Return to Sapporo, November 2006
Luggage (20061101)
I now habitually photograph my luggage whenever I check it in for
a flight. This turned out to be a good thing, since just like last
time my luggage did not go to the same place as me. And just like last
time, I received a blue paper instead, saying that two bags are
missing. These are in fact the exact same two bags. At least they sell
stuff you are supposed to drink with the word "sweat" in the name
here. Not really related to luggage, but still brings a smile to me.
Airplane security (20061101)
For some reason you are not allowed to bring a file with you on a
plane (I did by mistake ne time and had it thrown in the
trash...). Also, you cannot bring drinks without a problem and so
on. On the other hand, they give you a knife and a fork of steel when
you are in the plane. Go figure. I also had a small knife in my hand
luggage (though I thought I had put it in another bag), which made it
through with no problems. So why did they take my file?
Japanese living conditions (200611)
I have now moved into my quite cheap living quarters. They seem
fine, though the electrical wiring leaves some things to be
desired. It is also built in the traditional Japanese style, that is
it has lots of holes in the walls and similar, to let warm air out in
the hot summer. This is not quite as good an idea in the winter, since
then you no longer want the inside to be colder or the same
temperature as outside. Which it is. It is still about plus ten or so
I guess, so so far no problem.
Toothpaste (20061101)
Since my toothbrush and similar things are still in Germany, I
bought new stuff here. I found a strawberry flavored toothpaste and
thought it sounded funny. However, it turns out to be quite
disgusting. It does actually taste like strawberry, but it feels like
your smearing your teeth with melted ice cream. Not a very clean
feeling. Thus, I cannot really recommend this toothpaste, even though
it is a funny idea.
Food (20061102)
One of the best things is that eating at a restaurant in Japan is
so cheap. This meal cost 320 yen, which is 20 Swedish kronor or 2 Euro.
More food (2006110x)
Food in Japan. Cheap, tasty and prepared by other
people. Excellent. The food in the first photo was even free of
charge, since I am such a nice person.
My room (20061102)
This is where I live. It is about 14 degrees Celsius in the
mornings, but came with a broken pillow and lots of stuff for
preparing food. Which I never do. The toilet seat was fixed on the
same day I complained about it. Now all I need is an Internet
connection and I can start to live a full life there.
How to eat in Japan (20061102)
When not using chop sticks, people use normal cutlery. Though you
use a fork and a spoon. No knife.
More stuff I do not need (20061102)
There is a common area with an ironing board. Not so useful for
me. There is also a TV that shows you shows in English.
Even more unnecessary stuff (20061102)
There is a sign near my toilet saying roughly "you are supposed to flush the
toilet after you have used it". I already knew this. Evidently some
previous resident never flushed his toilet for one year, to save money
on the water bill...
Finally (20061104)
Lufthansa has finally (only three days later) sent me my
luggage. There was talk about them "mending" my luggage (thus it took
so much time), but it is not mended. There is however a paper to fill
out if you would like them to fix the damage to my bag that they
believe they caused.
Clothes (20061104)
People have complained that I dress like some crazy person
(arguably true). Maybe I should dress like people who live here. Like
this girl.
More clothes (200611024
Or maybe I should by clothes in this store. I would likely be
killed by a lynch mob if I went back to Sweden in them though.
Even more clothes (20061104)
What on earth is nudie clothes? When nude, the common thing is
not wearing clothes, right? Must check later what they actually sell.
Presents! (20061104)
The rumors of my birthday having happened recently have been spread to
Japan (mainly because I am here and spreading them around). I have
thus received presents! Very nice.
Moerenuma (20061105)
Today I went to Moerenuma park, together with two other people
from Sweden, one about my age, one about 6 years old. Moerenuma is a
garbage dump converted into an artistically designed park. It is quite
beautiful, though we took a sort of long way around to get there
involving quite a bit of walking. Later I was also amused by the
preferred food of one of my companions, consisting of: rice. And a
little soy sauce.
More food (20061106)
This is onsen tamago (hot spring egg), half boiled egg with soy sauce. The
second one is a piece of mochi that has been too long in the microwave
oven. I was given the egg, but the mochi was eaten by someone else.
Keitai (20061106)
I finally managed to get a cell phone. So know I can start to
function a little in Japanese society. Everything you ever do requires
a phone. Meeting someone, applying for an Internet account, getting
your luggage from Germany... It has fewer strange features than my
last phone (as far as I have been able to tell so far I have no "how
many times have I shaken the phone" and no TV), but comes with
six different dictionaries I can use. And I am told it can read
pdf-files and word documents. I also got two plastic cups for free
with the phone.
