Musings from a financial translator in Tokyo (and now London)
Posted in Sports on May 28th, 2009
Random thoughts: – Why in the world would one of the biggest matches of the year be played on a *Wednesday* night?!? – For the first 10 minutes, Man U was the better team. For the final 80 minutes, Barca was easily the better team. – It was a fairly boring match. Far too much [...]
Posted in TV on May 22nd, 2009
I’m sorry, but Entourage is simply Sex and the City for guys. It’s just not good TV. I won’t even argue this. The opening theme song (by my boys, Jane’s Addiction) rocks, however. = = = =
Posted in Pet on May 17th, 2009
Windsor! Yep, we brought home the new addition to the family on Saturday – a quick morning trip to Bath and back. We debated the name for ages – we originally had planned on calling him Edel, which is ‘Thank you’ in Turkish. But after seeing him, we realized he didn’t really look like an [...]
Posted in Movie on May 17th, 2009
WARNING! Probably lots of spoilers below. Don’t read if you haven’t watched the movie yet and are interested. Given that this movie started a Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, and a dog, I – like most people, I’m sure, half-expected this movie to be a typical chick-flick romantic comedy: heavy on the ‘movie formula’, light on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 10th, 2009
Day Three! On our daily trek up the hill from our hotel to the main Sultanahmet area, we were surprised to see the streets lined with barriers: The last time I saw these barriers was last year during the Tour de France broadcasts. Hmmm. Yep, it was indeed for cycling! Turns out we were on hand [...]
Posted in Music on May 5th, 2009
Been a while since I’ve had music up. The MBH and I heard this while we were in Bath last weekend (more about that in a forthcoming post). Kings of Leon – Ragoo, of the Because of the Times album.