Notes on chopstick: Intimate stories from Tokyo and Me

• Everyone is so pleasant!
• The air is very dry here. I am constantly drinking water.
• There is an extractor fan *in* my toilet. It also has a heated seat, electronic bidet and a swirl action flush. The fan speeds up as you get off, I suppose to reduce risk of injury during the earlier sitting phase (Think dog jowls in a speeding cabriolet).
  
• People in suits are always (nearly always) very smart and have good knots in their ties.
  
• They drive on the left! Correct
  
• Speaking of driving - There is a Nissan car model named 'Cedric'.
• Many signs are in English as well as Japanese. Some signs are only in English.
• I can eat cabbage for breakfast. It compliments the yoghurt they also serve in the morning, very well.
• The buildings are cool. One looks like one of those fortress gate shaped monster robots from the movie Tron.
  
• I speculate: Because it's not tradition, handshakes here are limp and correspondingly uncomfortable.
  
• I am tall!
• Blogspot has turned all Japanese on me and I don't know which button to press next.
  

temporary service problem

Well.. This page should be fairly anonymous by now.

A far cry from the post below; home very alone on a friday night. Thank God for Pete Tong and Dirt magazine.

Adios Amigos.

Scotland Accommodation

Ok the hostel is picked and looks good.. Budget backpackers slam in the centre of Edinburgh.

www.budgetbackpackers.com

For 3 nights it's £34.50 and for 2; £24. Just ring up (0131 2266351) and quote my booking reference, which you will have to ring/email me for. Then we will all be booked into the same dorms. Simple!

This trip is panning out to be chicken oriental :)

Al

Scotland flights

Birmingham-Edinburgh-Birmingham

Flight out: Friday 14th April, British Airways, 15.40-16.50, BA 1828

Flight back: Monday 17th April, bmibaby, 18.05-19.20, flight 1004

ANOTHER new phone number

Yes (as Kate pointed out) my last phone was shit (Jon how do you manage with it? I had the SPV and texting did my nut!!) so I have sent it back and now have a new phone number, again..
+447967 428970

With any luck it wont be changing again any time soon!

I have a job, as a driller! I will have an Orange coat and trousers and will be working near railway lines. Yay!

New phone number

I have a new phone number and a lovely new phone, too.

It's +44 7814 037194

It doesn't take long

to get fully bored of being at home, does it? I even have a tidy room and organised belongings.

I need to get a job :(