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Well, I made it back to Tokyo, but I need to change my internet provider. The good news is that it will be much faster, and for less money. But the bad news is that it might take about three weeks to get it installed. So I will obviously not be able [...]

Sorry for the lack of updates. I got busy, then had some internet issues before I left, so I didn’t have time to update the blog and let you know I would be in China. Right now, I am in Beijing. (More on that later.)
I have taken a lot of pictures, so [...]

Today, I went to a school I had never been to before, but I didn’t have to. To make a long story short, I was supposed to go to the school yesterday and today, but the schedule was changed. The person at my company who handles scheduling said he had emailed me [...]

Wow. A week’s gone by, and I haven’t really had anything exciting to report. Well, “no news is good news,” I guess. I have been busy with a lot of (boring) stuff; final exams at my high school, preparing the syllabus for next year’s classes at my college, etc. I [...]

Interesting BusinessWeek article about how Google is racing to catch up to the mobile phone market in Japan.
Japan: Google’s Real-Life Lab:
Japan’s handset-toting masses, it seems, have a lot to teach the Net giant. The country has become a vast lab for Google as it tries to refine mobile search technology. That’s because Japan’s 100 [...]

There seems to be a lot of buzz about Obama in Japan. I have heard that a lot of people in China like him, too. I don’t know who I’m voting for yet. I haven’t been good about following election news recently, to be honest. I need to spend more time [...]

I am off to bed, but I thought I would post a few pictures I took at Kourakuen Station and Tokyo Dome today. I will finish giving them descriptions and rename them later. The first few are from Kourakuen Station, after I got off the train. They have beautiful murals along the [...]

Came across a link to a humorous post in my feedreader, by a couple teaching English in China. They analyze a set of alphabetical blocks, used to teach English vocabulary. Predictably, hilarity ensues.
Is that a panda? NO! it’s a bear cat! Someday, your Chinese friend might ask if you [...]

Yes, that’s right. I wrote “Oink, Oink,” and not “Happy Valentine’s Day.” I feel like a bit of a pig. And not because of what I ate, but because of what I said. It was the “perfect” ending to a “perfectly odd” day.
Don’t get me wrong. It wasn’t really a [...]

I wish I had an exciting story, but, I guess it’s true: “No news is good news.”
I took my little Canon Ixy800IS again for the first time in a long time, but I only took a few pics. One good thing is that I have been enjoying reading some Japanese literature, both in [...]