La Tube

I wanted to write this yesterday but for the same reason "complacency" that has prevented me from writing regular postings I did not.

Anyway I left Leeds last week moved back to London,
I am on the bench (in between projects) - which means I'm being paid but I'm not working, but you can't stay on the bench too long or you get fired.In
Anyway I have to travel to our head office in Aldershot meaning I have to take the Jubilee line.

I forgot what the tube was like- Bloody sardines- I used to work in the city and had become desensitised to the crowding and pushing and smells and getting hot and the lack of respect and discipline. I can liken my reacquainting with the tube to a guy who has been stuck in a dark hole for a year and then suddenly open his eyes to a brilliant bright light. The tube however is not brilliant it is a man made interconnected series of hell holes with multiple deaths carriages assigned to each hell hole that ride through these hell holes transporting rats.

Get it it's hell. (during rush hour)

at all other time's it is fine and pleasant THE END

I am still alive

I feel bad it's been over a month and A lot has changed.
Kon shu no nichiyoobi kara London ni sunde imasu. I left Leeds with a tear in my eye and have come back to my tiny London room. Benefits being that I'm with the family.

I think I'm going to go to my first london Salsa lesson ever today lol, I'm going tomorow as well but I am slightly addicted to Salsa.com and all the other forms. I'm not obsessed but I am. I have the week off and i'm trying to sort out my room BUT i have too much stuff for my room, so what can a man do.

There is no wit in this entry lol, just an update - if you want some humour maybe next time.
I have established that I am shy though in Salsa and talking Japanese with the people at the japan centre.

I wo't leave it too lon before i post a real post and not this diary entry style excuse.

Oh yeah I'm going to the land of the rising sun- Just getting that sorted was drama.net

Le weekend of le busy

That is my attempt at French lol, British people make me laugh, they think speaking loud, slowly and by inputting le and la after every utterance constitutes to speaking Le french.

Anyway that was a tangent, I had a crazy week. I danced Salsa from Tuesday- Friday

On Thursday Mo and Brendan who are Salsa dons invited me out with them to Wetherby- felt flattered I have climbed up the ranks of salsa hood. SO

I found myself in wetherby - being asked to dance by people who if they saw me on the street would normally cross the road climb a fence and take a taxi-- SALSA is a whole new world.

Saturday found me in Birmingham with the graduate force-- was an okay encounter-- etap hotel allows you no privacy- the shower has a blooming peep hole wide enough for you to fit your fist through and is at waist height- why oh why!!

Anyway got back to Leeds on Sunday courtesy of Russel brands driving and I went Salsa on Monday- and I am proud to say I did a spot of beginners teaching :D

Can't wait for Salsa on Thursday--MWAH


Ciao-- Ja matta ato de-- Tschus- au revoir - Odabo Seeya

Advancement

All I can say is I've learnt a lot, that commute I mentioned I made it worthwhile
Japanese Audio Lessons,

I get about 3 hours of Japanese in every day. ichshukan mei kara. watashia wa Nihongo yoku wakarimasu soshte skoshi wakarimasu. I can count from Ichi to KyujuKyuHyakusen Kyuhakyu kyujukyu ( 1 - 999,999). I'm not learning Romaji ( how you write japanese in english) because I am going to learn Hiragana and katakana. (i.e dont watch the spelling)

I feel good now i need a nisan nim japanese tomodachi (few japanese friends) and I can get some practice in.

Dreamt in Japanese , so that's the one.

Not only that I went Salsa last night till the early hour literally Kesa Ichiji ni (this morning at one o clock), I was still dancing. I'm a lot better at that too, need to move up I didn't go to intermediates but I will next week.

Re picture- Samurai Champloo- is the best anime I've seen so far--

mada jozu ja arimasen

Long time,

well not that much has changed, well if you ask my left leg it will tell you a completely different story, or if you asked my memory banks as they are storing a lot of Nihongo (japanese).

As for my left leg, well let's say it's been adorned with a Yakuza style tattoo it's not really yakuza style but you catch my drift.

besides that had a 2 day development training with work which was inspiring if anything-- go team Ariyo

Salsa this week has been ill definitely ill picking up new moves went to a salsa club night last week- had some good times



I'm sad - I will Miss Leeds when I move back home

yeah how about this is just a catch up

Ja Matta

I subaru, I subaru

My blog is modern ronin, my name is Rio Tetsuo my picture is me dressed as a Ninja, if you haven't guessed it by now you never will. I literally just noticed how obvious it was.

Out of all the things I want to achieve i think Japanese fluency is one of them, but I suck at the commitment part. I hope I started learning Japanese for the last time. I know quite a lot of basic stuff, but need to step to the next level... I need to do like 10 minutes a day-- Just ten --sometimes more never less,

I am doing several things at once but boy if it all comes together I'll be a powerhouse.. I'm a basic japanese speaking, graphic designing website building -photo taking ,thai boxing, running machine.. keep them all up and I will be an expert and I will take over the WORLLLLLLLLLLLLD MWUHHAHAHAHA ,

please pray that I keep it up and ask me regularly how I'm doing oh,,
and I need japanese friends--

I have none

now that is weird

I it bad if i make friends on the basis that they are japanese

walk like an egyptian..

Lol, to think that a whole dance craze songs and all derived from the way Egyptians were depicted in early hieroglyphics.

Anyway End of August, i went to Egypt with my better half, and it was 99% great,
weather, resort , food were all top notch.

Snorkeling in the red sea and quad biking through the desert made for good times

I spent hours in the sea, just looking at the beautiful coral and the plethora of tropical fish and the odd evil looking death fish or jellyfish that appeared out of nowhere.

It is a different world in the deep blue, forget going to space for now-- we need to check out the bottom of the ocean.

The pyramids of Giza were amazing and definitely need to be seen. 4,000 years old and still standing, understand that Cairo has the odd earthquake reaching quite high in the Richter scale.
These things were around before Christ.

There are 111 pyramids in Egypt and these 3 are the creme, although these are glorified tombs and sign of mans vanity they are still .WOW. the only remaining wonder of the Ancient world.

The museum was also a hot spot literally, the highlight being the Tutankhamen room dedicated to the findings of the boy king who reigned from the age of 9 for 9 years. One of the most famous ancient Egyptians, you can only marvel at the craftsmanship, especially of the tomb in a tomb in a tomb in a tomb.

next stop JAPAN bang bang