I don’t really find the time to track back through peoples journals, and I get distracted easily. The last time I remember encountering you you were still working for symbian or psion and had shown no sign of leaving the country. Can you sum up for me, in around thirty lines, what you have been up to recently?
No, I can’t condense my life to a soundbyte bullet point presentation. You’ll have to read the journal. Though the highlights are:
– worked in London, lived in London
– had massive and ugly falling out with flatmate over something that she never explained to me (but probably had something to do with me being an evil male chauvanist pig)
– got a job in Oxford for a small games middleware company
– six months in the company was obviously going to the wall
– struggled on for another year or so before it all went horribly wrong
– got myself rather hung up on yet another wrong young lady
– escaped to Japan, where I am currently living for a year surrounded by cute girls I have no hope whatsoever of communicating with
– I return in May or June, depending on how much my company hate me by then
Given the choice of remaining in Japan forever or Britain forever with no chance of leaving. Which would you choose.
No question – return to Englands hallowed shores. This trip has been an experience and I’m glad I’m here, but I’ll also be glad when it is over. It has broadened my horizons, if I can live here for a year, I can live anywhere in the world, that is a liberating feeling. And there are many things about England that I don’t want to return to. But if anywhere is home it is England.
Which of the countries you have travelled to has affected you most thus far?
Oh, right now the biggest is Japan. But once I get back that might not be true any more, I don’t know. I think going to Munich, my first overseas business trip, was quite an experience, and without that (or something like it) I wouldn’t have had the guts to come here.
Desert Island discs but with three albums what would they be?
Fugazi – Repeater
Helen Love – Love and Glitter, Hot dayz and Musik
Manuskript – Natural High
Do I assume my mp3 player didn’t survive the waterlogging? Thats a helluva saviour out here, it gives me a great excuse to ignore everyone (as if being gaijin isn’t enough).
What is the most pointless bit of technology you have come across, in Japan and elsewhere?
Oh, a motorised tie rack. I’ve got to get one.
Who are you? What do you want?
Who is asking?
Got a paranoia for me? I seem to be running low on fresh ones. Though I do have a repeated basic fear of mortality thats been causing me some trouble recently, that you could take off my hands.
How about – all the people around me are blatantly talking about me in front of my face but I don’t know it ‘cos they’re all talking a funny language I don’t understand.
Did I give you that waking up in the middle of the night and everything is rattling? I meant to package it up with the last batch, but I think I forgot it. I’ll make sure its in this time.
I’ve also got a fear that someone has stolen all the stars and they’re shining lights into the sky so I don’t notice.
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