Last Monday I introduced some students to the game of “Shakespeare Hangman”. The word they had to get was “Shipwrecked”. They failed to get the “w” and “r” before they were hanged. I then left them with a homework question, namely: “Which Shakespeare play opens with a shipwreck?” Of course, [Read more…]
It was the Labour Day holiday here in Japan today, so I didn’t have to haul myself out of bed at 6:15am and go on the “Busy Friday” run to the women’s college where I attend classes during term time. I say “attend” because I would blush to say that [Read more…]
Tonight was the evening before the Japanese Labour Day holiday and since nobody was working the next day we played mahjong from 7pm until almost 2am, the longest session ever at that venue. The first game started off with some lively variety. The junior Doc threatened to produce an expensive [Read more…]
Noda does not manage his game by standing on the sidelines sheltering from inclement weather conditions beneath a massive umbrella and keeping himself warm with a paper cup of coffee. Despite that fact that Noda has not always had its eye on the ball and that his defence was a [Read more…]
The attentive reader of this blog, if there is one, may recall that its author has a penchant for the things of the flesh, preferably female and of ample but pleasing proportion and a comely countenance. Save your fasting for Lent and Advent, sweet ladies mine, and in the meantime [Read more…]
Ray came into town from the sticks tonight and joined us at the table of conviviality. The first two games were played by him, Noda and Jaime. David arrived towards the end of the first game and already the foreign players had a gloomy air about them. David ordered yakimeshi [Read more…]
Stephen Covey’s bestseller discusses how to integrate seven basic principles of effective living into your basic character to improve your performance from the inside out. The principles are: Be proactive; begin with the end in Mind; put first things first; think win-win; seek first to understand; synergize; sharpen the saw. [Read more…]
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