A week in India, generally speaking….
Many more pic’s at Flickr… (click on the link in the left column)
Day 8: July 22, 2007.
We are staying in very cool guest house in Jodhpur (central Rajastan), called Durag Niwas. It’s a family run business, and the owner is a fabulous, flamboyantly theatrical 24 year old named Govind. Such a character! And his family are sweet, gentle, efficient and most welcoming. So far the best place we’ve stayed by a long way.
Pushkar
Sitting in a very dusty internet cafe – with a very dusty, faded keyboard – in very dusty Pushkar with a very patchy internet connection, looking out at the passing parade of colour and noise. Su-san and I are in love with spectacular Rajastan and have cancelled the planned Himalayan leg of the journey so we can spend more time here. We’ve been absolutely going hard since we arrived but after todays morning-tea(actually mango lassi) meeting in a breezy lake-side cafe, and the subsequent Himalayan cancellation, we have decided to slow way down so we have time to write & blog and well… just think, and process and relax.
Oh, the photo’s. Just you wait. This place is so special.
More soon.
First days: Delhi
I was in India 7 years ago – my first time out of Australia, and I remember I found Delhi utterly daunting. I couldn’t believe the numbers of people sleeping in the streets and the abject poverty everywhere. 7 years later, older and wiser, Delhi was a much more pleasant experience. The number of homeless seems to have dropped some, there were nowhere near as many beggars and touts (but make no mistake, they are still all-too-plentiful) and there is now a major metro system, provided on credit by the Mitsubushi corporation. The project should have paid itself off in another year or two, and the Indian government plans to reduce ticket fares to more affordable prices then, so more people can use it. I was astonished by how many people were using it. It was packed. It was also clean, air-conditioned and patrolled by the army. You have to go through metal detectors and bag-searches to get in.
The distance calls
“10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Listen can you hear the distance calling
Far away but will be with you soon”
Well, here I am. 2 a.m. and *finally* ready to go. Just this quick blog post and I’m off to bed for 4 hours….. I’m sure I’ve forgotten some annoyingly important things but they’ll just have to wait. I’m out of time now. I’ve been quite nervous but now that everything is as ready as it can be, I feel a sense of calm and relief. It’s nice.
Budget-travelling through India is going to be a challenge after all the comforts of my cushy little life here in Tokyo but challenges are totally what makes life liveable and exciting and goddamn I need a good dose of reality. Living in Tokyo can be a little like living in a dream world sometimes. It’s so surreal in all its manifest consumerism and convenience. I heard that the average life-expectancy of a mobile phone here is 4 months (a lot of people have 2 phones – one for work, one personal). That’s a pretty good indication of how out of control consumerism is here. Somewhere in the world there is a pile of unloved mobile phones as big as Fuji-san. Gads. Anyways…. I digress. I will miss my room, and my house, and my garden. Especially my comfy futon.
I guess I should introduce my travel buddy, Suzan since he will, no doubt, feature heavily in the weeks to come. His full name is Ryosuke Suzuki, and in the Japanese way, his friends take the first syllable of his (sur)name then add -san to it (or -chan, or -kun, or -chin) – and so, he becomes Su-san or Suzan.
He is a sweet, pure soul – an art teacher and photographer who embraces most things in his life with a fabulous sense of wonder and gusto and complete focus – to the point where he can be an utter space cadet about basic mundane stuff. I’m really looking forward to travelling with him because we’ll no doubt make each other see things the other would probably never notice. He’s usually a very calm man which will help keep me grounded when I have the urge to smack people in the face – we’ve been practising Japanese phrases for tense/tricky/difficult situations a bit so we don’t have to use English in front of English speakers. That’ll be fun.
Suzan and I arrive in Delhi at 5 p.m. local time this evening, to be greeted by Tenzin Sonam – my great friend Tenzin Choegyal’s nephew. He’s Tibetan so we will be greeted with a white silk scarf around our necks and a small prayer. Then we’re off to Majnu-ka-tilla, the Tibetan camp in Delhi where I stayed 7 years ago. I’m curious to see how much India has changed. No doubt it’s still a complete head-fuck. Hope so, anyway.
The itinerary so far looks something like this: Delhi – Rajastan – Agra – Khajuraho – Varanasi – Manali – Spiti Valley – Delhi. We have to try to do that in 3 weeks and I don’t really think it’s feasible but we’ll see how we go. After India, Suzan returns to Tokyo and I’m off to Thailand where I’ll be taking the train from Bangkok to Singapore over 3 nights, then spending 2 weeks in Bali where I intend to find a cool beach hut and just chill.
