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정이 김: American want to send beef infected with mad cow — so dangerous that the Americans refusing to eat it — to my country! Myung-bak Lee sign a deal with America to lift a ban of...... SF: Hate to change the subject on the negativity of Hutchinson...at least is in the US!!
I was born in Hutchinson KS at the hospital that used to go by the name Grace Hospital, it was 1964....... Clive: Awesome! An excellent slice of life...I'd love to go and teach English in Tokyo someday; hopefully I'll have enough funds amassed to do so within the next year or two.
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this is what the route of my walk looked like. I started at about 2pm and finished at about 5pm. The read boxed area is a high police-bus presence area as its the area that...... Peter: er, japanese. lol. i knew that. just said "korean" out of habit, i guess!... chiamattt: Peter, I think he's the dude who tells cement trucks and other construction related vehicles where and when to come and go. Also, these are Japanese slices-of-life shots, but thanks for the love!... testeez: Loving these photos. Is the guy in the first picture shaving? The one of the man (and dog) pulling the cart caught my interest. Do you see lots of stuff like that in such...... SULLIVAN: The Prospect Park zoo had elephants, polar bears, monkeys, lions, tigers, and a pony track where kids could get a ride in a poney wagon. In addition, there were row boats & peddle boats on...... .nanotech.: [[img:18457]]
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* The Queen of England has reportedly been buying up property in Colorado under a proxy.
* There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport,...... Kelly M: I am Bill C's ex wife and I also worked at the plant and met Bill there and subsequently got married. It is such a shame to see the plant gone, I have wonderful memories...... New Face in Bushwick: Need more than Starbucks. Northeast cafe is the only one that I can relax and enjoy the meal at. Italian, Japanese restaurants would be wonderful.. Investors and developers out there - business...... EvilGentleman: I must agree with some of this quite heavily. To repeat a comment I posted on VampireFreaks, my opinion about the human race, regardless of ethnicity, race, religion, subculture, style of dress, or social "class"...... EvilGentleman: The fact that someone would have the gall to name something in this area after the Algonquins, who are the traditional enemy of the Mohawks, is quite distressing. The Adironadacks are the homeland of the...... mark: tai chi by itself is just exercises and yoga as well. There is a trend really since the 60's to accept things like these without examining the roots and implications spiritually. So Christians belief it...... groovehouse: [[img:11168]]
Bamboo Graffiti - Hermann Park, Japanese Gardens, Houston, Tx.... jeeff: elicar - how about the reservations up north where people continue to be stuck without clean drinking water and reliable infrastructure? how about the saskatoon police (to name only one notorious department)? the amount...... EvilGentleman: Try babelfishing "I love you." from English to Japanese to English to Korean to English to Italian to French to German to English to French to Portuguese to French to Italian to French to Greek...... EvilGentleman: I noticed that non-Latin alphabet characters seem to cause problems with the formatting for the main posts, but since I have seen them in the comments area without too much trouble, I hope this will...... ea: hehe! in japanese, putting "O" in front of a word signifies an honorific tense...... Carltan: i think asian(especially japanese) people are funny and i like your pictures...first one is not as good as the rest... EvilGentleman: Hmmm, interesting. I see a definite Japanese influence in his work. Thanks. I'll keep my eyes peeled for any of his stuff.... Elicar: That's very pretty! I have a dwarf Japanese maple that I planted two springs ago and I couldn't wait for it to grow to its full glory of about 5 feet! Of course, I may...... GGP: hanami: the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season, from the first buds to the brilliant blossoms to the petals falling like pink snow.
(from a postcard i got...... Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Great links. It's the opposite of 101 unuseless Japanese inventions.... RonO: I worked at this plant from 1980-1984 when we were working 3 shifts and building 300,000 cars a year. At that time GM was manufacturing the X body car which was highly in demand because...... EvilGentleman: I just found my answer at some commercial website here: [[http://commerces.arrondissement.com/Mercier_Hochelaga_Maisonneuve/commerce.asp?id=114&sortcode=8.3]]
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Decorative articles - zen - feng shui - Chinese/Japanese pottery - jewellry - body piercing - books - incense - and "bonsai naturals?"
... Elicar: I don't know whose piece is it, but here is where I took the picture from:
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A Japanese restaurant at the BCE Place. (Why am I always at the BCE?)
... Chris: billy i dont believe u have ever been to the UK judging from ur... review of it.
