An Aussie in Japan

Journal of an Australian grad law student in Tokyo

Monday, October 13, 2008

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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...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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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...
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Monday, July 07, 2008

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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...
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Saturday, March 08, 2008

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Starbucks - Act 2 [Scene] I'm at Starbucks, standing in line behind a gaggle of giggling schoolgirls with no concept of volume, waiting...
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Monday, December 31, 2007

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The Starbucks Spasm I was fortunate enough to be a witness today to a new dance that I have appropriately named the " Starbucks Spasm ...
Sunday, December 30, 2007

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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...
Sunday, December 23, 2007

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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...
Friday, November 23, 2007

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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...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

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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...
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

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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...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

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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. ...
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Monday, October 22, 2007

Hermit mode

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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...
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

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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 ...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

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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 ...
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Thursday, September 06, 2007

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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...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

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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...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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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...
Friday, July 27, 2007

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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...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

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Ironic? I'm taking a class at University on Professional Ethics for Lawyers . There are several subtopics, and the one that I've ele...
Friday, July 13, 2007

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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...
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Saturday, June 16, 2007

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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...
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Friday, June 01, 2007

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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...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

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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...
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Thursday, April 12, 2007

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Sensibility versus Sanity My master plan was brilliantly devised and yet deceptively simple. The strategy that I had cleverly crafted in ord...
Thursday, April 05, 2007

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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...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007

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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...
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Monday, April 02, 2007

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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...
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Sunday, April 01, 2007

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This is the beginning of something... smelly There was something rotten in the state of Denmark, or, at the very least, there was something ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

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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...
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Saturday, March 24, 2007

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A pitiful excuse... I have an excuse for not writing sooner. A rather unspectacular excuse that is completely lacking in poetry and imaginat...
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Saturday, March 03, 2007

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I'M OUTTA HERE... I'm off to Thailand for a week. I'll either write again over there, or once I get back.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007

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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 ...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

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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...
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