like a michaelpanda xanga cliff notes page or something? your feet look funny. where's the fur? what kind of panda are you? did someone shave you while you were sleeping. did they castrate you too? *grin*
Posted 4/27/2004 at 5:38 am by KittyinJapan



Still, even despite the polluted and crappy conditions of the beach, being near a large body of water is always exciting!

How warm is it there? I don't think I would even frolick around in 55 F degree weather...

I was thinking about taking Japanese next semester...maybe do some JET? Haha, I don't know.

I need to fix my bike.
Posted 4/27/2004 at 11:00 am by momolo



nothing interesting to write and you just wrote a humongous amount of text... from which part of your brain does it come from?
Posted 4/28/2004 at 9:25 am by Kittos



oh i'de give anything to be on the beach right now

but not in the dirty shores of Japan.

Philippines has got it. You should try visit Philippines when you can. ya thats my home country.

happy green day =D
Posted 4/28/2004 at 10:35 pm by costoso



I'm glad to hear you're doing well. I haven't had a chance to read xanga lately and then when I get the time to, I see that you get hit by a car! :( But again, I'm glad that you're alright. ^^

I'm not sure what it is, but I've gotten a lot of close calls just walking around my town ... ^^;
Posted 4/29/2004 at 12:51 am by siberian_miri



hmmm, methinks you don't think much of Japan somehow.

Lovely panda paws tho'
Posted 5/4/2004 at 12:53 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



hmm... this reporter's so cool!

http://www.kiwipix.com/atlantagrape.mpeg

[right click and save]
Posted 5/5/2004 at 7:56 am by HighWindNY



Ew, that beach looks really gross. :P It sounds like you had an interesting adventure.
Posted 5/5/2004 at 8:26 pm by irisetofall



ahhhhh what a good post to come back to... panda should be published, you're the only person i know who can go from philosophical to humorous to introspective to contradictive so quickly!! (joking joking ) where are my tales of brutality!!
Posted 5/7/2004 at 4:07 am by jubeichan00

After Golden Week

相変わらず、長い・・・ね。
寝てる子供カワイイ〜！！アハハ！

ゴールデンね・・・懐かしい。

日本で元気にやってるようでなにより。日本語は上達したかな？

とにかく、頑張ってくれ。

タク
Posted 5/7/2004 at 8:05 am by takunishi79



Mmm, Nam's Noodles.....soooo grooood! I mean, great. And good. Good and great. Hahaha. The mashed potatoes from Popeye's are better.

I'm glad to hear that you're not dead or anything like that! Sorry about the bustness of Golden Week...

About the food thing: If you are thinking of visiting the US for a bit, we're going to have a room open at my apartment! Or you can sleep on the porch. Do they sell good hammocks in Japan? We need one since my roomie Elena owns ours and is leaving.

And since I am sort of near Regent, roomie Puffer has a car, and we're near a good busline, we can go on a Super Madison Non-stop Maimai Fantasy Food Orgy!
Posted 5/7/2004 at 10:11 am by momolo



wow he is blogging again.

at last i saw a full lenght pix of Panda-chan ehhehe!

Nice pictures as usual, my favorite is the last one-child at sleep.
Posted 5/7/2004 at 10:15 am by costoso



What would have made that festival totally cool would have been if the floats were soaked in gasoline, set alight, and forcibly pulled through the streets by screaming locals. That way everyone would eventually be happy for the rain, it helping to put out their burning town and all...
Posted 5/7/2004 at 8:01 pm by Paracetamol



tsk tsk panda. you have nothing to be pissy about. festival sucked, but you know you had a good time rolling around in the futon (and not emailing me!)
Posted 5/8/2004 at 12:48 am by KittyinJapan



haha good pics as usual. man every time i read your posts i get the urge to go to japan. how much longer are you gonna be there?
Posted 5/8/2004 at 10:29 pm by ddsb2000



why do i feel like your list of craveables (??SP?? WORD??) was so readily availible... :-p wow that last pic just cries desperation though hehe
Posted 5/8/2004 at 11:34 pm by jubeichan00



glad you're alive...although a bit damp, it seems, in the last few posts. hehe

i keep seeing panda paraphernalia and wanting to buy it and send it to you--however strange that seems.

i always love your pictures...i wish i had some sort of "eye" for these things. somehow, i manage to take really artistic pictures of things when i'm drunk--what does that say about emily? not really sure.
Posted 5/9/2004 at 6:22 pm by amelie_mello



Rah -- panda's back! Me? Am turning 19. Theoretically. *cough* :D

Golden week a huge deal, isn't it? Turnover of money multiplies tenfold etc etc. :) Ah well, a break by any other name...
Posted 5/11/2004 at 3:46 am by tchamster



look at all the pretty colors and everything, and the pretty womens surrounding you!!

good gravy i need to get to japan asap
Posted 5/11/2004 at 8:28 am by zmmmm



それは日本に住む楽しみでなければならない。
That must be the pleasure that lives in Japan.
Yes I would like a bigger size of that picture haha.
Thanks for the eprops.
Posted 5/11/2004 at 10:37 pm by LoNG_BeaCh



Thank you for the kind comments and eprops. I know I don't post very frequently--I'm so tired so often these days! . . . but I try . . . I'll try to post something tomorrow to finish up my essay.

I think you write really well, too--in fact I wish I had your observational skills and eloquence; I try to write fiction now and then but lately my writing's been kind of abstract. I read your blog to see what really good descriptive writing looks like. :)
Posted 5/11/2004 at 11:01 pm by huangm



wow wow ^o^ I always enjoy your pictures and talk about Japan. pizza.. mm ..ramyun ..mmm ^o^
Posted 5/12/2004 at 4:11 am by chiriyuku



i want that baby.
Posted 5/12/2004 at 11:30 pm by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



that last post "i want that baby" reminds me of oscar wilde's "the importance of being earnest" where aunt augusta ( can't think of her other name ) starts screaming "PRISM WHERE IS THAT BABY?!"

random. moving along. you can tell it's late when i start thinking a bout my Brit Lit class :\

so i would love to send you this panda thing....i quite enjoy it. i purchased it at "itchy's scratch post"--a flea market outside of my little college town. a) you can't beat where it came from b) it's just darn fun.

i don't really know what to ask for. but i do love baditz maru and keropi hehehe

i need to sleep. i have an exam in 8 hours but that means i'm DONE for the semester
Posted 5/13/2004 at 2:58 am by amelie_mello



LADY BRACKNELL!

that's her name. sorry i'm insane.
Posted 5/13/2004 at 2:59 am by amelie_mello



I like it there cos all of these festivals that you guys have over there!

