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Havn’t posted in a week for a number of reasons. Can’t be bothered chief among them. I mean very busy…yes very busy. SO this one is a bit of a long’un but you’ll be ok. Sit down infront of the fan, pour yourself a tall Ice (green) tea and read on. And forgive me for using ‘YEAH BOY’ excessivly but I’ve watched ‘Shaun of the Dead’ like three times this week.
Here’s a recent shot of the Chonan skyline:
How hardcore am I? I have developed what appear to be contusions along both of my thumbs consistant with overuse of my Playstation Portable for extended periods of time - YEAH BOY! Indeed near the end of each day I start experiencing symptoms of PSP withdrawal and often rush home to play the damned thing 
I’m such a fan boy - it’s rediculous, but not as rediculous as my new quest to mod my PS2 - more on that later.
The temperature here has cooled by a couple of degrees with the onset of the Monsoon seaason.; That is to say it has rained pretty much constantly and at times quite heavily, since Sunday, and will continue to do so for the next couple of weeks by all accounts. Hopefully it will; let up by the time mum and Mark get here - 2 weeks from today infact. Currently they are experiencing the hottest summer in Europe for some time. Ah I should count my blessings - before you know it winter will be here again and I would rather suffer through balmy weather than the cold. The thunder and lightening accompanying the monsoon is pretty cool - even though I was woken at 4 on Tuesday morning by a thunder clap that seemed to be right above the apartment building.
Here is the independance (from Japan) Monument in Chonan
It’s funny how the focus at work often changes unexpectidly. While the 6 o’clock class is finally beginning to settle down the 5 o’clock class - which I share with ‘The Boss’ are turning fucking mental on it! Occassionally ‘The Boss’ will poke his head through the door weilding a sstick and tell them to shut up but it has little effect and serves to make me feel incompetent (I( know I know - it’s the sad sad truth). But I mean after a year and a half at this you’d think I could control a class..? By way of contrast though I set them all up for a phone class on Tuesday. Not only did they all answer the phone at the right time, but they were all pretty good, so I guess I can’t be doing too bad. Ultimately I would like to seperate the class into two halves, but the fact that we are one teacher down at the moment makes it a bit prohibative. (and ‘The Boss’ doesn’t seem to be activly seeking a replacement which might turn round and bite him in the ass come Friday fortnight when I bugger off for the day).
In a totally unrelated vein I’d like to say that yesterday was payday and I still had money in the bank from last payday - YEAH BOY!
In other (money related) news I have some questions for the current New Zealand minister of Education. If you earn $39000 a year in New Zealand you have about 200 bucks taken out of your pay before tax to pay back your loan. ($2400 a year) Why then if you earn roughly the same in another country (Taking into account ForEx) why do you have to pay 3 times more???? Mother fuckers! Personally I blame Wyatt Creach - National Ass! Even still, If I get my ass to the Embassy sometime this month to register on the electoral roll, The government has lost my vote. (They’ve lost my money too, I ain’t pay that you fuckers!)
The Yasakuni shrine: Source of recent Japanese - Korean angst:
Last post was the movie review, Today I present the Bimbo album review. Recently I installed a new file sharing program on my laptop after the venerable KIWI ALPHA stopped working unless you purchased some seedy license for dodgy adware, so in the spirit of stealing music from artists I downloaded the first disk of Moby’s 3rd album ‘Hotel" (Limited Ambient Edition).
To be honest it’s a bit more ‘happy clappy’ than 18 and not as, how could I put it, ‘experimental’ as PLAY or The PLAY B Sides. That’s not to say that some of the tracks aren’t catchy. I particularly like track 2 ‘Raining Again’ (very appropriate at the moment) and track 4 ‘Lift Me Up’. There is definately a Pop-ish progression from Play (Remember how cool I thought I was ‘cos My first copy of Play was from Marbecks and I had it before just about everyone else) (although I think just about every track was licensed for one commercial or another or that horrible sitcom with the fat chick from Cheers.) To 18 (tracks from which I hear every so often on BBC news).
Bimbo Rating: GOOD
Of course one of the things with stealing downloading music is lack of cover art. I have seen the hotel website and it is that cool 1970s-esq french all rounded corners animation that I particularly like so I would like to get hold of the cover sometime just for a look.
Ciggie vending machines: what a fantastic idea!
Anyway I’m off to download the new iTunes software which apparently has podcast support which would be sooooooooo much easier for getting engadget podcasts and the like rather than the clunky RSS readers people have been hocking on the internet for months so I will let you know whether it’s worth a go or not fairly shortly. So I had best put a shirt on and head off to work for the usual Friday malarky.
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