Posted by: yearofthedog on: May 31, 2008
There are many pretty girls in Japan. – (TRUE)
Every Japanese girl wants a foreign boyfriend. – (FALSE)
In reality it’s more like 80 or 90%. No, but seriously though, Japanese girls like foreigners, but many find it difficult to have long lasting relationships with a foreigner. Others complain about not having opportunities to meet foreign men, [...]
Posted by: yearofthedog on: May 19, 2008
I was sitting in my armchair and perusing through the comments I get. Then it occurred to me that most English speakers don’t know any famous Japanese people, or at least they can’t name more than 3 without using a fictional character. Am I wrong? I doubt it. So without going to the internet and [...]
Posted by: yearofthedog on: May 17, 2008
If you haven’t noticed yet, you should. My blog has had over 2,100 hits. Do you know what this means? It means that I have a fanbase of about 2 guys sitting in their mother’s basement drinking Mountain Dew and Mr. Pibb until about 5am when they get sleepy and go to bed after a long [...]
Posted by: yearofthedog on: May 12, 2008
The other day I had the pleasure of visiting a Japanese castle in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. The place is called Kokura castle. It was built in 1959 - several years after WWII. The ancient castle is equipped with flat-screen TVs, vending machines, a gift shop, costum cut-outs for picture taking, and animatronic puppets, a foot race game that looks similar [...]
Posted by: yearofthedog on: May 2, 2008
The other day I decided I can’t stay still anymore. I need to get out there and make something happen or I’m not going to achieve anything and it will all come to nothing. So I went down to IMS and got a paper to place an ad on their bulletin board for language instruction. [...]