Yes, my profile pic is from that online picasso thingy ;)
Posted 5/13/2004 at 6:10 am by anjuliet

Super Famicom Adventure...

haha, amusing. I still got a SNES here as well. I agree that that was the golden video games period!
Posted 5/18/2004 at 11:29 am by Kittos



Good work. Now if you could have incorporated duct tape into the project....
Posted 5/18/2004 at 3:20 pm by badLarry



Haha that was great. :P I enjoyed it.
Posted 5/18/2004 at 4:16 pm by irisetofall



umm... you could've bought a screwdriver, swapped the insides with a SUPER FAMI cartridge and played SUPER MARIO BROS... lol hacking up the kart and the system was simply hilarious hehehe... OMG great post
Posted 5/18/2004 at 5:37 pm by HighWindNY



aaaahahah eggcelent! ^-^ so amusing. can't believe you guys cut off the bottom sides. oh well it still worked. gj ^-^
Posted 5/18/2004 at 7:09 pm by chiriyuku



oh lucky me i never play those things except of course if someone give me a pacman because thats the only one i love-thats the only thing my brain would call entertainment the rest is brain work LOL

japanese people tend to clean inventory so fast that must be why there are no mario bro things around-they change so fast...just observe if u miss japanese tv for a week and youde be surprised at how many commercials have been changed.
Posted 5/18/2004 at 7:14 pm by costoso



I remember when I was first in Japan. Deprived of all household leisure I was told not to plug anything American in the walls. I did anyway, 'causing a long confuzzling expression on my parents face when they got the electric bill.
Posted 5/19/2004 at 12:03 am by isangtao



i dunno if this lets me give more than 2eprops. sorry for pissing you off great panda. come to hokkaido! i'm too hungover to read your blog. but then again i never read it anyway.
Posted 5/19/2004 at 12:39 am by KittyinJapan



ah the adventures in panda world.

i miss playing super mario!!!!
Posted 5/19/2004 at 6:43 pm by amelie_mello



All hail the Panda, you are the lo-tech king!
Posted 5/20/2004 at 3:56 am by Paracetamol



スーパーファミコン、ちょーなつかしい。小学校くらいの時見たような・・・-_-;;;;
Posted 5/20/2004 at 6:26 am by mipo



lol

this is hilarious, i did the same thing with my Sega Mega Drive many years ago, where I filed off an internal piece of plastic that prevented american cartridges from being fit into the slot
Posted 5/21/2004 at 7:05 am by zmmmm



i just had a random memory and thought it was appropriate to share with you.

in second grade we had a showcase, if you will, on endangered species. well, i wanted so badly to be a panda....so i was. i had a little panda mask on a popsicle stick and gave a little speech about pandas. hehehe good times.
Posted 5/22/2004 at 12:55 pm by amelie_mello



I saw some panda goodies in a little shop called "Girl Heaven" in town the other day and I thought of you! Was thinking about getting you a little panda goodie, but I think they would have been a bit too gay for a macho panda like you.

Btw, thanks for the links! Very useful indeed. Arigato gozaimasu (practicing!).
Posted 5/23/2004 at 3:10 pm by pookybearcheung



Oh man does that bring back memories of when I was in 9th grade and I ordered dragonball hyperdimension and had to heat a knife and cut the inside of my supernintendo. Haha thats so funny that yall had to do the opposite.
Posted 5/25/2004 at 3:12 am by ddsb2000

Panda no baribari baryu...

heeyyy.. how come you get a nice apartment? my jet stayed in this cramped, smelly, leaky gaijin house (we've been outside his house and my dumb friend actually sent him chicken soup when he was ill?!)

Pandas pandas... i have a whole lot of panda junk at home because, for some weird reason or other, people thought i love tare panda when i was younger. bleh. nothing against 'your kind' , i just don't particularly like foreign objects on my bed

your curly curly locks.. did you know that people actually PAY to curl their hair?
Posted 5/25/2004 at 12:56 pm by yunnermeier



Awww I want lots of kawaii pandas like yours!!! Wahhh! Well yeah Id get one and daughter here will then claim it as her own
Posted 5/25/2004 at 2:46 pm by anjuliet



hello future trillion-dollar man whore,
there is a very simple explanation for everything (except about your students). i have a Kyocera SL300R. the lens rotates like the coolpix ones so you can take pics of yourself. but when you do that... the image is up-side-down.. hence funky placing of time/date.
if you are in need of a mama-san for your man-whoring, i'm free most of the week..
Posted 5/25/2004 at 2:56 pm by LeaderOfTheLittlePeople



dude, panda's are cool. hahah random props
Posted 5/25/2004 at 8:26 pm by XBbPandaX



YOU GOT AWESOME PANDAS LIKE I DO!!! ^^ You rock!! And Japan rocks too... ARRRGGGHHHHHHH... US sucks... =(
Posted 5/25/2004 at 8:32 pm by o_0LyTojess0_o



Hallo there MistarPanda~ Thanks for the comments on MY PandaBlog =), LOL. Pandas are cool, but I only have one in my room, lying there, pretty much doing that all day.

Nice PandaBlog, I also had a Xanga but then switched to AOL b/c I was paying for the account anyways.

When did you move to Japan? I hafta start reading your blog from the beginning or something to find out when it all began.... Ta-ta for now!
Posted 5/26/2004 at 3:49 am by pandabear5



Isn't it sad to see that your pupils haven't learned anything new while you are working your ass off?
Posted 5/26/2004 at 11:25 am by Kittos



ugg my comment goes erased! anyways ..

Kawaii pandas desune! haha. Good luck with makign your exams ^o^ Sorry its so rainy and grey there. haha even though I like that.

Your an exception! Only pages that load slow that have good quality pictures and detailed desciptions can quailify! ahaha Besides yours doesn't even load slow! Thats why I love your page cause you have good pictures and wonderful things about Japan. It doesn't take me long to do a layout for xanga thats why I can make one so easily. And plus xanga only allows certain kinds of html so there's not that much to choose from. Anyways, how many panda stuff do you actually have? haha
Posted 5/28/2004 at 2:50 am by chiriyuku



if we don't own stuffed animals, can we barter with velveeta?
Posted 5/30/2004 at 2:24 pm by momolo



i believe Japanese is making the Designers really rich with their mania for this over expensive things

can i have one of those pandas you've been keeping?
Posted 6/1/2004 at 11:01 am by costoso



you have been nominated for Mr Xanga, well done!
Posted 6/1/2004 at 12:02 pm by Eechim



Squishy Pandas!
Posted 6/1/2004 at 9:05 pm by moritheil



I always associate bari bari with the sound of something like a machine or with japanese hard work. But that is some good man whore money. Mabye youd make a good he bitch. haha
Posted 6/3/2004 at 4:22 pm by ddsb2000



sorry, didn't actually read any of your entries (I been on xanga all day. brain hurts), but just browsing through your pics, I saw the Super Famicon Adventure. I remember removing little plastic protrusions from my US Super Nintendo so I could play Famicom games from Japan. You might've mentioned that in your entry. Anyway, that's hardcore, sawing your US game catridge to play on the Japanese system. I respect that kind of passion. I'll check back on another day and actually read an entry. ^^
Posted 6/3/2004 at 5:26 pm by jimyungus

Toilet Backpack

hahha how creatice on the toilet seat! i would never know what happens to me if i have a squat one too--i sit so long on the toilet i talk on the phone there, sometimes brings my laptop there too--i know, i know its gross but heh i love sitting long there
Posted 6/6/2004 at 12:58 am by costoso



wow ... you sound like the best friend to have around in a desperate toilet situation. My friend is obsessed by toilet slippers at the moment ... it is a strange strange country indeed ...
Posted 6/6/2004 at 2:50 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



r.i.p. to a cafe...
whereas back home... it's r.i.p. to the 'ol prez. former president reagan.

but damn, you write hella, all the time...
Posted 6/6/2004 at 3:57 am by takunishi79



haha, I agreed with the 'Sexy panda looking off into the distance' picture, till I saw that huge non-sexappealing cardboard box strapped on your back ^_^;
Posted 6/6/2004 at 7:55 am by Kittos



Hehe. You never know, it might catch on. (Toilet Backpacks, coming to a catwalk near you).

