The benefits of homesickness.

After weeks of fun, exploring, partying, sightseeing, relaxing, meeting new people, sharing new ideas, learning about different ideas and adjusting my behaviour for a different culture something has finally hit home. Its not a surprise. In fact I’ve always  known that its been there waiting to pounce. Its a feeling which I have been skillfully tricking, deferring and sending up dark alleys but it is [...]

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The land of rising contradictions

As I walked home today, jumping off the train, following crowds of Japanese shoppers, commuters and families as they walked purposefully to the exit gates, I saw what is becoming a very usual sight for me here in my new home: a drunken business man, dozing heavily under the influence of an alcohol induced sleep. Stopping for [...]

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