Pigs will fly...

Apparently last week the weekly threshold for influenza A and H1N1patients was breached. As per usual. Memos and messages go out. Masks are worn. The world is going to end!!!!


What's the reaction like in the rest of the world? Are classees being sent home/schools being closed?


-- Blogged in the field.

Legendary T-Shirt

 

Out shopping for my groceries at the local equivalent of the Pick & Pay Hypermarket I came across this (and a few other shirts) with some rather interesting english on them… They were also dirt cheap so I got this one :3

Apparently the secret is in the skull… what do you think?

Session

The first time on the ramps in almost 9 years. Didn't do anything special. Just remembered how to drop everything. I was too shit scared to do anything else. I had no rythym. The flow was hard and I wasn't getting much power. No air either. As th confidence was returning the rain came down so I will have to come back next month.

I will be back though. I forgot how much fun the skatepark was.




-- Posted from my iPrawn

Typhoon

I feel alive...

The wind, While not quite as strong as a jozi summer storm, is more powerful than anything I have felt before. It's not the strength of the wind but the sense of energy in the air around me.

Erratic.
Alive.
Raw.

I can feel nature. Not the happy hippy treehugging, veggie eating illusion of nature. You can feel raw naked energy. Standing in the gusting wind with metal blaring in my ears.

Rapture.

I cannot remember how long it's been since I have been at one with myself like this. At one with the naked energy of the world that courses through my veins.

Driving me.
Charging me.

Shredding the bullshit and shattering the illusions. Un covering the truth behind the veil of safety and order that endevours to smother life's true aspect.

The typhoon is alive.
It is life.
I am alive.

I am the typhoon. Time to throw some trees!

Jesus H Christ in a Manga… no shit!

You cannot take the Christians anywhere. There is always a small group of them who want to spread their word like H1N1 spreads in an elementary school. Even in Japan J-HOE witlessness prowls through the streets of Shibukawa, trying enslave the weak minded.
In an effort to spread their plague to the misguided heathens of this fine land, they have turned to manga… a rather badly drawn one but still.
JESUS H MANGA!

I was staring at it incredulously and they mistook my shocked disgust for interest. They actually gave it to me and said I should pass it along. So here I pass on to all who read this. Jesus immortalised in manga.. kicking ass and taking names. the funny thing is, the Bible stories in the book make for a great manga. But then the bible is quite possibly the second best fantasy book after the Lord of the Rings so yeah.
I kid, I kid.


Not gonna lie.. it actually is a pretty good manga……… FOR ME TO POOP ON!

Update – Kyoto Omiyage

A few weeks ago the 3rd graders at my JHS went to Kyoto on a school trip.

A friend and fellow teacher who went on the trip brought me back these souveniers.

amazing packaging for an amazing product.

small sugary sweets with little pockets of sake inside each one.

Most amazing.

Gunma Skies 01

Many say many dodge things about Gunma… some of them are based in truth to be fair. One thing that  we definitely do have here is some epic scenery.. and that's just in the towns… don’t get me started on the actual rural parts. This was just an average autumn morning. Mindblowing, but average.

iPrawn update 01 - JHS Sports day.

I don't know if this will help me get my post count up, but it can't hurt too much. Hey if nothing else, I have the technology at my disposal so it would be a waste not to use it.

Right now I am taking a short break from my strong arm work at my JHS's sports day to tell yo all that I am taking a break from doing my strong arm work at my JHS's sports day. That's about it really




I thought the rain would spoil things but it turned out to be quite a good day. A tAd humid but the wind is picking up.





Guess I better getback to moving stuff around.

Later.

-- Posted from my iPrawn

Holy SHIT! JAPAN!

Yes… This is a shaved dried shrimp. Shrimp biltong. It tastes most bizarre. crunchy and insect like. Kinda made my skin crawl somewhat.

So the ultimate question…

Can we eat it?

yup… Just like he said.

Summer Fun ~ Lake Haruna Fireworks

 

A bunch of us went up my mountain 2 weeks ago to watch the Annual Fireworks display there. Fireworks are always a blast but they were setting these off on the lake itself which made for an excellent show (Fire and Water always go well together) It was not quite as big as many of the other fireworks displays out there, but I liked it the most. Admittedly, ANYTHING on Mt. Haruna tends to be more awesome than anywhere else.

Sorry about the crappy Quality pics.. they were taken on my iPhone.

I will try get some better pics from Clarke cos he was shooting on his DSLR that night.

GAAAAAH I need to buy a real camera.