Category: Family

I Love… Dokdo?

Time to give you a little insight into the region where Kiko and I are living.

Japan wasn’t exactly the most popular country right after World War II. After invading the rest of Asia (to save it from the whiteys… who else?) many of the regions they had taken over were being claimed by various countries. (Mostly China, Korea etc…)

Fast forward to 2005. There is this tiny little ass island called Takeshima in Japanese, and Dokdo in Korean. Now Japan (The Country) claims it as their own island, while Korea claims it as theirs. For some unknown reason Korea got a little excited about this and made a big deal about it. After 3 Korean people cutting their fingers off, 40 Korean’s moving to the island, Korean TV Shows & Movies about Imperial Japan, and 130million Japanese people going "… we have an island called Takeshima?" emoticon Read, learn, and become smarter here.

edited: Wow. After a little searching I found this. Koreans seem pretty excited about these rocks. Welcome to Cyber Dokdo.

I am proud to present my "I love Dokdo" shirt from my very good friends Chris and Lianne in Korea.

I wear it around Japan, but they just laugh. They cannot fathom why there are "I love Dokdo" goods selling in Korea, and the average Japanese person would be more than happy to give it back…

 

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 … and yes those are I love Dokdo socks and a pencil case. 

Vegetable Update

I bet you were hoping for something exciting… right? Too bad. I’ve been getting a lot of flak about being domesticated. What the hell does that mean? Well if it means "trapped in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by only farmland and rice paddies, having nothing else to do but make sweet sweet vegetables that you are all secertly jealous of" then yes… yes I am domesticated. As soon as I get the update to the website finished, you should see a lot of changes and (in theory) the website should be a lot more fun, and easier for me to update. Cuz’ I’m lazy. The keeners out there would note that the photo albums are being updated fairly regularily (go check them out!) and I have added a stats page and a poll booth. All in preperation for the new design! We also have a ton of news coming (from both Kiko and I) as well as a trip back to Canada this month. So stay tuned… in the meantime, bow down to my potatoes (and my new farming boots!), my tomatoes and my watermelon (which has now sprung to 7 watermelons!!!) (note the HUGE pictures)

our potatoes

 

our potatoes

 

our tomatoes

 

our watermelons

On my way to Tokyo

Hello!

… I’m off to Tokyo for a week today.

Yes, I’m leaving my poor wife.
Yes, I have not finished my billion page translation.
Yes, I am a bad person.

But I have no choice. It’s for work. So write Kiko e-mails and comments.
Call her even!

Don’t get too excited, but yes, oh yes, you will be getting live updates. I know thats what you want. (and don’t think I don’t hear you mocking me…! bastards.)

On the more good news front:

Look at this watermelon. (I only have one… so far). It’s gettin’ HUGE.

our watermelons

 

our watermelons #2

My Vegetables

It took a long time, but I realize (mostly from your retarded comments and e-mails) that people want more exciting posts from me. OK! I’m working on it. As soon as I finish this 1billion page translation of some poor PHD students essay on Uncle Tom’s Cabin (don’t ask…) I will get to work on the site. davidandkiko.com 3.0 will be interactive, a little more interesting and a lot more fun.

In the meantime, Kiko and I are always checking the site and are thrilled to see you guys visiting/posting/commenting/guestbooking. Some photo galleries have been replaced and updated, so take a look at those. Kiko has also been feeling a lot better and should start posting herself again soon.

Now, back to the important part: my vegetables. If you look in the photo gallery you should be able to find pictures of my vegetables (not much else to do here). I planted green peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, sweet potatoes, edamame (string beans, sort of), corn, and … watermelons.

Look at the excitement:

our watermelons

 

our watermelons #2

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AND BEFORE I FORGET —-> look at the damn Cherry Blossom Pictures. They are fantastic because I am fantastic.
Lots to update, just give me a little time.
What have we been doing??? lots of news!
Kiko, the taskmaster that she is, is making me work on the side so I have been crazy busy.

Pictures and stuff coming soon.
And a Kiko game by Liz.
And comments by my friends.
And visits to this site my supposed friends.

I’ll probably delete this post after as well so live it, love it.
that is all.