TV (20061108)
Today there was a TV crew here to interview one of the
students. Unfortunately it was a program about girls in research, not
crazy foreigners, so I was not interesting.
Umbrellas (20061108)
When it rains, absolutely everyone uses an umbrella. Which is
funny when there are strong winds or you are riding a bicycle.
Robots (20061108)
Everyone in Japan has a robot. Often a Hello Kitty robot such as
this one.
The end of an era! (20061108)
Today I managed to break my Japanese pants playing badminton. How
will the world survive. And I was going to wear these at a wedding I
am invited to too!
Pizza (20061109)
Today I practiced Swedish and ate pizza. There was some
photographing going on too.
Sense of Sweden (20061110)
Today I found a store that sells Swedish vodka. I first tried all
the big stores that sell alcohol, and the food floor of the large
department stores. They sell only Russian vodka. The place to look for
a large selection of vodka is surprisingly enough Bic Camera, that
sells cameras, computer, all kinds of electronics. And vodka. Go
figure.
Swedish? (20061110)
We use dots over "a" for some vowels in Sweden. Not that many
languages do. This however is Finnish.
The Denmark Cafe (20061110)
The Denmark cafe. Since There is a bridge from Sweden to Denmark,
a lot of Swedes have been in Denmark. I have. I never saw anything
like the things sold in this cafe there though. Why do Japanese bakers
put bacon, potato and broccoli on the type of cake that Swedish bakers
would put cinnamon and sugar?
Karaoke (20061110)
I was invited by the Bulgarian guy who sits next to me in my lab
to come to a birthday party for a Bulgarian girl. I know only one
Bulgarian girl in Sapporo (and only a few more in Bulgaria), and of
course this was her party. She had recently had a bicycle accident and
hurt her hand (almost back to normal again). Of course this was with
the bicycle I gave to her when I moved back to Sweden... Today there
was a karaoke party with about 30 people. Since I cannot sing (people
go home if I do) and do not like to drink, this is not my number one
entertainment, but it is something you have to do in Japan. It is
sometimes quite enjoyable, like today. Though people smoke a lot
indoors in Japan, so you smell bad if you participate. Sweden (and
many other countries in Europe) has outlawed smoking in places where
people work (so they do not get cancer from their work), which is very
nice for me who do not smoke.
Roads (20061110)
The roads are being worked on every night. On every street you
see huge amounts of people doing this kind of work. Still the roads
are really bad, with large holes and such...
Nerds (20061110)
Tomorrow is the first day of sale for Playstation 3. So tonight
(this was a few minutes before midnight) nerds are lining up to buy
one before they are sold out. The line was already quite long, around
the corner and of out of sight. And it was cold by Japanese
standards. If I had had a TV to plug it in to, I would have lined up
with them (I am still a nerd, but I went back to my lab instead).
Signs of Sweden (20061111)
Today I had lunch at the Chinese restaurant that always has a
calendar with pictures of Sweden on the wall. They still remember me,
and they still laugh when I take photos of their calendar.
Manly hobbies (20061111)
Today I went to study Japanese at my volunteer course. Of course,
last week they gave me a note saying "November 11, cancelled", which I
promptly forgot. Today there was instead some kind of cooperative
Japanese food making (which I missed since I slept at the time) and
then origami doll making (which started when I arrived, so I was
Shanghaied into doing this). These are my dolls. Evidently they make a
good gift to potential boyfriends... Best question from one of my
old teachers who was there: "Why?!" "Why what?" "Why are you in Japan?!"
Supermarkets (20061111)
In supermarkets they have many things. For instance a contraption
for putting umbrellas in umbrella shaped bags. And many ways of
spelling English words.
Gyoza (20061111)
Today I made gyoza. I was not the only one, though, so the
monstrosity that looks like a hamburger is not my fault. Some Chinese
people came by and laughed at the crazy way Japanese and other
foreigners make gyoza, which is a Chinese dish.
Back in business (20061111)
Today I went to the store that sold me my magnificent pants that
I broke during badminton. They had some reasonably similar pants
there, so I bought them. The store attendant also recognized
me. Evidently there are not that many Swedes shopping in his
store. Someone asked me why I buy so strange clothes here. The
explanation is quite obvious. In Japan it is important to fit in. So I
try to dress like everyone else here. Thus I buy this kind of clothes,
because everyone wears this. When I wear this I of course blend in
perfectly, because nothing else (hair color, language, fatness) separates me from Japanese people...
