An Aussie in Japan

Goodbye It's time to say goodbye, I think. I have neither the time nor the motivation to continue writing posts for this blog.  I origin...

The Twilight Zone I don't get it. I just don't get it. A year and a half ago, after having moved from one end of Tokyo to the other...

I'M BACK... ...and how better to do so than with a post about a phallus. As my very humble contribution to the debate re: theories about...

Starbucks - Act 2 [Scene] I'm at Starbucks, standing in line behind a gaggle of giggling schoolgirls with no concept of volume, waiting...

The Starbucks Spasm I was fortunate enough to be a witness today to a new dance that I have appropriately named the " Starbucks Spasm ...

A Considered Reflection on a Considerable Period of Time This post is a manifestation of a confluence of events - the end of 2007 , my 1000t...

A milestone The end of 2007 pretty much coincides with my 1000th day of living in Japan (this time around, at least), so I'll try and ge...

Language War - Part 3 After not having heard from Aunty I in a while, I arrived at the conclusion that she was recovering from the last deva...

Language War - Part 2 Here is part 2 of the Language War (part 1 is here ). I should point out that Aunty I is not an actual relative, but a...

Language War - Part 1 On September 18, 2007, I declared Language War on Aunty I . I was compelled to do this as a preemptive measure to wha...

What? Me? An idiot? Anyone who knows me in any capacity will readily attest to the fact that I never admit to having done something stupid. ...

Where have you been? Well, you see, I have a secret! Well... not so much a secret as an explanation! Well... not so much an explanation as a...

I know, I know... I know - I haven't updated this blog in ages, and it doesn't look like I will until next week at the earliest. In ...

It still makes me laugh... I posted this before - in fact, it was one of my first ever posts, but that was in the pre-YouTube era. I'm ...

There's a storm a-brewing! Typhoon No. 9 is about to hit Tokyo - but it's ok, because I have my snorkel , my floaties , my flipper...

Curious Cuff Links I was at a upmarket clothes store the other day, buying a shirt, and I went over to the display case to look at their cuf...

IT'S ALIVE!!! It's ok , I'm ok - recall the emergency rescue services and cancel the search party . I'm alive, and I survi...

Bar Exam I'm busy. So stupidly, insanely busy. I'm back in Australia studying for and sitting my bar exam for my qualification to pr...

Ironic? I'm taking a class at University on Professional Ethics for Lawyers . There are several subtopics, and the one that I've ele...

Don't drop the soap! "Whatever you do, don't drop the soap!", he said. My boss was ever so clever with his witticisms, suc...

The Bachelor Pad Discoveries - Part 1 Two months down, and I'm finally settled into my new bachelor pad. Since I first moved in , I have...

People of the P o l k a - d o t t e d Persuasion Measles, measles everywhere, and not a spot to be seen... It is to the eternal regret of m...

Thailand photos... I'm too busy to write anything this week, so I thought I'd just post some photos that I took in Thailand. I'v...

Sensibility versus Sanity My master plan was brilliantly devised and yet deceptively simple. The strategy that I had cleverly crafted in ord...

2 years on, 2 years late, 2 years to go... Today is my second anniversary of chronicling the happenings in the life of "An Aussie in J...

Cats and dogs... Cats ... dogs ... hell, I had the entire friggin' passenger list of Noah's Ark rain down on me on my way home from...

A reprieve... of sorts Let the birds sing and the angels rejoice - I get a one month break from work. For once, the incompetence that so...

This is the beginning of something... smelly There was something rotten in the state of Denmark, or, at the very least, there was something ...

The end of an era I'm moving to my new place on the other side of Tokyo today. I've got one foot out the door, and the other strateg...

A pitiful excuse... I have an excuse for not writing sooner. A rather unspectacular excuse that is completely lacking in poetry and imaginat...

I'M OUTTA HERE... I'm off to Thailand for a week. I'll either write again over there, or once I get back.

It smells like snow... It's past midnight, and I'm balancing precariously on my window sill, laptop in its rightful place on top of ...

I'm going home! At first, I was lead to believe that clicking my ruby red slippers together 3 times would suffice in getting me home, b...