http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com Just another Your-Japan.com weblog Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:01:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since this is my first post, let me go about introducingmyself. I'll start by answering thequestion I am sure you all have. What the hell is up with the name? Are you agirl? No, I am a guy. In the past I referred to myself ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/05/26/welcome-to-my-world/ Well this is my first writeup for my trip last Nov-Dec. Its rather late, but I just didn't seem to be in the mood to write any blow by blow recaps of my travel adventures. I got in the mood for it after visiting some other very nice blogs that ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/03/06/hakkejima-writeup/ Ah, one of my true loves from Japan - Gyudon. Today I thought, well I like gyudon so much and I can't just walk down the street and eat it at Suki-ya anymore so I might as well try making it. I reached some recipes on the internet and ended ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/03/06/gyudon-tonight/ Pan (bread): Bread in Japan is far more then just white or wheat. It includes all sorts of sweet, filled, fried and unusual bread products. One of my personal goals in Japan was to eat as many different type of pan as I could. Sadly I was often side-tracked by ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/03/06/3-conbini-food/ I¡Çve found myself doing a lot of reading lately.The cold weather and lack of insulation in my house has driven me to seek refuge in coffee shops. This is a bit trickier then it sounds. The stylish cafés along the waterways close around 8:00 at the latest. The staff at ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/02/20/tea-time/ This segment focuses the third CD of Brian Tracy's classic 6-CD Psychology of Achievement program. (If you obtain this program, get the 6-CD version not the 1-CD version. Ignore the touchy-feely stuff if it bothers you; it's not critical to the rest of the material.) Tracy mentions that building new habits ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/02/04/foundations-part-3/ One of the most powerful changes you can make: Resolve that, before you get to sex, you are not especially intelligent, you are not especially funny, you are not cultured, you are not rich... you have the least possible number of noteworthy positive characteristics NOT related to sex. What you ARE is ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/01/30/more-counterintuitive-advice/ This one will be shorter as I have little time to write today. This concerns the "lack of grudges and other emotional baggage" listed at the base (the most important part) of the pyramid. Following along with the Psychology of Achievement**, on the second CD (Accepting Reponsibility and Taking Charge), Tracy ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/01/30/foundations-part-2/ I really need to keep this up more often. My trip is less than two months away- and I'm in debt. Now that I'm eighteen, and my parents have found out about me joining the military, they don't pay for jack shit. Health insurance, car insurance, car note, car repairs (and ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/01/22/good-guy-bad-guy/ Well, it's official. I've now jumped, hurdled, and Navy-SEALed my way through three at a financial company. Reflecting now I can say there have been more rough times than good, more conflict than resolution. Bright spots in my week that are predominately overshadowed by larger, loomyer dark ... http://oldyourjapan.your-japan.com/2008/01/20/bob/