Bicycle and weather (20061112)
This is my bicycle, that already has a strangely shaped basked. There is
also snow on the seat today. Today was not a very good day to ride the
bicycle, it was a storm, there was lots of rain, a bit of hail and
then some snow. I became very wet. This is facilitated by Japanese
roads being really really bad. For instance, there are enormous lakes
of rainwater here and there. On a bike, this means you get wet
feet. If a car passes you at high speed (which they always keep if
they pass you), you get wet up till your nipples or so. Snow is much
better, though when it melts the same problem appears again.
Ramen side order (20061112)
Today I went out to eat ramen. One thing that I find strange in
Japan is that very many restaurants provide something for you to
read. Also, the selection of this reading is quite strange. There is
of course huge amounts of manga, with topics of violence or graphic
sex being quite common. There are also things such as the paper I
found today. This is the first page of the story titled "3 popular
porn stars cook food with no clothes" or so. There was not so much
story, but plenty of pictures. These are available in the normal
restaurants. There are of course more exotic places to go to too, for
instance in Susukino where I lived (or close to) last time in
Sapporo. Susukino is Japan's second largest red light and entertainment
district.
English slogans (20061112)
How can you resist a cake with a slogan like this? "Over-optimism
modest chocolate and a soft marshmallow lead you in elegant tea time."
Laundry (20061113)
Doing laundry (which I tried to to yesterday) in Japan is so much
worse than in Sweden! And it is not much fun there either. In Sweden I
had a superb washing machine, where you shoved in three or four weeks
worth of laundry and waited a little less than an hour and you had
clean clothes. The you shove all this into the superb dryer and wait
about 45 minutes and everything is as dry as Swedish generation X
humor (very dry). In Japan the washing machine uses cold water
(evidently clothes are broken by hot water, or so I have been told) so
there is always the suspicion that the result will not be very
clean. The dryers I have seen are a joke, though a colleague tells me
he has a dryer that dries small amount of clothes very dry in only 2.5
hours. Since I live in a room that keeps to about 15 degrees Celsius,
my clothes seem to take some time to get dry... I even bought this
contraption to hang socks and similar things, though they were still
wet this afternoon (24h later!). Maybe I will stop doing laundry and
just throw dirty things away and buy new stuff. Since everything is
cheap in Japan (compared to back home) this is feasible. However, I am
once again foiled by the supremely bothersome garbage disposal
system.
Preparations (20061114)
Today the preparations for traveling to and climbing an active
volcano has begun. Of course, it is forbidden to climb this volcano
the day we are planning to go there (and the rescue crew that comes
and saves you if there is an eruption has their day off), but since this is the first time
ever I do this kind of thing, it will probably be all right. Since the
shoes have a high risk of being ruined during climbing, I have found a
pair of boots I can borrow. The weather seems to be OK, with no snow
and maybe 5 degrees above zero. Also, since it is an active volcano it
will probably be warm anyway, right.
More English slogans (200611xx)
Here is a brand, "Colour farm", of fry pans that for some reason has a slogan
written on the bottom. "It is shining brightly on the farm. The sun
has given many colours to many fruit[sic] and vegetables. Do you know that
there is no colour without light?". Very appropriate for fry pans.
Neighbors (20061115)
This guy was lying outside my door this morning. I also met and
spoke to one of my human neighbors for the first time
today. Surprisingly enough, he is also from Sweden. Also from
Stockholm, also attending Hokudai, also receiving money from JSPS,
also for two years and he too has stayed about 6 months total in
Japan.
Traffic (20061115)
Passing through downtown Sapporo late at night is interesting. Night time
traffic is about 90% taxis (in this shot, 100% though). As was explained to me, this is because it
was decided that the subway and buses shall only run until
midnight. If they continued on through the night, the taxi companies
would not make any money (but of course it would be convenient for
every one else).
Address (20061116)
This address should get mail to my place. People unsure of their
Japanese character encodings might want to be careful though...
