Recently, with increasing regularity, I’ve found that people just aren’t comfortable with silence. Not a groundbreaking revelation I admit, but it seems to have cropped up an awful lot. Only yesterday when I was helping my boyfriend make dinner, his flatmate (who I’ve met just a few times) and I were the sole occupants of [...]
Archive > March 2008
eBay: the commercial siren
She beckons to me, enticing with her promise of amazing bargains and impossibly good value for money. She lays her bait and I think to myself, ‘It’s only 99p. What difference would it make?’ And that is when she knows she has snared me, that all she need do is reel me in, gently at [...]
To sleep, perchance to dream
I had a bizarre, protracted dream last night. I had to go in a great hurry to meet some friends and so began packing necessary items into a bag. Despite not finding everything I needed, I left to catch a bus. The bus was slow and was going in the wrong direction so I got [...]
Me and my not-so-Japanese face
お 早うございます O-hayo gozaimasu!This morning on my way to work I remembered it was my mum’s birthday and for some reason this got me to thinking about me being half-Japanese. Being a halvsey in the past twenty or so years has ceased to be such a rare thing. There are so many different races living [...]