Far East Cynic

Breakfast….

It is the most important meal of the day! Especially when it comes with eggs and BACON! Deciding to have bacon though can be a complicated undertaking though. See below. (H/T to Bothenook for the link!)

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Not good.

I think the Aegis and Furuno radars have been explained to death on NHK this evening. Here is why: MINAMIBOSO, Chiba — A Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) destroyer collided with a fishing boat off the coast of Chiba early Tuesday, splitting the fishing boat in two and leaving a father

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Cat Art

It started innocently enough. A couple weeks back, we went out to a street sale. More correctly-yours truly was dragged from the warmth of his couch, TV, and coffee-to stop by the ATM and then serve as the financier for yet another of the S.O.’s  junk antique shopping expeditions. Along

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Off to the market……

The Oedo international market at the Tokyo Kokusai Forum. The S.O. and I went out all the days of this weekend riding somewhere on the train. On Saturday she went up to a shrine sale-while I went up to Yokohama. I walked around Landmark tower, through the shops, out around

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Not everyone…….

Drinks the surge kool-aid………. Some people like their truth straight up: Let’s get something straight. The terms “victory” and “defeat” long ago lost any relevance to the situation in Iraq and the so-called war on terror. Read the rest here!

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Lee Kwan Bush

I think that somewhere in the White House, George Bush keeps a shrine to Lee Kwan Yew, the first Prime Minister of Singapore and now is the governmental leader who just will not go away. After  30 years in power, he supposedly turned over the reigns of power-but in reality

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Looking forward to the holiday……

Valentines Day is over,  thank God. However in Japan there is one more artificial holiday created by merchants-White Day. March 14th, the day men are supposed to give women white chocolate. For the rest of the world, March 14th is a special holiday. Ladies start preparing now!

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The four letter word………

[while looking at a picture of Stifler’s mom] MILF Guy #2: Dude that chick’s a MILF! I will confess I thought about that term when I saw this video on Japan Probe:   Joshiko-moms-jpnprbedotcomUploaded by jpnvideos Earlier this week, Let’s Go to School aired the “I Wore My Daughter’s Uniform

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The next time someone tells you they have a good deal for you…….

Run! In the opposite direction as fast as you can! Here is a little tidbit I came across in my surfing. Remember this picture and these words-the next time one of those briefing teams from the Bureau of Naval Personnel comes around and tries to tell you what a “good

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What it is like…….

To work for this guy: Go watch the video here. Come to think of it, this could be a good analogy for the US relationship to China……………… H/T to John at Arggh!

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