January 11, 2009 – 3:30 pm
Since my 3mm fullsuit isn’t suitable for winter surfing, I have been on the lookout for a new suit. I didn’t want to order a custom suit because of the price and I wasn’t confident about how many times I’d actually use it per season. (The locals have told me that the surfing isn’t very [...]
January 10, 2009 – 3:30 pm
When I was back in Port Hope, I was interviewed by one of the local newspapers, the Northumberland News. Click here to read the short article.
January 8, 2009 – 3:30 pm
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October 16, 2008 – 3:30 pm
After breaking one of my fins a couple of weeks ago (the right one to be exact), I have been using even older fins from another board. I thought about buying one replacement fin, but the cost was at least 3,000 yen. A whole set of much better fins cost 10,000 yen. Initial impression? Fast!
September 5, 2008 – 6:40 pm
Since I knew that people would ask me about the food in Germany, I decided to take a few snapshots of the food I ate during my week in Essen, Germany. I’m sure that this isn’t considered gourmet, but these are a few things that I ate during the week.
September 4, 2008 – 3:53 pm
As you have probably noticed, I haven’t been posting about surfing for the last week and a half. That’s because I was attending an international linguistics conference. The name of the conference was AILA 2008. It was a quite large conference that was held in Essen, Germany from August 24th – 29th. For those of [...]
On the Victoria Day weekend, I toured the HMCS Ottawa. She is a Canadian frigate based in Esquimalt, British Columbia. She is now touring around Asia and the South Pacific on a 6-month voyage. She is over 130 meters long and the top speed is around 50 km/h (30 knots). She carries a crew of [...]
Did you see this picture in the news this week? A boy in Moriyama found this two-headed turtle in the playground at his school. The turtle’s name is Treasure – Takara in Japanese. Researchers say that this wasn’t caused by pollution. I’m not sure what to think about this. What do you think – is this [...]
Usually news about the environment is pessimistic at best. I was happy to see a report that the humpback whales are doing well in the North Pacific. In 1966, the population was estimated to be less than 1,500. A large study conducted by 400 researchers between 2004 and 2006 found that the population now numbers [...]
Tired of wimpy burgers that aren’t satisfying?? Asyl, a restaurant near Akihabara station sells the 20 cm. tall burger pictured below. The “Aki Burger” sells for a mere 1890 yen. To my untrained eyes, it looks like two burgers stacked on top of each other. For directions to the restaurant, visit the restaurant’s website here.
