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[09 Nov 2009|10:11pm] |
I went to see the show of Akane Koide's work (check it out HERE) at Parco's gallery in Shubuya last week. I'm a fan of KaiKai KiKi's artists in general, but havnt been able to see anything in the flesh since about three or four years ago, when i saw Aya Takano - by far my favourite painter - (also) at Parco. Since her last show in Japan, Takano has only been showing oversea's, so it's nice to see work being displayed locally by members of the same group.
Art. I've gotten so out of the loop.
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[30 Oct 2009|07:37pm] |
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[08 Oct 2009|06:59am] |
Right now everybody's busy tying everything down in preparation for typhoon-18 that's supposed to hit us later today. Joy.
Yuuli got up all of a sudden last night, full of energy. For some reason he's started running on the spot....
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[02 Sep 2009|07:33pm] |
I've started transferring my more substantial posts to my new project-page. PDRjapanonline.com There'll be a website to go with it pretty soon, so those who have an interest in Japan and learning the language - stay tuned!
The 500yen man
Once, ok. Twice coincidence? Three times? Destiny? Who knows?More than two and a half years ago I’d just arrived in Japan and the working situation (major English school bankrupt. 2000 English teachers bankrupt. Chaos.) Wasn’t looking great. Opportunities were far and few between, but I found myself working in a small conversation café about 20mins away from Shibuya. The job was pretty good (providing you didn’t want to earn big money, because the pay was terrible!) all things considering although certainly nothing to write home about.............
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I'm trying to get the writing to a decent style/ level - so any feedback is appreciated.
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[20 Aug 2009|10:34pm] |
I’ve been sitting here for hours going through two years of my LJ, sorting out posts to recycle and transfer over to my new “this is Tokyo” blog on Wordpress. I’m starting to realize this is going to be no quick process – seems I either export the whole thing and delete 90% again, or I do the posts I want manually one by one – comments and all (hope nobody minds me transferring their comments, not that I could see they would!).
Once I finish typing up all the website content, I should be able to get everything up and running in the next month (hopefully).
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[12 Aug 2009|10:38pm] |
I know I always say ill never spam my journal with youtube videos, but I cant help myself with this one (though I'm pretty sure everybody on my list will have already seen if not this, the Polysics remake).
DOMO ARIGATOU MR ROBOTO!
Man, it's just so so good.
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[11 Aug 2009|05:41am] |
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Another big earthquake this morning. This time a 6 (5by time it got to us) on the scale! Still not life threatening (7’s when buildings start to collapse, apparently) but man, gets scary when things start to fall down!
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[10 Aug 2009|03:03pm] |
There was a pretty big earthquake this evening. Probably the biggest since I’ve been here. I can’t help but be reminded that now is not the time to be living in tokyo – it’s only a matter of time until we’re all digging ourselves out of rubble after all. Somehow I don’t think I could leave now even if I knew it was tomorrow, though.
Recently I’ve been writing allot. None of it’s been going up online (and it probably never will), as I guess I’m still testing the waters. I’ve never considered myself as someone good at writing (or even English!), however recently I’ve recently started to really consider what it means to be “good at something”. Secondary school taught me that I was not only terrible at, but had no future whatsoever in languages. I also spent my first three (of five) years in special needs English, and the remaining two “at the bottom class” learning how to read the most remedial of books and spell my own name. I guess it’s safe to say I proved them all wrong there.
Maybe I’ll post some of the articles for PDRjapan im writing up here first, let you guy’s have the first look, and advise me as to anything that desperately needs to be edited.
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[08 Aug 2009|12:40pm] |
I've got a bit of a problem with the new wordpress blog I'm setting up. I've located the problem in the PHP code, however, I have no idea what to do with it. The people over at the wordpress forum were less than helpful, but maybe someone on here understands?
you can see the error at www.pdrjapanonline.com/planettokyo/
, and the code in question is:
? php the_tags(); ? (obviously i took out the "<'s "
and
?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') == !dynamic_sidebar() ) : else : ?
Anybody more competent with these things than me got any idea?
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[07 Aug 2009|09:40pm] |
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PDRjapanonline will be my new site, focusing on Japan, Tokyo and learning Japanese. The main feature is going to be a blog about some of the amazing places I come across, as well as things that catch my interest.
The content is being worked on now (although being in blog format It'll be ongoing of course), so here's the question - what do YOU want to see?
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[05 Aug 2009|10:14am] |
My school currently has summer holiday, meaning I have the next three weeks off. Fantastic! The past few months since I started at my current school have been so, so busy. I was supposed to be running my own summer classes over the next few weeks; however we didn’t actually get any students – so that’s off. On the plus side though, I was able to learn how not to advertise, AND I have more holiday time. Win win, me thinks ~
On a separate note I have a question for people reading this: do any of you study a second language? In particular do you study Japanese?
Recently I’ve been reading allot of books and articles about making a living purely online. These days it seems to be getting more and more popular (not necessarily a good thing as far as competition is concerned!) as people become more and more dependent on the net. Actually, the first person I ever heard of who made a living like this was my father, who has been running a fairly successful business for about ten years now. I guess as with everything success is initially based mostly on motivation; later on the ability to manage and invest capital properly. As far as motivation goes, I want to send my children to a private school – not a cheep road to take – and ultimately to the university of their choices. That’s going to take allot of forward planning, I think.
How to find a niche in a market that’s already totally over saturated with the (few) skills I currently have, though. That’s the big question!
Right, time to get of my arse and go shopping!
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[02 Aug 2009|06:51am] |
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Yuuli finally managed to say "Da-da!" this morning!
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[05 Jul 2009|01:42pm] |
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I need some software that'll let me splice up video's. Any recommendations?
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[26 Jun 2009|08:36pm] |
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Yuuli got accepted into a baby modelling agency! Go Yuuli!
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[20 Jun 2009|10:48pm] |
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Not only did Yuuli manage to take his first few steps, but he did it carrying his own baby chair. Looks like he's gonna be like his grandad - ie. build like a brick-shithouse.
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[19 Jun 2009|07:45pm] |
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Has anybody ever used one of these palm-sized projectors? I'm thinking of buying one to use in my classes, but I'm not sure if one like that would be any good, or should i go for a more expensive standard digi-projector...
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[09 Jun 2009|09:19pm] |
At long last.
PDR English for teachers and professionals:
www.polkadotrocket.com
I'll be using this space for informational content - activities, theory, games, materials and the like. Right now content is thin on the ground, but that'll improve over time. If you have any interest in education, come check it out. Pass on the link to your friends too!
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