Posts by Keith Ng
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It made it to page 4 on Japan's biggest English paper. There's a big photo of Tame Iti (very photogenic), talk of weapons training camps, and a Maori separatist angle is implied.
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If you are still in Kyoto there is a giant cinema complex style internet cafe in a basement in one of the main streets. There are showers, sunbeds, a giant manga library, slippers, robes, food, toothbrushes.....and not so much with the porny atmosphere.
Do you mean the one under Sanjo Covered Arcade? I'm there right now, and they have some hardcore soothing new-age ambience stuff playing. Strugging to stay awake.
But I suspect you really had to seek out a solution quite that seedy (if so, worth it for the tease of your opening paragraph).
You got me. It wasn't hard to find, but I was totally blogging it in my head before I even went up the stairs.
If you say a Family Mart, you can buy a Brastel dialing card for 2000 yen. This will probably get you 3-4 hours of international telephone calls, and they can be used from a phone booth.
Gah, that's exactly what I was looking for. Oh well. I've checked into a business hotel just to make that bloody phone call.
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I am sure they would explain it all much better than I can. Seems that if we move the country back 150 years in time, to when there were no taxes and we were 2ND IN TEH WORLD, all will be just fine and dandy.
BTW, the "Foundation for Economic Growth" provides a really great example of non-political political advertising.
Great stuff! It *does* give me an idea, though. Revive the Third Reich, level half of Europe and kill, oh, 10-20 million people. That will bring New Zealand back to the top half of the OECD in no time at all.
Anyone want to make that a campaign promise for 2008? Anyone?
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I am surprised that you are having trouble with the subway/metro. I was there for a couple of weeks in July/August and thought it was really easy user-friendly system (Idon't speak or read a word of Japanese).
Yeah - it's getting a bit better now. I think the trick is to not look at the map beyond what you need, otherwise it melts your brain.
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...and, fanboys, Ellen Muth is going to be at Armaggedon.
So. Jealous.
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Wait a minute, it's actually the kid's name - little Qian Xun. Duh. I plead the '4:00 am blogging' defense.
Uh, really? 千寻 is literally "thousand searches". I just assumed it was the nickname they gave to the little lost girl (you know, lost --> search, etc.). Is this parental foresight, cosmic irony, or do we actually not know her real name?
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This is only because the child was left in another country, right? Back in our own country we still use race as the default signifier.
The classic Donald Horowitz line (that Huntington quoted): "An Ibo may be ... an Owerri Ibo or an Onitsha Ibo in what was the Eastern region of Nigeria. In Lagos, he is simply an Ibo. In London, he is a Nigerian. In New York, he is an African."
You always need to be outside to define "inside". I just saw her photo here, in a Hong Kong paper, too. They just called her Asian. 8-)
Oh, and the idiom's not really an idiom, 小千寻 is just a cutesy name for little lost girl.
And where are these dumplings you talk about?
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And I meant the one *without* the lizard!
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Mr Hood, is there a third frame in the Clark-Clark morph, or is that terrifyingly sinister look in the middle just a natural midway point of her transformation, one that is usually invisible to the naked eye?
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Yup. Kids these days. In my day Mum wouldn't even let us use the landline. Now my 5 y.o. daughter gets rung up after school by her friend from school on my mobile!!
Of course, your daughter probably complains to her friends: "when I get calls after school, I have to take them on *my parents'* cellphone."