I’m taking my canon DSLR with my 2 fave lenses, and the holga and 6 rolls of B&W film and no doubt will come back with a motherload of images. Not sure how much posting I’ll be doing – depends on internet access, but I hope it’ll be pretty regular. I always get all verbose and poetic and shit when I travel.
Talk to you from India….
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Mishaal and miscellania
Mishaal is a Tokyo based belly dancer. Quite possibly the best belly dancer I’ve ever seen. Here’s her website. I saw her at a Greenpeace event in Ebisu that Yama-chan dragged me to. Very happy that she did. More pics up at Flickr.
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Crack and almighty mundanity.
For a very long time, MissSin has been telling me that I *HAD* to meet her new friend, Sandi. Sandi is a relative newcomer to Japan, having only lived here 8 months. She moved here from Seattle with her hubby Jeff (an IT dude) and 2 sons. She and her hubby are into music, and love da rock’n'punk’n'roll and boozing. Well, meet we did, some time ago, and Helen was right. We bonded over bad 80′s music nostalgia in the back seat of the hire car on an overnight road trip back from Izu. She is the first person I have met in a very long time who can tell – a few bars in to a song – whether it’s Visage or OMD or Flock of Seagulls or New Order or Adam and the Ants or Bow Wow Wow or… well, you get the picture. It’s nice to hang with someone who’s kinda my age. She gave me a double CD mix of obscure 80′s classics and I listen to it often. Anyway, she came up for an overnighter here in Kichijoji on Friday night and we had a night on the town while Hubby looked after the kids. She writes in much more detail than I am able to anymore, so you can read about our adventures here.
Yuri-chan is an awesome percussionist who studied for a while in Cuba.
Ka-Kunn is an awesome Saxophonist from Osaka. He moved to Tokyo recently to become a full time musician. This man loves colour and I have never seen him in anything that is not flourescent or exceptionally vivid. His sneakers are bright emerald . He tells me Osaka-ians love colour and vibrant energy and parties and are much more friendly and out-going than their Tokyo cousins. If he is anything to go by I think I have to re-think my dis-interest in Osaka.
I think this was in amongst the disco dancing at Mikorins on Friday night….
A self-portrait that I messed around with in Lightroom for fun . Love the movie-still effect I somehow accidentally pulled together.
I’ve been playing more and more with Lightroom and have been finally, utterly convinced of the power of shooting in RAW format. I can’t believe it took me so long. My main hindrances were a lack of software – the trial software I downloaded over New Years seemed really expensive and daunting so I never really got around to it – and a lack of confidence.
Really really really glad I finally took the step of buying (a legal version of!) Lightroom and downloading a bunch of (paid for) tutorials to help me understand how to use it properly. It makes me feel like I’ve just entered a whole new zone of photography. If you understand what you’re doing in the darkroom/lightroom, it makes the whole ball-game so much more fun and, actually, more challenging because you’re actually seeking technical quality with some means to actually achieving that. But every time I see some of awesome photography all around the net and media, I understand that I know nothing. Nothing at all. I wish I didn’t have to work such long hours – I would much rather be putting my time into photography. And spending time with people who actually understand what they’re doing.
In other news, I am on crack and its name is facebook. I had never joined a social network before – my own blog and Flickr were network enough, and I HATE myspace and all its clutter and noise and 15 year old SMS speak. Then I did the Twitter thing and it was kinda fun. And then. And then. Well, Tamara sent me a Facebook invite and I curiously followed the email links and joined up to see what the fuss was all about.
Seems like I can hardly tear myself away from my computer now just because I wanna see what’s happening in my facebook world… If you wanna befriend me, and help me waste valuable time, here’s my facebook profile. I have been particularly enjoying slapping and wet-willey’ing Andrea…. (you have to join up to understand that one. Poke-pro….). A lot of fun. Even my long lost cousin Hamish and his wife Ruth have joined up. I tell ya, everyones getting in on the action…
Dear god, I need to get a life. I just re-read the last paragraph of facebook rave and have realised that my life has become unbelievably mundane. Only 18 sleeps till I fly out and escape the tragedy of hourly facebook checks and getting up at 6.30 and going to bed by 11 every frikken weekday. Well, actually…. the 6.30 a.m. starts mostly cease next Monday. Can’t wait to resume normal night-owl patterns full time. Even if it’s only for 2 months.
