Hannah's Posts
- Herbivores are Destroying the World
- June 18th, 2009
- Soushokukei (草食系) guys… Yamada Yu was talking about them on the telly last night. Herbivores. Softies. Beautiful, soft, weak guys. Yu wasn’t impressed with the idea of a soshokukei guy. She said she wanted a manly man. A man who liked meat. She then cooked a hamburger and fed it to Nagase » Continue Reading
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- Bloody Ceilings around Kyoto
- May 28th, 2009
- It is a well-known fact that Kyoto City used to be the capital of Japan. It is a well-known fact that Kyoto is home to 17 World Heritage listed temples, shrines and castles. It is also common knowledge that the Kyoto Protocol is a protocol that encourages industrialized nations to reduce their » Continue Reading
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- Gyaru-O!
- April 28th, 2009
- Or in English, ‘Man-Gal’. A relatively new phenomenon (or perhaps I’ve just noticed it recently), is the Gyaru-O. O stands for otoko or man. Gyaru, from the English word, gal also sometimes described as a yankee-girl, refers to a girl who tans her skin, bleaches and often perms her hair, » Continue Reading
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- !DECOration X revoLUTION!
- April 6th, 2009
- There’s something I’ve been ignoring for a long time. Something that a lot of people have been doing, a lot of people have been talking about, a lot of people have incorporated into various aspects of their life at the expense of convenience, comfort and being taken seriously. Something that I » Continue Reading
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