Azrael said...

Azrael at 11:31 PM JST - 13th September

I agree with the previous comments about this being a good read for a Sunday afternoon. It's refreshing to find enjoyable articles with appreciative remarks about family, heart-felt expectations and hope. Sadly, good-natured pieces are so rare some jaded people react with suspicion and even anger when encountering one.

Posted in In-laws, second marriages and baggage at 11:31 PM JST - 13th September
Azrael at 03:19 PM JST - 9th September

What a beautiful face she has! ^-^! I wish I was that flexible @.@;.

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Azrael at 08:15 PM JST - 26th August

Tipping system is highway robbery! u____u!

It's a microversion of that Japanese landlords do >.>;.

Posted in What do you think of the tipping system in restaurants, taxis, etc? at 08:15 PM JST - 26th August
Azrael at 01:02 PM JST - 25th August

Gogogo: If Yahoo and Microsoft remain separate, their separate efforts could still challenge Google and give users more options thus reducing the chance of monopoly. If Microsoft gobbles up Yahoo, it will only be a bigger monopoly than Microsoft already is. Therefore it is best to keep them separate in…

Posted in Yahoo! vows to fight Microsoft on new front at 01:02 PM JST - 25th August
Azrael at 11:57 AM JST - 25th August

Besides, I do not think regulators will clear the deal. It is not likely to happen. Microsoft is too much of a monopoly already to allow this.

Posted in Yahoo! vows to fight Microsoft on new front at 11:57 AM JST - 25th August
Azrael at 11:56 AM JST - 25th August

How could Yahoo fight Microsoft when Microsoft becomes the hand that feeds it? If the 'merge' is done, Yahoo will be annexed by Microsoft, even if it gets to keep the 'Yahoo' name and logo. There will be nothing to yahoo about it.

Posted in Yahoo! vows to fight Microsoft on new front at 11:56 AM JST - 25th August
Azrael at 08:11 AM JST - 25th August

Awesome! I hope this will motivate the kids and benefit not only financially now, but in the long term by taking studies seriously and break the cycle of poverty.

Posted in French bank to offer scholarship to Brazilian school in Gunma at 08:11 AM JST - 25th August
Azrael at 03:36 PM JST - 21st August

Why are these legal procedures carried out in the open and more specifically, through Media? How are these people going to get a fair trial? Japanese tabloid press knows no bounds. How does this set with the newly introduced jury system?

Posted in Actor Oshio withdraws denial, admits to illegal drug use at 03:36 PM JST - 21st August
Azrael at 05:07 PM JST - 19th August

With those prices, it's no wonder rice consumption has declined drastically here in Japan.

I had to quit rice for other starch filler (mainly potatoes) when the economic crisis began to hit me - the Japanese government's scholarships have been steadily cropped down every several months for the past few…

Posted in Minerals in crops vital to human health at 05:07 PM JST - 19th August
Azrael at 09:01 PM JST - 16th August

It means "Do not fly into a rage" c.c;. People get angry and violent more during the summer, it seems.

Posted in Mystery sign at 09:01 PM JST - 16th August