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New film 'The Eighth Day Cicada', university entrance ceremony and health...
Yesterday, as I had this film card where if you see five films and get a stamp for each one you get a free ticket (but which had to be used by the end of April), my friend and I went to see the only...
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Adults-only curry, graduate school life, & being called by your name with no...
Having started my postgrad course as of last Monday, and given that I have a HARDCORE COMMUTE (well, not really - it's on one of the less crowded lines and I get to sit down after everyone gets off at...
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I should have bought these. / まじ買えばよかった品物
I found both of these in a shop called Spinns in Nagoya (for whom I actually did some translation of a press release a month or so ago), where I randomly went for a day during Golden Week earlier this...
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Thai noodles & mosquito #1/ タイ風ラーメンと今年初の蚊
I went to work yesterday and made my coworker, friend, scholar and gentleman Matt go to the Thai place we always go to next to the office for lunch. We both decided to branch out from pad Thai ... and...
View ArticleHumidity, setting people on fire, and old people at the gym /湿度・人に火をつけること・ジムの老人達
OH THE HUMIDITY. 梅雨 (tsuyu - more common - or baiyu - less so, and also baiyu reminds me of the word 'bayou' in English, which I hate for some reason) can't decide if it's bloody coming or going, so we...
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EPIC ramen / 伝説のチャーシュー
Just look at this beauty! The char siu is VERTICAL! Char-siu men from the ramen place across from our house in Center Kita, 風雷人 (fuuraijin 'Wind Thunder Man', which is I'm sure you'll agree an...
View ArticleThe Pit of Despair, or how I became anti-vivisectionist
Adventures in Reddit/Things I Wish I Could Un-Read: the Pit of Despair experiments on baby monkeys by vivisectionist extraordinaire/all-round-depressed-mad-scientist fuckup Dr. Harry Harlow in the...
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ET TU TABELOG
Oops, it's been over a month since I last updated. It's also been about that long since I went to the gym. I shall blame my quite insane schedule and my くそ 4 hour commute every day.So what's happened...
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My new year's resolution was to update this blog.
Ahhhhhhh 久しぶり～。Spring vacation started this week (in January. I know. I'm just glad I'm not paying tuition to that university for what adds up to five months of term-time a year) and so I thought I'd...
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Charlie Brooker visits Japan, has mind blown
Despite some of the usual cliches making an appearance, this article by Charlie Brooker (though somewhat unpromisingly entitled "Green Kit Kats, toilets that lift the seat themselves, helpful strangers...
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Cutest cup noodle ever y/n = YYYY
I found this in Family Mart (my joint favourite conbini next to Lawson), bought it, took a photo of it, then purikura'd it on the bus on the way home. Glamour~! (Sorry, for some reason this blogger app...
View ArticleProfessor vs. Professor in Japanese Twitter Smackdown
Woke up this morning and checked Twitter. Currently trending on Japanese Twitter is #放送大学, (The Open University Japan). Wondering why, I went in search of the top tweets for this trend.And found SHEER...
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今日作ったお弁当☆♪ The bento I made today!
今日彼に作ったお弁当☆♪「美味しかった」とのコメントをメールでいただき嬉しかった♡入ってるのは：私はキモイ＋残酷だと思うにもかかわらず彼の大好物、子持ちししゃも、そして野菜入り卵焼き、卵ポテトサラダ、コールスロー、ベーコン・プチトマト串、さんまの蒲焼き☆節約＋健康を考えてこれから作っていこうと思いますp(^_^)q 次の挑戦：キャラ弁当(無理かも)・・・The bento I made Hide...
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Today's bento for the fiancé and my lunch in Akasaka (^з^)-☆
I've kept up with the bento-making this month (if not with this blog!), and have assiduously taken a photo of every single effort (my married friends assure me the novelty will wear off after a year or...
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Welcome, Next Door Cookie Man-San~! クッキーを玄関先まで持ってきてくださった男性の新しいお隣さん〜の巻
The flat next to ours has been empty since before we moved in in September last year, but yesterday the intercom buzzed. It was a young guy and at first I thought he was going to try to sell me...
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Cute clay models in Tokyu Hands by Fujii Kakuho
Hide and I met up in Shibuya yesterday after I finished maid-related work in Akihabara and went to that classic Tokyo date spot... Tokyu Hands, the giant craft/lifestyle store that sells everything...
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The Girl With The Cliched Tattoo, amirite
Having gone to see the film last month after it finally got its Japan release - including a sex scene complete with a fuzzed-out/mosaic'd general crotch area; thanks, Japanese censorship! - I finally...
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Akiba work, a potential sociological research project on being white with...
I was working in Akihabara the other day, and I met up with my manager afterwards and did some "promotion shots" (for what I don't know. She constantly takes pictures of me which sometimes turn up a...
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Encounters with old ladies at the deli and Patriotic Mushroom Hat Bowl Cat
I'm sorry there were no updates for April! In Japan, school (and everything else) starts in April, and I may have remembered when it did that I have to submit a master's thesis by November this year. I...
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The most perfectly round cha-han ever
When I got home from a translation meeting at uni at around 8:30 last night, Hide had (unusually) managed to get home before me and make me dinner, including this miracle of cooking physics... the most...
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Bunny man, Swedish snack and yuzu ramen
I slept in (i.e. I got up at 6:50 instead of 6:30) and what with making bento for Hide and myself - every single morning before 7am, two and a half months and counting! - I left it too late to get my...
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Today's bento - The "shit, we overslept - you do the rice while I shove okazu...
Hide's rice-smoothing skills are vastly inferior to my own. Ha.
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Today's bento and supermarket reduction wars
The actual contents were pretty basic, but I thought the 彩り (irodori, "aesthetically pleasing arrangement of colours"? Hard to translate) worked out pretty well today, actually. Someone set the rice...
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Tips & tricks for the game centre, or: the spoils of war
Long time no post! I'm writing my master's thesis at the moment (due in January) so my life is a whirlwind of no fun and sitting at my desk for 12 hours and producing 3 pages.Anyway! My friend took the...
View ArticlePassenger-related accident involving bodily injury
I was sitting on the train home from uni yesterday late afternoon (I sat in my lab for about two hours but couldn't settle or concentrate, partly due to hunger and partly to tiredness thanks to being...
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