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Jason is still alive and happy : )
working at a place called Australia Post start next monday.
Running out of money but still upbeat about things in general

p.s
To anyone who tries to keep up with my life and happenings, Sorry i havent posted in such a long time.

I have just been back in brisbane for about less than 2 weeks and not much productivity in my life. Took me about a week to sort out my resume and that was tough. (yawn) me being tired

but here is a pic of my eldest sis with her little baby, my nephew. His name is Kai and he is my little Special K. Lets hope he grows up to be a better looking guy than his uncle, which is no impossible feat and here hopes he does better with the women too, which once again compared with me is not impossible.

The bottom pic is a baby pig and it is delicious and the top is what i ate at the changi airport in singapore, its a triple whopper but i liked the pig better and also we cant eat that in australia because there is some law about not eating baby pigs in Oz or something.

On the second last day i think we went to the Kin Seng Estate to visit my aunts cousin, this is in tsuen wan. He is the guy on the right and i am in the middle and thats my aunt on the left looking sideways that is.

In my last week in Hong Kong I met a lot of my aunts friends, My fathers sister, my aunt is on the far left and sitting in the centre is aunt Peggy I think, i cant remember if that is correct and the other is aunt Patsie, I think, it could also be the other way around. anyway we had yum cha shanghai style together and it was great, later on we went to buy pirated cd's and that was great too.

The rest of the day i think we just went shopping for stuff, nothing really interesting.

Be hold this is Hong Kong. The building you see is in the top 10 tallest buildings in the world. Its the IFC building and the second pics are from the most famous peak in HK.

to sum this view would be best told from a friend of mine in his words.

American Paul, "Manhatten is nothing compared to Hong Kong, Manhatten is Hong Kong's Bitch"

Had yum cha with my aunt and am uncle, yeah in chinese even people who aren't directly related are uncles and aunt's, so this kind looking chap is uncle Robert and he grew up with my old man. he had great stories all day i was with him, the best being how back in the day in order to be a naturalised Australian you had to live in OZ for at least 16 years and do a test. the test is to grade your ability of english and see if you can survive making an order at a Macdonald's restaurant , no jokes but he refused on the grounds that he did most of his senior high schooling and university in sydney and that would be an insult to Australian education if they couldn't even teach him english after that long. He was never going to take the test and was almost never granted being a naturalised Aussie but turns out one of the guys that worked in immigration was his high school friend and gave him a call when he saw Uncle Roberts name on the list of potential to be naturalised aussies and granted stamped his papers and that was that. Great story and a great guy and the bottom pic is just something we ate at yum cha, tasted good and cost aussie 5 bucks a pop.

Meet the Family.
Here are the pics of my family direct and not so direct. in the first pic is my fathers sister who lives in Boston in the U.S of the A (America) and she is holding a cat named creamy who is pretty lazy and cute.

next is my mothers sister and fathers sister together with about 4 cats, dont worry their names are really important, the cats that is.

And last but not least is my Aunt's husband who is a teacher in Hong Kong and he really a nice guy who i like talking to.

Ill keep it simple. This is the osaka aquaruim (Kaiyukan) price 2000 yen, got a lot of fish, a big whale shark ie the main attraction, other fun weird looking creatures, so if you got some time to kill I recommend it. its located on the chou line at Osakako and its got directions from the station to the actual aquarium so you got no excuse of getting lost.

Sorry these photos are on the side, this will be a common happening on my website. This is Orange Hell oops i mean Orange house, a youth hostel in osaka in tennoji. these are the facilites, paying about 55000 yen per month nothing too great but survivable, i did after being in japan for about a year. I made a lot of great friends from the U.S, Canada, france, Italy, England and Indonesia, yeah indonesia. If you ever think about staying in Osaka give this place like a week and try moving onto something better but if you get stuck here it would only be for the company of other foreigners.

I had the day off and felt bored at home so I went to Rays Osaka, they are a wheel manufacturing business making nice shiny and cool wheels naturally. I saw this hot s15 nearby so I decided to take a photo but when I did the owners saw me and thought I was going to steal it. there were about 4 - 5 guys witht the owner but luckily they didnt do anything because to put it simply Japanese guys have no balls, they wouldnt do anything anyway. Once again in the shop I saw a lot of things i wanted but couldnt afford, tlaked to one of the workers about drifting, he`s got a sil-eighty and after that I just came back home. nothing really interesting but thought somebody might enjoy some more photo`s of japan and a nice local product, i.e the car.

Do you know what this is.............? well its alcohol shaped in the form of sperm, yes you guessed right or maybe not. I saw this at an alcohol store in tokyo and actually it comes from germany so maybe your reaction of surprise is not of surprise now, typical horny sexually liberated germans, if im wrong please feel free to correct me.

Another photo of my beloved student and how I touched their lives in a non pedapholic way. This girl doesnt like foreign people for some unknown reason maybe she had a harrowing experience with a foreigner like they had to ask for directions and she pointed them into the woods when they just wanted to find the nearest station. anyway im glad i was liked in some way even if my lessons were half assed, or maybe even completely assed, if there is a term.

Here is another beautiful site near a place called harajuku. More shrines and parks and actually completely different to osaka in general. Tokyo I have to say is really kick ass and so much better than Osaka, i should add i have lived in Osaka for the past year and that all of my exerience of Tokyo has been only the past week so my opionion is completely based on that I was sick of Osaka and I felt that tokyo wouldnt be any different, how wrong I was.

Here are some photo`s from the cable car after we saw Mt fuji. On the way it was funny because our guide said the cable cars can only maximum 13 people and then she said 13 japanese people so about 9 - 10 foreigners cause japanese people are small. luckily my aunt and i were part of the last straglers so we only had to share the cable car with 3 other people 2 elderly brits and another chinese guy. if you can see the white smoke its actually sulfur and the smell was so strong, it smelt like sulfur but after about an hour the smell wasnt really a problem.

Well after quiting my job as an english teacher I felt I needed some memories of my students and in particular their english abilities. It`s not the best of course but some kids do like english and here are some more interesting examples of my students english, one is a boy with a dream, i.e to find a dream and the other a girl who wants to be a housewife, they are both 15 years old and I hope they pursue and succeed in achieving their dreams.

This is the A.V (Aunty Vicky) my new nickname i call her and this is her at Mt fuji. It took us just over an hour to get to Mt fuji from Tokyo. It was okay but we only spent like half an hour there and then we went to another site.