Lotusblog

It was in vain. My cool styles seem to have been reset to the factory defaults. Looks like I am going to have to read the manual.

So my head feels like jelly, it’s too late for me to go to the gym, my eyes are screaming and it may all be in vain. Maybe.
The top page (where this site is being hosted) has finally been cleaned up and I feel that I made some CSS progress. But trying to customise the templates and CSS in the iBlog site is no piece of cake. Gosh, there’s just so much to cope with. Maybe a banana smoothie will make things better.

Well it was too good to last. Or perhaps I spoke too soon. It started raining about an hour ago, and it has that “relentless, I’m-gonna-rain-all-night” air about it.
Which may put a damper on my trip the moutains next Monday and Tuesday.
Ah well, しかたがないですね。

Who said pollution is bad? You seen any of the sunsets in Osaka lately?
I forgot to photo-document them, but the other day I did take this picture. It isn’t one of the best, but it gives you an idea of what I see everday out of my window.

The Tenpozan ferris wheel from my apartment

So June already. The last half, even. And while we are supposed to be deep into the infernal rainy season, Osaka, at least, has been fine and bright every day. How odd, and a little troubling. Next Monday and Tuesday I am going on my company’s “staff trip” to some mountains in Kyoto prefecture where we will stay in log cabins and do wild stuff. I just have a feeling that it’s going to become wet and muddy stuff.
Ah, and I was so looking forward to sitting outside in the sun with a couple of friends and a couple of cold beers, before slipping into the outside onsen rotenburo.

I rediscovered some Yello songs that I have had for years…but had forgotten which CD they were on. Boy oh boy. Oh yeah!

The local transport

Another idea that has crossed my mind frequently over the last few weeks is that I should go and live in The Philippines. Not forever (at least not at this stage) but for a few months. I am trying to work out the logistics of such a move. What would happen to my apartment in Japan? Would it be worth continuing the lease (but paying my high rent even when I am not here) or should I become a nomad?
Sell 95% of my possessions, put the rest in a backpack and head off to where the baluk is fresh, the beer flows freely and the peoples’ smiles never fade.
What would I do? Would I have to do anything?

I ate pasta with a salmon cream, but I had forgotten just how sick I feel after eating cream.
I feel kind of sick. I ate pasta with a salmon cream, but I had forgotten just how sick I feel after eating cream. Anyway, as I contemplate whether to throw up or not, some other things that crossed my mind were as follows:
1. Youth is everything
2. Donnie Darko is amazing
3. Blogs are great- but only if practiced daily.

No matter how screwed up the rest of my life may be, nothing (at least, nothing so far) has diminished my enjoyment of music.
This week, tunes being heavily rotated are:

1. Broken Social Scene’s “Pacific Theme”
2. Roni Size’s “Jazz” from CD2 of the Reprazent album

Today was perfect. Sunny, mild and bright. And warm.
I seemed to spend most of the day in a bit of a daze though. It was rather a tough weekend.
Anyway, I made the most of the beautiful weather by doing lots of chores. I think I need a beer. Good bye.