30th January 2007
Yes, K-1 world max is starting again! This middle weight class usually have more interesting fights than the heavyweights. Full review will be posted here after the event. Here is the fightcard:
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29th January 2007
No More Kings’ “Sweep the Leg”
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A little bit of eighties nostalgia here. This video is actually directed AND starring Billy Zabka who played Johnny Lawrence in the film “Karate Kid”. Ralph Macchio has a cameo at the end! Read the rest of this entry »
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28th January 2007
Ok, I thought I’d keep daily news and politics out of this blog as much as possible, but now I have changed my mind. Recently Japanese politicians have said so much weird and strange things that I decided to collect them on the blog from now on.
For those of you who follow Japanese politics you already know that the current government thinks it is unnecessary to learn English, that school bullying is good because it creates hard individuals and the latest thing is that corporal punishment should be reintroduced for better discipline in school. (Yes, it means that the teacher beats the children) Well, let’s forget about that for now and focus on the latest gaffe:
Japan’s health minister has referred to women as “birth-giving machines” in a speech to a local political meeting. “Because the number of birth-giving machines and devices is fixed, all we can ask for is for them to do their best per head,” he said.
He added: “Although it may not be so appropriate to call them machines.”
Well you just did. Mahalo.
UPDATE! (Warning: Humor, might offend some people, please do not continue if you are not into sarcasm)
Now the true machine has been found!
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26th January 2007
In Asia there is this idea that western eyes are more pretty than Asian eyes. Many Asian women actually perform surgery on their eyelids to achieve that double fold that is considered a more western look. Read the rest of this entry »
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25th January 2007
Driving in Japan can be scary in so many ways. The trickiest part is to find the way. With the same style of buildings and same chain stores everywhere it all looks the same. The solution is a GPS-navigator.
All cars here have one, even the very smallest. So renting a car and driving around is not that hard once you have punched in your destination in the navigator. The machine is all in Japanese so that can be difficult. A good thing is that if know the phone number to your destination (land line only) you just feed that to the navigator and it will show you the way.
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24th January 2007
Today we will continue with learning some more Katakana with another video:
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23rd January 2007
The magazine “Yokohama Walker” runs a story on IKEA in their new issue. The fun part is the illustrations! Check out the ninjas guiding you: Read the rest of this entry »
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