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emiko hashida

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About Me

I may have a greeting in Japanese, but right now it's pretty limited. I am trying my best to make up for this s that I don't seem like a blubbering egit, but so far my one gramatically perfect sentence in the local lingo is 'watashi no nihongo hidoii desu'. By they way why don't you check out my blog? It's here: http://emskaroonie.blogspot.com/

My Interests

My beautiful little brother Sonny and new baby sister Ishpriya, red frocks, green frocks, rockin', Japan, Prada shoes, talking about things you're not supposed to with folk you've just met, i.e., politics and religion, science, learning, my work, other people's artwork, AC/DC, talking Italian, learning Hebrew, trying to talk Japanese, trying to remember my French while I'm here, laughing, making stained glass, writing, getting going, disco dancing, Paxos, lovely young men with nice sets of teeth.Take the quiz:
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Music:

Can't Stop rock and Roll!

Movies:

I love my local cinema, the Brixton Ritzy, which plays host to arty-farty films with subtitles. Actually, it's not my local for the next few months seeing as I'm in Japan. Enjoy watching Tally films so that I can practise listening to Italian. The last shite film I saw was the Da Vinci Code. I have a stack of DVDs building up which I watch through my laptop.

Television:

Now that I'm in Japan I have a telly! Haven't had one for years. I've now caught up with 24 and am ploughing my way through Lost. My favourite TV show ever was Cosmos and I also liked A History of Britain. Can't stand anything mindless or dum.

Books:

I couldn't live without my books! I like well-written novels; fave authors are Maggie O'Farrell, Emily Barr, Umberto Eco and Jane Austen (who could leave her out?). Novels that I've read recently that I couldn't put down were The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I also like factual books on subjects such as psychology, religion, politics and popular science - Dorothy Rowe, Carl Jung, Matt Ridley and Steven Pinker are on my reading list. Right now am reading My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk as well as something by an anthropologist called Jared Diamond... oh, I can't be bothered to go and get it so that I can tell you the title, but it's good. Do read more clever books, people. As Blackadder said, thinking is so important!

Heroes:

Frank Spencer and my granny!

My Blog

Bryan Ferry - what a pratt!

'Nuff said! I hope no one buys any more of your pants from M&S. Silly old fool. The very least that can be said is that he has no sense of what's good art whatsoever.
Posted by emiko hashida on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:25:00 PST

I hereby demand an apology from Pope Benedict...

...for having the gall to misrepresent Rock and make derogatory remarks about Our Faith. For the world's millions of Rockers his remarks, made while he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, show that far from...
Posted by emiko hashida on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:04:00 PST

Great news!!!!

My fist went into a ball and raised itself to the sky, accompanied by a long "Yessssss!!!" this lunchtime when I heard on the radio that that Zarkawi excuse for a human being had been taken out. I'm s...
Posted by emiko hashida on Thu, 08 Jun 2006 03:24:00 PST

The Da Vinci Code....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

I popped into my local arthouse cinema this afternoon to see the long-awaited Da Vinci Code, looking forward to two hours of brain candy to ease me into the weekend. Believe me it's crap! Never one to...
Posted by emiko hashida on Fri, 19 May 2006 02:25:00 PST

Sprinkle Liberally

Liberals. God, were an annoying lot. Sanctimonious, patronising, self-righteous... Don't you just hate it when one of us talks down to you from behind the Guardian or the New York Times with that lit...
Posted by emiko hashida on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:47:00 PST

Remember girls, if you want to Get The Guy, it's Cocky but Funny!

There are a number of self-help manuals out there which seek to turn the average man (re: North American or British) in the street into South London/New Jersey/West Hampstead's answer to Rhett Butler...
Posted by emiko hashida on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:21:00 PST

As God is my witness

Why oh why do those confounded Jehovah's Witnesses persist in knocking on doors? By their calculations aren't places in Heaven limited to few thousand? Why bother with me? My neighbourhood seems to ...
Posted by emiko hashida on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 04:19:00 PST

Another Christmas afternoon in Tescos, Brixton

I was in Tescos an hour ago. The don't-you-dare-buy-Israeli-advocados-or-I'll-tell-my-dad lot weren't outside this afternoon (it was a bit nippy!), but I did witness a bit of a to-do. It started nea...
Posted by emiko hashida on Tue, 20 Dec 2005 10:47:00 PST

Well, my mother would have been pleased!

It was simply a matter of time till the foot fetish brigade found me. Is it just me or am I a prude, but isn't it a bit personal to email someone you don't know and ask them if they like their feet be...
Posted by emiko hashida on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 06:51:00 PST

All the Middle-Aged Punks

All the Middle-Aged PunksWhen I was a punk I would routinely take a few years off my age. But it was to no avail, because as soon as I'd mentioned the bands that I liked anyone who knew their punk oni...
Posted by emiko hashida on Mon, 28 Nov 2005 06:53:00 PST