Archive for the 'Earthquake' Category
How East-European Meals Prevent Earthquakes
0 Comments Published by hasan March 29th, 2007 in Earthquake, daily life.Earthquakes and Bulgarian lunches cannot exist on the same plane - at least to me while I am in Tokyo. By 11am, the overnight rain - that had left everything in Tokyo earlier in the morning glistening - was gone. The clouds were still there, though. I had to be at a small [...]
Give me a thousand earthquakes, a Japanese Family Crest and Sumo-sized Tabi Socks
0 Comments Published by hasan October 22nd, 2005 in Earthquake, Japan, Kobudo.I’ve been away from my blog for a relatively “long” time. Nothing special has been going on lately, but I have had the chance to meet a lot of good friends lately. A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to meet three friends from Bahrain from the Ship for World Youth Association in [...]
Comments for the day
0 Comments Published by hasan July 26th, 2005 in Earthquake, Insomnia, Japan, Typhoon.Just finished studying for 6 hours for my Japanese final on Wednesday (studied for 9 hours yesterday and 7 hours the day before). I really hope I can ace this exam and go into my Summer holiday with a good start. Here are some comments I have for today:
1. There is a typhoon going on [...]
Open-Ended “Sawalif”
0 Comments Published by hasan July 24th, 2005 in Earthquake, Restaurant, Revolutionaries, Stress.For those not really fluent in the Gulf Arabic Dialect, the word “sawalif” (plural of the word “salfa”) means something to the effect of “story” or “something that happened”, among other things - but let’s just keep it simple for now. People in the Gulf love to talk about “Sawalif”, as do many other people [...]
“Motorcycle Diaries” and Protecting Myself from Earthquakes
0 Comments Published by hasan June 16th, 2005 in Earthquake, Movies, Revolutionaries.Okay, so here I am in the 国際交æµä¼šé¤¨(International Students Dormitory) on a very rainy day, some say the beginning of a very rainy season. Today was another unusually usual day, another Japanese Grammer/Vocabulary Quiz with many silly little mistakes that I shouldn’t have made. In the afternoon, one of the teachers from the International Center [...]