Monthly Archives: October 2003
A Free Day At Oita’s Sculpture Park
Yesterday I got to hitch along with the Middle School’s fieldtrip to go look at pieces of artwork produced in Oita-ken. After watching a 30 minute video about some old dead Japanese dude of whom the premises were named after, we looked at his sculptures of people, monkeys, and cats (there were so many that … Continue reading
Blackboard Impressionisms
The whiteboard is over-rated. Back in the day, we learned on chalkboards, and we liked it. Chalk has many more merits than the erasable marker. First of all, chalk (AKA CaCO3 as the nerds like to say) is environmentally benign and there is no shortage of it. Also, sniffing chalk will not give you a … Continue reading
Gubernatorial Thoughts
I want Arnold to win. Yeah, he is probably a big powerful chauvenistic guy who gropes people, but many men and women of action are. Look at James Bond, the Kennedys(the DKs and Jello Biafra rule!), Nina from 24, Face (from the A-Team), and powerful monarchs of past like Henry the 8th. Its all part … Continue reading
A Case of Lazy Espionage Or Honest Invasion Of Privacy?
Those bastards! They killed Kenny! No they didn’t but they did open my mail and made it really obvious. The top of the envelope was roughly ripped open, stuffed into a plastic bag containing a note that said basically “uh, we opened your letter”- duh! I couldn’t tell this from the disgustingly violated state in … Continue reading
“Formula”
This is my 1989 Civic Hatchback “Formula”. I bought it for a mere 70.000 yen from Harvey, while other people got ripped off by their evil predecessors. Its sorta funny because my teachers always insist that he should have given me the car for free, since it is so old (maybe they will hook me … Continue reading
My Little Hanami
Huh??? The mountain cherry tree in front of the Hokubu nursery school is in bloom again! Though the blossoms are rather few, it brought back the heavenly atmosphere of the many many cherry blossom viewing parties that we had thoughout March and April. I will take this as a good omen for the quickly approaching … Continue reading
The Haunted Hotel
There is an old abandoned uncompleted golf resort in my town, located right next to another swank expensive resort. This place used to be special to me, when me and Harvey were the only ones who knew of its existance. The first time I visited the hotel was in late September of 2002. Harvey had … Continue reading