I love that book, and all of Milan Kundera's stuff that I've read. He's brilliant.
Posted 6/6/2004 at 8:41 am by random_pixie



That's a terrific book you're reading. In fact, I wrote a review of it a couple of years back, when I was trying for the impossible goal of reviewing everything I read, heard, and watched. One day I hope to do that again, but real life calls, too. :)
Posted 6/6/2004 at 10:51 am by huangm



Hahaha great story.
Posted 6/6/2004 at 3:46 pm by irisetofall



sorry to point this out mike - why didn't you guys just take a taxi back? i know you had the bikes...but the toliet seems so heavy!

i am so lost without victoria's! that's our favorite sunday lunch hangout! i am so sad it's gone! :( :(
Posted 6/6/2004 at 7:45 pm by laughterhere



You are aware my friend, that you're living the kind of marvellously surreal experiences chumps like me can only dream about. Also, I don't know how you managed it, but you some how managed to look rock star while hauling a toilet around like a backpack...

Funny, Keith Richards promised me I'd never have to utter that sentence again...

On another note, I think I'll have to check out The Unbearable Lightness of Being, it sounds pretty awesome
Posted 6/7/2004 at 9:43 am by Paracetamol



hahahaha omg! u were carrying a toilet??? i thought that was a big tarepanda or something!
Posted 6/9/2004 at 11:50 am by anjuliet



YO, I KNOW I HARDLY HAVE TIME TO UPDATE ANYMORE EITHER, BUT OH WELL, THANKS FOR THE COMMENTS.
Posted 6/10/2004 at 6:38 pm by AmJ03

Panda Cereal

Word dude I didnt even know you lived in the inaka. Well I think I would prefer it but I cant say just yet. Anyway have fun on your trip dude.
Posted 6/11/2004 at 2:28 pm by ddsb2000



You do enjoy ironing don't you Panda? Kelloggs Special K with red berries is readily available in all good supermarkets here in the UK, tis good stuff. Yum. Have fun in Tokyo. How long does it take you to get there from your neck of the woods?
Posted 6/11/2004 at 5:47 pm by pookybearcheung



You stay longer in Japan? You lucky bastard! The amenities in Shinkansen and TGV are alright. I prefer Shinkansen's!
Posted 6/11/2004 at 6:24 pm by Kittos



i would wanna eat cereal w/strawberries every meal too..but probably wouldnt be able to afford it (cost of fruit u know..)

have fun at the conference! it was awesome last year!!
Posted 6/11/2004 at 11:42 pm by destinyz



Have fun in Tokyo!

Well since youre so good at ironing, youre more than welcome to do the ironing I have over here *it has piled up and now occupies two armchairs *

My daughter now adores pandas they are really kawaii! When she saw some badgers on TV she said, "their colors are like the panda isnt it?"
Posted 6/12/2004 at 3:24 pm by anjuliet



Aw, you look really sad...haha. Have fun in Tokyo.
Posted 6/12/2004 at 8:21 pm by irisetofall



I LOVE THAT CEREAL! have you seen they now have Special K Red Berry crisps???? how weird ...

enjoy Tokyo ... x
Posted 6/14/2004 at 5:58 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



Well, I've officially been MIA. I would still love to have a little international exchange extravaganza.

My little cousin loved the little panda thing I had originally intended to send off to you....so I'm in a search for new pandagoodness.

I really don't know what I want...you can surprise me with something or other. But some little Badtz Maru thing would be quite fun

This is me signing off. Have fun in Tokyo
Posted 6/14/2004 at 5:02 pm by amelie_mello



COSTOSO luvs domesticating to the max! if only i got enough time-well it never is enough whatever it is you want to do

and i luv TOKYO too
Posted 6/18/2004 at 3:27 am by costoso



Why is it I've never actually bumped into you in person?!?!! I was at the recontracting conference and I'm sure I would've flipped to see you in person since I'm reading your blog all the time. ugh...craziness
Posted 6/18/2004 at 5:32 am by kirinknight



Luna Sea! Woo!
Posted 6/21/2004 at 11:17 pm by moritheil



i really hate tokyo...so crowded! so many people...but disney sea was FUN! ;)

*sigh*

hey...i can't see your pics...is it just me? or is it not working?
Posted 6/23/2004 at 9:23 am by laughterhere

Depressingly down

about the sketchy webserver: complain to to better business bureau www.bbb.org. chances are some other people are feeling the same as you are!

i think anywhere we go, the same baggage comes along with us. my friend went to spain hoping for some new life to begin, but she came back the same and feeling about spain as she did here. not that there was nothing there to do, but it wasn't the place she thought it would be.
Posted 6/24/2004 at 5:28 pm by momolo



so u went to roppongi hills
Posted 6/25/2004 at 11:05 am by costoso



Eikaiwa-whore gaijin thats funny. But Man that sucks that you are havin a bad time. Im very use to disgusting humidity but I cant stand gray skies all the time. But I hope your new school is better and things work out for ya.
Posted 6/25/2004 at 7:37 pm by ddsb2000



Bah. I wonder if that feeling of elation when you first arrive in a new country can be retained anywhere you go if you stay for a long time. The school does sound awful, though. I really hope you find somewhere better. Also, I too, am very affected by the weather. Which means, because I live in England and one never knows what the weather will be like from one day to the next, my mood swings are all over the place. I sympathise with you. (This is random_pixie, by the way; I've moved ).
Posted 6/26/2004 at 7:18 am by Krendalin



Battle Royale anyone?
Posted 7/1/2004 at 10:44 pm by amelie_mello



Hey Hey,

I found you at Rice Bowl.
I'm sorry about how
"er" those guys are...

Yeah, hope you feel
better soon and
you're right the
pictures are
all perky and your
entry is the opposite.

lol.

<3,

Carla

PS

I miss Japan.
Much more exciting
than IDAHO :(
Posted 7/3/2004 at 3:54 pm by askewasexy



Eek. Sounds dire. Not all bad students can be reformed ala "To Sir, with Love" after all. :) About 17 days more now... Where [in Japan] will you be teaching next?

I was actually considering working in Japan for a bit a while back, but your sentiments don't seem to be uncommon, so... ^_^'
Posted 7/4/2004 at 8:17 am by tchamster



hey, i actually saw you in tokyo at the recontracting conference. for a second i was like, "hey! it's michael panda! wow!" it was like seeing a movie star, but i then i remembered you aren't a movie star. anyhow, i saw you. wierd, when the internet world collides with reality.
Posted 7/5/2004 at 7:08 am by coolnahalf



*pokes panda* hey! howz it going? not updating lately? too busy partying away eh? good running into you the other day...hope to see ya this weekend at the river ;)
Posted 7/5/2004 at 10:00 am by laughterhere



*pokes panda* hey! howz it going? not updating lately? too busy partying away eh? good running into you the other day...hope to see ya this weekend at the river ;)
Posted 7/5/2004 at 10:00 am by laughterhere



Poor you! Tech support PLAH... hmmm about those asshole students of yours. You should punish them w/ some cruel ways. I'm sure you can be angry enough to think of one.

