Archive for the 'stupidity' Category

Crazy fish game

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Apparently it’s called “Sushi Bar“. It’s impossible for non-Japanese.

Curry with paratha

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Paratha is a type of fried bread which I discovered and decided (wrongly) was naan. Anyway, here we’re eating it with a mouth-watering slow-cooked lamb curry made with shanks from the local butcher and sweet potatoes from the local shop. Oishii!

Sorry about the terrible photo. Notice in the background the JML pedometer which registered 3000 steps an hour on my treadmill before it overloaded and died. Bloody JML!!

Where did Oriental City go?

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Oriental City was a large South-East Asian mall and community centre in North London, reasonably close to Colindale Station. It closed for redevelopment on 1 June 2008, though as of early 2010 the redevelopment appears unlikely to actually happen, and the new Pacific Plaza in Wembley looks much more promising. THIS LINK is a partial list of where the Oriental City traders have moved to. (Was it worth destroying a few acres of land and an entire cross-London community for this?)

Possibly Pacific Plaza might replace it. They have the Japanese crockery shop, but not yet the huge supermarket.


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Painting and decorating

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

Apparently I’m a “head man”

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009


Hiyoko Sable site …

(Thanks Nobuko!)

Useless train service, so why not?

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

Unlike Silverlink they can’t seem to run trains on time, so … http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Shitland

Bloody Japanese captcha!

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

It took me bloody ages to work out that they were asking for me to type in the numbers (like イチ => 1 etc). I was trying to type in the hiragana and katakana …

Flying flipping freehold

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Ooops

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Sorry about the downtime over the past two days. I accidentally pressed the wrong button on the web server.

Everything should be back to normal now.

Chickens and goats

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

A few weeks ago I bought by accident the Complete Encyclopedia of Chickens.

Wow, chickens are … amazing!

These are Japanese fighting cocks! called Japanese SHAMO:

But I also bought a book about goats …

I love a box!!!

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Click –> I love a box!!!

MOHIKEN!! Baka-neko

Ummmmmm!!!!

Working in London = overrated

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

I got up at 7am this morning, got on a crowded train at 8, worked from 9 to 6.30, went for a quick drink, London Shitland was delayed on the way back, got home at 9.30! And now I’m knackered.

Going to London is overrated!

The kings of idiots

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Today is the third anniversary of this blog. By some sort of dreadful anti-cosmic coincidence, it’s similar to the second anniverary.

It’s POCKY! (Not Mikado or whatever)

Saturday, April 18th, 2009

Not sure about the whole message there, but anyhow … inspired by this advert, I bought a packet. 59p per packet, and they are quite tiny compared to the real pocky. Also the milk chocolate is horrible compared to the plain chocolate pocky they sell in Japan.

The RETURN of the LEAK!

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Unfuckingbelievable …

Previously …

Teeth of wisdom

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

Owwww. I went to the dentist today and I’m going to have them out on April 6th …

BBC Four are having a Japan season soon, starting on Sat 14th March. However good luck finding anything about this on their website which is basically useless. Andrew Graham Dixon’s programme on Samurai looks interesting.

Update

Here is the URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/japan/

The Bull

Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Here …

Benkyoshimasu lordshippu

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Thanks to morisobako and f-yayoi for finding BENINGTON (BENKYOSHIMASU) LORDSHIP gardens …

Benington Lordship Gardens (looks much bigger in the photo than it does in real life) ..

M-kun’s dinkle?

The best bit was the CHICKEN TOILET. N-sama wouldn’t go do OSHINKO because of the chickens by the toilet. Eh tou.

Squirrels dancing

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Happy Hallowe’en

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The Great Vegetable Massacre (thanks to b3ta)