EUgirl said...

EUgirl at 10:40 AM JST - 25th July

Lamborghini: exactly. BTW. BSE is not the biggest problem, the hormones in U.S. beef are.

Posted in U.S. not happy with Japan's beef import rule at 10:40 AM JST - 25th July
EUgirl at 10:20 AM JST - 24th July

They don't test in the U.S.

Who wants to eat U.S. hormone-grown beef in the first place?

Posted in U.S. not happy with Japan's beef import rule at 10:20 AM JST - 24th July
EUgirl at 12:29 PM JST - 21st July

I don't understand the fuss over anthems and flags. There are more important things these teachers could be fighting for.

I heard of a case of a European expat family on a 2-year stay in the USA, to get in trouble, as their kids refused to say the Pledge of…

Posted in Court rejects claims by Yokohama teachers over 'Kimigayo' at 12:29 PM JST - 21st July
EUgirl at 12:10 PM JST - 21st July

BTW: did you read that BA, Virgin Airlines and Finnair have come up with a new rule of not letting people with swine flu to board the plane.

Posted in New-flu cases top 4,000 in Japan at 12:10 PM JST - 21st July
EUgirl at 12:09 PM JST - 21st July

realist: Health Minister Masuzoe never reported anything like that. It was the tourist minister, who with his enormous knowledge of virology (:D) announced Japan free of the bug. Masuzoe actually seems to be the rare case amongst Japanese politicians to have brains.

Posted in New-flu cases top 4,000 in Japan at 12:09 PM JST - 21st July
EUgirl at 12:04 PM JST - 21st July

I read somwwhere that to gain a native accent of any language require that you move to that country before you reach 16. After that you cannot gain a perfecr accent. This I found true: I moved to both U.S. and Japan as an adult and was never able to…

Posted in Unraveling how children become bilingual so easily at 12:04 PM JST - 21st July
EUgirl at 12:29 AM JST - 21st July

Paris Hilton and Victoria Beckham.

Posted in Which celebrities are you tired of reading and hearing about? at 12:29 AM JST - 21st July
EUgirl at 01:37 PM JST - 13th July

I talked with one European documentary filmmaker, who was invited by NHK to shoot a doc here, and she had a lot of trouble with shooting and permissions. For ex. you are not allowed to shoot in the trains. If you shoot a scrnery where the electricity poles show up,…

Posted in Filmed on location in Tokyo...not quite at 01:37 PM JST - 13th July
EUgirl at 09:28 PM JST - 12th July

Re: trying to help other foreigners in Japan, this came to my mind. I was at Yurakucho, when 2 American women asked me where the International center is. I pointed where it is and explained where they have to go. They started whining really unpolitely that I pointed towards a…

Posted in Pushy French are world's worst tourists; Japanese are top: study at 09:28 PM JST - 12th July
EUgirl at 09:20 PM JST - 12th July

Great! I fly mostly Finnair, when I go to Europe.

Posted in Finnair launches A330 service on Osaka route at 09:20 PM JST - 12th July