Nice dimples. =D
Posted 7/6/2004 at 1:15 am by o_0LyTojess0_o

Summer Sunshine

Wow... Hawaii doesnt compare to the heat back in Japan, plus the humidity can get way WORST in there... every time you lift up a single arm you here a wet velcro like sound *shivers from the thought*. Hey, is it the year when those fat loud crickets come out? I miss the sound very much T_T.
Posted 7/6/2004 at 7:20 am by isangtao



i love that picture of the waterfall..beautiful.

i think we all set goals and have regrets at some point in our lives, but the best thing to do is consider what we didnt do with what we did accomplish. it all balances out...eventually =) you'll be staying a 2nd year..will u be here for a 3rd?
Posted 7/6/2004 at 11:30 am by destinyz



don't forget to keep yourself rehydrated, dude... nisshabyou is a bitch!! :p
well, at least you're getting seasons... ... ... uh-huh... that really justifies anything.

you know, your example about the justificiation of the school HAVING AC but not USING it... or rather, the kyoutou sensei's justifications of it... is sort of like... oh, i dunno... the US's justifications for fucking around in Iraq? I dunno... do you see the connection?

*BUWAHAHAHAHAHA~!!!!!*

THE END.

Posted 7/6/2004 at 1:17 pm by takunishi79



Good post. Very thought provoking. As I think Ive said before its hard to let go of friendships that have been through so much. I havent yet found a solution for it either. I guess it just sucks.
Posted 7/6/2004 at 5:47 pm by ddsb2000



hey sweaty panda goooo! happy 4th! you suck, did you get my email?? i actually read your entry this time. yah me! i understand all the feelings you wrote down man. it touched me ;) I'll give you a call maybe thursday when I'm back! wohoo!
Posted 7/6/2004 at 8:50 pm by KittyinJapan



the water is beautiful especially the falls and i am so jealous
Posted 7/7/2004 at 11:01 am by costoso



i tend to keep doing the same thing even though it's not good for me until it really hits me that i need to change my habits.

that's why it's hard for me to make friends. on one hand, i really love people who i can click with. on the other hand, it totally sucks when they leave. feeling left behind is a common theme in my life. what is my theme song? depends on when you ask.
Posted 7/7/2004 at 8:29 pm by momolo



lol =) I like how she did
the typical "peace J-sign"

My friends in the state
look at me funny when I
do it. It's because I miss
Japan.

Is she your girlfriend or
just a friend?

xx,

Carla
Posted 7/7/2004 at 8:57 pm by askewasexy



Im taking a painting class at this studio. Im learning methods of painting with oils. Its really paying off. And other than that Im just chillin.
Posted 7/8/2004 at 9:10 pm by ddsb2000



oooo! were the pictures taken in Gifu?!
Posted 7/8/2004 at 10:43 pm by yunnermeier



hey mike:

:) yeah i'm heading to jetacular...ur welcomed to hang out at my place before the event...a bunch of us are gonna bring desserts and booze to my place to get loaded before the party...

it is sad that people are leaving...and i can say good riddance to others...hehhe...i feel funny atm...but what the hell...i'm outta here soon enuf too! :D vacation back at home so that i don't need to wear a tank top UNDER my blouse so that the sweat doesn't show as bad...

at least you guys have a/c which is set at 29...try sitting in the teacher's room with the outside temp at 35 - AND the computers IN the teacher's room pushing it up to a nice 40...i whine too much about the weather here...so what if they don't have head during the winter and a/c during the summer...i'm glad i live in a ountry where we are BIG babies who have heat and a/c...

the waterfall is beautiful! :D
Posted 7/8/2004 at 11:06 pm by laughterhere



weeeoew those are such pretty pictures! expecially that waterfall. the states are pretty much the same... boring and dumb. this summer is stupid haha. T_T;; Yes on the spirited away dvd I was watching the extras and they were talking about how the director came up with the drawing scheme from a real place in Japan in which he visits alot cause it's his favorite place. ^-^ I hope I can go to Japan senior year or even earlier.
Posted 7/8/2004 at 11:23 pm by chiriyuku



Wow, the waterfalls are really beautiful! Hey you just need some hairy feet to be a hobbit, then you're good to go! hahahahahaha
Posted 7/9/2004 at 1:37 am by o_0LyTojess0_o



yeah, my bad on not saying "what's up." i have the feeling the conversation would have gone something like:

"hey, dude, i read your xanga. your michael panda."

"hey man, i have no idea who you are"

- uncomforable silence settles over our heads like rain clouds.

"um, yeah, well, hm. i just realized we're both dudes. no reason for us to keep chatting then."

or something like that. keep posting man!
Posted 7/9/2004 at 11:26 am by coolnahalf



sugoiiii... really nice landscape... How could I have missed that in Japan?? I must not sleep under rocks anymore...
Posted 7/9/2004 at 1:21 pm by Kittos



do you know who Guy Sebastian is?
well... you remind me of him
Posted 7/10/2004 at 12:01 pm by MsDoku



hi, nice xanga! visit my xanga too!! bye.
Posted 7/11/2004 at 12:06 am by hamby_town

Party People

Hope things improve on the language front for you. Seems like you had fun at the party though

Re. your comment from a while ago - I'm off to Singapore for a few weeks this summer, which should be cool. Other than that, not a lot planned, except, you know, determining the direction my life should take *scowl*. Or I may just sit around and drink tea instead.
Posted 7/12/2004 at 3:14 pm by Krendalin



:( i didn't get a pic with you mike! i do remember bumping into you (i think)...but i don't think i was in great shape that night! hahaha...what a party! i was in such rough shape...blehhhhhhhhhhh...i hate hangovers!
Posted 7/12/2004 at 8:44 pm by laughterhere



Ahhhhhh!!! You look like you had fun!! Wish our JET functions were as fun... Mmmm.....lazy Sunday's, aren't they the best? I totally know what you mean about studying Japanese....I came with the sole purpose of becoming fluent....now, I'm leaving soon and I can still barely carry a conversation. It's sad and pathetic really. But I just hate that look that people give me when I speak with an accent...it's look, "Hmmm...she didn't look like she was retarded..." not a real excuse of course...just one I like to use often ;) Good luck with the translation course...I heard it's quite a bit of work.
Posted 7/13/2004 at 7:27 am by Genki_Joshi



it sure looks like you had lots of fun. panda was pimping. haha
Posted 7/13/2004 at 11:11 pm by o_0LyTojess0_o



Hey Panda!! It's Robbie, or Schavez in xanga world. I met you at orientation when you recognized Mephisto. Anyway, just wanted to say hi. I am bored and playing around during a drunk after enkai evening. I hope you are doing well. Peace man!!
Posted 7/16/2004 at 8:55 am by ATSchavez



no more 3 am phone calls! stick to before 2 am ONEGAI!! you wish you were cool like me and taking nihongo lessons from a hot chick. mwhaha. come here and i will share her with you.

you have become a camera whore. trying to be like someone we know ?

you should really come to sapporo. beer festival starts soon. you wouldn't want to miss it would you? you can bring tennis, but i can't promise keeping my non-panda hands off.
Posted 7/16/2004 at 8:57 am by KittyinJapan



dude dont get me started on kanji
Posted 7/16/2004 at 8:38 pm by ddsb2000



I like her tie. It's awesome.

