How do you feel about getting in touch with someone, a friend from your childhood, perhaps, whom you have not seen in quite a long time?
My brother, who runs a liqueur store in town told me that a friend of mine from junior high stopped by the other night.
Yuko and I used to be good...
Do you remember The Kids In The Hall, the Canadian comedy troup? They had a show on Comedy Central in the 90s and I used to watch it all the time.
Some of the members has since gone on to "solo" careers. You may remember Dave Foley who starred in the semi-popular sitcom "NEWS RADIO" as...
On Tuesday after work, I drove over to a electronics store nearby and bought what I'd wanted for a while. A Graphics Tablet! You know, those pads with special pens that lets you draw/handwrite on PC. What for? To draw manga, Silly!
As a child, I used to love to draw cartoons. My friends...
A couple of weeks ago, on my way back from the bank, I stopped to have a bowl of ramen noodles at a local ramen shop.
Those of you who have been to ramen shops in Japan must know that they always have available many comic books for you to read while eating your ramen.
I picked the very...
I've been spending a lot of time watching video clips on a site called "Nico Nico Douga (ニ男ニ坦ニ男ニ坦窶慊ョ窶ーテヲ)" these past few days. It is sort of like YouTube but there is a big difference.
While on YouTube, people can leave comments on the videos and they appear in a little section below the...
At the driving school, I was one of the few people who were over the age of 30.
I got to chat with few others but they were there to either obtain special licenses for large trucks and buses or they had had their licenses revoked for traffic violations and had to attend driving school all...
I suppose a typical Japanese person learns to drive when s/he graduates from highschool.
All my highschool friends did anyway.
To me, back when I was much younger, getting a driver's license seemed like a proof of adulthood.
I remember when Yukiko, a good friend of mine from HS got...
There is this interesting feature on Yahoo Japan called 「窶堙昶?堙ア窶堙遺?堙固椎ク窶凖ィ」- Certification Exams for Everyone.
What it is is you make up your own "certification" exams on any subject you like. Others then take the exam you have made to test their knowlege and see if you are "certified" (a...
I have decided to take up Spanish again.
It was a few years ago when I first became interested in it. I always had been a fan of Latin Pop music and wanted to understand what they were singing about. I bought textbooks and took private lessons. I was really getting into it but sort of...
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