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25. June 2008

Sanja Matsuri (Three Shrine Festival) in Asakusa, Tokyo

I was lucky enough to be in Tokyo during the Sanja Matsuri (三社祭, "Three Shrine Festival") at Asakusa. It was my first full day in Japan and what better way to start the trip than with a festival! I ended up walking down some of the side streets waiting for the parade to start and found some interesting shops and a very peaceful garden. Once I returned to the temple area it was packed with people waiting with cameras in hand.

Firefox Fancy Numbered Tabs Extension

Just a note to let anyone visiting this site looking for information on my Firefox Fancy Numbered Tabs extension know that I have updated it for Firefox 3 and it’s awaiting moderation by the Mozilla team. Unfortunately they seem to be taking quite a while.

25. June 2008

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Sanja Matsuri (Three Shrine Festival) in Asakusa, Tokyo

22. June 2008

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Boring lunch beaten by bento

My lunches used to consist of boring sandwiches, but they will be boring no longer! This is about my 4th attempt at bento and I freakin' love it! It's a lot healthier than the chicken mayo sandwiches I used to have! If you want to see a few more bentos that I've made check out my Flickr Food set. I plan to keep it updated with most of the bentos I make.

20. June 2008

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Plurk your Japanese

I have a confession. I've been slacking. I memorised the Kana at the end of last week and since then I've only done about 2 hours of reviewing Kana. I should be moving on to the Kanji. I'm still immersing myself in Japanese but not as much as I could. Don't even get me started on my writing practice... In an effort to keep myself on track I'm giving Plurk.com a try!

19. June 2008

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8 random facts about me

I thought the 8 facts meme, which spread wildly across the blogging community a while ago, would be a good way to introduce myself and for me to get to know others within the Japan-related blog community.

11. June 2008

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Packing for Japan

This was my first time abroad on my own and with nobody around to ask for advice I had a lot of unanswered questions about packing. Thankfully we have the Internet! Here’s some of the packing advice I found online and things I found out during my 2 weeks in Japan. Rucksack, Holdall or Suitcase? I guess [...]

4. June 2008

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I’m back!

I have so much to say about Japan but right now I’m catching up with work and also getting over the jet lag. Going to Japan was partly a holiday and partly a fact finding mission about moving there. I’m now even more enthusiastic to make the move. I think I’d really regret it if I [...]

13. May 2008

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I’ll be back!

With a mix of excitement and nerves I’m off to Japan tomorrow and won’t be back until the 1st June! I’ll have loads of photos and I plan to write a few notes each day to post some sort of travel journal. So expect a lot more action on this site in June!

8. May 2008

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Diving in head first

So I’m sitting planning how to get from place to place within Japan and I suddenly think “What the hell have I got myself into”, and I’m not even there yet! I only started learning Japanese a few months ago and suddenly I’m heading there for 2 weeks. I’m also meeting a penfriend which I’m [...]

28. April 2008

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Money, Money, Money

I finally sorted out the Yen for my trip which should arrive this week. I really wasn’t sure how much to get. I ended up getting it all in cash rather than travellers cheques to save myself a little time whilst I’m there. I don’t expect to get mugged or anything, but just to be [...]

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