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Happo-One Ijiruna
The day dawned bright and sunny as expected and so we headed for Happo. I’d almost forgotten that it was New Year’s Eve, but was quickly reminded when I saw the hundreds of people queueing for the gondola. Apparently this is just about the busiest day in the Japanese Snow Calendar and you could tell. […]
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Snow Time Like The Present
Working at the weekend, combined with a natural laziness imbued during my days of general lethargy at university, has conspired to turn me from the county hockey player I was into the unfit programmer that I am. My shape hasn’t changed, but I still feel out of shape. I’m thankful, therefore, that I found snowboarding […]
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White And Blue Christmas
I was sitting in McDonalds before listening to a weird techno and drum and bass Christmas medley and couldn’t help thinking Christmas isn’t going to be much fun this year. There’s 100x more snow and cold and generally wintry weather than England here (I found myself in the novel position of having to de-ice my […]
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Holler At Me
Continuing the conversion of site components that’s been going on, I just finished up another new plugin for WordPress called Holler. It’s a contact form, one or two of which already exist, but is pretty flexible in what it allows you to do. I much prefer a contact form to having my email address publicly […]
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Hottaimoijiruna
Much is often made of how foreigners mangle English in a variety of amusing ways, so it was funny to find Japanese people attempting to bridge the gap between the languages in some small way. This week, my teacher introduced me to ほったいもいじるな (Hottaimoijiruna), a site (mostly in Japanese) which seems like some kind of […]
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Now Is The Winter Of My Discontent
Two and a half months ago I was complaining that I was too hot and didn’t have an air-conditioner. Then, you couldn’t blink without breaking into a sweat and I cursed every hot, muggy, sultry day and a job that made me wear a collar and tie. How naive we are when we’re young! In […]
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Bounenkai
I just got back from a Bounenkai (literally, an “end of year party”) held for some of the teachers living in Gifu, which was lots of fun. It was nice to unwind after worrying about a test (which I swore I wouldn’t worry about) and not have to think that I should be studying. Most […]
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Failure Is Not An Option
Last December I just managed to pass level 3 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, which is held once a year to measure someone’s Japanese ability. This year, I tried Level 2 and just got back from a really difficult exam. It’s multiple choice, but the options are always very similar and designed to trick […]
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