As of today, MailChimp‘s reporting has correct Japanese. Yesterday the mouseover balloon on the opens by location for Japan said “domu haragato.” After a blog comment from me, they changed it to “Domo Arigato!” Thank you very much, MailChimp.
Just a short post to indicate that yes, both I and this blog are still alive and operational. I’m still settling into Melbourne, having been back from Japan almost a month now. I found myself a cheap city apartment, and have been doing some transcription work as an office temp, while I look for something [...]
Being in Japan for the last 8 months, where I’ve been not just isolated from the world, but cut off by language from most of the people here, has increased my sense of the importance of family and friendship. In the past I kept to myself, turned down invitations in favor of quiet nights at [...]
Japan was a bust. The slap-the-country-in-the-face-post can wait until I return to Melbourne in 27 days. I’m looking forward to clean air, trees, beautiful buildings, great food, jobs that don’t take 14 hours out of every day, and women who speak English. I also have a new header image featuring the Melbourne skyline (courtesy of [...]
Here’s a great television commercial for a Final Fantasy-branded energy drink on sale in Japan at the moment. Two white collar workers fight for the last bottle left in a convenience store, Final Fantasy-style!
The answer, in my case, is ten. In Japan, people are traditionally accustomed to sitting on the floor, so when one of my lightbulbs blew last night, I found my furnished apartment lacking a chair high-enough to stand on while I changed it. Today, though, some lateral thinking led me to make use of a [...]
After a whole weekend in Tôkyô, I was broke, and feeling like I couldn’t wait to get out of Ôta so I wouldn’t have to spend 4000¥ every time I wanted to do something interesting. Also, I’d finally settled in: I had internet access, a mobile phone, I’d finished my training, and I was working [...]
So, I’ve been slack. What started out as a series of posts on two weeks in Japan still hasn’t been finished after a month here. It’s been long enough that I’ve started to forget what days I did things on, so this may be a little bit vague. On the plus-side, the boring bits have [...]
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Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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