xx,

Carla <3
Posted 7/16/2004 at 10:06 pm by askewasexy



it sure sounds like stuff has been happening even though you say nothing is...take care
Posted 7/18/2004 at 2:31 pm by AmJ03



Props for excellent Xanga!
Posted 10/12/2004 at 11:49 pm by ShaneOsama

Off to Osaka

Wow such an interesting building! Geez.. panda stop drinking. you're having buddha eyes. hahaha
Posted 7/19/2004 at 3:02 pm by o_0LyTojess0_o



right, because the Japanese spoken in Osaka is SO MUCH more comprehensible... nandeyanen?! *sighs*
Posted 7/19/2004 at 3:44 pm by takunishi79



I miss bowling!

xx,

Carla
Posted 7/19/2004 at 6:42 pm by askewasexy



i like that headband you're sporting these days.
Posted 7/19/2004 at 8:24 pm by momolo



ooh.. i still have to go to osaka.. dun kno why, but i never had the chance to.. someday.. someday..
Posted 7/20/2004 at 1:29 am by schapagurl



whoa, how did you order your site's links? I want to do that. Your map and picture box are cool too.
Posted 7/20/2004 at 2:11 am by fyzle



I want that teddy you were holding there! Onegai???

Man, I would love to go to Japan and stay there for a bit!

Sorry I havent been around-- been too lazy to visit my SIR
Posted 7/20/2004 at 5:57 pm by anjuliet

Digital Dream Panda

Oh I want one of those!
Posted 7/22/2004 at 5:20 am by anjuliet



u guys have the coolest gadgets over there!
Posted 7/22/2004 at 5:21 am by anjuliet



My what a sexy little persocon you have! I will be in Tokyo in a few days .... I'm scared.
Posted 7/22/2004 at 6:41 am by pookybearcheung



hey, nice xanga. haha u like ajikan too, thats cool.
Posted 7/22/2004 at 7:28 am by kaZUhima



haha, you got a geek's wet-dream between your legs... i mean on your lap
Nice gadget!
Posted 7/22/2004 at 7:42 am by Kittos



i'm not impressed by your wet dream geeky objects. *grin* hey baby.. good luck with the nihongo class. you're being better about it then me at the moment.. i fell asleep during my JPT 2 practic test again.. *sigh* why do they put the most boring essays in that damn exam. anyway.. i'm rambing in your comments.. heh...
Posted 7/22/2004 at 8:56 am by KittyinJapan



ooh, fancypants! :)
Posted 7/22/2004 at 10:00 am by momolo



i got my libretto but its really antique and still working though

im glad i see u update nice hair piece btw
Posted 7/22/2004 at 10:48 am by costoso



ah you amuse me....time and time again.

i also have to give props to the "hair piece"

it's quite becoming on you.
Posted 7/22/2004 at 7:11 pm by amelie_mello



Hey I was looking through your previous posts, and you're an excellent writer, you've got a different style. You're a great picture taker as well.
Posted 7/22/2004 at 11:50 pm by guitarlarva



I love your blog too! Even when you have writer's block
Posted 7/23/2004 at 10:31 am by Krendalin



yay for shopping and going to colorado!
Posted 7/23/2004 at 10:52 am by amelie_mello



how'd you log into the kansai airport wireless? i can connect, but can't get onto the internet....

:) sad u have a writer's block...i love reading ur blog...
Posted 7/23/2004 at 11:55 am by laughterhere



No one likes writer's block.

Blah. But pictures...

are good :D

xx,

Carla
Posted 7/24/2004 at 12:42 am by askewasexy



I'm surfing the net while I'm on the shinkansen. How geeky am I??
Posted 7/25/2004 at 5:25 am by cajumee



I'm surfing the net while I'm on the shinkansen. How geeky am I??
Posted 7/25/2004 at 5:28 am by cajumee



Doh! Didn't mean to post that twice. Sorry!
Posted 7/25/2004 at 5:29 am by cajumee



It's a post about a picture of a post of a picture . . . an endless recursion!
Posted 7/26/2004 at 6:55 pm by moritheil



wow!! nice laptop!! hope the course is more exciting these days..

going home aug 2nd, still can't believe it.
Posted 7/29/2004 at 12:09 pm by destinyz



nice comp!! Wow i need to know how u connect to the wireless network.
Posted 8/2/2004 at 2:20 am by o_0LyTojess0_o



o -ee - oooooo .... my laptop from work is shite ... grrrrrr.
Posted 8/3/2004 at 2:37 am by BooBooKittyFcuK666



xD i bought sputnik sweetheart today.
hope the studying's going good ;p
がんばれ
Posted 8/3/2004 at 3:31 am by chiriyuku

Busy August

Finally you got some eager students eh. We just got a cold front so the weather here is beautiful. But normally summers in florida and Nc are miserable too. Espescially Florida.
Posted 8/7/2004 at 12:28 pm by ddsb2000



well, sounds like things are getting bettah for you!
i was wondering where you were...
Posted 8/7/2004 at 7:57 pm by momolo



that outlet mall...scary! they have them in japan. 0.o
Posted 8/7/2004 at 10:29 pm by momolo



i could never ever think of you as a P I M P! you ought to buy something from my little online store
Posted 8/8/2004 at 2:17 am by costoso



hahaha cinnabon. that place weirdly grosses me out. maybe it's just the people i see standing in front of it whenever i pass by....

who knows.

what i DO know is that i have your presents all wrapped up safely in a box and ready to send waaaaaaaay overseas. i wanted to wait until i saw a post here to make sure that you were back

i'm glad that everything was swell on your trip!
Posted 8/8/2004 at 10:13 am by amelie_mello



panda be sweaty. ewwwwwwww. i sweaty too. who wuddah thunk sapporo to be icky and hot. arg!
Posted 8/9/2004 at 1:16 am by KittyinJapan



well, i had fun in atlanta...so it was a good way to end my summer.

i'm glad that you're being lazy about sending my package too. they demolished my post office out here, so i don't really know where to go in St. Louis to send your package. SOOOOOOOOOOOO I'll be sending it from school instead. hopefully i'll get to the P.O. there on Thursday.

that reminds me, i don't remember what addy i gave you. perhaps i'll email you my school address because that's where i'll be when it arrives state-side.

EEEEEE i'm excited. excited for you to get yours and me to get mine. hahaha YEAH!
Posted 8/16/2004 at 1:22 pm by amelie_mello



p.s. new layout is great!
Posted 8/16/2004 at 1:22 pm by amelie_mello



いつの間にレイアウト変えたの？

日本＝柔道でしょ。仕方がない。我慢、我慢。Just check other stuff at Athens2004.com and you'll live.

