Final score...Aus (flukes) 3 - Japan (just plain rubbish) 1

No sake for me tonight at the hotel...

Crap...we let in Three goals in ten minutes...

NOOOOOO...Japan sucks...

GO england!!!...we really suck ass...

So yeah its world cup time...yeah sucky teams like Japan (sorry all you jp supporters out there!) have been knocked out...in some ways i am glad that jp are out, finally i can get some rest as my neighbors, mostly young hot things who run around in bikinis invite all their mates round for the game and scream their lungs out whenever japan score, which ws never too often.

Yet surprisingly we (england) are still in it. I say surprisingly cause we REALLY SUCK. Sad but true...at work we, well Matt has literally destroyed Crouch and his severe lack of skill...Owen who will probably never return to his old form is out, and our only world class player...thats right our ONLY world class player (maybe joe cole is to!?) Rooney is SOOOOOO not in form.

1-0 against excuador!!!!!!????? puuullllleeeeasssseeeee....could you imagine us playing Brazil like that????

But who knows we may go all the way...

I had to take these these types of photos cause Hello is crappy...or maybe i cant use the computer...Woah check out that steak!!!!!

Go for it mate...and its gone!

Happy birthday Albert!!

Well Mr lover boy Alby had his birthday...the big quarter of a century...25! woah thats crazy...so in the spirit of hitting that landmark Mr Luo went to a steak place and ate himself silly...check it out!

Albert you are a meat monster...and the pictures prove it!

Happy birthday bruv!

Am I crazy?

Its at these points in my life that I am really stumped. I have made my choices, made sacrifices and even more importantly people have sacrificed different parts of their lives so tha I could do what I wanted.

At many times here in japan I am working so hard and getting in my routine of life that I really forget the fact that I am here in Japan, the reason that I am here and the world I left behined in England. Life goes by here so quickly its scary and at times I stop and think and realise that I am growing so far away from my friends and family. I dont regret my move here and I never will...its just....I dunno maybe its human nature.

On a happier note my mother is coming to visit me which is nice and also one of my great friends from Sih Dah, Mr Stan Lieu or perhaps I should call him Dr Lieu!
I was just saying to Stan that it has been almost a year since I last saw him...thats really scary. My friends in the uk...my friends in Taiwan...I miss them all so much. Take care of each other and yourselves ok?

Taipei 101...

LIEW family love at ktv...

Random laughs at Spaghetti...

A sea of mopeds...ahhh I miss those little things!

Humid fuking weather...that I won`t miss!

Junior cafe with hot German chicks! hahahaha...the ever lovely Linda and Lillian...

Dan shui...

Love...so much love in Taiwan...

Romance at Inhouse...ahhh those fun filled days...

Japanese food...food food food!

Yet more passion at KTV....I miss it!

Anthony and Peter (the young American) at yet another bling bling restraunt on the east side...

David and Linda got zee munchies at night in Xi men...

Long haired Alby...only in Taiwan...looking goooooodddd!

Brotherly love at KTV...

Pearl milk tea and tswah bing!! Linda how are surviving in Germany without these!!??

Amazing cakes...the best in the world!

Taiwan...when will I beable to smell that dirty sewage/polluted air and feel at home again!?

So again and again I go back to banging on about Taiwan...but I have good reason to, life was soooooo good there...food, girls (hot), cool mopeds, night markets, drinking, ktv, pool with the guys...

Ahhhh memories...

Roland and Kryssy...awwwwww...

Edd...the best man...I can`t wait for the speech!

Sarah...the scariest bridesmaid in the world!! Down rah rah Down!

Roland and Kryssy...congrats!!

So two excellent friends of mine from the uk are getting married...Kryssy and Roland. They have even done their own blog which will document the pre wedding build up and hopefully the wedding too. So pop along and check out their blog...

www.kryssyrolandwedding.blogspot.com


and... oh yes Roland recently told me something about Kryssy on messenger...


Roland ??? :
kryssy bought a virtual lemming for her phone and she's training it to ski.

Michiyo with a CI boy Anthony gave me...welcome to my flat!

My resting area...where I like to lie after work!

My 'special' shelf unit!

My desk and TV...

My new way to dry clothes...looks like a friggin art gallery at the moment!

Decorating time can get a bit messy!

My flat...

So yup I got my own place, its cool, just roomy enough for me. I have gone about decorating the place as I will be here for a while. Its the first time that I have rented any where by myself so the fact that this is my own place and that I can walk around stark naked (not a nice thought I know!) is quite lovely.

So if anyone is coming around Japan soon drop me a line ok!!??

(Note: Anthony get your lazy butt down here asap! The toys are calling you don`t deny them!)

The old old BM in a kimono with cigarette...looks good!

Four or five beers ad wines down, you know Rie`s gonna do something crazy with her pizza right!?

...and there we go!

Only Jules was interested in posing for a photo...cheers mate!

Our BM really is crazy...we love her!

Drink drink drink...our office ladies...pure hardcore drinkers! Check out the pint chugging technique!

David and Justin are cool so they had another table...I joined their convo at one point and had no idea what the fudge they were on about!

Joe and Matt with yet more beers!

Work...and Japanese TV!

So yeah I am working in Japan...I won`t say the name of the place obviously but its a nice place to work, the people I work with are cool...and really it is not that stressful.

I have been out twice with my work mates...yeah I know...only twice!? Both times we went out to La Pausa which is an Italitan restraunt. The first time was for Julian`s birthday and the second a kinda welcoming thing for me and the new branch manager. To tell the truth work does drain me and after a twenty minute walk from the station I am ready to kick back and relax watching tv in a language I don`t understand although saying that there is entertaining shit that doesnt require me to understand Japanese.

Take the Smap programme for example. For those in the dark about Smap they are Japan`s biggest and gayest (in my opinion) boyband, the marketing around the band is so clever...they are each in a different soap, they each shoot own commercials and films, they each have their own fan club as well as having the group fan club. They basically have a hand in everything (that sounds dodgier than it really is) so their fame and appeal cannot die.

So one day there I was with no internet (I do now yipppeeee!) and I am flipping through channels. Suddenly I see Michael Jackson and Smap on the same prog...i knew this was going to be an interesting one. Basically the studio reps had arranged for MJ to suprise our boys Smap whilst they practised one of their songs on stage. MJ walks into the building shades on surrounded by bodyguards and he watches from the control room tapping his fingers along to the tone deaf singers downstairs (i.e. smap for all you people who cannot read my inane blabbing!) Suddenly he stands up (cue the commentator of the show shouting and ahhhing is head off) and mj heads to some stairs and walks into the studio (cue mj`s bad song) and smap standing in shock as mj is glaring at them from above. Note at this point that he has only just heard of this group, he knows nothing of japanese music, he has realised they CANNOT sing at all...and he ends up saying...and I quote "you are great, I love your song"...OH PUUUUUULEASE. He could have met someone cool like Ken Hirai who could probably fart and still be more intune that Smap but no he was stuck with an oohing and ahhing boyband who literally wet themselves when they saw mr prudey nose. Anyways so after much ooohing and ahhing from our boys Smap they all took it in turns to speak some well rehearsed english lines e.g. "my name is Shingo, I love you" and then blabbed at him in Japanese whilst MJ`s translator who was prob more obssessed with smap than him translated. All of a sudden MJ stands up and says he has to leave. Many handshakes and bowings later Smap sit on the floor and make stupid comments about their meeting with the King of Pop.

For more clarrification just check out the pics!