Nothing but ME!!

Nothing but ME!!http://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/en-EUhourly82000-01-01T12:00+00:00Nothing but ME!!http://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/http://data5.blog.de/design/preview/93/d919a26f231d1ab3f4739ac5ff2da6_160x200.jpgAkemashite omedotohttp://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2006/01/10/akemashite_omedoto~456862/2006-01-10T03:33:15+01:00 "Akeome" or "Akemashite omedetou" is Japanese for HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! the former is commonly used by teens. Anyways i begin the new year with a new assertivness, confidence and optimism. Am goin to work hard and try my best all the way!!! I'm goin to be more realistic with my goals and face my fears!!! I want to achieve as much as i can and i don't want to look back!!! I wanna begin the year with a high so let the year begin bring it on!!!!!! <a href="http://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2006/01/10/akemashite_omedoto~456862/#comments">Comments</a> "Akeome" or "Akemashite omedetou" is Japanese for HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! the former is commonly used by teens. Anyways i begin the new year with a new assertivness, confidence and optimism. Am goin to work hard and try my best all the way!!!

I'm goin to be more realistic with my goals and face my fears!!! I want to achieve as much as i can and i don't want to look back!!! I wanna begin the year with a high so let the year begin bring it on!!!!!!

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]]>picture thishttp://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2005/12/09/picture_this~372174/2005-12-09T06:30:00+01:00 picture this, picture that a cat a mouse, a temple, a kimono, a sumo wrestler, sushi............ all the things that streotypically describes Japan but how and why is that when i see an image that descibes modern day japan for what it is there never seems to be a camera in sieght. CASE1 "What is living in Japan really like?" A simple question asked constantly by friends and family. My answer is usually its alright, is ok, there is much differnce, but there is a lot of weirdness, what the Japanese would say お菓子　(okashi). Imagine seeing thi, a car modern day Toyaota, with a navigator system but then have the owner ( regardless of age, usually 30-60+) deck it out in complete winnie the pooh accessories. School leavers and young adults have a bit more style than that, they literally pimp up their cars. They don't stop with the navigator system, or the disco lights nor do they stop with print fur, instead, they decorate their winscreens decked out in fur, cuddly toys and fake plants!!! Oh yeah and just so you know their comming they have lights at the bottom of the car just above the tire frame. Even better the favourite of old ladies (おばお&#29987<img src="/img/smilies/icon_wink.gif" alt=";)" class="middle" border="0"> are dogs, not jsut as pets but treated like people, is like the spin off the Hiltom, Bittany Hollywood obession with pets wearing clothes. Case2 "What are Japanese students like"? In all honesty i was a bit naive to think that japanese students had no life and were very studious. The best way to find out about japanese students is to look at their pencil casese. It displays a bit of the their personalities. Is not uncommon for students to stick pictures of their friends/idols on their cases nor is uncommom for them to have sexual pics on them as well. One student had stickers of various sexual positions on her case, and to sum it up just one sentence that all men dred "i didn't have my period this month". i have another male student, obviousl a breat man, sticking pictures of D-cup breast on his case! He also has a the seven/eleven logo written in "6" and the word nine across it!!!! Now all these are perfect picture moments, but why the hell does my camera always miss it!!! <a href="http://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2005/12/09/picture_this~372174/#comments">Comments</a> picture this, picture that a cat a mouse, a temple, a kimono, a sumo wrestler, sushi............ all the things that streotypically describes Japan but how and why is that when i see an image that descibes modern day japan for what it is there never seems to be a camera in sieght.
CASE1 "What is living in Japan really like?" A simple question asked constantly by friends and family. My answer is usually its alright, is ok, there is much differnce, but there is a lot of weirdness, what the Japanese would say お菓子　(okashi). Imagine seeing thi, a car modern day Toyaota, with a navigator system but then have the owner ( regardless of age, usually 30-60+) deck it out in complete winnie the pooh accessories.

School leavers and young adults have a bit more style than that, they literally pimp up their cars. They don't stop with the navigator system, or the disco lights nor do they stop with print fur, instead, they decorate their winscreens decked out in fur, cuddly toys and fake plants!!! Oh yeah and just so you know their comming they have lights at the bottom of the car just above the tire frame.

Even better the favourite of old ladies (おばお産 are dogs, not jsut as pets but treated like people, is like the spin off the Hiltom, Bittany Hollywood obession with pets wearing clothes.

Case2 "What are Japanese students like"?
In all honesty i was a bit naive to think that japanese students had no life and were very studious. The best way to find out about japanese students is to look at their pencil casese. It displays a bit of the their personalities. Is not uncommon for students to stick pictures of their friends/idols on their cases nor is uncommom for them to have sexual pics on them as well. One student had stickers of various sexual positions on her case, and to sum it up just one sentence that all men dred "i didn't have my period this month".

i have another male student, obviousl a breat man, sticking pictures of D-cup breast on his case! He also has a the seven/eleven logo written in "6" and the word nine across it!!!!

Now all these are perfect picture moments, but why the hell does my camera always miss it!!!

