michael lambe

I was watching my Japanese colleague (and immediate superior) bollocking an arsey student today (on my behalf), and I couldn’t help but admire his awesome bollocking skills.

He was tenacious. Like a dog on a bone, he wouldn’t let it lie until the reluctant student had apologised.

He was tough and intimidating. He isn’t a big guy [...]

This was written up around my school in the first month I worked there as “今月のことば” or this month’s motto.
一日生きることは一歩進むことでありたい。
[ichi nichi ikiru koto ha ippo susumu koto dearitai]
一日 = one day
生きること = living
一歩 = one step
進む = advance, make progress, improve
でありたい as far as I can tell is a more literary or old-fashioned way of [...]

Just a few links for a you today. Last night I had a lovely dinner at one of the restaurants overlooking the Kamo river on Pontocho. We had really great seats on the balcony and the food was absolutely fantastic. Naturally, I’ve recordered the occasion by putting the restaurant up on Deep Kyoto: 招月庵.
Not entirely [...]

Another fresh posting up on THE SISTER BLOG today of the cafe and art gallery etw.
Checking google analytics the other day, I discovered that a lot of people were coming to this blog via the obscenely popular TOEIC BLITZ BLOG written by my old friend and colleague Masaya “The Messiah” Kanzaki. Masaya was kind enough [...]

Occasionally, I receive comments on this blog of a colourful turn of phrase and I don’t publish them. Just to make things clear, let me explain my policy on “bad language”. I think there’s a time and a place for it and this blog isn’t it. To be precise; any variation on the f-word is [...]