Who Sells Chicken Eggs? [3rd of January, 2012]

Did you know?



"Kai kai kai kai" is a phrase used to teach Thai children the tonalities of their language. When each "kai" is pronounced properly it means, "Who sells chicken eggs?" For the life of me, I can only think of one way to pronounce Kai; those wiley Thai children must be laughing at my linguistical ineptitude right now.  Grrrr!

So begins a torrent of thoughts and ideas, that otherwise would find themselves floundering on some forgotten saltplane of mismemory, or skewered and emprisoned by the responsibilities of the day. (Take that for wordplay Thai kids!) This zoological catalogue of sorts is not intended to indulge or to moan at the expense of you, readers, but will have the chance to entertain and even be relevent to anyone wishing to follow a Kailife in action! Mad things, arty things, audible treats, sciencey things and Japanese things can all be found in this very spot, which will hopefully act as a constient chronicle to the my life and the events that I see defining it. 

Each blogpost will have a marker to indicate what its about: 
Important updates [BIGNEWS], 
Creative musings [E-GROVE], 
Everything Japan-related [SHINNICHI], 
Someone playing Final Fantasy VII in the same room as me!? [GEEKTACULAR],
Music and gigs..... big names, little guys, underground and semi-mainstream if you please.... just sound to make the world go round! [BEAT-DELETE],
Sexy sexy Physics [PHYS],
And all the other stuff, including dead bees and the Poddington Peas [MISC]

[SHINNICHI]
I should probably start with the most gargantuan event to slap me round the chops - JAPAN. Believe me, it was a knockout :) I found myself departing for Osaka from Birmingham Airport back in 2007 and ever since staying for 2 weeks in Yosano-cho near Kyoto, I have settled upon one and only goal....

To return to Japan and make a living there. And evolve anime eyes somehow. Just to freak the folks out. 

[Grave of the late Frank Evans; a Welsh POW responsible for setting up the friendship group between Aberystwyth and Yosano-cho which allowed me to visit Japan. Yup, they called me the Fashion Assassin back then...-.-; ]

Since this dream is shared by a number of people I know, (and many I have yet to force into being my Japanafriend!) I wanted to document my journey towards getting there, in an effort to inspire and assist y'all! I'll be discussing stuff like what options are available to get to Japan, what you need to do to get started, tips on language and culture, food and finances, even getting in touch with Japanese folk. Whatever I can do to help, just ask - I'm a resource to be used and effused and confused and abused!

[Best bud Mark and myself in front of Osaka Castle. Mark achieves his dream of being escort to a samurai!]

First thing on the list of things to write about will be my experience of Japan, so stayed switched onto the SHINNICHI channel for a delve into Japanese nuttiness! It won't be winning me any accolades any time soon, but hope you enjoy it when it appears. :)

[All the friends made in Yosano wishing us a goodbye. An extremely painful endeavour for some of them, who apparently screamed us goodbye :P ]

That's all for my introduction, so laters!

Peace, Love and Light
~Kai