Jonas Sjobergh 様
外国人研究者等宿泊施設
札幌市 北区北２４条西１２丁目１番1号 ２棟４号室
００１－００２４ Japan
Free stuff (20061116)
I received my free monitor today. Why they give you a monitor for
signing up for Internet access is not entirely clear. I do not really
want one, but since it was free I figured I had nothing to
loose. Unfortunately, I also received huge amounts of packaging
material and other garbage. Getting rid of garbage in Sapporo is a
pain... I am thinking of giving this screen away to someone, since I
do not really need it. Most of my friends probably have no need for a
monitor either, so I have also been thinking of having some sort of
competition here on my web page where the price will be the
monitor. Considering I have maybe 1 reader or so, this will perhaps
not be very exciting. Other suggestions can be sent by mail (address
at the bottom of the page).
Help make the world a better place!
Since, as everyone knows, research helps make the world a better place, helping researchers with their research is a GOOD THING. I would like to find collections of jokes or similar types of humor. If you know of any in Japanese, English or Swedish, please send tips by e-mail to j atmark dr-hato dott se. Let us all make the world a better place, for our grand children! Examples of what I would like include one-liners.
Disturbed at work (20061117)
Today a student was sleeping in his space, which is close to
mine. Unfortunately for him, I had set my noisy phone to remind me
that I had to go home and wait for NTT to come and activate my
Internet connection. So he was brusquely woken up by some crazy
foreigner.
English help? (20061117)
While waiting for the NTT guys I rummaged around in my pile of instruction books for stuff in my room. I found one in English describing the heating thingamajigs. It appears to be quite simple to understand. It also appears to describe some kind of model that is not present in my room...
Finally! (20061117)
The Internet has arrived (more than two week after I moved
in... in Sweden you can get it on the same day you tell them you want
it). The people installing the stuff had a super small printer and a
very very robust laptop. Very cool.
Countryside style (20061117)
After riding a train for two and a half hour I arrived in the
town of Mori. The first stop was at the city hall to claim a key
opening the road to the forbidden mountain of Koma, but stop two was
the more important visit to a restaurant. The toilet facilities looked
a little less than comforting when it came to country side style... A
hole in the ground with a cover that you lift off.
Sleeping quarters (20061117)
We arrived in the intended base camp late at night. Too late it
seemed. The person in charge had gone home a long time ago. By phone
we had asked if they could write in an understandable way where we
were supposed to stay, but had been assured that this would not be
necessary, she would show us when we came. This did not happen. Some
rooms were occupied by sleeping Japanese researchers, and seemed to
have the names of the occupants written on the door. There was one
room with "Exchange student, parent and child" written. My guess was
that this was intended for us, though we are more or less the same age
and not related as far as I know. At least we are foreigners, and
two. So we took this room and one that looked empty. The place is
cheap (100 yen per night or so). It looks like the creepy places in
Japanese horror movies, very dark and narrow. The toilet is of the
"hole in the ground in a cold as outside room"-type. There is something that
looks like it was a shower in an earlier life. There are also anime
dolls for you to play with, and magazines of questionable kind. But
this one is surely for researchers since the half nude girl is showing
the interior of space ships. Something for my physics student of a
brother perhaps?
The forbidden mountain (20061118)
An early (very) morning getaway (so no sight of the person in
charge this time either) saw us reach the mountain. There were quite a
few signs saying "Climbing forbidden because of volcanic activity" and
such. Also many locked gates. But we had a key, so no problem. The
plus five degrees Celsius I was lead to expect did seem unlikely given
that most of the mountain was covered in snow. Which would also make
finding lots of plant samples slightly more annoying.
The dangers (20061118)
In order: active volcano crater, though only spewing smoke, no
lava or cool stuff; cameras checking the volcano area, but probably
not only to catch foreigners being in forbidden places; deep fissures,
mostly hidden under the snow. There was also strong winds and cold
temperatures. But we survived.
The crater (20061118)
Me in my borrowed clothes. T-shirt was deemed too stupid to be allowed.
The goal (20061118)
Left half: completely uninteresting moss. Right half: hard to
find under snow but necessary to collect from many places moss.
The view (20061118)
The wind that kept blowing snow around so you could not see so
much let up when we reached the top, so the view became very nice.
The luxury (20061118)
Another hole in the ground. And what biologists evidently
consider a house (no walls though) where we changed clothes. Slightly
windy.
Me (20061118)
When I could not find any interesting moss, I started taking
stupid pictures of myself instead.
