This is Tokyo Torii - pretty spectacular isn't it ....... There's an evenmore spectacular one down on an Island called Miyajima, which is down off the coast of Southern Japan close to Hiroshima. There should be a picture of it somewhere in the account of the Magical Mystery Tour
30/09/2005 - Splashdown !! : Anoyo, Niijima, typhoons - all good.
12/05/2005 - Exactly a year since my last update - oops !!
This is an old article about my musical experiences in 2004, which I wrote last year for b00mb0x.org
12/05/2004 - Radiohead come to Tokyo. This review is also up on b00mb0x here
01/02/2004 - 2003 from a music perspective
10/10/2003 - The Irish expat community in Asia head to Hong Kong to represent their countries in the Asian Gaelic Games
01/09/2003 - Sado Island, Anoyo party - Rolling Thunder
12/06/2003 - Zumbar steals a swivel chair
26/03/2003 - My God this site has been getting a a lot of attention recently - aren't you lucky ??
This is a review of a Massive Attack gig, written for
the B00mb0x website, but I'm putting it here as well.
20/03/2003 - Japanese toilets.
05/03/2003 - Return to South East Asia. Two weeks in Cambodia.
10/01/2003 - New Years Eve in Tokyo.
08/10/2002 - A Sunday afternoon in Tokyo spent as a spectator to some Sumo wrestling.
03/09/2002 - I'm back in Japan again ...... which means more music festivals .
09/07/2002 - A look at the American Heavy rock band, Tool.
06/07/2002 - Well the backpacking around South East Asia epic is now finished - over a year after I started it.
02/06/2002 - God ...... has it been that long since I added anything here ??
This is interesting though. Cottage industries being squashed beneath the lumbering Behemouth of EU bureaucracy. Please read and disseminate the link as widely as possible to anyone who might be interested.
30/07/2001 - When John - one of my new housemates - doesn't like someone his reaction can sometimes be over the top
10/04/2001 - I quit my job in Japan 7 months ago because things weren't going so well. The last 7 months have been spent backpacking around South East Asia and Australia.
17/05/2000 - Golden Week again - this time - Destination Vietnam.
26/04/2000 - I got transferred at work recently - this is very bad
22/02/2000 - Myself and Glyn headed to Hokkaido for a weekend skiing with some Japanese people. It was an interesting meeting of the Japanese and Irish holiday mindsets.
17/02/2000 - A weekend in the sticks
04/02/2000 - Music stuff.
25/11/99 - Its Climbing Mount Fuji season.
3/9/99 - Some thoughts on Americans and meat.
29/7/99 - Its summer in japan and its really hot.
25/7/99 - The Japan Outdoor Rave Scene.
20/7/99 - The Muse Webpage is an Irish Website which I check periodically to keep track of whats happening in the music world. They publish a list of top ten songs from a viewer once a week and last time it was my turn. The list is replaced every week, but being the sad man that I am I downloaded it and stored it here.
14/7/99 - Emer contemplates a new career path ............
28/5/99 - Here's Sean's (again) idea on what to do when leaving your company.
22/5/99 - Last Saturday Sean showed us a very novel alternative use for condoms.
12/5/99 - A few weeks ago I went on a Magical Mystery Tour with some friends around Japan.
4/11/99 - Finally - Tokyo Classifieds accept one of my rants. Actually I think the Shinkansen one is much superior but I'll allow you to make up your own mind. Read it here
14/4/99 - This is a rant I wrote about the Japanese Shinkansen (Bullet Trains) and sent into Tokyo Classified (a free English magazine available in Tokyo). They never published it but I consider it a masterpiece ........