Far East Cynic

Friday Beer and babes

Another week, another typhoon. That’s right, Typhoon Nabi is bearing down on Okinawa and is disrupting our carefully planned effort to get stuff moved to the Philippines and Utapao. It’s also putting a crimp in my plans to play some golf before going up to the Tohoku region for a

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Friday Beer and Babes…….

Another week come and gone. However its Friday, its sunny and I get to play golf tomorrow. Also get to go to a cookout tonight. Can walk to it, which means I can drink beer to my heart’s content. Its the little things that make me happy. I took a

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Friday Beer and Babes

I’m going to be drinking a lot of these tonight I think……Just got through reading the text of Donald Rumsfeld’s Town Hall meeting over at the Phibian’s place……GRRRRRR!!!! More to come on that subject soon. Must…. calm …. down. There’s my cold, wet trusty friend. And unlike Mr Rumsfeld you

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The rainy season has begun….Friday beer and babes.

For those who do not know, end of May/ all of June is the rainy season here in Japan. The first week of July it ends and for the next 3 months after that it becomes HOT! And here its not just the heat, its the humility ( or around

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For those in Japan, here's something really interesting

Here in Japan, every weekday at 12:20, they have a TV show on NHK called ???????Polite way to say, Its Noon!). Now the meat and the potatoes of the show is the kind of mundane panel discussions that are way too prevalent on Japanese TV in my humble opinion. (

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For those in Japan, here’s something really interesting

Here in Japan, every weekday at 12:20, they have a TV show on NHK called ???????Polite way to say, Its Noon!). Now the meat and the potatoes of the show is the kind of mundane panel discussions that are way too prevalent on Japanese TV in my humble opinion. (

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