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Kobudo (Ancient Japanese Swordsmanship) : I received a CUSTOMIZED KATANA (Japanese Sword) from my sword teacher yesterday. Don’t worry, Mom - it’s blunt. I don’t think I can hurt myself with it - I think. I guess it’s just to practice Kata (form) in a style of Swordsmanship [...]

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 [...]

Today after another Sword class, we sat down at a local branch of Jonathan’s for something to eat and drink. As soon as we got a chance to sit down, a wave of calm overcame everyone. It was another session of another interesting conversations. Our sensei is a very interesting man; very serious about practice, [...]

My life for the past few days: Stay up till 2.00am, watching a DVD with some friends down in the CC Hall (the common lounge in my dormitory), wake up numerous times during the morning just because the Primary School’s kids are SO loud when they arrive at school at 7.30am, and remain loud till [...]

I finished all 400 pages of Murakami’s “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World” at 5am. You can’t really go to sleep after reading a book like that, so I just got into my yellow rubber slippers and walked through Kunitachi. Picked up some fresh pastries at the local bakery on Daigaku Dori (University [...]

Well today was another lazy Summer day in Tokyo. I got a lot of rest between last night and this morning, went out for a walk around the town of Kunitachi, stopped at a little coffee shop and had a sandwich and some cold coffee. Afterwards, I went back to the dorm to prepare for the [...]

Tomorrow marks the midterm of the Intensive Japanese Course I am taking. It has been two months since I arrived; and I feel nervous about how much I really know about the Japanese language. I guess it is just a matter of confidence. It really is a challenge to be in a new place, among [...]