JIH mailed me last week about a fireworks display at Futagotamagawa – though S and I weren’t able to meet up with the rest of the group (we got there a little later than expected) we managed to snag a decent spot and I shot a “few” (more like 200) pictures of the show. I’ve [...]
I’ll have 2 sets of pictures from my trip to Mongolia – one from the trip to Hustai National Park and some from around the city of Ulaanbaatar. First up are the pictures from Hustai, below is a sample, and clicking HERE will take you to the full gallery. The trip to Hustai is not [...]
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’d been to visit my family in Mongolia last month. It was great to spend time with them and catch up (though I did come down with a stomach bug of some sort while I was there), and while we didn’t go out too much, I had a [...]
Just came across this story about a woman who is suing Google for giving her “bad directions” and directing her to walk out onto a highway. Unsurprisingly, she was hit by a car and claims to be suffering “physical” and “mental” injuries – though I don’t know that she had much in the way [...]
I can now scratch off one of my resolutions for the year – that of completing a full marathon. It’s the first time I’ve EVER done this, and I’m feel pretty proud of myself (feeling pretty sore too). My time wasn’t that great – I came in around 6hrs 41mins – and the cutoff time [...]
Postings have been few and far between lately, largely due to laziness. The usual excuse of being busy at work does apply though (my coworker has been away on holiday for the past couple weeks), and I came down with a cough/cold. But there’s one more “distraction” – my youngest brother came to visit! He’s [...]
It looks like I’ll be tackling one of my new year resolutions sooner than expected – that of running a marathon. One of the folks in the office was lucky enough to have friends in the right places that were able to pull some strings – all the people (who wanted to) in the company [...]
Got my license! (sorry for the blurriness of the image) I’m actually surprised I got it on the first go… some of the questions really had me scratching my head and I didn’t hand in my papers till about 3 minutes before the end of the test period (usually I finish the practice tests in [...]
It’s been exactly 1 month and 1 week to the day since I first started my driving lessons, and the end is finally in sight. I signed up for driving lessons at the Koyama Driving school in Futagotamagawa during the last week of September, and started my first lessons on October 1st. I chose to [...]