Geysers (20061119)
Plan for day two, find the Shikabe geyser park. Good signs 9
kilometers away. No signs when closer. Marked in the wrong spot on the
map. Much smaller than expected (one normal looking house). Very hard
to find. Apart from one geyser also included a foot bath. Being a
foreigner allowed me to go about this completely wrong with no nasty
comments. Reminded me of the night before, when we went to an onsen
(kind of a hot spring spa). I was under the impression I needed to
bring only my face towel (the use which is still unclear to me). In
fact at this place (and I guess most) you also bring your own soap and
similar. So I had to beg some poor old man to give me some of his. A
kid also asked me if I might be a foreigner. "I knew it!" he said when
I confirmed. Very sharp eyes that kid...
Parking (20061119)
Even in the countryside people have creative solutions when it
comes to parking. Did not seem to be that limited when it came to
other places to put the cars though. A volcano evacuation warning
super loud speaker was also placed next to the photographer in this
shot. It started making a very very loud noise. Probably some sort of
practice or something, because at least half the people around us did
not seem to evacuate at the sound. So neither did we.
Signs of English (20061119)
Hakodate is evidently a great place to practice English. At least
if you write signs.
Hakodate (20061119)
Hakodate, famous for having had a Russian captain interred during
the time when Japan was less open than today.
Food? (20061119)
Raw ham, sea urchin and spinach. Not really what I want with
pasta, so I ordered something else.
Vending machines (20061119)
Anything can be bought in vending machines. Here, cameras.
Christmas decorations (20061119)
Why do Japanese, who do not celebrate Christmas, hang tiny
jackets in their Christmas trees?
Wedding preparations (20061119)
Shopping with biologists seems much more fun than shopping with
my negative brother. "Are you nuts? Of course you cannot buy that."
This time it was more along the lines of: even if you tie this necktie
around your head, no one can claim you are not wearing a
necktie. Besides, if the ceremony is boring, you can play
tic-tac-toe. The wedding preparations are coming along nicely.
Not ice cream (20061121)
It looks and tastes like ice cream, but it is hard as a cracker
and does not melt in room temperature.
Strange customs (20061121)
I had been lead to believe that I would receive my first payment
from the scholarship people today. I did not receive any money,
though. Luckily, Japan is quite cheap to live in so I am still living
quite comfortably on some money I brought with me from
Sweden. However, today I was forced (ordered) to buy pizza and give it
to some of my "friends". This was some Japanese custom that I was not
previously aware of and which was not very clearly explained. The fact
that I had already had dinner was irrelevant, and I had no say in what
type of pizza. Mainly my job seemed to consist of paying. One thing
that is not cheap in Japan is pizza. They are tiny but still three
times more expensive than Swedish pizzas. And evidently they are
consumed with fancy wine in fancy glasses.
Precious (20061122)
To my great disappointment (but as expected) I noticed that about
two kilos of Jonas has gone missing since I came to Japan. To try to
protect what precious little Jonas there is left, I acquired large
amounts of Calorie rich stuff and turned back home for an energy
conserving night in front of the computer (mostly because no one
wanted to hang out with me, offering excuses ranging from the
plausible (going to visit a friend in another town for four days) to
the less flattering (going to study instead, since tomorrow is a
holiday)). However, wise from previous experience of Sapporo I have
little hope, especially since it is snowing quite a lot tonight. This
makes getting around by bicycle akin to going to the gym.
Alien (20061122)
Today was a good day, I got my first payment (for me huge amounts
of money) and I got my alien registration card. Back in Sweden I have
seen lots of signs with "Aliens not allowed" (usually because of military
sensitive stuff being placed there). In Japan I have never seen
anything like that, you are just supposed to carry around a card with
a picture of yourself looking like a dork. Since this is my normal
appearance, this was easily achieved.
Clothing experiments (20061123)
Today I was planning to take a photo of my jacket etc. so my
staff of people who tell me what new stuff I must buy for the wedding has
something to base their decision on. Note the discreetly shown stack
of money. Lesson learned: get better
background for this type of pictures, get better (smaller) jacket. Also, jacket and shirt is too
hot in my room in Sapporo (really cold) so it will likely be
unbearable in Tokyo (really hot).
Swedish and violence (20061125)
Today I met with two Swedish girls, a family moving to Stockholm
and a Japanese woman who speaks excellent Swedish. I was quite soundly
beaten in violent video games. By a small girl no less.