カワイイ子達に囲まれてるじゃん♪この、このぉ～♪

タク
Posted 8/16/2004 at 2:06 pm by takunishi79



naw i didnt cuz i didnt know if it the waitress was japanese.
Posted 8/17/2004 at 3:32 am by ddsb2000



actually the one time i did order in japanese was in little tokyo in california at the new otani hotel and the waiter was like dude im korean and i felt like an ass.
Posted 8/17/2004 at 3:33 am by ddsb2000



I think your observation is interesting - the ability to extol the everyday may be what some Westerners find so appealing in Japanese culture.
Posted 8/18/2004 at 7:52 am by moritheil

Vodawhore Panda - Part I

I love the new layout
Posted 8/17/2004 at 1:17 pm by Krendalin



in responce to the coment on my site - Yes I am moving to Kanazawa. Kanazawa - Takaoku(?) Well that is the name I was given by the peppy kids club (the school I will be working for). I'm not sure if that is by you or not. I looked up takaoku on Yahoo and found nothing on a city called that. I looked up Kanazawa though (as you can probably tell by my site) and found a bunch of information. Still not sure if I am looking at the right area of the country but I can't be far off, it's not that big of an island.

-^_^-
Posted 8/17/2004 at 3:05 pm by japangelle



actually, i don't have a perm at all, those are my natural curls, i guess im cursed...but yeah if i had straight hair i would NEVER get perm. I love all the pictures in your entry, it makes it interesting.
Posted 8/17/2004 at 4:11 pm by AmJ03



new layout! and i love the video clip

xx,

carla :D
Posted 8/18/2004 at 2:16 am by askewasexy



Thats awesome that you can translate ketai plans. When I go to japan im gonna have to hit you up for info as well. But as far as what you should get..the speakers look pretty cool but then again so does that ketai.
Posted 8/18/2004 at 3:03 am by ddsb2000



Ah, you don't want me to help you decide. I would say: Buy both!

That phone is zetai awesome!! But if you wait a short period, maybe the price will come down?
...and those speakers are really a nice pair of gadgets!! I want those, but they are sooooo overpriced!!

Difficult decision, but I would go for the phone!
Posted 8/18/2004 at 6:49 am by Kittos



i giggled so much during this blog that my mom actually asked what i was doing. hahahaha

as for the decision.....gah...i don't know. ummm i'm going to say the speakers. but either choice would be wonderful.

guess who is going to the post office tomorrow?!?! eeee i love sending packages. it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
Posted 8/19/2004 at 2:01 am by amelie_mello



i know this is a stretch but do u know anyone whose staying in tokyo or do u live in tokyo? my options are slimming. hehe just thought i'd ask.
Posted 8/24/2004 at 2:53 am by midori_lotus

Vodawhore Panda - Part II

we hav da sme cll fone. we mst b twns!
Posted 8/25/2004 at 8:32 am by coolnahalf



hahaha... that's so funny! Congratulations for reaching a new depth of Voda-whoredom!! Cute girls too!
Posted 8/25/2004 at 10:07 am by Kittos



Money is money and pandas are pandas, Maimai. You've got to obtain them any way you can and if Vodawhoring and losing dignity is the only way to grab 'em both first, I'd say do it.

But seriously, I admire you for doing what you are doing and living it up in Japan. And think of these experiences positively; at least your stories are going to blow most everyone else's out of the water. :)
Posted 8/26/2004 at 1:59 am by momolo



I've met a lot of corporate whores during my time in the b-school, but you truly take the cake - congrats!

And btw I'll need a copy of that newsletter.
Posted 8/27/2004 at 12:33 am by cajumee



hiya vodawhore! :D so funny...i should grab u to go with me to the store...i need to renew my contract i think....maybe get a new phone too...

it's sad...but i understood that msg too...
Posted 8/27/2004 at 2:56 am by laughterhere



i don't usually leave random props...but your page caught mah eyes... nice layout..and interesting entries.... i miss tokyo!!!!!!
Posted 8/28/2004 at 8:52 pm by minimini



that's the cutest panda!!!!!!!!

oh yeah, and dont' feel about about your laziness in sending the package..........because....

uh...

i haven't either. hahaha. but i'm going to the post office TOMORROW......yep. uh huh.
Posted 8/30/2004 at 12:40 am by amelie_mello



what's up pimp daddy. send me a vodafone! ;p
i'm tired... not bored... i don't want to go home... i just want to stay home...

wanna do my grad/law school apps for me? great. thanx dude. i'm going to go pass out now.
Posted 8/31/2004 at 4:55 pm by takunishi79



you definately are a writer. what do u do for a living?
Posted 9/2/2004 at 5:46 pm by AmJ03



hello mr. panda!

gomen nasai for not visiting here! I just managed to get around to visiting my SIR lot

I want that panda! You have the cutest stuff over there! Sugoi! Send me one?
Posted 9/5/2004 at 1:28 pm by anjuliet

Birthday Panda

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAIMAI!
25 sounds old, but it really isn't. Here's something to chew on: "Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
That's from Frank Lloyd Wright. Anyway, take life and savor it like delicious KFC mashed potatoes. Mmmm...
You're still my friend even if you are one year older than 24. Hell, I'll let you in on a secret. R is 38.
You ought to tell your school that the Nazi flag is a symbol that most sane Germans have been trying to get over... :P
Posted 9/13/2004 at 11:08 am by momolo



Happy, Happy Birthday Mr Panda!!!
Posted 9/13/2004 at 11:27 am by pookybearcheung



happy bday senor!
Posted 9/13/2004 at 12:39 pm by southern_sun



Happy birthday, It was my birthday yesterday (the 12th) and I'm 23. I feel like I am growing up but not OLD. 25 is only 2 years older so it is not that bad. you don't have to worry for another 5 years. :P
Posted 9/13/2004 at 12:45 pm by japangelle



Happy Birthday! Age is but an illusion. I still feel about 12, and always will do
Posted 9/13/2004 at 5:52 pm by Krendalin



if you're a good boy maybe i'll take you on a horsie ride when you visit as a birthday present. go hokkaido horsies!!
uniform sex is very comfortable.. but er.. i guess she meant "a set uniform is comfortable". i think an interview with the student is in order to find out the real answer.
Posted 9/14/2004 at 12:47 am by KittyinJapan



happy birthday!!! 25 isn't so bad, is it? at least you'll get cheaper car insurance when you head home!

the nazi flag is hilarious....seriously.
Posted 9/14/2004 at 3:22 am by destinyz



also, i think the symbol for temples on maps is the nazi sign, isn't it?
Posted 9/14/2004 at 3:23 am by destinyz



HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY MR. PANDA! ^_^

*ahh to be 25 again I dont feel like my age-- Im a Peter Pan *

lol @ that first paper!

at the Nazi flag-- uh hmmm...
Posted 9/14/2004 at 6:41 am by anjuliet



HAPPY BDAY MIKE! :( but i am sad that you didn't invite me out to your bday party! :( :( *sits at home lonely*

*giggles* i love the story of the flag...but don't u think u should clue them in?
Posted 9/15/2004 at 7:45 am by laughterhere



Happy Birthday! (No no, 25 isn't old.)
I missed your updates, so I was glad you finally got around to it. :P I love the pictures...you're always so funny!
Posted 9/15/2004 at 8:41 am by irisetofall



Thought that is a Nazi flag by color try to look at it and think of it as a Buddist Symbol (maybe hindu) instead. IT IS WHAT IT IS (SNL shout out). Anyway, thanks for the comment on liking my work. It does mean alot. About the weekend, I intend to update later with a story, which I will follow up with the truth. But, let's just say the Jungle Juice Jane and I made worked real well. Heiwa!
Posted 9/16/2004 at 7:48 am by ATSchavez



Cool layout! ^_^

Enjoy your week off! U deserve it! ^_~
Posted 9/16/2004 at 7:49 am by anjuliet



i directed some friends to this site to gawk at the tribute to nazi germany. shocking, but funny as hell.

garden state was great....i know they're getting ready to release it overseas sometime soon, but i don't know when or where.

the soundtrack is admittedly a little depressing, but it has some really great songs on it. i don't know if this says anything, but i couldn't take it out of my car's cd player for almost 3 weeks. AND i just put it back in after a week's hiatus. shocking.

aaaaaaaaaaaand, don't feel bad about the package. i'm sitting here looking at yours and hanging my head in shame. we're horrible. hahaha but at least we're horrible together.
Posted 9/16/2004 at 1:29 pm by amelie_mello



Thanks for the link to the Highbridge interview, it's a really good read. I look forward to hearing if A Much Younger Man is any good
Posted 9/16/2004 at 3:01 pm by Krendalin



hey, happy birthday!!

you are right about the Mac configurations, but they suit quite well for the purpose you want to use your computer for.

