Month: March 2014

It seemed like winter would never end. But spring has started to show its face, with a variety of trees blossoming white and pink flowers. This is the first time I’ve been in Japan during the cherry blossom season. After I finished up at Sfera, I went exploring nearby. These trees line one side of…

Yesterday I rambled on a little bit about peaks and valleys. Today’s peak is brought to you by an experience at another cafe. This cafe is on the first floor of the Sfera Building in Kyoto. Here’s what the building looks like from the outside. So it’s a little worn for wear now. This building…

My weekend (Monday and Tuesday) was a series of peaks and valleys. It’s hard to explain exactly why, but one recent situation has come to an end and the knock-on effect from one door closing led me to accept that other situations here may be coming to a close too. Yet there are always more…

Slowly but surely, winter is coming to a close in Kyoto. The thing is, I actually like the cold. Any being as hairy as I would have to at least be partial to the cold, because even with 0 or minus degrees centigrade temperatures, I still manage to find a way to sweat. The train…

I’m feeling quite fatigued today, even though I was responsible enough to go to bed at a reasonable time. That’s something that doesn’t make sense about getting older. You start to make these minor changes in the hope that you will, in fact, preserve energy or feel better than you would had you decided to…

This post is another one of those situations where time has just flown by and I can’t really account for it or recall why I hadn’t written anything earlier than this exact moment. At this exact moment, I’m training it to Osaka to watch 12 Years a Slave with a friend. Here’s a blow-by-blow account of…

Movie talk! Thor: The Dark World This film felt like a relatively weak effort compared to what has come before it. There was still a number of elements about this film that were enjoyable, though. The action was decent enough and I liked that the kept the minor comedic elements that made the first film…