5 January 2008

Happy New Year!

あけましておめでとうございます!
Apologies for the lack of updates over Christmas and the New Year! I was busy eating my way through pounds of chocolate and mince pies while spending time with my family and my girlfriend. But I did do a little Wii Sports Boxing to compensate for all the indulgences! Though I’d prefer to forget I [...]

27 November 2007

Import tax on the Dench’!?

Ooo, boy did I get stung this morning. I really feel like I took another step towards becoming a Fully-Fledged Adult today. And if this is what Adulthood consists of I’d rather hide away under my books and keep eating sweets until my teeth fall out than face it. Tax. *Shudder*
Perhaps a huge ignorance on [...]

20 November 2007

Zeitgeist, The Movie

Zeitgeist - “The spirit of the age”. A picture painted based on the general thoughts of a period in time. So what is the Zeitgeist today? Peter Joseph, producer of the ‘Zeitgeist, The Movie’ suggests it’s not quite the way we are led to believe.
The caption on Google Video reads, “What does Christianity, 911 [...]

4 November 2007

Broken Dench’

What a week! If I may be permitted to take a break from philosophical ponderings and come back down to earth, I’d like to write a little about the events that unfolded… What a bad week it has been! I mean, in the grand scheme of things I suppose things have been fair. Some things [...]

15 October 2007

Brown Penny

“Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny. I am looped in the loops of her hair.”
I first heard this poem watching the film ‘Must Love Dogs’ in a hotel in Asahikawa, a city in the Northern part of Japan on the island of Hokkaido. It was a recitation by Christopher Plummer, who did it so well [...]