Windowsblinds takes 5 Meg memory and the info thing is Sysmetrix. Takes 16 Meg of memory. I need more RAM, but my notebook is pre-historic with a maximum of 256 Megs of RAM... -.-
Posted 9/16/2004 at 3:20 pm by Kittos



oh yeah... wincustomize.com is a good skins resource site.
Posted 9/16/2004 at 3:21 pm by Kittos



OH WTF!!!! NAZI FLAG!!? holy jebus.. dats ... *speechless*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!! WOHOO!!!! =D
Posted 9/16/2004 at 4:29 pm by o_0LyTojess0_o



ＨＡＰＰＹ　ＢＤＡＹ！誕生日おめでとう！
Posted 9/16/2004 at 10:18 pm by mipo



so ur just 25??? buahahah just kidding! happy birthday dear giant panda!
Posted 9/19/2004 at 12:45 pm by costoso



happy birthday dude. those sentences are hilarious and so is that nazi flag. actually when I was a little kid I use to draw nazi symbols all the time but I didnt know what they meant I just thought they looked cool.
Posted 9/22/2004 at 3:04 pm by ddsb2000



geez you're a popular site. autumn came and went in my area. it was nice for a day or so and now it's hot again. sigh, japan and it's highschool-girl-tempermental weather patterns.
Posted 9/25/2004 at 3:43 am by coolnahalf

Bring your panda to work day.

artificial cheese spread is my sometimes guilty pleasure!
i remember that story...pretty horrifying. :P
anyway, hope things are slightly better now that taxes are over and that sort of thing!
Posted 9/27/2004 at 9:31 am by momolo



taxes... ay.. they do sting. even so be glad youre not from Taxachusetts. as i understand they are one of the only states that taxes you on your income when living abroad. even the us govt dont care so long as your under 80k. ergh... hail the power of tea, artificial cheese spread, the mac and cheese mystery powder and that really scary moving image of pandas youve got up there. -andyout
Posted 9/27/2004 at 8:08 pm by andolyu



thanks for the link to tokyo yakkei..
the pics are beautiful~

the reason i get to travel so much is bc of my internships..but i am like, really really dead afterwards..

anyway, like i said before, when i need a good laugh..your blog IS IT!
the previous entry is totemo omoshiroi..lol
Posted 9/28/2004 at 12:30 am by citydrifter



cute, but... whats w/ the vibrating pandas?
Posted 9/28/2004 at 1:12 am by technocolorfille



Eek, what a mortifying childhood experience. Strange how things come back to haunt you, especially when it's artificial cheese spread.

Re. your comment: this may sound unbelievable, but I know at least ten people around my age and older who can't drive (which is sort of strange, because I'm still very much in the minority). While it would be very convenient to do so, not being a driver isn't so 'unheard of' in the UK as it is in the US. (This is a very good thing for me, as I am scared of/detest driving).
Posted 9/28/2004 at 1:30 pm by Krendalin



ugh! Taxes! >_<

U gotta send me one of those kawaii pandas!!! *onegai???* man, Im gonna "die" from the cuteness!!!

I just hope I filled out the voter registration thingy correctly cos I wanna vote this year
Posted 9/28/2004 at 3:08 pm by anjuliet



i can send you a copy of the garden state cd with your package....which i fully intend on taking with me to work on thursday and sending off. really. i will. lol
Posted 9/28/2004 at 10:07 pm by amelie_mello



i was dying about the cheese spread bit, by the by. hehehehe
Posted 9/28/2004 at 10:19 pm by amelie_mello



blah im STILL sick. vibrating panda? WTF?! o.O
Posted 9/29/2004 at 5:49 pm by o_0LyTojess0_o



what what? who sent their package?

MEEEEEE. it is on its way around the globe. WOOT!
Posted 9/30/2004 at 7:53 pm by amelie_mello



o cool i love that kind of cheese! and i too like to drink a nice cup of tea once in a while, but not in the blistering heat!
Posted 9/30/2004 at 11:54 pm by AmJ03



hey thanks for the Torrent!
i just turned 17 september 30th, close b-days for us Pandas ehh?

(PS~)Do the panda dance, do that little panda dance until you can not panda dance anymore!
Posted 10/1/2004 at 4:50 am by Prtssguy



oh, and tell the clerk on the left i said shes hot =X
Posted 10/1/2004 at 4:55 am by Prtssguy



omg... why would they put THAT FLAG UP!? (From ur previous posts)... and... the sex is comfortable?! Kinky. lol.

<3,

Carla
Posted 10/2/2004 at 12:00 am by askewasexy



Naw, not Yokohama. I'm the prefecture over. Shizuoka. 45 minutes by bullet train, 2 hours by JR away from the big Yoks. It's not a bad placement. Close enough to the cities, but far enough to feel the slower pace of life. I'd like to visit Kanazawa one day. I'll be sure to find you and crash your pad. Hahaha.
Posted 10/2/2004 at 10:22 pm by coolnahalf



Hey, here's another Jet! I love your blog!!! Sugoku kawaii!!!
Posted 10/3/2004 at 10:20 am by koyuki4ever



Your story about visiting your father at work had a creepy wonder years feel to it. Now that I think about it, the wonder years would have been an awesome show if someone had thought to use a bone saw on fred savage. Oh well, live and learn I guess.

As far as taxes go: they figure out how much money you owe the government using a series of complicated dice rolls even the tax people don't understand. If worst comes to worst, you could always offer to pay them off with fiery bone putty this year
Posted 10/4/2004 at 8:48 am by Paracetamol



Those are such cute pandas! That bone saw bit was gruesome ICK!

