Every year I try to get my hands on a copy of the Takashima Ekidan so I can find out what the next year has in store for me. The one for 2007 said that this wasn’t going to be my year:
(from the official Takashima Ekidan website)
This year’s fortune: Decline
Academics: Academic work will be […]
I could have done the ‘right’ thing and started speaking Japanese more when MM was still in the womb. But I felt like an idiot muttering things to myself and there weren’t many other people around to speak with.
I could have made Japanese ‘our’ language when MM was a baby. But it felt […]
Firecracker has the usual roundup of Asian movie content - reviews, interviews, etc. But they’ve also started up a pay-per-view streaming movie feature that seems pretty cool. Right now it’s rather Malaysia-heavy (not a bad thing!), and it looks like upcoming stuff won’t all be viewable in the US, but fyi.
The Japan Foundation […]
I’ve been listening to the Kung Fu Hustle soundtrack in the car when I drive out to my parents’ house to “work” - or, at least, I get to listen to it after MM’s “Jack’s Big Music Show” CD ends. There are a couple of pieces that have me flashing back to Chinese New […]
Hello to the little mouse that just spent a half hour trying to get past me in the living room. I had a feeling we had another mouse in the house; he’s so cute that I don’t really want to set out a trap…but they get bigger.
Also hello to 8 Asians, a new group […]
I wanted to say thanks to everyone who chimed in about the depression/counseling issue the other day. I haven’t responded individually because I’m just not really in a corresponding kind of place right now - it’s selfish, I know, but right now I still feel a bit like laying low.
But, thanks to what you […]
