Living in JapanA survey at EC Navi asks the question "Have you lived on your own?" 69% said "Yes" while the rest said "No."
For the "Yes" answers, people gave "when schooling", "when single" and "when relocated by company to another location" as examples. Some of...
Working at Amazon and MicrosoftBeen meaning to post this for a while now - a summary of my working career at Amazon as Website manager and Microsoft as CGM Product Manager. This article is a follow on (with a bit o overlap) of the Tokyo 1999 - 2001 article.
The first photo is...
Roppongi HillsSpent Christmas evening at Roppongi Hills. After grabbing din dins, we headed to the Sky Deck to enjoy the most awesome views of Tokyo we've ever seen in the open air - photos soon. Then after chucking out time at 11pm, we wandered around the grounds...
Tokyo 2001 - 2004Following on from Tokyo 1999 - 2001. 2001 August was when I joined Amazon but will leave the nitty gritty details for the "Working in a Corporate IT company: Amazon and Microsoft" article.
This is was the view from my office at Amazon on a warm a...
Tokyo 1999 - 2001Been sorting through many years of photos recently and have been having nostalgic trips down memory lane which I thought I'd share with you.
This photo of our first apartment was taken in the Summer of 1999 - the year when we finally purchased a...
Anime ToysMamamia! More free SAFS (Suddenly Acquired FigureS) which materialize out of thin air. Hmmmmm. I love my job even more than I did yesterday ^^;
In the bullying in Japan article, I mentioned briefly that I had zero fond memories as a child and onl...
Japan Work BenefitsIn a previous article I spoke about looking for work in Japan and today thought I should talk about the typical work benefits by taking the current opening position at Good Smile Company and my past experience as examples.
Good Smile Company ar...
A Week in LondonI've only been back to the UK a couple of times since moving to Japan and each time I went was usually because the company (Nature,Amazon) payed for the business trip. Here are some pics taken during my last visit.
First up is Piccadilly Circus w...
Kylie MinogueA follow on from The Early Years 1. This pic of me and Kylie Minogue was taken in the late 80's/early 90's near the BBC studios.
Hmmmm. Have not been to the BBC site for a while - like the design. Once I finish some DB work, I will make the top p...
The Early Years 1Yes - this is what my room used to look like in 1988...
All images in this article are enlargeable BTW.
And dont forget that we are waiting to see pics of your room in the Your Room category.
Startups in JapanIt gives me great pleasure in announcing that Hector Garcia has joined Mirai Inc as our Chief Technologist.
Hector brings to Mirai many years of technical experience and know-how on delivering high traffic sites like Technorati and Kakaku.com at...
History of dannychoo.comThe new up n coming design of dannychoo.com... Not.
The screenshot below is of the first version of this site back in the year 2000. The site was set up as an experimental ground for me to play with technologies like PHP and MYSQL.
The first v...
Learn JapaneseSo why did I choose Japanese?
Back in the UK, I remember watching a children’s program called Blue Peter where the presenters came to Japan to cover Tokyo culture. Cant remember what age I was but I swore to myself that I would live and work in Ja...