Take care!
Posted 10/4/2004 at 12:31 pm by grumpybear



Just a bit curious...those pandas vibrating cause they over ingested that wonderful cheddar cheese concoction you got there? Also, I like the big words, they fun. I use small words and I can't spell them right. Ask your Brit friend if he's got harry on his boat. Then when he gets mad make it up to him by buying him a Britney. The scar story is up. Enjoy!
Posted 10/5/2004 at 3:53 am by ATSchavez



love the panda images!! kawaii yo! (just had to slip that in there..it's been awhile)

taxes are a pain. whether you're doing them at home or overseas.

anyways, hope you're enjoying autumn and your time in japan still! planning on staying at 3rd year on JET?
Posted 10/5/2004 at 4:45 am by destinyz



It burns, eh?
Posted 10/6/2004 at 12:02 pm by moritheil

Reality Intrudes

Sorry but the panda looks a bit like... he's high on something lol cute all the same *I still want Tarepanda!*

Sorry to hear about the news ~hugs~

Ill come back later as Ive only had two hours of sleep last night and everything's hazy around me x_x
Posted 10/11/2004 at 11:46 am by anjuliet



I`m sorry to hear about your grandfather.
Posted 10/11/2004 at 11:04 pm by pookybearcheung



Dude I loved garden state. I havent heard the soundtrack yet but I tried to buy it. I actually thought that they should have put that band the postal service on that soundtrack. Everytime I listen to em I think about garden state.
Posted 10/11/2004 at 11:22 pm by ddsb2000



Awww, I love mail.

xx,

Carla
Posted 10/12/2004 at 12:07 am by askewasexy



hahaha!!! an s&m panda domnimatrix! great image! ps. that panda is cu-ree-py yo!
Posted 10/12/2004 at 1:22 am by technocolorfille



Despite the sadness that followed, I want you to know how happy your imaginary dolphin made me. I hope that you really did that- I can see it.
Posted 11/1/2004 at 12:40 am by ClumsyPanda

Remote Mobile Blogging Panda, take III

OMG! Poor you! Have a safe trip and thanks for the latest news!

*Got tired just reading this lol*
Posted 10/12/2004 at 2:40 pm by anjuliet



pandapanda!

I love the pictures your take, and your blogs are always so interesting
Posted 10/12/2004 at 2:54 pm by Barefoot_Calliope



ne ne... im going to nihon in the spring... hang out with me then?
Posted 10/12/2004 at 4:26 pm by BiteSizeThis



Good luck with the family stuff.
Posted 10/12/2004 at 5:12 pm by irisetofall



Agh... I'm sorry. Yet the bagels make me envy you. lol.

xx,

Carla :D
Posted 10/12/2004 at 5:27 pm by askewasexy



ganbatte yo.

sorry to hear about the drama.

good post, today and the other day, tho--provocative insights into the gaijin in Japan mind--I especially like "why we dont look into each others' eyes."

way to sock it to the red-tape bureaucracy balls of Japan.
Posted 10/12/2004 at 8:58 pm by dbnola



i want those boots!
Posted 10/12/2004 at 10:30 pm by technocolorfille



hey you, nice site :)
Posted 10/14/2004 at 6:46 pm by PeacePerfume



Ooh, that *is* a swanky lounge.

Good luck with facing reality...hope you get through it okay.
Posted 10/14/2004 at 6:58 pm by Krendalin



hoollyy crap, i love your boots!
Posted 10/14/2004 at 8:52 pm by momolo



hahhaa..i had forgotten about the re-entry stamp office only opening a couple of hours each day.

u know what? looking back, there were so many stupid and frustrating things about life there, but it's all worth it.
Posted 10/16/2004 at 3:16 am by destinyz



i am jealous of your laptop and your xanga loads so fast now, luv it
Posted 10/16/2004 at 3:53 am by costoso



looks like a pretty cool place u got there
Posted 10/27/2004 at 1:01 pm by AmJ03



I just joined the Tokyo Ring, found your site.

Nice boots, J-boy, lol, I'm turing into as skirt-loving J-girl myself....never thought that would happen! Maybe in a few more years I'll have the long, overbearing string of Disney characters stringing off my cellphone...but that I fear.
Posted 10/28/2004 at 7:16 am by Mishuko

Panda travel adventures

wow that was a long long travel you had there! I already get tired of being in the plane now-that was what I used to love when I was just in college funny how people change

it is still so rewarding-being able to see and experience a different place...
Posted 10/30/2004 at 8:54 am by costoso



nice pics. haven't been to ur actual site for a while. where do u find the time to catalog ur muses? anyways, how did u blow up ur mobile pic on xanga and still look clear? photoshop?
Posted 10/30/2004 at 2:53 pm by midori_lotus



Hurrah for the Panda World Tour!

This might interest you.
Posted 10/30/2004 at 6:38 pm by moritheil



hey, nice xanga!!! thats so cool that u live in japan, i wanna live there once i graduate from college here in calif.

im thinkin of teaching english there at first so i can get used to japan again (i was born there and i used to live there for 8 years) and getting into some kind of graphics/website company after i settled down.

ok cya later!
Posted 10/31/2004 at 1:17 am by kaZUhima



hahahahaha!! you've got a better pirate picture than me! and i didnt do anything for halloween. boring.
Posted 10/31/2004 at 1:22 am by PeacePerfume



oohhhh...I would KILL for decent Dim Sum*eyes picture, drools*! I can't wait to go home at Christmas and pig out...Yokohama's China Town just can't cut it I tell you...

I love your perfect explanation of "chotto".
Posted 10/31/2004 at 2:19 am by Mishuko



Wow, what a trip. Glad you got through it all in one piece (and with luggage, eventually)

Thanks for the Sarah McLachlan suggestion, I will investigate that
Posted 10/31/2004 at 5:32 am by Krendalin



I'm not surprised that you wound up with luggage related flight problems, I'm just truly shocked you got out of O'Hare without any drama's. The airport is a nightmare, plain and simple.
I hope the travel was worth all the grief, next time you book an airplane ticket, cancel the payment midway, when they ask where their money is reply "Somewhere between my bank and your accounts office"
That'll learn em
Posted 10/31/2004 at 6:03 am by Paracetamol



はい、マイケル圧勝！！
スゲェ～～～！！！！！
Posted 10/31/2004 at 12:21 pm by takunishi79



whoa... the moving pictures were too awesome.
xx,
carla <3
Posted 10/31/2004 at 1:51 pm by askewasexy



OMG! Loved the Mister Panda trip! Awesome pix (esp. the moving pix)! *and gotta love your new layout!* Glad u eventually got your luggage and "thank you for flying 'Ana' airlines " lol
Posted 10/31/2004 at 4:30 pm by anjuliet



the looping vids are awesome! i wanna go to panama! you a graphics major? ps. thanx for the insight on bb guns here.
Posted 10/31/2004 at 9:04 pm by technocolorfille



I'm not even sure how to respond. I <3 pandas for starters, and I want to do JET when I graduate college in a year or two. I've visited Japan, but I've only studied a little Japanese- my school doesn't offer it. umm... Thanks for being awesome and writing about it?
Posted 11/1/2004 at 12:12 am by ClumsyPanda



nice traveling! So funny!
Posted 11/1/2004 at 10:06 am by Kittos



Ai! thankyou and, I haven't been to your site for a while, but reading that last entry I can't undersatnd why... will visit more frequently the house of mr panda san.

!shame on you for making me laugh in the middle of a quiet study zone!

luvandbugs

~lyra-sama
Posted 11/1/2004 at 2:23 pm by Barefoot_Calliope



i like yer pitures also
Posted 11/1/2004 at 2:23 pm by Barefoot_Calliope



Wow panda, thats quite an adventure. There are alot of modern art in Chicago huh!! HOpe you're havin` fun in the states.
Posted 11/1/2004 at 5:15 pm by o_0LyTojess0_o