I’m out. Gotta head into Shibuya for my weekly evening lesson date with the gorgeous Ayano. She wears glitter face foundation and the wackiest clothes I’ve ever seen. Magnificent. Wednesday night lessons are the most exciting mid-week thing I do these days.
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It’s 44 degrees in Delhi and 30 degrees here in Tokyo (finally!)
The tinsel tartan samurai is a regular sight around Inokashira Koen.
Coz I just can’t get enough of people laying in grass.
Darin knows some awesome frisbee tricks. He cracks me up.
Tyler about to catch the frisbee – see it just on his leg?
So finally the world knows that Kat is pregnant! She announced it on her blog a week or 2 ago. Which means I can write about it now too.
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What do teachers really make?
I rather like this piece of youtube excellence.
Being an English teacher in Tokyo is akin to sitting on the lowest rung of the social ladder and I have been, over the years, quite amused/astonished/appalled by the number of (non-Japanese) finance/IT/law people who literally smile through their teeth and make their excuses to walk away after they’ve heard the answer to their question ‚Äúso, what do you do?‚Äù (almost always the first question).
What do teachers really make? We try to make a difference, and I’m proud of what we do. I accept that there are some utterly hopeless teachers out there. But I am not one of them (blowing my own horn?), and neither are most of the people I am honoured to work with. It’s hard work but Oh, so rewarding.
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Losing my anonymity
Boo! Thought I’d surprise you with a post. It’s been a while, ne. So very busy. I took this pic in the park on Tuesday and messed around with it in photoshop and quite like the saturated effect. Look at all that grey re-growth! I’m at 80% grey now. Seriously.
This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for quite some time, and it seems that every week something new happens that I could add to the post I’ve been writing in my brain all this time….
Tokyo is a huge city-state (for those of you who have never been here) and it’s actually made up of dozens of smaller ‚Äúcities‚Äù. In the small city I’ve chosen to make my home, I’ve been steadily losing something that I have always cherished about life in a huge city: anonymity. Coming from a small town where my job meant that going out usually involved some band members trying to push CD’s on me or hassling me for gigs, it was nice to just walk into a place and not be known.
When it first started happening here, I loved it. It made me feel like a part of the community. But now that the novelty has worn off some, I don’t know how I feel about it so much any more. Being a foreigner in this very homogenous society makes it very hard to be invisible. People talk about you. Strangers know about you. You’re something of an oddity – almost celebrity-ish in some cases, or just a scary alien in others.
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A Day in Photos
In lieu of any real news, apart from the fact that things have been pretty quiet around here, I figured I’d follow in Flickr’s footsteps and do a Day In The Life Of Me for Saturday, May 5, 2007. 24 pictures.
Oh, and P.S. – My dear friend Jackie had a baby boy, Angus, on Saturday morning. Congratulations, Jackie, Russell, Tallulah and Hannah!
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Tokyo Earthday
The main stage
Sleeping babe at a live trance gig
Yama-chan at the end of her tether after I shot about 6 consecutive pictures of her with her eyes closed!
There is something very disturbing about this picture of Christian….
Shen playing his gig (he’s the tabla player to the left)
Midnight super-ninja’s battling in the park…and then stopping to check out pictures of themselves doing battle
I went to the Tokyo Earthday Festival at Yoyogi with Yama-chan and Christian on Sunday. My old buddy Shen played a gig with some friends, and Pete came along a bit later in the evening with his 7 months-pregnant wife Amanda and his super-kawaii 3 year old Charlie (aka Sper-ninja!). It was a beautiful day. Which is a good thing since it was also my only day off.
Can’t keep my eyes open. Oyasumi-nasai.
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Impermanence….
The rains of the past 2 days have blanketed the streets and parks in cherry blossom petals. Hanami season is almost gone already. A great lesson in impermanence.
A lovely spring night
suddenly vanished while we
viewed cherry blossoms
Haiku from the master, Basho
Now it’s time to settle down and get back to work. The school year starts next week. Before we know it, it’ll be summer, and I’ll be in India again.
The Hanami album
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It’s here…
Yes folks. It’s here. Spring. Cherry blossoms. Insobriety. Warmth (well almost)….
Yesterday was a magnificent day, brilliant blue skies, 22 degrees and cherry blossoms everywhere. Mikorin (aka Minako) and I had plans to go to Odaiba for the Ashes and Show exhibition but hell, on a day like yesterday you really don’t wanna be inside at all. We opted for an impromptu hanami party with Sachika, and for a little while (they had to work later) Tyler and Darin. We hit the row boats for sunset and drank a healthy amount of beverages and got very very silly till very late in the evening…
Seriously, there is nothing like hanami time in Japan. It’s insanely fun and everyone cuts loose and revels in the celebration of spring. March/April is the busiest time of all for most companies and businesses, with taxes due, uni graduates job-hunting (a seriously huge market), end of fiscal year reports due and forward planning all keeping many people late at work. My private lessons have been (temporarily) halved for the past week or so as a result of my students work commitments. Hanami is this great pressure-valve release for the vast majority of the population. Not to mention a celebration for uni and school graduates….
