Neil Hopcroft

Sounds like the meeting was the standard selfcongratulatory corporate event I’d expected it to be…good job I wasn’t invited. Still, the food after wasn’t bad and it was a chance to meet some of the other people working there. Not that I actually met that many, most of the people I know already are new(ish) […]

I’ve just been sent home from work for the afternoon – they’re having an employees only meeting, and being a subcontractor I don’t get invited to such meetings, and they don’t let subcontractors on site without a permanent member of staff present. Oh well, I’m not complaining, I get to make the best of this […]

Anyone got any questions about life over here that I haven’t covered yet? Are you dying to know what colour the buses are? Or whether they stand on the same side of the escalator as we do? Or anything else?

I’m not entirely convinced I understand this book. Partly because I was a bit intermittent reading it so tended to lose the plot a bit, and partly because of its structure – there are basically two related storylines running forward and backward through the book, so everything keeps flipping around and my poor little head […]

Not sure whether to find this disturbing or not… but Ive not found any kind of nightlife yet, or even any like-minded people (yeah, yeah, I know, fat chance!). I did see a punk on the train earlier, but shed run off before I could pluck up courage to talk to her, not that shed […]

Todays excitement was a trek out to the suburbs, I picked the line leading outward from Meguro (where my office is) and went to the end of that. My original intention was to find somewhere I wouldnt mind living, but I suspect that it doesnt really matter where I live, as long as its not […]

…or not. Maybe I shouldnt read Plato – that stuff really makes you pedantic. Though I realised, reading another of his dialogs, that my style of argument takes a lot from his reports of Socrates arguments. Anyway, todays adventures werent as exciting as some of the previous ones….I failed to find a post office and […]