EiGhTy oNe

It's a Wednesday, the worst day of my week, and thanks to a colleague forgetting to buy filter papers, there will be no coffee today... I have to go and teach in about 20 minutes, and it's the one class a week that I openly dread... they don't speak a word of English, I hardly speak a word of Japanese, potato, potarto, tomato, tomarto, let's call the whole thing off...

Anyway, apparently this Friday's class movie will be the latest offering in the Harry Potter franchise. It will be my first exposure to it, apart from reading a few pages in a book that was lurking around your house on the night before we went paintballing (incidentally, yours and Johnny Alpha's style of waking me up were rather different... you appeared in the doorway with a cup of coffee and a ripe pun, and Johnny opened every door of his house, put the music from the battle of britain on full volume and shouted commands as if under attack (at 5am no less)..

By the way, please email me your home address (or at the address that you collect mail from), as you birthday present is ready and waiting to be dispatched...

Seventy ninE

Grief! Like an Eye bus you are! On time and punctual you are not! Troubled my brow! Accept a host of excuses I won't!

Well November has pretty much been and gone... things at school are ok, although the long-awaited class bowling tournament is to be scrapped in favour of watching a movie and going shopping (curse those fucking girls with their short skirts and tennis legs).

In other news, I read a book to stand almost alongside but actually a few paces behind Shogun and Tai pan, namely The Wind Up Bird Chronicles by Murakami. Superb stuff. Goldeneye was on Japanese tv a few nights ago, but travesties were abound, as they cut so much out of it that it barely resembled the original film. I'd estimate that a good 15 minutes was jettisoned, mostly due to the ludicrous way that instead of pausing the film, showing the adverts and resuming, the tv company decided to not pause the film, show the adverts and then jump back into the movie after a 2 minute gap. TWATS!

In other other news, my fiance and thine truly have signed the papers and are now on the brink of moving into our new apartment. Well, actually I will be moving in on the 23rd December, and Yoko will follow me after January 1st (it's a long, traditionalist story, full of hissing relatives, silver guns and plates of sour vegetables).

I do hope that I haven't moved in by the time you reply to this...

7eventy 7even

Welcome back! By God, I thought the Cheam Cartel had finally nabbed ye...

Let's see... the techology I'm currently "loving" (shakes head, removes spectacles in a very middle aged way and rests them on the table) is probably the stupendous satellite navigation they have in some cars in Japan. Also, the mind-bogglingly swish digital cameras...

I had heard something about V, although not that it was being postponed. Trust the government to fudge a release date. Silly men in suits...