I had my first hanami party of the season last Saturday with Deanne and Masao and their friends and, despite the weather being not so friendly and the blossoms not quite being out yet, it was a bloody excellent day and I got to ride away with a bunch of plastic cherry blossoms… Next one on the schedule – Kat and Darins on Sunday. Yay. Insobriety.
I’ve started a Hanami 2007 album at flickr. No doubt it will be added to over the next week or so.
[posted with ecto]
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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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Nihon Minkaen
I just put some pics up at Flickr from our excellent day at Nihon Minkaen yesterday. Helen, Sandi, her two great kids Max and Dexter and I hit Mukogaokayuen to visit this great park-museum of old style Japanese houses, all relocated from other parts of (mostly rural) Japan. So very cool. It’s a fascinating place full of old-skool Japanese architecture and thorough feature/lifestyle explanations. Ch-ch-check it out if you’re in these parts….
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Kids (aka why I love teaching English in Japan)
Today was graduation day at the elementary school. Twas a lot of feverish fun with excited kids and proud parents and teachers. I love my job. The bottom 2 pictures were taken last week and are of my fave class: the returnees (kids who have lived outside Japan for most of their lives).
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My baby’s back!
Shibuya streets… every visit, something new pokes its head out at you. Taken with the Powershot G3. Yes, the sensors need cleaning desperately.
The first picture with the new improved 300D. Hallelujah.
Everywhere you go there are signs of the coming pink storm! Plastic cherry blossoms adorn every shopping street in Japan.
And they’re in balloon form too….
Picked up the newly repaired Canon 300D (mah baby) from Fujiya this afternoon. Walked outside and pointed up at a sign and clicked and WOW! A nice healthy, heavy shutter sound, the automatic focus worked, the images were clear as crystal thanks to the new parts and clean sensors and suddenly I felt like blogging again. And not a second too soon, as:
1. the old powershot G3 is on it’s way out – the images have long lost their sharpness and colour. I should get the sensors cleaned as I do really love the old workhorse….
2. hanami is almost upon us….
3. started to get emails asking me why I’ve been so quiet on the blog…
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Araku rocks…
If I’m in Shinjuku for a drink and needing some place with a bit of atmosphere, I usually head to Golden Gai. I’ve written about it plenty of times before. It is a collection of cool little bars tucked away in a little part of Shinjuku, in cool, ramshackle, surprisingly clean little alleys, with plenty of history and character deeply imprinted into the walls.
If you ever make your way into Golden Gai, make sure you make time to drop in to Araku, my friend Tracey’s bar. Actually, I believe it’s her families bar… That’s her brother, Richard to the right and boyfriend/bartender extraordinaire, Ashley on the left in the above pic. They are all Australians and long term Japan residents (and actually, Tracey and Richard are the team that bring you the eternally useful mobile phone service TangoTown). Anyways, I digress, as I am often wont to do.
I dropped in there on Friday night for the first time and had a delightful time. Tracey and Ash run the bar on Wednesday and Friday nights, and on other nights of the week the place is staffed by fully bilingual staff so it’s a great place to go if your Japanese isn’t so great (in Golden Gai, if you don’t speak much Japanese you can have a hard time….. ). Anyways, that makes it good for international visitors who can’t speak any Japanese (erm, and the rest of us who are lazy to apply ourselves to extensive Japanese study). It’s got heaps of room, another unusual feature in Golden Gai where the average bar seats about 6 – 10 people…. Araku has room for around 20/25 people, and actually – there were about that many people in there on Friday night. It was pumping. They sell great Australian wines and a range of nibblies too. Open till dawn. Go ch-ch-check it out! (How to find Araku)
Here’s Sarah and Tracey being really still and sultry for the low-light photo… (god, can’t wait till my big camera is back from the shop!)
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I miss the good, old-fashioned summer storms of Australia!
