Yearbook Yourself
1952
1958
1962
1964
1966
1972
1974
1984
1988
Thanks to Tracey for the silliness. Yearbook yourself – go on, I promise you you’ll waste at least an hour of your valuable work time. Personally I think 1966 is a good look for me…. 
(oh all that hairspray!)
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Mr Sharma’s 8 things you didn’t know about me…
I’ve been invited to participate in numerous tell-all blog meme’s over the years and have always delicately refused participation. There’s really quite enough about me on the net (via this blog) already rendering me quite transparent, and in hindsight, possibly dangerously exposed should I be forced to suffer the whole horrible fresh job-application process in a world that now googles every applicant for anything….
But in Jodhpur, Ryosuke and I enjoyed a 15 minute sitting with the charmingly dry, eccentric, nonchalant “world-famous” Merangarh Fort astrologer and palmist, Mr S.L. Sharma, and I thought I’d share some of the things he told me about…. well, me.
So. Here are 8 things you didn’t know about me, as according to Mr Sharma. I’ll let you guess which points may be vaguely correct or completely wrong or bleedingly obvious….:
Fun fun fun
The past week has been an alternating blur of fun and stress…
I wanted to post all about my plans and the weekends parties but my computer kinda had a malfunction that was made more troublesome than it needed to be through my own stupidity and so I haven’t been able to do much blogging at all. On top of that my new croc’s have given me substantial blisters on the undersides of my feet and I can hardly walk which is a tad onerous considering from next Monday I’ll be pounding the pavement in Delhi and half of India and lots of S.E.Asia every day for the next 6 weeks or so! Not to mention the fact that it has made all my last minute running around a pain in the arse.
Oh, and did I mention the typhoon that’s due to hit Tokyo Sunday morning, when our flight is scheduled to depart…
Hahahahaha. If life wasn’t challenging it would just be so dull, wouldn’t it.
More pic’s up at Flickr.
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Maria Cross: polychromatic
We stumbled on a quick Maria Cross [warning, very drab website, all in Japanese] performance in Shinjuku on Friday night, just before the cops shut him down again…. There are a heap more photos to come from that night, and no, it’s not all Maria Cross… Hopefully I’ll get a chance to edit them a little this week but I have another busy week ahead of me so I don’t know if it’ll happen any time soon. I’m loving shooting at 1600 iso and getting deep grain for my night street shots. Probably a little overkill but, hey, it’s fun. You can see some more fabulous Maria Cross action at Youtube here.
[posted with ecto]
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Conspiracy theories
I love this. I want to give it to one of the guys who works with me. You know the type: f*cked gaijin who’s been here too long and replies to your polite self-introduction with a “Hi, I’m busy” and stealthily strides around the corridors with his don’t-frikken-talk-to-me ipod headphones on and a serious I’m-way-too-busy-to-smile-and-say-hey look on his face and has a million and one conspiracy theories cluttering his youtube account and his English classes. I despise everything about him. I suspect it’s mutual. He wants to teach the high school kids that human-generated Global Warming is just a big conspiracy theory. “It happens naturally” every millenium or so. Ha. So quickly? I don’t think so.
Such a d*ck. I would like to file a bug report with the gods on this one.
Another excellent webcomic piece from xkcd.com/.
they seek it here, they seek it there, that damned elusive…..
Riding to my first lesson of the day early this morning, I passed by this ‚Äúfreshman‚Äù office worker stuck with the job of setting up and guarding the office posse’s spot for the annual cherry blossom (sakura) viewing piss-up. No doubt he was given this job a couple of weeks ago when it was announced that the sakura would be out by the 18th. Ha. Despite a few deep bows and profuse apologies from the mistaken sakura bureau chief, most companies were already, sadly, stuck with their long-before-scheduled day of debauchery, despite the lack of blossoms…. I really wouldn’t mind this job. Laying about under the trees in the sunshine waiting for the office crew to arrive…
Anyway, I completed my first lesson and sat with Daz in the morning sun for a bit, shooting the breeze as you do, when one by one, all plans for the day fell apart with each incoming text. At a loss for something to do, I figured today was as good a day as any to go on the hunt for that damned elusive first-sakura-blossom-of-the-season. Bear with me as I share my story in pictures….
*sigh. Doesn’t look good from here.
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Silly season greetings
Merry Christmas from me, and the sexy santa ladyboys Haku and Mat-sun!
Apologies for the radio silence. Been drunk for a couple of weeks it seems. Friends visiting from home, parties to go to, sightseeing to do, gigs to go to, tattoo’s to get. When things settle down a little next week, I promise an abundance of posts and photos – including a video and heaps of pics from the last ever ever ever Arab Strap show in the world. Oh what a night.
On a more serious note, I wanna wish you all a lovely Christmas season and of course, a fantastic 2007. I’ve had a great year and am looking forward to heading into the new year the happiest I’ve been in yonks. Thanks to my supportive family, in particular my incredible brother, David – who is ALWAYS there for me, my wonderful friends both here in Japan and back in Australia, all my colleagues and students here in Tokyo and to you – dear readers, for making my life the excellent thing that it has become.
PS: just uploaded a heap of pics to my flickr page, including some from the Arab Strap show.
Fucking laugh big loud on train
Sometimes communicating with the locals can be a little mind-altering. Between my bad (but improving, to be sure to be sure) Japanese and their bad English, though, we somehow manage to make ourselves understood. And it’s a fun, creative process, one that has endeared itself to me. The art of communication, with all it’s cultural and personal eccentricities, brings me great delight (and regular frustration)… Not content to just sit back, soak up and correct the dodgy Engrish we hear and read all around us all day, every day as English teachers, MissSin & I have chosen to celebrate – with a full embrace, everything we love about Engrish.
How do we do this? Read on, read on. I hope you laugh a lot.
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The Silly Season
Einstein is alive and well and hiding out in the little bars in Kichijoji’s red light district….
These hilarious JR (Japan Rail) posters warn salary men about getting too drunk and falling off the platform in this crazy silly party season….. Hilarious because of their screamingly accurate portrayal of a drunk suit.
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„Åó„ÅÇ„Çè„Åõ (Shiawase): A fortunate life.
4 years in Japan. I was thinking of calling this post “the girl who stopped running” but that seemed kinda naff and I figured “a fortunate life” was more adult and appropriate. Reasons for my fortunate life:
Our Christmas tree
Charlene and I decorated our Christmas tree a few days ago… what do you think?
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The 28th…
28 is a good number. I always like the 28th day of the month. Many of my friends have their birthdays on the 28th.
The first person to guess why I quite like November 28 in particular gets a free print of their choice of one of my photos.
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This week in pic’s
Haku is a hilariously cheeky Chinese boy I know. I’m photographing the boogers up his nose here. No actually, I was trying to catch his beautiful brown eyes but failed miserably. Still, I like this photo a lot.
I stumbled upon this scene in Kichijoji last weekend.
Charlene at our fave kichijoji bar
!Beatdown! punks getting drunk
Add a couple of other late nights with J-buddies, an all-nighter in a colour-developing photo darkroom in Shinjuku (with no heating), and then visualize about 32 English lessons (and their preparation) in various school rooms, community centres and cafe’s around Tokyo…. and you will understand why I slept 12 hours last night. Really gotta settle down on the burning-the-candle-at-both-ends-thing. Ha! Off to the pool, need to de-calcify my back. Have a great weekend ya’ll.
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