Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

culture shock

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 […]

Thats all very well, but…?

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?

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 […]

A trip to the burbs

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 […]

On the nature of virtue…

…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 […]

Maybe thinking the jetlag was over was a little ambitious, I:ve just woken up after falling asleep at 3pm. I went for a wander around this morning, it seems this district is something like our very own Docklands, with a similar set of over grandised office/coffee shop atria. I:ve found a couple of MacDonalds within […]

Woah, so much to write about…