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FROM THE START:
The Quarter-Japanese Kid hits up the homeland
Tokyo Silence
I'm Oriented
Tilting Towards Kumamoto
Fish Heads and Public Nudity
Halfie the Half-blood falls off his bike
And furthermore: Halfie the Half-blood Breaks a Chair
I Don't Know if I Like Pippi Longstalkings
Tanboy Eats Fish Eyeball
Japanese Communists are Cuddly
Test Your Halfblood Knowledge!
I Scare Small Children
It Was Like a Cuteworld Abby Road
Today's Post Contains Bees. And Profanity.
Typhoons Will Not Stop Me
The Sun Also Sets
Quick Note: Saleem is Not Dead
CORRECTION: Typhoons Scare Me. Lots.
Watch the Tan Kid Blush
Call for Entries: Name My Kids
The Youth Are Quick and True
Open Letter: To the Breaker at City Hall
Halfie Gets a Verbal Sucker Punch
The Kumamoto Drunken Horse Fest
Japanese Houses Hate Halfie's Head
How to Start Your Japanese Rock Band
Halfie's Personal Dignity on Decline
Japanese Sports Day: I Train Young Warriors
Theory: Three Strange Occurences Per Hour
How to Win an iPod While Dressed as a Typhoon
Winnie the (drunken) Pooh
The Earth Quakes
Collecting Japanese Salmon Sperm
Illiterate at 26
Japan's Children Ignore Homeboy's Toothless Face
Japanese Genius Boy Answers Your Question
Our Students Have Respect . For Nelly.
The Young Boxers
Dear 27% of America (Kid Ethnic Registers)
Please Do Not Attempt to Step to My Japanese Rock Band
I’ve been doing one-on-one conversation tests with some of my beginning students. The format is simple: I ask them four easy questions, then they ask me one question. Which I answer.
The questions were mostly the kind of boring question that you ask when first learning a second language. “What sport do you like?”, “Do you like Japan?”, “Do you like sushi?”, etc.
When a few girls giggled and asked me “Do you have a girlfriend?”, I wasn’t that surprised. Normal curiousity surrounded by nervous laughter, right?
But the last girl I interviewed looked me right in the eye and asked her question with straight-up confidence:
“What do you look for in a lady?”
Back me up, that’s weird, no?
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CORRECTION: Typhoons Scare Me. Lots. | Call for Entries: Name My Kids
So, yeah, being hit on by Japanese highschool girls might be weird if you’re a mere mortal, but if you’re Saleem, it sounds like just another day to me.
— Jim Ray 2009 days ago #
Jim Ray is a hooligan.
Be very suspicious of whatever he says.
Your friend,
— saleem 2007 days ago #
— Anika 2004 days ago #
I’ll ask her if she can teach me the Japanese equivalent. And I’ll pass on word if she can.
Your friend,
— saleem 2003 days ago #