Year: 2006

Interesting sites and blogs entry 1

I browse the internet a whole lot and there are many sites that i favour and find interesting. I will begin to feature interes

Church Heathen – Shaggy

I can’t believe I didn’t post this video a few days ago when I first saw it. I am a avid listener of local Jamaica

Ate too much but Christmas 2006 was great!

This year’s Christmas has been one of the better ones for me in awhile and as I lay in bed feeling sick while the last f

Seasons Greetings

I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone who has been visiting this blog for the past few months a merry Chris

I saw Tomoko Sensei Today!…received a bag of goodies and failing grades

Which do I talk about in the post first…I wonder…lets start with the goodies! While idling at work today I remembe

Entertaining but not Original – Eragon Movie

For over a month I was drooling over the various trailers and sneak peeks of Eragon – a brand new movie featuring all th

Naruto Fillers Ending Spring 2007

Naruto faithfuls like myself have endured many many many months of so called “filler” episodes of the popular anim

I have failed….confirmation pending…

I knew I would deep down I knew it. I probably didn’t want to say it but I knew it. I deserve it though because this ter

Heroes – first 10 episodes recap

It’s been over two months or 10 episodes since I first got entangled in the sci-fi goodness of what is the biggest new p

Nintendo hails Wii sales success – 600, 000 sold in a week

Nintendo says it has sold more than 600,000 of its new Wii game consoles in the first eight days since they became available i

Over one year of studying Japanese

This term marked many milestones in my short study of the Japanese language, and now since studying over a year, I take great

Robot serves as temp worker in Japan

It can greet people, show DVDs and hand out balloons. “Ubiko,” a robot-on-wheels with a catlike face, is joining t

Wii Launch Frenzy

The third and final “next-gen” console has now been released unto the masses in North America. The Nintendo Wii, c

PS3 Launch Frenzy

It happened a few days ago in Japan and now it’s North America’s turn. At midnight the PS3 went on sale, and with

Japan’s prince makes first trip – Dedication Rite

Two-month-old Prince Hisahito, Emperor Akihito’s first grandson, was taken Tuesday to the Kashikodokoro (Place of Awe),

Tsunami warning in Japan, Russia after major quake

TOKYO (Reuters) – A tsunami warning was issued for northern Japan and Russia’s northeastern coast after a major qu

Lee “Scratch” Perry talks God, ganja and Japanese gadgets

Musical resumes don’t get much more impressive than Lee “Scratch” Perry’s, the Jamaican maverick credi

So I went to buy one game…

So there I was sitting at home last Saturday morning bored as hell, fell asleep early Friday night after a exhausting day at w

University Of Tokyo student creates cloak of invisibility

Harry Potter and Capt. Kirk would be proud. A team of American and British researchers has developed its own cloak of invisibi

This Year’s JET Seminar has come and gone

As I have been saying for a while last Monday evening there was a little meeting to discuss the JET program at the private sch

Great action with healthy dose of humour – Crank Movie

It’s been a while since I went to the theatre to watch a film and so last weekend I went to see a film that I having bee

JET program representatives arriving at school next Monday

Time flies when you have a busy life like me. It seems like half a year ago when Tomoko sensei told us that 3-5 Japan Exchange

What’s interesting on TV right now? AOTS and Heroes

Apart from my usual dose of Jimmy Newtron, Star Trek: TNG, Avatar, Modern Marvel, Trival Life just to name a few it seems I ha

Normal Classes Restarted – One Year of Studying Japanese

Yesterday was the first day of classes. I can’t believe that it has been one year since I first signed up for Japanese c