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Yep, summer has come but still cool here. I can never go anywhere else in summer. Bushpig - do post pics of CB with a bald head!

newtojapan, I guess usually reasonable numbers of English signs are available in ski resorts, but probably not enought especially for emergency. You had better check where the first-aid is located in a resort before you hit the slope. And sometimes even I wonder if the translation were correct or not lol..... maybe my bad though

I went there back in February for the first time. I had a trauma about monkeys coz one attacked me to steal my caramels in my hand when I was 5 years old in Takasakiyama Beppu. I love animals but monkeys are exception because of the experience. Probably monkeys are just new to some of you, but I do advice you to pay attention on kids if you take any with you there. Usually animals don't attack anything stronger than themselves but kids of human beings could be their targets. They describe some warnings in signboards there but no English sighboards for it. # Don't keep looking at the

I just got an e-mail looked like from Paypal but wondered something strange because I have not used paypal for long and it asked me to verify my account by logging on a link in it which looked weird cos when i put an arrow moving my mouse, it showed some other site name at the bottom right of the browser. I went to paypal official web site and tried to contact them immediately to ask if that was a fake e-mail or not. I forwarded the mail to a special e-mail address for reporting fake e-mails and got the answer it was not sent by paypal!!!!!! Be careful everyone, there are a lot weird

klingon - see my comment in the thread below, i put a link there. http://www.snowjapanforums.com/ubb/ultimatebb.php/topic/8/5828.html I don't check the SJ forum often now, so maybe you can ask me anything through my business web. Bushpig - I know what you mean but still there's sometimes something hard to understand, hard to translate. Especially when a sentence is very long, it's hard. Rach - I agree. Nowadays a lot of them call me to tell there's some cheap plans/prgrams for telephone fee, so they just call them to inform. But I always ask them nice and polite not to switch m

>I know this is Japan, but comoooooooon... Some people say they speak Japanese but when I talk with them in Japanese I find the same It's hard to speak not in your mother tongue, so take it easy

Glad to know you are alright, Blair. Do take care of yourself as well as customers. When we don't have enough snow, we lose a lot business, when we have tons of snow we do the same. Pity it all depends on the snow in this ski industry.

Hi all, miss me!? SJ Andrew pit in my house this afternoon to tell me everyone is noisy to make fun of me while I have been away As Markie and Weegeoff say, I am busy to make a model train layout now for our guests to play with when they stay overnight. Also,trying to switch our message from html pages to blog. Maybe I can show everyone what I have been up to below. view from a control room Catch you soon!

Yeah, old J people ( not me!) call them Mohko bai 蒙古灰　- Ash from Mongol

I remember at a page in the English class textbook in my junior high school 1st grade (What a memory, it's more than 30 years ago! ) it described like.... ******************** This is a dog "ITS" name is Andy. ******************** So I would go with "ITS" as far as I don't know the sex. Sorry for Andrew-s in here lol...

Quote: Originally posted by bobby12: 'oh have u tried using real coffee instead of instant?' LOL Bobby, does it say " This coffee is a crap" ?

I think maybe it happens when they quarrel their territory or when they find lovers. In both cases, a bit hard to avoid it though I know how you have had hard time, muikabochi. Usually it happens late at night when you want to sleep, right?

I don't fly spinning around.

Some years back - let's say 10 years - I often found some small description which said " no tattoes allowed " in onsens but nowadays seldom find them wherever I go. If you had big tattoes which are entire your back etc, probably you had better cover them when you get in an onsen not to scare other ppl off. But no idea how if it were entire your back size.....

Quote: Originally posted by Kumapix: is this someone that doesn't get any action? someone that just reads porn? Both. I think it doesn't matter if one gets some action or not.

Muikabochi, as far as I read the description, they are not sure, I guess. They say some plural reasons may be related each other.

Quote: Originally posted by me jane: Amazing how they get all that info up so quickly. I know it's all computerized but it's still impressive. Yeah exactly impressive, I think Japan needs this because Japan is surrounded by sea all the side, so we needed to know when the first tsunami would attack somewhere and how much time to spare we could have to escape. I think tsondaboy and soubriquet can explain why much better than I.

I think now some pcs cool down the cpu by water power instead of a fan to make the noise less. HTNV - ask staffs if they had suireishiki computer ( a computer which cool down the cpu by water ). Make sure if it's quietter than one with a fan. Good luck

Quote: Originally posted by Creek Boy: Think its something like 30 cm circle Oh my! Then my 63cm around head even can not get in the circle!? If it meant 30cms in diameter, I think it can

Neither do I if people put curious eyes on me for long time not talking any. When I traveled around Europe in my uni days, I sometimes got the situation in some countryside where asians seldom visited e.g. at Monte-Frio Tocon in a surberb of Granada Spain. I knew people would like to ask me a lot but I didn't speak Spanish good and of course they didnt speak Japanese at all. And a lot often I was asked if I were from China. I said I was from Japan but some people didn't know where Japan was or maybe they didn't know Japan!? I'm sure you are outstanding if you walked around

Quote: Originally posted by dale#1: Lots of suzume birds suddenly conking out - it was on the news this evening, not sure where it was. Can't find it online either. nagpants? Asahikawa ( Hokkaido )

Quote: Originally posted by big-will: I prefer my sheep naked. (To look at). If a turtle lost its shell, is it naked or homeless?

Quote: Originally posted by NPM: Go for it BP, aka むっつりスケベ!!! Muttsuri sukebe means those who usually don't talk enough much but very sukebe!

If it's roughly from Dec.28th, nearly 100% guaranteed by my past statistics since 1989 when I moved into here. A bit hard to pressume next season as it has been strange sometimes for this a couple of years - Very late snow at 2004-2005 then terribly tons of snow at Dec 2005.

Went to Goryu this morning, gondola was not available due to strong wind but tried a jumping park for the first time gamera jump with a son of my junior high classmate who stays in my place to take snowboard test. I know I don't have any flexible muscles, I have very hard muscles as you notice. What I hate is I say "Yoisho" when I ski over the hill!!!! which is a proof getting old! I hope no one on the lift beside the jumping park heard that Yoisho! The snow condition was very nice at this time of the year as it has snowed for this a couple