Watching trains while naked, a Japanese tradition (20061125)
When the Swedish related things were almost over, I got an e-mail stating: Sapporo station in 40 minutes, be there, bring mini-towel. It was almost impossible to go from Shinkotoni to Sapporo Station by bicycle in 40 minutes, everyone agreed. I accepted the challenge and even managed to pick up my pastel blue (the most manly color they sell here) mini-towel on the way and be there in 30 minutes. Very sweaty but on time. Half the other people arrived 20 minutes late though... Then we went to a hot spring, which means you sit naked outside, this time watching the trains go by. I also ate a hamburger with a mostly raw egg there too. Very Japanese. It is, as far as I understand, impolite to take photos when everyone around you is naked, so the most exciting picture is of the outside. On the side where the naked people are not seen. But I received a very thorough instruction in what you are supposed to use the super small towel for. It is, as suspected, more or less a silly thing.
Abusing the system (20061126)
Everyone seems to pretty much agree that I am too weird to
true, but still exist somehow. One Japanese girl has the courage to
chat with me over the Internet, but refuses to meet me (frankly, quite
a reasonable strategy). The lure of Swedish chocolate is very strong
though. But not strong enough to actually meet. So other plans had to
be made. So today, by a lucky coincidence I found a box of Swedish
chocolate that someone had dropped at Sapporo station, which I of
course turned in at the Lost and Found. It turns out that the person
who dropped it was my chat acquaintance who could thus later pick it up
there, when I had safely left town.
Swedish shopping (20061126)
I visited a huge shopping center today. They even sell Swedish
jam and Swedish crisp bread.
Okonomiyaki (20061126)
Okonomiyaki mean roughly fry what you like. You get a heated
table and some kind of pancake like stuff filled with squids or
whatever strange part of the local fauna you like to eat, and then fry
it yourself. Since it is too healthy with some squid and mostly
vegetables (and egg and ...) you also add mayonnaise on top. Tasty, but
it gets very hot at the table, since it is ... well, hot.
More clothes (20061126)
Today I went shopping for clothes (Japan's number one hobby),
mainly with the wedding ceremony in mind. Since I have (apparently) no
taste when it comes to clothes either (food is another area), I
brought a real Japanese who could tell me if this was totally
inappropriate, vaguely inappropriate or OK (usually uninteresting for
me). So I bought a pair of shoes and a jacket. I considered buying
another jacket for 76,000 yen with cool decorations. It was a very big
noo no, though. Too Mafia-like. Might go back and buy it anyway. I
liked it. The shoes were also quite nice. I asked for ones that makes
you slip easily, which apparently is the opposite of what normal
people buy this time of year, though the only surface my non-slip
shoes do not slip on is indoors, where I sometimes would like to be
able to slide around... But they had a pair for me which are supposed
to make you slip very easily. Cheap too. There was also an update form
Sweden today, that my favorite shoes, thought to be lost forever in
the "Mom mistakenly threw them away thinking they were girly, thus
hers, but ugly"-incident. They have been found by chance and are being
sent to Japan. Whohoo.
Almost like work (20061127)
Today I spent the morning helping another Swede with
understanding dental super computer x-ray related Japanese. My help
mostly consisted of "OK, they want us to wait here, which is why they
are pointing to this chair" and "they want us to put bags and clothes
in this basket here". Then people started
saying things like "technical word technical word technical word
technical word technical word tooth technical word technical
word". "Not understand, sorry". "OK, technical word technical word
technical word technical word metal technical word technical word
technical word". "OK, I get it". "technical word technical
word technical word technical word technical word tooth." "Sorry, no
understand again"... "You leave, now", "OK". While waiting outside the
super ultra magnetic x-ray room it occurred to me that leaving my
computer in there might not have been the best idea ever. Later I
returned to the university where I was given a piece of cake in
exchange for the promise of checking some English paper later in the
week. Back in Sweden I seem to remember people asking me to do such
things without offering cake. Maybe I have been seriously missing out?
Work (20061127)
I am currently hard at work removing unfunny parts from a randomly
collected file with hopefully mostly funny things. Here are some of
things I learned today:
New motto: Live forever or die trying!
New religious idea: Confucious say: if you want pretty nurse, you got
to be patient
Lifestyle choice: I'm not into working out. My philosophy is no pain,
no pain.
Beaten again, but still pretty (20061127)
Today I was beaten at my own game, real life sword fighting, by a
small girl. But at least I got some pretty pictures of me from when we
had pizza before.
Complaints should likely be sent to Jonas. If you would like to have a high resolution copy of one of these images (or some other you suspect I have), please feel free to let me know.