If it is, I am going to be pissed. Japanese is a very precise language. It has several different ways to get across the same concept. For the concept of good-bye there are a whole bunch of ways to say it. Each is applicable in a specific context and situation.
Category: Its all about me-My life.
O Kaeri nasai!
And……..I’m back. In one week I will be on my way to the United States and life in Shopping Mall USA. I got upgraded to Business Class on Cathay today. Considering I was just making it to the gate -a late start by rolling over for just a few more
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To move on to the next phase of my life. The last couple of days have been busy, but filled with a lot of thoughts. It’s time to go on and do the things I have planned on. As has been pointed out life is what you make it-and I want
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To move on to the next phase of my life. The last couple of days have been busy, but filled with a lot of thoughts. It’s time to go on and do the things I have planned on. As has been pointed out life is what you make it-and I want
Continue readingGreetings from the Peak!
I am very much a creature of habit when I make these trips. Mostly, I do the same things over and over again when I come here-however, since its been 4-5 months between doing them, they always seem new. One of my rituals is the ride on the tram up
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So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm I’ll sleep when I’m dead Saturday night I like to raise a little harm I’ll sleep when I’m dead–Warren Zevon I am sitting here in the lounge at Narita waiting to board a plane to Hong Kong, for what may be
Continue readingIt has been that kind of week…..
These proceedings are closed……….losing the battle-hoping to win the war!
I got blindly drunk last night-just barely stumbling onto the last train back out of Yokohama. The S.O. was none too pleased when I darkened our doorstep at 1:30 am in as foul a humor as I have been in years. It is 6 am now and my head hurts. When
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As in lets go home! After taking the S.O. out for what I thought would be a nice farewell dinner to shopping mall USA, I got treated to a tirade on American food. The restaurant-a nice Italian grill with some very cold and tasty micro-brews did serve some very large
Continue readingParadise Lost……. or, the surge is succeeding.
Not that surge. The one that is slowly ripping apart the beautiful life I spent 8 years perfecting. Like it’s counterpart in Iraq, it is just as frustrating though. Now conscience wakes despair That slumber’d, wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse;
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