Category: Daily Life
Ahead of the pack.
Last month Kiyomi took the Test of English for International Communication or TOEIC. She got the results back today. Scored over 900 (out of a possible 985). Which is in the top 1.6% of test takers. I... Read More
Is there an Expo happening?
2005 is the year of the Aichi Expo (Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan) which has been in the pipeline for a while. Work, plans, other countries announcing they’re participating have been going on for over ... Read More
Impossible to ignore.
Today Kiyomi and I were in Nagoya going to see one of her friends play in an orchestra. Walking to the hall along the one of the main roads we heard a sound behind us, turned around but could see noth... Read More
I can’t see it back there.
There is a kind of DIY shop here in Okazaki called D2 (or デイツ) which has pretty much everything for in and around the home, and at fairly competitive prices (IMHO). Anyways I have seen a number ... Read More
It snowed.
Well the weather was right. It snowed. Had about 5 cm in the morning. Nice and crunchy underfoot. Wrote my name in the snow…. with a stick. heheh. That was about it. Had to sweep the path clean ... Read More
It only snows once a year.
According to the weather page it’s going to snow tomorrow. Didn’t have any over Christmas and January. We may be lucky to get just one day. Sorry, let me correct that, it did snow today fo... Read More
Seven days straight.
I have managed to do entries on seven consecutive days this week. Ohh, break out the champagne. Anyways time for lunch. 図書館へいきます。 This afternoon have got to go to the library and ret... Read More
If others are doing it then so am I.
I have seen a few Japanese blogs (ブログ) where the authors have been writing in English which has motivated me (a litle) to start doing a few (entries/lines/words) in Japanese. Don’t expect ... Read More