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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 | By bergdorf-brunette | Views [743]
Japan: das land der unbegrenzten Unmöglichkeiten! ...wie ich heute wieder mal gemerkt hab. Ich bin also nach Ikebukuru, eine der vielen Riesenstationen in Tokyo und bekannt für seine weiblichen computer "geeks". Der oberste Stock des Tokyu ... Read more >
Mon, 26 Jan 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [466] | Video
I posted the animation exercises to Youtube, so you can check them out if you feel the urge. I went to Tokyo on Friday night, I found a really good hotel deal on wotif.com, when I got to the hotel I had to stand outside and double check because it ... Read more >
Mon, 26 Jan 2009 | By bergdorf-brunette | Photo Gallery
the last 2 weeks...
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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [4155]
Bunraku –
boon-rah-coo – or traditional Japanese puppet theater was founded in Osaka in
1684, though apparently established as the form we know today coming about in 1872 (I’m quoting the Wiki here). Bunraku contains the puppeteers (the ... Read more >
Tags: culture, japan, new years, osaka, puppet, theater, winter
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [351] | Comments [2]
The usual ALT meeting has been shifted from Monday to Wednesday. So we won't be meeting on Australia day, I was going to hand out flags :( I have been asked by the ALT supervisor to come in early and talk about recontracting, he wants to try and keep ... Read more >
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [499]
D-Day is approaching and I still haven't decided for sure what I'll do. Stay on here or work something else out, I was thinking of doing just one year here, then taking the rest of my long service from Holmesglen and spending the last 5 months of 2009 ... Read more >
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 | By abcarlson | Photo Gallery
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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [4183] | Comments [1]
My thoughts of Japan throughout the past year of living here; the good, the bad, the strange and ugly. Japan is a land of extremes: from
the obsessive otaku s to the overly
frilly maid café dresses, the made-up high school girls with their ... Read more >
Tags: concert, culture, festival, japan, living, teaching, travel
Tue, 13 Jan 2009 | By peter_allen | Views [600] | Comments [1]
It's snowing, I mean it's really coming down in huge flakes outside, I can't believe yesterday it was so hot I completely forgot to take my jacket to the airport. I'm at my desk in Kurohone, but here is something I wrote last night at Sydney airport.... Read more >
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [2760]
I visited my first trance club here in Japan over in the well-known Amemura in Osaka’s Shinsaibashi. Wait,
according to the flyer it was called “super trance” (whatever that means) at a
venue called Club Joule (http://www.club-joule.co.jp/) ... Read more >
Tags: clubbing, japan, nightlife, osaka
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 | By bergdorf-brunette | Photo Gallery
Roadtrip southern Japan
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Sat, 3 Jan 2009 | By kurenai | Views [2142]
What is a fukubukuro
you ask? It is a “Lucky Bag” full of winter goodies from all your favorite
stores; what’s left over because in Japan New Years is a time of
cleansing and renewal and old clothes and accessories must go!! Many stores
throughout ... Read more >
Tags: fashion, fukubukuro, japan, lucky bag, new years, osaka, shopping, winter
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