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chi-jin: June 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Thursday, June 08, 2006. All Creatures Great and Small. As I child I was a rather picky eater. I ordered my McDonald’s ‘pickles only.’ I refused to even smell mustard or mayonnaise. You can forget about fried rice. I liked my rice plain and white. We’re talking scrumptious fare like:. Bull frog and ginger stew. Grasshoppers on a stick. Boiled duck’s blood soup.
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chi-jin: September 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Friday, September 29, 2006. The truth of it is, we haven’t seen all that much of Japan. Outside of the Kanto area in which we live we’ve only been to Hiroshima and Kanazawa. We haven’t even been to Kyoto yet. In an effort to rectify the situation we finagled a four-day weekend and toot-tooted our way up into the mountains of central Honshu. After Matsumoto we...
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chi-jin: December 2005
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Saturday, December 31, 2005. Please click on this link for a slide show of pictures from Kanazawa. Please click on the links to the right to view photos at Flickr.com. Everything was uphill from there. Both Christa and I were feeling a little down before arriving in Kanazawa. 2 The flooring in your room will be tatami. This is a tightly woven straw mattin...
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chi-jin: February 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Monday, February 27, 2006. Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To display the movie in a different window.]. Please turn on your sound to really experience the movies! Oh, and I think those red things are fish eggs. They are advertising fish eggs in the pasta sauce. Friday, February 17, 2006.
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chi-jin: March 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Monday, March 13, 2006. And the winner is. Thank you, everyone, for taking part in our interpret the sign contest. We had a quite a great time reading all your comments and hope you had fun reading each others' posts. The number, length, and quality of the responses impressed us. Just in case any of you missed it, here is Mark's entry:. This time Christa and ...
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chi-jin: January 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Tuesday, January 31, 2006. A New Place, a New Name. My stamp is based on my first name, Christa, and says quri, which means "nine villages." Yes, that's right! From now on, I want everyone to refer to me as Nine Villages Battaglia. That's a gangster name if I ever heard one! I think we know who wears the pants in this family! Posted by chi-jin at 6:45 PM.
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chi-jin: May 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Tuesday, May 30, 2006. The Not-So-Dilapidated Wall of Badaling. So, we decided to try to beat the crowds. We got up before four am Blearily, we breakfasted at the twenty-four hours McDonald’s nearby and caught the first subway train at five-fifteen. We got off about twenty minutes later on the other side of town. 1 Local, crowded, bus for 8 Yuan ($.97). A ric...
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chi-jin: April 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Tuesday, April 25, 2006. 36 hrs in Tokyo: Or, How We Learned to Love Exhaustion (3). These are the last two parts of a story that is a series of 7 parts. Please check out the two blogs previous to this one before reading this. Thanks! Part 6: Cherry A-go-go. For a slideshow of Cherry Blossoms images, please click here. For no particular reason we decided to t...
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chi-jin: July 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Monday, July 31, 2006. We lunched on sushi-go-round and enjoyed our coffee. On the way back home the parade situation, once lame, had undergone a sea change. To check out the Urawa Theme Song, the Urawa O-dori, please click on the sound like below. Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. Howeve...
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chi-jin: August 2006
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Your browser does not support frames or is currently configured not to display frames. Please click here. To view the info in a different window.]. Friday, August 25, 2006. Cambodia and Thailand (the images). THIS ENTRY HAS BEEN UPDATED WITH MORE PICTURES! I swear the blogs are coming any day now. sorry for the delay! Blogs will be coming soon on Cambodia and Thailand. For now, enjoy some of the pictures! Click on the picture below to see an Angkor Wat slideshow! Posted by chi-jin at 5:58 AM. With their ...