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]]>should i go or should stayhttp://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2005/12/09/should_i_go_or_should_stay~372088/2005-12-09T03:20:45+01:00 so December is the festive season. everyting seems to happen in december, people gain weight, meet new partners, break up, people die some get married it just seems like is one of those seasons that everything seems to happen in. Anwways back here in Japan, its Bon enkai time. last year i went beacuse i was new to the country and intrested to see what the notorious Bon enkai's were like. i herd from various voices that it was the one time in the year were japanese people could actually let their hair downs and their belly full. I went,I saw but it was dare i aay it.......BORING!!! it was exciting in bits, my old work collegaues wanted to get me drunk, all of them asked me the same question which i knew was an attempt to make conversation etc. some people were asked to do some kind of performance which included; a delayed pathectic magic show, gym teachers showing of their muscles and being ridiculosy studpid (typical uni/college boys style stupidity) and that was about it. we sang the school athem and i was the star of the show just simply because i was new and a foreigner. Anways(again), this year am asked if i went to go and the truth is no i don't it was better as a first expericnce and i don't want to pay 6,000yen (30pounds/60$) to repeat it over again. Nothing new, is predictable just like the japanese lifestyle so i's gonna stay at home. <a href="http://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2005/12/09/should_i_go_or_should_stay~372088/#comments">Comments</a> so December is the festive season. everyting seems to happen in december, people gain weight, meet new partners, break up, people die some get married it just seems like is one of those seasons that everything seems to happen in.
Anwways back here in Japan, its Bon enkai time. last year i went beacuse i was new to the country and intrested to see what the notorious Bon enkai's were like. i herd from various voices that it was the one time in the year were japanese people could actually let their hair downs and their belly full. I went,I saw but it was dare i aay it.......BORING!!! it was exciting in bits, my old work collegaues wanted to get me drunk, all of them asked me the same question which i knew was an attempt to make conversation etc. some people were asked to do some kind of performance which included; a delayed pathectic magic show, gym teachers showing of their muscles and being ridiculosy studpid (typical uni/college boys style stupidity) and that was about it. we sang the school athem and i was the star of the show just simply because i was new and a foreigner.

Anways(again), this year am asked if i went to go and the truth is no i don't it was better as a first expericnce and i don't want to pay 6,000yen (30pounds/60$) to repeat it over again. Nothing new, is predictable just like the japanese lifestyle so i's gonna stay at home.

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]]>where do i begin?http://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2005/12/05/where_do_i_begin~361385/2005-12-05T05:52:28+01:00 Ready.....OK!! where shud i begin,(for the second time. I sit at this computer being the only person left in a japnese office to fend for myself. To gamabtte at the thought of being all one, but yet still be expected to portray the " i amso happy genki foreigner". you know the one that can be laughed at, the one that has alot of enegry,the one thet everyone expectsto always be happy. In japan is called "genki foreigner" elsewhere, well else where what would you call it? puppet,clown or an idiot. not a typical everyday idot but you know the type of idiot that is an idiot or seen as an idiot because there is a lack of understanding of what they represent, culturally. So i ask again where should i start, i'll begin again by sayin am s-t-u-k. I refuse to accept the fact that i may be slightlty depressed, and just stressed!!!!! stressed because i sit and write this blog i also have to decide whether or not to leave this bubble country and everything it represents. Do i stay, earn more momey and pretend to speak japanese? Or should i leave go home, see friends and be me! But, the BUT is goin home, what t the moment does London have offer me. I'll come back after two years of "teaching English" and "internationlising" and isolate community, which attempts to play a world role by means of security council membership, but still refuses to grant citzenship to foreign naionals and still finds it hard to understand that japanese like any other language can be learnd and spoken fleuntly by non nationals. Back to the subject, if i go home what do i tell my future employers, can i speak japnese ummmm "arigato", "konniciwa" and what was the other one "baka" and "yuparatai"? is that enough? oh and how did i internationalise or teach my students about the big world, ummm, ummmm "well i taught them bingo, they know about marmite, curry as the main Britsih food and they know the differece between continets and countries." But can they differentaite betweeen "rite and lite" ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. well i tried, how do i hide the truth (which am sure my future employers would know) that teaching English is just a youth excuse to repeat unilife but this time with money. People of whatever and whereever how do i get out of being S-T-U-K. Stressed,?,undefined,? (I'll come back with the other two words if and when i know them) <a href="http://dare2lie.blog.co.uk/2005/12/05/where_do_i_begin~361385/#comments">Comments</a> Ready.....OK!! where shud i begin,(for the second time. I sit at this computer being the only person left in a japnese office to fend for myself. To gamabtte at the thought of being all one, but yet still be expected to portray the " i amso happy genki foreigner". you know the one that can be laughed at, the one that has alot of enegry,the one thet everyone expectsto always be happy. In japan is called "genki foreigner" elsewhere, well else where what would you call it? puppet,clown or an idiot. not a typical everyday idot but you know the type of idiot that is an idiot or seen as an idiot because there is a lack of understanding of what they represent, culturally.

So i ask again where should i start, i'll begin again by sayin am s-t-u-k. I refuse to accept the fact that i may be slightlty depressed, and just stressed!!!!! stressed because i sit and write this blog i also have to decide whether or not to leave this bubble country and everything it represents. Do i stay, earn more momey and pretend to speak japanese? Or should i leave go home, see friends and be me! But, the BUT is goin home, what t the moment does London have offer me. I'll come back after two years of "teaching English" and "internationlising" and isolate community, which attempts to play a world role by means of security council membership, but still refuses to grant citzenship to foreign naionals and still finds it hard to understand that japanese like any other language can be learnd and spoken fleuntly by non nationals.

Back to the subject, if i go home what do i tell my future employers, can i speak japnese ummmm "arigato", "konniciwa" and what was the other one "baka" and "yuparatai"? is that enough? oh and how did i internationalise or teach my students about the big world, ummm, ummmm "well i taught them bingo, they know about marmite, curry as the main Britsih food and they know the differece between continets and countries." But can they differentaite betweeen "rite and lite" ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
well i tried, how do i hide the truth (which am sure my future employers would know) that teaching English is just a youth excuse to repeat unilife but this time with money.

People of whatever and whereever how do i get out of being S-T-U-K. Stressed,?,undefined,? (I'll come back with the other two words if and when i know them)

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