Undercover in Japan

A life project plan

quaisi — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:47:56 +0000

I’m free form journalling here. Need to think about what direction my life is going to take next. I’ve been back in England for just over a year and today is the anniversary of being at my job. The job was supposed to be a stop-gap job to get a base to [...]

Dropbox

quaisi — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:13:33 +0000

Warning – Self interested advert. Have you heard of Dropbox? It’s an application that backs up and syncs files over the internet and to any computer. When you install the application it creates a folder on your hard drive. Any file you put in the folder is synced to the online folder and [...]

British Blossom

quaisi — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:47:52 +0000

I’m on holiday and we had a picnic in the local park in the shade of a tree which was lovely. Brought along a couple of beers and some wine. A sort of impromptu blossom festival. I still don’t understand why the Cherry Blossom festivals so prevalent in Japan aren’t more popular in [...]

quaisi — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:39:26 +0000

Did you know I have a daughter called Isabelle? Here she is again, this time in black and white. Her progression in England has been interesting to watch since coming back from Japan. She appreciates the difference between English and Japanese. She’ll talk differently to me than to the wife. She particularly llkes [...]

The mother in law

quaisi — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:13:26 +0000

omorrow Mrs Quaisi’s mother is coming to stay for a month. I’m really looking forward to it. We get on well and it will be her first time to see Isabelle for almost a year. I spent a month and a half last year away from her looking for a job in England and [...]

Of Car Insurance

quaisi — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:26:29 +0000

Cars eh? We bought one after months of heated debates about whether we needed one and the drain on the finances they could be. A V reg Renault Megane. We’ll pick it up tomorrow. I can’t drive and have rarely had the inclination to. I enjoy sitting in the back seat of [...]

England

quaisi — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:57:31 +0000

Many people tell me they can’t wait to get out of the UK. That they hate the culture, the chavs and the weather. Well yesterday confirmed that despite its many flaws, England still has a special in my heart. A day walking around in warm sunshine topped of with a visit to a park running around [...]

March Update

quaisi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:39:39 +0000

I spend all day wishing I was on the computer and then when I get home I wonder what I should do. Falling in love with Linux. Actually Ubuntu. Actually Eeebuntu on the eee pc. It’s great getting to know a new operating system. I’ve dual booted it before on other computers but always [...]

Poole Park Sunset

quaisi — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:37:35 +0000

Here’s a sunset photo I took at the local park when I went recently. Anybody else have young kids and manage to get any work done at all? Going on photowalks, studying and reading all seem to be things I can only really think of after 8:00 when my kid falls asleep. By [...]

Zelda cabbage kyaraben

quaisi — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:05:01 +0000

How to make Japanese kids eat cabbage with Zelda related goodness. The art of styling Japanese lunchboxes into depictions of art [Via The Guardian After showing the wife she pointed me towards more Kyaraben like these kyaraben here.