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October 31, 2004

Playing with my food

found a new bar near the station. radish, quails' eggs, pepper, napkin

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October 28, 2004

Earthquakes

I've felt more earthquakes in the last week than all the time I've been in Japan. The initial earthquake last weekend rattled this apartment quite impressively. Over 30 people dead and thousands of people still living in temporary shelter in Niigata.

A man near the epicenter was being interviewed by phone live on TV when the first aftershock happened. He shouted in shock, 10 or 20 seconds later the tremor reached the Tokyo newsroom and seconds afterwards the lamp shades in our apartment were swinging.

And if you think that's scary, how about this?

We'll be making an earthquake kit this weekend.

Posted by tony at 11:35 PM | Comments (0)

October 23, 2004

Takadanobaba Ramen shop

A queue for the tiniest tattiest noodle shop I've even seen I think. They must make some mean ramen.

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October 21, 2004

typhoon

A leviathan typhoon hit Japan yesterday. It was raining so heavily when I got off the train at the station that I had to take a taxi the 500m to our house.

Didn't suffer any damage here, but half of the sucker attached hooks holding up utensils in our kitchen came clattering down when the typhoon arrived. The change in air pressure I presume.

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October 20, 2004

kanji software

wish I'd heard about this software when I started learning kanji . . .

Posted by tony at 10:37 PM | Comments (0)

October 19, 2004

Don't panic!

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy text adventure!

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October 18, 2004

Listening

Time out of mind - Bob Dylan

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Elevator

They are installing an elevator in our local train station. This man was wiping the dust off each individual bike parked under the construction sight. That's customer care!

Posted by tony at 05:52 PM | Comments (0)

Coffee

You know Autumn is really here when the hot cans of coffee appear.

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October 16, 2004

Old articles online

I've put a few links to some of my old articles on this page (left sidebar)

Posted by tony at 10:32 PM | Comments (0)

October 12, 2004

Amazing photos

Photos from an exhibition at the National Theatre.

Posted by tony at 07:10 PM | Comments (0)

Listening

Sun - UA Japan's Bjork. Just as good, probably even weirder. Aslo has her own children's program and has just released an album of nursery rhymes. Build that fanbase early!

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October 08, 2004

International Cooperation Festival 2004

I covered the International Cooperation Festival in Hibiya last Sunday. About 200 different NGOs. The weather was terrible. Interesting event, though.

Photo

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October 07, 2004

iPod

Finally succumbed and joined the iPod cult!

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October 05, 2004

Poor Wales

good day for China, bad day for Wales

Posted by tony at 08:11 PM | Comments (0)

China

BBC article on the internet in China

China racing ahead!

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Back Home

Back from a few days in England.

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October 04, 2004

Listening

The Very Best of Elvis Costello

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Reporting Japan's Royals

Article on the Japan Media Website

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