Off to California!

Back to that steam-cooker they call Kyoto in 2 weeks…

Off to California!

Back to that steam-cooker they call Kyoto in 2 weeks…

For my birthday last week, I decided to give my late 20′s the proper send off they deserved, and went for a nice intimate dinner with I. at a somewhat fancy French restaurant overlooking the kamogawa near sanjo.

In addition to the impeccable, yet friendly service, the food was some of the best I had in a very long time. I still can’t get over how delicious the homemade foie gras with figs was…

Definitely recommended if you are ever looking for good French cuisine in Kyoto (while they are probably some less expensive options in town, they really aren’t even in the same range of quality)…

My kitchen sink currently has two tap water temperatures: warm water and hot water.

It is just mind-boggling how many Japanese have come away convinced that I must be a US citizen, on account of my shirt having a tiny US flag shoulder patch (right above where it proclaims in large gold stitch letters that I am a “Boy Scout of America”).

On the other hand, this lack in the whole irony concept, puts some of the clothing commonly spotted through the streets of Japan in a radically new, slightly scary, perspective…

After spending 30 minutes figuring out what needed fixing on a friend’s freshly updated (and no longer working) Softbank iPhone, I figured I would commit the instructions to this blog, for all the hapless gaijin out there, trying to figure out why their iPhone suddenly stopped working.

This post is purely intended for a Google audience, so please skip if you are a regular reader with none of the aforementioned iPhone issues.

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The cicadas outside my window have started singing.

Summer is officially here.

A couple more weeks and I’ll have fresh cilantro for my Thai curries!

I don’t usually embed YouTube videos, but a friend pointed me to this talk that features some of my absolute favourite things in life: travels stories, evolutionary biology, Douglas Adams and lemurs!!!

Ninety minutes of the funniest, wittiest and most insightful rant you will ever hear on Parrots the Universe and Everything:

Dear local Kyoto-fu LDP candidate for the upcoming upper-house election:

True: I cannot cast a vote in this election and sway your chances either direction.

But let me assure you that, if you keep insisting on circling my block multiple times, every morning between 8 and 8:30, inane election slogans blaring from your van’s speakers at top volume, I will be more than happy to contribute to your historical legacy by setting post at the closest grassy knoll with whatever long-range weapon I can get my hands on.

Thanks.