I have met many cool americans that apreciate there only allie on the planet and are nice...... EvilGentleman: Thank you, GGP. I have better shots that were taken during an overnight sleepover for the women, but I will have to ask my wife for permission to publish them, since she took the other...... jeeff: yeah, kudos. this is such a unique photo.
it's not well known that japan has its own igloo tradition. in akita there's a 'kamakura' festival. kamakura are little snow houses. it used...... jack: a friend of mine once lived in manila, during the japanese invasion. he was a young boy of 12 and was a runner for the resistence and eventually got caught and beaten but survived.... Guy McLaren: I dont know about that, I was reading the owners of the land wanted an extortionate rent and some japanese fellas have offered to buy it, What ever happened with the dome, I lost touch...... sanpakuman: suv driver,
interesting observation . . . though think you're referring to "sanpaku," which as defined by http://www.macrobiotic.org/Sanpaku.htm is:
"Sanpaku is a Japanese term that literally means “three areas empty”. It refers to two sides of...... Buzz Hargrove: First of all, I agreed with the Motorist. That Cyclist was picking up garbage off the street. That is a union job she's doing. Leave the garbage picking to the CUPE Local...... Mack-Limelight: Ya someone should ID the driver, like they did in the Japanese Subway Dog Poop girl story.... jack: wo, thats my uncle joe. we have been looking for him for 32 years. he has a cleaning business. he cleans windshields on cars as they are stopped for red lights. ...... jack: im amazed at how the japanese are able to copy the worlds great structures and recreate it in their city. shinjuku could be new york city. sunset on tokyo tower could be paris...... elaine: well put. i am told the japanese have a word for beauty in decay. it is a lovely photo... elaine: ha, no nothing like that. it is a shop which sells very plain japanese no brand products, lots of lovely white polypropeline folders, stationery fethish stuff, bits and bobs, i love it... jeeff: i don't know about other places, but shibuya is about the only part of tokyo that has a lot of graffiti (shinjuku has some too, but mostly older it seems). shibuya is the most...... jeeff: cool! it's one of my favourite bits of japanese cultural trivia. i asked many japanese i met about it and most of them replied that yes, they had eaten ##katsu## for good luck....... jeeff: ##katsu## in japanese means 'cutlet'. for example, ##tonkatsu## means 'pork cutlet'.
also, ##serikatsu## means 'to win after tough bidding' and is sometimes used to describe passing an exam or interview. ##tonkatsu## is often eaten...... Peter: heh, i think its the rope path markers around the japanese garden area during the cherry blossom fest ;)... elaine: these are ##so## beautiful! someone told me once there is a japanese word for beauty in decay, and of course i have forgotten it now. you have captured a regretful beauty with your gentle eye,...... jeeff: peeing in public is common in japan, though frowned upon. they have lots of public washrooms, usually right beside the police boxes. the public washrooms smell bad, and they're all traditional japanese squat...... Kemo13 Funartix Crew: Wow that Picture is a BURNER!! Respect!! Iam 19 years old graffiti artist from germany and Iam searchingfor graffiti contacts all over the world. Last Year I was in japan for painting withsome japanese artist....... Lili: "like swimming pool meets japanese flower arranging" - masterful comment - excellent photo - thank you all.... RACHEL: I plan to attend school in Manhattan and live in a house in Bushwick. I am Japanese-American. I would be riding the J train between 9-11pm 6 days a week. should I worry about safety?... Marc: i have been writing and working (very hard) and traveling, but nothing in the citynoise genre as of late- though i desperately want to! Have to trepan some other stuff out of my head first........ jeeff: haha, there isn't much competition for the crown.
papakoti - i didn't have a japanese-style tub. unfortunately the whole building had to share a pair of grungey, frequently broken-down shower stalls. but during my...... elaine: this is beautiful, and makes LA look uncharactaristically cool, like swimming pool meets japanese flower arranging... sine: the presence of a torii signifies a shrine or temple nearby. indeed, there is a shinto shrine dedicated to Inari hidden in the woods behind the torii. here is some info from the site:
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The...... Jamie: Yet more japanese resplendency. I love that you are posting here lately.... Peter: some of hte japanese writers have siiiiick handstyles. they usually write in english though. hmm...... jeeff: really cool. i've often wondered what graffiti is like for people who are used to chinese characters rather than an alphabet. it must be a whole different mindset.
chinese or japanese calligraphy...... sine: jeeff: it's the japanese hill and pond garden in the bbg.
http://www.bbg.org... sine: jeeff: it's the japanese hill and pond garden in the bbg.
http://www.bbg.org... ea: Re: Soho Paste-Ups: NYC
third image down is one character short of reading co-ni-chi-wa. hello / good afternoon in Japanese. "co" is the missing element.... Fr3orb: Re: race against time
wow, you capture the quintensential Japanese anime look to a T. (well, ok, that might come off poorly) rather I mean, in the same ethos of all my favorate anime's. you work...... Jamie: I think i'm turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so. I think i'm turning japanese i think i'm turning japanese i really think so....
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