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2011 in review

David — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 02:00:29 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Foot Pee!

David — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:09:25 +0000

The mind boggles…

Working late

David — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:34:32 +0000

Recently I’ve been working quite late, but one day last week managed to get out of the office while it was still light outside.

Special Event PORK

David — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:31:59 +0000

Special Event PORK at Dean & Deluca.

Tokyo Tower

David — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:58:36 +0000

Some photos from around Tokyo Tower. I didn’t go up the tower itself because there was a big queue and I didn’t want to wait…

Japan visa renewal does not include re-entry permit renewal

David — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:03:22 +0000

When I renewed my visa I naively assumed that it included an extension of the re-entry permit.

I didn’t find out that this is not the case until I was at Narita airport going through passport control.

Passport control officer: “So, you’re not coming back to Japan?”
Me: “Of course I’m coming back, I’m only going on vacation.”
Passport control officer: “So where’s your re-entry permit? This is expired.”
Me: “Here it is look, I renewed it in April.” *points to the new visa*
Passport control officer: “This is your visa. You also need a new re-entry permit!”
Me: %$!*

Luckily they issued one at the airport, but only for a single entry. I have to go back to the immigration centre to get a new multiple re-entry permit.

Application form for re-entry permit

Summer holiday

David — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:36:06 +0000

While we were back in the UK for 3 weeks, we spent a week down on the south west coast in Devon (Paignton, Brixham, Sidmouth).

Photos: Holiday in Devon

Daibutsu

David — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:25:21 +0000

At the weekend we went to Kamakura to see the Daibutsu (“big Buddha”).

It wasn’t as big as we expected. A bit disappointing, really.

More photos.

Earth / Arse

David — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:49:26 +0000

In Japanese, the word “earth” when written in Katakana sounds the same as “arse”.

Peacock

David — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:52:46 +0000

A peacock at Yumemigasaki Zoo Park.