Last nights weather in Tokyo was quite typhoon-like, with with up to 50 knot winds and rain. By 9 p.m. it was all over, and by 10 we could see the moon. Seems there was a lot of wild weather around the region last night! These spectacular pic’s were emailed to me by my cousin Georgia who was cycling home in this phenomenal electrical storm in Sydney. Aren’t they amazing! I really miss big wild electrical storms, summer doesn’t seem complete without at least a few massive storms. Haven’t seen a really big one (like this one in the photos) for a couple of years now although there was a pretty good show late one night here in Tokes at the end of summer last year.
Being thrown out of my gym has started me drinking again. Another hangover today and serious thoughts about leaving Japan again (where we are ever the outsiders), despite the good things going on in my life here. One good thing: the gym has had a change of heart and are going to refund my money. Their ‚Äúexcuse‚Äù: they didn’t show me the English page stating that tattoo’s are explicitly not allowed (I think it was just that the voices of reason from within the office there finally got heard). I could wax long and lyrical about my experience with this horrible situation but I am just so frikken angry and astonished at the way it was handled that it would just end up in a big negative rant. So I shall spare you. And here endeth the story.
Obi
One of my students turned up to class wearing this magnificent obi (the cloth piece that wraps around the waist of a kimono). Never really seen one like it so of course, had to photograph it. It’s such a shame the kimono is becoming so rare. It’s such a beautiful (if impractical) garment. The fabrics used for kimonos and obis are quite breathtaking. It’s easy to stand in a kimono shop and want to caress everything in sight. Think I’ll have to collect some more….
There are some new pic’s up at flickr – just happy snaps of some buddies who dropped in to the exhibition over the past few weeks.
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Tokyomade Online Shop: Tokyo style by Tokyo and Japan-based designers
Tokyomade Online Shop: Tokyo style by Tokyo and Japan-based designers: Brizzy [Brizzy = Brisbane, my home town] girl Deanne and her BF have been working hard to get together an online shop of cool Tokyo stuff and today is the big launch day. Happy Valentines Deanne! Good luck with Tokyomade, I’m sure it’ll do really well – hell, I really want that midori romance bag on the home page. Damn, you have some fine taste!
Those Japanophiles out there living far away will, no doubt, find yourselves salivating at some of the tasty stuff you can buy. Go on, whip out those credit cards, you know you wanna!
[posted with ecto]
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TELL me about TOKYO
The Tokyo English Lifeline (TELL) is a non-profit community organisation that offers a range of counseling options, from anonymous phone counseling to professional, face to face counselling. I’ve done a bit of volunteer photography work for them from time to time and my friend Christian is one of the few PAID workers there – he coordinates the volunteers and does a lot of their PR and stuff. Anyway, a year ago TELL started compiling a handy list of useful information and contacts for the English speaking community in Tokyo and recently they released the information in a handy little book called ‚ÄúTell me about Tokyo‚Äù:
New Years Day 2007
After a leisurely New Years Day breakfast and coffee, we made the trek out to Asakusa to join the other million or so temple-goers to visit Sensoji, one of my fave temples. I’ve always avoided such New Years Day activities out of fear of crowds, but you know what?! It was a lovely day – full of amazing sights and sounds, and truly, the Japanese are masters at keeping it cool in often overwhelming crowds. No flaring tempers, just an electric, happy vibe. The way Sensoji is laid out made it easy to negotiate the crowds and get great photos without actually having to stand in the main line into the temple. The side areas were all laid out with stalls selling New Years paraphernalia and food and had a great atmosphere.
We were feeling pretty confident after negotiating the massive crowds for a few hours there so we decided to hit Meiji Jingu in Harajuku after that – arriving there just on sunset. Again, a beautiful atmosphere, full of excitement but no jostling or pushing and shoving at all. Amazing really when you consider the sheer numbers of people involved. Seriously millions in a day. I shit you not. It was cool to walk down the long gravel avenue with such a cross section of Japanese – families in traditional dress, young punks and goth-lolita types, cooler-than-cool dudes, stylin’ chicks, old people, kids, couples, tourists – everyone heading in the same direction, to do the same thing: pray for the new year, in this electric atmosphere. Quite special really.
The day was also exciting for me because I got to shoot the whole thing on borrowed lenses: a Sigma 24 – 70 MM 2.8 and a Canon 10 -22 MM 3.5, and I decided to test my new software and shoot in RAW format for the first time ever. I’m pretty happy with the results and am relieved to realise that it’s not my camera that is crappy – it’s just the lens I’ve been using. I’m kinda shocked that Canon would ship such an inferior lens as part of their Kiss/Rebel kit! Anyway, You can see more photos at the New Years Day 2007 photoset at Flickr.
And all the best to you all for a great 2007.
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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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