Last night was an interesting one. I attended a “Software Solutions” companies opening party at the Sofitel and met a few guys in the computer industry. It was only Japanese and Vietnamese except for me and one other guy. The presentation was also only in these two languages and it reminded me of my extremely…… Continue reading Saigon Stories – Last Night
Category: Journal
My life journal.
Old Entries
I had so many problems with my last MT configuration that I had to re install everything. So I lost some of my old rants, but have pasted them in the excerpt…. ——————————————————————– I spent all day working on the website. For some reason there is an internal server error for the archive and recent…… Continue reading Old Entries
En Español
El razón que tengo este catagoria es solamente que a veces quiero practicar mi español. Es una pena para mi porque me gusta estudiar idiomas pero todo el mundo habla íngles bastante bien. Entonces tengo este catagoria para no olvidar este idioma y tambien a veces quiero hablar sobre gente que no entiende Español!
Saigon Stories – Today’s Adventure
Today was actually not so adventuresome. However, today the Buddhist funeral infront of my house ended. The old lady who spoke to me in French not 6 months before and told me to “Firmez le porte doucemont” passed away. They then erected a shrine and had chants, prayers and visitors for three days. It was…… Continue reading Saigon Stories – Today’s Adventure
Movabletype finally works
Today I decided to try and tackle my Movabletype problems one more time. Before, I had trouble with the comments, archives and basically any link that Movabletype was supposed to take care of. So I deleted the whole thing, downloaded the new 3.6 version and reinstalled everything. This time I made sure everything was uploaded…… Continue reading Movabletype finally works
Controversy for the Whole Family
Controversy for the whole family! By tok_matthew January 19th, 2005 @ 1:19 PM Uncategorized I just had a chat with someone we shall refer to as “the patriot,” which got me thinking about this subject. Most of us hard core ex-pats who truly try to integrate with the host culture often find ourselves in a complex situation.…… Continue reading Controversy for the Whole Family
New Years
Tokyo – Racism in Japan
Racism in Japan By tok_matthew January 4th, 2005 @ 5:06 PM Law & Order, Racism In today’s Japan times there is an article on page 13 entitled “Racism is bad business.” It addresses the issue of foreigners being barred entry to certain Japanese establishments and how this hurts international business in Japan. Over my 3 years in Japan…… Continue reading Tokyo – Racism in Japan