Text Messaging

Depending where you live in the world, text messaging from your phone is either big or it isn’t. I live in Japan and from what I’ve read; Japan and Australia are the two biggest text messaging countries in the world.
Our thumbs were not designed to text message.
I text message because I’m a cheap bastard! [...]

Attack of the killer Pillow!

I bought a new pillow two days ago.
It looked all nice and soft and fluffy.
I brought it home, introduced to my bedroom, and gave it a bed.
The first night I slept it with it, it kept me up all night.
Last night it woke me up at 5am and threw my neck out.
I feel like [...]

Language breakdown

I was in Australia in the outback sometime back. I was on a tour that consisted of about 15 people. One of the guys in the group was about our age and was really quiet.
One of my friends asked me if I knew much about the guy. I said, I hadn’t talked to him [...]

Speaking Japanese as a second language

Speaking a second language is fun!

There’s a lot of embarrassing mistakes made in the process of learning however.
For example I have said these before:
a) What I wanted to say: “Does your back still hurt”?
what was said: “Does your fish still hurt”?
b) What I wanted to say: [...]