This blog is the rambling and sometimes twisted observations of an Aussie who has now found himself in the ’second’ half of his life without a future direction due to redundancy after 8 years in an outdated IT field that has no further foreseeable future. So the future could now possibly involve anything at all now, from a new type of job (maybe in another city), to even moving to Japan ! Update as of June 2007 – I have just acquired an ‘MR’ drivers licence, and MOT ‘Driver’s Authority’. Update as of August 2007 - I started work at the end of July, with the world’s second largest public transport company, ComfortDelgro Cabcharge

Background: I was born in remote country Victoria, and grew up and went to school there and then in western New South Wales. After starting work in the Riverina for several years, I moved to Sydney, then to Melbourne and currently are back in Sydney again. I have travelled to Japan 4 times in the last 6 years, have completed 3 years of TAFE study in Japanese. When I was young I learnt piano & organ, and later on played keyboards & drums in many bands, some of which toured up & down the Eastern coast of Australia on the same bill as such famous names as Midnight Oil (I am proud of the fact that my name is in the Who’s Who of Australian ROCK !!!) 

I am also interested in photography & video, and on these pages you will probably be able to read about such diverse subjects as Aussie sport, Japanese trains, Aussie life in general a big city, travel and food. I collect, display and sell Japanese model trains & other hobby items, and this is the main content of a sub-blog (http://jmtn.wordpress.com).

I have also recently become a lot more interested in J-Pop (Japanese commercial pop and other styles of music), so from time to time there will be reviews of albums, singles and DVD’s posted, as well as my thoughts about various artists – however there are many sites out there that give you downloads, so I WON’T be providing any of those unless it is something special that is not available anywhere else

P.S. – If you don’t understand the blog’s Japanese headline, then it relates to the first paragraph – please ask if you cannot work it out …